# 👀 Advice re: Snapshots, Open Orders/Bids **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the Community\ **Created:** [March 17, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/advice-re-snapshots-open-orders-bids/2420 "2023-03-17T16:14:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dan.klob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/pug.phocassoftware.com/dan.klob/32/1504_2.png) [@dan.klob](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/dan.klob)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/advice-re-snapshots-open-orders-bids/2420/1 "2023-03-17T16:14:22Z")
One of the metrics we watch is our daily open order and bid amounts. These can often be a leading indicator of what’s to come in our markets. For someone who hasn’t setup or worked with any Snapshot data, what advice or insight might you have? 👀 Based on what I’ve read in the documentation (and search out here in the UG) it sounds like enabling a daily snapshot for both these sync sources would be _fairly_ straight forward but, I’d welcome any advice/feedback from those who might’ve already sailed these waters. * * * For clarity, this is about enabling a daily snapshot of both our open order and bid data so we can track/analyze our historical open order and bid activity. i.e. In Jan we had X$a in open orders vs X$b in Feb vs X$c in Mar etc. We wrote X$z in bids last week vs X$y in bids the week prior etc. ---
**Author:** ![JonKemp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/pug.phocassoftware.com/jonkemp/32/334_2.png) [@JonKemp](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/u/JonKemp)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/advice-re-snapshots-open-orders-bids/2420/2 "2023-03-29T13:32:21Z")
Hi @dan.klob , Not sure if this helps, but there was a similar question a while ago here: [Retain Snapshots - Inventory](https://pug.phocassoftware.com/t/retain-snapshots-inventory/1953) Kind Regards, Jon