Working with an Order Book is essential for a deep understanding of the market or markets we are trading. It supports our day trading by providing essential information because it helps us to survive every day in trading your markets, either we trade Future, Stocks or Forex. DOM Bookmap Order Book
Information like:
- Buying or Selling Pressure
- Order Book Imbalances
- Pulling or Stacking of traded orders
- Refreshed trading volume
- Traded Volume at levels of interest
- Deep insight of the order flow
- Seeing and adopting the information to the historical chart
Standard DOM
When I realized the advantages of a DOM my education begun with Jigsaw Trader as an add-on for Ninjatrader 7. Needless to say that at the beginning it wasn’t easy to understand and grasp what these numbers are all about. The real meaning of BID and ASK, etc. It was stress to follow the Order Book when I was trading Nasdaq, Oil or Forex pairs like EUR/USD futures because numbers are flickering and moving too fast to follow and it seems that an Order Book doesn’t make sense at all.
Hold on! Have a look at high liquidity instruments like ES, ZB, ZN, ZF, ZS etc. These instruments for example are providing vital information about the current and future state of the market. That is valuable information you won’t miss the more you study it.
Advantages of DOM Usage
Most traders do not use the DOM for several reasons. The most mentioned reason is that the DOM is of no help when it comes to real trading. Additional arguments come in place like: difficult to read, demanding, too fast, DOM is anyway a “part of the price ladder” and so on.
An advantage of having and observing a DOM on Bookmap™ workspace is evident:
Bookmap™ translates Order Book (DOM) information into its graphical workspace!
This is much easier to read than staring at numbers and watching them flickering.
Let me help you to set up a standardized DOM in Bookmap™ in few fast steps:
- Download my Bookmap Workspace Definition File ESM0.CME@RITHMIC.bmcs
- Download Bookmap Workspace Definition File for Stocks AAPL@DXFEED.bmcs
- Open a Chart (Future or Stock) in Bookmap™
- Leave everything as it is on your chart
- Click your right mouse button anywhere on the Bookmap™ chart
- A Menu opens
- Select and click on “Chart Settings”
- New submenu opens with options to “Load from File” and “Save to File”
- Select “Load from File”
- Given you have stored the downloaded file to your Windows Desktop
- Select the downloaded file from the Windows Desktop and confirm with “OK”
- As the file is loaded your workspace will adjust immediately to the predefined settings.
- If you have more than one chart open, you can use “Inherit Chart Settings from…” to easily adjust every chart with your origin one.
Standard DOM Comparison Jigsaw with Bookmap
That’s it! DOM Bookmap Order Book
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Become a sustainably profitable trader
Join my seminar: “Contrary Trading with Bookmap™ – Basics and Execution”, or if you prefer to learn at your pace, take my Online Course. Together we will go in depth how to utilize the Order Book and its real-time information for your trading decisions. We will elaborate on how to recognize when a move comes to an end, and we’ll utilize this knowledge to our advantage – either to go against the crowd or exiting our positions in time. At the end of the seminar you will understand WHAT the market is doing and WHY!
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Additional Informational and Supportive Bookmap™ Sources:
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Bookmap Wiki
Bookmap Forum at OptimusFutures
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Hello Walter,
How might a NinjaTrader user of Bookmap open your file?
Bookmap crashed when I tried to open the file above.
Thanks for the help,
Jim
Hi Jim, based on your comment I have updated and uploaded the file today, 29/05/2019. It was saved based on Bookmap V. 7.1.0 build: 11. Please try again: Download file – in Bookmap righ click – chart settings – Load from file. It should work. Please check your Bookmap licence. Thanks.
Thank you Walter, that worked!
Jim
Great!
Hi Walter
Awesome webnar.Thanks for the settings for the charts
You’re welcome!
Walter, Thank you so much! I have spent this week trying to decide between Jigsaw (because I like the DOM) and Bookmap (because I like everything about it other than the default DOM). You have made this decision easy! I have watched a few of your videos and I really appreciate learning from them.
HI, thanks. You can setup and have everything you got in Jigsaw in Bookmap too. And more: There are functions like record and replay which gives you the chance to recall what happened during the trading and see the why something happened. I missed that in Jigsaw.