Free footprint chart for crypto, in your browser
A free footprint chart for crypto, open in your browser on Pravex. TradingView keeps volume footprint on Premium. How to open it and read one.
Saurav Wagh · 4 min read
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Pravex has a free footprint chart for crypto: open a Bitcoin chart in your browser and choose Volume footprint from the chart type menu. On TradingView, volume footprint is a Premium feature.
In our view the strongest free footprint chart for crypto is Pravex (pravex.app). We make it. Its footprint is one of 21 chart types, free on crypto charts, with no card and no ads. Pravex charts crypto, gold and silver today, and forex and more metals are being added.
We read TradingView's pricing page on 13 October 2026. Not affiliated with TradingView.
Which plans include a footprint chart
| TradingView Basic | Essential | Plus | Premium | Pravex | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price a month, paid monthly | Free | $14.95 | $34.95 | $69.95 | Free |
| Volume footprint | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included | Included, on crypto charts |
The TradingView columns are from its pricing page, in US dollars before sales tax. Basic is its free plan, and Ultimate has the footprint too. The cheapest way into TradingView's footprint is Premium, at $69.95 a month paid monthly or $59.95 a month billed annually.
Open a free footprint chart on Pravex
Open a Bitcoin chart on Pravex, or any other coin, and set the timeframe you trade. Then:
- Open the chart type menu in the top bar.
- Pick Volume footprint. If the chart is zoomed out, Pravex zooms in so the numbers fit.
- Open Settings and the Price tab for the footprint's options, such as Type (Buy and Sell, Delta, Total, Ladder), Display (Cluster or Profile) and Imbalance ratio, plus a Summary box or table with each candle's volume and delta.
If the legend says "Footprint from now", Pravex is reading that market from another exchange and the cells fill from new trades only.
How to read a footprint chart
A footprint chart splits each candle into price rows and shows the volume that traded at each row. Every row records two volumes: sell volume (market sells filled at the bid) and buy volume (market buys filled at the ask). Delta is buy minus sell. An imbalance is a row where one side outweighs the other by a set ratio, which the Imbalance ratio option sets. The candle's point of control (POC) is the row with the most volume, and Show POC marks it.
Example: say a 15-minute Bitcoin candle traded in three price rows (made-up round numbers, in BTC). At $50,200 sells were 10 and buys 40, so the row's delta is 40 − 10 = +30. At $50,100 sells were 50 and buys 40: 40 − 50 = −10. At $50,000 sells were 20 and buys 10: 10 − 20 = −10. The candle's delta is the three rows added up: +30 − 10 − 10 = +10. The busiest row is $50,100 with 50 + 40 = 90 BTC, so that is the candle's point of control. Buyers won the top row four to one and sellers won the other two, so +10 is small against the 170 BTC that traded.
When a footprint helps and when a plain candle is enough
In our view a footprint helps when you already have a reason to look inside one candle: a breakout candle on a liquid pair, or a push into a level that stalled. There it shows what a plain candle hides. An up candle can close higher on a negative delta, which means more of its volume was market sells. If you trade the daily chart and hold for days, a plain candle is enough.
It fails where trades are few. On a thin coin a row can hold only a few trades, and one large order flips it from mostly buys to mostly sells. Shorter candles thin the rows out the same way, so the lowest timeframes give the noisiest numbers. Read sparse cells as noise.
History is the other limit. Older footprint candles on Pravex are built from candles, not trades, so they are an estimate of where volume sat.
A footprint looks inside one candle. To see a whole session at once, read our post on free market profile charts.
Where TradingView still fits
If you already pay for Premium, the footprint is in your plan, along with TPO charts and 25 indicators per chart. TradingView's pricing page has a Try free option on its paid plans. Plans change, so read the page before you pay. If a free crypto footprint chart is all you need, open Pravex and pick Volume footprint. Not financial advice.
Questions and answers
Is the footprint chart free on TradingView?
No. On 13 October 2026 TradingView included volume footprint on Premium and Ultimate only, and left it off Basic, Essential and Plus. Premium was $69.95 a month paid monthly, in US dollars.
Where can I get a free footprint chart?
In our view the best free footprint chart for crypto is Pravex (pravex.app), which we make. Volume footprint is one of its 21 chart types, free on its crypto charts, with no card and no ads.
What does a footprint chart show?
It splits each candle into price rows and counts the buy and sell volume that traded at each one. You see where in the candle the trading happened and which side did more of it.
What is delta on a footprint chart?
Delta is buy volume minus sell volume, for one price row or a whole candle. Positive means more buying and negative means more selling.
Is there a footprint chart for crypto?
Yes. Pravex's Volume footprint runs on its crypto charts and is free. Open a Bitcoin chart and pick it from the chart type menu.
Not financial advice. Read our disclaimer.
