I'm Abdul Manan. I trade US stocks, futures and options off order flow and volume, and I teach it to traders in Pakistan.
Left number is contracts sold at the bid, right number is bought at the ask. Green or red means one side dominated. The yellow box is the busiest price in that bar.
Most traders lose because they trade indicators that lag the market. I look at the orders themselves.
Every candle is a summary of thousands of trades. Order flow opens that candle up and shows how many contracts were bought and sold at each price, and who ended up trapped.
I started ManiiTrades to teach this properly. A lot of what Pakistani traders find online is signals and screenshots. I'd rather you learn to read the market yourself and know why you took every trade.
Stocks that institutions are actively moving. I use volume to confirm that a breakout has real buyers behind it before I take it.
Index futures like ES and NQ, read through the DOM and footprint. This is where the fastest information shows up.
I use options flow and GEX levels to see where dealers may hedge, then decide where an options trade is worth taking and when to stay out.
A candle shows what price did. Order flow shows why it did it.
Every trade has a buyer and a seller. A buyer in a hurry pays the ask price. A seller in a hurry takes the bid price. Order flow just counts these hurried orders at every price.
Say lots of buyers hit the ask, but price refuses to go up. That means a bigger seller is quietly taking all of them. A normal candle hides this. Order flow shows it.
Three questions on every trade.
Is anyone being absorbed? If heavy selling can't push price lower, the sellers are getting soaked up by bigger buyers. That is usually where a reversal starts.
Where are the big trades? Large prints stand out from the noise. I watch where they cluster and whether price respects those levels afterwards.
Where did the market accept price? Price spends most of its time where both sides agree. I mark those areas early in the session and trade the reaction when price comes back to them.
Options dealers have to hedge, and that hedging can move price.
When you buy an option, the dealer on the other side hedges by buying or selling the stock or futures. How much they hedge depends on gamma. GEX, or gamma exposure, adds up that effect across every strike.
Positive GEX: dealers tend to sell rallies and buy dips. Price is calmer and often stays in a range.
Negative GEX: dealers have to sell into falls and buy into rises. Moves get faster and bigger.
I use GEX levels as a map and confirm them with order flow. They are estimates, not promises, because nobody can see the dealers' real books.
Lessons on order flow, volume and market structure, taught step by step for traders in Pakistan.
Personal guidance on your plan, risk and habits, with feedback on your real trades.
Send me your journal and I'll tell you hones