Most retail charts show you four numbers per candle: open, high, low, close. That tells you what happened, not why.
Order flow software opens the candle up and shows what's inside it (see the image 👆):
🔹 Bid vs. Ask matrix: who actually crossed the spread at each price level
🔹 Volume delta: how many aggressive buyers there were versus aggressive sellers
🔹 Absorption: big limit orders quietly soaking up market orders without letting price move
Two candles can look identical on a normal chart and tell completely different stories inside. That's the edge. 👀