Order flow analysis gives traders a concrete edge: even a 5% win rate bump or an extra 1-3R per trade meaningfully increases monthly profits. On trading floors, 90% of market activity is algorithmic, but discretionary traders use order flow to see what institutions are doing and understand market dynamics.
When you are trading, your mind as an order flow trader says, okay, price action is nice, but let's see what is happening in the level. You want to see it. And then I think it's not convenient nowadays to not use order flow for one simple reason. We are edge seekers as traders. Every 5% more win rate brings us more money at the end of the month. Every 1R, 2R, 3R more at the end of the month is more money for us. So why not using all the information available? I've been in trading floor. I seen how they trade. An institutional trader Considering that 90% is algo trading nowadays, but the discretionary trader for alternative markets, they use order flow because they want to see what they are doing.
