Free footprint chart and volume profile for NIFTY and BANKNIFTY: what you get and what it is
Free volume footprint charts, session and fixed range volume profiles, TPO and VWAP for NIFTY, BANKNIFTY and NSE stocks in the browser. How the footprint is estimated, the settings, and the honest limits.
If you want a free footprint chart and volume profile for NIFTY and BANKNIFTY, SuperCharting has a Volume footprint chart type, six volume profile indicators, two profile drawing tools, a Session volume profile chart type and Time price opportunity (TPO) market profiles. They work on NSE futures, stocks and MCX commodities in the browser. All of these are on Essential, the free plan, so none of them needs a paid plan. One thing to know first: the footprint is estimated from finer candles, not built from trades at the bid and the ask. The section below explains what that means.
What you get
| Tool | Where | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Volume footprint | Chart type menu | Each candle split into price rows with estimated buy and sell volume, delta, POC, value area and imbalances |
| Volume candles | Chart type menu | Candles that are wider when more volume traded |
| Session volume profile | Indicator and chart type | One profile per day with POC, VAH and VAL |
| Fixed range and visible range profiles | Indicators | A profile over the bars you choose or the newest bars |
| Periodic and auto anchored profiles | Indicators | A profile per 15 minutes to 1 month, or from a swing high, swing low or session start |
| Fixed range and anchored profile drawings | Drawing toolbar | A profile over a range you pick by eye |
| Time price opportunity (TPO) | Chart type and indicators | Market profile letters in 30-minute blocks |
How the footprint is built (read this first)
SuperCharting does not receive every exchange trade with its side. The footprint is built from finer candles inside each chart candle, one minute at best:
- Each finer candle that closed up counts as buy volume, one that closed down as sell volume, and one that closed unchanged takes the side of the candle before it.
- Its volume is spread across the price rows it covered.
- This is the same method charting sites use for historical footprints without tick data. It is an estimate, not a record of trades at the bid and the ask.
In practice that means the footprint tells you where volume traded inside a candle quite well, and which side only roughly. On a 1-minute chart each candle holds a single 1-minute candle, so the footprint becomes useful from 5 or 15 minutes upward.
Where the feed has no finer history, older candles are drawn plainly instead of with invented rows.
Use futures, not the index
The NIFTY 50 and BANK NIFTY indices are calculated values and do not trade themselves, so they carry no traded volume of their own. For footprints and volume profiles, open the current-month futures from the option chain or the symbol search (for example the NIFTY futures contract) and work on that chart. Stocks such as NSE:RELIANCE work directly.
Footprint settings
With Volume footprint selected, open Settings > Symbol:
- Row size: Auto (ATR) makes each row one fifth of the 14-bar ATR; Manual sets Ticks per row (10 by default).
- Display: Cluster (coloured cells) or Profile (bars whose length shows volume).
- Type: Buy and sell, Delta (buy minus sell per row), Total or Ladder.
- Value area (70%) and POC mark the busiest rows of each candle.
- Imbalance (300%) highlights a row where one side is at least three times the other side one row away; Stacked levels marks three or more in a row.
- Show summary info prints each candle's volume, delta and sell × buy under it.
How to open a NIFTY futures footprint
- Sign in and open the NIFTY current-month futures contract.
- Pick 15 minutes from the interval button.
- Click the chart type button in the top toolbar and choose Volume footprint.
- Wait a moment while the chart loads the 1-minute candles it needs.
- Open Settings > Symbol and set Type to Delta if you want one number per row.
- Add Session volume profile from Indicators (Profiles chip), set Sessions to Market only and Market session to 0915-1530, to see the day's POC and value area next to the footprint.
Reading one candle
A 15-minute candle closes near its low after a fall. Its footprint shows the POC in the lower third, a positive summary delta and two buy imbalances stacked at the lowest rows. Read together, that suggests buyers met the fall at those prices, a zone to note for the next visit. It is an estimate of activity, not a signal; compare it with the session profile and VWAP for context.
What it is not
- Not bid/ask order flow. No individual trades, no order book depth, no real aggressor side. Treat buy and sell volume as an approximation.
- Not available on formula charts such as
NSE:RELIANCE/NSE:TCS, and it needs a symbol whose feed reports volume. - Not deep on old history. Finer candles load for the part of the chart you are looking at, at most 15,000 per request, more as you scroll back.
Frequently asked questions
Is the footprint chart really free?
Yes. The footprint chart type, every volume profile tool and TPO are on Essential, the free plan, and on every paid plan. The paid plans raise limits such as charts per tab and bars per chart, not these tools.
Is this real order flow?
No. It is estimated from finer candles as described above. It does not see trades at the bid and the ask.
Why does the NIFTY index show no footprint?
The index has no traded volume of its own. Open the NIFTY futures contract instead.
Which volume profile should I start with?
For intraday NIFTY or BANKNIFTY futures, Session volume profile with the 0915-1530 market session. For one swing, the Auto anchored volume profile or the anchored profile drawing. The volume profile guide compares all six.
Can I see a market profile (TPO)?
Yes. Time price opportunity is in the chart type menu, and the Profiles chip of the Indicators dialog has TPO indicators too.