Indicator — Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD)

Cumulative Volume Delta is the running total of delta — buy volume minus sell volume — plotted in its own pane. Rising CVD means aggressive buyers have been in control over the period; falling CVD means aggressive sellers have.

Module

Cumulative Volume Delta

How to open

Chart ▸ Indicators ▸ Orderflow & Delta ▸ Cumulative Volume Delta

Data source

Tick-level buy and sell volume

Saved in workspace

Yes

A candlestick chart with a Cumulative Volume Delta pane beneath it that restarts each session (dark theme) — CVD with Reset Period = Session: the line restarts from zero each day.

Reading CVD

Agreement — price and CVD rising (or falling) together: the move is backed by aggressive orders.
Divergence — price makes a new high while CVD does not (or a new low while CVD does not): the move is not backed by aggressive orders and is more likely to stall.
Absorption — CVD moves strongly while price barely moves: passive orders are absorbing the aggression.

Settings

Open Indicators, click the CVD entry under Added, and use the Settings pane.

Setting	What it does
Reset Period	When the running total restarts from zero: Session, Daily, Weekly or Monthly.
Display Mode	Line or Histogram.
Line Color, Line Width, Line Style	Appearance of the line (style is Solid, Dashed or Dotted).
Positive Color / Negative Color	Colours used above and below zero.

Reset Period

CVD restarting each session (dark theme) — Session

CVD accumulating across the week (dark theme) — Weekly

CVD accumulating across the month (dark theme) — Monthly

Use Session to compare one day's pressure with the next. Use Weekly or Monthly to see whether buying or selling has persisted across days.

Display Mode

CVD drawn as a histogram (dark theme) — Histogram

Line Width

CVD drawn with a thicker line (dark theme) — Line Width = 3.

Note

The values follow the chart's Format Volume and Lot Size settings, so CVD reads in the same units as the footprint.