Following the Market's Footprints: Order Flow Explained

This is the fourth part of our Market Frameworks series. The topics discussed below build on the foundations from our Reflexivity, Liquidity Cascades, and Inelastic Markets reports. If you haven’t already, we highly recommend checking them out, as they’ll give you the background understanding and philosophical underpinnings behind many of the concepts and methodologies applied to financial markets throughout this report. Enjoy!

Introduction

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