Exocharts
Exocharts is a browser-based orderflow and footprint charting platform built exclusively for cryptocurrency markets. Unlike general-purpose charting tools retrofitted with volume indicators, Exocharts was designed from the ground up around crypto-specific market mechanics — perpetual futures, 24/7 continuous sessions, liquidation-driven volatility, and exchange-level trade data.
Footprint Charts and Delta Analysis
The platform's primary visualization tool is the footprint chart, which breaks each candlestick into a price ladder showing volume transacted at every level within that bar. Three distinct footprint modes serve different analytical goals: Volume Footprint shows raw turnover at each price, Delta Footprint shows the net difference between aggressive buys and sells, and Bid/Ask Footprint separates buyer-initiated from seller-initiated trades. This granularity reveals absorption zones — areas where significant volume trades without moving price — which signal institutional activity invisible on standard candlestick charts.
Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) extends this analysis across multiple candles, accumulating the running buy/sell imbalance over time. CVD divergences carry practical trade signals: price printing a higher high while CVD fails to follow indicates weakening aggressive buying and potential exhaustion. Bullish divergences work inversely, showing structural demand beneath declining price action.
Volume Profile and Market Structure
Volume Profile strips the time axis entirely, mapping all traded volume horizontally across price levels for any defined period. The Point of Control (POC) — the price with the highest traded volume — frequently acts as a magnetic level during retests. Value Area boundaries (the range containing 70% of session volume) define zones of acceptance and rejection. Exocharts offers session, visible range, and fixed-range profile types, letting traders isolate volume structure for specific events, trends, or consolidation phases.
Crypto-Specific Data: Liquidations and Open Interest
Where Exocharts differentiates most sharply from traditional platforms is in crypto-native data. The platform ingests real-time liquidation feeds from perpetual futures markets, visualizing individual liquidation events and cascade clusters directly on the chart. Liquidation cascades — chain reactions where forced closures drive price through successive levels triggering further liquidations — often generate the sharpest crypto price swings. Identifying dense liquidation clusters above or below current price helps traders anticipate acceleration zones and position stops outside forced-close noise.
Open Interest overlays track whether trend moves are driven by fresh position-building or short/long covering. Rising OI during an uptrend confirms new longs entering; falling OI during the same move suggests short covering — a weaker signal for continuation. OI divergence from price often precedes reversals.
Supported Exchanges and Markets
Exocharts connects directly to Binance (USDⓂ and COIN-M perpetuals, spot), Bybit, OKX, Bitget, and Coinbase. Direct exchange connections minimize latency and avoid data compression artifacts common in third-party aggregated feeds, which matters when CVD moves are measured in seconds.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly Price | Key Inclusions | |------|--------------|----------------| | Basic | $19.99 | Footprint charts, CVD, session and visible range profiles | | Pro | $39.99 | Adds liquidation data, OI analysis, fixed range profiles, cluster detection, advanced heatmaps |
A free trial is available before committing to either tier.
Practical Use Alongside StratBase.ai
Exocharts and StratBase.ai address different stages of the trading workflow but reinforce each other directly. StratBase.ai backtests rule-based strategies across 1700+ crypto pairs using quantified entry and exit conditions. Exocharts provides the orderflow context to interpret why those rules worked or failed during specific historical periods — whether a breakout signal coincided with genuine delta expansion or occurred against absorption, for example.
When refining a StratBase.ai strategy, traders can examine the footprint and CVD behavior around historical signal dates in Exocharts to identify filter conditions that improve precision. If backtested moving average crossovers show inconsistent results, Exocharts may reveal they were most reliable when occurring at high-volume POC levels or during CVD confirmation — insights that translate into additional conditions testable back in StratBase.ai.
For live deployment, Exocharts serves as real-time monitoring for strategies developed in backtesting. Shifts in CVD behavior or OI structure can signal regime changes that historical data didn't capture, prompting strategy review before drawdowns compound.
Exocharts is web-only, accessible at exocharts.com across all desktop operating systems, with no standalone desktop or mobile applications currently available.