QuillCharts is a minimal footprint-charting platform for Gold, Nasdaq and S&P futures. Tick-level data, the tools that matter, and nothing you don't need.
Free on 15-minute delayed data. No card needed.
Before you can watch a single footprint, the standard stack wants a platform licence, an order-flow add-on, and a separate data feed.
QuillCharts: free to learn. $29 when you go real-time.
Zoomed out, QuillCharts is a clean candle chart for structure. Zoom in and every candle opens into its footprint — bid and ask volume at every price, imbalances flagged, the point of control marked. No mode switch, no second window. The zoom is the interface.
When buyers lift the offer 3-to-1 at three prices in a row, QuillCharts draws the zone and keeps it on your chart until price trades back through it.
Single prints large enough to matter — 20 lots in Gold, 50 in the S&P — marked at the exact price they hit, sized to the trade.
Cells where volume piles up against the move get highlighted the moment they form. Absorption stops being something you learn about after the fact.
Session and anchored volume profiles with POC, value-area high and low — anchor one to any swing and watch it build forward, tick by tick.
Cumulative volume delta computed from every trade, not bar approximations — plus a per-bar strip of delta, delta % and volume under the chart, shaded so divergence is visible at a glance.
Pick a date, drop onto the open, and trade it forward — play at half speed or ten times, step one bar at a time, switch timeframes mid-replay. The future stays hidden until it prints. Both tiers get all of it.
Replay runs on the same tick data as the live chart — every footprint cell rebuilds exactly as it did that day.
Professional platforms ship four hundred indicators, a DOM, a heatmap, and a scripting language — and charge like it. QuillCharts ships the eight tools that teach you to read the tape: footprints, imbalances, big trades, clusters, profiles, CVD, VWAP, and a handful of moving averages. Nothing to configure for a week. Nothing between you and the order flow.
Dark for the session, light for review — or your own palette for both. Every color, font size and threshold is yours to set, save as a preset, and carry across every instrument.
$0
The whole platform, 15 minutes behind.
$29/month
The same platform, zero delay.
Delayed data means every chart, tool and replay works — prices simply arrive 15 minutes after the exchange prints them.
Tick-level CME Globex data — every trade with its aggressor side — licensed through Databento.