Kill Zones, Market Opens and NewsKill Zones, Market Opens and News
Version 1.0.0
Draws FX session kill zones, market opens and news event lines on intraday charts, with its own purpose built kill zones for DE40, the US indices and crude oil. First release, shared open source.
WHAT IT DRAWS
• Forex kill zones: London 07:00-10:00 UK and New York 12:00-15:00 UK, each with start and end boundary lines.
• Market open lines: 08:00 London/Frankfurt and 14:30 New York, each on its own toggle.
• News event lines, filtered to the relevant pair: GBP 07:00 / 09:30 / 12:00, USD 13:15 / 13:30 / 14:45 / 15:00 / 19:00 / 19:30, EUR 08:30 / 13:15. 13:30 USD is on by default, the rest off.
• DE40: London morning only, 08:00-10:00 Frankfurt. Own 08:00 open and 10:00 end line, no afternoon zone.
• US500 / USTEC / US30 (identical): AM orange pre-market 13:30-14:30 then green 14:30-17:00; PM green 18:00-20:00 then blue power hour 20:00-21:00.
• XTIUSD: two green zones, 08:00-10:00 and 13:00-19:00 UK, plus the 14:30 New York open and USD news.
• History range: the last 5 trading days, or the full loaded history.
• Colour, opacity, width and style adjustable on every element.
WHY THESE HOURS
• The windows come from an hour-of-day volatility study, the average bar range in each UK hour: five years of data to July 2026 for the forex majors, gold and index CFDs, and around two years for crude oil, cross-checked against real price action. The aim is to shade the hours that actually move and mark the opens and news that drive them.
HOW IT WORKS
• Each custom instrument shows only its own windows; the forex shading, session lines, opens and news are suppressed on DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD.
• Forex windows track a US (New York) data feed. The custom instruments are UK clock anchored and render correctly on any exchange timezone.
• The "UK-US Time Difference" input (5 or 4) covers the roughly 4 weeks a year when UK and US daylight saving are out of step. Leave it at 5 the rest of the year.
• Boundary lines draw below 1H; kill zone shading and market opens draw at 1H and below.
WHAT IT RUNS ON
• Intraday, 1H and below.
• Forex majors and XAUUSD get the standard drawing; DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD get their own custom zones.
• Custom zones match the exact symbols DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD. Other broker names (for example GER40, SPX500, NAS100, WTIUSD) fall back to the standard forex drawing. The script is open source, so you can add your broker's names.
• Tested so far on forex majors, XAUUSD, DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD.
HOW TO USE
• Add it to any intraday chart, 1H or below.
• On forex or gold: use the London and NY kill zones to see where the sessions sit, and turn on the opens and news you follow.
• On DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 or XTIUSD: it switches automatically to that instrument's own zones.
• In a DST gap week, set "UK-US Time Difference" to 4; otherwise leave it at 5.
• Use the History range control to keep the chart light (5 days) or show the full history.
IN THIS RELEASE (v1.0.0)
• First public release.
• Forex London and NY kill zones with adjustable boundary lines.
• 08:00 London/Frankfurt and 14:30 New York market opens.
• GBP / USD / EUR news lines, toggled individually and filtered per pair.
• Custom kill zones for DE40, US500 / USTEC / US30 and XTIUSD.
• UK clock anchored custom instruments, timezone independent, with the 5/4 DST toggle.
• History range, and full colour, opacity, width and style control.
FEEDBACK
Please let me know if you experience any issues, or have feedback for improvements or additions in the comments below. Thank you, Tom Indicador
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ACTS Point & FigurePoint & Figure strips time out of the chart.
What's left is structure - where price actually fought, and where it broke. This draws that structure as an overlay on your ordinary candlestick chart, so you see the P&F reading and the candles together.
And the source is open. You don't have to take my word for any of it: read the code, check that it does what this description says, change it if you disagree. That is the point of publishing it this way.
Most free P&F tools stop at double tops. This one carries the full classical vocabulary - triples, catapults, traps, poles, 45-degree trend lines and structural stops - built the way the literature specifies.
It draws levels and structure. It does not issue buy or sell signals, and it makes no claim about what any level will do next. The interpretation is yours.
HOW THE GRID IS BUILT
Price moves one box, you add a box. It reverses by three boxes, a new column starts. The grid is computed internally from the ordinary OHLC history of the chart you're on - not from TradingView's Point & Figure chart type - so every level maps to a real price on a real bar with a real timestamp. Columns are built from closing prices, and the three-box reversal is fixed, the classical construction.
WHAT IT SHOWS YOU
Columns - the trend in its rawest form. A column of X's is buyers in control, O's sellers, and a new column means the move reversed by enough to matter. No wicks, no noise from time passing. Columns are numbered; the X/O characters and the column lines toggle independently.
Classic patterns and their breakout levels. Double and triple tops and bottoms, detected on the grid, each with its breakout level drawn and labelled. A breakout only counts if the column also clears every same-direction column behind it in the look-back window - so a "break" straight into overhead structure isn't one. A separate Pot BO line projects forward from the live column: the level the current column would have to reach for a breakout to register. It updates as the column builds.
45-degree trend lines. Bullish support and bearish resistance drawn at a fixed 45 degrees off the grid, plus internal lines, projecting a configurable distance to the right. On a P&F grid a 45-degree line has objective meaning, because the grid has a fixed geometry; on a time chart it does not. A line renders dotted while it is provisional and turns solid once a breakout confirms it, so you can see which lines have earned their keep.
The special formations. High and low poles, bull and bear catapults, bull and bear traps. A trap is a breakout that fails and pulls price back through its own level. A pole marks an unusually extended one-column move. Formations that have already resolved stay on the chart by default, tagged when the level was hit and when the formation was negated - so you can see what the recent structure actually did, not only what is still open. Two settings hide the hit and negated ones, and an age filter clears the old ones away; switch those on and what remains is only what is still live.
Structural stop levels - three modes, all box-denominated.
- Mode 1 - nearest. The extreme of the column immediately before the breakout, plus a buffer.
- Mode 2 - pattern-wide (default). The worst opposing extreme found across the whole width of the pattern, plus the same buffer. More conservative than Mode 1 by construction.
- Mode 3 - measured. A fixed distance from the breakout level itself (default two boxes), no buffer.
The buffer and the Mode 3 distance are both expressed as a percentage of your box size, never in pips. Nothing in this path assumes a decimal count, a pip value or an asset class, so the same settings behave sensibly on a 5-decimal FX pair, an index and a crypto pair alike.
TWO SETTINGS, AND THE SCRIPT HELPS YOU WITH ONE OF THEM
Set the Grid Anchor Price to a round number at or below current price - 1.0 for EURUSD, 100.0 for USDJPY. Then set the Box Size in price terms; a 10-pip EURUSD box is 0.00100.
Box size is instrument-specific by nature. A 0.001 box that reads EURUSD beautifully is meaningless on an index trading at 18,000, and there is no universal number. You don't need to know it in advance - the script tells you. If your box size is so large that the loaded history barely spans any boxes, or so small that it can't be read, an on-chart message says which way you're wrong and suggests a value for that instrument. So: put in any reasonable guess, read the message, adjust, and repeat until it stops complaining. Then check that the structure it draws matches moves you recognise. Write the number down - you'll reuse it.
Defaults are set for EURUSD. On anything else, expect the box-size message first. That's the setup assistant doing its job, not a fault.
MAKING IT READABLE
Two minutes of chart setup is the difference between "this is broken" and "oh, I see it."
1. Dim the candles - hollow bars or a muted grey. The P&F structure should be what your eye lands on; the candles are context. This one change does most of the work.
2. Lock the price-to-bar ratio, and set it to your box size divided by three. A column is three bars wide and a 45-degree line rises one box per column, so that ratio is what makes the geometry square - 0.00100 box on EURUSD gives 0.000333. To check it: draw an ordinary trend line at 45 degrees over one the script has drawn. If they lie on top of each other you are set. If they diverge, the ratio is wrong, and everything else on the chart is being read at the wrong angle.
3. Give it history. Too short a window and there is nothing to build.
4. Start on a timeframe you already read well. The structure comes from that chart's own data, so the timeframe you pick is the timeframe you're analysing.
HONEST NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION
- Standard charts only. Deliberately not run on TradingView's P&F chart type, which produces synthetic bars - levels read off those don't correspond to prices anyone could have traded.
- Columns come from closing prices. A choice, not an oversight: closes filter intrabar noise. The cost is real - a spike that reverses before the close prints no box, and structure that depended on it won't appear.
- The most recent 160 columns are drawn. Deeper history isn't rendered. TradingView caps how much any one script may draw, and the newest structure is the structure worth keeping.
- No alerts. There are none in this script.
- Price only. No volume input and no volume interpretation.
- It won't pick your box size for you. It will tell you when yours is wrong, which is a different and more honest thing.
- The detection is geometric. It will mark structure that later fails, as every structural method does.
- No performance claims are made here, and none are implied.
Pine v6, overlay, open source. Nothing in the file requests data from another symbol or timeframe.
If you're learning Point & Figure: put this on a market you already know and watch the columns build next to the candles you recognise. That is the fastest way in.
Indicador
Navyraid ToolNavyraid Tool - ICT All-in-One Suite
The Navyraid Tool is a comprehensive, all-in-one indicator designed for traders utilizing Inner Circle Trader (ICT). To prevent chart clutter from overlapping indicators, this tool intelligently consolidates time-based sessions, liquidity levels, price gaps, and SMT divergences into a single, lightweight suite.
Key Features & How It Works:
Smart Auto-DST Sessions: Visually highlights the Asia, London, and New York sessions. It features a built-in dynamic timezone engine that automatically shifts session start/end times based on the active Daylight Saving Time (DST / Non-DST) period. Users can simply toggle between "Forex & Gold Mode" or "Index Mode" to get the mathematically accurate session times without manual monthly adjustments.
Liquidity Levels (PDH/PDL & PWH/PWL): Automatically maps out the Previous Daily High/Low and Previous Weekly High/Low. These lines serve as visual aids for identifying potential draw-on-liquidity targets or purge levels.
True Price Gaps (NWOG & NDOG): Plots the New Week Opening Gap (NWOG) and New Day Opening Gap (NDOG). The indicator actively tracks price interaction; if a candle mitigates and closes outside the gap boundary, it dynamically changes color to represent an "Inverse Gap."
Multi-Timeframe FVG (Fair Value Gaps): Simultaneously displays Higher Timeframe (HTF) and Lower Timeframe (LTF) FVGs on your current chart. Similar to the price gaps, these zones turn into Inverse FVGs (IFVG) upon full mitigation.
Manual SMT Divergence Engine: A strictly manual, linear SMT tracking system. By inputting a correlated comparison symbol (e.g., SP500FT vs NAS100FT, or EURUSD vs GBPUSD), the script calculates and draws structural divergences across Weekly, Daily, and Sessional timeframes.
Why this script?
Most ICT indicators only focus on one concept. The Navyraid Tool integrates all crucial time-and-price theories into one organized dashboard while maintaining high performance through strict historical lookback limiters.
Disclaimer: This indicator is designed solely for educational and structural analysis. It does not generate buy/sell signals. Always use proper risk management. Indicador
Triple Confluence Meter - Trend, Momentum and Volume AgreementThree indicators agreeing feels like three reasons. Usually it is one reason counted three times — trend, momentum and volume all read the same price series, so of course they tend to point the same way.
This builds the ordinary confluence indicator and then does the thing confluence indicators never do: it grades itself.
THE THREE VOTES
Trend close above or below an EMA
Momentum RSI above or below 50
Volume the bar's direction, but only on bars where volume beats its average
Sum them for a score from −3 to +3. At the extremes all three agree, the bar is coloured, and a small triangle marks the first bar of each new alignment. On symbols with no volume feed the third vote abstains and the scale becomes −2 to +2 rather than quietly voting zero forever.
THE PART THAT MATTERS
Over the lookback, the script finds every alignment that happened at least one full horizon ago — so its outcome is already settled — and counts how often price actually went the signalled way. Then it does the subtraction almost nobody does:
Edge = hit rate after alignment − base rate over all bars
The base rate is the catch. A bullish signal firing during an uptrend will show a glorious 60% hit rate while price rose 60% of the time regardless, and an edge near zero tells you the signal contributed nothing. Only the difference is information.
READING THE SCORECARD
Trend / Momentum / Volume — each vote's current direction, with the RSI value shown so you can see how close the momentum vote is to flipping.
Score — the sum and whether it counts as aligned.
Base rate up — how often price rose over the horizon on all bars in the window. This is the number to beat.
After bull align / After bear align — the hit rate following each kind of alignment, with n= the number of events behind it. Read the n before the percentage. Alignment is rare by construction and thirty events is an anecdote.
Edge — the two subtractions, in percentage points. Positive means the alignment knew something the drift did not.
Sample — bar count and the roughly independent sample size. Overlapping horizons mean 500 bars at a 10-bar horizon is nearer 50 independent observations.
WHAT IT SHOWS RIGHT NOW
On BTCUSD 1h at the time of writing, with a 50% base rate: after bullish alignment price rose just 31.0% of the time across 58 events, an edge of −19.0 pp. Bearish alignment fared better but still negative at −7.9 pp.
Read that again, because it is the whole argument. Buying when trend, momentum and volume all agreed was substantially worse than a coin flip over this window. In a mean-reverting market that is exactly what a momentum confluence should do — it arrives late, at the point where the move it is confirming is closest to exhaustion. The indicator is not broken. The premise is.
Run it on your own symbol and timeframe before drawing any conclusion from mine. The answer changes, and being able to see it change is the point of shipping this rather than another confluence indicator that just glows green.
HONEST LIMITS
A hit rate is not a P&L. It ignores position size, cost, slippage, and the size of the moves it counts. Being right on small moves and wrong on large ones loses money at any hit rate.
Overlapping horizons correlate the observations, so the effective sample is much smaller than the event count implies. Treat differences of a few percentage points as noise.
Three votes drawn from one price series are not three independent opinions. That is a feature of the design being examined here, not a bug in the measurement.
Changing the EMA, RSI or volume lengths changes the answer. If you tune them until the edge looks good, you have fitted the window rather than found something.
NO REPAINT
There is no request.security call anywhere in this script, so the higher-timeframe lookahead problem does not arise. Every graded alignment sat at least one full horizon in the past and its outcome is already history. The current bar is scored but never graded.
Open source under MPL 2.0. Read it, fork it, tell me where I am wrong. Indicador
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Risk-Adjusted Performance Rankings | NickJoanRisk-Adjusted Performance Rankings | NickJoan
Core Idea
Risk-Adjusted Performance Rankings is a multi-asset comparison dashboard designed to rank up to 15 symbols by how efficiently they convert recent price movement into risk-adjusted return. Instead of looking only at raw price performance, the indicator evaluates three classic performance measures: Sharpe, Sortino and Omega over a user-defined lookback window and organizes the results into a table.
The script can be used in two ways:
• As a metrics table, where all three risk-adjusted values are shown side by side for each asset.
• As a ranking tool, where the symbols are sorted by Sharpe, Sortino, Omega, or a composite Z-Score score.
Calculation Logic
The indicator works by taking the percentage return of each symbol over the selected period and then building three separate statistics from that same return stream.
1. Return calculation
For each symbol, the script first calculates the one-bar rate of change. This creates a rolling return series that acts as the base input for all three risk-adjusted metrics.
2. Sharpe ratio
The Sharpe calculation measures average return relative to total return volatility.
• The script calculates the mean of returns over the selected lookback.
• It calculates the standard deviation of those returns.
• It divides mean return by standard deviation.
• It then multiplies by the square root of the lookback length to create a rolling-style scaled value.
In practical terms, a higher Sharpe reading means the asset has produced more return for each unit of total volatility.
3. Sortino ratio
The Sortino ratio is similar to Sharpe, but it only penalizes downside volatility.
• The script collects only negative returns from the lookback window.
• It computes the standard deviation of those downside returns.
• It divides mean return by that downside deviation.
• It then scales the result by the square root of the lookback.
This means Sortino rewards assets that may have volatile upside moves but relatively controlled downside behavior.
4. Omega ratio
The Omega calculation compares total gains to total losses over the selected window.
• All positive returns are summed as gains.
• All negative returns are converted to positive values and summed as losses.
• Omega is computed as the ratio of total gains to total losses.
A value above 1 suggests gains outweigh losses, while a value below 1 suggests the opposite.
Ranking Logic
The indicator supports several ranking modes, and each one uses the same asset list but applies a different sort key.
Metrics Table
In Metrics Table mode, the script shows:
• The ticker name.
• Sharpe.
• Sortino.
• Omega.
This mode is the most direct view if you want to inspect each asset’s raw values without sorting.
Sharpe / Sortino / Omega ranking
When one of these modes is selected:
• The table sorts the assets by that chosen metric.
• The highest values appear at the top.
• The table becomes a direct performance leaderboard.
Z-Score ranking
The Z-Score mode is a composite ranking system.
• The script first computes the mean and standard deviation of each metric across all 15 assets.
• It then converts each asset’s Sharpe, Sortino, and Omega into z-scores.
• Those three standardized values are averaged into one composite score.
• Assets are sorted by that final score.
This allows apples-to-apples comparison even when the raw metrics live on different numeric scales.
What the Colors Mean
The script uses color thresholds to make the table easier to read at a glance.
Sharpe colors
Sharpe cells are colored according to the input range defined by:
• Sharpe Min
• Sharpe Max
Values below the minimum are treated as weak.
Values between the lower zone and upper zone are shown as progressively stronger.
Values above the upper threshold are treated as strong.
Sortino colors
Sortino uses the same idea, but with its own range:
• Sortino Min
• Sortino Max
This allows the heatmap to reflect downside-adjusted performance independently from Sharpe.
Omega colors
Omega is especially important because it is naturally centered around 1.0.
• Values below the lower threshold are weak.
• Values between the band limits gradually improve.
• Values above the upper threshold are strong.
Z-Score colors
The Z-Score mode uses a standardized color logic:
• Strongly negative values are weak.
• Slightly negative values are mid-negative.
• Slightly positive values are mid-positive.
• Strongly positive values are strong.
This helps show whether an asset is above or below the group average on a normalized basis.
Table Output
Metrics Table output
In this mode, the table displays:
• Column 1: ticker.
• Column 2: Sharpe.
• Column 3: Sortino.
• Column 4: Omega.
Single-metric ranking output
In Sharpe, Sortino, and Omega modes, the table displays:
• Rank number.
• Ticker.
• Chosen metric.
This keeps the interface minimal while still showing the full ranked order.
Z-Score output
In this mode, the table displays:
• Rank number.
• Ticker.
• Sharpe Z.
• Sortino Z.
• Omega Z.
• Average score.
This view is useful when you want a compact, relative ranking rather than raw values.
Inputs
The indicator has four main input groups.
Calculation
• Period: defines the lookback window used for all metric calculations.
Table
• Display Mode: chooses between Metrics Table, Sharpe, Sortino, Omega, and Z-Score.
• Table Position: controls where the table is placed on the chart.
Color Scale
• Sharpe Min / Max: controls the heatmap thresholds for Sharpe.
• Sortino Min / Max: controls the heatmap thresholds for Sortino.
• Omega Min / Max: controls the heatmap thresholds for Omega.
Colors
• Strong: the strongest positive color.
• Mid +: the intermediate positive color.
• Mid -: the intermediate negative color.
• Weak: the weakest negative color.
Tickers
The script includes 15 symbol inputs, allowing you to compare a basket of assets at once. This makes it suitable for crypto rotation, watchlist comparison, or broad performance ranking across a selected universe.
How to Use It
This indicator is best used as a relative strength and quality filter, not as a standalone entry signal.
Trend selection
Use the ranking table to see which assets are showing the best risk-adjusted behavior over the chosen period.
Rotation analysis
If you track a basket of coins or market leaders, the indicator can help identify which names are improving in risk-adjusted terms and which ones are losing momentum.
Risk control
A raw gain is not always useful if it comes with excessive volatility or poor downside behavior. This script helps highlight assets with better return efficiency, not just bigger movement.
Multi-factor comparison
Because Sharpe, Sortino, and Omega emphasize different aspects of return quality, the script gives a more balanced view than a single metric alone.
Practical Interpretation
Here is a simple way to read the results:
• High Sharpe: efficient return relative to total volatility.
• High Sortino: strong return with less downside volatility.
• High Omega: gains outweigh losses over the lookback window.
• High Z-Score average: strong performance relative to the rest of the selected universe.
If an asset scores well across all three, it usually represents a stronger and more stable candidate than one that only looks good on one metric.
Best Use Cases
Typical uses include:
• Crypto basket comparison.
• Top-asset ranking.
• Risk-adjusted momentum filtering.
• Rotation watchlists.
• Regime-aware asset selection.
It is especially useful when you want to compare many symbols quickly without manually calculating which ones are actually performing best on a quality-adjusted basis.
Notes
The metric table is only as good as the selected lookback period and asset set.
• Shorter periods react faster but can be noisier.
• Longer periods smooth the results but may lag recent shifts.
• The Z-Score mode is relative to the selected group, so its meaning depends on the symbols you include. Indicador
Volume Nodes & Value Migration [MQLSoftware]Volume Nodes & Value Migration is an anchored volume profile engine that rebuilds the profile construction itself and then measures how price actually behaves around the profile's own structure: the Point of Control (POC), the Value Area (VAH / VAL), high-volume nodes (HVN) and low-volume nodes (LVN). Instead of a fixed number of rows filled by spreading each bar's volume uniformly, it derives the bin height from ATR at each window anchor, weights every bar's volume toward its close with a triangular kernel, recomputes the POC and Value Area on every confirmed bar so the migration of value is visible as a trail, arms the committed POC and high-volume nodes as trackable levels with an accepted / rejected state machine, and reports measured base rates for those events from the chart's own history.
This is a visual analytical tool intended for chart reading and volume-structure mapping. It does not execute trades and does not provide financial advice.
Key Features
Anchored volume profiles (Day / Week / Month / Quarter, or Auto per chart timeframe) with bin height derived from ATR at the window anchor, so the bin count follows the window's range-to-ATR ratio instead of a fixed row number
Close-weighted triangular distribution: each bar's volume is spread over its high-low span with the apex at the close, so the settled price carries more weight than the wick extremes
Developing POC step-trail and Value Area band for the active window, recomputed on every confirmed bar; committed windows keep their final POC and Value Area lines so history stays clean, and consecutive windows are chained with dotted POC-to-POC links labelled with the migration distance in ATR and percent
Committed POC and the strongest HVNs arm as horizontal levels and every return is tracked armed, then accepted (confirmed closes inside the node zone) or rejected (a probe through the node center that closes outside the zone)
Thin Zones (LVN) of each committed window shaded as context — the low-volume gaps price historically transits rather than builds business in
A statistics panel with the live window status, developing value, node states and measured base rates: how often price revisited the prior POC and how node retests resolved, each with its sample size
Four confirmed-bar alerts: node accepted, node rejected, profile committed, prior POC revisited
Core Concept
TradingView already ships volume profile tools (Visible Range, Fixed Range, Session and periodic profiles), and most community profiles repeat the same construction: a fixed row count, each bar's volume spread uniformly across its high-low range, and a final static histogram left for the reader to interpret. This indicator rebuilds each of those stages and then closes the loop by measuring what price actually does at the profile's own levels. Five specific algorithmic elements:
1. Adaptive resolution. The bin height is derived from ATR at the window anchor (Coarse 0.50, Balanced 0.25, Fine 0.125 ATR per bin), so the number of bins follows the window's range-to-ATR ratio. A quiet range window and an expansion window get structurally comparable profiles on any symbol and timeframe, with no fixed row count and no per-market tuning. If a window's range outgrows the internal cap, bins merge 2:1 and the height doubles — resolution stays bounded by construction.
2. Close-weighted triangular distribution. Each bar's volume is distributed over its high-low span by a triangular kernel with its apex at the bar close: the weight a price bin receives is the integral of that kernel over the bin. For a bin inside a bar with low L, high H and close C, the weight is F(b) - F(a), where F(x) = (x - L)^2 / ((H - L)(C - L)) below the close and F(x) = 1 - (H - x)^2 / ((H - L)(H - C)) above it. The settled price therefore carries more weight than the wick extremes, which a uniform spread treats identically to the body.
3. Developing value area. POC, VAH and VAL are recomputed on every confirmed bar of the active window; the POC is drawn as a step trail and the Value Area as a developing band, so the reader sees value migrate through the window — POC ladders, value-area expansion and contraction — rather than only the final snapshot. Once a window commits, its trail retires and the final POC / VAH / VAL lines remain, so history stays readable. Committed windows are chained with dotted POC-to-POC links labelled with the migration distance in ATR units and percent.
4. Node acceptance state machine. When a window commits, its POC and the strongest HVNs (local peaks holding at least half of the POC volume) arm as horizontal levels. Every return is tracked on confirmed bars only: a retest is accepted after N consecutive confirmed closes inside the node zone (node center plus/minus half an ATR, never thinner than one bin), and rejected when a probe trades through the node center and closes outside the zone, or when a visit leaves the zone before N closes. A graze of the zone edge that neither trades the center nor closes inside resolves nothing. Resolutions are latched and marked on the chart; unresolved nodes expire when the next window commits.
5. Measured base rates. The panel reports observed frequencies from this chart's own loaded history: how often price traded back through the prior window's POC, how often POC retests resolved as accepted, and how often HVN retests were rejected — each with its sample size. Below a minimum sample the panel says "collecting" instead of quoting a percentage. Observed frequencies, not assumptions, and no claims attached to them.
Anatomy of the Display
The committed histogram is the final profile of each closed window, drawn from the window's start with bin brightness following volume share; the Value Area is shaded behind it. The POC row and line mark the single price bin that traded the most volume, labelled `POC · High Volume Node`; VAH and VAL are dashed lines labelled `VAH · Value Area High` and `VAL · Value Area Low`.
The developing trail is a step line of the active window's POC with the developing Value Area shaded behind it, both recomputed on every confirmed bar and existing only for the window still forming. The dotted migration link connects the final POCs of consecutive windows and carries a label with the shift in ATR units and percent.
Node lines extend right from each commit: the POC node in the bright POC color, HVNs in the profile color, each labelled by kind. When a retest resolves, the line recolors and a mark is printed: `✓ accepted` when price held the required confirmed closes inside the zone, `✕ rejected` when it was turned away. Expired (untested) nodes fade to dotted.
Thin Zones are faint dashed boxes labelled `LVN · Thin Zone` over the committed window's low-volume gaps. They carry no state machine and no alerts — context only.
The panel shows the window status (anchor period, bars, bins and bin height), the developing POC and Value Area, the POC migration versus the prior window, the state of each armed node, and the measured base rates with sample sizes.
Notes on Repainting
Volume accumulation, developing POC / VAH / VAL updates, node state transitions, base-rate counters and alerts run on confirmed bars only.
A committed profile is final: it is built exclusively from the confirmed bars of a closed window and is never recalculated afterwards.
Node resolutions are latched. An accepted or rejected mark cannot un-happen if price later trades back through the level.
The live developing histogram, POC trail and Value Area band of the current window redraw as the window grows — they are explicitly visual context for the forming profile, not signals.
The script requests no higher-timeframe data at all (no `request.security` calls); window anchors are detected with `timeframe.change` in the chart context.
Alerts are gated by confirmed-bar events and fire once per closed bar, never intra-bar.
Typical Analysis Workflow
A common analytical workflow may include:
Reading the committed profile for the prior window: where the POC sits, how wide the Value Area is, and where the Thin Zones are
Watching the developing POC trail of the active window — a POC laddering in one direction reads as value migrating, a static POC as value building in place
Comparing the migration link and the panel's MIGRATION row to see how far value shifted between windows in ATR terms
Waiting for price to return to an armed node and letting the state machine resolve the retest into accepted or rejected on confirmed bars
Consulting the measured base rates to see how often such revisits and retests actually occurred on this chart's history, then combining the read with other forms of analysis and risk management
Configuration
Anchor Period - the window each profile covers (Auto, Day, Week, Month, Quarter); Auto follows the chart timeframe and a pick at or below it escalates automatically.
Committed Profiles to Keep - how many closed windows keep their histogram drawn; statistics always use the full loaded history.
Profile Detail - target resolution (Coarse / Balanced / Fine), expressed as ATR per bin, never a bin count.
ATR Length - the ATR lookback used for bin height and migration distances.
Value Area % - the share of window volume the Value Area encloses.
Track POC / HVN as Nodes - arms committed levels for the accepted / rejected state machine.
Acceptance Closes - confirmed closes inside the node zone required for an accepted resolution.
HVN Nodes per Window - how many high-volume nodes arm besides the POC.
Thin Zones (LVN) - shades the committed window's low-volume gaps.
Resolved Marks to Keep - how many resolved node marks stay drawn on the chart; the measured statistics are unaffected.
Rendering - committed profiles, live developing profile, profile width, the active window's POC trail and Value Area band, migration links, glow, and the four palette colors.
Statistics Panel - visibility, corner and text size.
Markets and Timeframes
The indicator can be applied across multiple markets and timeframes:
Forex
Stocks and Indices
Commodities
Cryptocurrencies
Because the bin height, node zones and migration distances are all ATR-based, the visual behavior stays consistent across instruments and timeframes. On symbols that supply no volume data the script weights every bar equally (a time-at-price read) and the panel states so explicitly.
Alerts
Node accepted - price printed the required confirmed closes inside an armed node zone
Node rejected - an armed node turned the retest away (probe through the node center with a confirmed close outside the zone)
Profile committed - an anchor window closed; its profile is final and its nodes are armed
Prior POC revisited - price traded back through the previous window's Point of Control
All alerts evaluate on confirmed bars to avoid intra-bar oscillation. A dynamic alert message naming the exact event(s) is also provided. Indicador
Chandelier Exit Trend Navigator [MarkitTick]💡 A trend-following overlay that tracks directional shifts using a volatility-adaptive channel (Chandelier Exit methodology) and converts each flip into a fully structured trade plan — entry, stop-loss, and three R-multiple take-profit levels — displayed directly on the chart alongside a live status dashboard.
✨ Originality and Utility
While the Chandelier Exit concept itself (anchoring a trailing stop to the highest high or lowest low over a lookback, offset by a multiple of ATR) is a well-documented volatility-stop technique, this script extends that foundation into a complete navigation system rather than a simple trailing line.
Three layers separate this tool from a stock Chandelier Exit plot:
An optional adaptive pre-filter (Kalman Filter or a slope-adjusted moving average referred to here as LLAMA) that can be applied to the source series before the channel extremes are calculated, allowing the trend anchor itself to react differently to noise depending on which filter is selected.
A full trade-management layer built on top of the directional flip: automatic stop-loss placement, three independently configurable take-profit levels defined in R-multiples, and live linefill zones that visually separate risk from reward.
A condition-stacking filter system (higher-timeframe EMA bias and ADX strength) that must all align before a directional flip is treated as an actionable signal, reducing signals generated during weak or conflicting conditions.
The combination is not an arbitrary mashup — the adaptive filter conditions the input to the channel calculation, the HTF/ADX filters condition which flips are considered valid, and the trade-management layer converts a validated flip into a concrete, risk-defined plan. Each component feeds the next in a single directional pipeline.
🔬 Methodology and Concepts
● Chandelier Exit Core
The core channel is built from Average True Range (ATR), calculated over a user-defined lookback. Two boundaries are computed each bar:
A long-side stop, set below the highest value of the source over the lookback period, offset by a multiple of ATR.
A short-side stop, set above the lowest value of the source over the same lookback, offset by the same ATR multiple.
Users can choose whether the highest/lowest calculation uses close-based extremes or true high/low wicks, which changes how sensitive the channel is to intrabar spikes.
A persistent trailing line then locks in the tighter of the two boundaries as price develops: while the current directional state is bullish, the line only ratchets upward (never loosening on a pullback); while bearish, it only ratchets downward. A directional flip occurs when price closes beyond the opposite boundary from the prior bar, at which point the trailing line resets to anchor the new trend.
● Adaptive Source Filtering
Before the channel extremes are calculated, the source price can optionally be passed through one of two smoothing methods:
Kalman Filter — a recursive estimator that updates its estimate of the "true" price each bar based on a prediction-error and gain calculation, converging faster in stable conditions and adapting more cautiously during volatile ones.
LLAMA — a linear-regression-style approach that takes a simple moving average of the source and adjusts it by the recent slope (rate of change) over the same lookback, projecting the average forward in the direction the price has been drifting.
When neither is selected, the raw close is used directly, preserving the traditional Chandelier Exit behavior.
● Confirmation Filters
Two independent filters can be layered on top of the raw directional flip before it is treated as a signal:
A higher-timeframe EMA bias filter, which only allows long signals when price is trading above an EMA calculated on a higher timeframe, and only allows short signals when price is trading below it.
An ADX-based strength filter, which requires the Average Directional Index to be at or above a user-defined threshold before any signal — long or short — is permitted, filtering out flips that occur during weak, non-trending conditions.
Both filters default to off and can be combined or used independently.
● Trade Level Construction
When a filtered directional flip is confirmed on a closed bar, the script anchors a trade plan to the prior bar's close:
Risk per trade is defined as the prior bar's ATR multiplied by a user-set stop-loss multiplier.
The stop-loss is placed one risk-unit away from the entry, in the direction opposite the trade.
Three take-profit levels are placed at independently configurable R-multiples of that same risk distance (default 1R, 2R, and 3R), each extending in the direction of the trade.
This means every signal comes with a symmetric, volatility-scaled risk framework rather than a fixed point value, so trade levels automatically widen or tighten with current market volatility.
🎨 Visual Guide
Heatmap Candles — the chart's candle bodies and wicks are recolored to match the current directional state: teal/green while the trailing system is bullish, red while bearish, and gray when direction is undetermined (e.g. on the very first bar).
Entry Line (blue, dashed) — marks the anchor price of the most recent confirmed trade signal.
Stop-Loss Line (red, solid, thicker) — marks the calculated stop price for the active signal, labeled "✕ SL" with its price value.
Take-Profit Lines (green, dashed, three separate levels) — TP1, TP2, and TP3, each drawn with progressively fuller opacity so TP3 is the most visually solid, labeled "◆ TP1", "✦ TP2", and "◆ TP3" respectively with their price values.
Risk Zone Fill — a light red shaded region between the stop-loss and entry lines, visually sizing the risk portion of the trade.
Reward Zone Fill — a light teal shaded region between the entry and TP3 lines, visually sizing the potential reward portion of the trade.
Dashboard Table — a repositionable panel (default top-right) summarizing, in real time: Lock status, current Trend direction, HTF Bias reading, the numeric CE trailing-stop level, current ATR value, and the active Entry/SL prices. When enabled, it also displays the current ADX reading and which adaptive filter (if any) is active. A visual bar-and-percentage gauge shows the reward-to-risk ratio of the current trade relative to TP3, colored red/yellow/green depending on how favorable it is.
📌 Note : the best way to resolve visual overlap is to navigate to the Object Tree and drag the indicator above the main chart layer, or simply hide the native candles in your chart settings.
📖 How to Use
A directional flip in the heatmap candle color, together with a new Entry/SL/TP level set appearing on the chart, indicates a fresh signal in that direction.
The Stop-Loss line represents the level at which the trade thesis is considered invalidated under this system's logic.
TP1, TP2, and TP3 represent successive profit-taking references at increasing R-multiples; price reaching a level does not close or resize the plotted level automatically — it is a visual reference for scaling decisions.
The Risk and Reward zone fills give an immediate visual sense of the trade's risk framing without needing to read exact price values.
The Dashboard's R:R (TP3) gauge offers a quick read on how the reward potential compares to the initial risk for the most recent signal.
The Lock Signal input, when enabled, freezes the currently plotted levels in place and suppresses new signal generation — useful for reviewing a specific setup without the chart updating further trade plans in real time.
When the HTF or ADX filters are enabled but conditions aren't met, no new signal will fire even if the raw directional flip occurs — check the Dashboard's HTF Bias and ADX rows to understand why a flip may not have produced a signal.
⚙️ Inputs and Settings
ATR Len / ATR Mult — controls the lookback and volatility multiplier used to build the Chandelier channel; a longer length and/or larger multiplier produces a wider, slower-reacting trailing stop.
Use Close Extremes — toggles between close-based and high/low-based channel construction, changing sensitivity to intrabar wicks.
HTF Trend Filter / HTF TF / HTF EMA Len — enables and configures the higher-timeframe EMA bias filter that gates which direction of signal is permitted.
Use ADX Filter / ADX Threshold / ADX Length — enables and configures the trend-strength filter that must be satisfied for any signal to fire.
Adaptive Filter / Adaptive Filter Length — selects an optional smoothing method (Kalman Filter or LLAMA) applied to the source before channel calculation, and its lookback length.
Lock Signal — freezes the currently displayed trade levels and halts new signal generation.
SL ATR Mult — sets how many ATR units define one unit of risk for stop-loss placement.
TP1 R / TP2 R / TP3 R — sets the R-multiple distance for each take-profit level relative to the calculated risk.
Heatmap Candles / Show Trade Levels — toggle the directional candle coloring and the entry/SL/TP drawing layer independently.
Dash Pos — repositions the dashboard to any chart corner.
Color inputs — customize the bullish/bearish colors, stop-loss, entry, and take-profit line colors, and the dashboard's background, header, and text colors.
Alert action fields (Long/Short/Close Long/Close Short) — customize the text string sent in the "action" field of the JSON alert payload, useful for routing signals to automated systems expecting specific action keywords.
🔍 Deconstruction of the Underlying Scientific and Academic Framework
The trailing-stop core of this script belongs to a family of volatility-adjusted stop techniques that use Average True Range as a normalization factor for price movement, an approach popularized in trend-following and volatility-breakout literature as a way to size stops relative to an instrument's current, rather than fixed, volatility regime. Anchoring the stop to a rolling extreme (highest high or lowest low) rather than a fixed percentage or point distance reflects the broader class of "channel breakout" trend systems, in which a directional bias persists until price violates a level defined by recent extremes — a structure with roots in classical trend-following systems that predate modern indicator platforms.
The optional Kalman Filter smoothing draws on recursive Bayesian estimation theory, originally developed for tracking dynamic systems under measurement uncertainty. Applied to price, it treats each new close as a noisy observation of an underlying "true" value, blending the prior estimate with the new observation according to a gain term that adjusts based on estimated error — a formulation with parallels to adaptive filtering approaches used in signal processing and, more recently, in quantitative finance research on noise-reduction for price series.
The LLAMA-labeled alternative combines a simple moving average with a linear slope projection, conceptually related to local linear regression and momentum-adjusted smoothing techniques, where a lagging average is advanced along the estimated trend direction to partially compensate for the inherent lag of moving-average-based estimators.
The ADX-based strength filter draws on Welles Wilder's Directional Movement framework, which quantifies trend strength independently of trend direction; requiring a minimum ADX reading before accepting a signal reflects a common risk-management heuristic in trend-following systems — that directional signals generated during low ADX (ranging/choppy) conditions have historically shown less reliability than those generated during elevated trend strength, though this relationship is probabilistic rather than deterministic and varies across instruments and regimes.
The take-profit structure, expressed in R-multiples of the initial risk rather than fixed price or percentage targets, reflects standard position-sizing and risk-management theory in which trade outcomes are measured relative to the capital placed at risk, allowing performance to be evaluated on a risk-normalized basis rather than in absolute price terms.
⚠️ Disclaimer
All provided scripts and indicators are strictly for educational exploration and must not be interpreted as financial advice or a recommendation to execute trades. We expressly disclaim all liability for any financial losses or damages that may result, directly or indirectly, from the reliance on or application of these tools. Market participation carries inherent risk where past performance never guarantees future returns, leaving all investment decisions and due diligence solely at your own discretion. Indicador
Gravity Well Trend | Lyro RSOverview:
Gravity Well Trend is a volume-weighted mean-reversion and trend tool built around a simple idea: the volume-weighted price center is where the market's "mass" sits, and price orbiting near it is effectively captured. A real trend only exists when price achieves sufficient distance from that center in ATR terms while the center itself is accelerating the same direction — an escape from the well, not just a temporary orbit. Three selectable signal modes let it run as a strict trend filter, a simple midline flip, or a band-reclaim system.
Key Features
Volume-Weighted Gravity Center: Calculates a volume-weighted moving average as the "center of mass" for price, forming the core reference line the rest of the indicator is built around.
Escape-Distance Trend Logic: In Trend mode, a bullish or bearish trend only confirms when price is far enough from the center (in ATR units) AND the center itself is moving the same direction — distance alone with a flat center doesn't count.
Three Signal Modes: Trend — flips only on a confirmed escape from the gravity well. Midline — simple long/short based on whether price is above or below the center. Bands — flips long on a cross above the lowest band and stays long until a cross below the highest band flips it short.
Layered Band Envelope: Plots an outer and inner band pair around the center (inner bands at half the outer width), with graded zone fills between center and bands for a clear visual sense of price's position within the well.
Gradient Strength Visualization: The gravity center line and candle coloring use a gradient blend based on how far price has traveled from center relative to the band width, giving an at-a-glance read on trend conviction.
Candle Coloring: Optionally recolors chart candles using the same gradient logic as the center line.
Customizable Visuals: Choose from 4 preset palettes — Classic, Mystic, Accented, Royal — or define your own custom bullish/bearish colors.
Built-In Signals: Automatically plots long/short labels on confirmed trend flips.
How It Works
Center Calculation – Computes a volume-weighted moving average of the source over the chosen length to establish the gravity center.
Distance Measurement – Measures the distance between price and the center in ATR units to gauge how far price has strayed from its center of mass.
Band Construction – Builds an outer band pair at the full Band Width setting and an inner pair at half that width, forming a layered envelope around the center.
Mode-Dependent Trend Logic – Trend mode requires both sufficient escape distance and a rising/falling center; Midline mode simply follows price relative to center; Bands mode uses crosses of the outer bands to flip and hold direction.
Visualization – Plots the gravity center with layered glow, the band envelope with graded fills, flip signal labels, and gradient-based candle coloring.
Practical Use
Trend Confirmation – Use Trend mode when you want to avoid acting on price simply drifting away from center without real directional follow-through in the center itself.
Simple Directional Bias – Use Midline mode for a straightforward above/below-center read when you want more frequent signals.
Range/Reclaim Trading – Use Bands mode to trade reclaims of extreme levels, holding a position until the opposite extreme is reclaimed.
Zone Awareness – Watch the graded band zones to see how extended price is relative to its recent volume-weighted center before committing to a trade.
Customization
Switch between Trend, Midline, and Bands signal modes to match your trading style.
Adjust Length to tune how responsive the gravity center is to recent price/volume.
Adjust Escape Distance to control how far price must travel (with a moving center) to confirm a trend in Trend mode.
Adjust Band Width and ATR Length to reshape the band envelope and its sensitivity.
Toggle bands, signal labels, and candle coloring independently.
Pick a preset palette or define fully custom bullish/bearish colors.
⚠️Disclaimer
This indicator is a tool for technical analysis and does not provide guaranteed results. It should be used in conjunction with other analysis methods and proper risk management practices. The creators of this indicator are not responsible for any financial decisions made based on its signals. Indicador
Fractal ZigZag with Retest & Filters By WiselyWealthIndicator ; Fractal ZigZag with Retest & Filters
Introduction
Welcome to the comprehensive guide for the 'Fractal ZigZag with Retest & Filters' indicator. This custom-built Pine Script indicator is an advanced technical analysis tool designed explicitly for the TradingView platform. At its core, the primary objective of this script is to provide traders with high-probability entry signals by systematically filtering out market noise, avoiding false breakouts, and ensuring alignment with the overarching macroeconomic trend.
Many retail traders fall into the trap of entering positions during sudden, volatile price spikes, only to suffer heavy drawdowns when the market naturally pulls back. This script mitigates that risk by enforcing a strict, rules-based approach: identifying structural shifts, confirming the initial breakout, and mathematically demanding a pullback (or "retest") before issuing a final trading signal. Additionally, it features built-in alert conditions, making it perfectly suited for algorithmic traders who wish to automate their strategies via Webhooks, Telegram bots, or MT5 API integrations.
Technical Mechanism
The mechanical operation of this script is multi-layered, relying on a confluence of structural mapping, trend filtering, and volatility-based retest calculations. Here is a detailed, step-by-step technical breakdown of how the script detects and generates its buy and sell signals:
Mapping Market Structure with Williams Fractals:The foundation of the script relies on identifying key swing highs and swing lows using Williams Fractals. By default, the indicator evaluates a 5-bar lookback and look-forward period to pinpoint these structural pivots. Once a valid upward or downward fractal is identified, the script connects them using a dynamic ZigZag line. This creates an unambiguous visual map of the market's underlying structure, cleanly displaying the sequence of higher highs or lower lows.
Initial Breakout Identification: The indicator actively monitors the current closing price in relation to the most recently confirmed fractal levels. A raw bullish breakout is registered the moment a candle closes definitively above the last established fractal high. Conversely, a raw bearish breakout is noted when the closing price drops below the most recent fractal low. To prevent redundant alerts, the script locks the current trend state upon a successful breakout.
The ATR-Based Retest Engine: This is the most sophisticated aspect of the indicator. When "Enable Retest Mode" is activated, the script refuses to issue an immediate entry signal at the exact moment of the breakout. Instead, it uses the Average True Range (ATR) over a 14-period lookback to measure current market volatility. For a bullish setup, it calculates a "Retest Target" by subtracting a user-defined ATR multiplier (default 1.0) from the breakout close price. It then starts a countdown timer, allowing a maximum number of candles (default 3) for the price to drop back down and touch this target. If the pullback is successful within the time limit, the raw buy signal is triggered. If the time expires without a retest, the setup is safely invalidated.
Macro Trend Filtering: Before finalizing any signal, the script consults a 200-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA). If the trend filter is enabled, a buy signal is entirely suppressed unless the closing price is strictly above the EMA200. Sell signals similarly require the price to remain below the EMA200. Users can also force the script into a "Buy Only" or "Sell Only" mode to align with their long-term directional bias.
How to Use and Best Practices
To extract maximum profitability and accuracy from this script, traders must apply the correct settings and deploy it in appropriate market environments.
Recommended Settings and Configuration:
Conservative Swing Trading: Ensure the EMA200 Trend Filter remains enabled to keep you on the side of institutional momentum. You may also want to increase the Fractal Periods from 5 to 7 or 9. This filters out minor price fluctuations and forces the script to base its breakouts on major structural swing points.
Retest Calibration for Volatility:** The default ATR multiplier is 1.0, and the wait limit is 3 candles. If you are trading on lower timeframes (e.g., 5-minute or 15-minute charts), breakouts can take slightly longer to retest. Consider increasing the "Max Candles to wait" to 5 or 6. For highly volatile assets, increasing the ATR Multiplier to 1.5 can help you secure a deeper, more favorable pullback entry.
Directional Lock: If higher timeframe analysis dictates a strong bull market, use the "Trade Direction" setting to restrict signals to "Buy Only," eliminating counter-trend noise during minor market corrections.
Suitable Markets and Timeframes:
Forex and Indices: This indicator performs exceptionally well on major Forex pairs (EUR/USD, GBP/JPY) and Global Indices (US30, NAS100) on the 1-Hour and 4-Hour timeframes. These assets heavily respect market structure, and liquidity grabs (retests) are highly common after structural breakouts.
Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin and Ethereum on the 15-minute to 1-Hour charts are excellent candidates, provided you adjust the ATR multiplier to account for crypto's volatile, whipsaw movements.
Markets to Avoid: Avoid using this script in heavily consolidated, range-bound, or sideways markets. Breakout and trend-continuation logic inherently struggles during prolonged periods of low volatility, where price chops indiscriminately around the 200 EMA without clear directional follow-through. Indicador
EZ$ AMDBrief update description
EZ$ AMD Extreme Distribution v2.2 refines the indicator around higher-timeframe AMD narrative and precise lower-timeframe execution. Its primary purpose is to identify one high-quality AMD BUY near the lowest qualified manipulation area or one AMD SELL near the highest qualified manipulation area.
AMD signals require a completed accumulation period, manipulation beyond the accumulation range, a meaningful external-liquidity sweep, a confirmed reclaim, microstructure shift, displacement, and majority multi-timeframe bias agreement. The default model uses 4-hour AMD with 1-minute or 5-minute execution, making it suitable for Asia, London, and New York trading.
The live higher-timeframe candle synchronizes with the selected AMD model and changes color in real time:
Yellow: accumulation or waiting
Aqua: low-side manipulation
Purple: high-side manipulation
Green: bullish distribution
Red: bearish distribution
Standard BUY/SELL signals are optional and disabled by default. Support/resistance and higher-timeframe supply/demand origin zones remain available as visual context without independently creating AMD entries.
Settings guide
1. Recommended: AMD extreme signals only
This is the cleanest setup and the one I recommend.
Simple Signal Engine
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Off
Confirm Signals on Candle Close On
Signal Gap 8
Microstructure Length 2
Displacement Range × ATR 0.80
Displacement Body ÷ Range 0.60
This removes ordinary reaction signals and leaves AMD as the main entry engine.
Optimal Higher-Timeframe Signals
Setting Value
Show Confirmed HTF BUY / SELL Off
This prevents additional HTF labels from appearing.
Bias Dashboard
Setting Value
Show Bias-Only Dashboard On
Use Confirmed HTF Candles On
Count 5m, 15m, 1H, 2H, 4H, Daily All On
Minimum Matching Biases 4
An AMD BUY requires at least four bullish timeframes, while an AMD SELL requires at least four bearish timeframes. The aligned side must also outnumber the opposing side.
AMD settings
Setting Value
Show 4-Hour AMD On
All other AMD timeframes Off
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals On
Hide Standard Signals When AMD Signals Are On On
AMD Signals Only on 1m / 5m Charts On
AMD Signal Timeframe 4H
Require External Level Liquidity Sweep On
Require Close Back Through Swept Level On
Require Microstructure Shift + Displacement On
One AMD Signal Per Candle On
Use Accumulation High / Low On
Use Selected AMD Candle Open Off
AMD Zone Trigger Mode Deepest Zone Reaction
Use HTF Origin Zones for AMD Location On
Use HTF Zone Edges + Midpoint On
Require Level Cluster Inside HTF Zone On
Minimum Levels in Cluster 2
Show Manipulation Extreme Diamond Off
This is the strict A+ configuration.
2. Structural-zone visuals
For your 4-hour AMD and 1-minute execution workflow:
Setting Value
Zone Model Adaptive
Chart Timeframe Zone Off
5-Minute Zone Off
15-Minute Zone Off
1-Hour Zone Off
2-Hour Zone Off
4-Hour Zone On
Daily Zone Off
Show Interaction Volume Off
Show Timeframe + Zone Type On
Use Visible Zones for Standard Signals Off
Require FVG / Imbalance for S/D On
Maximum S/D Retests 1
The 4-hour supply/demand origin zone remains visible and can improve AMD location, but it does not create an entry by itself.
3. Key levels
Keep these on:
Camarilla H4/L4
Previous day high/low
Previous week high/low
Previous 4-hour high/low
Asia high/low
London high/low
New York high/low
Overnight high/low
Keep these off for less noise:
Central Pivot
H3/L3
Daily, weekly, and monthly opens
Previous mids
Monday levels
Quarter levels
Yearly levels
Timed opens
The highs become possible SELL-side liquidity, and the lows become possible BUY-side liquidity.
4. Live AMD candle
Setting Value
Show Live HTF Candle On
Sync Live Candle to AMD Signal Timeframe On
Color Live Candle by Real-Time AMD Phase On
Show Timeframe Label On
Show Candle Timer On
The candle color is developing visual context. An actual AMD signal still requires a confirmed execution candle.
To show regular BUY/SELL signals too
Use:
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Bias-Aligned Only
Hide Standard Signals When AMD Signals Are On Off
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals On
This displays both:
Ordinary bias-aligned BUY/SELL
Strict AMD BUY/AMD SELL
For even stricter ordinary signals, turn Use AMD to Filter Standard Signals on. Ordinary BUY/SELL signals will then require matching AMD distribution.
I would leave this off initially because your primary focus is the AMD extreme signal.
To show only regular signals
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Bias-Aligned Only
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals Off
Show Confirmed HTF BUY / SELL Off
This returns the indicator to ordinary level reactions filtered by majority bias.
To show no signals at all
Use this visual-only mode:
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Off
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals Off
Show Confirmed HTF BUY / SELL Off
Show Manipulation Extreme Diamond Off
You may still keep these visible:
4-hour AMD boxes
Live AMD candle
Bias dashboard
Key levels
4-hour supply/demand zone
This provides AMD market context without any entry symbols.
When no AMD signal appears
That does not necessarily mean the indicator is malfunctioning. Under the recommended settings, all of these must qualify:
You are using a 1-minute or 5-minute chart.
The 4-hour accumulation period completed.
Price manipulated beyond the correct accumulation boundary.
An external high or low was swept.
Price closed back through the swept level.
Price reclaimed into the accumulation range.
Microstructure shifted.
Displacement confirmed.
At least four of six biases agreed.
The required level cluster or HTF origin-zone condition qualified.
No earlier AMD signal was already issued for that 4-hour model.
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Jackfx Trendlines MachineJackfx Trendlines Machine
The Jackfx Trendlines Machine is an advanced, automated technical analysis tool designed to eliminate the subjectivity and noise associated with manual trendline drawing. Built for traders who rely on structural breakouts and retests, this indicator dynamically identifies high-probability zones by filtering out volatile market spikes.
Core Mechanics
Instead of relying on standard candlestick wicks, the indicator calculates major market pivots using background Heikin Ashi (HA) data. Because Heikin Ashi averages price action, the resulting swing highs and lows represent true structural turning points rather than momentary liquidity sweeps. The indicator then connects these definitive pivots on your standard candlestick chart to draw accurate, objective trendlines.
Key Features
Noise-Free Pivot Detection: By sourcing high/low pivots from Heikin Ashi data, the indicator ignores "fakeout" wicks, anchoring trendlines strictly to validated market structure.
Dynamic Auto-Drawing: The script automatically isolates the two most recent and significant swing highs (for downtrends) and swing lows (for uptrends), connecting them and projecting the line forward to anticipate future touches.
ATR-Filtered Breakouts: To protect against false breakouts, the indicator incorporates an Average True Range (ATR) buffer. A breakout signal (indicated by visual triangles) is only generated when the price closes across the trendline with sufficient momentum.
Retest Validation: The extended trendlines act as forward-looking support and resistance levels. When a breakout occurs, traders can use the extended lines to stalk high-probability retest entries.
Customizable Sensitivity: Users can adjust the "Pivot Length" inputs to tailor the indicator to their trading style. Lower values plot minor, short-term trendlines, while higher values isolate major, macro-structural trendlines.
Ideal Use Case
This tool is highly effective for price action traders looking to automate their structural analysis. It excels in identifying clean breakout setups and providing objective zones for pullback/retest entries across all timeframes. Indicador
Asian Range Liquidity Sweep - Kill Zone ReversalASIAN RANGE LIQUIDITY SWEEP — the complete ICT Asian Range liquidity model in one indicator
The Asia session builds a small, quiet range. London opens, runs the stops sitting above or below that range, and then walks the price the other way. That single move is one of the most repeatable things in FX, and this indicator is the full rule set for it: the range, the liquidity raid, the higher-timeframe point of interest that makes the raid tradeable, the entry, the stop, the targets — and, just as important, the days on which the raid will NOT happen.
Everything is drawn in New York time, the way the model is defined.
━━━ WHAT IT DOES ━━━
① ASIAN RANGE (20:00 – 00:00 New York)
A time based range, not a structural one. The box, its high, its low and its 50 % are projected forward into the whole trading day. The high is buy side liquidity, the low is sell side liquidity. Direction is mechanical and never inverts: above the range this model only sells, below the range it only buys.
② HIGHER TIMEFRAME POI ENGINE — the filter that decides everything
A raid of the Asian high on its own is, most of the time, a trap. The raid only becomes high probability when it lands inside a higher-timeframe point of interest. The indicator scans three timeframes at once (15m / 1h / 4h by default) for
· Fair Value Gaps
· Order Blocks
· Breaker Blocks (a demand block that price closed through and that now acts as resistance)
· Inverse Fair Value Gaps (a bullish gap that got closed through and flipped bearish)
Every zone is anchored to the exact candles that built it, is extended while it is alive, and is dropped once it is used up or once it sits too far from the daily range to matter. On top of that, the higher-timeframe structure itself has to agree: bearish structure for shorts, bullish for longs.
③ LONDON KILL ZONE (02:00 – 05:00, optional 01:30 start) — Trade 1
Between those hours the indicator waits for price to raid the Asian high (or low) INTO one of those zones. A raid is not even accepted as valid until price has traded back into a fair value gap. Then it waits for a lower-timeframe confirmation and enters at a point of interest — never at market:
· MSS + FVG — market structure shift, entry on the retracement into the gap
· CISD — change in state of delivery, entry back at the CISD level itself
· FVG tap — proximal edge on small gaps, 50 % on big ones
· HIDDEN ORDER BLOCK — the opposite-colour candle trapped between two same-direction fair value gaps. The block almost nobody marks, and the sharpest entry in the whole model
That list is a risk ladder: 1m MSS+FVG is the most aggressive and pays the most, 15m FVG is the safest, wins most often and pays the least. Pick the timeframe you actually want to trade and run the indicator there.
Stop goes on the protective structure that belongs to the entry zone. Target 1 is always the opposite side of the Asian range. Target 2 extends to the next inducement swing — the draw for the day.
④ NEW YORK KILL ZONE (07:00 – 10:00) — Trade 2, the continuation
When the London raid then breaks the OPPOSITE side of the Asian range with displacement, the London extreme is very likely the high or the low of the day. The indicator draws the optimal trade entry fibonacci over that impulse — 0.5 / 0.618 / 0.705 / 0.79 — and takes the continuation from the retracement into it, with the stop beyond 0.79 or 1.0. The setup is strongest when the origin zone was a 4h zone, because the whole day is then a 4h market-maker model running internal to external. If the draw on liquidity was already reached before New York opens, the day is flagged as low probability and skipped.
⑤ THE NO-SWEEP FILTERS — the part almost nobody explains
Two situations mean the raid you are waiting for will never come:
· HTF POI ALREADY TAPPED IN ASIA — price worked into the zone during the Asian session and then broke structure against the range. The Asian high is now protected. The indicator says so on the chart and points you at the fallbacks instead: the 50 % of the range, an internal range high (trend line liquidity), or a fair value gap built inside the Asian session.
· STRONG HIGH / STRONG LOW INSIDE THE RANGE — a sweep immediately followed by a break of structure. That extreme is protected. What looks like equal highs later on is a rejection-block reversal, not a raid. Wait for the sweep and you miss the trade.
⑥ NEWS FILTER
High-impact US news in the New York session turns London into a range or a one-way run with no reversal. Pine cannot read a news feed, so paste the dates and those days are skipped.
━━━ WHY EVERY SIGNAL EXPLAINS ITSELF ━━━
Hover any signal pill and you get the full reasoning, not a label:
the range and its size, the exact price the liquidity was raided at, which point of interest it landed in, what the higher timeframe structure was doing, which confirmation fired, whether the raid was validated by a fair value gap, plus entry, stop, both targets, risk in pips, reward in pips and the R multiple.
Setups that were found but rejected are explained too. A "NO TRADE" tag tells you the raid, the zone and the confirmation were all there but the reward did not pay for the stop — so you learn the filter instead of wondering why nothing fired.
Every zone, every structure event, the range lines, the OTE levels and both education cards carry the same kind of tooltip. There is a HOW TO READ THIS card and an honest BEFORE YOU TRADE THIS card on the chart.
━━━ COCKPIT PANEL ━━━
Live session state, symbol, chart timeframe, higher-timeframe bias, the full Asian range with a PROTECTED / OPEN flag on each side, an eight-step checklist that fills in as the setup builds, the open position with stop and target, a large status line, a rough win / loss / break-even tracker and the timestamp of the last signal.
━━━ ALERTS AND AUTOMATION ━━━
Every event fires a clean JSON payload ready for a webhook — entry, stop, both targets, the range boundaries, the point of interest that produced the signal, symbol, exchange, timeframe, volume and an optional account field. Events: ENTRY, TP1, SL, BE, SWEEP, RANGE. Five plain-language alertconditions are included as well for anybody who just wants a notification.
━━━ SETTINGS WORTH KNOWING ━━━
· Sessions are fully configurable if your broker feed needs a different reference
· Turn individual POI types and POI timeframes on and off
· Choose one confirmation model or let it take the first valid trigger
· Four stop modes, two-target management, break-even at a chosen R
· Full chart theme with navy background, mint / red candles and session shading — or switch it off and keep your own
━━━ HONEST NOTES ━━━
This model is mechanical up to the trigger. Direction is fixed and never inverts, the windows are fixed, the filters are fixed — but the final judgement, is this really the high of the session, stays discretionary. Anybody telling you a setup is 100 % mechanical is selling you something.
Expect zero to four setups a day across two pairs, roughly 20 pips average per trade, and losing days. Judge it weekly and monthly, never daily. The safest entry model fires rarely by design; the aggressive ones fire more and stop out more.
The win / loss counter in the panel is a rough on-chart tracker that assumes a fill at the marked price and resolves target before stop within the same bar. It is not a backtest and it is not a performance claim.
This indicator is a study tool. It is not financial advice.
━━━ CREDIT ━━━
The rule set follows the well-known ICT Asian-sweep model as it is taught publicly in the ICT community. The implementation, the point-of-interest engine, the no-sweep filters, the panel and the design are original work.
Open source — read it, change it, learn from it.
WHY THESE PARTS BELONG TOGETHER
The session range, the higher-timeframe point of interest and the lower-timeframe confirmation form
a single filter chain, and the model does not work with any link missing. The range supplies the
liquidity pool that is going to be raided, the higher-timeframe zone decides whether that raid is a
reversal or a trap, and the lower-timeframe trigger decides when. A raid without a zone is noise,
a zone without a raid has nothing to react to, and both without a trigger have no entry.
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Liquidity Heatmap 3D - Volume Density POC CVDLIQUIDITY HEATMAP 3D — the order-flow heatmap look, rebuilt for TradingView.
This indicator brings the volume-density heatmap visual to any TradingView chart, with a twist no other heatmap here has: a real 3D relief shader. Instead of flat colour tiles, every cell is lit by a virtual light source (emboss lighting computed in the colour math), and the strongest liquidity walls extrude as 3D blocks with shaded side faces and lit top caps.
━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━
TradingView provides no order book and no historical tick data, so this is an honest volume-density heatmap: each bar's volume is distributed across the price zones its range covered. Dense zones are the liquidity walls where the market actually spent volume. The engine normalises against the 85th percentile of the column maxima, so one hot spike never blanks out the rest of the map.
━━━ WHAT IS ON THE CHART ━━━
· Heatmap grid up to 22 x 28 zones, rebuilt live on every bar
· 3D RELIEF SHADER — emboss lighting, specular glints on the wall tops, adjustable strength
· 3D WALL EXTRUSION — the strongest cells pop out as shaded blocks (toggle)
· 7 PALETTES — GOLD 3D (default), TWILIGHT, FIRE & ICE (buy/sell split), OCEAN, INFERNO, EMERALD, MONO
· POC LINE — the highest-volume price of the window, with its volume readout
· WALL DETECTION — the two strongest active liquidity walls, labelled with their strength in percent
· VOLUME PROFILE — profile bars on the right, POC highlighted in gold
· TRADE BUBBLES — volume-spike bubbles sized by their ratio against the average, buy blue / sell magenta
· CVD STRIP — cumulative volume delta (bar proxy) along the bottom, mint and red
· COCKPIT PANEL — engine checklist, POC box and a BUY / SELL flow signal line
· Optional dark chart theme: navy background with mint / red bars
━━━ HOW TO USE IT ━━━
1. Watch the golden walls: price often reacts at dense volume zones — support and resistance built by traded volume rather than by drawn lines.
2. The POC is the fairest price of the window and acts as a mean-reversion magnet in ranges.
3. CVD rising while price holds a wall below it is an absorption long idea; CVD falling at a wall above is a distribution short idea.
4. Bubbles mark the bars where outsized volume hit. Combine them with wall touches for confluence.
━━━ SETTINGS ━━━
Grid size, bars per column, cutoff, gamma, tile transparency, relief strength, wall threshold and bubble threshold are all adjustable. Works on every symbol and timeframe; if a symbol carries no volume the engine falls back to time-at-price density and says so in the panel.
━━━ HONEST LIMITS ━━━
This is not level-2 order book data — TradingView does not provide it. The map shows where volume actually traded, not resting limit orders. The 3D effect is a rendering technique, not extra data.
━━━ NOTE ON LOADING ━━━
Right after adding the indicator, or after changing a setting, give it a few seconds: the engine creates its object pools and runs the first build. A brief flicker during that warm-up is normal and stops once the first refresh is done. After that the persistent engine updates in place with no flicker.
Open source — read it, change it, learn from it. This indicator is a study tool, not financial advice.
WHY THESE PARTS BELONG TOGETHER
The heatmap, the point of control and the cumulative delta strip are three views of one question:
where is volume sitting, which price is defending it, and who is doing the trading. The heatmap
shows the distribution, the point of control marks its centre of gravity, and the delta strip says
whether that distribution is being built by buyers or sellers. Read on their own each of the three
is ambiguous; read together they describe one order-flow picture.
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Market Profile VPOC Breakout - Imbalance SignalsA breakout setup does not fail because the setup is bad. It fails because it was taken in the wrong market phase. Roughly 70 % of the time price is INSIDE the higher-timeframe balance — inside fair value — and there a breakout has almost no edge. In the remaining ~30 %, when the market is OUT OF BALANCE, the identical trigger becomes one of the highest-probability trades there is. That combination shows up about ONCE PER DAY.
Market Profile VPOC Breakout automates that location-first workflow end to end: weekly and daily volume/TPO profiles, the value areas, the VPOC sequence, the transferred prior-day value-area edge, single prints, the P / b micro-profile proof, the entry trigger, the risk model and ready-to-use webhook JSON — all on one chart, with an explanation attached to every single object.
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THE 7 CONFIRMATIONS
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The panel walks you through them live, top to bottom, and nothing below step 1 matters while the market is in balance.
① WEEKLY LOCATION — the previous week's value area is the equilibrium. Price inside it = the 70 % phase → stand down. Price above VAH or below VAL = imbalance → hunt. The shaded zone on the chart is that balance; the background wash tells you at a glance which phase you are in (mint = imbalance up, red = imbalance down, gold = balance).
② EQUILIBRIUM TEST + REJECTION — the week opened outside the balance, price came back to TEST the weekly value area and was aggressively traded away from it again. That rejection is the proof that the market no longer wants to be in equilibrium.
③ TREND OF EQUILIBRIUM — the sequence of daily VPOCs. Rising VPOCs mean fair value itself is migrating up: the distribution of the participants' equilibrium is trending, which is exactly what a fast trade WITH the trend needs. Flat or overlapping VPOCs = balance = no trade. Drawn as a staircase over the session VPOCs.
④ PRIOR-DAY VALUE AREA BREAK — the previous session's value-area edge is transferred onto the execution timeframe as a thick green line. Price has to ACCELERATE through it, not drift.
⑤ SINGLE PRINTS — the indicator reads the running session's TPO grid and counts price rows that only ONE bar ever touched. Those rows are marked as a cyan SINGLE PRINT zone: the market moved so fast that no business was done there = aggressive buyers or sellers, not passive rotation.
⑥ P / b MICRO SHAPE — the micro profile of impulse + the small balance that forms on it is measured. POC in the upper part = P (aggressive buyers shifting equilibrium up) → long. POC in the lower part = b (sellers shifting it down) → short. A symmetric D is skipped. This is the P/b/D profile-shape logic used by two-time World Cup Championship of Futures Trading winner Patrick Nill.
⑦ TRIGGER — two variants, both switchable:
• BREAK-IN — price dips back into the P/b balance and is instantly bought / sold again (the aggressive, earlier entry, trend-continuing).
• BREAKOUT — a CLOSE beyond the balance edge with a higher (long) or lower (short) close. Never a wick.
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RISK MODEL
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Stop behind the structural invalidation (micro-balance edge, impulse origin or the reference level) plus an ATR buffer. TP1 in R multiples moves the stop to break-even, TP2 lets the runner work. And the rule that keeps this model alive: a TIME STOP. If the move does not run within N bars, get out — a failing breakout reverses just as fast as it was supposed to run. Risk and reward are drawn as blocks so the geometry is readable at a glance. One signal per session by default, because the model only exists about once a day.
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WHAT IS ON THE CHART
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• Session volume/TPO profiles with value area, VPOC and shape letter (P / b / D)
• Naked VPOC rays that keep running right as magnets
• Weekly profile + the prior-week balance zone projected into the current week
• The thick green transferred value-area edge with its own explanation
• Daily VPOC staircase and the imbalance gauge in the panel
• Single-print zones, micro-balance boxes with the big P / b letter
• BUY / SELL pills, the full numbered reason stack printed next to the signal, entry / SL / TP1 / TP2 rails, risk and reward blocks, TP / SL / BE / TIME exit tags
• A permanent BEGINNER CARD on the chart plus a HOW TO READ manual — every pill, zone, rail, letter and panel row also has its own hover explanation, so nothing on this chart is unexplained
• Two colour modes: Design (navy, mint / cyan / gold) or Original TPO (the classic grey market-profile look with red VPOC rays and a white profile curve)
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AUTOMATION
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Create ONE alert with the condition "Any alert() function call" and paste your webhook URL. Every BUY, SELL, TP1_HIT, TP2_HIT, SL_HIT, BE_EXIT, TIME_STOP and ARMED event posts ready-to-use JSON containing id, symbol, action, setup, shape, qty, price, entry, sl, tp1, tp2, pdvah, pdval, timeframe and time — connect it to any bridge or bot without touching the code. Separate alertconditions for BUY, SELL and "any signal" are also available.
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HOW TO USE IT
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Built for an intraday execution timeframe: 1m to 15m, exactly like the original workflow (locate on the weekly and daily profiles, execute on a 1-minute chart). Index futures and index CFDs are the natural home (NQ, ES, DAX, Nikkei), but the profile engine derives its bin size from the average daily range, so gold, FX and crypto work out of the box. For index futures switch on "cash session only" and set the exchange session so the overnight trade does not smear the profiles.
Every input is documented with a tooltip that explains what it does and why it exists. Start with the defaults, then loosen step 2 or step 3 if you want more signals — and be aware that every filter you switch off moves you back towards the 70 % phase where this trigger simply does not pay.
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NOTES
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The entry logic is mechanical and reproducible. Stop distances, targets and the time stop are parameters, not gospel: size them to the instrument you trade. Profiles are built from the bars of the chart you are on, so a finer timeframe gives a finer profile. Hit rates quoted in the educational material behind this model refer to the full workflow including discretionary session context — treat the signals as a structured, disciplined framework, not a guarantee, and always validate on your own data before risking capital.
Open source. Feedback and improvement ideas are welcome.
WHY THESE PARTS BELONG TOGETHER
The point of control and the breakout trigger are combined because a breakout setup does not fail
because the setup is bad, it fails because it was taken in the wrong market phase. The VPOC locates
that phase: a break away from a freshly built point of control is a different trade from a break
back into an old one. The imbalance measurement is the third piece - it tells you whether the move
away from the VPOC was one-sided enough to be worth following.
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Volume Profile P b D Shapes - Day PlaybookVOLUME PROFILE P b D SHAPES reads the market's body language: every trading day the volume profile prints a LETTER — P, b or D — and that letter tells you who is in control and exactly how to trade the next session. This indicator automates the complete PbD method: it builds every day's volume profile, classifies the shape, draws the levels, prints the playbook on your chart and fires webhook-ready JSON signals.
■ THE THREE LETTERS
P-SHAPE (bullish continuation) — fast impulse UP, then balance ON TOP. The thin tail below is single prints: nobody did business there. Buyers feel like winners, dips are for buying.
b-SHAPE (bearish continuation) — fast impulse DOWN, then balance AT THE BOTTOM. The thin tail above marks the drop. Sellers are in control, rallies are for selling.
D-SHAPE (balance day) — a symmetric bell curve with a fat POC in the middle. Buyers AND sellers are happy, fair price has been found. The next day usually stays range-bound: fade the edges.
■ THE AUTOMATED PLAYBOOK (7 SETUPS)
P behind you:
- PLAN A — CONTINUATION: price dips into yesterday's value area, the dip HOLDS (no low break), a reclaim candle closes back at/above the POC -> BUY. Targets: previous high, then a measured balance move.
- PLAN B — FAILURE = FULL TRAVERSE: 2+ candle CLOSES below the VAL (a wick is NOT enough) plus a volume spike = acceptance below balance. The shape has failed and price tends to walk the WHOLE way back to the impulse origin -> SELL.
b behind you: the exact mirror — sell failed rallies into value (Plan A), or buy the failure traverse when 2+ closes above VAH with volume appear (Plan B).
D behind you + today opens INSIDE the D:
- Range rules. Short the Value Area High rejection, long the Value Area Low rejection, target the POC first and the opposite edge second. The FIRST touch gives the best response — the fade counter limits how often each edge may be traded.
■ WHAT YOU SEE ON THE CHART
- A volume histogram for every completed day, colored by its letter (mint P / red b / gold D), POC row highlighted
- A big P / b / D letter above each day — hover it for the full lesson behind the shape
- Yesterday's VAH / VAL / POC projected into today as live rails with explanatory tooltips
- A bias note at every day open: which letter is behind you, where today opened, and both plans
- Two-line BUY/SELL pills that explain WHY the signal fired (hover for the complete reasoning + Entry/SL/TP1/TP2)
- Entry / SL / TP1 / TP2 lines, TP1 -> break-even management, TP2 runner
■ AUTOMATION / WEBHOOK
Create one alert with condition "Any alert() function call" and paste your webhook URL. Every BUY/SELL/TP1/TP2/SL/BE event sends ready-to-use JSON: id, symbol, action, setup, shape, entry, sl, tp1, tp2, timeframe, time. There is also an optional end-of-day SHAPE alert so your bot can pick tomorrow's playbook automatically.
■ HOW TO USE
1) Apply to an intraday chart (5m - 1h; crypto, indices, FX, stocks). 2) Let at least one full day close so the first letter prints. 3) Read the panel: previous-day letter -> today's bias -> checklist. 4) Take the pills or automate them via webhook. The first day on the chart only collects data — letters start from day two.
Educational note: shapes give a BIAS, not a guarantee — that is exactly why every setup ships with both Plan A and Plan B. Not financial advice.
WHY THESE PARTS BELONG TOGETHER
The volume profile and the shape classification are inseparable here. The profile alone tells you
where volume accumulated; the classification into P, b and D shapes is what turns that distribution
into a statement about who is trapped and where the day is likely to go. A P shape and a b shape can
contain identical volume and mean the opposite thing - which is only visible once the profile is
read as a letter rather than as a histogram.
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Impulse Box Breakout Engine - Origin Range Buy Sell SignalsIMPULSE BOX BREAKOUT ENGINE — a complete breakout trading system in one indicator: self-adjusting impulse boxes with entry arrow, stop, two fixed targets, a pink trailing-stop dot line and webhook automation. Rebuilt 1:1 from a professional German "Impulsbox" breakout engine (72-minute source webinar, analyzed frame by frame) and redesigned as a modern cockpit indicator.
█ WHAT IT DOES
The engine meters the market N bars back: the range the market traded in PLUS the length of every single bar inside it (compression check). When a STRONG impulse bar closes outside that range, the IMPULSE BOX appears over the consolidation:
• CYAN BOX = long breakout — big entry arrow inside the box
• GOLD BOX = short breakout — mirrored to the downside
• Initial stop = the far side of the box (bottom for longs, top for shorts)
• TARGET 1 + TARGET 2 (violet marks) are projected from the box height the moment the box appears — FIXED, never repainted, never moved afterwards
• PINK DOTS = the trailing stop. It starts at the box edge and follows price with ~30% of the move as breathing room. It only ratchets in your favor — never back
• At Target 1 the stop jumps to break-even or better. After Target 2 the system follows the source rule: "never leave the market voluntarily — let the stop take you out"
█ SELF-OPTIMIZING ENGINE
Markets are sideways ~80% of the time — rigid breakout parameters fail there. This engine adapts automatically:
• TREND regime (ADX based): short lookback, wider targets (+35% / +100% of box height)
• RANGE regime: longer lookback, stricter impulse filter, closer targets (+25% / +75%)
• AUTO-RECALIBRATION: after a false breakout the impulse threshold is raised temporarily — fewer but cleaner boxes. A winning box resets it
• The cockpit shows the current regime, calibration and effective parameters at all times
█ HONEST LIVE STATISTICS
The cockpit counts every box on your chart and shows the real Target-1 and Target-2 hit rates — no marketing numbers, live counted on your symbol and timeframe. On XAUUSD 15m the default engine printed 500+ boxes with a T1 hit rate above 90% at the time of publishing (past performance never guarantees future results).
█ DIRECTION BIAS FILTER
The #1 rule of the source system: trade boxes only in the direction of the higher-level move. The indicator automates this via EMA-200 + Supertrend bias. Choose: Off / Mark counter-bias boxes (dimmed + warning) / Filter them out completely. Supertrend companion arrows are included as extra confluence.
█ EVERY SIGNAL EXPLAINS ITSELF
Hover any BUY/SELL pill: how many bars of consolidation, how strong the impulse bar was (x average bar), which range edge broke, which regime the engine was in, whether the box agrees with the bias — plus entry, stop and both targets. No black box.
█ WEBHOOK AUTOMATION (BOTS / BRIDGES)
Create ONE alert with "Any alert() function call" and your webhook URL. The indicator fires ready-to-use JSON on BUY, SELL, T1_HIT, T2_HIT, TRAIL_EXIT and SL_HIT — including entry, stop, both targets, box levels, regime and live hit rates. Works with any webhook bridge, bot or auto-trader.
█ HOW TO USE
1) Add to chart — works on ALL symbols and ALL timeframes (crypto, gold, forex, indices, stocks)
2) Use standard candles or OHLC bars (Heikin-Ashi smoothing swallows breakouts — a key finding of the source webinar)
3) Wait for a box + arrow, entry at the breakout close, stop at the far box edge
4) Take partial profit at Target 1, let the rest run with the pink trailing dots
5) Automate via webhook JSON if you want
█ SETTINGS
Everything is configurable: manual mode with fixed lookback/impulse strength, target distances, trailing gap, exit-at-T2 mode, bias filter mode, Supertrend, chart theme, cockpit position and all alert toggles.
Educational tool only — not financial advice. Trading involves substantial risk. Always test on a demo account first and never risk money you cannot afford to lose.
WHY THESE PARTS BELONG TOGETHER
The impulse detection and the box are one mechanism, not two features. The impulse identifies the
candle sequence that moved the market; the box freezes the range that impulse came out of, because
that range is the level the market has to defend for the move to continue. Detecting impulses
without marking their origin gives you a signal with no invalidation, and drawing boxes without an
impulse gives you consolidation zones with no direction.
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Previous Day / Week / Month Range LevelsDraws the high, low and internal subdivisions of the last completed period on up to three higher timeframes at once.
Why the prior range matters
A finished period leaves behind a structure the market keeps referring back to. Yesterday's high and low are where yesterday's argument was settled, and price spends a surprising amount of the next session negotiating with those two numbers — breaking them, failing at them, or holding between them.
The subdivisions add resolution to that. The midpoint separates the upper and lower half of the range, and which side price accepts on tells you who won the period. The quarters mark the shallow zones inside each half — the levels a pullback reaches before it has retraced anything meaningful.
What it draws
Prior period high and low, as solid boundary lines
Midpoint at 50%
Quarters at 25% and 75%
Optional eighths at 12.5% and 87.5% for wider ranges
Price labels on every level, with the timeframe named
Three timeframe slots, each with its own colour and on/off switch. Defaults are Daily and Weekly enabled, Monthly available. Any timeframe works — 4H, quarterly, yearly — so intraday traders and swing traders can both configure it sensibly.
The levels do not repaint
Each level is read from the previous completed bar of its timeframe using a lookahead-safe request. Once a period closes, its levels are fixed and will not move. Nothing is recalculated on the developing bar, and nothing you see on historical bars was drawn with information from the future.
That means the numbers are frozen for the whole current period. The daily levels you see at the open are the same ones at the close.
Notes on use
Session settings matter. On a chart set to regular hours, the daily range is built from regular-hours prices only — switch to extended hours and every level moves. Neither is wrong, but be deliberate about which one you're reading.
Multi-period timeframes such as 2W or 6M are grouped by TradingView from a fixed reference point, which may not align with where you'd assume a fortnight begins. Worth eyeballing directly before relying on them.
Drawings are anchored by timestamp rather than bar index, so they stay put when you scroll back and TradingView loads more history. Bar indices renumber every time more history loads; timestamps do not.
There is also a fully transparent plot of close in there, doing a job that is easy to miss. Lines and labels do not feed TradingView's autoscale, so a script that only draws has no price range of its own and can be handed a separate price scale — at which point every level sits at an offset from the candles. The transparent plot gives the script a real range and locks it to the symbol's.
Settings
Three timeframe slots, each with an enable toggle, a timeframe and a colour
Midpoint, quarters and eighths switched independently
Price labels on or off, with a size option
Boundary line width, and a separate transparency for the inner levels so the range edges stay dominant
Extend left and extend right, in bars
Open source. Read it, fork it, adapt it. The non-repainting request pattern, the time-anchored drawing and the scale anchor are all worth stealing for your own scripts.
For educational purposes only. Nothing here is financial advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to trade. Levels are reference points, not signals. Indicador
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Fibonacci Retracement [AFD]Fibonacci levels that find their own two points, and keep finding them.
THE PROBLEM WITH DRAWING THEM BY HAND
A retracement is two clicks and a judgement call. The judgement is the hard part - which high, which low, and whether the leg you just measured is one move or two glued together. Then the session rolls over and the answer changes, so you do it again.
This draws the grid from the chart's own data instead. You tell it which range matters and it finds the two points itself, every bar, forever. Come back after the open and it has already re-anchored to the new day.
PICKING THE RANGE
Four choices, and they are all self-maintaining.
Current Day is the default and it is the one most intraday traders want - today's high and low, re-anchoring at each session open. Previous Day is yesterday's, and it draws from yesterday's start rather than today's, so the geometry sits over the data it came from. Current Week is the same idea one period up.
Latest Swing is the interesting one. It takes the last confirmed swing high and low, and it insists they alternate.
That insistence matters more than it sounds. ta.pivothigh() and ta.pivotlow() are independent detectors, and a real chart prints two, three, four highs in a row with no qualifying low between them. Take the most recent of each and you get a "leg" whose high end is simply the latest high, not the highest one in the span - so the grid measures a move that never happened as a single push, and 0.618 lands somewhere with no relationship to anything. Here, a pivot on the same side as the last one replaces it only if it is more extreme, and a pivot on the opposite side starts the next leg. On clean impulses this changes nothing at all. On ragged ones it pulls the anchor back to the extreme the leg actually reached.
Swing Strength sets how many bars have to print either side of a pivot before it counts. Higher means fewer and more significant swings, and a longer wait.
WHICH WAY THE LEG RUNS
Fib Direction is Auto, Long or Short, and it is the one control that stays live no matter what else you switch off - because it governs both grids, not just the near one.
Auto works out the direction from the range you actually chose. It looks at the two extremes that range uses and puts 0.00 at whichever one printed later, on the reasoning that the more recent extreme is the one the move ended on. So on Current Day, a day that made its low at 10:15 and its high at 15:50 gets 0.00 at the high and a grid you read downwards. Force it with Long or Short when you disagree.
THE MINUS SIGN, AND WHY THE EXTENSIONS HAVE ONE
Everything on this chart is numbered from the leg end. 0.00 sits at the recent extreme that finished the move, 1.00 at the point it started from. That way the number you read is retracement depth, and it means the same thing whichever direction the leg ran.
The extensions continue that same line past 0.00, which is why they are negative. -0.618 sits 0.618 of the leg's range beyond the 0.00 line, in the direction the leg was travelling - exactly the way 0.618 sits 0.618 of the range on the other side of it. One ruler, and the sign tells you which side of the origin you are on.
If that looks unfamiliar, put TradingView's own Fib Retracement tool on the same two points. Its tags read the same: -0.618, not 1.618. The 1.618 reading belongs to the Trend-Based Fib Extension tool, which measures from the leg origin instead - a perfectly good convention, but putting both on one chart gives you two rulers running opposite directions from the same 1.00 line, and sooner or later you read the wrong one.
Six ratios are on offer - -0.272, -0.414, -0.618, -1.00, -1.618, -3.236 - and they ship switched off. They are levels, not targets. They are arithmetic on the leg. This script says nothing about whether price gets to one, marks no entry or exit, and has no alerts of any kind.
THE SECOND GRID
Switch on Show HTF Context and a second grid draws behind the first, anchored to the latest confirmed swing on a higher timeframe and dimmed so it stays context rather than competing for your attention. It ships off, so a fresh add gives you one clean grid.
HTF Mode is where this differs from most higher-timeframe overlays. Adaptive , the default, does not hold a fixed interval - it takes the next one up from whatever chart you are on. A 5-minute chart anchors to the 15-minute swing, a 1-hour chart to the 4-hour. Change timeframe and it follows you, and because it always resolves to something strictly higher, it cannot silently resolve to nothing.
Custom lets you name the timeframe instead, which is what you want when a specific one matters - the 4-hour swing while you scalp the 5, say. The catch is that it has to be strictly higher than the chart. Set Custom to 240 and drop to a 4-hour chart and the grid disappears with no warning label, because 240 is not higher than 240.
Both grids keep their own level checkboxes, line width, label size and text colour, so you can make the context layer as quiet as you like. The extension ratios are the exception: which ratios get drawn is shared by both grids, while which grids draw them is not. Each layer has its own extension toggle. The tooltips say which is which, because a control that looks global and is not is worse than one that plainly is.
THE SETTINGS ACTUALLY WORTH YOUR TIME
Most of the 63 inputs are the ordinary colour-and-width kind. These are the ones that change how the thing reads.
Color Mode defaults to Gradient, and it is doing real work. Each level takes its colour from its own ratio, so hue states depth - the shallow end and the deep end are different colours, and the 0.618-0.786 span reads as a region instead of two more identical lines. There are five presets plus Custom. Single Color reverts to one colour per grid if you prefer the classic look, and either way whatever transparency you pick in the colour picker is the transparency you get.
Enable Glow draws every level twice - a wide, near-transparent halo under a thin bright core. It costs nothing but line objects and it is the difference between a grid you can see on a busy chart and a set of hairlines you lose against the candles. Turn it off when the chart is crowded.
Fill Between Levels shades the intervals. OTE Band, the default, shades only 0.618-0.786. All Bands shades everything, Custom Bands lets you pick, and Off is off. The fills are independent of the line checkboxes, so you can shade a band whose boundary lines are hidden.
Highlight Golden Zone at Price is the one piece of reactive styling here. While the last close is between the 0.618 and 0.786 prices, that band draws more opaque and lifts off the chart. It creates nothing new - no box, no zone object, no centre line, no label - it just restyles the band the fill control already drew, and Highlight Strength sets by how much. It is arithmetic on two numbers already on your screen.
HTF Layer Dimming adds transparency to the whole context grid on top of whatever its colours already carry, which is how the second grid stays behind the first instead of doubling the clutter.
Extension Fade fades each extension a little further as it travels away from the leg, so the near ones read as more prominent than the far ones. It counts only the extensions you actually enabled, not their slot in the ladder - so if you turn on just the far ones, the nearest of them is still drawn at full strength rather than arriving pre-dimmed.
Ratio Label Format switches the tags between decimal and percent - 0.618 or 61.8%, minus signs intact either way. Show Price Labels adds the actual price beside each ratio; it is off by default because eight prices is a lot of text.
Line Extension Left/Right and Label Right Offset control how far the grid reaches and how far past it the tags sit. The defaults keep the tags in the empty margin, clear of both the candles and the price scale.
One last thing: any control that cannot do anything greys itself out. Switch the context grid off and its settings dim. Switch to Gradient and the single-colour pickers dim. There is no control in this script that looks live, takes a value, and quietly does nothing.
GETTING STARTED
Add it. You get one grid on today's range, gradient-coloured, golden zone shaded.
Want a different range? Anchor Range. Leave Fib Direction on Auto until it tells you something you disagree with.
Want context from above? Show HTF Context, and leave HTF Mode on Adaptive unless a specific timeframe matters to you.
Want the extensions? Turn them on for whichever grid you want them on, then pick your ratios.
Too busy? Glow off, Fill Between Levels off. You are back to plain lines.
THINGS THAT WILL LOOK LIKE BUGS AND ARE NOT
Swing anchors arrive late. A pivot is not a pivot until Swing Strength bars have printed after it, so on Latest Swing and on the context grid you are always looking at the last confirmed pivot, not the bar in front of you. When a newer one confirms, the anchor moves. That is the price of anchoring to something you can only recognise in hindsight, and it is the same trade every swing-based tool makes.
The day and week ranges are live. Current Day and Current Week use the period's running high and low, so the grid re-scales when the session makes a new extreme. It is showing you the range as it stands, not a finished one.
It draws one grid, not a history of them. You get the current grid, redrawn as things move. There is no trail of old ones behind you.
Higher-timeframe data uses the documented confirmed-value form - the expression is offset by one bar and the request passes barmerge.lookahead_on. Together, that is the pattern the Pine Script documentation gives for reading a higher timeframe without pulling unclosed data into historical bars. The source is open, so you can read the call rather than take my word for it.
Custom HTF at or below the chart timeframe draws nothing at all , and says nothing about it. Worth remembering before you conclude the context layer is broken.
A 12-month chart draws no context grid. 12M is the top of TradingView's interval list, so Adaptive has nothing left to step up to. 3-month and 6-month charts both work.
Prices come from standard OHLC via ticker.standard(), so your levels are the same on Heikin Ashi, Renko, Kagi, Line Break and Point and Figure as they are on candles. The synthetic geometry of those chart types can still put the lines somewhere you would not expect.
WHAT IT DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO
No alerts. No signals. No scores, ratings or probabilities. No zones, no nested zones, no centre line. It draws Fibonacci levels, labels them honestly, and stops. If you want something that tells you when to act, this is not it.
WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
Four self-maintaining ranges instead of a two-point drag you place today and replace tomorrow. Two independently configured grids on one continuous number line, with the higher one dimmed to sit behind rather than on top. Extensions numbered on the same ruler as the retracements, matching the tags TradingView's own tool gives those prices, rather than a second scale running the other way. A swing range that is genuinely one leg, because the pivot pair is kept alternating. And colour that carries information - a level's hue states its depth - instead of a palette applied to identical lines.
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Anchor rails - session levels and event countdown [AuraSznfx]Most intraday trading is organized around a handful of scheduled clock times — the London open, the 8:30 and 10:00 data releases, the cash open, the end of the first hour, the 2:00 policy release. This script makes that schedule visible on the chart instead of tracked in your head, and pairs it with the price levels that formed before each one.
There are many scripts that draw session highs and lows. What this one adds is the clock layer on top of them: a countdown to the next scheduled anchor, a phase read-out describing where the current bar sits relative to that anchor, a configurable window marked either side of it, and a running count of how many of the day's tracked levels have already been taken.
WHAT IT DRAWS
Five session ranges: overnight, London, premarket, opening range, and first hour. Each window's start and end time is a session input you can change, so the defaults are a starting point rather than a rule. While a window is open the script tracks its running high and low and shows them as a box. When the window closes, the box is deleted and replaced by two horizontal lines fixed at the final high and low, extended forward a configurable number of bars.
Yesterday's high, low and close, pulled from the daily timeframe with lookahead disabled. An optional midpoint is available.
HOW THE LEVEL-TAKEN LOGIC WORKS
Once a range is locked, each of its two lines is watched independently. The high is marked taken the first time a bar's high exceeds it. The low is marked taken the first time a bar's low falls below it. Detection is one-way and permanent for the session — a level does not un-take itself if price returns.
When a level is taken you can have it dim to a configurable transparency, dim and switch its label to a marked state, or delete outright. That choice is a style preference; the underlying state is tracked the same way regardless.
Note the deliberate limitation: detection uses the bar's high and low, so on a live bar a level can register as taken and then the bar can close back inside the range. If you want confirmed-close behavior instead, use a higher timeframe or wait for the bar to close before acting on the alert.
HOW THE ANCHOR CLOCK WORKS
You enable whichever of the nine preset times you care about, plus one custom hour and minute of your own. Every one is read in the timezone you select at the top of the settings.
On each bar the script builds a timestamp for every enabled anchor on the current date, then finds the nearest one ahead of the current bar close and the nearest one behind it. From those two distances it produces four outputs in the panel:
Time to the next anchor, formatted as a countdown.
A progress bar filling over the final 30 minutes before it.
A phase label, resolved in this priority order: inside the post-anchor window, within 15 minutes after, inside the pre-anchor window, inside 10 minutes, inside 30 minutes, otherwise standby.
A taken count out of the ten tracked level lines.
If every enabled anchor for the day has passed, the countdown rolls to the earliest one on the following day.
The event window is the pre and post minute values you set. When the current bar falls inside it, the chart is optionally tinted, and an alert can fire once as it begins. Nothing about this window predicts direction. It marks that a scheduled release is close, which is information you would otherwise be checking a calendar for.
HOW TO USE IT
Set your timezone first; everything else reads from it. Adjust the five session windows to the instrument you trade — the defaults are built around US index futures on New York time and will not suit an FX or crypto session structure without changes. Then switch off the anchor times that aren't relevant to your market.
The levels show where price has already been tested. The clock shows when the next scheduled event arrives. What you do with either is your decision — this script issues no buy or sell signals and takes no view on direction.
ALERTS
Two alert condition entries are provided, for any level taken and for the event window opening, usable from the standard alert dialog. Individual per-level alerts fire through the alert() function on bar close. Payloads can be sent as plain text or as structured JSON for webhook use, toggled in the settings.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
Written in Pine v6.
Locked levels do not repaint. A range only becomes lines after its window has closed, and those values never change afterward.
The daily request uses lookahead_off. No future data is accessed anywhere in the script.
The phase labels describe clock position only. They are not signals and carry no expectation of what price will do.
The script has no view on direction and produces no entry or exit signals. It is a context tool.
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