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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. See spoofing vs. real CVD divergence for the tells that separate a real wall from a spoofed one.

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.