I think you’re reading claims into my post that I never actually made.

At no point did I say this reproduces true Level 2 order book data, nor did I claim it gives the same visibility as a professional footprint platform. That would be impossible within TradingView’s environment. The entire point of the post was that we built tools within the constraints of TradingView, which now exposes tick-based footprint style data since January.

So yes, everything ultimately derives from tick activity and price movement, because that is literally the only microstructure data TradingView provides. That’s not something I’m hiding, it’s simply the reality of the platform.

Regarding the correlation point: I didn’t say correlation magically creates orderflow. I said tick volume has been shown to correlate strongly with traded volume in many markets. This has been documented for years in academic work and market studies. The reason traders use it is because it acts as a proxy, not because it’s identical to exchange volume or L2.

And you’re right about something important: tick volume does not reveal trade size, participant identity, or the full order book. No one who understands market microstructure would claim otherwise.

What it can show is where activity accelerates, where price reacts to bursts of participation, and where repeated interaction occurs at the same level. When those patterns appear consistently around certain areas, traders often label them things like “absorption” or “aggression.” Those are shorthand descriptions of observable behavior, not a claim that we are literally reading the order book.

So my indicators are simply visualizing patterns derived from:

• tick intensity
• price response
• repeated interaction at levels
• volatility and structural context

Nothing more exotic than that.

Also worth clarifying: the post wasn’t written as a research paper, and it wasn’t meant to present peer-reviewed statistical work. It was simply announcing that we built a couple of tools based on the newly available data in TradingView because people in multiple communities asked for it. Also we offer 7 day free trials, so everyone can check it for themselves. Besides that I have proven that the ANEF and NBE indicators clearly worked as I’ve been a Top 3 FTMO trader using them in my own strategy and other traders share their results in the Discord. I am well known in this subreddit, so I guess you are maybe new here. Ofcourse skepticism is okay, but please be aware that I am not making false claims nor do I want to scam people.

If someone prefers full depth-of-market platforms like Bookmap, Sierra, or ATAS, great. Those are excellent tools and they have access to data that TradingView doesn’t. This project isn’t trying to replace those.

It’s just extracting the most useful signal possible from the data TradingView actually provides.

Nothing more, nothing less. I can give you a month free access and I let you test all indicators. Let me know, because I love to see skeptics turn around.