A trader argues that order flow analysis gives you a real edge because even a 5% win rate improvement means higher monthly profits. About 90% of institutional trading is now algorithmic, but discretionary traders still use order flow to understand markets and validate their trades.
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 1 hour 2r3r 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 tradem for alternative markets they use orderflow because they want to see what they are doing.
