ICT SMC H4 FVG Retest M15 Scalping KillzonesICT SMC H4 FVG Retest — M15 Scalping Killzones
Overview
ICT SMC H4 FVG Retest — M15 Scalping Killzones is a multi-timeframe trading indicator designed to identify structured intraday setups based on:
* Confirmed higher-timeframe Fair Value Gaps
* M15 execution Fair Value Gaps
* ICT-style killzones
* Session highs and lows
* H4 buy-side and sell-side liquidity
* Market or limit-entry models
* Liquidity-based profit targets
The indicator is intended to be used on a 15-minute chart.
Its purpose is not to generate a large number of signals. It is designed to wait for a higher-timeframe imbalance, a valid departure from that zone, and a later retest during an active trading session.
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Core strategy
The standard short setup follows this sequence:
1. A bearish H4 Fair Value Gap is confirmed.
2. Price moves below the H4 FVG.
3. Price later returns to the H4 FVG during an enabled killzone.
4. A bearish M15 FVG forms and overlaps the H4 zone.
5. The M15 candle closes and confirms the setup.
6. The indicator displays the proposed entry, stop-loss and target.
The bullish setup uses the opposite sequence:
1. A bullish H4 FVG is confirmed.
2. Price moves above the H4 FVG.
3. Price later returns to the H4 FVG during an enabled killzone.
4. A bullish M15 FVG forms inside or overlapping the H4 zone.
5. The M15 candle closes and confirms the setup.
6. The indicator displays the proposed entry, stop-loss and target.
The H4 FVG that is created during the initial market displacement is treated as a future retest zone. The indicator does not use the M15 FVGs that formed before the H4 candle was confirmed.
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Non-repainting higher-timeframe logic
The indicator only uses confirmed higher-timeframe candles.
A new H4 FVG is therefore displayed only after the third H4 candle in the three-candle FVG sequence has closed.
This avoids using an H4 imbalance that may appear intrabar and disappear before the H4 candle closes.
The trade-off is intentional:
* the FVG is not shown as confirmed while the H4 candle is still forming;
* once the H4 candle closes, the confirmed zone appears on the M15 chart;
* the indicator then waits for a future retest.
The confirmed HTF FVG is used for signals and alerts. No unconfirmed HTF data is used for trade validation.
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Fair Value Gap definition
Bullish FVG
A bullish FVG exists when the low of the third candle is above the high of the first candle.
The imbalance is the price range between:
* the high of the first candle;
* the low of the third candle.
Bearish FVG
A bearish FVG exists when the high of the third candle is below the low of the first candle.
The imbalance is the price range between:
* the high of the third candle;
* the low of the first candle.
The large middle candle is usually the displacement candle, but its full body is not the FVG. The FVG is only the untraded space between the first and third candles.
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Entry modes
The indicator includes three HTF retest models.
A — Strict retest
Price must first close outside the HTF FVG, then return to the zone.
For a bearish FVG:
* price must close below the FVG;
* price must later return into it.
For a bullish FVG:
* price must close above the FVG;
* price must later return into it.
This is the most selective mode and is the default setting.
A′ — Tolerant retest
A wick outside the HTF FVG is sufficient to validate the departure.
This mode produces more opportunities than the strict model but may accept less decisive departures.
B — Direct tap in killzone
No prior departure from the HTF FVG is required.
A direct touch of the HTF zone during an enabled killzone can become eligible if the remaining entry conditions are satisfied.
This is the least selective mode.
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M15 confirmation
By default, the indicator requires an M15 Fair Value Gap in the same direction as the HTF FVG.
For a short:
* the HTF FVG must be bearish;
* the M15 FVG must also be bearish;
* the M15 FVG must overlap the HTF FVG.
For a long:
* the HTF FVG must be bullish;
* the M15 FVG must also be bullish;
* the M15 FVG must overlap the HTF FVG.
The M15 FVG size filter can be used to ignore very small imbalances.
When Require an M15 FVG is disabled, the indicator can generate a setup from a simple HTF FVG retest during a killzone.
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Candle-close confirmation
The setting:
Validate signals only at M15 close
should normally remain enabled.
When enabled:
* an intrabar M15 FVG is not enough;
* the setup must still be valid when the M15 candle closes;
* triangles and alerts are produced only from confirmed M15 conditions.
This prevents signals from appearing during a candle and disappearing before its close.
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Killzones
Killzones are anchored to the native timezone of each market. They automatically follow daylight-saving changes where applicable.
Asia killzone
Default timezone:
Asia/Tokyo
Default window:
09:00–13:00 Tokyo time
London killzone
Default timezone:
Europe/London
Default window:
07:00–10:00 London time
New York AM killzone
Default timezone:
America/New_York
Default window:
09:30–11:00 New York time
New York PM killzone
Default timezone:
America/New_York
Default window:
13:30–16:00 New York time
Each killzone can be enabled, disabled or adjusted independently.
The background colors only indicate an active trading window. They do not indicate bullish or bearish direction.
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Entry types
Market at close
The proposed entry is the closing price of the confirmed signal candle.
The setup becomes visually active immediately after confirmation.
Limit at FVG edge
The indicator places a theoretical limit entry at the relevant edge of the M15 FVG.
For a bearish setup, the entry is placed at the lower boundary of the bearish M15 FVG.
For a bullish setup, the entry is placed at the upper boundary of the bullish M15 FVG.
If M15 confirmation is disabled, the relevant HTF FVG boundary is used instead.
The limit order remains pending for the selected number of M15 candles. If it is not filled before expiration, the order is cancelled and the HTF zone may become available for a later setup.
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Stop-loss placement
For a bearish setup, the stop-loss is placed:
* above the opposite side of the M15 FVG;
* plus the selected tick buffer.
For a bullish setup, the stop-loss is placed:
* below the opposite side of the M15 FVG;
* minus the selected tick buffer.
When M15 FVG confirmation is disabled, the stop is placed beyond the opposite side of the HTF FVG.
The Stop buffer in ticks setting adds a small safety margin beyond the imbalance boundary.
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Profit targets
The indicator supports two target models.
Liquidity target
When enabled, the indicator searches for the nearest eligible liquidity level in the direction of the trade.
Possible targets include:
* previous Asia session high or low;
* previous London session high or low;
* previous New York session high or low;
* H4 buy-side liquidity;
* H4 sell-side liquidity;
* the current session high or low.
A target must offer at least the selected minimum reward-to-risk ratio.
Fixed R:R fallback
If no eligible liquidity target is available, the indicator uses the selected fixed reward-to-risk ratio.
The default fallback is:
2.0R
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Swept liquidity handling
Two modes are available.
Legacy v3.3
Previously swept session levels and H4 liquidity levels may still be used as targets.
This mode preserves the original behavior of the earlier indicator.
Untouched liquidity only
Once a liquidity occurrence has been swept, it is no longer eligible as a target.
A new pivot or a new completed session may later create a new active liquidity occurrence at the same or a similar price.
This mode is generally more selective because it targets liquidity that has not yet been consumed.
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Session levels
The indicator tracks the highs and lows of:
* Asia
* London
* New York
Each session is calculated in its native timezone, which prevents the levels from drifting when the United Kingdom or the United States changes between standard time and daylight-saving time.
At the end of a session:
* the high and low are frozen;
* their labels remain anchored to the session close;
* the levels can be used as potential liquidity targets.
The number of stored sessions can be adjusted in the settings.
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H4 SSL and BSL levels
The indicator also plots confirmed H4 pivot liquidity.
BSL
Buy-Side Liquidity
Displayed above confirmed H4 swing highs.
SSL
Sell-Side Liquidity
Displayed below confirmed H4 swing lows.
The pivot lookback determines the significance and confirmation delay of these levels.
A larger lookback produces more structurally significant levels, but they are confirmed later.
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Dashboard
The dashboard shows the current state of the setup for both long and short directions.
Three display sizes are available:
* Small
* Medium
* Large
HTF active
A confirmed HTF FVG is currently active in that direction.
HTF departure
Price has moved outside the HTF FVG according to the selected A or A′ departure logic.
In Mode B, a prior departure is not required for the final signal.
HTF retest
The current candle is touching or overlapping the active HTF FVG.
Killzone
The current candle is inside at least one enabled killzone.
M15 FVG
A valid M15 FVG exists in that direction and passes the minimum-size filter.
HTF overlap
The M15 FVG overlaps the active HTF FVG.
M15 close
The current M15 candle is confirmed.
While the live M15 candle is still forming, this field may display No.
Available
No previous trade or pending limit order is currently blocking a new setup.
Raw signal
The structural conditions are satisfied before final trade-availability and candle-close validation.
Signal
All required conditions are satisfied and a valid setup has been produced.
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Signal markers
A confirmed short setup is displayed as:
* a red downward triangle;
* the letter S.
A confirmed long setup is displayed as:
* a green upward triangle;
* the letter L.
The indicator also creates a label containing:
* entry price;
* stop-loss;
* target;
* expected reward-to-risk ratio.
The risk and reward areas are displayed directly on the chart.
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Near-miss labels
The optional Show near misses setting helps diagnose why an otherwise valid-looking setup was rejected.
Possible reasons include:
* LEFT — price has not yet departed from the HTF FVG;
* KZ — the setup is outside an enabled killzone;
* CLOSE — the M15 candle has not yet closed;
* BUSY — a trade or limit order is already active.
Near-miss labels are primarily intended for testing and configuration. They may create visual clutter during normal use.
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Alerts
The indicator provides separate alert conditions for:
* LONG setup detected;
* SHORT setup detected;
* LONG limit order filled;
* SHORT limit order filled;
* target reached;
* stop-loss reached.
For confirmed signals, alerts should be configured to trigger once per bar close.
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Recommended starting configuration
For index futures such as NQ or MNQ:
* Chart timeframe: 15 minutes
* HTF FVG timeframe: 240 minutes
* Entry logic: A — Strict retest
* Require M15 FVG: Enabled
* Validate only at M15 close: Enabled
* Entry type: Limit at FVG edge or Market at close
* Minimum M15 FVG size: adjust to the instrument
* Liquidity mode: Untouched liquidity only
* Minimum target R:R: 1.0–1.5
* Fallback R:R: 2.0
* London killzone: Enabled
* New York AM killzone: Enabled
The Asia and New York PM killzones can be enabled according to the instrument and the trader’s preferred session.
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Practical workflow
1. Apply the indicator to an M15 chart.
2. Confirm that an HTF FVG is active in the dashboard.
3. Wait for price to move away from the HTF FVG.
4. Wait for price to return to the zone during an enabled killzone.
5. Look for a same-direction M15 FVG inside or overlapping the HTF FVG.
6. Wait for the M15 candle to close.
7. Review the proposed entry, stop and target.
8. Confirm the broader market context before placing a trade.
The indicator is best used as a structured decision-support tool rather than as a fully autonomous trading system.
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Important limitations
* A confirmed H4 FVG appears only after the relevant H4 candle closes.
* The indicator will not retrospectively use an M15 FVG that formed before the H4 FVG became confirmed.
* H4 pivot liquidity is confirmed with delay because pivots require candles on both sides.
* If both the stop and target are touched during the same M15 candle, the visual trade logic uses the stop-loss as the conservative outcome.
* The script is an indicator, not a broker emulator or complete backtesting strategy.
* No indicator can guarantee profitability.
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Disclaimer
This indicator is provided for educational and analytical purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice, investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument.
Trading futures, leveraged products and other financial markets involves substantial risk. Users are responsible for testing the indicator, defining their own risk-management rules and determining whether the methodology is suitable for their trading plan. Indicator
Execution Signals Breakout Strategy MTFA mechanical price action breakout strategy for intraday futures (built on NQ/MNQ/ES/MES). Signals form on a higher timeframe; execution happens on the chart timeframe. Designed to run on a 1-minute chart with a 13-minute signal timeframe (both configurable — chart TF must be below signal TF).
SIGNALS (detected on signal-TF bar close)
- Failure to Go High — price exceeds the prior bar's high but closes back at or below it, leaving an upper wick (a trapped breakout)
- Failure to Go Low — the mirror on the downside
- Inside Bar — the full range held within the prior bar (compression)
Each pattern can be toggled independently. Failures can be filtered by minimum range.
ENTRY
The signal bar's high and low form a bracket. Within the next signal-TF window only, the first chart-TF close beyond either side enters in that direction — long above, short below. The market picks the side: a failure high that then breaks higher is traded long on the logic that clearing a level that just rejected shows strength.
One shot per setup: if the window expires without a confirming close, the setup is void. Once one side triggers, the other side is dead — no flipping. A newer signal replaces an older pending one.
RISK & SIZING
Stop rests at the signal bar's opposite wick (touch fill). Target is an R-multiple of the entry-to-stop distance (default 2R, adjustable). Sizing: 1 contract on failures, 2 on inside bars. One position at a time.
OPTIONAL TRADE MANAGEMENT (mutually exclusive, off by default)
- Break Even Mode — after price moves a set number of points in favor, exit if a chart-TF close returns to entry
- Close At Target Mode — bank the trade on the first chart-TF close beyond the point threshold
SESSION
Entries allowed from 6:00 PM ET; no signals or entries 4:00–6:00 PM ET; all positions force-closed 4:09 PM ET. Never holds overnight.
ON-CHART TOOLS
- Position boxes — every trade is marked with its risk (red) and reward (green) zones, frozen on chart after the trade closes
- Day-Set Levels — each evening at 6 PM the script deploys that day's context like pivots: previous RTH session high/low (yellow) plus Hourly Flip Engine levels (blue) — prices where RTH 1-hour candles flipped color, invalidated when a later RTH 1-hour body closes through them, filtered to within 2× daily ATR of the RTH close. Each set spans one full session and stays on chart as history. Levels are visual context only — they do not gate trades.
- Session VWAP (purple)
ALERTS
Two conditions: Entry (position opened) and Exit (position closed).
BACKTESTING NOTES
Fills use process_orders_on_close — entries fill at the confirming chart-TF close. Test on a 1-minute chart for execution precision. Results depend on the session template; use extended hours data so evening and pre-market signals are included. Strategy
ATK/DEF KDJ Rewind ContextRewind KDJ Context is a visual KDJ analysis indicator designed to provide a clearer understanding of momentum structure through the relationship between the K, D, and J lines.
Traditional KDJ analysis often focuses on fixed overbough and oversol levels. This indicator expands the interpretation by analyzing the interaction between KDJ components, including line arrangement, directional changes, momentum development, and structural transitions.
The script transforms KDJ movement into different context states, helping users observe how momentum conditions develop, slow down, weaken, and recover over time.
Instead of treating K, D, and J as isolated values, Rewind KDJ Context focuses on the relationship between the three components and presents their current condition through a structured visual approach.
KDJ Context Framework
▶️ Momentum Push
Identifies conditions where K, D, and J show coordinated upward momentum development.
This context represents a phase where KDJ structure is aligned with increasing momentum activity and stronger directional movement.
⏸️ Momentum Pause
Highlights situations where momentum remains active but begins to slow or entr a temporary balance condition.
This state focuses on changes in momentum speed and the relationship between K, D, and J during a slowing phase.
⏪ Reversal Context
Highlights changes in KDJ structure where J-line movement and the relationship between K and D indicate a possible transition in short-term momentum conditions.
This context focuses on structural changes rather than predicting future pric direction.
⬇️ Weakness Context
Displays conditions where KDJ structure shows reduced momentum strength and weaker directional movement.
This state helps visualize when previous momentum conditions begin losing strength.
🔄 Recovery Context
Highlights situations where KDJ structure begins improving after a weaker phase.
This context observes changes in J-line behavior and KDJ alignment during potential momentum recovery conditions.
⚪ Neutral Context
Represents situations where K, D, and J do not form a strong directional structure and momentum remains relatively balanced.
Main Features
• Customizable KDJ calculation parameters
• Dynamic K, D, and J value visualization
• KDJ line relationship and structure analysis
• Momentum context classification
• Historical context table display
• Recent bar comparison
• Visual markers for important KDJ transitions
• KDJ arrangement monitoring
• Adjustable display range and historical reference position
How It Works
Rewind KDJ Context uses the traditional KDJ calculation method based on RSV, followed by smoothing calculations for the K and D lines.
The J line is derived from the relationship between K and D:
• K line represents the smoothed RSV movement
• D line represents the smoothed K line movement
• J line represents an extended momentum relationship between K and D
The indicator evaluates several aspects of KDJ behavior, including:
• Relative position between K, D, and J
• Directional movement of each component
• Changes in momentum expansion and contraction
• KDJ structural transitions
• Recent historical context
These calculations are organized into visual context states to make KDJ behavior easier to interpret.
Intended Use
Rewind KDJ Context is designed as a technical analysis tool for observing momentum conditions and KDJ structure.
It can be used together with price action analysis, trend evaluation, support and resistance analysis, volatility analysis, and other technical methods to build a broader market view.
The indicator is intended to provide additional context about momentum behavior rather than replace complete market analysis.
Notes
Rewind KDJ Context is based on mathemat calculations derived from historical pric data.
The displayed context states represent current and historical KDJ conditions based on the selected settings and market data available on the chart.
Different assets, timeframes, and market environments may produce different interpretations of the same indicator behavior.
Disclaimer
Rewind KDJ Context is provided for informational and technical analysis purposes only.
This indicator does not provide finacl advice, personalized recommendations, autm trading decisions, or guaranteed results.
The displayed KDJ context states, momentum conditions, and visual markers are generated from mathematical calculations and should not be interpreted as predictions of future pric movements.
Users are responsible for conducting their own analysis, making their own decisions, and applying appropriate risk management methods.
Past market behavior and technical indicator performance do not guaran future outcomes. Indicator
Liquidity Sweep + FVG [Leon/RussellTech] v2Liquidity Sweep + FVG Indicator
A multi-confluence day-trading indicator that identifies institutional stop-hunts (liquidity sweeps) followed by displacement Fair Value Gaps, then plans precise entries with automatic stop-loss and take-profit placement.
How It Works
The indicator uses a state machine that progresses through a strict sequence. Every signal must pass through all 7 confluence layers — if any single layer fails, no signal fires. This is what prevents false signals and maintains quality.
State Machine Lifecycle
Idle — The indicator monitors swing pivot highs and lows using the configured lookback period. Up to 4 recent levels are tracked.
Sweep Detected — Price wicks beyond a tracked swing level and (if required) closes back inside. A sweep marker (▲ or ▼) appears on the chart.
Armed — Within the Sweep→FVG Window (10 bars), a valid FVG forms in the sweep direction. The status panel shows "armed (long)" or "armed (short)".
Entry — Within the FVG→Entry Window (24 bars), price retraces into the FVG zone, the entry candle shows momentum, and all filters pass. Signal fires with Entry, SL, and TP drawn.
Tracking — The indicator tracks whether price hits the TP, SL, or times out, then returns to Idle.
The 7 Confluence Layers
Every signal must pass through all seven layers. This multi-confluence approach is what separates this indicator from simple FVG detectors or sweep scanners. Indicator
APEX Contra Flow | ProjectSyndicateAPEX Contra Flow rebuilds the order flow hidden inside every candle and reads it as an auction — then scores, bar by bar, whether that auction has finished and is ready to reverse. It drills into each bar with a lower-timeframe scan, distributes the intrabar volume across price by true overlap, splits it into graded buy/sell pressure, and renders it as a footprint anchored by POC, Delta POC, intrabar VWAP and the Value Area. On top of that it runs one idea from auction theory that conventional profile tools ignore: a market doesn't turn where volume is heavy — it turns where the auction runs out of business. The Contrarian Engine finds the bars where aggression achieved nothing, grades them 0–10, and fades them back toward value.
Most footprint tools describe. This one takes a side.
🌊 Intrabar Footprint Engine — the core. A lower-timeframe scan breaks each chart bar into its internal prints and rebuilds the auction that produced it. Granularity is adjustable (1 Tick / 1S / 5S / 15S / 1M / 5M) or Auto-scaled to your chart, with an automatic fallback resolution — if your plan or symbol won't serve the resolution you asked for, the engine silently drops to one that works instead of drawing a blank chart.
🧮 Overlap-Proportional Allocation — the accuracy differentiator. Conventional intrabar profiles smear each print's volume equally across every row it touches, which fattens the profile and drags the POC toward wide bars. APEX Contra Flow weights every row by the exact price overlap between the intrabar's range and that row. The shape you read is the shape that traded.
⚖️ Graded Buy/Sell Classification — not close >= open. On tick data the engine classifies against bid/ask (at-or-above ask = buy, at-or-below bid = sell, interpolated between). Off tick data it uses a tunable blend of close-location-in-range and body direction. Delta becomes a gradient, not a coin flip — so a bar that closed flat but was bought all the way up no longer reads as neutral.
🎯 POC · Delta POC · Intrabar VWAP — three separate reads on one candle. The Volume POC is where trade concentrated. The Delta POC is where the largest one-sided delta sits — the two diverging is a tell in itself. The intrabar VWAP marks the candle's true average traded price.
🧲 Value Area (VA) — computed by true value-area expansion outward from the POC at your chosen percentage, drawn as a clean outline with everything outside it dimmed back. Fair value framed; the rest fades.
🔺 Diagonal Imbalances & Stacked Runs — every row is tested diagonally: buy at a level against sell one level below, sell against buy one level above. Rows clearing your ratio are marked ◆ and coloured by side. Consecutive runs are counted — stacked imbalance sitting at the extreme is exhaustion evidence, not strength.
🕯️ Excess vs Unfinished Auction — the read almost nothing else surfaces. Thin single prints at a bar's extreme (·) are excess: the auction rejected that price and finished. Heavy volume parked at the extreme is unfinished business — an untested magnet price will likely come back for. One says reversal, the other says return.
🔠 Auction Shape Classification — P / b / D / B — real market-profile logic, applied per candle.
▪️ P — POC in the upper third, thin below: the rally was short covering, not fresh buying. Weak. Fade it.
▪️ b — POC in the lower third, thin above: long liquidation / capitulation. Fade it.
▪️ D — balanced auction, POC mid-range. Rotation back to the middle.
▪️ B — double distribution (two volume clusters split by a thin gap). This is a trending auction — and it vetoes the fade outright. The single most valuable filter in the tool is the one that tells you to stand down.
🏆 0–10 Contrarian Conviction Score — the power-ranking. Each fade candidate earns a live grade from seven weighted, principled factors, every one with a fixed directional sign:
▪️ Effort without result — heavy relative volume and delta that produced no body.
▪️ Trapped delta — delta pushing one way while the candle closes the other. Someone is offside.
▪️ Wick rejection — how violently the extreme was defended.
▪️ Excess — thin tail at the extreme being faded (finished auction).
▪️ Auction shape — P against a high, b against a low.
▪️ CVD divergence — a new price extreme that cumulative delta refused to confirm.
▪️ Stacked imbalance at the extreme — aggression stacking into a wall.
Resolved to a tier: WK → MOD → STRONG → V.STRONG → EXTREME.
🚪 Context Gates — why the signals stay rare. A score alone fires nothing. The bar must also print a new N-bar extreme, stretch a configurable ATR distance beyond its mean, clear a cooldown, and survive the B-shape veto. Fading strength in a trend is how contrarians die; these gates exist to stop it.
🎯 Fade Signals, Targets & Invalidation — one clean FADE ▲ / FADE ▼ label carrying the score. A dotted magnet line projects to the target: the nearest naked POC in the fade direction, or the candle's own POC if none is standing. A tick marks the invalidation extreme. Hover the label for the full read — score, tier, auction shape, value migration, delta, relative volume, POC, VWAP and the LTF actually used.
📍 Naked POC Magnets — high-conviction candles leave their POC extended to the right until price trades back through it, then it's removed. Untested POCs are unfinished business — and they double as the fade target.
📖 Legend Key — a static, self-adapting key (bottom-right by default). It lists only the glyphs you have switched on, and reads your live settings — your imbalance ratio, your VA %, your score threshold — so it can never drift out of sync with the chart.
🎨 Nine Dark-Native Themes — Obsidian (default), Institutional, Aurora, Neon, Phantom, Solar, Ice, Plasma and Mono — every one tuned to read on a black background, plus full custom buy/sell/POC overrides.
🧹 Clean-Chart Discipline — no dashboard, by design. No panel, no stat block, no clutter competing with price. The profile is the interface; the score lives inside the candle that earned it, the reasoning lives in the tooltip. Bar delta, CVD, contrarian score and bar volume stream to the Data Window for anyone who wants the raw series.
🔒 Honest & Non-Repainting Core — fade signals fire on confirmed bars only and never repaint away once printed. No signal is ever hidden, deleted or de-rated to flatter the chart. The footprint of the live, forming candle naturally refreshes as it builds — that is inherent to reconstructing order flow in real time, not a defect — and every closed bar is fixed. The 0–10 score is a descriptive auction framework for ranking attention, not a backtested edge.
🔔 Native Alerts — Fade Long, Fade Short, and Any Fade.
🔧 Fully Customizable — profile basis (Volume / Delta), granularity, rows, bar length, classification method and blend weight, VA %, POC / Delta-POC / VWAP / imbalance / excess toggles, imbalance ratio, min score, extreme lookback, mean length and ATR extension, CVD divergence lookback, cooldown, target length, naked-POC threshold and cap, theme, out-of-value transparency, legend position and size.
🎯 Why this is different — profile tools show you where volume is and leave the conclusion to you. Footprint tools show you delta and leave the conclusion to you. APEX Contra Flow classifies the auction, tells you whether it finished or is still trending, refuses to fade the ones that are trending, and puts a graded 0–10 case for the reversal inside the candle that made it. You read where the auction broke, why it's exhausted, and where it should rotate back to — at a glance.
🚀 Apply to Gold (XAUUSD), Silver, Forex, Crypto, Indices and Futures on any intraday timeframe (volume-bearing symbols).
💡 Cleanest setup: an indicator cannot hide the chart's own candles — right-click the chart → Settings → Symbol → uncheck Body / Borders / Wick to let the footprint stand alone.
🎯 How To Trade It — Two Approaches
Everything hinges on one question the tool answers: has this auction finished, or is it still trending? Finished auctions rotate. Trending auctions run you over.
◾ 1) Fade the finished auction → rotate to value (the core thesis)
Use on STRONG / V.STRONG / EXTREME scores (≥7) where the grade is built on excess, trapped delta and CVD divergence — and the shape is P at a high or b at a low.
▪️ Wait for the FADE ▼ / FADE ▲ to print on the confirmed bar — the gates have already checked the new extreme, the ATR extension and the shape veto.
▪️ Entry: on the signal close, or on a shallow re-test of the faded extreme that fails to make a new one.
▪️ Stop: beyond the invalidation tick at the wick extreme. If price closes decisively through and accepts there, the auction wasn't finished — stand aside or flip to Approach 2.
▪️ Targets: the dotted magnet line — the nearest naked POC, else the candle's POC. The opposite Value-Area edge if rotation extends.
⚖️ The cleanest version: price spikes to a new 10-bar high, stretches beyond its mean, prints a long upper wick on heavy volume with positive delta but closes in the lower half (trapped buyers), the top rows are thin (excess), the POC sits high (P — short covering), and CVD refuses to confirm the new high. Score prints 8.4 EXT. That confluence is the exact move this tool was built to frame.
◾ 2) Stand down — and trade the other side
The tool tells you when not to fade, which is worth as much as the signal.
▪️ Shape = B (double distribution) — the auction is trending and building a second distribution. The veto fires. Do not fade; look for continuation on the pullback into the lower distribution instead.
▪️ No excess, heavy volume at the extreme — unfinished business. Price is likely to return to that price rather than reverse from it.
▪️ Signals fire and immediately fail, repeatedly — one-sided flow is expanding. Trade with it into the next naked POC.
Rule of thumb: ⭐ High score + excess + P/b shape + CVD divergence → expect rotation, fade toward the POC. ⭐ B shape, no excess, or price accepting beyond the level → expect follow-through, trade the break toward the next naked POC.
⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTICE: APEX Contra Flow reconstructs estimated order flow from lower-timeframe data. Intrabar delta, absorption and buy/sell classification are an approximation of true tape, not exchange order-book data — off tick resolution the buy/sell split is inferred from price behaviour, not observed aggression. The 0–10 contrarian score is a descriptive auction framework — NOT a backtested signal and NOT a standalone trade trigger. Fading extremes is inherently a counter-trend activity and carries real risk of repeated stop-outs in a trending market; the shape veto reduces this but cannot eliminate it. The indicator requires a volume-bearing symbol. Always combine it with your own strategy, price-action analysis and risk management. Past behaviour does not guarantee future results. Indicator
Last Low/High Targets X966 v1.4# X966 – Last Low/High → W3 Targets
X966 is a market structure indicator designed to identify high-probability trading opportunities using **LL → HL** and **HH → LH** formations, followed by confirmed breakout or retest entries.
## How it works
* Detects significant swing highs and swing lows.
* Identifies Higher Low (HL) and Lower High (LH) structures.
* Automatically plots the breakout/entry level.
* Waits for a confirmed breakout or retest based on user settings.
* Projects TP1, TP2, and TP3 using either Fibonacci Expansion or ATR.
* Calculates an automatic invalidation/stop-loss level.
* Assigns a Quality Score based on market structure, breakout confirmation, displacement, volume, and optional higher-timeframe trend bias.
## Features
* Supports both Long and Short setups.
* Multiple entry modes: Breakout, Retest, or Both.
* Late Breakout Capture to detect breakouts occurring before pivot confirmation.
* Automatic Risk/Reward calculation.
* Built-in dashboard displaying setup status, quality score, entry, stop-loss, and targets.
* Smart confirmed-bar alerts in both English and Arabic.
**Disclaimer:** This indicator is designed to assist market structure analysis and trade planning. It should be used alongside sound risk management and overall market context rather than as a standalone trading system.
# X966 – Last Low/High → W3 Targets
مؤشر يعتمد على تحليل هيكل السوق (Market Structure) لاكتشاف فرص الشراء والبيع بعد تكوّن نماذج **LL → HL** أو **HH → LH**، ثم ينتظر تأكيد الاختراق قبل إعطاء إشارة دخول مع أهداف ووقف خسارة محسوبة تلقائياً.
### آلية العمل
* يحدد آخر القيعان والقمم المهمة.
* يكتشف تكوّن **Higher Low (HL)** أو **Lower High (LH)**.
* يرسم مستوى الاختراق (Entry / Break Level).
* ينتظر اختراق أو إعادة اختبار حسب الإعدادات.
* يحسب أهداف TP1 و TP2 و TP3 باستخدام **Fibonacci Projection** أو **ATR**.
* يحدد وقف الخسارة (Invalidation / Stop Loss) تلقائياً.
* يعطي **Quality Score** لتقييم قوة الفرصة اعتماداً على هيكل السوق، الاختراق، الزخم (Displacement)، الحجم (Volume)، واتجاه الفريم الأكبر (HTF Bias) عند تفعيلها.
### المميزات
✅ يدعم صفقات الشراء والبيع.
✅ اختيار الدخول عند الاختراق أو إعادة الاختبار أو الاثنين معاً.
✅ التقاط الاختراقات التي حدثت قبل تأكيد المحور (Late Breakout Capture).
✅ أهداف تلقائية مع حساب نسبة العائد إلى المخاطرة (Risk/Reward).
✅ لوحة معلومات تعرض حالة الصفقة والجودة والأهداف.
✅ تنبيهات ذكية بالعربي والإنجليزي بعد إغلاق الشمعة لتقليل الإشارات الوهمية.
### ملاحظة
المؤشر أداة تساعد على قراءة هيكل السوق، وليس نظام تداول آلي. يفضل استخدامه مع إدارة رأس مال مناسبة والتأكيد من حركة السعر والسياق العام للسوق.
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EQH/EQL Liquidity Sweep | AlphaScript⚖️ EQH/EQL Liquidity Sweep
Detects clusters of equal highs (EQH) and equal lows (EQL) the resting-liquidity pools that price hunts and tracks exactly what happens to each one: swept, broken, or still active. Then it measures the real sweep rate so you can see your actual edge.
🎯 Why equal highs and lows matter
When price makes a high, pulls back, then makes another high at the same level, stops pile up just beyond that level — breakout orders, protective stops, resting liquidity.
The more times price taps the same level, the more orders accumulate there. Those pools are what larger participants hunt. This tool maps them automatically and then tells you whether each pool got raided or genuinely failed.
🔍 How pools form
The indicator finds swing highs and lows, then groups any that sit within a configurable tolerance of each other into a single pool.
A pool needs at least a minimum number of touches (default 2) to display. The pool line is drawn at the extreme of the cluster — the highest of the equal highs, or lowest of the equal lows — because that is where the stops actually rest. A small × marks each individual swing that built the pool, and the line thickness and badge show the touch count.
Each pool resolves in one of these ways:
⚡ SWEPT — price wicks through the pool extreme but the bar closes back on the original side. Stops were taken, but the level held on a closing basis. A liquidity raid.
💥 BROKEN — a bar closes through the pool extreme. The level genuinely failed — continuation, not a raid. Breaks are shown separately and never labeled as sweeps.
🛡️ Active — the pool has neither been swept nor broken and is still in play. Pools that go too long without resolving expire and are removed.
First qualifying event wins: one outcome per pool. If a bar both wicks through and closes through, it counts as a break — a close through the level can never be a sweep.
📊 Sweep-rate table | know your real edge
This is what separates the tool from every other equal-highs indicator: instead of just drawing levels, it measures what actually happens to them. The table breaks down every resolved pool by touch count (2 / 3 / 4+) and shows the real sweep and break percentages for each group — computed live from your own instrument, timeframe, and history.
That means you can answer the question that matters before taking a trade: do the pools you're watching actually get swept, or do they break? If 3-touch pools on your instrument sweep far more often than they break, that's a measured edge you can trade around. If 2-touch pools are a coin flip, you know to demand more confluence. The numbers come from the chart, not from a claim on a marketing page.
Only fully resolved pools are counted, active pools are excluded, so the rates can never be inflated by in-progress levels. The denominator is honest: what you see is what actually happened.
⚙️ Settings
-Swing lookback, and equal tolerance in ATR multiples (instrument-independent) or fixed ticks.
-Minimum touches to form a pool, maximum pool age, and how many active pools to track per side.
-Optional minimum wick penetration (ATR-based) to filter marginal sweeps. Does not apply to breaks.
-Optional "Strict Virgin Liquidity" mode: discards a forming level if price closes decisively beyond it before a second touch, so only levels that were never truly broken can pair. Off by default.
-Full display control: pool zones, touch badges, × touch markers, colors, line styles and widths, and how many resolved pools remain on the chart.
-Sweep-rate table with position options.
🔔 Alerts
Per-side sweep alerts (EQH and EQL), separate break alerts, and a combined "Any Pool Swept" alert. All alerts fire on the close of the event bar.
📌 Notes and limitations
-Designed for intraday and swing timeframes. Very low timeframes produce many small pools; adjust tolerance and swing lookback to suit.
-Detection uses standard swing pivots. A peak whose neighboring bar wicks slightly higher may not register as a separate pivot, so not every visual high becomes a pool — tune the swing lookback and tolerance to match how you read structure.
-The equal tolerance is the single most important setting. Too tight and genuine equal levels are missed; too loose and unrelated highs merge. Start moderate and adjust to your instrument.
-The sweep-rate table describes the pools on your loaded chart history. It is a measurement of what happened, not a prediction of what the next pool will do.
✅ Why no repaint
-Pivots are confirmed only after the swing lookback completes, and all pool detection runs on closed bars only. A sweep or break tag will never appear intrabar and then vanish.
-A pool is only evaluated for sweep or break once it has fully formed. A level still building cannot be resolved.
-No request.security() calls are used anywhere. All detection is chart-timeframe state. Indicator
ATK/DEF MACD Momentum Context InctorMACD Momentum Context is a momentum analysis indicator designed to help traders visualize MACD behavior, momentum changes, and market context through a structured dashboard.
This indicator focuses on analyzing the relationship between the MACD line, signal line, and histogram to provide a clearer view of momentum direction, momentum strength, and changes in market pressure.
Instead of displaying only traditional MACD values, this tool organizes multiple momentum conditions into an easy-to-read context view, allowing users to better understand how momentum is developing over time.
Features
📊 MACD Momentum Analysis
The indicator analyzes:
• MACD Line behavior
• Sign Line relationship
• Histogram direction
• Histogram expansion and contraction
• Momentum acceleration and slowdown
The histogram is evaluated based on its position and movement to help visualize whether momentum is increasing, weakening, or remaining balanced.
📈 Momentum Direction Context
The dashboard categorizes momentum conditions into different states:
• Bullish acceleration
• Bullish slowdown
• Bearish acceleration
• Bearish slowdown
• Sideways / balanced momentum
These states are based on MACD histogram behavior and are designed to help users quickly understand current momentum conditions.
🔥 Momentum Strength Measurement
The indicator compares current histogram strength with recent historical momentum range.
This helps visualize whether current momentum is:
• Moderate
• Strong
• Extreme
Strength classification is based on relative momentum expansion rather than fixed pric movement.
🔄 MACD Trend Context
The indicator evaluates the relationship between:
• MACD position above or below zero
• Histogram direction
• Sign line interaction
This creates a broader momentum context such as:
• Bullish momentum environment
• Bearish momentum environment
• Momentum transition area
• Neutral conditions
⚡ Momentum Change Tracking
The tool monitors changes in histogram behavior:
• Increasing momentum
• Decreasing momentum
• Stable momentum
This helps users observe whether current momentum is gaining strength or losing energy.
🔍 Divergence Observation
The indicator includes divergence detection based on price movement and MACD behavior.
It highlights situations where:
• Pric reaches a new high while MACD momentum does not confirm
• Pric reaches a new low while MACD momentum does not confirm
Divergence information is provided as a visual reference for studying momentum differences.
📋 Information Dashboard
The built-in table provides a structured overview of recent MACD conditions, including:
• Historical bar reference
• Momentum direction
• Momentum change
• Momentum strength
• MACD behavior
• Momentum edge
• MACD events and context
This allows users to review recent momentum development without manually interpreting multiple MACD components.
⚙️ Customization
Users can adjust:
• MACD fast length
• MACD slow length
• Sign length
• Number of bars displayed
• Table starting position
Different parameter settings can be used to study different market environments and timeframes.
Intended Use
MACD Momentum Context is designed as a market analysis and visualization tool.
It can be used to study:
• Momentum behavior
• Trend strength changes
• MACD structure
• Histogram development
• Potential momentum shifts
This indicator does not provide finan advice, trading recommendations, or guaranteed market outcomes. Users should combine this tool with their own analysis, risk management, and trading approach.
Notes
MACD Momentum Context is based on the traditional MACD concept with additional visualization and contextual analysis layers.
The indicator is intended to improve readability and understanding of momentum conditions by presenting multiple MACD measurements in a structured format. Indicator
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Break & Re-Test Zones v5.2 Outcome AuditHere's the full description of the indicator — what it is, what it draws, and how it thinks.
What it is
It's a PulseWire indicator that automates the Break & Re-Test strategy on 15-minute Gold and NQ futures. It finds support/resistance zones by itself, watches for one to break, waits for price to come back and confirm the flip, and only then fires a buy or sell signal — with entry, stop, and targets pre-calculated. Two versions exist: the indicator (v5.1) for live trading and chart-reading, and a strategy sibling that runs the identical logic through PulseWire's backtester.
What it draws — the five layers
1. Support & resistance zones. Built automatically from swing pivots, drawn as bands (not lines), and colour-coded by where price sits right now: green below price = support, red above = resistance, gray = price inside it ("IN TEST"). Each zone is also classified PRIMARY (solid thick border, likely to hold — earned by having 2 of: multiple touches, overlap with a higher-timeframe level, or a round number inside it) or SECONDARY (dashed, likely to break). White labels show the price and touch count. This is the map.
2. The armed state. When a candle body closes through a zone, that zone turns orange with a "RETEST? / ARMED" label — meaning a break happened and the indicator is now watching for the pullback. It's a watch notice, never an entry, and it lives only while the setup is genuinely armed.
3. The signal / trade package. When price returns and a confirmation candle closes back on the breakout side, the entry fires: a coloured arrow at the candle, a banner with direction and confluence grade ("LONG @ …"), plus dotted rails to the entry, a hollow-circle stop, and blue-square TP1/TP2 targets. Stop goes beyond the zone; targets sit at 1.5R and 2R.
4. The outcome audit. Every fired trade tracks itself: stopped out, the whole package erases; reaches TP1, it's immortalised as a yellow-bordered rectangle spanning the winning run. Only the last couple of winners stay — a pattern library of what worked (winners-only by design, so it's study material, not a scoreboard).
5. Reference levels & tables. Stepped lines mark the previous day's and previous hour's high/low (the walls and fences other traders watch). A dashboard shows session, HTF bias, and zone counts; a pre-entry runsheet grades the nearest armed setup live against every rule (session, touches, gap, room, confluence, confirmation) and gives a GO / NO-TRADE verdict.
How it thinks — the engine
Under the hood it runs a per-zone state machine: each level independently moves live → broken → retested/failed/expired, so many setups can be tracked at once without interfering. Three principles govern everything: a break requires a body close through the zone (wick pokes are ignored); a retest needs a gap of at least one candle so the breakout candle can't be its own retest; and — critically — all decisions are made only at candle close, so signals, stops, and targets never drift intrabar or repaint.
Layered on top is a confluence grader (A/B/C) scoring each setup on higher-timeframe level overlap, breakout volume, and a quiet pullback — with an optional filter to trade only A or B+ setups. Session filters restrict signals to the high-volume London and New York windows (Asia is for marking levels, not trading them).
What it's for
Three jobs, in order of how you'd use them: it draws the map (which levels matter, which will hold vs break, for zone-to-zone planning), it triggers the trade (arms on break, fires on confirmed retest, with risk pre-set), and it keeps you honest (the audit shows real outcomes; the backtest sibling reports win rate and average R per grade so you tune on evidence, not vibes).
The one thing it deliberately doesn't do is pretend the strategy is a money printer — the audit only shows winners by design, and your first raw backtest came back at 25% win rate, which is exactly why the tuned strategy version and its per-grade stats exist: to find where the real edge lives before you risk anything. Indicator
ATK/DEF RSI Context idctorRSI Context is an advanced Relative Strength Index analysis tool designed to provide a deeper understanding of RSI behavior, momentum conditions, volatility changes, and market context through a structured visual dashboard.
Traditional RSI indicators mainly display a single RSI line with fixed overbought and oversold levels. RSI Context expands this concept by analyzing RSI from multiple perspectives, including RSI strength, movement direction, volatility range, historical behavior, and important RSI events.
This indicator focuses on helping users study how RSI behaves under different market conditions and provides additional context for interpreting momentum changes.
## RSI Core Analysis
The indicator calculates RSI based on the selected RSI period and analyzes its current position and behavior.
The RSI analysis includes:
• Current RSI value
• RSI movement direction
• RSI strength and weakness conditions
• RSI relationship with the 50 midpoint level
• Momentum acceleration and deceleration
• Overbought and oversold areas
The system categorizes RSI behavior into different states to provide a clearer visual understanding of current momentum conditions.
## Dynamic RSI Volatility Framework
Unlike fixed RSI interpretation alone, RSI Context includes a dynamic volatility framework based on RSI statistical behavior.
The indicator uses RSI volatility measurements to create adaptive reference areas:
• RSI standard deviation calculation
• Dynamic upper and lower RSI boundaries
• RSI volatility expansion detection
• RSI volatility contraction observation
• Abnormal RSI movement identification
These dynamic levels help users compare current RSI movement with its recent historical behavior.
## RSI Behavior Classification
The indicator evaluates different RSI conditions and classifies them into readable states, including:
• Strong upward RSI movement
• Weakening upward momentum
• Strong downward RSI movement
• Recovery and rebound conditions
• Overboug conditions
• Oversod conditions
• Neutral and flat RSI conditions
This classification provides additional context beyond simply reading RSI valu.
## RSI Midpoint Analysis
The RSI 50 level is included as an important momentum reference area.
The indicator observes:
• Movement above the 50 level
• Movement below the 50 level
• Cross events around the midpoint
• Changes in RSI momentum direction
This helps users study transitions in RSI positioning and changes in momentum structure.
## RSI Event Detection
RSI Context automatically identifies several RSI-related events:
• RSI crossing above 50
• RSI crossing below 50
• Potential bullish divergence observation
• Potential bearish divergence observation
Detected events are displayed visually on the RSI panel for easier historical review.
The event system is designed as an analytical reference to highlight changes in RSI behavior.
## Divergence Analysis
The indicator includes price and RSI comparison logic to observe possible momentum differences.
The divergence module monitors situations where:
• Prce reaches a new recent high while RSI shows reduced strength
• Prce reaches a new recent low while RSI shows stronger RSI behavior
These observations help users study the relationship between prce movement and momentum changes.
## Historical RSI Context Table
The integrated dashboard provides recent RSI information in a structured table format.
The table includes:
• Recent bar references
• RSI values
• RSI behavior classification
• Dynamic RSI upper range
• RSI midpoint reference
• Dynamic RSI lower range
• Detected RSI events
• Context interpretation
This allows users to compare recent RSI development instead of focusing only on the current RSI reading.
## Visual RSI Dashboard
The indicator provides a complete RSI information panel containing:
• Main RSI line
• Dynamic RSI volatility bands
• 70 / 30 reference levels
• RSI 50 midpoint reference
• RSI event labels
• Historical RSI comparison table
The visual design helps users quickly review RSI structure and momentum information directly from the chart.
## Designed For
RSI Context is designed for users who study:
• RSI behavior
• Momentum analysis
• Technical analysis concepts
• Market condition observation
• Indicator research
• Price and momentum relationships
This tool can be used as part of a broader chart analysis process together with other forms of market evaluation.
## Usage Philosophy
RSI Context focuses on observation and analysis rather than automated decision-making.
The indicator presents RSI information in a structured format so users can independently interpret momentum conditions and market context.
It is designed to support learning, research, and visual analysis of RSI behavior.
## Important Notes
RSI Context is an analytical and educational indicator.
It does not provide guaranteed outcomes, financial advice, or automated trading decisions.
Users should apply their own analysis methods, timeframe selection, and risk management practices when interpreting market information.
The indicator is intended to improve understanding of RSI behavior and provide additional context for technical analysis studies.
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HA Zero-Wick Screener (20 Symbols)Heikin Ashi terms:
Bullish setup: Previous HA candle is green (bullish) with no lower wick (HA_Open = HA_Low, i.e., a "clean" green candle), AND current HA candle is also green and closes above the previous candle's close.
Bearish setup: Previous HA candle is red (bearish) with no upper wick (HA_Open = HA_High, i.e., a "clean" red candle), AND current HA candle is also red and closes below the previous candle's close.
Before I write the Pine Script, let me check a couple of things with you.Q: For the 'no wick' condition, how strict should it be?
A: Exactly zero wick (HA_Open = HA_Low/High exactly)Q: What format do you want the final output in?
A: Pine Script strategy/indicator with a screener table (shows on chart)Q: Do you want this to scan a fixed watchlist of symbols you input, or work as an indicator applied per-chart (and you use PulseWire's built-in Screener with 'Add indicator' filter)?
A: Fixed list of symbols typed into the script (table shows all at once)Show moreNow I'll build a Pine Script indicator that:
Lets you type in a list of symbols (editable in settings, plus an on-chart way to note which ones you're tracking)
Computes Heikin Ashi values for each symbol using request.security
Checks your exact bullish/bearish wick conditions
Displays everything in a clean table on the chart
A few technical notes before the code:
Exact zero wick on Heikin Ashi is rare on live/unclosed candles (HA smooths values), so I'll check it on the last closed bar to get true zero-wick detection, and I'll also add a tiny epsilon-safe comparison purely to avoid floating point rounding issues (not a "tolerance" for the pattern itself — this is standard practice for equality checks in Pine).
PulseWire limits request.security calls — a table-based multi-symbol screener can safely hold around 40 symbols per script. I'll set it up so you can easily edit the list.
I'll show: Symbol, Last Close, Signal (Bullish/Bearish/None), and the candle color for context.
Let me write this now.Ran 2 commands, created a file, read a fileRan 2 commands, created a file, read a fileHow to use it:
Open PulseWire → Pine Editor → paste the script → "Add to Chart."
Click the gear icon (settings) on the indicator → edit the Symbols field (comma-separated, e.g. NSE:RELIANCE,NSE:TCS,...) to add/remove tickers.
Choose your Timeframe (defaults to Daily) and toggle "Show only rows with a signal" to filter the table down to just Bullish/Bearish hits.
How the logic works:
Bullish: previous HA candle is green with HA_Open == HA_Low (zero lower wick) AND current HA candle is green AND current HA close > previous HA close.
Bearish: previous HA candle is red with HA_Open == HA_High (zero upper wick) AND current HA candle is red AND current HA close < previous HA close.
Table shows Symbol, Last Close, HA candle color, and Signal, color-coded (green row = bullish, red row = bearish).
Important limitations to know:
PulseWire caps request.security calls per script at 40. The script above has 10 example symbols — you can extend up to 40 total before it'll throw an error. If you need more, you'd need multiple copies of the script or PulseWire's actual Stock Screener with a custom Pine screener script (separate product from indicators, works differently).
Exact-zero-wick is a strict condition — on many stocks this will rarely trigger since HA candles usually have at least a tiny wick. If you find signals are too rare, you may want to loosen this later (I can add a small tolerance % as an input if needed).
This works as a chart overlay, not inside PulseWire's native "Screener" UI panel — it's a table drawn on whatever chart you apply it to, showing all your symbols regardless of which chart is open. Indicator
Permutation Entropy Regime [Jayadev Rana]Permutation Entropy Regime
OVERVIEW
Permutation Entropy Regime is an original open-source tool that measures how ordered or random recent price action is, and turns that into a simple market-state read. Instead of moving averages or momentum, it borrows an idea from information theory called permutation entropy (the Bandt-Pompe method) to score the "predictability" of the market, then classifies the current bar into one of five regimes.
It is not a buy/sell signal generator. It is a context and filter tool that tries to answer one question: is the market currently structured enough to trend or swing, or is it behaving like random noise where most systematic edges break down?
HOW IT WORKS
1. Ordinal patterns. Over a rolling window of closes, the script looks at every group of three consecutive closes and records their rank order (which is highest, middle, lowest). With three values there are six possible orderings.
2. Permutation entropy. It builds a histogram of how often each of the six orderings appears in the window, then computes the Shannon entropy of that distribution and normalizes it to a 0-1 scale. A low value means a few orderings dominate (structured, repeatable behavior); a high value means all orderings appear about equally (random-walk-like behavior).
3. Predictability. Predictability is reported as (1 - normalized entropy) x 100. Higher means more ordered.
4. Structure Rank. Because raw predictability sits in different ranges on different symbols and timeframes, the script percentile-ranks the current predictability against its own recent history (Structure Rank Lookback). This adaptive 0-100 Structure Rank is the main line and the basis for the regime decision, so the tool self-calibrates to each market.
5. Drift bias. A separate term measures the net share of up versus down closes across the window (-1 to +1). It is used only to label a structured regime as Up, Down, or Range.
REGIMES
- Structured Up: Structure Rank at or above the Structured Level and drift bias positive.
- Structured Down: Structure Rank at or above the Structured Level and drift bias negative.
- Structured Range: Structure Rank high but drift near zero (ordered but sideways or mean-reverting).
- Neutral: Structure Rank between the two levels.
- Random / Chop: Structure Rank at or below the Chop Level.
INPUTS
- Core: Entropy Window (window length for the ordinal-pattern histogram) and Predictability Smoothing (EMA applied to the raw score).
- Regime: Structure Rank Lookback (adaptive percentile window), Structured Level and Chop Level (the two cutoffs), and Drift Bias Threshold (how strong the directional tilt must be to call Up or Down).
- Visuals: color price bars by regime, shade the indicator pane by regime, show the dashboard and choose its corner.
- Colors: one color per regime.
WHAT IT PLOTS
- Structure Rank line (0-100), colored by the active regime.
- Raw Predictability line for reference.
- Dashed Structured Level, Chop Level, and a midline.
- Optional regime background in the pane, and optional regime coloring of the main price bars.
- A dashboard showing the regime, Structure Rank, Predictability, normalized entropy, drift bias, and how many bars the current regime has lasted.
ALERTS
Five bar-close alertconditions: entered Structured Up, entered Structured Down, entered Structured Range, entered Random / Chop, and a generic Regime Changed. They evaluate on confirmed bar close.
HOW TO USE IT
This is a context filter, not a signal by itself. Common uses:
- Take your own trend or breakout setups mainly while the market is in a Structured Up or Structured Down regime, and stand aside or reduce size in Random / Chop.
- Prefer mean-reversion or range tactics in Structured Range.
- Combine the regime with your existing entries rather than acting on the regime alone.
MARKETS AND TIMEFRAMES
It is symbol- and timeframe-agnostic because the Structure Rank adapts to each market's own history. It runs on intraday and higher timeframes. Note that most liquid instruments are close to random at short intraday scales, so absolute Predictability is often low; the Structure Rank is what makes the reading comparable and actionable across markets.
CALCULATION AND REPAINTING NOTES
- All calculations use closed-bar data (close and historical closes). Values for the most recent, still-forming bar update until that bar closes, which is normal for any close-based indicator; historical values do not repaint after a bar has closed.
- The embedding dimension is fixed at 3 (groups of three closes). Ties between equal closes are resolved with a consistent rule and are rare on most instruments.
- There are no higher-timeframe requests and no future-looking access.
LIMITATIONS
- It measures structure, not direction quality; a structured regime is not a guarantee of follow-through.
- Permutation entropy of order 3 is a coarse estimate; very small windows are noisy and very large windows are slow to react.
- On extremely low-volatility or illiquid data, repeated equal closes can bias the pattern histogram.
- Like all indicators, it describes past and current behavior and does not predict future prices.
This script is open-source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. It is provided for research and educational purposes only and is not financial advice. Test any tool on your own markets and settings before relying on it.
Open-source script
In true PulseWire spirit, the creator of this script has made it open-source, so that traders can review and verify its functionality. Kudos to the author! While you can use it for free, remember that republishing the code is subject to our House Rules.
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Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by PulseWire. Read more in the Terms of Use.
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FVG Support & ResistanceAuto FVG Target (1:2 RR)
This indicator automatically detects bullish and bearish Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) and helps traders visualize potential trade setups using a fixed Risk-to-Reward framework.
Features
Automatic detection of Bullish and Bearish Fair Value Gaps.
Clear FVG box visualization on the chart.
Entry signals based on price rejecting the Fair Value Gap and closing outside the zone.
Fixed Stop Loss calculated using the gap size (1× gap).
Automatic Take Profit based on a fixed 1:2 Risk-to-Reward ratio.
Buy and Sell labels for easy signal identification.
Configurable display settings for FVG visualization.
Designed to work across multiple markets and timeframes.
How It Works
A bullish Fair Value Gap is identified when the current candle's low is above the high of two candles earlier. A bearish Fair Value Gap is identified when the current candle's high is below the low of two candles earlier.
The indicator monitors these imbalance zones and waits for price to interact with them. When price rejects an FVG and closes outside the zone, a potential trade setup is generated. The stop loss is based on the size of the Fair Value Gap, while the take-profit target is automatically set to a fixed 1:2 Risk-to-Reward ratio.
Intended Use
This indicator is designed as a chart analysis tool to assist with identifying Fair Value Gap opportunities. It does not predict future price movement or guarantee profitable trades. Users should always combine its signals with their own analysis, risk management, and trading plan.
Notes
Works on all timeframes.
Suitable for Forex, Crypto, Indices, Commodities, and Stocks.
Best used alongside market structure, liquidity concepts, or other confirmation tools.
Historical results and plotted signals should not be considered a guarantee of future performance. Indicator
Swing Move AreaHighlights sustained directional price swings — stretches where a stock has moved significantly in one direction over several days or weeks — while filtering out normal day-to-day noise.
How it works:
The indicator tracks price in one of two states: an up-swing or a down-swing. While in an up-swing, it continuously records the highest close reached. If price pulls back from that high by more than your Reversal Threshold (default 25%), the swing is considered over — a new down-swing begins, and the indicator starts tracking the low from there. The same logic applies in reverse for down-swings. Small retracements that don't exceed the threshold are ignored, so the swing keeps building through normal volatility instead of resetting on every wiggle.
The plotted area shows the cumulative % change from the start of the current swing to the current close — so a stock that ran from ₹100 to ₹432 over 54 days will show as one continuous green area reaching +332%, and a decline from ₹443 to ₹32 will show as one continuous red area reaching -93%.
Reading the chart:
Green area (above zero) — active up-swing; height = % gained from the swing's starting point
Red area (below zero) — active down-swing; height (depth) = % lost from the swing's starting point
Tall towers — large, sustained moves, exactly the kind of high-momentum stretches worth investigating
Flat/shallow ripples — normal chop that stayed within the reversal threshold
Inputs:
Reversal Threshold (%) — how much of a pullback from the peak/trough is needed to flip the swing direction. Lower = more sensitive, flips more often. Higher = smoother, only flags major trend changes.
Up/Down Swing Fill colors — customizable.
Note: This is a pane-only indicator (no chart overlay). It's a confirmed/lagging signal by design — a swing's full height is only known once it reverses, so use it for identifying and studying historical high-momentum moves rather than as a real-time entry trigger. Indicator
Strong Volumetric Zones | ProjectSyndicateStrong Volumetric Zones carves the chart's true supply and demand from actual transacted volume — not from pivots, not from moving averages, not from projected lines — then power-ranks every zone so you know which ones are institutional footprint and which ones are noise. It pulls lower-timeframe order-flow data for every candle in the lookback window, builds a full volume-at-price histogram with buy/sell decomposition, isolates the high-volume nodes that dominate their neighborhood, extends each one into a bounded zone using a fractional-volume cutoff, and grades all of them 0–10. The whole tool runs on one idea: price alone is a story half-told — a level where the auction deposited enormous volume, where delta confirms one side was defending, where every test has been rejected, and that stands fresh and unchallenged is a different animal from a thin blot of retail churn, and it should not look the same on your chart.
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This is an order-flow reaction matrix, not a signal generator. It tells you where the auction has parked real liquidity, whether that liquidity is supply-side or demand-side, how many times price has tested it and held, how hard price was rejected on each hold, and which zone is the strongest one on the chart right now. The read is directional in the sense that you can see, at a glance, whether the session's volume structure is stacked with supply above or demand below — and whether the current candle is absorbing, exhausting, or stacking imbalance in real time.
🟢🔴 Summary how to trade this — more details below, read entire guide. Two clean approaches: react at the zone, or trade the break of it. Prefer STRONG / EXTREME grades and zones with high hold rates — the shallow low-graded zones tag constantly and mean little. The dashboard's Nearest ▲ / Nearest ▼ and Zone Status tell you instantly whether price is inside a volumetric wall or in open air. Runs on any timeframe with intrabar data available.
🧱 The Volume Core — the only source of truth. Every zone in this tool descends from a confirmed high-volume node in the actual volume-at-price histogram, never from a price-only pivot, never from an indicator line, never from a projected level. The engine requests lower-timeframe bars — auto-scaled from 1-second up to 5-minute depending on your chart — and decomposes each candle's range into volume-by-price bins. Buy volume and sell volume are tracked independently from the close-vs-open direction of every intrabar tick. The profile lookback is 300 bars by default and the bin resolution scales dynamically with ATR200, so the histogram adapts to the instrument's volatility without manual tuning. Nothing is drawn from a guess.
🔭 Lower-Timeframe Decomposition — Six granularity slots, auto-selected by default, running from 1-tick to 5-minute. Each confirmed chart candle is exploded into its internal sub-bars; volume is assigned to price bins based on the actual range covered by each sub-bar, not from a proportional tick-close estimate. Buy/sell classification follows the candle direction of the sub-bar itself. This is the reconstruction layer that separates a volume profile built from order flow from one built from assumptions. When the chart is on H4, the engine still reads M1 structure inside every bar.
◆ High-Volume Node Isolation — the signature carve. Within the global histogram, a bin must dominatepeakRadius neighbours on both sides (default 2) to qualify as a high-volume node — it is the local maximum of its neighborhood. A floor filter (minPeakPct of the POC volume, default 18%) eliminates statistical noise. All qualifying peaks are then sorted by absolute volume, strongest first, and the engine attempts to carve up tomaxZones zones (default 8), skipping any whose range overlaps an already-accepted zone. This is where the tool separates from a blob of undifferentiated volume bars: instead of forty equal-weighted histogram rows, you get a handful of bounded zones ranked by the actual liquidity parked inside them.
📐 Zone Edge Extension — Each confirmed node becomes a seed, and the zone expands outward bin-by-bin while neighbouring bins retain at leastnodeCut (default 40%) of the node's volume. Expansion halts atmaxSpan bins (default 2) to prevent overgrowth. The result is a bounded rectangular zone with a defined top, bottom, and mid-line — not a single price point, not an infinite band. The zone's width reflects the actual spread of significant volume around the node, not an arbitrary ATR multiple. Overlapping zones are rejected outright; only the strongest node survives at any price level.
🏷️ The 0–10 Strength Engine — Every zone carries a live grade with stars and a tier word WEAK → MODERATE → STRONG → VERY STRONG → EXTREME. The score is a weighted blend of five independently measurable properties, all derived from real volume and real price action:
▪️ Volume Share 3.5 — how much of the profile's total volume sits inside this zone, normalized against the strongest zone. The dominant term. A zone that holds 30% of the auction is not the same as one holding 3%.
▪️ Touch Count 2.5 — how many times price has entered and exited the zone across the full lookback. Normalized against 6 touches. A zone tested repeatedly has been confirmed by the market.
▪️ Hold Win Rate 2.0 — of all completed tests, what percentage resulted in a hold (rejection) rather than a break. A zone that defends itself 80% of the time is structurally different from one that folds on the first touch.
▪️ Freshness 1.0 — how recently the zone was last tested, normalized against the profile lookback. A zone untouched for 200 bars is fresher than one poked five bars ago.
▪️ Delta Skew 1.0 — the absolute buy-vs-sell imbalance inside the zone, normalized against a 35% threshold. A demand zone with 70% buy volume has institutional sponsorship; a 51/49 split does not.
Read the grade as a descriptive conviction ranking for which zone deserves your attention — it is not a backtested win-rate. A score filter hides everything below a level you choose, and a minimum-touch filter strips zones that have never been tested, so you can strip the chart down to STRONG and EXTREME only.
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🔬 Per-Candle Strength Score — Independently, every confirmed candle receives its own 0–10 order-flow strength score, built from five micro-structural inputs: relative volume vs the 20-bar average, delta dominance (absolute delta / total volume), POC concentration (how much volume sits in the single busiest row), stacked imbalance run length, and value-area tightness. This is the engine that powers the Flow Signals — Absorption, Exhaustion, and Stacked Imbalance — and the dashboard's live candle readout. It tells you whether the bar you are looking at right now has order-flow weight behind it or is thin air.
🧬 In-Zone Statistics — Each zone is labeled at its center with its star grade, SUPPLY-SIDE or DEMAND-SIDE designation, the numeric score and tier, the volume share as a percentage of total profile volume, the number of completed tests, the hold win rate, the average reaction magnitude in multiples of ATR, and the buy/sell bias split. A typical label reads:★★★☆☆ DEMAND-SIDE · 6.2/10 STR · VOL 12% · TESTS 4 · HOLD 75% · REACT 2×ATR · DEMAND 68/32. Labels can be restricted by score and touch filters, or the text can be turned off entirely for a pure heatmap look. Four label sizes. Price tags at the right edge show the zone mid-line and score at a glance.
📊 Volume-At-Price Histogram — A full horizontal histogram drawn at the right side of the chart, extending beyond the zones. Each bar's width is proportional to the volume at that price level; color follows buy/sell dominance (demand vs supply palette), with the Master POC row highlighted in the dedicated POC color. A minimum-bin filter hides statistical dust. The histogram is the raw material from which every zone is carved — you see the mountain range and the zones simultaneously.
📐 Master POC & Value Area — The Point of Control (the single highest-volume price in the profile) is drawn as a continuous line spanning the full zone range and extending through the histogram, tagged with its exact price. The Value Area High and Value Area Low (default 70% of total volume) are drawn as dashed lines with labels. Together these three references give you the fair-value anchor for the entire lookback: price above VAH is in premium territory, price below VAL is at a discount, price inside the value area is at equilibrium.
🔬 Per-Candle Footprint — An optional intrabar footprint drawn inside the most recent N candles (default 10). Each row shows block-character bars proportional to volume or delta at that price level, color-coded by buy/sell dominance. Rows outside the candle's value area are muted; the POC row is highlighted. A value-area outline box frames the candle's internal equilibrium. On high-strength candles (score above a configurable threshold), the tier abbreviation is printed directly inside the footprint. This is the microscope — you see exactly where the volume parked inside the bar you just traded.
🎯 Naked POC Tracking — Optionally, every candle whose internal strength score exceeds a threshold spawns a dotted POC line that extends right until price actually trades through it. Once tested, the line is deleted. A cap on active naked POCs (default 8) keeps the chart clean. These are untested fair-value anchors — price tends to return to them, and their persistence means the auction has not yet cleared that liquidity.
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⚡ Order-Flow Signals — Three micro-structural signals fire on confirmed bars:
▪️ ABS — Absorption. Delta dominance is high (>35%), but the candle body is small (<30% of range) and relative volume is elevated (>1.2×). One side absorbed the other's aggression without moving price. The direction hint points opposite to the absorbed delta: if selling was absorbed, the signal is bullish.
▪️ EXH — Exhaustion. Relative volume is elevated (>1.3×), delta is flat (<12%), and price closed near the high or low. Aggression was spent without conviction. The direction hint points away from the extreme: exhaustion at the high is bearish.
▪️ STK — Stacked Imbalance. Three or more consecutive rows of one-sided imbalance (buy vs adjacent sell, or vice versa, at the configured ratio, default 3×). A directional imbalance stack is a footprint of institutional execution.
Signals appear as tiny labeled markers at the high or low of the candle, color-coded by direction. They are not zone entries — they are real-time flow readings that confirm or deny what the zones are telling you.
📋 Live Command Dashboard — A compact panel that answers the questions you actually ask a volume-zone tool, organized into four sections:
▪️ LIVE ORDER FLOW — Bar Delta with a fill meter, Buy/Sell split with a dual-tone bar, Cumulative Volume Delta with trend arrows, Session Delta, Candle Score with tier, and the active Flow Signal with direction tag. This is the real-time pulse: who is hitting whom right now.
▪️ VOLUME PROFILE — Master POC price and position relative to close, Value Area range with a width meter, VA Location (inside or outside), and Profile Depth (bars processed, bins, zones carved). This is the structural map: where is fair value, how wide is it, how deep is the data.
▪️ REACTION ZONE RADAR — Up to six zones ranked by strength score, each showing price, star grade, score, bias (DEMAND / SUPPLY / BATTLE), test count, and hold win rate. The strongest zone on the chart is always row one. This is the hit list.
▪️ REGIME — Volatility state (COMPRESSED / NORMAL / EXPANSION) based on ATR14 vs ATR100, Zone Status (IN SUPPLY / IN DEMAND / OPEN AIR) with the in-zone score, and Nearest Supply / Nearest Demand with star grades. This is the tactical read: are you in a wall, are you in open air, how far to the next wall.
🔒 Non-Repainting — Lower-timeframe data is requested on confirmed bars only. Volume is accumulated into the histogram only after the chart bar closes. Zones are carved on the last bar of the chart from the completed histogram and then projected — they do not shift, flicker, or disappear retroactively within their lookback window. The candle strength score updates on confirmation. This is the honest tradeoff of order-flow structure: you wait for the bar to close, and in exchange the reading is real.
🔔 Native Alerts — Five condition alerts:
▪️ Volumetric Zone Entry — price enters any displayed zone.
▪️ Strong Volumetric Zone Entry — price enters a zone scoring 7+ (VERY STRONG / EXTREME). The one alert most people will actually run.
▪️ Volumetric Zone Exit — price leaves a zone.
▪️ High-Strength Candle — a confirmed candle scores 7+ on the order-flow engine.
▪️ Order-Flow Signal — an Absorption, Exhaustion, or Stacked Imbalance signal fires on any confirmed bar.
🎨 Five Theme Palettes — Obsidian Aurora (teal/coral/purple), Obsidian Gold (emerald/vermillion/gold), Deep Ocean (cyan/rose/indigo), Midnight Ember (mint/ember/amber), and Graphite Mono (silver/steel/white). Every palette is engineered for a pure-black chart background: deep, saturated, never toxic. Full custom override is available for demand, supply, POC, and accent colors. Zone shading scales opacity directly off the score — weak zones stay faint, extreme zones render solid. You read conviction with your peripheral vision before you read a single number.
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🔧 Fully Customizable — Intrabar granularity (auto or manual), profile lookback, bin resolution, max zones, node isolation radius, min node volume, zone edge cutoff, max zone width, min tests and min score filters, right extension, zone text and price tag toggles, text size, mid-line width and fade, histogram toggle/width/floor, Master POC toggle, Value Area toggle and percentage, footprint toggle/bars/rows/type/max-length/candle-VA/strength-text/threshold, naked POC toggle/min-score/cap, signal toggle and imbalance ratio, dashboard toggle/position/size, theme selection, custom colors, and all five scoring weights for both zones and candles — all adjustable.
🎯 Why this is different — Most volume tools dump a histogram on your chart and leave you guessing which rows matter. Most zone tools draw every pivot they find with no weighting, no testing, no delta, no bias. This one reconstructs the order flow, carves zones from confirmed high-volume nodes, tracks how many times price tested each one and whether it held, measures the reaction magnitude, reads the buy/sell sponsorship inside the zone, and grades the result 0–10. You read the zone, the volume behind it, the delta skew, the hold rate, and the conviction score — at a glance. The chart itself does the filtering.
🚀 Apply to Gold XAUUSD, Silver, Forex, Crypto and Indices on any timeframe with intrabar data.
🎯 How To Trade It — Two Approaches
Everything hinges on the grade and the hold rate. A WEAK zone with no tests is noise you can see; a STRONG or EXTREME zone with a 70%+ hold rate and demand-side bias is where institutional volume has already defended. Trade the graded zones, and use the dashboard's Zone Status and Volatility Regime to confirm the trade has the right environment.
◾ 1 REACT at the zone — trade the rejection
This is the tool's core use. Price arrives at a high-graded zone and you fade the touch back toward the opposite side of the ladder.
▪️ Setup: wait for price to reach a STRONG / VERY STRONG / EXTREME zone — ideally one with a high hold rate and a clear DEMAND or SUPPLY bias. Check the dashboard: is it the top-ranked zone on the radar? Is the Volatility Regime in NORMAL or EXPANSION (not compressed — compressed means no fuel for a reaction)? Is the Candle Score on the approach bar showing Absorption or Stacked Imbalance in your direction?
▪️ Entry: on rejection out of the zone, with your own confirmation — a wick, an engulfing close, a lower-timeframe structure break, or an order-flow signal that validates the rejection. The zone is the location; it is not the trigger.
▪️ Stop: on the far side of the zone band. The zone has real width derived from the volume distribution — use it. A decisive close through the zone means the volume was cleared and the thesis is wrong.
▪️ Targets: the Nearest ▼ demand or Nearest ▲ supply on the opposite side, then step through the radar tier by tier, banking partials at each graded zone.
⚖️ The cleanest version: price runs into an EXTREME demand zone with 80% hold rate, the Candle Score on the approach prints ABS (absorption), the Volatility Regime shows EXPANSION, and price rejects on the first touch. First touches of fresh high-graded zones with order-flow confirmation are the setup; the fifth retest of the same zone is not.
◾ 2 TRADE THE BREAK — the zone flips role
The mirror case, and the one that saves you when approach 1 fails.
▪️ Setup: a decisive close through a high-graded zone — especially one with a strong hold rate — is meaningful information. It took real volume displacement to clear a level that the market had been defending. Check the delta inside the zone on the break bar: if the breaking candle has strong delta in the break direction, the liquidity was genuinely absorbed, not just pierced.
▪️ Entry: on the retest of the broken zone from the other side, once it has flipped from supply to demand or demand to supply. Wait for price to return to the zone and show respect — a wick, a small-body candle, an absorption signal.
▪️ Stop: back on the original side of the zone. If price reclaims it, the break failed and the original bias holds.
▪️ Targets: the next graded zone in the direction of travel, then the next. Use the radar: if all remaining zones in the direction are weak and untested, structure is thin and the move may extend.
⚖️ Watch the top-ranked zone on the radar. When the strongest zone on the chart breaks and holds as a flip, that is the session's structural event. The naked POCs ahead become magnets.
Rule of thumb: ⭐ First touch of a fresh STRONG / EXTREME zone with high hold rate and Volatility in NORMAL or EXPANSION → look for the rejection trade. ⭐ Decisive close through a high-graded zone confirmed by Candle Score and delta → stop fading it, wait for the retest and trade the flip. ⭐ Low grades, no tests, compressed volatility, or a zone already tested repeatedly → no trade. The score exists to tell you when to do nothing.
⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTICE: Strong Volumetric Zones maps and ranks volume-derived supply and demand zones from reconstructed lower-timeframe order flow. The 0–10 zone score is a descriptive conviction ranking built from volume share, touch count, hold win rate, freshness and delta skew — it is not a backtested win-rate, and this indicator tracks no trade outcomes and reports no performance statistics. The 0–10 candle strength score is built from relative volume, delta dominance, POC concentration, stacked imbalance and value-area tightness — also a descriptive reading, not a signal with a verified edge. Zones are locations, not entries. Volume accumulation occurs only on confirmed bars. These zones are decision support, not a standalone trade trigger. Always combine them with your own strategy, price-action confirmation and risk management. Past behavior does not guarantee future results. Indicator
TradeShaper Supply & DemandTradeShaper Supply & Demand
An inside-bar zone indicator that marks the supply and demand areas created when
price coils and then breaks — the inside candle's range becomes the zone, and the
zone stays live only until price returns to touch it.
The inside-candle formation this script keys off of is based on the supply and
demand methodology taught by Tr3ndy Jon (Jonathan McKeever). This is an
independent implementation of the concept, not affiliated with or endorsed by him.
HOW A ZONE IS BUILT
Three candles define the setup:
1. INITIAL — the candle that establishes the range.
2. INSIDE — the first candle whose close lands inside the initial candle's body.
Price may keep coiling for several bars, but the zone always anchors to this
first inside candle.
3. CONFIRMATION — a candle that closes beyond the initial candle. Close above the
initial high creates a DEMAND zone; close below the initial low creates a
SUPPLY zone. The confirming candle does not have to be the very next one; the
setup stays armed for a configurable number of bars.
The zone itself is the inside candle's full high-to-low range, wicks included.
READING THE ZONE
The EDGE is the side price approaches from — the low of a supply zone, the high of
a demand zone. Internal levels are drawn as a percentage of zone depth measured
inward from that edge, so 25% is always a shallow tag and 75% always deep,
regardless of which side you're on.
A zone is consumed the moment any later candle's wick enters it. Only untouched
zones stay on the chart. Zones project forward a fixed number of bars and stop
extending once a newer zone forms.
SETTINGS
Formation — inside-candle definition (close-inside-body or full inside bar), what
the confirming candle must close beyond, and how long a coiling setup stays armed.
Zone — forward projection, what happens when a wick enters a zone (delete or gray
out), and how many zones to keep per side.
Internal levels — any percentages you want (25/50/75 by default, or 38.2/50/61.8
for Fibonacci ratios), each with its own color.
Debug — marks the initial and inside candles and draws the exact levels a candle
must close beyond to confirm. Useful for verifying the logic against your own
reading of the chart.
Alerts fire when price tags a virgin supply or demand edge. Indicator
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ATK/DEF Hyper Candle Context | Price Action Analyzer Hyper Candle Context is a comprehensive price action analysis tool to traders learning candle structure, market behavior, and current chart context through a multi-layer analytical dashboard.
This indicator focuses on pure price action observation by analyzing candle formation, including candle body strength, candle range, upper and lower wick behavior, closing position, volatility condition, and short-term market structure.
Unlike traditional indicators that rely mainly on mathematical oscillators, Hyper Candle Context focuses on reading the information contained inside each candle and presenting it in a structured way.
Candle Structure Analysis
The indicator evaluates candle characteristics through:
• Candle body size and strength
• Body-to-range percentage relationship
• Bullish and bearish candle balance
• Upper shadow and lower shadow analysis
• Doji and neutral candle identification
• Candle expansion and contraction behavior
These measurements provide a clearer understanding of how price is moving within each candle.
Price Action Context
Hyper Candle Context compares current candle behavior with previous candle information to highlight changes in market behavior:
• Bullish and bearish candle transitions
• Body strength changes
• Shadow development
• Momentum changes between candles
• Increasing or decreasing price pressure
This allows users to observe the evolution of candle behavior instead of looking at isolated candles.
Market Condition Analysis
The indicator includes market environment analysis using price volatility and range behavior:
• Current candle range compared with ATR volatility
• Narrow and expanding market conditions
• Volatility increase or decrease
• Market compression observation
This helps users understand whether the market is experiencing low activity, normal movement, or increased volatility.
Trend and Market Context
Additional context is provided through optional moving averages:
• EMA 9
• EMA 21
• EMA 50
The indicator displays the relationship between price and moving averages to help users observe general market alignment.
Support, Resistance and Liquidity Observation
The script monitors recent price areas and candle reactions:
• Recent high and low zones
• Potential support and resistance areas
• Upper wick rejection areas
• Lower wick reaction areas
• Liquidity-related candle behavior
These features are designed to assist manual chart analysis and market observation.
Information Dashboard
The built-in dashboard displays multiple layers of candle information:
• price data
• Candle direction
• Candle strength classification
• Candle pattern description
• Shadow condition
• Closing position
• Market volatility state
• Trend context
• Support and resistance context
• Liquidity observation
• Previous candle comparison
All information is organized into a visual dashboard for easier chart interpretation.
Designed For
Hyper Candle Context is designed for traders who learning:
• Price Action
• Candlestick analysis
• Market structure
• Volatility behavior
• Chart context
The indicator is intended as a visual analysis assistant to support independent market research and decision-making.
Important Notes
Hyper Candle Context does not provide trad decisions, outcomes, or advice.
It is a price action analysis tool designed to help users better understand current market information and develop their own interpretation of price behavior. Indicator
Inversion Fair Value Gaps [iFVG] (Zeiierman)█ Overview
Inversion Fair Value Gaps (Zeiierman) identifies when traditional Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) fail and transition into powerful inversion zones.
A regular Fair Value Gap represents an imbalance where price moved aggressively in one direction, leaving behind inefficient trading. While many traders expect these gaps to act as support or resistance, not every imbalance survives. Some are broken, absorbed, and eventually become areas where the opposite side of the market gains control.
This indicator continuously tracks every valid bullish and bearish FVG. When price successfully closes through an existing FVG and later forms an opposing FVG within the user-defined pairing window, the overlapping imbalance is converted into an Inversion Fair Value Gap (iFVG).
Rather than treating every FVG equally, the indicator focuses on failed imbalances that demonstrate a genuine shift in market order flow.
⚪ FVG Detection
The indicator continuously scans price using the classic three-candle Fair Value Gap model.
A Bullish FVG forms when:
• Price leaves an upside imbalance.
• The third candle creates a gap above the first candle.
A Bearish FVG forms when:
• Price leaves a downside imbalance.
• The third candle creates a gap below the first candle.
Unlike many FVG indicators, every detected gap remains internally tracked so it can later evolve into an inversion.
⚪ Inversion Fair Value Gap Detection
Once an FVG is created, it enters an internal memory system.
If price later closes completely through that imbalance, the FVG is considered broken. Rather than immediately discarding it, the indicator temporarily remembers the remaining imbalance.
If an opposing FVG forms before the memory expires, both structures are combined into a new Inversion Fair Value Gap.
Bullish iFVG
• Bearish FVG is broken.
• Bullish FVG forms shortly afterwards.
• The overlapping imbalance becomes bullish support.
Bearish iFVG
• Bullish FVG is broken.
• Bearish FVG forms shortly afterwards.
• The overlapping imbalance becomes bearish resistance.
This process filters out many ordinary FVGs and highlights only those that demonstrate a meaningful transition in buying or selling pressure.
█ How It Works
⚪ Fair Value Gap Detection
The script continuously searches for valid bullish and bearish three-candle imbalances.
Each detected FVG is validated using:
• Minimum gap size.
• Optional fractal confirmation.
• ATR-based filtering.
Only valid gaps enter the internal tracking system.
bullGap = bullW or bullB
bearGap = bearW or bearB
bullValid = bullGap and bullSz >= gapAtr * minGap
bearValid = bearGap and bearSz >= gapAtr * minGap
⚪ Memory & Inversion Detection
Every valid FVG is stored until one of two events occurs:
• Price never breaks the gap, and it eventually expires.
• Price breaks the gap and an opposing FVG forms before the pairing window ends.
When both conditions are satisfied, the overlapping imbalance becomes a confirmed iFVG. This allows the indicator to detect genuine reversals rather than simply highlighting every imbalance.
⚪ Zone Management
Each zone continuously updates its internal state.
A zone may transition through several stages:
• Active
• Tested
• Mitigated
• Frozen
• Removed
Depending on user settings, mitigated zones can either disappear or remain on the chart as historical context.
⚪ Dynamic Zone Merging
Nearby live zones of the same direction can optionally be merged into a single visual area. This reduces chart clutter while preserving the original internal detection logic. The merged display affects visualization only.
⚪ Distance Filtering
Charts containing hundreds of historical zones can quickly become difficult to read.
The indicator can automatically hide zones that are farther than a user-defined ATR distance from the current price. Hidden zones continue to exist internally and become visible again if price returns. This improves chart clarity without affecting detection, memory, or alerts.
█ How to Use
⚪ Bullish iFVG Retest
After a bullish iFVG forms, price retraces back into the inversion zone before finding support and continuing higher.
Rather than chasing the initial breakout, traders can wait for the retest and look for long confirmation as price reacts from the bullish iFVG.
⚪ Bearish iFVG Retest
After a bearish iFVG forms, price retraces back into the inversion zone before finding resistance and continuing lower.
Instead of entering during the initial breakdown, traders can wait for the retest and look for short confirmation as price reacts from the bearish iFVG.
█ Settings
Minimum FVG Size: Minimum ATR-adjusted size required before a Fair Value Gap is accepted.
Enable Fractal Filter: Requires FVGs to form near confirmed swing highs or lows.
Fractal Length: Controls how large a swing must be before it is confirmed.
Maximum Distance From FVG: Maximum allowed distance between the confirmed swing and the FVG.
Pairing Window: Number of bars a broken FVG remains eligible to form an iFVG.
Delete Mitigated Zones: Removes mitigated zones or freezes them as historical references.
Mitigation Level: Select whether mitigation occurs at the 50% level or after a full fill.
Mitigation Source: Uses wick touches or candle closes to confirm mitigation.
Filter Distant Zones: Hides zones that are far away from the current price.
Maximum Distance From Price: Maximum ATR distance before zones become hidden.
Merge Nearby Zones: Visually combines nearby live zones of the same type.
Maximum Merge Distance: Controls how close zones must be before they merge visually.
Fade With Age: Gradually fades older zones while keeping newer zones more prominent.
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Disclaimer
The content provided in my scripts, indicators, ideas, algorithms, and systems is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice, investment recommendations, or a solicitation to buy or sell any financial instruments. I will not accept liability for any loss or damage, including without limitation any loss of profit, which may arise directly or indirectly from the use of or reliance on such information.
All investments involve risk, and the past performance of a security, industry, sector, market, financial product, trading strategy, backtest, or individual's trading does not guarantee future results or returns. Investors are fully responsible for any investment decisions they make. Such decisions should be based solely on an evaluation of their financial circumstances, investment objectives, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs.
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Mini SMC Screener I EonMetrics Mini SMC Screener
Mini SMC Screener watches up to 5 symbols at once and answers a question no single-chart indicator can: WHERE is something happening right now. Instead of flipping through charts, you read one small table: market structure direction and the freshest Fair Value Gap event for every symbol on your list.
HOW IT WORKS
The script scans each symbol on the timeframe you choose (empty = chart timeframe) and reports two independent readings per symbol.
🔵Structure — a strict MSS/BOS engine. Swing points are confirmed pivots (a candle with N higher/lower candles on both sides). A close above the last confirmed swing high in a downtrend is a Market Structure Shift to bullish; a close below the protected swing low in an uptrend shifts structure bearish. Between shifts, breaks of structure in trend direction keep updating the protected level. The column shows the current state: ▲ Bull or ▼ Bear.
🔵FVG — a three-candle imbalance tracker. A Fair Value Gap forms when the first and third candle of a three-candle sequence do not overlap (the low of the newest candle stays above the high of the candle two bars back, or the mirror for bearish). The gap between them is unfilled territory. The engine registers a gap only when its height clears an ATR-based minimum size, keeps it active until price trades through its far edge (a full fill), and reports the freshest of two events:
- New — a qualifying gap just formed (displacement is happening now)
- Retest — price traded back INTO a still-open gap (the return many traders wait for)
Each event ages out of the table after a configurable number of bars, so the column only ever shows fresh information — an FVG event from 200 bars ago is not a setup and is not displayed.
Why the two are combined in one script: they answer the two halves of the same scanning question. Structure tells you the directional context of a symbol; the FVG event tells you that something tradeable is happening there right now. One without the other is either context with no trigger, or a trigger with no context — a scanner needs both on one row to be useful.
KEY FEATURES
- 5 symbol slots, each with its own on/off toggle — defaults cover crypto, forex, gold and an index; replace them with your own watchlist
- Structure column: live Bullish / Bearish read from confirmed swing pivots (non-repainting state machine — the state changes only on a confirmed close through a level)
- FVG column: New / Retest events with age in bars ("now", "3b", …); the cell background lights up when the event happened on the current bar
- ATR size filter — noise-sized gaps never make it into the table
- Freshness windows for FVG events, so stale signals disappear on their own
- Alerts: per-symbol alert() messages (structure flips, new FVG, FVG retest) plus two named conditions — "Structure flip (any symbol)" and "FVG event (any symbol)"
- Scan timeframe input — scan a higher timeframe than your chart; a warning shows if you accidentally scan below the chart timeframe (unreliable by design on PulseWire)
- Table position and text size inputs
HOW TO USE
1. Add the indicator to any chart and open Settings → Symbols. Replace the default tickers with the instruments you actually follow.
2. Pick a Scan Timeframe — the chart timeframe or higher. A common setup: chart on M15, scan on M15 or H1.
3. Read rows left to right: Structure gives you the direction bias, FVG tells you whether a fresh imbalance or a retest is in play on that symbol.
4. The combination many traders look for: structure and a fresh FVG event pointing the SAME way — e.g. ▲ Bull structure plus a bullish FVG retest.
5. Set an alert with "Any alert() function call" to get the detailed per-symbol messages without watching the table.
SETTINGS
- Scan: scan timeframe
- Symbols: 5 slots with toggles
- Structure: pivot strength (candles each side to confirm a swing)
- Fair Value Gaps: minimum gap size (× ATR), event freshness (bars)
- Alerts: master toggle
- Table: position, text size, bullish/bearish colors
A note on how the scan works under the hood: each symbol is evaluated in its own sandboxed context via request.security — the full engine state (structure machine, active gap list) is kept separately per symbol, and signals commit on bar close. Disabled slots still consume their data request (a PulseWire compile-time requirement); the toggle hides the row.
This tool reports structure state and imbalance events. It does not generate buy/sell signals, targets or stop levels — what you do with a reading is your decision. It is not financial advice; always do your own analysis and manage your own risk.
Part of the EonMetrics toolset.
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Liq Sweep + CHoCH + OB InstantLIQ SWEEP + CHoCH + OB INSTANT
This script is a three-stage liquidity-trap detector that resolves a full smart-money sequence into a single confirmed entry, with no retest wait. It is not a collection of separate SMC tools stacked on one chart. It is one state machine in which each stage must validate before the next can arm, and only the completed sequence produces a signal.
WHY THE SEQUENCE MATTERS
Most liquidity-based scripts fire on a single event: a sweep, or a change of character, or an order-block tap. Each of those in isolation is noisy. Sweeps occur constantly without follow-through. CHoCH prints in chop with no displacement behind it. Order blocks form everywhere.
The idea here is that none of those events is treated as a signal on its own. They are treated as preconditions that must occur in order, within a defined window, all supporting the same directional thesis. The script formalizes the trap as a sequence and refuses to act until that sequence completes. A sweep with no CHoCH is discarded. A CHoCH with no identifiable order block produces nothing. Only the full chain fires.
HOW THE COMPONENTS INTEGRATE
STAGE 1 — LIQUIDITY SWEEP
Pivot-based swing highs and lows are tracked in rolling arrays. A sweep registers only when price wicks through a tracked level and closes back inside it, marking that resting liquidity above a high or below a low has been taken rather than genuinely broken. Each sweep opens a candidate setup and records the opposite-side structure level that will be watched next.
STAGE 2 — CHANGE OF CHARACTER
A candidate is promoted only if price then closes through that opposite structure level within a user-set lookback window. This is the directional confirmation: after buy-side liquidity is swept, a close below the prior swing low confirms reversal intent, and the mirror applies for the bullish case. Candidates that never produce a CHoCH inside the window expire and are discarded, so a stale sweep from fifty bars ago cannot fire later.
STAGE 3 — ORDER BLOCK AS ENTRY
On a confirmed CHoCH, the script scans back for the last opposing candle before the displacement move and marks that zone as the order block, along with its 50 percent midline. Because the sweep and the CHoCH have already validated the setup, order-block identification is treated as the entry trigger itself rather than waiting for a retest that may never come. The stop is placed beyond the swept level, since that level is what the setup is predicated on. The target is derived either from a configurable risk-to-reward multiple of the stop distance, or from an optional fixed-percentage mode.
The three stages are not independent indicators sharing a chart. Stage 2 cannot exist without Stage 1's swept level. Stage 3's scan window is anchored to Stage 2's displacement bar. The stop is defined by Stage 1's level. Removing any stage collapses the logic entirely, which is why they are integrated into one state machine rather than published as separate tools.
WHAT YOU SEE
Confirmed setups draw the swept-liquidity line, the accumulation zone spanning sweep to CHoCH, the highlighted CHoCH candle, and the order-block zone with its midline. Entries print a labeled trade box showing entry, stop, target and risk-to-reward. Exits are marked with the realized result as take-profit, stop, or time-based close. A status dashboard summarizes current stage, direction, swept level, active order block, setup counts, exit mode, position state, and trade management values.
SETTINGS
Structure — swing lookback for pivot detection, wick-sweep requirement, CHoCH lookback window.
Order Block — scan depth, minimum rejection-wick ratio, midline toggle, maximum zone age.
Trade Management — risk-to-reward ratio, stop buffer beyond the swept level, maximum bars in trade, cooldown between signals, RSI filter bounds, label toggles.
Exit Management — optional percentage-based take-profit and stop mode. Default behavior uses the risk-to-reward derived from the swept level.
Visuals — zone colors, ghost candles, dashboard, per-stage step labels.
HOW TO USE
Apply to a clean chart. Watch the dashboard stage indicator move from scanning, to sweep, to CHoCH as a setup builds. A trade box prints when the order block is identified on a confirmed bar. Tune the swing lookback and order-block scan depth to your instrument and timeframe. The tooltips include suggested starting ranges for futures and crypto. The risk-to-reward ratio controls target distance measured off the swept-level stop.
REFERENCE SETTINGS
The defaults are deliberately neutral. As a concrete starting point, these are the values I run on MNQ:
Swing Lookback 6
CHoCH Lookback 10
OB Scan Bars 50
Enable % Exit Mode: on
TP 0.25%
SL 1.0%
Max Bars in Trade 55
Cooldown Bars 3
These are a starting point for one instrument, not an optimized or recommended configuration, and they are not intended to suggest any particular outcome. Different instruments, timeframes and volatility conditions will call for different values. Treat them as a place to begin your own testing rather than a setting to adopt as-is.
NON-REPAINTING
All structure, sweep, CHoCH and order-block evaluations run on confirmed bar closes. Pivot detection uses right-side confirmation. Signals do not repaint once a bar has closed. Take-profit and stop levels are evaluated intrabar for realistic exit marking, while the entry itself is fixed on the confirmed bar that completes the sequence.
DISCLAIMER
For educational and informational purposes only. This is not financial advice, and nothing here is a guarantee of future results. Markets are uncertain and past behavior does not predict future behavior. Always do your own analysis and use proper risk management.
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Candle Footprint POC and Fair Value Area @MaxMaseratiCandle Footprint POC and Fair Value Area
Draws each candle's real footprint Point of Control (POC) and Value Area directly from tick-level volume data, sizes the POC box by how much volume it actually carried relative to recent bars, and flags candles where the visible price outcome disagrees with the underlying order flow.
─── WHY THESE COMPONENTS TOGETHER ───
A POC/Value Area box alone shows where volume concentrated but says nothing about whether the candle's close agreed with it. Delta alone shows net aggressive buying or selling but not where in the range it happened. Candle color alone shows only the surface result. Combined, the script flags a specific condition neither part shows alone: a candle whose visible color disagrees with its own volume-weighted center — for example a green candle closing on a net-bearish POC.
─── POC AND DIVERGENCE LOGIC ───
POC midpoint = (POC row upper price + POC row lower price) / 2, taken directly from the real footprint row that carried the most volume. Basic divergence = candle body direction disagrees with delta's sign. Strict divergence additionally requires the close to land on the wrong side of the POC or Value Area for that candle's direction.
─── HOW TO USE ───
1. Read the POC box color and position for the bar's highest-volume price.
2. Check the Delta label — it can disagree with the candle's own color, which is the point.
3. Enable a Basic Divergence filter to isolate candles where price and volume disagree, focus on sweeps.
4. Enable a Strict Divergence filter for a higher-conviction version requiring the close itself to confirm the disagreement.
5. Use the Extended Current POC line/box to project the most recent bar's high-volume price forward.
─── SETTINGS ───
Global Display Elements — master toggles for boxes, labels, and historical candle limiting.
Bullish/Bearish Settings and Filters — colors and standard close-vs-POC/VA conditions.
Bullish/Bearish Divergence Filters — Basic and Strict disagreement conditions.
Extended Current POC — style, border, and extension length.
Footprint and Scaling Configuration — row height, Value Area percentage, and volume-based box scaling.
─── NOTES ───
Requires a PulseWire Premium or Ultimate plan for footprint data. All values reflect confirmed, closed bars only — no repainting. Footprint calculation is limited to the most recent N bars (Performance setting) to prevent slow chart loads. Alerts are available for all standard and divergence conditions. Indicator
