CVD Chart

Track cumulative buying versus selling pressure to spot divergences that price alone cannot reveal.

What is CVD Chart?

CVD Chart tracks the Cumulative Volume Delta over time — the running total of buy volume minus sell volume. When more volume executes at the ask price (aggressive buying), the CVD line rises. When more volume executes at the bid price (aggressive selling), it falls. This creates a continuous line that reveals the underlying pressure behind price movements.

The real power of CVD comes from divergence analysis. Price and CVD normally move together: price goes up, CVD goes up. But when they diverge, it signals something important. If price is making new highs but CVD is falling, the rally is weak — there is not enough genuine buying to sustain it. Conversely, if price is making new lows but CVD is rising, sellers are losing steam and buyers are quietly accumulating.

CVD is one of the most effective tools for distinguishing between genuine trends and manufactured moves. Price can be pushed around by liquidation cascades or thin order books, but CVD shows you whether real buying or selling conviction is behind the move.

Key Concepts

• Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD): The running sum of (buy volume - sell volume) over time, showing net aggressive participation
• CVD Divergence: When price and CVD move in opposite directions, signaling potential weakness in the current trend
• Aggressive Buying: Trades executed at the ask price, lifting offers — these move the CVD upward
• Aggressive Selling: Trades executed at the bid price, hitting bids — these move the CVD downward

How to Use CVD Chart

1. Open CVD Chart from the sidebar under Orderflow Tools
2. Select the symbol and timeframe you want to analyze
3. The CVD line is plotted alongside price, making divergences immediately visible
4. Compare the direction and slope of the CVD line with price action at key levels
5. Pay special attention to CVD behavior during breakouts — is volume delta confirming or contradicting the move?

What to Look For

• Bullish signals: CVD rising while price consolidates or pulls back indicates hidden accumulation. CVD making new highs alongside price confirms a healthy uptrend with genuine buying support.
• Bearish signals: CVD falling while price rises is one of the strongest warnings of a weak rally. If CVD breaks its trend before price does, expect price to follow.
• Key patterns: CVD divergences at major support and resistance levels are the highest-probability signals. A strong CVD divergence combined with a liquidation-heavy area often marks a turning point.
• Combine with: Volume Profile for context on where volume is concentrated, Flow Chart for real-time visualization of individual trades, Whale Delta to determine if divergences are whale-driven

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Tips

• CVD divergences are most significant on higher timeframes — a 4-hour or daily CVD divergence carries more weight than a 5-minute one
• Use CVD to validate breakouts: a breakout with rising CVD is more likely to follow through than one where CVD is flat or declining
• CVD measures aggressive orders only — it does not account for passive limit order fills, so it tells you about urgency, not total conviction