Quantitative Smart Money Concepts Framework# Quantitative SMC Framework
An implementation of Smart Money Concepts that combines market structure (BOS / CHoCH / MSS), order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity sweeps, equal highs/lows, and premium/discount zones into a single confluence framework. The methodology itself is public trading theory from Inner Circle Trader (ICT). The algorithms used to detect each component, and the scoring system that ties them together, are original work.
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WHY THESE COMPONENTS BELONG IN ONE SCRIPT
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SMC trading depends on confluence. A standalone order block is information, but an order block that sits inside a discount zone, overlaps an active fair value gap, and forms after a liquidity sweep is a setup. Pulling those components from separate indicators forces a trader to eyeball alignment by hand. This script computes alignment directly:
— Order blocks are scored 0–100 based on size, displacement at creation, volume, and overlap with any active FVG on the same side.
— Premium/Discount is anchored to the last major structural event (not the visible range), so confluence with structure is automatic.
— Sweep detection is referenced to actual minor pivots, so a sweep label only appears at structurally meaningful levels — levels where structural reactions often occur.
— Equal highs / lows highlight the liquidity pools that sweeps target.
The output is a single chart where these confluence elements appear together in one place.
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IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
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◆ Adaptive pivot engine
The default pivot detection confirms a swing only when price retraces by ATR × multiplier rather than after a fixed bar window. Pivot density adapts to volatility — fewer pivots on trending days, tighter ones on chop. A fixed-window mode is available for traders who prefer the classic approach.
◆ Order block quality filter
Instead of taking the last opposite candle before a break, the engine scans a 30-bar structural window and selects the most-extreme candle that passes three filters: body-to-range ratio ≥ 25%, range < 2.5 × ATR (no outlier candles), and above-average volume by a configurable multiplier. The volume filter is optional.
◆ Market Structure Shift vs Change of Character
When a CHoCH occurs, the breaking candle is checked for displacement (body size ≥ multiplier × ATR). Displacement breaks are labelled MSS, non-displacement reversals stay labelled CHoCH. This separates impulsive trend reversals from soft ones.
◆ AVWAP-anchored Premium/Discount
Equilibrium is computed as a volume-weighted average price anchored at the last trend reversal (CHoCH/MSS), not as the midpoint of the visible range. The anchor resets only on a genuine trend change, so continuation BOSes do not invalidate the level. A classic range-midpoint mode is available as an alternative.
◆ Strict liquidity sweep detection
A sweep is flagged only if the wick pokes through a recent minor structural pivot (not a rolling max/min), the wick is at least 0.8 × ATR, the wick is at least 35% of the candle's total range, and 8 bars have passed since the last same-direction sweep. This significantly reduces signal frequency compared to simple wick-based detection without pivot reference or cooldown.
◆ Fair Value Gap fade mode
When an FVG is mitigated, it can either be removed (classic behaviour) or rendered semi-transparent so historical imbalances and price reactions remain visible. An ATR-based minimum size filter removes micro-gaps.
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CONFLUENCE SCORE
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Each order block carries an optional 0–100 score:
— Size contribution (0–30): zone height relative to ATR
— Displacement contribution (0–30): body size of the breaking candle relative to ATR
— Volume contribution (10–20): above-average volume at zone creation
— FVG overlap (0–20): an active fair value gap of the same side intersects the zone
The score appears as a small label on each zone when enabled. A minimum-score filter hides everything below a chosen threshold.
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HOW TO USE
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Start on a 1D chart with default settings. Use the major structure (BOS / CHoCH / MSS) to set bias. The setup the scoring system is designed to surface is a high-score order block inside a discount zone, overlapping an FVG, formed after a liquidity sweep. For timeframes below 4H, increase the pivot ATR multiplier to 2.5–3.0 to reduce noise.
Live display mode keeps only the most recent structural elements on the chart. All History mode keeps the full archive — useful for visual backtesting, but slower.
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COMPONENTS AND SETTINGS
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— Major and minor market structure: BOS, CHoCH, MSS, iBOS, iCHoCH
— Adaptive ZigZag or fixed-window pivot engine
— Order blocks with quality filter, wick or close mitigation
— Fair value gaps with optional fade mode and ATR size filter
— Equal highs / equal lows with ATR-based tolerance
— Liquidity sweeps with cooldown between same-direction signals
— Premium / Discount via AVWAP or range midpoint
— Previous day / week / month highs, lows, and midpoints
— Mono or accent colour themes
— Optional bar painting by minor bias
— Alerts on every structural and signal event
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NOTES
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Smart Money Concepts methodology is public trading theory from Michael Huddleston (Inner Circle Trader). The implementation here — adaptive pivot engine, quality-filtered order blocks, AVWAP-anchored premium/discount, scoring system, and strict sweep detection — is independent work.
Feedback and bug reports welcome in the comments. Indicator
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HTF Candle BoxesHTF Candle Boxes — Wick / Body / Wick + Liquidity Window
Renders each higher-timeframe candle (1H, 4H, or 1D) as three horizontal zones drawn over the lower-timeframe bars that compose it. Lets you see HTF structure without leaving your scalp/intraday chart.
What it draws
Upper wick zone — from HTF high down to the body top.
Body zone — tinted green (bullish) or red (bearish) based on HTF open vs close.
Lower wick zone — from body bottom down to HTF low.
Body midpoint — a dotted line at the exact 50% of the HTF body. Useful as an MSS / mean-reversion reference because price respects it more often than mid-of-candle.
Outer wrapper — a subtle gray border around the full HTF high-low range.
Liquidity window lines — two vertical lines per HTF candle bracketing the high-liquidity zones around each HTF rollover:
One 15 minutes after the HTF candle opens (near-open liquidity edge)
One 15 minutes before the HTF candle closes (near-close liquidity edge)
Both lines are confined inside the HTF box (no infinite extension cluttering the chart) and grow vertically with the candle as it forms. They only render on M1 / M3 / M15 / M30 charts — above M30 the 15-min bracket is finer than a bar, so it's hidden.
Why it's useful
HTF candles cleanly show institutional context without scrolling between timeframes.
The body midpoint becomes a real-time pullback / continuation level intraday.
The liquidity bracket marks the 15-min window straddling each HTF rollover, when most desk-driven flow concentrates around the candle close/open — a high-probability place for sweeps, reclaims, and reversal entries.
Inputs
HTF timeframe — 1H, 4H, or 1D.
Fill colors — upper wick, lower wick, bull body, bear body (defaults: gray wicks at 90% transparency, green/red body at 70%).
Show borders + Border color.
Show body midpoint + color, style (solid / dashed / dotted), width.
Wrap HTF candle in outer box + outer border color.
Show liquidity window lines + minutes ± boundary (default 15), color, style.
Implementation note
HTF o/h/l/c are aggregated directly from the LTF bars inside each HTF window — not pulled via request.security. That avoids the one-bar lag where request.security(..., lookahead_off) returns the prior confirmed HTF candle, which would otherwise leave LTF wicks poking outside the box. The boxes here always wrap every LTF bar they contain, on both historical and live data.
Published under MIT-style permissive use — feel free to fork and adapt. Indicator
[3Commas] Pullback Sniper - Indicator🔷 What it does:
This indicator visualizes a long-only Dollar-Cost-Averaging signal framework driven by a classic RSI oversold-exit trigger on a 3-minute timeframe. It marks base order entries, projects the full safety order ladder, tracks a virtual deal lifecycle on the chart, and exposes webhook-ready alerts for automated execution through an external DCA Bot. No orders are placed by the indicator itself — it is a pure signal and visualization layer.
Base Order signal: RSI(14) crosses below 31 on 3m
Safety Order ladder: 5 levels projected as horizontal lines from base, with filled-state coloring (martingale ×1.30 deviation, ×1.25 volume)
Exit signal: RSI(14) crosses above 69 AND profit ≥ 2.4% from average entry (dual-gate)
On-chart virtual P&L tracker: Net Profit, Max Drawdown, Trades, Win Rate, Profit Factor
🔷 Who is it for:
Bot operators who need a visual confirmation layer for automated intraday DCA execution.
Discretionary traders who use structured averaging logic manually and want clear on-chart triggers.
Free-tier PulseWire users who want access to the same signal logic as the Strategy version without requiring backtest functionality.
Cross-instrument testers who run the same signal framework across crypto, perpetuals, and tokenized equities.
🔷 How does it work:
Long Entry: A base order signal fires when RSI(14, 3m) crosses below 31. The indicator marks this with a green triangle below the bar and stores the base price as the reference for the safety order ladder.
Short Entry: Not used - long-only signal framework by design.
Exit Management: A take-profit signal fires when two conditions align simultaneously - RSI(14, 3m) crosses above 69 AND the unrealized profit from average entry reaches the minimum threshold (default 2.4%). This dual gate prevents premature exits during shallow rebounds and structural exits when profit has not yet recovered. The indicator marks the exit with a cyan diamond and resets the virtual deal state.
🔷 Why it's unique:
Dual-gate exit logic - closing requires both an RSI sell signal AND a minimum profit threshold from average entry. This combination filters out RSI-triggered exits that would close deep-averaged positions at a loss, ensuring every signaled close is structurally sound.
Cumulative martingale architecture - safety order trigger prices are computed from the base entry using a cumulative compounding deviation (each successive step multiplied by ×1.30), not by chaining from the previous SO. This produces a smoother, more controlled deepening of the ladder versus pure linear stepping. The full ladder is projected on chart from the moment of base entry, so traders see the entire risk envelope upfront.
Bot Integration - entry and exit alerts ship with webhook-ready JSON payloads, enabling direct trigger of a connected DCA Bot. Two alert conditions ("Deal Start" and "Deal Close") map cleanly to bot deal-start and close-deal endpoints, with Bot ID, Email Token, and pair label all configurable through inputs.
🔷 What you'll see on the chart:
Green triangle (below bar) - Base Order entry signal fired
Red triangle (above bar) - RSI sell signal fired
Cyan diamond - Dual-gate exit triggered, virtual deal closed
Cyan line - Base Entry price (reference for the SO ladder)
Yellow line - Average Entry price (recalculates as SOs fill)
Lime line - Take Profit target (Average × (1 + minProfit%))
Red lines (5) - Full SO ladder projected from base; fades as each level fills
Stats card (top-left, configurable) - Live virtual backtest results: Net Profit, Max Drawdown, Total Trades, Win Rate, Profit Factor
🔷 Considerations Before Using the Indicator:
Market & Timeframe: Designed for a 3-minute base chart on liquid, volatile instruments with active intraday RSI cycling - perpetual contracts, tokenized equities, and major altcoins. Performance degrades on low-volatility assets where RSI rarely reaches the oversold trigger.
Limitations: The indicator does not place orders. It tracks a "virtual deal" state on the chart for visualization purposes only — actual execution must be performed through a connected bot or manually. The signal framework carries no stop-loss component; in sustained downtrends extending beyond the deepest safety order, the virtual deal holds unrealized loss until either the average is recovered or the alert flow is manually overridden. The dual-gate exit can hold positions for extended periods if RSI never crosses above 69 while the profit threshold is unmet — pair this with a manual review cadence.
Virtual P&L Accuracy: The on-chart stats card uses a simplified internal accounting model - it does not factor exchange commission or slippage. Use the Strategy version for fee-adjusted backtest results.
Backtesting & Demo Testing: Always validate the signal framework on historical data before connecting to a live bot. The companion Strategy version of this script is available on the same profile for full backtest analysis with realistic commissions and slippage. Demo-trade for at least one month to observe behavior in conditions not represented in historical data. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Parameter Adjustments: RSI thresholds (31 / 69) and the SO step (1.3%) should be tuned per instrument volatility profile. Tighter levels on lower-volatility assets, wider on more volatile pairs. The minimum profit threshold can be lowered to 1.5–2.0% for higher trade frequency or raised to 3.0–4.0% for fewer, larger captures.
🔷 Backtest Validation:
This indicator shares identical signal logic with the Strategy version of the same framework, available on this profile for full historical performance review with realistic commission and slippage:
Strategy version:
Reference results from the Strategy version on BYBIT:ADAUSDT (Spot), 3m chart, tested period Feb 9 — May 11, 2026:
Net Profit: +95.00 USDT (+0.95%) | Max Drawdown: 67.16 USDT (0.67%) | Total Trades: 47 | Win Rate: 72.34% (34/47) | Profit Factor: 7.377
Refer to the Strategy publication for the complete equity curve, trade-by-trade breakdown, and Strategy Tester report.
🔷 How to Use It:
🔸 Adjust Settings: Configure the RSI thresholds, SO step, and minimum profit parameters for the instrument you intend to trade. Defaults are calibrated for liquid altcoin spot pairs on a 3-minute chart. For lower-volatility instruments, tighten the SO step and lower the take-profit threshold; for higher-volatility instruments, do the opposite.
🔸 Visual Confirmation: Use the on-chart projections (base entry, SO ladder, average entry, TP target) to verify that the active virtual deal aligns with your bot's actual position. The indicator's virtual deal state is a 1-to-1 mirror of the Strategy version's signal logic, so any divergence between chart visuals and bot position is a flag for investigation.
🔸 Create alerts to trigger the DCA Bot: Two alert events are exposed by the indicator - "Deal Start" fires on each new base order signal, and "Deal Close" fires when the dual-gate exit triggers. Configure both alerts in PulseWire with the webhook URL pointing to your DCA Bot's signal endpoint. The Bot ID, Email Token, and Pair label can be set in the script's inputs and are automatically embedded into the alert JSON payload. Once configured, the indicator publishes the signal and the bot handles execution on the exchange autonomously.
🔷 INDICATOR SETTINGS
RSI Length - Period for the RSI calculation (default 14).
RSI Buy Trigger (cross below) - Oversold threshold for the base order signal (default 31).
RSI Sell Trigger (cross above) - Overbought threshold for the exit signal (default 69).
Base Order Volume (USDT, ref) - Reference notional for the initial entry; used for Average Entry projection only.
Safety Order Volume (USDT, ref) - Reference notional for the first averaging-down order; subsequent SOs scale by Volume Coefficient.
Max Safety Orders - Total number of averaging steps tracked in the virtual deal.
Price Deviation % (SO step from base) - Percentage deviation for the first safety order; subsequent steps scale by Step Coefficient.
Martingale Volume Coefficient - Size multiplier applied to each successive safety order.
Martingale Step Coefficient - Multiplier applied to each successive deviation step.
Min Profit % (from avg entry) - Minimum unrealized profit threshold required for the exit gate.
Require RSI Sell Signal to Close - When enabled, both the RSI sell crossover AND the min profit threshold must align (dual-gate exit).
Initial Capital (ref for % calc) - Reference capital base for computing return and drawdown percentages in the stats card.
Visual Layer toggles - Show/hide base line, average line, TP line, full SO ladder, signal triangles.
Stats card / Watermark - Display layer controls for on-chart virtual backtest summary and branding.
Webhook - Bot ID, Email Token, and Pair label for DCA Bot signal routing.
👨🏻💻💭 We hope this tool helps enhance your trading. Your feedback is invaluable, so feel free to share any suggestions for improvements or new features you'd like to see implemented.
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Precision Candle Close Alert [Anti-Lag] for Scalper & DaytraderAs a scalper or day trader, timing is everything. Standard PulseWire alerts often fire 2-3 seconds after the candle has closed due to tick-dependency and server lag. If you are trading the 1m or 5m chart, that delay can cost you money.
The Candle Close Alert (CCA) solves this problem. It is designed for absolute precision and includes a built-in "Anti-Lag" feature. This allows you to trigger the alert slightly before the actual close. By the time the push notification or sound reaches your device, the candle is closing at that exact millisecond.
Key Features:
⚡ Anti-Lag Offset: Compensate for server delays by firing the alert a customizable number of seconds (e.g., 2s) before the candle actually closes.
🎯 True Close Only: Uses strict condition matching to ensure the alert NEVER fires randomly in the middle of a candle. It only triggers on the exact target close.
🔢 Custom Alert Limit: Set a maximum number of alerts (e.g., alert me for the next 5 closes, then automatically stop).
🔄 One-Click Reset: Easily reset the alert counter directly from the indicator settings without having to delete and recreate the alert.
⏱️ Multi-Timeframe Support: Select your target timeframe (from 1m up to Monthly) independently of your current chart resolution.
How to set it up correctly:
Add the indicator to your chart. (Note: Your chart timeframe must be equal to or lower than your selected alert timeframe).
Open the indicator settings and set your target timeframe, the max alert count, and the Anti-Lag Offset (2 to 3 seconds is the recommended sweet spot).
Open the PulseWire Alert Menu (clock icon) and click "Create Alert".
Condition: Select "Candle Close Alert" -> "Any alert() function call".
Go to the "Notifications" tab, check "Play Sound", and select a specific sound for this alert.
Click "Create".
Note: Because Pine Script triggers on price ticks, the anti-lag feature will fire on the first tick that occurs within your defined pre-close window.
Tags:
#Scalping #DayTrading #Alerts #CandleClose #Precision #Forex #Crypto #Utility Indicator
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Sniper Trader V6.5 Pro SMC, FVGs & Volume Sweep EngineSniper Trader Pro is an all-in-one Smart Money Concepts (SMC) indicator designed to filter out market noise and identify high-probability institutional setups. Built for precision, this algorithm detects liquidity sweeps, Fair Value Gaps (FVGs), and volume-backed rejections, giving you a clear visual map of where the "Smart Money" is trapping retail traders.
Optimized for volatile assets like indices (NASDAQ/NQ, S&P500) on the 5-minute timeframe, this tool acts as a complete trading system.
Core Features
Dynamic Liquidity Boxes (FVGs): Automatically plots Demand (Aqua) and Supply (Red) zones based on momentum. The algorithm features a smart "garbage collector" that instantly deletes boxes once they are fully mitigated by price, keeping your chart perfectly clean.
Institutional Trend Filters: Integrates key dynamic support/resistance levels, including the 14 EMA, 80 HMA, 200 EMA, and the daily VWAP, allowing you to gauge the macro and micro trends at a glance.
Volume-Backed Sweep Signals: The indicator doesn't just look for wicks; it analyzes the relationship between wick size, body size, and relative volume. It plots clear "LONG" and "SHORT" triangles only when a rejection wick touches a key dynamic level (EMA/VWAP) and is backed by above-average volume.
Ultimate Sensitivity Engine: Fully customizable settings. You can adjust the required wick size, maximum opposite wick size, and volume multiplier to adapt the trigger sensitivity to the current market volatility.
How to Trade with Gems Sniper Trader Pro
This indicator is built to trade pullbacks into liquidity zones in the direction of the macro trend.
For a LONG Setup:
Ensure the price is trading above the 200 EMA (Macro Trend).
Wait for the price to pull back and enter an Aqua Demand Box.
Look for a green LONG triangle signal. This confirms a liquidity sweep bouncing off the 14 EMA, 80 HMA, or VWAP with institutional volume.
Place your Stop Loss safely below the sweep wick.
For a SHORT Setup:
Ensure the price is trading below the 200 EMA.
Wait for a fake breakout into a Red Supply Box.
Look for a red SHORT triangle rejecting the zone with volume.
Place your Stop Loss above the rejection wick.
Pro Tip :
Avoid taking signals that float in the middle of nowhere. The highest probability trades occur when the sweep signal perfectly aligns (confluence) with a Liquidity Box and a dynamic level like the VWAP. Indicator
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Camarilla Pivot Points with Actual Price Data for Heikin AshiNick Stott developed the Camarilla system in 1989 while trading bonds. The name comes from the Latin word for a small, private room — the implication being that these are hidden levels the market naturally gravitates toward. The core insight is that markets are mean-reverting by nature on an intraday basis — price tends to oscillate around a central value during the day (such as VWAP or some other level) rather than trend continuously. The Camarilla levels are designed to identify the precise price points where that mean reversion is most likely to occur, and where it's most likely to fail and become a genuine breakout instead.
The formula takes yesterday's high, low, and close and generates four resistance levels above (H1–H4) and four support levels below (L1–L4). The multipliers (0.0916, 0.183, 0.275, 0.55) are derived from Fibonacci ratios, which is what distinguishes Camarilla from classic pivot points that use simpler arithmetic.
H3 and L3 — the counter-trend levels. These are the workhorses of the system for day traders. The theory is that on a typical day, price will trade up to H3 or down to L3 and then reverse. You trade against the move at these levels — short at H3, long at L3 — with your stop placed just beyond H4 or L4 respectively. These setups have a high win rate in ranging, non-trending conditions because the market is simply oscillating within its expected daily range.
H4 and L4 — the breakout levels. When price breaks convincingly through H4 or L4, the mean-reversion thesis is invalidated. The market is telling you something unusual is happening — there's genuine directional momentum. At that point you flip your approach entirely and trade with the move, going long above H4 or short below L4, targeting H5 (which is H4 + the H4–H3 range) or L5 respectively. These are the high-reward trades but they occur less frequently.
H1, H2, L1, L2 — the minor levels. These are weaker and less reliable individually. Experienced Camarilla traders often use them as partial profit targets or as zones to tighten stops rather than as primary entry signals.
I prefer using Heikin Ashi candles on my chart -- however they are mathematically derived averages of price, calculated using a specific formula. Heikin Ashi candles do not show real price data. But on a regular candlestick chart it gets the actual market high, low, and close. On a Heikin Ashi chart you get the smoothed, averaged versions of those values -- which are always closer to the midpoint of the day's range and never reflect the true extremes. So I had to add in a tweak to use actual OHLC price data. Indicator
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Volume Trap Reversal Planner [AGPro Series]Volume Trap Reversal Planner
🧠 Core Idea
Did a volume spike trap one side of the market and reverse with enough confirmation to deserve attention?
📌 Overview / What it does
Volume Trap Reversal Planner is a chart-first reversal planning tool built around high-volume trap behavior.
Instead of treating every volume spike or wick sweep as a reversal signal, the script checks whether price expands through a recent reference, prints unusual relative volume, fails to hold the move, recovers back through the reference, and then confirms with a follow-through candle.
The output includes volume trap pockets, reclaim rails, risk edges, target-room bands, compact event labels, alerts, and a clean AGPro decision panel. It does not predict price, automate trades, or claim that every trap will reverse.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
The script was built for traders who want to separate meaningful high-volume trap events from ordinary noisy spikes.
Many reversal tools focus only on a wick, a candle pattern, or a support/resistance touch. This planner focuses on the decision layer after a volume trap forms: whether the trap is confirmed, where the risk edge sits, where target-room review begins, and what the next action state should be.
The design supports a structured review mindset: identify the trap, wait for confirmation, monitor the risk edge, and read the context through a 0-100 score instead of reacting to a single candle.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most tools focus on volume spikes as standalone events or classify every sweep as a reversal attempt.
This script does NOT operate as a generic stop-run scanner, a broad liquidity sweep map, or a simple volume climax labeler.
Instead, it combines relative volume, wick sweep behavior, close recovery, confirmation candle quality, follow-through, risk edge placement, and target-room context into one planner-style reversal model.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Context Detection
The script builds a rolling high/low reference range and watches for unusual volume expansion near those references.
2. Trap Mapping
When price sweeps beyond the reference with elevated volume and recovers back inside, the script maps the volume trap pocket.
3. Reversal Evaluation
The planner evaluates wick quality, recovery strength, confirmation candle structure, follow-through distance, and the active risk edge.
4. Visual Output
The result is translated into a 0-100 reversal score, a next-action state, on-chart labels, risk/target guides, and a compact AGPro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Zones = volume trap pockets created by a high-volume sweep and recovery.
Labels = trap watch, reversal ready, trap failed, or target review states.
Colors = bull-side reversals use teal, bear-side reversals use pink, watch states use amber, and review/target context uses indigo.
Panel = current trap side, volume spike multiple, reversal score, risk edge, and next action.
🚦 Signals & States
• VOL TRAP WATCH → a high-volume trap candidate formed and needs confirmation.
• REVERSAL READY → the trap received confirmation and reached the required score.
• TRAP FAILED → price closed beyond the risk edge and the active trap context weakened.
• TARGET REVIEW → price reached the target-room review band for the active plan.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts trigger when a volume trap watch appears, when reversal confirmation reaches the required score, when the active trap fails through the risk edge, or when price reaches the target-room review band.
Alerts are attention markers only. They are not trade instructions.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The context becomes stronger when volume spike quality, wick sweep behavior, close recovery, confirmation candle structure, and follow-through align in the same direction.
The score is intentionally multi-factor so a single dramatic candle does not dominate the interpretation.
📊 When to Use
• 4H charts for the cleanest public visual balance
• Markets with reliable volume data
• High-volume reactions around recent highs or lows
• Reversal review after failed breakout or failed breakdown attempts
• Active intraday or swing charts where trap behavior is visible
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Very low-liquidity symbols
• Markets with unreliable or missing volume data
• Extremely noisy ranges where every candle sweeps both sides
• News-driven volatility where candle structure can distort normal context
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Trap Reference Lookback → controls the rolling high/low range used for trap detection.
• Volume Spike RVOL → adjusts how much relative volume is required.
• Sensitivity → changes sweep, wick, and volume selectivity.
• Confirmation Mode → controls how strict the confirmation candle must be.
• Risk / Target Logic → controls risk edge buffers and target-room bands.
• Visual Settings → control zones, rails, labels, panel location, theme, and font sizes.
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The interface is built around a clean AGPro panel and chart-first visual hierarchy.
Trap pockets show where the volume trap occurred. Labels identify the current state without overcrowding the chart. Risk and target guides make the output easier to interpret as a planning tool rather than a raw signal board.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel and check the active trap side.
2. Inspect the volume trap pocket and reclaim rail.
3. Wait for reversal confirmation instead of reacting to the spike alone.
4. Compare the current state with the risk edge and target-room band.
5. Interpret the score within broader market context.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
A high score means the trap structure, volume spike, recovery, and confirmation are aligned more cleanly.
A watch state means the event is still developing.
A failed state means the active trap context has weakened or invalidated according to the script's rules.
Use the output as structured context, not as a standalone decision.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
• Not a prediction engine
• Not financial advice
• Not an auto-trading system
• Not a guaranteed reversal signal
• Not a generic liquidity sweep scanner
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
Volume quality varies by symbol, exchange, and asset class.
Different timeframes may produce different trap pockets and confirmation states.
High volatility can make traps appear and fail quickly.
The script is rule-based and cannot know news, order flow intent, execution quality, or broader discretionary context.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Volume traps often matter most when they occur at obvious participation points, such as recent highs, recent lows, failed breakouts, or failed breakdowns.
The strongest use case is not the spike itself. The strongest use case is the sequence after the spike: recovery, confirmation, risk edge, and follow-through.
🧾 Use Case Examples
When price sweeps below a recent low on elevated volume, closes back above the reference, and confirms upward within the allowed window, the planner can mark a bullish reversal context.
When price sweeps above a recent high on elevated volume, fails to hold, and confirms downward, the planner can mark a bearish reversal context.
🧱 System Philosophy
Volume Trap Reversal Planner belongs to the AGPro planner-style workflow: detect the event, score the evidence, define the risk edge, map the review zone, and guide the next chart-reading step.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No trap, score, label, or alert can guarantee a reversal.
No script can provide certainty.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk.
Users are responsible for their own decisions, risk management, and market interpretation.
This script is for educational and analytical purposes only and does not provide financial advice.
📚 Educational Note
Use the script to study how high-volume failed moves behave after sweeping recent references. The most useful insights come from comparing confirmed traps, failed traps, and ignored spikes across different markets and timeframes.
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Ask Dr. Alex AIAsk Dr. Alex AI — Interactive Chart Intelligence for PulseWire
Ask Dr. Alex AI is an interactive chart intelligence indicator built to help traders understand what the chart is saying before making a decision. Instead of only printing a simple buy or sell label, Ask Dr. Alex AI lets the user select a question from a built-in menu and then reveals the specific chart evidence behind the answer.
This indicator is designed as a guided market assistant for traders who want clearer context around support, resistance, patterns, momentum, trend pressure, forecast bias, and trade planning.
What Makes Ask Dr. Alex AI Different
Most indicators only show signals.
Ask Dr. Alex AI answers questions.
Users can select from guided questions such as:
Is this safe to trade right now?
Am I buying from support, selling from resistance, or chasing price?
What pattern is active?
What does the next candle / 10C forecast suggest?
What is the entry, stop loss, and take-profit plan?
ALL — Show Everything
Deep Scan Mode
When a question is selected, the indicator highlights the relevant chart areas and summarizes what it sees using the Dr. Alex AI answer panel.
Core Features
Interactive Question Menu
Choose a question and the indicator reveals only the relevant chart evidence.
Dr. Alex AI Answer Panel
Provides a plain-English summary of the current market condition.
Deep Scan Mode
Unlocks deeper diagnostic checks such as:
Trend Strength
MTF Agreement
Support Bounce Check
Resistance Rejection
Pattern Quality
Forecast Conflict
Ribbon Conflict
Entry Quality
Risk / Reward
Invalidation Point
Fakeout Risk
Wilson Tangent
Full Diagnostic
Support / Resistance Intelligence
Displays major support and resistance zones, higher-timeframe levels, and whether price is reacting from a meaningful area.
Pattern Awareness
Detects and explains major active patterns such as doji at support, hammer at support, double bottom, engulfing candles, marubozu candles, breakout retests, traps, and continuation patterns.
Respect Support Bounce Mode
When price touches major support and a bullish rejection pattern appears, the system can shift from hard bearish continuation into Support Bounce Watch / Bull Watch instead of blindly forecasting into support.
Next-Candle Bias Ribbon
A five-state visual ribbon helps summarize the projected next-candle condition:
Green = Bullish
Blue = Bull Watch
Gray = Neutral
Orange = Bear Watch
Red = Bearish
10-Candle Forecast View
Shows a forward projection path based on confidence, pattern context, support/resistance, trend pressure, and active sentiment.
Trade Plan Panel
When a setup is active, the indicator can display:
Entry range
Stop loss
TP1
TP2
Risk/reward model
Setup status
Confidence and Rank Engine
Uses a multi-factor scoring system to compare bullish and bearish pressure across trend, momentum, structure, volatility, MTF alignment, candle behavior, and ribbon state.
Machine-Learning-Inspired Scoring Logic
Ask Dr. Alex AI uses adaptive, weighted, machine-learning-inspired decision logic to evaluate chart conditions and adjust the way it interprets support bounces, forecast conflicts, momentum shifts, and pattern quality. It is designed to behave like an intelligent diagnostic layer, not just a static signal generator.
How to Use
Add the indicator to your chart.
Choose a question from the Ask Dr. Alex AI menu.
Review the highlighted chart evidence.
Read the Dr. Alex AI answer panel.
Use Deep Scan Mode when you want a more detailed diagnostic breakdown.
Use ALL — Show Everything when you want the full visual system displayed at once.
Best Use Case
Ask Dr. Alex AI is best used as a decision-support and educational chart assistant. It is built to help traders slow down, identify context, avoid chasing price, respect support/resistance, and understand why a setup is active, weak, conflicted, or invalidated.
It is especially useful for traders who want the chart to answer questions such as:
“Is this actually a trade, or am I forcing it?”
“Is price bouncing from support or breaking down?”
“Why is the forecast bullish if the trend is bearish?”
“Why is the signal waiting?”
“What must happen before this setup becomes valid?”
Important Disclaimer
Ask Dr. Alex AI is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not guarantee profits, predict the future with certainty, or replace personal judgment, risk management, or professional financial advice. Trading involves risk, and users are responsible for their own trading decisions.
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Range Rejection Planner [AGPro Series]Range Rejection Planner
🧠 Core Idea
Is price rejecting a range edge with enough quality to monitor back toward the midline?
📌 Overview / What it does
Range Rejection Planner is a chart-first range reaction decision engine built to evaluate whether price is rejecting the active range edge with enough structure to deserve attention.
The script maps one relevant range edge, a focused edge-reaction zone, wick rejection behavior, close-back-inside quality, midline room, invalidation shelf, failure risk, event labels, alerts, and a clean AGPro planning panel. These components are converted into a 0-100 Rejection Score and a clear next-action state.
It does not predict price movement, automate trades, draw a full support/resistance library, or guarantee that a range edge will hold. Its purpose is to organize the range-edge rejection review process with practical risk and midline context.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
This script was built for traders who want to evaluate range-edge reactions without turning the chart into a crowded level map.
Many range tools show boundaries, fills, or breakout markers, but they often stop before answering the practical planning question: did price actually reject the edge, is there room back to the midline, and where does the idea fail?
The design philosophy is simple: a range-edge rejection is only useful when the edge interaction, wick response, close-back-inside behavior, midline room, and failure shelf can be read together.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most tools focus on drawing support/resistance zones, marking every range touch, or highlighting breakouts.
This script does NOT clone Support Resistance Reaction Map, does not build a multi-level S/R inventory, and does not act as a broad breakout or break-retest scanner.
Instead, it focuses on one active range and one active edge. The main output is not a buy/sell signal. It is a planning state that helps users decide whether the edge rejection deserves review, whether midline room exists, and whether failure risk is rising.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Context Detection
The script builds an active range from previous bars and identifies whether price is interacting with the upper or lower edge.
2. Reference Mapping
It maps the relevant edge zone, the range midline, and an invalidation shelf beyond the rejected edge.
3. Reaction Evaluation
The model scores edge proximity, wick rejection, close-back-inside quality, relative volume response, midline room, and active range quality.
4. Visual Output
The result appears as a centered range-edge zone, a midline review path, guide lines, compact state labels, alerts, and a premium AGPro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Zones = the active range-edge zone shows the relevant upper or lower boundary being evaluated. The zone label is centered inside the shape.
Midline Path = the projected review area between the rejected edge and the range midline. It helps show whether there is enough room for interpretation.
Labels = compact markers show EDGE WATCH, REJECT READY, MIDLINE REVIEW, MIDLINE HIT, or FAILURE RISK context.
Colors = teal supports lower-edge rejection context, pink supports upper-edge rejection context, amber highlights review states, and indigo marks midline references.
Panel = the panel summarizes Range Edge, Rejection Score, Midline Room, Failure Risk, and Action.
🚦 Signals & States
• EDGE WATCH → price is probing a range edge and early rejection conditions are developing.
• REJECT READY → range-edge rejection quality reached the selected score threshold.
• MIDLINE REVIEW → an active rejection context is being monitored toward the range midline.
• MIDLINE HIT → price reached the active range midline after a rejection context.
• FAILURE RISK → price crossed the invalidation shelf beyond the rejected edge.
• RANGE WAIT → a range exists, but the edge interaction is not strong enough yet.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts trigger when the planner enters EDGE WATCH, REJECT READY, MIDLINE REVIEW, MIDLINE HIT, or FAILURE RISK.
Each alert is an attention marker. Alerts are not trade instructions, entry commands, exit commands, or automated strategy rules.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The strongest context appears when several conditions align:
Range edge probe + strong rejection wick + close back inside the range + supportive relative volume + meaningful room back to the midline + a clear invalidation shelf.
When these components weaken, the planner can stay in EDGE WATCH, return to RANGE WAIT, or shift into FAILURE RISK.
📊 When to Use
• During range-bound markets where edge reactions matter
• When price probes the upper or lower boundary of a recent range
• When evaluating whether an edge rejection has enough midline room
• When a trader wants risk and invalidation context around a range reaction
• On liquid symbols where wicks, volume, and range boundaries are readable
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Extremely low-liquidity symbols with unreliable wicks or volume
• Very noisy micro-timeframes where range edges shift too often
• News-driven volatility spikes that distort normal range behavior
• Strong trend expansion where range rejection is no longer the main context
• Situations where the user expects automatic buy/sell signals
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Range Edge Mode → chooses Auto, Upper Edge Rejection, or Lower Edge Rejection.
• Active Range Lookback → controls the previous-bar range used for edge evaluation.
• Range Edge Zone ATR → controls the width of the focused edge-reaction zone.
• Close-Back-Inside ATR → defines how much price should close back inside after probing an edge.
• Invalidation Shelf ATR → controls the failure-risk reference beyond the rejected edge.
• REJECT READY Threshold → sets the minimum 0-100 score for the strongest rejection state.
• Label and Panel Font Size → controls visual readability.
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The interface is designed to stay chart-first.
The active edge zone gives the main visual reference. The midline path shows the review area. The invalidation shelf defines where the rejection context becomes weaker. The panel provides a compact decision summary without replacing the chart.
The AGPro panel follows the standard first row format: one merged blue title row containing only the script name.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel state and Rejection Score.
2. Check which range edge is active.
3. Review the wick rejection and close-back-inside context.
4. Compare the midline room with the invalidation shelf.
5. Treat alerts as attention markers, then evaluate broader market context.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
Think in terms of rejection quality, not prediction.
A stronger score means multiple range-reaction conditions are aligned. A weaker score means the edge interaction may be early, noisy, too close to the midline, or vulnerable to failure.
Failure Risk does not forecast a breakout. It means the active rejection context has crossed its rule-based failure shelf and should be reviewed.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
• Not a prediction engine
• Not financial advice
• Not an auto-trading system
• Not a guaranteed signal tool
• Not a generic support/resistance map
• Not a full range breakout scanner
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
The script is rule-based and depends on recent price, range, wick, volatility, and volume behavior.
Timeframe changes can alter the active range, score, edge zone, midline room, and invalidation shelf. Volatility spikes can temporarily distort range boundaries. Symbols with unreliable volume may produce weaker participation readings.
Outputs should always be interpreted with broader market structure, liquidity conditions, and independent risk planning.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Range-edge rejection is most useful when the market is respecting a bounded structure and still has meaningful space toward the middle of the range.
If price starts expanding beyond the edge, this tool intentionally shifts attention from rejection quality toward failure risk instead of calling continuation or reversal with certainty.
🧾 Use Case Examples
When price probes above the active range high, prints a strong upper wick, closes back inside, and still has clear room toward the midline, the planner may classify the context as REJECT READY.
When price touches the lower edge but closes weakly, lacks wick response, or sits too close to the midline, the planner may remain in EDGE WATCH or RANGE WAIT.
When price crosses the invalidation shelf beyond the rejected edge, the planner marks FAILURE RISK for review.
🧱 System Philosophy
AGPro planning tools are designed to help traders make a decision, not simply see another signal.
This script follows that philosophy by turning range rejection into a practical decision question:
Is the edge interaction valid?
How strong is the rejection?
Where is the midline reference?
Where is the failure shelf?
What should I review now?
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No script can remove uncertainty.
No state, score, label, zone, line, or alert guarantees a future market outcome.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk. Market conditions can change quickly, and no script can eliminate uncertainty.
Users are responsible for their own analysis, risk management, and decisions.
This script is for educational and analytical use only and does not provide financial advice.
📚 Educational Note
Use the planner to study how range edges behave across different markets and timeframes. The most useful reading comes from comparing the edge zone, wick response, midline room, failure shelf, panel state, and broader market context together.
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Stop Run Reversal Planner [AGPro Series]Stop Run Reversal Planner
🧠 Core Idea
Did a stop run create a confirmed reversal context with clear risk, target room, and next-action guidance?
📌 Overview / What it does
Stop Run Reversal Planner is a chart-first stop-run reversal planning tool built to evaluate wick sweeps around recent range extremes.
The script detects when price runs beyond a prior high or low, checks whether price closes back through the swept reference, evaluates confirmation candle quality, scores volume response, measures target room, and converts the context into a 0-100 reversal readiness score.
It produces stop-run wick zones, confirmation labels, reclaim rails, invalidation guides, reversal target bands, alerts, and a clean AGPro planning panel. It does not predict price direction, automate execution, or claim that every stop run must reverse.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
This script was built for traders who want structure after a fast liquidity run instead of another simple sweep marker.
Stop-run candles can look dramatic, but not every sweep deserves the same attention. Some sweeps reclaim cleanly, confirm with stronger candle behavior, and leave usable target room. Others are only noise, continuation, or incomplete rejection.
The design supports a planning workflow: identify the stop run, wait for confirmation, read the readiness score, check invalidation, review target room, and decide whether the context deserves attention.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most stop-hunt tools focus on mapping sweep zones or marking that liquidity was taken.
This script does NOT try to clone a stop-hunt map, liquidity grab detector, liquidity sweep engine, order block map, or broad SMC dashboard.
Instead, it focuses on the post-stop-run reversal decision. The key question is not only "was a stop run printed?" The key question is "did that stop run turn into a confirmed reversal plan with acceptable reclaim quality, invalidation logic, and target room?"
⚙️ Methodology
1. Context Detection
The script tracks recent range highs and lows, then checks whether price runs beyond one side with a meaningful wick sweep.
2. Reference Mapping
The swept reference becomes the reclaim rail. The sweep extreme becomes the invalidation guide. The opposite side of the reference range, or an ATR fallback, becomes the target-room guide.
3. Reaction Evaluation
The scoring model evaluates wick sweep quality, close-back-inside behavior, confirmation candle quality, relative volume response, trend-turn context, and available target room.
4. Visual Output
Qualified contexts are displayed through stop-run wick zones, confirmation labels, reclaim rails, invalidation lines, target bands, alerts, and a compact AGPro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Zones = the stop-run wick zone between the swept reference and the sweep extreme.
Labels = stop-run watch, confirmed reversal, invalidation, and target-band review markers.
Colors = teal highlights bullish reversal contexts, pink highlights bearish reversal contexts, amber marks watch states, and indigo marks target-room areas.
Panel = the panel summarizes Stop Run, Confirmation, Reclaim Quality, Invalidation, and Action.
🚦 Signals & States
• Bull Stop Run Watch → price swept below the recent low and may need confirmation.
• Bear Stop Run Watch → price swept above the recent high and may need confirmation.
• Bull Reversal Confirmed → downside stop run reclaimed with enough confirmation quality and target room.
• Bear Reversal Confirmed → upside stop run rejected with enough confirmation quality and target room.
• Reversal Invalidated → price crossed the active invalidation guide.
• Target Band Review → price reached the active reversal target band.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts trigger when a bull or bear stop-run watch appears, when a bull or bear reversal confirmation becomes active, when invalidation is crossed, or when the target band is reached.
Alerts are attention markers. They are not trade instructions, entry signals, exit signals, or automation commands.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The reversal context becomes stronger when multiple factors align:
Stop-run wick + close back inside + strong confirmation candle + supportive volume response + usable target room + cleaner trend-turn behavior.
When only one or two factors appear, the script keeps the context in watch mode or ignores it completely.
📊 When to Use
• After fast wick sweeps beyond recent highs or lows
• Around failed breakout or failed breakdown attempts
• In range-edge reversal review workflows
• When price reclaims a swept level and needs structured confirmation
• When a trader wants risk, target, and action context instead of only a sweep marker
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Very low-liquidity symbols
• Extremely noisy micro-timeframes
• News candles with abnormal gaps
• Strong one-way trend conditions where stop runs may continue rather than reverse
• Situations where the user wants an automatic buy or sell signal
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Stop-Run Reference Lookback → controls the recent high / low range used for sweep detection.
• Sensitivity → changes how selective wick-sweep detection should be.
• Confirmation Mode → controls how strict the post-sweep confirmation candle must be.
• Minimum Reversal Score → sets the 0-100 score required before a confirmed plan is drawn.
• Confirmation Window Bars → defines how long a stop run can wait for confirmation.
• Target Room ATR Fallback → creates a practical target guide when the opposite range side is not useful.
• Invalidation Buffer ATR → places the invalidation guide beyond the sweep extreme.
• Visual settings → control zones, rails, target bands, labels, panel location, panel theme, and font sizes.
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The interface is built to stay chart-first.
The panel gives the decision summary. The stop-run zone shows where the sweep happened. The reclaim rail shows the level price had to recover. The invalidation line marks the level that would weaken the reversal context. The target band gives a structured review area without making a promise.
The layout is intentionally compact, readable, and publication-friendly.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel to identify the current Stop Run and Confirmation state.
2. Check whether the chart shows a stop-run wick zone and reclaim rail.
3. Review the Reclaim Quality score and confirmation label.
4. Compare the current price with invalidation and target-band guides.
5. Interpret the context with broader market structure, liquidity, and volatility conditions.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
A stop-run watch means price has swept a recent edge, but the reversal plan is not yet confirmed.
A confirmed reversal state means the script found stronger reclaim, candle, volume, and target-room conditions.
An invalidation marker means the active context weakened according to the script rules.
A target-band review marker means price reached a planned review area, not that the move must stop there.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
• Not a prediction engine
• Not financial advice
• Not an auto trading system
• Not a guaranteed signal tool
• Not a stop-hunt zone map
• Not a liquidity grab detector
• Not an order block or FVG map
• Not a generic SMC dashboard
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
Stop-run behavior changes across symbols, sessions, and timeframes.
Some stop runs continue instead of reversing. Some reclaim attempts fail after confirmation. Some symbols have weak or unreliable volume data, which can affect the score model.
The script provides structured context, not certainty.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Stop-run reversal behavior often appears near visible range edges, prior swing highs, prior swing lows, and failed breakout areas.
The strongest contexts usually combine a meaningful sweep, clean reclaim, strong confirmation candle, usable room, and a clear invalidation guide.
🧾 Use Case Examples
When price runs below a recent low, leaves a strong lower wick, closes back above the swept reference, and confirms with stronger follow-through, the script may classify the context as a bullish stop-run reversal plan.
When price runs above a recent high, rejects the move, closes back below the swept reference, and confirms with stronger downside behavior, the script may classify the context as a bearish stop-run reversal plan.
🧱 System Philosophy
Stop Run Reversal Planner follows the AGPro decision-engine approach: the goal is not to add another signal to the chart, but to organize the decision around validity, score, risk, target room, and next action.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No script can guarantee a reversal, outcome, or market reaction.
This script provides rule-based analytical context only.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk.
Users remain responsible for their own decisions, execution, risk management, and interpretation.
This script does not provide financial advice.
📚 Educational Note
Use the output as a structured review layer. The best readings usually come from combining the planner state with broader market structure, timeframe context, liquidity conditions, and personal risk rules.
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Candle Rejection Quality Planner [AGPro Series]Candle Rejection Quality Planner
🧠 Core Idea
Is the rejection candle strong enough to create a valid planning context, or is it only a noisy wick?
📌 Overview / What it does
Candle Rejection Quality Planner is a chart-first rejection candle decision tool designed to evaluate wick-led rejection without turning the chart into a generic candlestick signal map.
The script identifies bullish and bearish rejection candles, scores their quality from 0 to 100, then tracks what happens next through a confirmation rail, failure edge, target-room guide, wick quality zone, compact labels, alerts, and a clean AG Pro planning panel.
It does not predict future price movement, automate entries, print buy/sell commands, or replace broader market context. Its purpose is to help traders judge whether a rejection candle has enough structure to deserve attention.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
This script was built to fill the gap between simple wick markers and broader reversal systems.
Many traders can see a long wick. The harder question is whether that wick has enough close quality, candle range, participation, and follow-through potential to become useful context.
The design supports a planner mindset: evaluate the candle, define the confirmation level, know where the idea weakens, and wait for the next state instead of reacting to every wick.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most tools focus on detecting a named candle pattern such as a pin bar, engulfing candle, or generic rejection marker.
This script does NOT clone Pin Bar Quality Filter, Engulfing Candle Quality, Rejection Block Quality, order block logic, liquidity sweep logic, or a broad candlestick scanner.
Instead, it focuses on the planning process after a rejection candle appears: quality score, confirmation rail, failure edge, target-room guide, and next-action state. The candle is not treated as an entry by itself. It is treated as a context that must prove itself.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Context Detection
The script measures candle range, upper wick, lower wick, close location, and relative volume to detect wick-led rejection context.
2. Reference Mapping
When a qualified rejection candle appears, the planner maps a wick quality zone, confirmation rail, failure edge, and target-room guide.
3. Reaction Evaluation
The model updates the 0-100 Rejection Quality score as confirmation develops, pressure works against the candle, time passes, or price reaches the planning guide.
4. Visual Output
The chart displays the wick zone, rail, guide lines, controlled labels, candle tint, alerts, and AG Pro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Zones = the rejected wick area of the qualifying candle. The zone is a candle-quality reference, not a support/resistance map.
Labels = rejection context, confirmation, failure edge breaks, target-room completion, and sparse active-state markers.
Colors = teal supports bullish rejection context, pink marks bearish rejection or failure pressure, yellow marks caution, and indigo marks confirmation review.
Panel = a compact decision view showing Candle Side, Rejection Quality, Confirmation, Failure Risk, and Action.
🚦 Signals & States
• Bullish Rejection → lower wick rejection with stronger close location and sufficient quality.
• Bearish Rejection → upper wick rejection with weaker close location and sufficient quality.
• Awaiting Confirmation → a qualified rejection exists, but price has not accepted beyond the rail.
• Confirmed → price accepted beyond the confirmation rail.
• Failure Edge Broken → the rejection context lost its defined failure edge.
• Target Room Reached → price reached the planning guide mapped from the rejection context.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts can trigger when a qualified rejection candle opens a new context, when confirmation rail acceptance appears, when the failure edge breaks, when target room is reached, or when the active planner state changes.
Alerts are attention markers. They are not trade instructions and do not imply a guaranteed outcome.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The strongest planner states appear when wick dominance, close location, reasonable candle range, supportive volume, and confirmation beyond the rail align together.
When those elements are weaker or delayed, the planner shifts toward monitor, weak confirmation, expired context, or invalidated state.
📊 When to Use
• Price-action review around visible reaction candles
• Liquid symbols where candle range and volume are readable
• Intraday or swing charts where wick rejection can be evaluated with ATR context
• Discretionary planning workflows that need confirmation and failure references
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Extremely low-liquidity symbols with unreliable candles
• Very noisy low-timeframe charts where wicks appear randomly
• News spikes where candle range is distorted
• Situations where broader market structure is being ignored
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Sensitivity → changes how selective the rejection engine is.
• Minimum Rejection Quality → sets the 0-100 score required before a context appears.
• Dominant Wick Share → controls how much wick dominance is required.
• Close Location Quality → controls how strongly price must close away from the rejected wick.
• Confirmation Window → controls how long the script waits for follow-through.
• Failure Edge Buffer → defines the invalidation reference beyond the rejection wick.
• Target-Room Guide R → draws the planning guide from rejection close to failure edge distance.
• Visual settings → control zones, rails, labels, candle tint, panel location, panel theme, and font sizes.
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The interface is intentionally compact and chart-first.
The wick quality zone keeps attention on the candle that created the context. The confirmation rail and failure edge create a structured review path. The AG Pro panel summarizes the current state without covering the chart with a broad dashboard.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel and identify the active candle side.
2. Check the wick quality zone and confirmation rail.
3. Watch whether price confirms, weakens, expires, or breaks the failure edge.
4. Use the target-room guide as a planning reference, not as a promise.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
A stronger score means the rejection candle has cleaner wick dominance, better close location, a more useful candle range, and stronger participation support.
A confirmed state means price has accepted beyond the rail according to the script rules.
A failed state means the active rejection context lost its defined failure edge.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
• Not a prediction engine
• Not financial advice
• Not auto trading
• Not guaranteed signals
• Not a pin bar clone
• Not an engulfing candle detector
• Not a generic support/resistance or order block map
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
The script is rule-based and depends on candle structure, ATR, relative volume, and follow-through behavior.
Different timeframes can change how rejection appears. Volatility spikes can distort candle range and failure distance. Symbols with unreliable volume may produce weaker participation readings.
Outputs should always be interpreted within broader market structure, liquidity, volatility, and personal risk rules.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Rejection candles often matter more when they appear near meaningful structure, after a directional push, or during a volatility expansion attempt. The script intentionally does not build a full structure map because its narrow job is candle rejection planning.
🧾 Use Case Examples
When a candle prints a strong lower wick, closes high in its range, and then accepts above the confirmation rail, the planner may classify the context as ready for review.
When a strong upper wick appears but price fails to move beyond the confirmation rail and later breaks the failure edge, the planner marks the context as invalidated.
🧱 System Philosophy
AGPro Series tools are designed to convert visual market behavior into structured review states. This script follows that philosophy by turning a single rejection candle into a defined planning context with quality, confirmation, risk, and action fields.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No script can provide certainty.
No rejection candle guarantees continuation, reversal, or profitable execution.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk. This script is for technical analysis and educational use only.
Users remain responsible for their own analysis, position sizing, execution decisions, and risk management.
This script does not provide financial advice or guaranteed trading outcomes.
📚 Educational Note
Use the tool to study how rejection candles behave after they appear. The value is in structured observation, not automatic decision-making.
Indicator
Breaker Confluence Engine [Nick789]Breaker Confluence Engine
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OVERVIEW
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Breaker Confluence Engine is built to map out breaker-style zones, Fair Value Gaps, and key confluence areas without making the chart look like a Christmas tree.
The idea is simple:
Use a higher source timeframe to find the important breaker and FVG structure, then project those zones onto the chart you are actually trading from.
So instead of constantly switching timeframes, you can sit on your lower timeframe and still see where the bigger structure is sitting.
This tool is not about throwing random buy and sell labels everywhere. It is designed to help you see where price has shifted, where imbalance is sitting, and where price may react if it comes back for a retest.
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WHAT IT DOES
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1. Breaker Zone Detection
The script detects bullish and bearish breaker-style zones using pivot-based swing structure.
These zones help show areas where price has broken through previous structure and may later come back to test that area.
- Bullish breaker zones can act as support
- Bearish breaker zones can act as resistance
- Zones extend forward until tested, filled, or invalidated
- Overlap prevention helps avoid stacking too many similar zones
- Zone limits help keep the chart clean
2. Fair Value Gap Mapping
The script can detect 3-candle Fair Value Gaps from the selected source timeframe and project them onto the current chart.
There is also an optional current-timeframe FVG layer for traders who want more lower-timeframe detail.
Use the source FVGs for the cleaner main view.
Turn on current-timeframe FVGs when you want to dig deeper or review price action.
3. Breaker + FVG Confluence
This is where the tool starts to get interesting.
When a breaker zone lines up with a source-timeframe FVG, the zone is highlighted as a stronger confluence area.
Not every breaker matters.
Not every FVG matters.
But when structure shift and imbalance show up together, that area is worth paying attention to.
4. Zone Rating System
Each zone can be rated using a mix of confluence factors:
- Displacement
- Relative volume
- Directional delta proxy
- Sweep context
- FVG alignment
The rating scale is:
Weak → Interest → Momentum → Absorption → Institutional
This gives you a quick way to separate basic zones from the ones that actually have a bit more story behind them.
Weak zones can stay simple by default, or you can turn on full weak rating details if you want to study everything.
5. Tested and Mitigated Tracking
The script tracks whether a zone is fresh, tested, or already used up.
- Fresh zones show areas price has not returned to yet
- Tested zones show areas price has touched
- Filled or invalidated zones can be hidden automatically
- Or you can fade them for review and back testing
This helps you avoid treating an old used-up zone like it is still fresh.
6. Potential Breaker Zones
The optional Potential Breaker layer gives an early heads-up when price is approaching a prior swing level before a confirmed breaker forms.
It uses an ATR-based proximity threshold.
Think of it as:
“Price is getting close. Something may be building here.”
Potential zones are removed once the breaker confirms or the level gets invalidated.
7. Source Timeframe & Session Control
Choose the source timeframe you want the main logic to come from.
Examples:
- 5m / 15m / 30m for scalping
- 1H / 4H for intraday structure
- 4H / Daily for bigger context
There is also an optional New York session filter for traders who want to focus only on a specific liquidity window.
8. Alerts
The script includes alerts for:
- Bullish breaker events
- Bearish breaker events
- Source-timeframe FVGs
- Current-timeframe FVGs
- Potential breaker events
- Mitigation and fill events
- Master alert for combining events into one cleaner message
The master alert is useful if you do not want a massive alert list or you are setting up webhook-style workflows.
9. Status Table
A small table on the chart shows the main tool status at a glance:
- Source timeframe
- Current chart timeframe
- Session filter
- Source FVG status
- Current-timeframe FVG status
- Potential Breaker status
- Rating status
Simple, clean, and easy to check.
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HOW TO USE IT
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1. Pick Your Source Timeframe
Choose the timeframe you want the important structure to come from.
For example, you might trade on the 1m or 5m chart, but use 15m or 1H as the source timeframe.
That lets you trade lower-timeframe entries while still respecting the bigger zones.
2. Watch the Breaker Zones
Breaker zones show where price has shifted through prior structure.
If price comes back to that area, it may react, reject, continue, or fail. The zone gives you a place to focus, not a guaranteed trade.
3. Look for Confluence
The best zones usually have more than one thing going for them.
A breaker by itself is okay.
A breaker with FVG alignment, displacement, sweep context, volume, and delta support is much more interesting.
That is the whole point of the tool.
4. Pay Attention to Tested Status
Fresh zones are usually cleaner.
Once price has already tapped, filled, or invalidated a zone, it may not carry the same weight anymore.
The tested and mitigated tracking helps keep that clear.
5. Keep the Chart Clean
For live trading, less is usually better.
A clean setup could be:
- Source FVGs: On
- Current-timeframe FVGs: Optional
- Hide Mitigated: On
- Prevent Overlap: On
- Potential Breakers: Off
- Weak Ratings: Off
For review and back testing, turn more layers on and study how price reacts.
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BEST USE CASE
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This tool is best used as a structure and confluence map.
It helps answer questions like:
- Where is the higher-timeframe breaker?
- Is there an FVG sitting with it?
- Has the zone already been tested?
- Did price sweep before forming the zone?
- Is the move away strong or weak?
- Is this area actually worth watching?
It is not meant to replace your own trading plan.
It is meant to make the important areas easier to see.
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IMPORTANT NOTES
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- Source-timeframe logic confirms after the source candle closes
- The tool uses lookahead-off source timeframe logic
- Current-timeframe FVGs are optional and can add more visual load
- Zone ratings are guides, not guarantees
- Best used on liquid markets with clean price action
- Keep your chart clean if you are using it live
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DISCLAIMER
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This indicator is for educational and informational use only.
It does not provide financial advice, guaranteed signals, or automatic trade decisions.
Trading involves risk. Always use your own analysis, confirmation, risk management, and testing before making any trading decision. Indicator
Engulfing Pattern Detector [SSFX]Engulfing Pattern Detector is candlestick analysis indicator designed to detect and highlight bullish and bearish engulfing patterns directly on the price chart.
The indicator focuses on two-candle engulfing formations. A bullish engulfing pattern is identified when the current bullish candle engulfs the previous bearish candle based on the selected engulfing method. A bearish engulfing pattern is identified when the current bearish candle engulfs the previous bullish candle based on the selected engulfing method.
The script provides two engulfing detection modes:
Body Engulfing: This mode checks whether the body of the current candle covers the body of the previous candle.
Full Candle Engulfing: This stricter mode checks whether the current candle also covers the full high-low range of the previous candle, in addition to meeting the body engulfing condition.
To reduce weak or unclear signals, the indicator includes a minimum body percentage filter. This allows users to require the current engulfing candle to have a minimum body size relative to its total candle range. This can help avoid candles with very small bodies or excessive wicks.
Key Features:
Detects bullish engulfing patterns
Detects bearish engulfing patterns
Option to display all patterns or only bullish/bearish patterns
Option to require opposite candle colors
Body engulfing and full candle engulfing modes
Minimum body percentage filter
Box highlight around the two-candle engulfing formation
Optional labels
Optional candle coloring
Optional background highlight
Custom bullish and bearish colors
Alert conditions for bullish, bearish, and any engulfing signal
How to Use:
Bullish engulfing patterns may be used as a visual clue that buying pressure is increasing after a prior bearish candle. Bearish engulfing patterns may be used as a visual clue that selling pressure is increasing after a prior bullish candle.
The box highlight is drawn around the full two-candle pattern, making it easier to visually identify where the engulfing structure occurred. Green boxes represent bullish engulfing formations, while red boxes represent bearish engulfing formations.
This indicator is intended to be used as a visual candlestick pattern tool. It does not predict future price movement and should not be used as a standalone trading system. Users may combine the signals with their own market structure, support and resistance, trend, volume, or risk management analysis.
Alerts:
The script includes alert conditions for:
Bullish Engulfing Detected
Bearish Engulfing Detected
Any Engulfing Pattern Detected
These alerts can be used to notify users when a new engulfing pattern appears on the chart.
Indicator
Shark Hunt | AnonycryptousShark Hunt | Anonycryptous
Description & user manual
(Some chart snapshots below)
Why makes this indicator different?
Most liquidity indicators show you levels. They draw a box where a swing high or low formed and wait for price to return. They do not tell you whether the return matters. They do not filter what is noise from what is a genuine institutional event. They do not confirm whether the move that touched the level was a stop hunt or just a graze. They show you where. Not what.
Shark Hunt works differently.
It does not just detect liquidity zones. It hunts what happens at them — mechanically, bar by bar, through a multi-layer confirmation engine that evaluates wick penetration, volume, rejection strength, and optional pattern confluence before a signal fires. Every condition has a purpose. Every filter reflects something that institutional order flow actually leaves behind.
Most traders can look at a chart in hindsight and spot a liquidity sweep. They see the wick, they see the reversal, they understand what happened. The challenge is identifying it as it forms, before the move is over. That is what Shark Hunt is built to do.
And then there is the Failure Entry engine.
Not every meaningful institutional move starts at a marked zone. Sometimes price sweeps a structural pivot mid-chart — no zone, no prior markup — and reverses sharply. These are swing failure patterns: a wick through a recent high or low, a close back inside, and the market moving the other way. Shark Hunt includes a complete standalone engine for detecting and trading these setups, with its own signal system, trade block, and performance tracking. It is an indicator within an indicator. When you enable it, the entire color scheme shifts to make the mode change unmistakable.
Most indicators are built for one idea. Shark Hunt is built for two ways of reading the same market — and it tells you clearly which mode you are in.
Important notice
Shark Hunt generates trading signals based on pattern detection and volume analysis.
These signals are not financial advice.
They do not predict the future.
They do not guarantee profitability.
All trading decisions are made entirely by the user.
Always manage your own risk. Always apply your own judgment.
1. Overview
Shark Hunt is a liquidity zone detection and sweep confirmation indicator built around the behavior of institutional participants — how they build positions, how they run stops, and how that activity shows up on a chart.
What it includes:
- Impulse-scored liquidity zone detection at swing highs and lows
- Three-tier zone significance: scalp, intermediate, and major
- Multi-layer sweep confirmation: wick penetration, volume, rejection, and pattern gates
- Zone flip logic: broken support becomes resistance and vice versa
- Zone hold statistics with percentage display and liquidity value per zone
- Five price pattern detections: imbalances, absorption bars, price failures, level break retests, and wick traps
- Trade block visualization with configurable RR ratio, SL mode, and width
- Failure Entry engine: standalone SFP signal system with independent settings and trade blocks
- Sweep and failure mode color switching: fluor green/red for zone mode, fluor cyan/red for failure mode
- Neon glow rendering for both candles and zones: independently configurable
- Live dashboard showing active mode, zones, trade statistics, and PnL in R
- Alerts for zone sweep longs, zone sweep shorts, failure longs, and failure shorts
2. How zones are built
Shark Hunt detects liquidity pools at confirmed swing highs and lows using a pivot-based engine. Every zone is scored at the moment of formation using a composite impulse quality score — a weighted combination of body strength, volume relative to average, and bar range relative to ATR. Higher scores mean the move away from the zone was more decisive. When two zones form too close together, the weaker one is removed. Only the more significant level survives.
Zone significance is configurable in three modes:
-Scalp
Short pivot lookback. More zones formed, closer to current price. Suited for fast timeframes and intraday scalp setups.
-Intermediate
Balanced detection. A practical default across most instruments and timeframes.
-Major
Extended pivot lookback. Only the most significant structural levels qualify. Fewer zones, higher conviction per zone.
Each zone extends to the right in real time. A stats label shows the percentage of touches where price held without sweeping — the hold rate — and the estimated liquidity value at the formation bar, calculated as volume multiplied by price. These two numbers tell you how historically respected a zone is and how much institutional interest was present when it formed.
When price closes decisively through a zone, the zone flip logic converts it to the opposite side. A broken demand zone becomes supply. A broken supply zone becomes demand. This mirrors how smart money re-uses levels.
3. Sweep confirmation
A sweep fires only when all enabled conditions are satisfied on the same bar at close.
Wick penetration
The wick must break through the zone boundary by at least a configurable percentage of price. This filters grazes from genuine stop hunts. At 0.05%, small but intentional penetrations qualify. At 0.2% and above, only decisive spikes are counted.
Volume confirmation
The sweep bar must have volume at or above a configurable multiple of the rolling average. Institutional sweeps require size to move price and collect stops. A sweep on below-average volume is usually noise. This filter is toggleable.
Wick rejection
The wick that swept the zone must represent a minimum percentage of the bar's total range. A high rejection percentage means the bar closed far from its sweep extreme — price was pushed back hard. A low percentage means price drifted through and kept going. This filter is toggleable.
Pattern confirmation gates
Three optional gates can be added on top of the base sweep conditions:
- Require Price Failure (SFP): the sweep bar must also close back inside a recent pivot. Stop hunt confirmed by structure.
- Require Wick Trap: the sweeping wick must be at least twice the body size and larger than half an ATR. Pin-bar quality required.
- Require Absorption Bar: the sweep bar must fully engulf the previous candle. One-sided institutional commitment on the sweep itself.
Each gate is independent. Any combination can be active simultaneously. When all three are off, the base filters apply. When one or more are on, they stack as AND conditions — all must pass.
A cooldown setting prevents duplicate signals on the same level by requiring a minimum number of bars between confirmed sweeps.
When a sweep confirms, the zone is marked as swept and fades. A trade block is drawn showing the SL zone and TP zone based on the configured stop loss mode and RR ratio.
4. Price patterns
Five independent price pattern detections run continuously alongside the zone engine. Each can be toggled on or off.
-Price imbalances
Three-candle gaps where price moved too fast for two-sided trading. The gap between the first and third candle is visible as a small filled box. These areas act as magnets — price tends to return. A bull imbalance forms when a bullish candle leaves a gap above. A bear imbalance forms the same way in the opposite direction.
-Absorption bars
A candle that fully engulfs the previous candle in body. The current bar opened inside the prior bar's body and closed beyond it on the opposite side. This shows one side overpowering the other in a single bar — a sign of directional commitment. Marked with a small dot above or below the bar.
-Price failures
A bar that breaks a recent swing pivot with its wick but closes back inside. The market attempted a breakout, ran the stops beyond the pivot, then reversed. This is the mechanical signature of an institutional stop hunt at a structural level. Marked with a clean "F" label in bull or bear color.
-Level break and retest
When price closes through a recent pivot level and then returns to test it from the other side, a retest marker fires. Broken resistance retested as support, and vice versa. The cross marker appears at the retest bar.
-Wick traps
Candles with a wick at least twice the body size and larger than half an ATR. These mark areas of strong rejection. When a wick trap appears at or near a zone, it adds weight to the setup. Marked with a directional arrow.
5. Trade block
When a zone sweep confirms, a trade block is drawn from the signal bar forward. It shows the SL zone in red and the TP zone above or below entry.
Two stop loss modes are available:
-Zone mode
The stop is placed at the zone boundary plus a configurable ATR buffer. Consistent across setups — the SL is anchored to the structural level that defined the zone.
-Wick mode
The stop is placed at the deepest point of the sweep wick plus a configurable ATR buffer. Tighter, and closer to the actual sweep extreme. Can vary significantly bar to bar depending on wick size.
The RR ratio scales the TP distance as a multiple of the SL distance. At 1.0, TP equals SL distance — a 1:1 setup. At 2.0, TP is twice the SL distance. The trade block width in bars is configurable.
The backtest engine runs alongside the live chart. Every confirmed signal is tracked. When TP or SL is reached, the result is recorded as positive or negative R and accumulated in the dashboard.
6. Dashboard
The dashboard is displayed in a configurable position at tiny, small, or normal size.
It shows:
- Active mode: Sweep — on or off. Failure — on or off. Immediately visible at a glance.
- Depth: the current zone significance setting.
- Bull liquidity: number of active bull zones, with fresh zone count.
- Bear liquidity: same for bear zones.
- ATR: current ATR value for the active calculation period.
- Trades, longs, shorts, wins, losses, win rate: cumulative signal statistics.
- Total PnL in R: cumulative result across all signals.
- Expected value in R: average result per trade.
Mode colors are active throughout. In zone sweep mode, bull elements appear in fluor green. In failure entry mode, everything bull switches to fluor cyan. Bear elements remain in fluor red in both modes. The mode switch is visible across every element on the chart — zones, candles, markers, trade blocks, and the dashboard simultaneously.
7. Neon glow
Two independent glow systems are available under the Visuals section.
Neon glow candles
Three stacked plotcandle layers render the candles in fluor color with a soft outer glow. Body transparency and wick and border transparency are separately adjustable — softer body, harder wicks gives the most readable result. Two glow layers control the diffuse outer glow and the inner primary glow independently.
For best results: open chart settings, go to the Style tab, and set the default candle body, border, and wick to fully transparent. This removes the standard PulseWire candle rendering and lets only the glow candles show.
Neon glow zones
Four stacked box layers per zone produce a layered neon glow from the zone boundary outward. A single Zone Glow Strength slider controls all layers simultaneously — lower values produce a more intense neon effect, higher values produce a softer ambient glow.
Both systems work in both modes. When failure entry mode is active, the glow shifts to fluor cyan for all bull elements.
8. ⚡ The Failure Entry engine — the Bonus 🦈
Zone sweeps are the core of Shark Hunt. But not every institutional move starts at a marked level.
Sometimes price sweeps a structural pivot that has no zone drawn on it — a recent swing high or low that formed mid-session, between established zones. The move is decisive: a wick beyond the pivot, a close back inside, and price accelerating in the opposite direction. These are swing failure patterns. They are one of the cleanest institutional signatures available — a stop hunt at a structural level, confirmed by the bar's own price action.
The Failure Entry engine is a fully independent system inside Shark Hunt, built specifically to detect and trade these setups.
When Failure Entry mode is enabled, the zone sweep signal system is suspended. Zones remain on the chart as structural context — they often align with logical TP levels for failure trades. But entries come only from the failure engine.
The failure engine uses its own pivot lookback, separate from the zone detection engine. A dedicated wick size filter measured in ATR is the primary quality gate — it controls how large the failure wick must be relative to current volatility. Small values allow minor structural failures. Larger values require significant spike reversals. This is the primary lever for tightening or loosening signal quality.
A separate wick rejection percentage filter ensures the sweep bar closed convincingly away from its extreme. Volume confirmation with its own multiplier can be applied independently. A cooldown prevents duplicate signals on the same pivot.
The failure engine has its own trade block: fluor cyan for TP, fluor red for SL. The SL can be placed at the wick tip or at the pivot level itself, each with its own ATR buffer. The RR ratio and block width are independently configurable.
Performance is tracked separately. The failure PnL, win rate, and expected value accumulate in their own records and are reflected in the total dashboard figures. Every failure trade contributes to the overall session result.
Enabling failure entry mode changes the entire visual environment. All bull elements — zones, candles, markers, trade blocks — switch from fluor green to fluor cyan. The mode status rows in the dashboard confirm what is active at a glance. Switching modes is one toggle. The chart responds immediately across every element.
The failure engine is not a replacement for the zone sweep system. It is a complementary tool for catching institutional moves that do not begin at a pre-mapped level. Used in combination with the zone context still visible on the chart, it gives Shark Hunt coverage of both types of setup — the anticipated sweep at a known level, and the opportunistic reversal at an unmarked pivot.
9. Settings reference
9.1 Zone detection
- Pivot lookback: bars each side to confirm a swing high or low
- Zone significance: scalp, intermediate, or major
- Max active zones per side: upper limit on tracked zones
- Zone ATR width: zone height as a multiple of ATR
- Min zone separation (ATR): minimum distance between zones of the same type
- Show fresh zones only: hide swept zones or keep them faded
- Enable zone flip: convert broken zones to the opposite side
9.2 Sweep confirmation
- Min wick penetration (%): minimum wick break through zone boundary
- Volume confirmation: toggle volume filter on or off
- Min volume multiple: minimum sweep bar volume relative to average
- Volume average period: rolling volume baseline length
- Wick rejection filter: toggle wick size filter on or off
- Min wick rejection (%): minimum wick as percentage of bar range
- Cooldown bars between sweeps: minimum gap between signals
- Require price failure (SFP): optional pattern gate
- Require wick trap: optional pattern gate
- Require absorption bar: optional pattern gate
9.3 Price patterns
- Show price imbalances
- Show absorption bars
- Show price failures
- Show level breaks and retests
- Show wick traps
9.4 Trade block
- Show trade block on sweep
- RR ratio
- SL mode: zone or wick
- SL buffer (ATR)
- Trade block width (bars)
9.5 Visuals
- Bull and bear liquidity zone transparency
- Show zone stats label
- Show % hold
- Show liquidity value
- Zone label size
- Min % hold to show zone
- Enable neon glow candles
- Body transparency (soft)
- Wick and border transparency (hard)
- Primary glow strength
- Secondary glow strength (diffuse)
- Enable neon glow zones
- Zone glow strength
9.6 Failure entry
- Enable failure entry mode
- Pivot lookback
- Min failure wick (ATR)
- Min wick rejection (%)
- Volume confirmation
- Min volume multiple
- Cooldown bars between failures
- SL mode: wick or pivot
- SL buffer (ATR)
- RR ratio
- Trade block width (bars)
- Show trade block on failure
9.7 Dashboard
- Show dashboard
- Position: top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right
- Size: tiny, small, normal
10. How to use
10.1 Initial setup
1. Set zone significance to match your timeframe. Major works well on 3m and 15m as a starting point.
2. Enable the filters you want active. Volume confirmation and wick rejection are on by default — these are the minimum recommended filters.
3. Set your RR ratio. The default of 1.0 is conservative. Adjust based on your own risk management rules.
4. Decide whether to use zone mode or failure entry mode. Both can be tested and compared using the dashboard statistics.
5. If you want neon glow rendering, set default chart candles to transparent first, then enable the glow toggles.
10.2 Reading the chart
Zones in fluor green are bull liquidity pools — unfilled stop clusters below recent swing lows. Zones in fluor red are bear liquidity pools above swing highs. The opacity and label show how historically respected each zone is.
When price approaches a zone, watch the sweep confirmation criteria. A qualifying bar at close triggers the signal and draws the trade block.
"F" labels mark price failure patterns. When an F appears near a zone boundary, it strengthens the setup. A price failure at a liquidity zone is the clearest confluence available in Shark Hunt — a structural stop hunt confirmed by both the zone engine and the failure pattern simultaneously.
Imbalance boxes, absorption dots, retest crosses, and wick trap arrows all provide additional context. None of them are trade signals by themselves. They are confluence indicators — the more of them align with a zone sweep, the higher the contextual quality of the setup.
10.3 Illustrative bull scenario
Educational example only. Not a trading recommendation.
A swing low forms with strong impulse score. A bull liquidity zone is drawn below it, showing 100% hold and a high liquidity value. Several bars later, price dips into the zone with a sharp wick on elevated volume. The wick is larger than the body, covering more than 25% of the bar range. The bar closes above the zone boundary. A fluor green triangle fires below the bar. The trade block appears showing the TP zone above and the SL zone below. An "F" label also appears on the same bar — the zone sweep and the price failure both confirmed simultaneously.
10.4 Illustrative bear scenario
Educational example only. Not a trading recommendation.
Price rallies into a bear liquidity zone marked from a prior swing high. The approach candle is an absorption bar — a dot appears above it. On the next bar, a sharp spike above the zone on high volume forms a wick that covers more than 25% of the bar range, closing back below the zone top. The sweep confirms. A fluor red triangle fires above the bar. The trade block drops from entry to the TP target below. A wick trap arrow also marks the same bar — strong institutional rejection at a known supply level.
10.5 Using failure entry mode
Enable failure entry mode when you want to trade swing failure patterns without requiring a pre-mapped zone.
The zone boundaries remain on the chart. Use them as context. A failure trade that targets a nearby bull or bear zone as its TP has structural justification for the exit level.
The min failure wick (ATR) setting is the primary quality control. Start at 0.4. If you see too many minor failures firing, raise it. If the engine is missing moves you can see visually, lower it.
The dashboard will show failure-specific statistics. Compare the failure win rate and expected value to the zone sweep statistics. Over time, this data tells you which setup type performs better on your instrument and timeframe.
10.6 Timeframe guide
- 1m–2m: scalp depth, loose filters, high zone count, failure mode useful
- 3m–5m: recommended default settings, both engines perform well
- 15m: major depth, tighter wick penetration, fewer but higher quality setups
- 30m and above: increase pivot lookback for both zone and failure engines
11. Tip
The zone hold percentage is information. A zone with 0% hold has been swept every time price visited it. That is a weak zone — it may not hold the next time either. A zone at 95% hold has defended itself repeatedly. That is a level with a track record.
Volume confirmation is your noise filter. On most instruments, genuine institutional sweeps show up on volume. A sweep on below-average volume is usually a retail move or a thin-market spike. Keep volume confirmation on unless your instrument has unreliable volume data.
The pattern confirmation gates stack. Requiring price failure, wick trap, and absorption simultaneously will produce very few signals — but the ones that fire will have three independent confirmations in addition to the base sweep conditions. Use the gates selectively based on how many signals your timeframe normally generates.
Zone glow and candle glow are independent. You can use zone glow without candle glow, or both together. The neon rendering is a visual choice — it does not affect signal logic.
Failure mode changes everything visually. When you enable it, the entire chart shifts to fluor cyan for bull elements. This is intentional — it makes the mode switch obvious. There is no ambiguity about which engine is active.
The dashboard expected value is the most useful long-term metric. A positive expected value means the average signal generates profit over time. A negative value means the current settings lose on average even if the win rate looks reasonable. Track it across sessions to validate your configuration.
Chart snapshots:
12. Disclaimer
This indicator is provided for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing in this document constitutes financial advice or any form of recommendation. Trading financial instruments involves substantial risk of loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. You may lose all of your invested capital.
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Indicator
Morning & Evening Star Detector [SSFX]Morning & Evening Star Detector is an open-source candlestick pattern indicator designed to identify two classic 3-candle reversal formations: the Morning Star and the Evening Star.
The Morning Star is a bullish reversal pattern that typically appears after bearish pressure. The indicator identifies it using a 3-candle structure:
A strong bearish first candle
A small-bodied middle candle, representing hesitation or loss of momentum
A strong bullish third candle that closes back into the body of the first candle
The Evening Star is the opposite bearish reversal pattern. It is detected when the market forms:
A strong bullish first candle
A small-bodied middle candle
A strong bearish third candle that closes back into the body of the first candle
To make the patterns easier to read on the chart, the script automatically draws a box around the full 3-candle formation:
Green box = Morning Star
Red box = Evening Star
The box covers the full high-to-low range of the entire pattern, helping traders visually study where the reversal structure formed.
Main features:
Detects Morning Star bullish reversal patterns
Detects Evening Star bearish reversal patterns
Draws visual boxes around valid 3-candle patterns
Green highlight for Morning Star formations
Red highlight for Evening Star formations
Optional labels for detected patterns
Optional background highlighting
Adjustable candle body percentage filters
Adjustable middle candle size filter
Adjustable third candle close requirement
Optional gap requirement for more traditional pattern detection
Built-in alert conditions for both pattern types
The pattern logic is fully customizable. Users can adjust the required body size of the first candle, the maximum body size of the star candle, the minimum body size of the confirmation candle, and how deeply the third candle must close into the first candle’s body.
The optional gap setting is included for traders who prefer a more classical definition of Morning Star and Evening Star patterns. Since many markets such as forex, gold, crypto, and index CFDs often do not produce clean session gaps, the gap requirement can be turned off for more flexible detection.
This indicator is intended for educational and analytical use. It does not predict future price movement and should not be used as a standalone trading system. Morning Star and Evening Star patterns are best interpreted together with market structure, support and resistance, trend context, volume, and proper risk management.
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Bullish Sweep & Reclaim for BTC M15Bullish Sweep & Reclaim — Indicator Summary
Disclaimer:
This indicator is tuned and tweaked to find entries on the bitcoin 15 minute time frame only, I have not tested it on any other asset or time frames. use it wisely and manage your TP and SL as the patterns form.
i have back tested this strategy till 2020 and have tweak the numbers to give the cleanest most promising setup, i suggest keeping all values in the settings the same. or if you're a pro, feel free to tweak it more and test it further and share back with me if you find better values.
Although this is a fractal setup which works on most time frames, it is only tuned to catch setups on the M15 Chart
Overview
The Bullish Sweep & Reclaim indicator is a pattern-based tool built for the 15-minute timeframe, designed primarily around Bitcoin (BTC) price behavior. It identifies a specific three-leg liquidity grab sequence where the market flushes out stops below a recent low before reversing sharply back upward. The indicator marks these moments on the chart in real time, plotting a buy signal, a take profit level, a stop loss level, and the key price zone that anchors the setup.
The Core Pattern
The setup is built on three distinct candles, each playing a specific role.
The first leg is called the Drop Candle. This is a bearish candle that acts as the origin of the setup. It represents a meaningful downside move where sellers were in control. The Drop Candle establishes the key price range — its high and low are used later to define the take profit target and the zone that price must reclaim.
The second leg, C2, is any candle after the Drop Candle whose close falls below the Drop Candle's low. This confirms that selling pressure continued and that liquidity — in the form of stop loss orders from buyers — has been building up beneath that level.
The third leg, C3, is the signal bar. This is the current candle, and for the pattern to fire it must do two things simultaneously: its low must sweep below the C2 low, and it must close back above the Drop Candle's wick low. This combination signals that the market reached down to grab the liquidity sitting below those stops, then rejected sharply, with buyers stepping in and closing price back inside the prior range. This is the classic sweep and reclaim structure.
Drop Candle Filters
Because not every bearish candle is worth trading, the indicator includes a layered filter system to qualify the Drop Candle before it is used as the setup anchor. Each filter is independently toggled, giving full control over how strict the criteria are.
The RSI filter requires the RSI to be below a user-defined threshold at the time the Drop Candle forms, ensuring it occurred during genuine bearish momentum rather than a minor pullback. The default threshold is 54, which can be tightened to 45 or lower for fewer but higher-conviction signals.
The SMA filter requires the Drop Candle's low to pierce below a simple moving average — defaulting to the 100-period SMA. This ensures the candle pushed into a statistically significant area of price, filtering out shallow dips that lack structural importance.
The VWAP filter requires the Drop Candle to close below the session VWAP. Since VWAP represents the average price weighted by volume, a close below it confirms the candle formed in a bearish value zone rather than above fair value.
The Bollinger Band midline filter requires the Drop Candle's low to be below the BB basis — the 20-period SMA at the center of the Bollinger Bands. This adds a volatility-adjusted confirmation that the candle extended meaningfully below the midpoint of recent price action.
Optional filters include an EMA close filter and a volume multiplier filter, both disabled by default but available for further precision.
Exit Levels
When the pattern fires, the indicator automatically calculates and plots both a take profit and a stop loss.
The stop loss is placed just below the sweep low with a small configurable buffer.
The take profit has four options: the Drop Candle's high, or the Drop Candle's range extended by 1.5×, 2.5×, or 3× from the entry close.
Two solid yellow horizontal lines mark the Drop Candle's high and low zone on the chart for visual reference.
Alerts
A built-in alert condition fires on every valid signal, making it straightforward to set up PulseWire notifications for any ticker or timeframe without needing to watch the chart continuously. Indicator
MTF Mirror Candles + SMTMTF Mirror Candles + SMT displays higher-timeframe mirror candles directly on the chart, allowing traders to monitor broader market structure without changing timeframes.
The indicator includes customizable HTF mirror candles, candle countdown timer, adjustable spacing, candle colors, and automatic mapping between lower and higher timeframes.
It also includes an SMT divergence module designed to compare correlated markets such as MNQ/MES, EURUSD/GBPUSD, NAS100/US500, XAUUSD/XAGUSD, BTC/ETH, or custom pairs.
Main features:
• Higher-timeframe mirror candles
• HTF candle countdown timer
• Adjustable candle quantity, spacing, and visual style
• SMT bullish and bearish divergence detection
• Manual or automatic correlation mode
• Custom correlation pairs
• Clean SMT labels with monitored pair names
• Designed for multi-timeframe and correlation-based analysis
This indicator is intended as a visual analysis tool and does not provide financial advice or buy/sell signals. Indicator
Strategy
NY Engulfing StrategyThis backtesting indicator is a rule-based trend strategy designed to identify high-probability engulfing setups during the New York session while enforcing strict trade filters to improve consistency. It combines a moving average for trend direction (with optional slope confirmation), engulfing candle logic based on candle bodies (with optional two-candle patterns), and an optional proximity filter to ensure entries occur near the moving average. Trades are only allowed within a defined session window (default 9:40 AM–4:45 PM EST), with limits on the number of trades per day and optional rules like stopping after the first win or forcing a close at 4:55 PM. The indicator simulates trade outcomes using fixed SL/TP values (with manual inputs always overriding presets), tracks performance over a customizable lookback period, and displays key metrics such as win rate, drawdown, profit percentage, average R per day, streaks, and counts of strong performance days (3 win days and 3 loss days). It also includes intrabar “sticky” entry logic so signals are preserved once price touches an entry level during a candle, providing more realistic backtesting results. Indicator
