See through the
Markets with
BookMap Xray
Trading Futures and Options on Futures involves substantial
risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should
carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of
your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You
may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market
data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time.
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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Today’s Agenda
● Introduction to Bookmap
● What Bookmap isn’t
● What Bookmap is
● How to Use Bookmap
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Introduction to Bookmap
Bookmap was born in the Sub Second environment.
Clients include Deutsche Borse, and many top tier
trading desks around the world, and inside banks and
prop shops globally.
Our Core Areas of Expertise:
1. Handling of large real time streaming financial data
and order routing, efficiently at the sub second
level
2. Visualizing the real time and historical evolution of
ALL market data events.
We recently merged our two core areas of expertise into
the high powered platform known as Bookmap.
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What Bookmap is NOT!
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● We are not an indicator: not a
derivative of time, price, and volume.
● We are not a trading educator
● We are not a trading system
Instead BookMap is:
● The True Order Flow Heatmap
● A fully functioning platform
● A very Objective view of the
Marketplace
Bookmap is used by some of the largest,
most sophisticated traders; we will reference
a few later in the presentation.
We transform the machine readable into
human actionable… Let’s explain this in
detail
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THIS IS NOT YOUR
TRADITIONAL
CHARTING PLATFORM
Bookmap gives you the ability to visualize the
evolution of the entire market. Orders added,
order pulled and traded volume.
Traded Volume is historical.
LOB data is intentional.
Takes specialized software to do this
efficiently and effectively.
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What IS Bookmap?
Order book heatmap
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Traditional Price Ladders and DOM Windows
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The Historical Markets
Insert time and sales
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The WHOLE Market
1. Current DOM and
User Configured
Column Data
2. Current Market
Window
3. Historical Order
Book Evolution
LOB and Heatmap
Traded Volume
(Aggressor Classification)
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What is Bookmap!
Any question whether the
“algos” are making the
markets of today?
Watch the Electronic Market Makers in
action, REAL TIME!
Visualization OFF
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What is Bookmap!
Any question whether the
“algos” are making the
markets of today?
Watch the Electronic Market Makers in
action, REAL TIME!
Visualization ON
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Traditional Price Ladders and DOM Windows
● 858 Available @
1853
● 922 @ 60.75
● 1718 @ 1860
Liquidity
INCREASING
Getting Brighter
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How can you use Bookmap?
1. What is the composition of the current
book?
2. When price advances towards these levels:
3. What is the “tape telling”?
4. Learn to read the tape in the shortest
amount of time in our opinion
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How can you use Bookmap?
1. What is the composition of the current
book?
a. Where is the liquidity in relationship to “my
levels”
b. Is it Large or Small
c. When did the orders “arrive” in the live
book?
i. Resting “paper” vs Other
d. Additional “lit areas” above or below
i. Is the Book “Stacked”
ii. Does it “Flip and Fill?”
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What is Bookmap!
THIS IS NOT YOUR
GRANDFATHERS
CHARTING PLATFORM !!
● Advanced “Tickless” Charting
● Granular Capture
● Advanced Visualization
IF YOU SIMPLY PICTURE
RESTING PAPER AS A
BATTLEGROUND, IT CAN
PAY FOR ITSELF!
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How can you use Bookmap?
Short List of questions that Bookmap CAN answer:
1. What is the composition of the current book?
2. When price advances towards these levels:
a. Is liquidity being added? (aggressive in real
time)
b. Is liquidity being pulled? (passive in real
time)
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Evolution of the LOB: It’s like Seeing the Deck
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Evolution of the LOB: It’s like Seeing the Deck
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Evolution of the LOB: It’s like Seeing the Deck
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Evolution of the LOB: It’s like Seeing the Deck
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Evolution of the LOB: It’s like Seeing the Deck
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Evolution of the LOB: It’s like Seeing the Deck
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How can you use Bookmap?
Short List of questions that Bookmap CAN
answer:
1. What is the composition of the current
book?
2. When price advances towards these levels:
3. What is the “tape telling”?
a. Does it trade?
b. Are trade counts and volume in
“balance”?
c. Is there aggressor bias in real time?
d. Is there historical bias?
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Traded Volume
Liquidity staying in
the Book
Volume trades
Exact Quantity
Make the:
“machine readable
human actionable”
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Granular Detail
Another Trade Example
● 364 contracts trade
in less than 30 ms
● 270 distinct trade
event messages
received
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Granular Detail Traded Volume
How to Read It
● Color of Dots
● Size of Dots
● Amalgamation of
Volume ‘smartly
displayed’.
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How can you use Bookmap?
1. What is the composition of the current
book?
2. When price advances towards these levels:
3. What is the “tape telling”?
4. Learn to read the tape in the shortest
amount of time in our opinion
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A Lesson from Professional Poker
Facts:
Point and click traders make decisions based on reactions to real time events, and
with Bookmap they can now proactively based on intention revealed from the limit
order book.
The sheer number of occurrences you witness plays THE MOST critical part in the
ability of the active trader to assimilate years of information in a short period and then
act intuitively.
In fact, many other vendors have told traders for years just to watch the tape, look for
flashing numbers, etc. With Bookmap, you can quantify the time invested by the
number of sessions you can review with our powerful Full Market Replay Version.
The Math: If you were able to watch a single market for a full session, minus restroom
breaks and grabbing a sandwich to eat at the desk you would have spent 390~
minutes watching the action, refining your ability to recognize whatever you need to
see in your “charts” or “tea leaves” or whatever you use in order to put your capital at
risk.
By spending that same amount of time watching a single market in 16x replay speed,
you can “see” 6240 minutes or 104 hours of events unfold before your very eyes. This
feature alone is worth the price of Bookmap is what most traders report.
Like the Mastercard commercial states: priceless
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