Your chart shows price. Your DOM shows intent. For exotic-pair traders, where spreads widen and level-2 data gets sparse, building a custom

Your chart shows price. Your DOM shows intent. For exotic-pair traders, where spreads widen and level-2 data gets sparse, building a custom order-flow pipeline isn't a luxury - it's the only way to see what price action alone hides. Here's how to wire up a practical DOM and flow stack in Python without burning weeks on infrastructure. What you're actually capturing Level-2 data (depth of market) gives you the resting limit-order book: bid/ask ladders with size at each price level. Order flow (tape/trade stream) shows executed volume - market orders aggressing the book. Together they reveal absorption (large limit orders...