Candle Range Theory | Flux Charts💎 GENERAL OVERVIEW
Introducing our new Candle Range Theory Indicator! This powerful tool offers a strategy built around the Candle Range Theory, which analyzes market movements through the relative size and structure of price candles. For more information about the process, check the "HOW DOES IT WORK" section.
Features of the new Candle Range Theory Indicator :
Implementation of the Candle Range Theory
FVG & Order Block Entry Methods
2 Different TP / SL Methods
Customizable Execution Settings
Customizable Backtesting Dashboard
Alerts for Buy, Sell, TP & SL Signals
📌 HOW DOES IT WORK ?
The Candle Range Theory (CRT) indicator operates by identifying significant price movements through the relative size and structure of candlesticks. A key part of the strategy is determining large candles based on their range compared to the Average True Range (ATR) in a higher timeframe. Once identified, a breakout of either the high wick or the low wick of the large candle is required. This breakout is considered a liquidity grab. After that, the indicator waits for confirmation through Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) or Order Blocks (OBs). The confirmation structure must be the opposite direction of the breakout, for example if the high wick is broken, a bearish FVG is required for the short entry. After a confirmation signal is received, the indicator will trigger entry points based on your chosen entry method (FVG or OB), and exit points will be calculated using either a dynamic ATR-based TP/SL method or fixed percentages. Alerts for Buy, Sell, Take-Proft, and Stop-Loss are available.
🚩 UNIQUENESS
This indicator stands out because it combines two highly effective entry methods: Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) and Order Blocks (OBs). You can choose between these strategies depending on market conditions. Additionally, the dynamic TP/SL system uses the ticker's volatility to automatically calculate stop-loss and take-profit targets. The backtesting dashboard provides metrics about the performance of the indicator. You can use it to tune the settings for best use in the current tiker. The Candle Range Theory approach offers more flexibility compared to traditional indicators, allowing for better customization and control based on your risk tolerance.
⚙️ SETTINGS
1. General Configuration
Higher Timeframe: Customize the higher timeframe for analysis. Recommended combinations include M15 -> H4, H4 -> Daily, Daily -> Weekly, and Weekly -> Monthly.
HTF Candle Size: Define the size of the higher timeframe candles as Big, Normal, or Small to filter valid setups based on their range relative to ATR.
Entry Mode: Choose between FVGs and Order Blocks for your entry triggers.
Require Retracement: Enable this option if you want a retracement to the FVG or OB for entry confirmation.
Show HTF Candle Lines: Toggle to display the higher timeframe candle lines for better visual clarity.
2. Fair Value Gaps
FVG Sensitivity: You may select between Low, Normal, High or Extreme FVG detection sensitivity. This will essentially determine the size of the spotted FVGs, with lower sensitivities resulting in spotting bigger FVGs, and higher sensitivities resulting in spotting all sizes of FVGs.
3. Order Blocks
Swing Length: Swing length is used when finding order block formations. Smaller values will result in finding smaller order blocks.
4. TP / SL
TP / SL Method:
a) Dynamic: The TP / SL zones will be auto-determined by the algorithm based on the Average True Range (ATR) of the current ticker.
b) Fixed : You can adjust the exact TP / SL ratios from the settings below.
Dynamic Risk: The risk you're willing to take if "Dynamic" TP / SL Method is selected. Higher risk usually means a better winrate at the cost of losing more if the strategy fails. This setting is has a crucial effect on the performance of the indicator, as different tickers may have different volatility so the indicator may have increased performance when this setting is correctly adjusted.
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High and Low in Selected Time Window (Chart's Timezone)Simple indicator for finding the high and low in any selected time period. to use enter the start time by selecting the hour and minute and enter the end time the same.
a line will be drawn along with the price and a timestamp of when it occurred. shows multiple days of the same time period. Useful for observing ICT Macros, 6VS10 etc.
Pro V3 [SMRT Algo]SMRT Algo Suite is a versatile toolkit featuring advanced features designed to deliver valuable signals and insights, catering to every trader's technical analysis requirements with precise data.
The SMRT Algo V3 represents a groundbreaking, comprehensive solution built from the ground up for traders.
While SMRT Algo can complement other technical analysis methods, it is also designed to function effectively as a standalone indicator adaptable to any trading style. Each feature is designed with the understanding that not all technical indicators suit every market condition.
The optimal approach to leveraging this indicator is to explore its diverse features gradually, select a few that best match your trading style, and use them consistently to develop a personalized SMRT Algo strategy.
Features:
Buy & Sell Signals: Clear buy and sell signals displayed on the chart, with ‘+’ indicating strong signals and normal signals without ‘+’.
Candle Coloring: Blue and red candle colors to signify bullish and bearish trends, respectively.
Signal Sensitivity: Adjust the frequency of signals to match your trading preferences.
MA Filter: Customizable moving average filter to ensure trades align with the prevailing trend.
Dashboard: Multi-timeframe analysis with information on various timeframes, offering quick decision-making capabilities and a customizable dashboard size.
Trailing Stop Loss: Suggestions for trailing stop losses to maximize profits while minimizing risk.
Power MA: A custom moving average that closely follows price, highlighting short-term market trends.
ChoCh/Bos: Displays internal market structure, including changes of character and breaks of structure.
Market Structure: Shows external market structure, detailing changes of character, breaks of structure, and pivot points.
Support & Resistance: Key support and resistance zones plotted on the chart.
Reversals: Highlights areas with a high likelihood of reversal using diamond markers.
Reversal Bands: Zones where price is likely to reverse or correct.
Trend Lines: Auto-plotted trendlines for quick and easy analysis.
Retest Zones: Ideal for break-and-retest traders, identifying key retest zones for entries and re-entries
Take Profit & Stop Loss: Customizable take profit and stop loss points.
Full Any Alert() Function Call Conditions: Create custom alerts directly to your TradingView device for timely notifications.
Additional features: A set of toggles turning on/off these indicators.
SMRT Algo Pro V3 offers a comprehensive set of features designed to enhance your trading experience by providing actionable insights and customizable tools for all trading styles.
SMRT Algo Pro V3 Confirmation Signals and Candle Coloring
The signals in SMRT Algo Pro V3 can generate both normal and strong labels, with strong signals marked by the "+" symbol. These signals are closely linked to the candle coloring, providing a visual representation of trend development to help navigate various market conditions effectively.
Candle Coloring:
Blue Candles: Indicate bullish trends.
Red Candles: Indicate bearish trends.
Candles will turn blue when there is a buy signal, and turn red when there is a sell signal.
The candle coloring is especially useful when interpreting signals. For instance, a consistent series of blue candles alongside buy signals suggests a strong uptrend, reducing the likelihood of a fake-out. Conversely, a series of red candles with sell signals indicates a strong downtrend.
Dashboard for Multi-Timeframe Analysis
The dashboard provides a consolidated view of multiple timeframes, helping traders make quick decisions based on comprehensive data. This feature reduces the need to switch between charts, streamlining the analysis process.
The dashboard will show the trend of higher timeframes, based on signal calculation and the trend filter.
Note on the dashboard: To reduce memory load, it will only display information from the current timeframe and up.
Trailing Stop Loss
This component workw to maximize profits and manage risk. The Trailing Stop Loss feature provides dynamic stop loss levels. Traders can use this feature to place their stop loss in profit while price goes in favor of your direction, so that less profit is left on the table, should the trade reverse against you.
Green trailing stop loss ranges are shown for buy trades, while red lines are shown for sell trades. This can be used together with the buy & sell signals to trail the stop loss for those trades.
Power MA
The Power MA follows the price closely, indicating short-term market trends and potential exit points. Traders can use the Power MA to determine when to enter a trade. For example, if the Pro V3 prints a buy signal, but the power MA is red (indicating that the market is short term bearish), it can act as a confirmation to stay out of that trade. Conversely, if the power MA is blue, then it can be an added confirmation to enter the buy trade based on the signals.
Market Structure
The inclusion of ChoCh/Bos (Change of Character and Break of Structure) helps traders understand internal and external market shifts. The ChoCh/Bos shows internal market structure, while the Market Structure feature shows the external market structure. This feature is crucial for identifying key turning points and potential trend continuations, as well as ICT traders.
We recommend traders to use this as an added confirmation, for example, once a buy signal is printed, wait for an internal or external Choch/BOS, possibly indicating that the market is now in control of the bulls. From there traders an either enter off another signal from the V3 or wait for the retest from the Retest Zones feature of the V3.
Support & Resistance, Reversals, and Reversal Bands
These features highlight critical market levels and areas where price is likely to reverse or correct. They are essential for traders looking to capitalize on key support and resistance zones or potential reversal points.
They can be used together with the buy & sell signals. An example is when a sell signal appears, we can look for potential trade exits either at the S/R zones, the reversal diamonds that are printed on the candle, or when price touches the reversal bands.
Trend Lines
Auto-plotted trend lines and the trend ribbon provide insights into longer-term trends. They can be used together with the buy sell features of the V3, e.g. if a sell signal is printed, but price is in the lower half of the trend lines, we can assume that price is in an area of premium for our short trade. Traders can choose whether to wait for price to retrace back into an area of discount (top half of the trend line), where they can look to short.
Retest Zones
The Retest Zones feature identifies optimal entry and re-entry points for break-and-retest strategies. As mentioned earlier, this feature can be used together with other features to act as a re-entry or further confirmation before entering a trade.
Traders can wait for a signal to be printed by the V3, and wait for further confrirmation from the retest zones to enter at a better price. This feature can be used together with the signals, and the market structure features to create a simple break & retest strategy.
Take Profit Modes:
SMRT Algo Pro V3 includes a versatile Take Profit Mode designed to help traders optimize their exits:
Hybrid Mode: Displays Take Profit, entry, and stop loss lines on the chart for the current position. Additionally, small circles labeled TP1, TP2, and TP3 indicate the points where take profit levels were hit.
Minimal Mode: Only displays the small circles labeled TP1, TP2, and TP3, providing a cleaner chart view while still indicating take profit hits.
Traditional Mode Only: Displays only the lines for Take Profit, entry, and stop loss, without the small circles.
Take profits are based off of 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3 risk to reward ratio with respect to the stop loss.
These modes offer flexibility for traders to choose their preferred level of detail on the chart, helping them to manage their trades effectively and track their take profit levels clearly.
The features of SMRT Algo Pro V3 can significantly strengthen your market analysis by providing additional confluences. These features allow traders to cross-verify signals and trends, making their strategies more robust and reliable. Here's how you can leverage these features:
SMRT Algo Pro V3 offers a comprehensive suite of tools and features that extend beyond the capabilities of standard or open-source indicators, providing significant additional value to users.
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Comprehensive Analysis Tools: The inclusion of multi-timeframe analysis, a detailed dashboard, and advanced market structure indicators help traders make more informed decisions by offering a complete picture of market dynamics.
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Flat Tops/Bottoms aka Devil's MarkThis Pine script indicator is designed to visually depict price inefficiencies, as identified by Flat Top/Bottom Candles (aka Devil's Mark). A Flat Top/Bottom Candle is a scenario where there is an absence of a wick at the top or the bottom of the candle. These represent zones of inefficiency and will frequently act as magnets for price that the market will strive to rebalance in accordance with ICT principles.
Relevance:
Flat Top/Bottom Candles are zones where price delivery didn't provide opportunity for manipulation representing an inefficiency that the market will seek to rebalance. Consequently, these zones can provide good targets for entries in the opposite direction or take profit targets for previous entries in the direction of the Flat Top/Bottom Candle.
How It Works:
The indicator keeps track of all Flat Top/Bottom Candles from the beginning of the available history. It automatically removes all mitigated Flat Top/Bottom Candles, which are situations where the price has gone past the candle without a wick.
Configurability:
You can configure the colors, style & width of the lines used to represent flat top/bottom candles.
What makes this indicator different:
Designed with high performance in mind, to reduce impact on chart render time.
Only keeping the currently valid flat top/bottoms on the chart.
BB NWOG - NDOG - RTH NDOGThe BB Gaps Indicator is a comprehensive tool designed for traders looking to track and visualize significant opening gaps within various market sessions, including:
• New Day Opening Gaps (NDOGs): These gaps form between the closing price of the previous day and the opening price of the new day, providing insight into potential liquidity pools or imbalances.
• RTH New Day Opening Gaps (RTH NDOGs): This focuses on gaps that occur during Regular Trading Hours (RTH), capturing gaps between session closures and the next day’s open, ideal for intraday traders.
• New Week Opening Gaps (NWOGs): These gaps track the price differential between the last candle of the week and the first candle of the new trading week, providing a broader market perspective for swing traders.
Key Features:
• Dynamic Plotting: Visualize gaps with customizable extensions, box fills, and mid-range (50%) or quarter-range (25%, 75%) levels.
• Sidecar Labels: Handy sidecar labels display the gap information right on the chart for easy reference.
• Multiple Session Support: Track gaps across different trading sessions (Daily, RTH, Weekly) with adjustable plot extensions and fill styles.
• Configurable Limits: Set a maximum number of gaps to plot, ensuring your chart remains clean and clutter-free.
CRT Trades (turtle soup, A-M-D ranges with inside bars)CRT means Candle Range Theory. Every single candle is a range, on every single timeframe. Ranges may be either manipulated - turtle souped or broken - engulfed - closed above/below and retested.
CRT is usually presented as a 3 candle model. However it may consist of more than 3 candles due to inside bars. Inside bar is the candle where high is not higher then previous candle high and low is not lower then previous candle low.
First candle represents accumulation (may consist of more candles - inside bars), second candle represents manipulation (turtle soup) and third candle represents distribution. The abbreviation for that is A-M-D.
In accumulation the range with specific high and low is created. In manipulation (turtle soup) the high or low of the range is manipulated - liquidity taken and price should usually reverse back to the range. In distribution price is reversing back to the opposite side of the range. On higher timeframe it looks like manipulation candle wick is higher/lower than previous range high/low (may consist of 1 or more inside bar candles) but the body must not close above/below previous range high/low. Otherwise it is not manipulation (turtle soup) most likely and price should continue in direction of the candle close. Distribution candle should touch opposite side of range and it is mostly heavy and fast candle.
CRT model can be found on higher timeframe (e.g. 4h) and entries can be found on lower timeframe (e.g. 15m). You always use only lower timeframe on your chart because CRT model on the higher timeframe is shown on the lower one and also you can plan entries on the lower timeframe. You are able to change CRT model higher timeframe in the indicator settings.
There are two types of entries:
simple - wait for manipulation candle to close on higher timeframe (HTF) and then enter on lower timeframe (LTF) above open of the distribution candle on HTF if it is short or on LTF below open of the distribution candle on HTF if it is long. These entries can be done by market order.
advanced - wait for the break of previous range high/low and enter by limit order when price reverses back to the range and retraces to the order block or fair value gap created by the breaker candle.
Stop loss can be placed above/below of the top/bottom created by manipulation candle. First take profit should be placed in 1/2 of the accumulation range and second take profit should be placed at the opposite range of accumulation range.
It is possible to filter only particular accumulation (range) and manipulation (turtle soup) candles depending also on timezone set in the settings. For example on 4h CRT model if you fill input "indices" for section "range" like 1,2 and input "indices" for section "turtle soup" like 3,4 then you are awaiting the range to form during asia session and manipulation during london session if the timezone is somewhere around "UTC+2".
Dotted lines represent turtle soup of previous range and solid lines represent engulfing candle of the breaker candle on lower timeframe. When the engulfing is closed you can look for entries either by market order after closing or by limit order when the price retraces to order block (created by breaker candle) or fair value gap (created by engulfing).
Recommendations for combining lower (entries) and higher (crt model) timeframes:
1D CRT model => 1h entries,
4h CRT model => 15m entries,
1h CRT model => 5m entries,
15m CRT model => 1m entries.
HTF Inversion Fair Value Gap | Flux Charts💎 GENERAL OVERVIEW
Introducing our new Higher Timeframe Inversion Fair Value Gaps (IFVG) indicator! Inversion Fair Value Gaps occur when a Fair Value Gap becomes invalidated. They reverse the role of the original Fair Value Gap, making a bullish zone bearish and vice versa. This indicator finds the latest IFVG in a higher timeframe and renders it in the current chart with it's divergence. For more information about the process, read the "HOW DOES IT WORK" section of the description.
Features of the new Higher Timeframe IFVG Indicator :
Renders The Higher Timeframe IFVG
Invalidation Borders
Variety Of Zone Detection / Sensitivity / Filtering / Invalidation Settings
High Customizability
🚩 UNIQUENESS
This indicator lets you take a look at the bigger picture by rendering the latest IFVG in a higher timeframe. You can see the current IFVG divergence to see how is the price action acting around the IFVG. You also can customize the FVG Filtering method, FVG & IFVG Zone Invalidation, Detection Sensitivity etc. according to your needs to get the best performance from the indicator.
📌 HOW DOES IT WORK ?
A Fair Value Gap generally occur when there is an imbalance in the market. They can be detected by specific formations within the chart. An Inversion Fair Value Gap is when a FVG becomes invalidated, thus reversing the direction of the FVG.
This indicator then renders the IFVG in a higher timeframe in your chart like this :
The opaque dashed lines at the top and the bottom of the IFVG indicate the bars that formed the original FVG. The middle dashed line that is semi-transparent shows the candlestick that invalidated the original FVG, thus created the current IFVG. The vertical solid top & bottom wicks indicate the current divergence of the highest & lowest points to the current IFVG.
The IFVGs can act as strong support & resistance points, depending on their creation volume and invalidation volume. Traders can use them for confirmation signals to their positions.
⚙️ SETTINGS
1. General Configuration
Higher Timeframe -> The higher timeframe to detect latest IFVG from. Keep in mind that his setting must be higher than the current timeframe.
IFVG Zone Invalidation -> Select between Wick & Close price for IFVG Zone Invalidation.
2. Fair Value Gaps
FVG Zone Invalidation -> Select between Wick & Close price for FVG Zone Invalidation.
Zone Filtering -> With "Average Range" selected, algorithm will find FVG zones in comparison with average range of last bars in the chart. With the "Volume Threshold" option, you may select a Volume Threshold % to spot FVGs with a larger total volume than average.
FVG Detection -> With the "Same Type" option, all 3 bars that formed the FVG should be the same type. (Bullish / Bearish). If the "All" option is selected, bar types may vary between Bullish / Bearish.
Detection Sensitivity -> You may select between Low, Normal or High FVG detection sensitivity. This will essentially determine the size of the spotted FVGs, with lower sensitivities resulting in spotting bigger FVGs, and higher sensitivities resulting in spotting all sizes of FVGs.
3. Dasboard
You can enable / disable the mitigation dashboard and customize it here.
4. Customization
Offset -> The number of candlesticks the IFVG will be rendered to the right of the latest bar.
Width -> The width of the rendered IFVG in candlesticks.
Price Action Volumetric Breaker Blocks [UAlgo]The Price Action Volumetric Breaker Blocks indicator is designed to identify and visualize significant price levels in the market. It combines concepts of price action, volume analysis, and market structure to provide traders with a comprehensive view of potential support and resistance areas. This indicator identifies "breaker blocks," which are price zones where the market has shown significant interest in the past.
These blocks are created based on swing highs and lows, and are further analyzed using volume data to determine their strength. The indicator also tracks market structure shifts, providing additional context to price movements.
By visualizing these key levels and market structure changes, traders can gain insights into potential areas of price reversal or continuation, helping them make more informed trading decisions.
🔶 Key Features
Dynamic Breaker Block Identification: The indicator automatically detects and draws breaker blocks based on swing highs and lows. These blocks represent areas of potential support and resistance.
Volume-Weighted Strength Analysis: Each breaker block is analyzed using volume data to determine its bullish and bearish strength. This is visually represented by the proportion of green (bullish) and red (bearish) coloring within each block.
Market Structure Break (MSB) and Break of Structure (BOS): The indicator identifies and labels Market Structure Breaks (MSB) and Break of Structure (BOS) events, providing context to larger market trends.
Customizable Settings:
- Adjustable swing length for identifying pivot points
- Option to show a specific number of recent breaker blocks
- Choice between wick or close price for violation checks
- Toggle to hide overlapping blocks for cleaner analysis
Violation Detection: Automatically detects when a breaker block has been violated (broken through), either by wick or close price, depending on user settings.
Overlap Control: Provides an option to hide overlapping order blocks, ensuring that the chart remains clean and easy to read when multiple blocks are detected in close proximity.
🔶 Interpreting Indicator
Breaker Blocks:
Breaker blocks are key areas where the price moves through and invalidates a previously identified order block. The indicator detects a breaker block when the price violates an order block by exceeding its high or low (depending on whether it's a bullish or bearish block). This violation is determined by either the wick or the close of a candle, depending on the user's selection in the "Violation Check" setting. When a breaker block is detected, the indicator removes the violated order block from the chart, signaling that the zone is no longer relevant for future price action.
Bullish Breaker Block: This occurs when a bearish order block (red) is violated by the price closing above the block’s top boundary or when the wick surpasses this level. It signals that a prior bearish structure has been invalidated, and the market may shift to a bullish trend.
Bearish Breaker Block: This occurs when a bullish order block (teal) is violated by the price closing below the block’s bottom boundary or when the wick drops below it. It suggests that a previous bullish structure has been broken, indicating potential bearish momentum.
Market Structure Labels:
"MSB" (Market Structure Break) labels indicate a potential change in trend direction.
"BOS" (Break of Structure) labels confirm the continuation of the current trend after breaking a significant level.
Block Strength:
A block with more green indicates stronger bullish interest.
A block with more red indicates stronger bearish interest.
The relative sizes of the green and red portions show the balance of power between buyers and sellers at that level.
🔶 Disclaimer
Use with Caution: This indicator is provided for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. Users should exercise caution and perform their own analysis before making trading decisions based on the indicator's signals.
Not Financial Advice: The information provided by this indicator does not constitute financial advice, and the creator (UAlgo) shall not be held responsible for any trading losses incurred as a result of using this indicator.
Backtesting Recommended: Traders are encouraged to backtest the indicator thoroughly on historical data before using it in live trading to assess its performance and suitability for their trading strategies.
Risk Management: Trading involves inherent risks, and users should implement proper risk management strategies, including but not limited to stop-loss orders and position sizing, to mitigate potential losses.
No Guarantees: The accuracy and reliability of the indicator's signals cannot be guaranteed, as they are based on historical price data and past performance may not be indicative of future results.
Higher Time Frame Strat [QuantVue]The Higher Time Frame Strat Indicator is a tool that helps traders visualize and analyze price action from a higher timeframe (HTF) on their current chart. It applies the Strat method, a trading strategy focused on identifying key price action setups by observing how current price bars relate to previous ones. This helps in understanding the market's structure and determining potential trading opportunities based on higher timeframe data.
Key Concepts:
Strat Basics:
Type 1 Bar (Inside Bar): The current bar's high is lower than the previous bar's high, and its low is higher than the previous bar's low. This signifies a consolidation, or indecision, as the price is contained within the previous bar's range.
Type 2 Bar (Directional Bar): The current bar either breaks above the previous bar's high (bullish) or stays above the previous bar's low (bearish), indicating a continuation in the price direction.
Type 3 Bar (Outside Bar): The current bar breaks both above the previous bar's high and below the previous bar's low, showing volatility and a potential reversal.
Higher Timeframe Visualization:
The indicator uses a user-defined higher timeframe (default: 1 hour) and plots the last three higher timeframe candles on the current chart.
Strat Classification:
When a new higher timeframe candle forms, the indicator draws a semi-transparent box around the candle's range (high to low), along with the Strat type label. This provides a visual cue to the trader about the structure of the newly formed candle and how it fits into the overall market movement.
The script classifies each higher timeframe candle as one of the Strat types (1, 2, or 3). Based on the relationship between the current candle and the previous candle's high/low, it assigns a label ("1", "2", or "3"), helping traders quickly identify the price action setup on the higher timeframe.
How to Use the Indicator:
Trend Continuation: Look for Type 2 bars, which indicate a continuation in the current trend. For example, a Type 2 up suggests the price is breaking above the previous high, potentially signaling further upward movement.
Reversals: Type 3 bars show increased volatility, where the price breaks both above and below the previous bar's range. This could indicate a reversal, so be prepared for a potential change in direction.
Consolidation: Inside bars (Type 1) signify a tightening range and can signal the beginning of a breakout once the price moves outside of the previous bar's high or low.
By combining these price action concepts with the visualization of higher timeframe data, traders can potentially get earlier entry and exits as a higher timeframe set up forms.
Time-based Vertical LinesThe Time-Based Vertical Line Script is a Pine Script tool designed to plot vertical lines at specific times during the trading day. The script allows users to mark important time-based events or price movement patterns by plotting fully customizable vertical lines on the chart. Each line can be configured with a specific time, color, width, and style, providing a clear visual reference for key moments throughout the trading session.
Key Features:
Custom Time Inputs:
Users can specify the hour and minute for each vertical line to mark crucial times, such as the opening or closing of a market session, or events like news releases.
The script can accommodate up to 24 vertical lines, each with individual time settings.
Customizable Appearance:
Color: Select different colors for each line to visually distinguish between important events or trading sessions.
Width: Adjust the thickness of the vertical lines to emphasize specific times.
Style: Choose from solid, dashed, or dotted lines for further customization.
No Built-in UTC Offset:
Important: This script does not automatically adjust for time zones or UTC offsets. The user must manually set the time for each vertical line based on the platform's server time or the desired trading session time.
If you are in a different time zone, you will need to calculate the time difference between your local time and the platform's time zone (which could be UTC or any other time zone).
For example, if the platform is set to UTC and you are in New York (UTC-4 during daylight savings), you will need to manually adjust your time inputs to match the time zone difference.
Static Time Configuration: The times you input for the vertical lines are fixed, meaning they won’t automatically adjust based on daylight savings or time zone shifts. You'll need to manually reconfigure the times if such changes occur.
Use Cases:
Session Marking: Mark the beginning and end of specific market sessions like New York, London, or Asian trading hours.
Event Monitoring: Plot lines to mark important economic events or news releases, ensuring you're prepared for potential market movements.
Strategy Tracking: For traders using time-sensitive strategies, such as the ICT (Inner Circle Trader) models, the script can help you highlight critical time windows for potential setups.
Important Note on Time Zone:
Since the script doesn't automatically apply a UTC offset, users need to figure out the correct time to input based on their own time zone and the platform's time zone. For example:
If you're in New York (UTC-4) and want to mark the New York session open at 9:30 AM, but your platform runs on UTC time, you would input 13:30 as the hour for the vertical line (since 9:30 AM UTC-4 corresponds to 13:30 UTC).
Example:
If your platform’s time is set to UTC, and you want to mark an event that happens at 10:00 AM in your local time zone (UTC-5), you'll need to set the vertical line to 15:00 (because 10:00 AM UTC-5 is 15:00 in UTC).
This means you'll need to calculate the offset based on your location and input the adjusted time into the script manually.
Time-input Lines [MFX]THE LINES
The indicator plots a horizontal price line at a specified hour and minute (default: 9:30 - Equities Open). This line extends for a predefined number of minutes (default: 60 minutes - Opening Range Full Spectrum). Additionally, the indicator can plot two vertical lines: one at the selected start time and another at the end of the horizontal line.
STYLE
Both the horizontal and vertical lines are fully customizable, allowing adjustments to color, style, and width. For a cleaner, minimalist chart, any of these lines can be disabled.
TIMEZONE
By default, the indicator operates in the New York time zone, but this can be modified by unchecking the option and specifying a custom offset relative to UTC/GMT. The default offset is +2, corresponding to CEST (Central European Summer Time, UTC/GMT+2). The offset can be adjusted with up to 15-minute precision, where 0.25 represents a quarter of an hour.
CRT IndicatorCandle Range Trading (CRT) Indicator
The CRT Indicator identifies potential trading opportunities by analyzing specific candlestick patterns. This script is designed to detect both bullish and bearish CRT patterns and provides visual cues directly on your chart.
Features:
Pattern Detection:
Analyzes two consecutive candles to identify the CRT pattern.
Detects both bullish and bearish setups based on the relative positions of the candles.
How It Works:
Bearish CRT Pattern:
The script identifies a bearish CRT when:
The first candle is bullish (closing price is higher than the opening price).
The second candle is bearish (closing price is lower than the opening price).
The second candle’s high exceeds the high of the first candle.
The closing price of the second candle falls within the range of the first candle.
Bullish CRT Pattern:
The script identifies a bullish CRT when:
The first candle is bearish (closing price is lower than the opening price).
The second candle is bullish (closing price is higher than the opening price).
The second candle’s low is below the low of the first candle.
The closing price of the second candle falls within the range of the first candle.
Visual Signals:
A red triangle is plotted above the candles for a bearish CRT pattern.
A green triangle is plotted below the candles for a bullish CRT pattern.
How to Use:
Monitor the chart for the appearance of red and green triangles.
Green triangles suggest potential bullish movements.
Red triangles suggest potential bearish movements.
Use these signals as part of a comprehensive trading strategy and combine with other technical indicators for best results.
Settings:
This indicator operates with default settings for detecting CRT patterns and does not include customizable parameters.
Limitations:
The CRT Indicator is based on two consecutive candles and does not account for broader market trends or other indicators.
Be aware that false signals may occur in volatile or choppy market conditions.
The indicator does not provide entry points, profit targets, or stop loss levels, which should be managed based on individual risk tolerance and strategy.
Note: The CRT Indicator is for informational purposes only and should be used in conjunction with other forms of analysis and proper risk management. Always test any strategy thoroughly before applying it to live trading.
Precision CandlesThis Pine Script is designed to help you uncover hidden divergences among multiple assets by tracking how their candles close. Imagine you're analyzing three different assets — they could be indices, currencies, or even cryptocurrencies — and you want to know when one of them is moving out of sync with the others. That’s where this script comes into play.
First, it gives you the flexibility to choose custom ticker symbols or rely on predefined ones based on different asset classes like metals, bonds, or altcoins. Once the symbols are set, the script continuously monitors the opening, high, low, and closing prices of each asset.
The magic happens when it determines the nature of each candle: is it bullish or bearish? By comparing these closing behaviors, the script checks for any discrepancies — situations where at least one asset diverges from the trend of the others. When this happens, the script plots a red "PC" marker below the bar on your chart, drawing your attention to these moments of divergence.
This tool can be invaluable for traders looking to spot unique market dynamics, identify potential trading opportunities, or simply get insights into how different assets behave in relation to each other. It's a simple but powerful way to keep an eye on correlations and anticipate shifts in market sentiment.
Key Times & Opening Prices [Olitrades]This indicator plots key time's (opening prices) with the possibility of vertical separators. It was initially created to utilize on the indices futures market, utilizing ICT logic.
These opening prices are often utilized to determine if price is currently at a premium or a discounted value.
The default times include:
Daily Open (18:00 PM)
Midnight (00:00 AM)
Settlement (15:00 PM)
7:30 AM
8:30 AM
9:30 AM (Equities Open)
10:00 AM (Morning 4h Candle Open)
14:00 PM (Afternoon 4h Candle Open)
Along with up to three custom time slots.
All times used in the indicator are Eastern Standard time (New York local time) and will automatically adjust no matter your time zone.
Historical
When in historical mode, the indicator will keep the previous levels so you can easily visualize them and their relation to price.
You can also choose how many past levels you want to see. This allows you to back test only specific days/weeks.
Other Inputs
The indicator contains an adjustable offset, to modify how far the line extends depending on the current timeframe.
Each one of the above-mentioned levels can be turned on and off, including the custom times. You can also choose between plotting just the opening price, a vertical line separator, or both! All of these lines have adjustable styles (dotted, dashed or solid) and width.
They also have custom cut offs. You may choose specific cut off times for custom time slots (when to stop extending the lines), as well as for AM (before noon) default levels and PM (after noon) default levels.
The indicator also allows to show text labels next to these lines, which is set by default but can be turned off. Custom times also include custom text options.
Arithmetic Candlesticks (Zeiierman)█ Arithmetic Candlestick - Overview
Arithmetic Candlesticks (Zeiierman) introduce a new way to read charts by applying logical arithmetic to real price data. These candlesticks focus on filtering out noise and smoothing price movements using a bell-shaped curve, which helps to refine the data and highlight the true trend. This approach provides a clearer view of market trends, allowing traders to interpret price action more effectively with minimal lag and distraction.
⚪ What is Arithmetic Candlesticks
Arithmetic Candlesticks use a calculation method rooted in the idea that the market moves in patterns that can be identified and predicted by examining past price movements.
Analyzing momentum, price action, and trend patterns is useful for traders who want to quickly scan and identify price patterns, trends, and momentum in the market. The system searches for these patterns and trends to anticipate future price movements. Traders and investors can identify trends hidden in market noise, enabling them to uncover trading opportunities that might not be immediately obvious to the naked eye.
⚪ Eliminates price noise
The Arithmetic Candlestick noise filtering function is used to reduce price noise, which is the randomness in the price movement of an asset caused by market participants trading on a short-term basis. The idea behind the filter is that it eliminates the impact of short-term fluctuations in the price, thus providing a more accurate picture of the overall trend.
█ Capturing Trends with precise chart reading
Trend moves are some of the biggest moneymakers in trading; in fact, trading in the direction of the trend reduces risk and increases profit potential. Arithmetic Candlestick helps traders do just that.
In a fast-moving and volatile market characterized by high-frequency algorithms, retail traders have a hard time distinguishing the real trend from the noise. Arithmetic Candlesticks are designed to filter out the noise created by insignificant price moves and leave traders with the price action that matters, namely a clear and insightful chart reading. Due to its sophisticated mathematical calculations, Arithmetic Candlesticks are able to analyze any market and timeframe.
█ How to use Arithmetic Candlesticks
Arithmetic Candlesticks is an all-in-one trend and momentum tool that can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with other indicators. Its primary use is to provide a clear chart reading, easily identify trends, and help traders stay longer in trends.
The indicator includes excellent momentum features that offer insights into the current momentum and the strength of the price action. This provides traders with a unique chart experience that yields valuable insights. The indicator boasts numerous features, each of which can be used stand-alone or in combination with others. Read more about the features below.
These candles can be used in conjunction with other indicators such as support/resistance, trendlines, ICT trading, and other patterns.
█ Arithmetic Candlesticks features
The indicator comes with tons of great features that make the indicator into its own system that can be used stand-alone. You find everything from trend reading, entry/exit points, identifying momentum, and auto-stop loss.
⚪ Candle Modes:
Traders can select from three different types of arithmetic candle calculations and enable our volatility-adjusted filter for all of them. By default, the candles are set to Arithmetic candlesticks. However, depending on their trading preferences, users can select Arithmetic + Heikin Ashi Candles or Impulse + Wicks Candles.
The Heikin Ashi mode of the candlesticks makes the indicator smoother and more trend-friendly.
The Impulse + Wick mode of the candlesticks makes the indicator responsive to momentum. The length of the wicks represents the strength of the current momentum. The longer the wicks, the greater the momentum in the market.
If traders enable the Volatility Adjusted candles , the indicator becomes much more responsive to volatility moves, which is a way of making the candlesticks more responsive to significant price movements.
⚪ Trend coloring
Arithmetic candlesticks come in three different color modes: the default one, the gradient one, and the advanced trend coloring. Enable the Trend coloring if you want to engage in long-term trend trading. This filter does not change the arithmetic candlesticks, only the bar coloring.
⚪ Buy and Sell signals
To make trend trading easier to understand, we have included Buy/Sell signals. These signals are based both on the type of candlesticks selected and the type of coloring used. In addition, they come with three filters and are available in scalping and trend modes.
Candle Color Filter: A buy signal will only occur if the candlesticks are bullish, and a sell signal will only occur if the candlesticks are bearish.
Trend Tracker Filter: A buy signal will only occur if the Trend Tracker is bullish, and a sell signal will only occur if the Trend Tracker is bearish.
When both filters are applied, it means that both the candle color and the Trend Tracker should have the same sign in order to trigger a signal.
These filters are very effective and should be used when utilizing the signals.
Take Profit signals can be enabled to help traders know when to take profits.
Adaptive Stop Loss can be enabled for the signals, helping traders manage their risk.
⚪ Trend Tracker
The Trend Tracker line provides insights about the underlying trend. Adjust it if you want to engage in scalping, which makes the line much more responsive. Set the underlying speed of the trend to either Fast or Slow. This Trend Tracker works well in conjunction with Arithmetic Candlesticks and the associated signals.
⚪ Trend Sentiment
Enable Trend Sentiment to identify the levels at which the market is considered bullish or bearish. This feature helps you gauge the overall market direction, allowing you to align your trades with the prevailing trend. The Trend Sentiment also measures the strength of the trend, highlighting whether the current price action reflects a strong or weak trend. Adjust the sensitivity to determine how early or late you want to capture these trend signals.
⚪ Impulse
Enable Impulse Signals to understand when the market is making a significant move, often leading to a pullback or pause. These Impulse Signals can indicate the very start of a trend or serve as the first sign of a reversal. Enable 'Significant Impulses' if you only want to display the most significant market impulses.
█ How is Arithmetic Candlesticks Calculated?
⚪ Candlesticks
These candlesticks combine advanced smoothing techniques with price pattern recognition, giving traders a clearer view of market dynamics.
Adaptive Smoothing: The core of this smoothing approach is its ability to adjust dynamically based on market conditions. It reduces lag while staying responsive to price changes. This adaptive nature allows the candlesticks to follow the price action smoothly, minimizing the influence of short-term fluctuations. As a result, the trend is depicted with greater accuracy, helping traders to stay in tune with the market’s true direction.
Refined Smoothing with Weighted Averages: Another key component of the smoothing process involves applying a refined technique that uses a bell-shaped curve to weight price data. This method reduces the impact of outlier movements, resulting in a smoother, more continuous curve that accurately represents the market's central trend. This ensures that the candlesticks reflect a more balanced view of price action, focusing on the significant movements while filtering out unnecessary noise.
⚪ Trend Coloring
The Trend Coloring feature offers a powerful visualization tool that helps traders quickly identify the prevailing market trend and its strength. By analyzing market structure and the velocity of price movements, this feature provides a clear, dynamic view of the long-term trend direction.
Market Structure Analysis: The Trend Coloring is rooted in a thorough analysis of market structure, focusing on key price levels over time. By evaluating these levels, the system determines whether the market is in an uptrend, downtrend, or ranging phase. This information is then used to color the chart according to the current trend direction, providing a visual cue that makes it easier to align your trades with the broader market movement.
Velocity of Price Movements: . In addition to identifying the trend direction, the system also calculates the velocity of price movements. This involves assessing how quickly or slowly prices are advancing in a particular direction, offering deeper insight into the trend's strength and momentum. Faster price movements suggest a stronger trend, while slower movements may indicate a weakening or consolidating market. This dynamic approach ensures that the Trend Coloring not only highlights the trend but also reflects its intensity and potential sustainability.
⚪ Buy and Sell signals
The Buy/Sell signals are generated using a sophisticated approach that tracks key price action levels to determine market direction and momentum. This method constantly evaluates the relationship between the current price and dynamically adjusting levels that reflect the underlying market conditions. By staying in tune with the flow of the market, this approach effectively captures the onset of new trends while reducing the lag typically associated with traditional indicators.
Dynamic Price Action Levels: The signals are based on critical price action levels that adapt in real-time to market movements. These levels serve as flexible thresholds that help identify potential buy or sell opportunities. When the price interacts with these levels, it triggers signals that indicate possible entry or exit points, aligning your trades with the prevailing market direction.
Price Patterns: The algorithm also recognizes and integrates specific price patterns that are often precursors to significant market moves. By identifying these patterns, the system can anticipate changes in market direction more accurately, enabling earlier and more precise signals. This helps in capturing trend reversals or continuations effectively.
Momentum-Driven Adjustments: The system's price action levels are not static; they adjust dynamically in response to strong price movements. This ensures that the signals are not only timely but also in sync with the underlying market momentum, making the system highly effective in volatile conditions where quick decision-making is crucial.
⚪ Trend Tracker
The Trend Tracker utilizes the core principles of Arithmetic Candlesticks, including their sophisticated smoothing techniques and pattern recognition capabilities. By leveraging these features, the Trend Tracker effectively filters out market noise, allowing it to present a smooth and accurate representation of the current trend. This makes it easier to identify whether the market is trending upwards, downwards, or entering a period of consolidation.
Adaptive to Market Conditions: The Trend Tracker is not static; it dynamically adjusts as market conditions change. Whether the market is experiencing high volatility or moving through a quieter phase, the Trend Tracker remains responsive, continuously updating to reflect the most recent price action. This ensures that traders are always working with the most relevant information, making it easier to stay in sync with the market's true direction.
⚪ Trend Sentiment
Trend Sentiment analyzes key price levels and market structure to determine whether the current market sentiment is bullish or bearish. By examining the direction and momentum of price movements, it provides a straightforward view of the market's overall trend direction.
⚪ Impulse
Impulse monitors the market for sudden shifts in momentum, recognizing when the price is making a strong move that could lead to a trend continuation or a reversal. The feature is tuned to distinguish between regular market fluctuations and significant impulses. It focuses on the most meaningful price movements, ensuring that the signals you receive are relevant and actionable.
█ Important Note
Caution! Arithmetic candlesticks do not always reflect the actual price. Arithmetic uses smoothing and noise filtering to capture trends; hence, it might deviate from the actual close.
It's important to understand that Arithmetic Candlesticks are intended to provide a clearer picture of trend direction rather than exact price levels. Therefore, they should not be used as a substitute for actual market prices, especially in scenarios like backtesting or precise trade execution where exact price data is crucial. Instead, use Arithmetic Candlesticks as a tool for understanding trends and overall market direction, while relying on actual price data for decisions that require precise price points.
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Custom Opening Price Levels (PO3)This indicator is designed to assist the trader in identifying the Power of Three through the opens of the candles.
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The PO3 is a concept introduced by ICT. First, you need to have a directional bias for the month or the specific candle in question. It should be of high time frame (HTF BIAS).
At the open of the specific candle, the market will generate interest in the direction opposite to the HTF BIAS, accumulating positions. It will then manipulate the positions of less informed traders to generate the necessary liquidity to fill informed operators positions.
Finally, positions are distributed in favor of the bias.
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The PO3 is a phenomenon that repeats across all timeframes. This indicator is highly customizable and allows the user to choose from a range of timeframes: 3 months, 1 month, 1 week, 1 day, and 3 hours. The indicator displays the last 3 opens for the selected period.
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The script is open-source, so feel free to add more timeframes or open levels if you have coding skills.
ka66: Bar Range BandsThis tool takes a bar's range, and reflects it above the high and below the low of that bar, drawing upper and lower bands around the bar. Repeated for each bar. There's an option to then multiply that range by some multiple. Use a value greater than 1 to get wider bands, and less than one to get narrower bands.
This tool stems out of my frustration from the use of dynamic bands (like Keltner Channels, or Bollinger Bands), in particular for estimating take profit points.
Dynamic bands work great for entries and stop loss, but their dynamism is less useful for a future event like taking profit, in my experience. We can use a smaller multiple, but then we can often lose out on a bigger chunk of gains unnecessarily.
The inspiration for this came from a friend explaining an ICT/SMC concept around estimating the magnitude of a trend, by calculating the Asian Session Range, and reflecting it above or below on to the New York and London sessions. He described this as standard deviation of the Asian Range, where the range can thus be multiplied by some multiple for a wider or narrower deviation.
This, in turn, also reminded me of the Measured Move concept in Technical Analysis. We then consider that the market is fractal in nature, and this is why patterns persist in most timeframes. Traders exist across the spectrum of timeframes. Thus, a single bar on a timeframe, is made up of multiple bars on a lower timeframe . In other words, when we reflect a bar's range above or below itself, in the event that in a lower timeframe, that bar fit a pattern whose take profit target could be estimated via a Measured Move , then the band's value becomes a more valid estimate of a take profit point .
Yet another way to think about it, by way of the fractal nature above, is that it is essentially a simplified dynamic support and resistance mechanism , even simpler than say the various Pivot calculations (e.g. Classical, Camarilla, etc.).
This tool in general, can also be used by those who manually backtest setups (and certainly can be used in an automated setting too!). It is a research tool in that regard, applicable to various setups.
One of the pitfalls of manual backtesting is that it requires more discipline to really determine an exit point, because it's easy to say "oh, I'll know more or less where to exit when I go live, I just want to see that the entry tends to work". From experience, this is a bad idea, because our mind subconsciously knows that we haven't got a trained reflex on where to exit. The setup may be decent, but without an exit point, we will never have truly embraced and internalised trading it. Again, I speak from experience!
Thus, to use this to research take profit/exit points:
Have a setup in mind, with all the entry rules.
Plot your setup's indicators, mark your signals.
Use this indicator to get an idea of where to exit after taking an entry based on your signal.
Credits:
@ICT_ID for providing the idea of using ranges to estimate how far a trend move might go, in particular he used the Asian Range projected on to the London and New York market sessions.
All the technicians who came up with the idea of the Measured Move.
Opening Price LinesThis script allows the user to set 16 custom opening time price lines and labels, as well as 4 vertical lines to delineate times of the day.
Opening price is crucial for PO3 and OHLC/OLHC market strategies. If you are bearish, you want to get in above the opening price of a candle; conversely if you are bullish you want to enter below the opening price of a candle.
This indicator will aid in identifying time clusters in price as well as identifying important times for whatever strategy the user employs.
*Many thanks to TFO for the framework from which this indicator was created.*
GFG Turtle SoupThe GFG Turtle Soup indicator is a custom script designed to identify potential reversal points in the market by detecting specific price patterns over a user-defined lookback period. This indicator is based on the "Turtle Soup" strategy, which aims to exploit false breakouts and generate buy or sell signals when certain conditions are met.
Key Features:
Lookback Period: The indicator examines a user-defined period (default is 5 bars) to determine the highest high or lowest low, crucial for identifying potential reversal zones.
Signal Characters: The indicator provides visual cues on the chart using customizable characters (default is a turtle emoji 🐢) to mark potential bullish or bearish setups.
Pattern Detection:
Bearish Signal: A potential sell signal is generated when the current bar makes a higher high, but the close is lower than the high of the previous bar, signaling a possible reversal after a false breakout to the upside.
Bullish Signal: A potential buy signal is generated when the current bar makes a lower low, but the close is higher than the low of the previous bar, indicating a possible reversal after a false breakout to the downside.
Visual and Alert System: The indicator not only marks the signals on the chart but also triggers alerts, allowing traders to take action promptly on lower timeframes.
This indicator is particularly useful for traders looking to identify reversal points where price may have overextended in one direction, providing opportunities to enter the market in the opposite direction.
GAP Finder with Dollar Difference by RadionovCrypto**GAP UP Detection:**
- The current candle’s low must be higher than the previous candle’s high (high ).
**GAP DOWN Detection:**
- The current candle’s high must be lower than the previous candle’s low (low ).
**Visualization:**
- If a GAP UP is detected, a symbol appears below the candle with the text "GAP UP," and a label displays the dollar difference between the candles.
- If a GAP DOWN is detected, a symbol appears above the candle with the text "GAP DOWN," and a label displays the dollar difference between the candles.
**Explanation:**
- GAP UP is identified when the entire candle (body and wicks) is above the previous candle’s high.
- GAP DOWN is identified when the entire candle (body and wicks) is below the previous candle’s low.
This ensures that only situations where the new candle is completely outside the previous candle are considered as a GAP.
When a GAP is found, a label with the dollar difference between the candles appears on the chart, making it easy to track the gap’s value.
The indicator is particularly useful at the opening of trading sessions in stock markets. It’s optimal to search for GAPs at session transitions on a 5-minute timeframe.
I hope it adds clarity and precision to your trading strategy.
Enjoy trading.
Best regards,
**Radionov Crypto**
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GAP UP Detection:
Мінімум (low) поточної свічки повинен бути вище за максимум (high ) попередньої свічки.
GAP DOWN Detection:
Максимум (high) поточної свічки повинен бути нижче за мінімум (low ) попередньої свічки.
Візуалізація:
Якщо було знайдено GAP UP, на графіку з'являється символ нижче свічки з текстом "GAP UP" та етикетка з різницею у доларах між цінами свічок.
Якщо було знайдено GAP DOWN, на графіку з'являється символ вище свічки з текстом "GAP DOWN" та етикетка з різницею у доларах між цінами свічок.
Пояснення:
GAP UP визначається, коли ціла свічка (тіло і тінь) знаходиться вище за максимум попередньої свічки.
GAP DOWN визначається, коли ціла свічка (тіло і тінь) знаходиться нижче за мінімум попередньої свічки.
Це забезпечує, що тільки ті випадки, де нова свічка повністю знаходиться поза попередньою свічкою, будуть враховані як GAP.
Якщо було знайдено GAP, на графіку з’являється етикетка з різницею у доларах між свічками, що дозволяє легко відстежувати значення розриву.
Індикатор зручно використовувати на стиках торгівельних сессій на фондових ринках. Оптимально шукати GAP саме на стиках сессій на таймфреймі 5 хвилин.
Сподіваюся, що він додасть до вашої торгівельної стратегії соковитості й точності.
Приємного користування.
Із повагою,
Radionov Crypto
Pure Price Action Liquidity Sweeps [LuxAlgo]The Pure Price Action Liquidity Sweeps indicator is a pure price action adaptation of our previously published and highly popular Liquidity-Sweeps script.
Similar to its earlier version, this indicator detects the presence of liquidity sweeps on the user's chart, while also identifying potential areas of support/resistance or entry when liquidity levels are taken. The key difference, however, is that this price action version relies solely on price patterns, eliminating the need for numerical swing length settings.
🔶 USAGE
A Liquidity Sweep occurs when the price breaks through a liquidity level , after which the price returns below/above the liquidity level , forming a wick.
The examples below show a bullish and bearish scenario of "a wick passing through a liquidity level where the price quickly comes back".
Short-term liquidity sweep detection is based on short-term swing levels. Some of these short-term levels, depending on further market developments, may evolve into intermediate-term levels and, in the long run, become long-term levels. Therefore, enabling short-term detection with the script means showing all levels, including minor and temporal ones. Depending on the trader's style, some of these levels may be considered noise. Enabling intermediate and long-term levels can help filter out this noise and provide more significant levels for trading decisions. For further details on how swing levels are identified please refer to the details section.
The Intermediate-term option selection for the same chart as above, filters out minor or noisy levels, providing clearer and more significant levels for traders to observe.
🔶 DETAILS
The swing points detection feature relies exclusively on price action, eliminating the need for numerical user-defined settings.
The first step involves detecting short-term swing points, where a short-term swing high (STH) is identified as a price peak surrounded by lower highs on both sides. Similarly, a short-term swing low is recognized as a price trough surrounded by higher lows on both sides.
Intermediate-term swing and long-term swing points are detected using the same approach but with a slight modification. Instead of directly analyzing price candles, we now utilize the previously detected short-term swing points. For intermediate-term swing points, we rely on short-term swing points, while for long-term swing points, we use the intermediate-term ones.
🔶 SETTINGS
Detection: Period options of the detected swing points.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Pure-Price-Action-Structures.
Liquidity-Sweeps.
Session OHLC [neo.|]OHLC/OLHC and Po3 (Power of Three by ICT) are both concepts describing a potential way to describe candle formations. While OHLC stands for Open High Low Close, what it usually refers to is the bearish scenario of how a candle first opens, manipulates until the high then creates the low before closing, and vice versa for OLHC. Po3 goes hand in hand with this concept as a way to sequentialize this candle formation into three separate cycles seen on a lower timeframe known as "Accumulation", "Manipulation", and "Distribution". Where the accumulation in the OHLC scenario would be the range created before the high, the manipulation being the high, and the distribution being the run downwards to the low.
What Session OHLC allows you to do, is to view these Po3 scenarios not through a higher timeframe candle perspective, but instead through a fully customizable session perspective. For example, you might want to see a specific period of time as a candle to simplify the process of identifying an AMD cycle, and all you would need to do is to enter that period of time in the indicator settings, and when you are at that period of time, you will see it being represented as a bar candle, with the session open, high, low, and close being annotated as O, H, L, and C.
This is especially useful for when you want to track the manipulation before a session open, or track a specific time where there is more volume in the market, allowing you to enter trades prior to when a distribution phase will begin.
Currently, you are able to select up to 4 different sessions that will appear on your chart while the session is active, however it is a good idea for the session times you choose not to overlap as the drawings will overlap as well. If you would like to monitor two times that happen to overlap, it is a good idea to add another instance of the indicator to your chart, and adjust the bar offset on one of them in the settings.
Market Structure Oscillator [LuxAlgo]The Market Structure Oscillator indicator analyzes and synthesizes short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term market structure shifts and breaks, visualizing the output as oscillators and graphical representations of real-time market structures on the main price chart.
The oscillator presentation of the detected market structures helps traders visualize trend momentum and strength, identifying potential trend reversals, and providing different perspectives to enhance the analysis of classic market structures.
🔶 USAGE
A market structure shift signals a potential change in market sentiment or direction, while a break of structure indicates a continuation of the current trend. Detecting these events in real-time helps traders recognize both trend changes and continuations. The market structure oscillator translates these concepts visually, offering deeper insights into market momentum and strength. It aids traders in identifying overbought or oversold conditions, potential trend reversals, and confirming trend direction.
Oscillators often generate signals based on crossing certain thresholds or diverging from price movements, providing cues for traders to enter or exit positions.
The weights determine the influence of each period (short-term, intermediate-term, long-term) on the final oscillator value. By changing the weights, traders can emphasize or de-emphasize the importance of each period. Higher weights increase their respective market structure's influence on the oscillator value. For example, if the weight for the short-term period is set to 0, the final value of the oscillator will be calculated using only the intermediate-term and long-term market structures.
The indicator features a Cycle Oscillator component, which uses the market structure oscillator values to generate a histogram and provide further insights into market cycles and potential signals. The Cycle Oscillator aids in timing by allowing traders to more easily see the median length of an oscillation around the average point, helping them identify both favorable prices and favorable moments for trading.
Users can also display detected market structures on the price chart by enabling the corresponding market structure toggle from the "Market Structures on Chart" settings group.
🔶 DETAILS
The script initiates its analysis by detecting swing levels, which form the fundamental basis for its operations. It begins by identifying short-term swing points, automatically detected solely based on market movements without any reliance on user-defined input. Short-Term Swing Highs (STH) are peaks in price surrounded by lower highs on both sides, while Short-Term Swing Lows (STL) are troughs surrounded by higher lows.
To identify intermediate-term and long-term swing points, the script uses previously detected short-term swing points as reference points. It examines these points to determine intermediate-term swings and further analyzes intermediate-term swings to identify long-term swing points. This method ensures a thorough and unbiased evaluation of market dynamics, providing traders with reliable insights into market structures.
Once swing levels are detected, the process continues with the analysis of Market Structure Shifts (MSS) and Breaks of Structure (BoS). A Market Structure Shift, also known as a Change of Character (CHoCH), is a critical event in price action analysis that suggests a potential shift in market sentiment or direction. It occurs when the price reverses from an established trend, indicating that the current trend may be losing momentum and a reversal could be imminent.
On the other hand, a Break of Structure signifies the continuation of the existing market trend. This event occurs when the price decisively moves beyond a previous swing high or low, confirming the strength and persistence of the prevailing trend.
The indicator analyzes price patterns using a pure price action approach and identifies market structures for short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term periods. The collected data is then normalized and combined using specified weights to calculate the final Market Structure Oscillator value.
🔶 SETTINGS
The indicator incorporates user-defined settings, allowing users to tailor it according to their preferences and trading strategies.
🔹 Market Structure Oscillator
Market Structure Oscillator: Toggles the visibility of the market structures oscillator.
Short Term Weight: Defines the weight for the short-term market structure.
Intermediate Term Weight: Defines the weight for the intermediate-term market structure.
Long Term Weight: Defines the weight for the long-term market structure.
Oscillator Smoothing: Determines the smoothing factor for the oscillator.
Gradient Colors: Allows customization of bullish and bearish gradient colors.
Market Structure Oscillator Crosses: Provides signals based on market structure oscillator equilibrium level crosses.
🔹 Cycle Oscillator
Cycle Oscillator - Histogram: Toggles the visibility of the cycle oscillator.
Cycle Signal Length: Defines the length of the cycle signal.
Cycle Oscillator Crosses: Provides signals based on cycle oscillator crosses.
🔹 Market Structures on Chart
Market Structures: Allows plotting of market structures (short, intermediate, and long term) on the chart.
Line, Label, and Color: Options to display lines and labels for different market structures with customizable colors.
🔹 Oscillator Components
Oscillators: Separately plots short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term oscillators. Provides options to display these oscillators with customizable colors.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Market-Structures-(Intrabar)
Pure Price Action Order & Breaker Blocks [LuxAlgo]The Pure Price Action Order & Breaker Blocks indicator is a pure price action adaptation of our previously published and highly popular Order-Blocks-Breaker-Blocks script.
Similar to its earlier version, this indicator detects order blocks that can automatically turn into breaker blocks on the chart once mitigated. However, the key difference/uniqueness is that the pure price action version relies solely on price patterns, eliminating the need for length definitions. In other words, it removes the limitation of user-defined inputs, ensuring a robust and objective analysis of market dynamics.
🔶 USAGE
An order block is a significant area on a price chart where there was a notable accumulation or distribution of orders, often identified by a strong price move followed by consolidation. Traders use order blocks to identify potential support or resistance levels.
A mitigated order block refers to an order block that has been invalidated due to subsequent market movements. It may no longer hold the same significance in the current market context. However, when the price mitigates an order block, a breaker block is confirmed. It is possible that the price might trade back to this breaker block, potentially offering a new trading opportunity.
Users can optionally enable the "Historical Polarity Changes" labels within the settings menu to see where breaker blocks might have previously provided effective trade setups.
This feature is most effective when using replay mode. Please note that these labels are subject to backpainting.
🔶 DETAILS
The swing points detection feature relies exclusively on price action, eliminating the need for numerical user-defined settings.
The first step involves detecting short-term swing points, where a short-term swing high (STH) is identified as a price peak surrounded by lower highs on both sides. Similarly, a short-term swing low is recognized as a price trough surrounded by higher lows on both sides.
Intermediate-term swing and long-term swing points are detected using the same approach but with a slight modification. Instead of directly analyzing price candles, we now utilize the previously detected short-term swing points. For intermediate-term swing points, we rely on short-term swing points, while for long-term swing points, we use the intermediate-term ones.
🔶 SETTINGS
Detection: Market structure used to detect swing points for creating order blocks.
Show Last Bullish OB: Number of the most recent bullish order/breaker blocks to display on the chart.
Show Last Bearish OB: Number of the most recent bearish order/breaker blocks to display on the chart.
Use Candle Body: Allows users to use candle bodies as order block areas instead of the full candle range.
🔹 Style
Show Historical Polarity Changes: Allows users to see labels indicating where a swing high/low previously occurred within a breaker block.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Pure-Price-Action-Structures.
Order-Blocks-Breaker-Blocks.
