Footprint Blue Purple is a Sierra Chart footprint template with its own optimizations for ES, NQ, Crude Oil and Gold futures. It is built the same way as Footprint Crimson, only with a blue and purple color scheme. It runs on range-based Point & Figure bars, so a quiet session without any movement stays a handful of bars instead of hundreds. You only see what really happened. Prefer time-based bars? The chart can be switched to a time-based bar period, like minutes, in the chart settings. Choose your market above and the bar size, volume filters and large-trade thresholds already match that contract.

What is on the chart

• Footprint with two columns: total volume on the left (white and orange) and delta on the right (blue for buying, red for selling)
• Range-based Point & Figure bars with a transparent candlestick body, so price action and the footprint numbers read together
• Volume Profile with total volume and a delta overlay, calculated from all visible bars
• Delta Bars and footprint statistics
• Unfinished tops and bottoms, drawn as a yellow line until price retests them
• Large Volume Trade Indicator for single big prints
• Highlight Large Resting Orders: big limit orders sitting in the book are marked on the chart

How traders use it

The candle bodies are transparent on purpose, so your eyes stay on what happens inside each bar. The template is tuned to spot absorption and heavily traded volume. On a zoomed-in level these often point to a short-term reversal. Read them together with strong finish numbers in the opposite direction.

A yellow horizontal line marks unfinished auctions at the high or low of a candle. That is unfinished business and price often returns to it. The line keeps extending until the market revisits the level and completes the auction. The Delta Bars at the bottom act as visual feedback and back up your read, whether you see absorption or a strong directional move.

Good to know

• Four optimizations: ES, NQ, Crude Oil and Gold. Need more than one market? Add the other optimizations at a reduced price when you check out.
• Footprint (Numbers Bars) is an Advanced Sierra Chart feature and the resting-order highlight reads live market depth. We recommend Package 11.
• Prefer the Crimson colors? See Footprint Crimson.
• This template is also the trigger chart of the Orderflow Suite with TPO, Footprint, DOM and Heatmap. Browse all Sierra Chart footprint templates.
• Tip: the Tape On Chart indicator paints the Time and Sales tape directly on your chart, one row per order with big prints highlighted.