Open Orders Summary

This graph gives a snapshot of the trigger points for the open orders on OANDA's books (including limit orders, and Stop/Loss or Take/Profit orders on trades). The graph could be used as an indicator of client price expectations contributing to natural resistance and support levels. There's a graph for each major currency pair (click on a pair's button to go to its graph).

Sampled Hourly


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How to Interpret This Graph

This graph plots the open orders on OANDA's books according to:

  • Client price requests (that is, the price points they hope will be reached so their order is triggered or their trade is closed).
  • The volume of Buy vs. Sell orders (plotted vertically). The plotted values are percentages—all values plotted on the chart (both buy and sell), along with any outlier values falling off either end of the chart, would add up to 100%.

The graph is divided into quadrants based on Buy vs. Sell orders and on whether trigger price points are below or above the current price (this is the most recently sampled price, and could be up to an hour out of date).

This table summarizes the key differences between the quadrants:

Last Sampled Price
BUY Orders
Trigger set Below Current Price		 BUY Orders
Trigger set Above Current Price
Sell Orders
Trigger set Below Current Price		 Sell Orders
Trigger set Above Current Price

Graph Styles

Choose from two graph styles (click the radio buttons to toggle between them):

  • Non-cumulative—Plots percentages at each price point. This style is useful to spot price clusters.

  • Cumulative—Adds percentages together (cumulatively) for each quadrant as you move away from the most recently sampled (current) price. For example, if the height of the top-right quadrant at price X extends to 20%, it means that 20 percent of all open orders for this currency pair are buy orders with a target price above the current price (shown by the middle red line) and below price X. This style is useful to see which quadrant contains the most or the fewest orders.