Read Polymarket orderflow as it happens

Buy and sell volume on every bar

Each trade on Polymarket has a direction: someone lifted the offer or hit the bid. TruthTickTerminal tags that direction and aggregates it per candle, so every bar carries its buy volume and sell volume — not just a single total. The volume histogram tints toward the side that dominated, giving you an instant read on who was pushing.

Footprint charts

A footprint chart opens each candle up and shows the traded volume at every price inside it, split by buyers and sellers. That's where the real story lives: heavy buying into a high that price can't hold, a shelf of selling that keeps getting absorbed, or a thin level that gives way fast.

For prediction markets — where a single news event can flip sentiment in seconds — seeing the order activity inside the move is often more telling than the candle itself.

Cumulative delta and VWAP

Cumulative delta tracks the running difference between buying and selling pressure across the session. When price makes a new high but delta doesn't, that divergence is a classic warning that the move is running out of fuel.

VWAP — with standard-deviation bands — anchors price to the volume-weighted average, a reference serious traders use to judge whether the market is rich or cheap relative to where volume actually changed hands.

• Per-candle buy vs. sell volume with directional tint
• Footprint view: volume-at-price inside each bar
• Cumulative delta to spot pressure divergences
• VWAP ± σ as a fair-value reference

Live, not a snapshot

Orderflow only matters in real time. A live trade feed folds incoming trades into the forming candle and updates the footprint as they print, so you're watching the auction develop rather than reviewing it after the fact. Combined with tick candles, you get a clean view of bursty prediction-market activity right as it happens.