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WTI crude oil order book heatmap
Swiftedge Depth draws the order book of the WTI perpetual as a heatmap. You see the limit orders waiting at each price near the market, a fresh column four times a second, and every trade on top as a bubble. It is free, runs in the browser and needs no account.
Open the live WTI heatmapA new column every quarter second, at least 24 hours of history, every trade as a bubble.
Open WTI DepthWhat the WTI heatmap shows
Time runs from left to right and the WTI crude oil price runs up the side. Every thin horizontal band is one price level of the futures book, out to about 2 % from the price, shaded by how much is resting there: green below the price for bids, violet above it for asks. The brighter the band, the more size is waiting. On top of the book you can draw the price as a line, as candlesticks from 1 second to 4 hours, or as a footprint chart. Trades appear as bubbles, teal when a buyer took the ask and violet when a seller hit the bid, and bigger trades make bigger bubbles.
The indicator menu is the same as for Bitcoin. Liquidations marks forced closes of leveraged WTI positions. Positioning draws where leveraged WTI positions would be liquidated. VWAP and CVD show where volume traded and which side was aggressive, and the footprint chart adds diagonal 300 % imbalances, stacked imbalances, the point of control and delta. Alerts and 26 drawing tools work here too.
What sets the WTI book apart
- Oil keeps a weekly calendar. The busiest moments in the US day are the weekly US crude inventory report (EIA) on Wednesday at 10:30 AM ET and the NYMEX settlement at 2:30 PM ET.
- Open around the clock. The WTI perpetual trades 24/7, also when NYMEX is closed. Nights and weekends are usually thinner, so walls are smaller and easier to pull.
- A perpetual, not a barrel. The price is the WTI crude oil perpetual future in dollars per barrel, and sizes are counted in barrels. It is not NYMEX futures or a physical oil price.
- Positioning on a smaller base. Fewer leveraged positions are open in WTI crude oil than in Bitcoin, so the upper wall, lower wall, flip and max liquidation rest on fewer positions. They are on WTI positioning and WTI levels today.
How to read it, step by step
- Look for bright bands close to the price. Large resting orders show where WTI crude oil may slow down. A band that has stood for several minutes says more than one that just appeared.
- See what happens when the price gets there. If trades hit the band and it holds, the liquidity was real. If it vanishes just before the price arrives, it was pulled, not filled.
- Read the bubbles. A cluster of large bubbles at one level shows who is in a hurry. Heavy buying into a violet band while the price stays put means sellers are absorbing it.
- Add context. Turn on Liquidations to see forced buying and selling, CVD to follow the aggressive side, and Positioning to see where leveraged positions would be liquidated.
WTI liquidations on the heatmap
With the Liquidations indicator, every forced close is drawn as a ring at the time and price it happened: orange when a long was closed, cyan when a short was. Estimated levels where leveraged positions could be closed next are on the WTI liquidation heatmap.
WTI crude oil on Swiftedge
- WTI Depth: the live order book heatmap described on this page, and the WTI footprint chart inside it.
- WTI positioning: where leveraged positions would be liquidated, by price. WTI Terminal: chart, order book ladder, trades and more on one screen.
- Daily WTI report, WTI price today and WTI levels today.
- WTI funding rate, open interest, long/short ratio, whale trades and realized volatility.
Put this live heatmap on your site
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<p style="font:12px/1.4 system-ui,sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">Live WTI crude oil order book heatmap by <a href="https://swiftedge.uk/wti/depth?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=embed_link">Swiftedge Depth</a></p>Common questions
Is there a free WTI crude oil order book heatmap?
Yes. Swiftedge Depth shows the live WTI perpetual order book heatmap for free in the browser, with no sign-up, at swiftedge.uk/wti/depth.
Which market does the WTI heatmap show?
The WTI perpetual futures order book and every trade. Everything Swiftedge shows is its own calculation on public perpetual futures data from Hyperliquid and Lighter; the FAQ lists the sources.
Is this the same as a WTI liquidation heatmap?
No. An order book heatmap shows orders that are actually resting in the book. A liquidation heatmap estimates where leveraged positions could be closed by force; Swiftedge has that as a separate page, the WTI liquidation heatmap.
How far back can I scroll?
At least the last 24 hours. Candlesticks run from 1 second to 4 hours.