The Bookmap Absorption Indicator marks the spots where a lot of aggressive volume traded at one price in a short time and price barely moved, because resting orders soaked it up. Buys and sells are counted separately, and each burst gets a mark on the chart.
Absorption at VWAP and the bands is most of what I’m looking for on Bookmap. This add-on is the one that points at it while I’m busy looking somewhere else.
Which plan: included from Global Plus, and in Global Premium.
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What does the Absorption Indicator draw?
You set a time window and a size. If more than that size trades at one price inside the window, it adds a mark. Automatic mode sets the size for you from the standard deviation of recent volume, and a multiplier slider decides how picky it is: higher means fewer marks.
It can play a sound or send a Telegram message when a new group of marks appears, so it can keep watch while you look at the other chart.
How I read absorption order flow at my levels
A level in the VWAP Wave Systemâ„¢ is a price where the market has to decide. Absorption is the market deciding. Red bubbles hitting a bid that doesn’t move, with an absorption mark under them, is buyers defending the price the system already chose.
That’s the wall. The trap is the opposite: no absorption, and the liquidity pulls as price arrives. Same level, different answer, different trade. Usually no trade.
Absorption alone doesn’t get me in. It upgrades a setup I already have. If the mark shows up somewhere I have no level, it’s somebody else’s problem.
Settings worth knowing
- Time and size: the two numbers that decide what counts. Too small and the chart looks like confetti.
- Automatic mode and the SD multiplier: let it size the threshold from recent volume, then turn the slider until the marks are rare enough to mean something.
- Buys and sells: set separately, because the two sides rarely behave the same.
- Alerts: a sound or a Telegram message per new group of marks.
Bookmap’s own Absorption Indicator guide has the rest, with pictures.
My screen and settings
Screenshot of my own layout and the settings I run are on the way; until then, Bookmap’s picture above is the honest version.
Questions people ask
Which Bookmap plan includes the Absorption Indicator?
Global Plus and Global Premium. It isn’t in Global or the free Digital tier.
What’s the difference between absorption and a sweep?
Absorption is a lot of volume traded at one price without moving it: a wall holding. A sweep is size that takes out several price levels at once: a wall breaking. Bookmap has a Sweeps Indicator for the second one.
Can the Absorption Indicator alert me?
Yes: a sound, a Telegram message, or both, each time a new group of marks is added.
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