XAUUSD — Live Volume Footprint

Bid × Ask footprint: every price tick is counted at the price it traded at, split into buys (up-ticks, teal) and sells (down-ticks, red). Each cell shows the ticks at that price; the brightest row is the point of control. Delta and total ticks sit under each candle.

How to read it: each column is one candle, split into price rows. A cell's number is the ticks traded at that price; teal means buyers dominated that row, red means sellers did. The white-outlined row is the point of control (most ticks). Dashed VAH / VAL lines bound the value area (70% of the candle's ticks). Delta is buys minus sells — positive delta with price rising is buying pressure. Short white ticks on a column's edges mark the open (left) and close (right).

Live sources, in order: https://biquote.io/api/XAUUSD (bid / ask / mid, polled once per second; the last ~100 ticks are also loaded on start so the current candle is not empty) and, as a fallback, https://api.gold-api.com/price/XAU (XAU spot in USD). Candles build live from the moment the page opens, so the 4h view fills over hours while 5m fills in minutes. History: the chart opens with the last 2 trading days (Fri 6 Nov + Mon 9 Nov 2026) of real Dukascopy XAUUSD ticks, aggregated to 5m candles and re-bucketed for each timeframe — so the 4h view shows the full 2 days and the 1h view a full day. Live ticks continue from the moment the page opens; any gap between the history's end and page-open is simply missing candles, not zero volume. Honest limit: spot gold has no central exchange, so there is no true traded volume. "Volume" here is the number of price ticks at each level, split buy/sell by tick direction (up-tick = buy, down-tick = sell, flat tick split evenly) — the same proxy as the sentiment chart, not CME futures volume. History and live candles use the same proxy, so their totals are comparable. This is a price display only, not financial advice.