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Reading the scalp cockpit

Scalp Cockpit · 5 min read

The cockpit is AEON's real-time execution surface — live candles, order flow, and depth, updating from WebSocket feeds with no page refresh needed.

AEON scalp cockpit showing live delta chart and order book depth
The scalp cockpit — 5s candles, delta chart, and order book depth

5s / 1m / 5m timeframes

The cockpit runs three chart resolutions in parallel, all sourced from Binance WebSocket candles:

5s1m5m

The 5-second view is built for reading immediate reaction to a level or order flow event; 1m and 5m give the short-term structure that 5s candles alone don't show. Most scalp entries are timed off the 5s/1m view while the 5m confirms you're not fighting the immediate short-term trend.

The delta chart

This plots aggressive buy volume against aggressive sell volume per candle — the same underlying concept behind CVD divergence, but at execution speed rather than the MM Monitor's regime-level view. A sharp delta imbalance without a matching price move is often the first sign of the absorption patterns described there.

Order book depth & walls

Live bid/ask depth is visualized directly on the chart, showing where resting size is stacked. Large, persistent walls on one side can act as a magnet or a ceiling — but watch for walls that repeatedly get pulled just before price reaches them, which typically means the size wasn't genuine.

Price action strip

A running tick tape along the bottom of the cockpit shows individual trades with momentum-based color coding, giving a faster read on aggression than watching the candle alone — useful in the seconds right around a signal trigger or a level test.

Integrated trade panel

Orders can be placed directly from the cockpit without switching tabs. This matters most when acting manually on a signal from the signal engine — you can confirm the entry against live order flow and place the trade from the same view, rather than losing the moment to a tab switch.

The cockpit is a manual execution tool. If you'd rather have entries and exits managed automatically based on graded signals, see setting up Auto-Trade.