Ive said this lots of times and ima stop saying it after this because some of you can be dense as fuck.
1. as stated from other people, reading level 2 or T&S is not tape reading.
2. T&S is not a reliable function to watch. Why? Because your broker can save up a whole bunch of orders and batch them all at once at a given price and the price movement for those orders have already been factored in. Meaning, you see a batch of 200k orders come through and the price barely budges if at all.
Just like volume, for the most part, is not a reliable thing to watch + you should be able to tell the volume based upon the bar. Big bar = big volume.