Wick Pressure Zones [BigBeluga]
The Wick Pressure Zones indicator highlights areas where extreme wick activity occurred, signaling strong buy or sell pressure. By measuring unusually long upper or lower wicks and mapping them into gradient volume zones , the tool helps traders identify levels where liquidity was absorbed, leaving behind footprints of supply and demand imbalances. These zones often act as support, resistance, or liquidity sweep magnets .
🔵 CONCEPTS
Extreme Wicks : Large upper or lower shadows indicate aggressive rejection — upper wicks suggest selling pressure, lower wicks suggest buying pressure.
Volumatic Gradient Zones : From each detected wick, the indicator projects a layered gradient zone, proportional to the wick’s size, showing where most pressure occurred.
Liquidity Footprints : These zones mark levels where significant buy/sell volume was executed, often becoming reaction points on future retests.
Automatic Expiration : Zones persist until price decisively trades through them, after which they are cleared to keep the chart clean.
🔵 FEATURES
Automatic Wick Detection : Identifies extreme upper and lower wick events using percentile filtering and Realative Strength Index.
Gradient Zone Visualization : Builds a 10-layer zone from the wick top/bottom, shading intensity according to pressure strength.
Volume Labels : Each zone is annotated with the bar’s volume at the origin point for added context.
Dynamic Zone Extension : Zones extend to the right as long as they remain relevant; once price closes through them, they are removed.
Support & Resistance Mapping : Upper wick zones (red) behave like supply/resistance, lower wick zones (green) like demand/support.
Clutter Control : Limits the number of active zones (default 10) to keep charts responsive.
Background Highlighting : Optional background shading when new wick zones appear (red for sell, green for buy).
🔵 HOW TO USE
Look for Upper Wick Zones (red) : Indicate strong selling pressure; watch for resistance, reversals, or liquidity sweeps above.
Look for Lower Wick Zones (green) : Indicate strong buying pressure; watch for support or liquidity sweeps below.
Trade Retests : When price returns to a zone, expect a reaction (bounce or rejection) due to leftover liquidity.
Combine with Context : Align wick pressure zones with HTF support/resistance, order blocks, or volume profile for stronger signals.
Use Volume Labels : High-volume wicks indicate more significant liquidity events, making the zone more likely to act as a strong reaction point.
🔵 CONCLUSION
The Wick Pressure Zones is a powerful way to visualize hidden liquidity and aggressive rejections. By mapping extreme wick events into dynamic, volume-annotated zones, it shows traders where the market absorbed heavy buy/sell pressure. These levels frequently act as magnets or turning points, making them valuable for timing entries, stop placement, or fade strategies.
Candlewicks
Team TemaTema highlights bars based on the triple ema ( tema ) with two different length qualifiers.
The tema is believed to react quicker to price fluctuations than the simple moving average ( sma ), the exponential moving average ( ema ), and the double ema ( dema ). The shorter length tema crossing over the longer one is believed to indicate a bullish trend ahead, highlighted in green. The shorter length crossing below the longer one may indicate a bearish trend is on the way.
Benefits.
It has been found that most traders lose money because they panic early, and don't let profits run. Tema helps me to filter out trading noise , reduce stress and stay in profitable trades longer . Highlighting the candle wicks reveals trends in highs and lows that may be difficult to see otherwise. I like being able to adjust the settings and look back to see how much noise would have been good to filter out.
Things to watch out for.
Like other moving averages, the tema is a lagging indicator , vulnerable to false signals, especially during a large move up or down . Use with other indicators that are better designed for detecting tops and bottoms. Adjust the lengths to filter out what you think may be wrong signals. The settings are subjective , and it depends on the security and the time period. Manually create a note or reminder with your favorite settings for each. You may choose how much price fluctuation to filter out by going into settings, marked with the gear icon.
Unconfirmed sentiment arrow.
Tema draws an arrow of current sentiment , based on the unconfirmed price action of the faster tema. It shows where it thinks prices are presently going, barring other factors. Its main purpose is to extend a line from the end of the tema, so it is not difficult to see. Remember, it is probably wrong until the last bar closes. And even then, buyers or sellers could come along at any moment and change the outlook.
