Delta Absorption — Signal Playbook

What it detects

Heavy aggressive flow hits the book but price does NOT move with it — a large buy run met by a resting ask-heavy book, or a sell run into bid-heavy support. Someone large is quietly absorbing the other side.

How Delta Absorption paints across a heatmap row — the colour language it speaks on the live map.

How VYX surfaces it

VYX evaluates Delta Absorption live on every candle across 300+ Hyperliquid markets and paints it onto the heatmap, so an unusual flow reading stands out at a glance instead of hiding in a watchlist. That is the job it does in the workflow: it is a scan filter and a piece of context, not an automatic entry. Scan the map for where Delta Absorption is firing, focus that market to read the signal against price and the confirmation cues below, and let the next candle or two resolve before acting on it.

How to play it

Use it as scanner context, not an automatic entry:

• Absorption is a fade setup: aggressors are spending energy and getting nowhere.
• When buyers are absorbed at resistance, lean short; when sellers are absorbed at support, lean long.
• The absorbing side often becomes the next move’s direction.
• Wait for price to start rejecting away from the absorbed side.

Confirmation

What strengthens the read:

• Price holds despite the aggressive flow, then reverses.
• The absorbing side’s book pressure stays firm.
• A follow-on flip in the absorbing direction.

Invalidation

What kills it:

• The level finally breaks and price accelerates with the flow.
• The resting liquidity was pulled (it was never real absorption).
• Spread blows out as the level fails.

Risk & honest evidence

Respect the limits:

• Absorption can precede a violent break once the absorber is done.
• Hard to tell true absorption from a level about to fail in real time.
• Evidence: grounded in market-microstructure research. VYX's own live backtest is still accruing — treat this as scanner context, not a proven edge.