Video lesson · SignalsOrder book walls and bid-ask imbalance: Wall Pressure
Order book walls and bid-ask imbalance — Liqwall's core indicator: book imbalance as a ratio. The lesson takes 2:27; its full text is below the video.
Narrated in Russian. English subtitles are on by default.
Wall Pressure in short
What does Wall Pressure show?
The pane shows how many times more bids than asks, or asks than bids, sit within the chosen depth. Bid dominance is a green area pointing down, ask dominance a red area pointing up. Dashed lines are the Long and Short thresholds, and the zones beyond them are shaded.
How to read Wall Pressure?
- While the value stays beyond a threshold, every candle counts as an anomaly: a dot in the pane and a mark on the price chart.
- Price marks stack into a ladder: shorts above the candle, longs below, one step per depth. The depth label sits on the first candle of the run.
- Imbalance at shallow depths (0.5–1%) changes fast; at 4.5–6% it shows the broader balance of power.
How to use Wall Pressure?
- This is the terminal's main tool: look for candles where the imbalance crosses the threshold at several depths at once.
- Add two or three Wall Pressure copies with different depths; their marks merge into one ladder on the candle.
- Thresholds are set in the settings: lower them for calm coins, raise them for noisy ones.
- Compare spot and futures: the imbalance on the two markets can differ.
What do you often see on Wall Pressure?
- A strong imbalance at the far depth of the spot book lined up with price moving its way over the next day more often than usual in our data.
- Imbalance right at the price is noisy and gives no direction by itself.
- One mark is not an exact turn but a lean for the next day; a ladder across several depths is more reliable.
- Spot and futures often disagree, and a large order can be pulled within a minute.
Where can I find Wall Pressure?
In the Liqwall terminal: the Indicators button, the Signals section, Wall Pressure. The “Open in the terminal” button on this page opens the chart with it already added.
Lesson text
0:00What Wall Pressure is
A candle shows what has already happened, while the order book shows who stands at the price right now. Wall Pressure is Liqwall's core indicator. It tells you which side of the book is heavier, and by how many times.
0:13How to add Wall Pressure to the chart
Press the Indicators button, open the Liqwall list and find Wall Pressure in the search. The indicator appears in a separate panel under the chart, and its marks right on the candles.
0:24How to read Wall Pressure
A green area going down means more buy orders. A red one going up means more sell orders. The dashed lines are the limits of an extreme imbalance. When the area crosses a dashed line, each such candle is marked with a dot in the panel and a mark on the price chart. Long marks sit below the candle, short marks above it.
0:45Wall Pressure settings
The main setting is Depth, the book depth as a percent of the price. Right at the price the imbalance changes every minute: orders are placed and pulled. At a far depth you see the big balance of forces. Add the indicator with different depths. The marks stack up on the candle like a ladder, and the taller the ladder, the wider the imbalance. In the Market field choose spot, futures or both markets at once.
1:12An example on a real chart
Let me show an example. Solana. Hourly chart, October 14. In the morning the price is about 108 dollars, and from 3 p.m. a fall begins.
At 5 p.m., around 104, the first buy-imbalance mark appears. After that the marks keep coming for almost a full day, until 4 p.m. on October 15. In that time the price managed to drop to 100.5. And at 5 p.m. the selling ended, and within 2 hours Solana returned to 106.
The mirror case is September 21. In a day and a half Solana rose from 108 to 120. From 7 p.m., around 117.5, the imbalance turns to selling, and for 11 hours in a row there are short marks above the candles. The rise stopped at a top near 120, and two days later the price was at 112.
2:02What to pair Wall Pressure with
Keep Market Pressure next to it — the same imbalance across the whole market. That way you see whether the coin moves with the market or against it. Order Book Pressure shows the imbalance as bands at real distances from the price. And Wall Events shows which wall created it.
2:19The takeaway
Look not at a single candle, but at which way the order book is tilted.
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