Bar Stats

Bar Stats puts a small table of numbers under your bars. Each row is one statistic, like volume or delta, and each column is one bar. You get the numbers without opening a full footprint.

Category Order flowApplies to Web and DesktopUpdated 2 Nov 2026Read time 3 min

Shows: One column of figures per bar, in rows you pick
Updates: Live for the current bar
Best on: Time charts with bid and ask data

What it measures

Bar Stats reads the bid and ask volume at each price inside every bar and turns it into the rows below. It uses the same order flow data as Footprint.

Row	What it shows
Delta	Ask volume minus bid volume for the bar. Positive means more buying.
Volume	Total volume of the bar.
Delta day	Delta added up since the start of the trading session. It restarts when a new session begins.
Delta% Day	Delta day as a percentage of the bar's volume.
Buy Volume, Sell Volume	The bar's volume split into its two sides.
Buy% Volume, Sell% Volume	Each side as a percentage of the bar's volume. The two add up to 100.
Delta Max, Delta Min	The largest and the smallest delta found at any single price inside the bar.
Delta Finish	Either Delta Max or Delta Min, chosen by comparing the bar's delta with them.
Ticks	The number of different prices traded inside the bar.

In the table itself, some row names are spaced differently, for example Delta Day, Delta % Day and Buy % Volume.

On the chart

ES on a 3-minute chart with BarStats added. The table under the candles has the default rows, Volume, Delta and Delta Day, with one cell per bar.

Add Bar Stats to a chart

In the chart header, click Indicators.
Type stats in Search indicators and click BarStats.
Under Groups rows, tick the rows you want and drag them into the order you prefer.

Bar Stats allows one copy per chart. It opens in its own panel.

Settings

General

Setting	What it does	Default
Row Height	Height of each row in pixels.	20
Header: Position	Puts the row names on the Left or the Right.	Left
Header: Text Color, Back Color	Text and background colors of the row names.
Font: color	The color box at the start of the Font row. It colors the figures.
Font: family and style	Family Open Sans, Monospace, Sans Serif or Arial. Style Regular or Bold.	Arial, Regular
Font: size	Size of the figures.	11

Groups rows

Each row has a tick box to show it. Drag rows up or down to reorder them. The rows are Delta, Volume, Delta day, Buy Volume, Sell Volume, Delta% Day, Buy% Volume, Sell% Volume, Delta Max, Delta Min, Delta Finish and Ticks.

Setting	What it does	Default
Row tick box	Shows or hides that row.	On for Volume, Delta and Delta day. Off for the rest
Background	Cell background color. Rows for Volume, Buy Volume and Sell Volume have this.
Positive, Negative	Colors for positive and negative figures. The delta and percentage rows have these.

The Ticks row has no color settings.

How traders read it

Delta against the candle: an up candle with negative delta shows the move was not driven by aggressive buyers.
Delta day: a running total that shows which side has been more aggressive across the session.
Delta Max and Delta Min: large values show one price where one side was very active inside the bar.
Ticks: many prices traded in a bar means a wide, active range. Few means a narrow bar.

Tip. Keep three or four rows. A tall table takes space from the price chart, and the Row Height setting changes how much it uses.

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