Swiftedge Depth · WTI
Free live WTI crude oil footprint chart
A footprint chart splits every candle into price rows and shows how much was sold and how much was bought at each one. Swiftedge Depth builds it live from every trade in the WTI perpetual futures market and draws it over the order book heatmap, so you see what traded next to what was resting. Free, in the browser, no sign-up.
Open the live WTI footprint.One-minute candles to start; switch the timeframe in the top bar.
WTI footprint Bitcoin footprintWhat it shows on WTI
Inside each candle, every row has two numbers, counted in barrels. The left one is what was sold into the bid at that price, the right one what was bought from the ask. A bar behind each number grows out from the middle of the cell, so the busiest prices catch the eye first. Below the chart, a table lists each candle's volume, its delta (bought minus sold) and delta as a share of volume.
- Diagonal imbalances: buying at one price is compared with selling one row lower. When one side is at least three times the other (300 %), the number is highlighted, teal for buyers and pink for sellers. Three or more in a row form a stacked imbalance and get a bar along the edge of the candle.
- Point of control (POC): the row where the most changed hands in each candle has a yellow frame.
- Zoom: zoomed in you read the numbers; zoom out and each row becomes a colored cell; zoom out further and the candles turn into ordinary candlesticks.
How to read it
The steps are the same as for Bitcoin and are explained with examples on the footprint chart page: start with each candle's delta, find the point of control, look for imbalances and stacked imbalances, check the edges of the candle for thin trading, and compare the numbers with the liquidity resting in the heatmap behind them. Stacked imbalance zones are covered in the stacked imbalance guide.
Open WTI candles with imbalance zones
Everything else for WTI crude oil
- WTI order book heatmap: what the heatmap shows and how to read it.
- WTI liquidation heatmap: where leveraged positions would be closed.
- WTI positioning, WTI levels today and WTI price today.
- WTI whale trades, funding and open interest.
What it can't tell you
The footprint records trading that already happened in the WTI perpetual futures market Swiftedge records. It leaves out other venues and the underlying market, and says nothing about where price goes next. It is a precise record of who traded where, not a signal.
Common questions
Is there a free WTI crude oil footprint chart?
Yes. Swiftedge Depth draws a live footprint chart for WTI crude oil in the browser, free and without an account. Open WTI Depth and pick the footprint icon in the top bar.
Where does the WTI data come from?
Every trade in the WTI perpetual futures market Swiftedge records, with each trade's own aggressor side, so the split between buying and selling at each price is measured, not estimated. It is not the whole market.
Does WTI have the same tools as Bitcoin?
Yes. Candlesticks, the footprint chart, stacked imbalance zones, the imbalance readout, VWAP, CVD, liquidations, Positioning, alerts and the drawing tools work the same way.