About BASALT Charts

BASALT Charts, formerly Orbit Charts, is browser-based futures market analysis software built and operated by Orbit Charts LLC. Learn about the rename from Orbit Charts to BASALT Charts.

Hi, I'm Marc, the founder of BASALT Charts. I've spent 5 years trading futures, most of it in funded prop firm accounts as well as being a professional software developer for the past 12 years.

BASALT Charts exists because the order-flow tools I used every day showed the right data the wrong way. Footprint charts, DOM ladders, and volume panels are packed with information, but under time pressure they read like walls of numbers. I kept wishing I could just see where activity was building, stalling, or being absorbed — as shape, not as a grid to decode.

So I built it. BASALT Charts renders live market data as depth, motion, and spatial structure in the browser: a responsive trade heatmap, wick absorption, regime and sentiment context, and volume visuals that sit right on the price action they explain. I use it in my own trading every session, and it grows out of the practical questions that come up there — is this market clean or choppy, is pressure real or fading, when might it be best to enter / exit my trades based on trade volume?