Engulfing Overlap Zone [8 Types]Engulfing Overlap Zone
This script looks for the moment control changes hands.
An engulfing pattern forms and commits one side of the market. Later that pattern breaks. On or
around the same candle, an engulfing pattern in the OPPOSITE direction confirms. When the two
structures occupy the same price area, that shared area is where one side was trapped and the
other took over. This script finds those moments and draws only that area.
Nothing else is plotted. Ordinary engulfing patterns, and engulfing patterns that simply failed,
are used internally but never drawn, because on their own they are not what this tool is about.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
1. It reports a transfer of control, not a pattern.
Most pattern tools mark every occurrence they find. This one requires a three step sequence to
complete before anything appears: a pattern forms, that pattern breaks, and an opposing pattern
confirms in the same price area. Any of the three missing means nothing is drawn.
2. The zone is measured, not just marked.
Two zones can touch by a hair or sit almost perfectly on top of each other. Those are very
different situations, so the script measures how much of the zone is actually shared and states
it as a percentage. You can then hide everything below a threshold you choose.
3. Everything is sorted into eight types.
The zone carries the identity of the engulfing pattern that took over, including whether that
pattern grabbed liquidity before it confirmed. Each of the eight can be shown or hidden
independently and has its own alert.
4. The hard part is the pairing.
When a pattern breaks there is often more than one opposing pattern nearby that could be its
counterpart. Picking the right one, and rejecting the ones that only look related, is what this
script is really about. The rule used is simple to state and is described below, but it is the
piece that decides whether the output is meaningful or noise.
THE PATTERNS INVOLVED
A candle is Green when close is greater than open, Red when close is less than open, and a Doji
when close equals open. A Doji is neither. Only fully closed candles are read, and the running
candle is never used.
Regular engulfing, two candles
R Buy EG: Red Base candle, and the very next candle is Green and closes above the Base High.
R Sell EG: Green Base candle, and the very next candle is Red and closes below the Base Low.
E-Regular engulfing, three or more candles
ER Buy EG: Red Base candle followed by a run of consecutive Green candles. The run must contain
at least 2 Green candles, and confirmation happens when one of them closes above the Base High.
A single Red candle before confirmation cancels the run. Doji candles are skipped: they neither
count toward the run nor break it.
ER Sell EG: the mirror image, with a Green Base and a run of at least 2 Red candles, one of
which closes below the Base Low.
If the very first candle after the Base already closes through it, that is by definition a
Regular pattern, so E-Regular requires the second candle or later to break the level. One Base
candle can never produce both.
Type 1, the same four patterns plus a liquidity sweep
Type 1 adds one requirement: before the close breaks through one side of the Base candle, price
must have traded through the opposite side.
T1 R Buy EG: the Confirm candle's Low reaches at or below the Base Low.
T1 R Sell EG: the Confirm candle's High reaches at or above the Base High.
T1 ER Buy EG: at least one Green candle of the run reaches at or below the Base Low.
T1 ER Sell EG: at least one Red candle of the run reaches at or above the Base High.
Any candle of the run can satisfy the sweep, including the Confirm candle itself. The sweep is
always measured against the Base candle, never against another candle in the run.
HOW AN OVERLAP ZONE IS BUILT
Step 1. A pattern confirms and is tracked from then on.
Step 2. The pattern breaks. A Buy Engulfing breaks when a Red candle CLOSES below its Base Low.
A Sell Engulfing breaks when a Green candle CLOSES above its Base High. A wick through the level
is not enough; the close has to settle beyond it.
Step 3. The script looks for an engulfing pattern in the opposite direction whose confirmation
lands on the breaking candle, or as close before it as possible, and whose zone shares both time
and price with the broken one. Where several candidates exist, the one closest to the break is
taken, because that is the one that actually represents the handover.
When all three steps line up, one zone is drawn: the price range of the Base candle of the
pattern that took over, running from that Base candle to its Confirm candle.
The eight resulting types are R Buy EG Overlap, R Sell EG Overlap, ER Buy EG Overlap, ER Sell EG
Overlap and the four Type 1 versions of the same. The type always describes the pattern that
took over, because that is the zone on your chart.
OVERLAP STRENGTH
Strength is the share of the drawn zone that sits inside the price range of the broken zone.
100 percent means the whole zone is shared, which is the tightest possible confluence. A small
number means the two structures barely reach each other. The figure is appended to each label,
and Minimum Overlap Strength lets you discard anything below a level you set. That threshold
applies to the chart, the summary table and the alerts together, so what you see and what you
are notified about never disagree.
READING THE CHART
Each zone is filled in two tones, and the split is the whole point:
- The part that shares price with the broken zone is drawn in the direction colour, green for a
Buy Overlap and red for a Sell Overlap, with a solid border. This is the confluence.
- Whatever is left over is drawn in neutral yellow with no border.
So the colour split you see is the strength figure, shown rather than stated. A zone that is
almost entirely green is strong. A zone with a thin green sliver and a large yellow body is
weak, and the percentage will say so.
Each zone carries a label with its type and strength, placed below a Buy Overlap and above a
Sell Overlap so it points at its own zone.
A summary table in the corner counts what was found in the current scan window, split by Buy and
Sell. Types you have switched off are still counted, so the table always reflects what the market
printed rather than what is currently on screen. Zones rejected by the strength threshold are not
counted, because that threshold decides what qualifies as a zone at all.
SETTINGS
Scan
- Scan Length: how many closed candles are scanned backwards. The running candle is always
excluded.
- Minimum Overlap Strength: the percentage a zone must reach to qualify.
Pattern Types
- An individual switch for each of the eight types.
Zone Style
- Separate colours for the shared area and the remaining area, on both the Buy and Sell side.
Labels
- Show Labels, Show Strength in Label, Label Size, and Label Distance from Zone as a percentage
of the zone height. Increase the distance on noisy charts so labels clear the candles.
Summary Table
- Show, position and size of the corner table.
ALERTS
Eight alert conditions are available, one per type:
R Buy EG Overlap, R Sell EG Overlap, T1 R Buy EG Overlap, T1 R Sell EG Overlap, ER Buy EG
Overlap, ER Sell EG Overlap, T1 ER Buy EG Overlap, T1 ER Sell EG Overlap.
An alert fires on the candle that completes the handover. Each message carries the type, the
symbol, the timeframe and the closing price. The same messages are also sent through the alert
function, so the "Any alert() function call" alert type can deliver every zone through a single
alert.
All alerts are evaluated only after a candle has fully closed.
If you read the source, note that the chart and the alerts are two separate paths. The chart is
rebuilt by scanning history backwards on the last bar, while the alerts keep a running list of
confirmed patterns and test each closed candle against it. Two paths are used because rescanning
the whole history on every bar would be far too slow, and a running list cannot redraw the past.
Both apply exactly the same rules and the same strength threshold, so they always agree.
REPAINTING
This script does not repaint.
- Detection reads confirmed candles only. The scan starts one bar behind the latest bar, so the
candle that is still forming is never part of any calculation.
- Every alert signal is written so that it can only become true once a candle has finished. Price
moving inside an open candle cannot make a signal appear and then disappear.
- Zones are rebuilt on the last bar from confirmed history. A drawn zone does not move, change
colour, change type or change its strength figure afterwards. It only leaves the chart when it
falls outside the Scan Length window.
When you create an alert, PulseWire may show a caution banner saying the indicator can repaint.
That banner appears automatically for any script that uses the built in bar state variables, no
matter how they are used, because the platform cannot check the intent behind them. This script
uses them for the opposite purpose: one of them is what restricts every signal to bar close, and
the other is what redraws the zones efficiently on the final bar. Choosing "Once Per Bar Close"
when creating the alert is still recommended.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
- These zones are rare by design. Three separate conditions have to line up, so long stretches
with nothing on the chart are normal and expected. If you want to see more, lower the strength
threshold before raising the scan length.
- Scan Length is capped lower than in a plain pattern scanner. Every candidate pattern has to be
followed forward for a break and then matched against opposing patterns, which is far heavier
than simply detecting a pattern. The cap keeps the script responsive on slower machines.
- A zone whose Base candle falls outside the scan window will not appear even if the handover
itself was recent. If zones seem to be missing, raise the Scan Length before changing anything
else.
- For alerts the number of patterns tracked at once is capped and the oldest are released first.
In practice patterns break or age out long before this matters.
- Detection is purely structural. It reports where control changed hands and how much the two
structures shared. It does not rank zones beyond that, measure what happened afterwards, or
produce entries, targets or stops.
- Doji candles are treated as neutral by design. They never act as a Base candle and never break
an E-Regular run. On symbols and timeframes that print many Doji candles this makes runs
slightly more tolerant than a strict same colour rule would be.
HOW TO USE IT
A zone marks an area where one side committed, was proven wrong, and was immediately replaced by
the other side. Traders commonly watch these areas for reactions when price returns to them,
particularly the shared portion, since that is the part both structures agreed on.
The strength figure is there to let you be selective. Starting at zero shows everything so you
can see how the tool behaves on your symbol and timeframe, and raising it narrows the output to
the tighter confluences.
Type 1 zones are worth separating out. There the pattern that took over first grabbed liquidity
and only then confirmed, which is a different sequence from a clean takeover.
These are reference areas, not entry signals. Use them alongside higher timeframe structure, your
own support and resistance mapping, and proper risk management.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is a pattern detection tool. It is not financial advice and it makes no claim
about profitability. Trading involves risk. Always apply your own analysis and risk management. Indicator
Engulfing Failed Zone [8 Types]Engulfing Failed Zone
Most engulfing tools show you where a pattern formed. This one shows you where it broke.
The script finds confirmed engulfing patterns and then keeps watching them. When price later
closes back through the far side of the pattern's Base candle, the pattern is invalidated and
the area it occupied is drawn as a failed zone, from the Base candle to the exact candle that
broke it.
A failed pattern is not noise. It marks a level where one side committed, was proven wrong,
and left an area behind that price often reacts to again.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
1. It tracks invalidation, not formation.
A normal engulfing indicator stops working the moment the pattern prints. This script treats
the pattern as an open structure and follows it forward until something breaks it. Only the
broken ones are drawn, so the chart shows failures rather than signals.
2. Failure is defined by the close, not by a wick.
A candle may spike through the Base candle and recover. That is not a failure here. The
breaking candle has to CLOSE beyond the level, and it has to be the correct color: a Red
candle closing below the Base Low breaks a Buy Engulfing, a Green candle closing above the
Base High breaks a Sell Engulfing.
3. Failed zones are sorted into eight types, not two.
The failure inherits the identity of the pattern that failed. A liquidity sweep engulfing that
fails is a different event from a plain two candle engulfing that fails, and the script keeps
them separate so you can study or filter them independently.
4. Only the first failure is drawn.
Once a pattern breaks, it is done. Later candles closing through the same level are not drawn
again, which keeps the chart readable instead of stacking boxes on one level.
THE PATTERNS BEING TRACKED
A candle is Green when close is greater than open, Red when close is less than open, and a
Doji when close equals open. A Doji is neither. Only fully closed candles are read, and the
running candle is never used.
Regular engulfing (2 candles)
R Buy EG
Red Base candle, and the very next candle is Green and closes above the Base candle's High.
R Sell EG
Green Base candle, and the very next candle is Red and closes below the Base candle's Low.
E-Regular engulfing (3 or more candles)
ER Buy EG
Red Base candle followed by a run of consecutive Green candles. The run must contain at least
2 Green candles, and confirmation happens when one of them closes above the Base candle's
High. A single Red candle appearing before confirmation cancels the run. Doji candles are
skipped: they neither count toward the run nor break it.
ER Sell EG
Green Base candle followed by a run of at least 2 consecutive Red candles, one of which closes
below the Base candle's Low. A single Green candle cancels the run. Doji candles are skipped.
If the very first candle after the Base already closes through it, that is by definition a
Regular pattern, so E-Regular requires the second candle or later to break the level. One Base
candle can therefore never produce both a Regular and an E-Regular pattern.
Type 1: the same four patterns plus a liquidity sweep
Type 1 adds one requirement. Before the close breaks through one side of the Base candle,
price must have traded through the opposite side.
T1 R Buy EG
An R Buy EG where the Confirm candle's Low is at or below the Base candle's Low.
T1 R Sell EG
An R Sell EG where the Confirm candle's High is at or above the Base candle's High.
T1 ER Buy EG
An ER Buy EG where at least one Green candle in the run has a Low at or below the Base
candle's Low. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
T1 ER Sell EG
An ER Sell EG where at least one Red candle in the run has a High at or above the Base
candle's High. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
The sweep is always measured against the Base candle, never against another candle in the run.
WHAT COUNTS AS A FAILURE
After a pattern confirms, the script scans forward one candle at a time.
A Buy Engulfing fails when a Red candle closes strictly below the Base candle's Low.
A Sell Engulfing fails when a Green candle closes strictly above the Base candle's High.
The scan begins on the candle after the Confirm candle, so a pattern is never judged by its
own confirmation. The first candle that meets the condition becomes the Failure candle, and
the zone is drawn from the Base candle across to it. Nothing is drawn for patterns that are
still intact.
That gives eight failed zone types in total: R Buy EG Failed, R Sell EG Failed, ER Buy EG
Failed, ER Sell EG Failed, and the four Type 1 versions of the same.
READING THE CHART
Each failed pattern draws a rectangle covering the Base candle's full High to Low range,
stretched horizontally from the Base candle to the candle that broke it.
Colors follow the OUTCOME, not the original direction. This is worth reading twice:
- A Buy Engulfing that failed is drawn in the bearish color. The buyers committed and lost, so
the area above is now resistance, and its label sits above the zone.
- A Sell Engulfing that failed is drawn in the bullish color. The sellers committed and lost,
so the area is now support, and its label sits below the zone.
In other words the zone is colored by who is in control after the failure, which is the
information you actually trade from.
The border tells you which pattern failed:
Solid border: a Regular pattern, confirmed by the very next candle
Dashed border: an E-Regular pattern, confirmation was delayed over several candles
Thin, softened border: a plain pattern, no sweep
Thick, crisp border: Type 1, a liquidity sweep occurred before confirmation
Type 1 zones are also filled more solidly, so the stronger patterns stand out when several
zones sit close together.
A separate line marks the broken edge of the Base candle: the Low for a failed Buy Engulfing,
the High for a failed Sell Engulfing. This shows at a glance which side of the pattern gave
way, and it is the level price most often returns to.
Each zone carries a label with its pattern tag, pointing at its own zone, so it is always
clear which label belongs to which rectangle.
A summary table in the corner counts how many of each type were found in the current scan
window, split into Buy EG and Sell EG columns. The counts include types that are currently
hidden, so the table always reflects what the market actually printed rather than what is
switched on.
SETTINGS
Scan
- Scan Length: how many closed candles are scanned backwards from the latest bar. The running
candle is always excluded.
Pattern Types
- An individual on and off switch for each of the eight failed zone types.
Zone Style
- Buy EG Failed Zone and Sell EG Failed Zone: the two zone colors. Defaults follow the outcome
logic described above.
- Zone Transparency: fill transparency of a plain Regular or E-Regular failed zone.
- Type 1 Extra Opacity: how much more solid Type 1 zones are filled compared to the value
above.
- Highlight Broken Edge, and its color: marks the side of the Base candle price closed
through.
Labels
- Show Labels, Label Size, and Label Distance from Zone as a percentage of the Base candle
height. Increase the distance on noisy charts so labels clear the candles.
Summary Table
- Show, position, and size of the corner table.
ALERTS
Eight alert conditions are available, one per failed zone type:
R Buy EG Failed, R Sell EG Failed, T1 R Buy EG Failed, T1 R Sell EG Failed, ER Buy EG Failed,
ER Sell EG Failed, T1 ER Buy EG Failed, T1 ER Sell EG Failed.
An alert fires on the candle that completes the failure. Each message carries the pattern tag,
the symbol, the timeframe and the closing price. The script also sends the same messages
through the alert function, so the "Any alert() function call" alert type can deliver every
failure through a single alert.
All alerts are evaluated only after a candle has fully closed.
Internally, every confirmed engulfing is held in a list and each closed candle is checked
against that list. This is what allows a failure to be reported the moment it happens, without
rescanning the whole history on every bar.
REPAINTING
This script does not repaint.
- Detection reads confirmed candles only. The scan starts one bar behind the latest bar, so
the candle that is still forming is never part of any calculation.
- Every alert signal is written so that it can only become true once a candle has finished.
Price moving inside an open candle cannot make a signal appear and then disappear.
- Zones are rebuilt on the last bar using confirmed history. A drawn zone does not move,
change color or change type afterwards. It only leaves the chart when it falls outside the
Scan Length window.
When you create an alert, PulseWire may show a caution banner saying the indicator can
repaint. That banner appears automatically for any script that uses the built in bar state
variables, no matter how they are used, because the platform cannot check the intent behind
them. This script uses them for the opposite purpose: one of them is what restricts every
signal to bar close, and the other is what redraws the zones efficiently on the final bar.
Choosing "Once Per Bar Close" when creating the alert is still recommended.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
- Nothing is drawn for a pattern that has not failed. An empty chart means the engulfing
patterns in that window are all still intact, which is information in itself.
- Increasing Scan Length raises the number of drawing objects. PulseWire caps these at 500
boxes, 500 labels and 500 lines, and the oldest objects are dropped once a cap is reached.
The default value is chosen to stay well inside those limits on normal charts.
- A very short Scan Length can hide zones whose Base candle sits outside the window even
though the failure is recent. If failures seem to be missing, raise the Scan Length.
- For alerts, the number of patterns tracked at once is capped, and the oldest are released
first. In practice patterns fail or age out long before this matters.
- Detection is purely structural. It reports where a pattern broke and nothing more. It does
not rank failures by quality, measure what happened afterwards, or produce entries, targets
or stops.
- Doji candles are treated as neutral by design. They never act as a Base candle and never
break an E-Regular run. On symbols and timeframes that print many Doji candles this makes
runs slightly more tolerant than a strict same color rule would be.
HOW TO USE IT
A failed engulfing zone marks a level where one side of the market committed and was proven
wrong. Traders commonly watch these areas for:
- Broken supply and demand zones that price returns to and respects from the other side
- Areas where a reversal attempt was flushed out before the move continued
- Momentum shifts, since a failed reversal often precedes a strong continuation
Type 1 failed zones are worth separating out. There the pattern first grabbed liquidity, then
confirmed, and then still failed, which is a different story from a clean pattern simply being
overrun.
These zones are reference areas, not entry signals on their own. Use them alongside higher
timeframe structure, your own support and resistance mapping, and proper risk management.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is a pattern detection tool. It is not financial advice and it makes no claim
about profitability. Trading involves risk. Always apply your own analysis and risk management. Indicator
Engulfing Zone [8 Types]Engulfing Zone
A price action tool that scans closed candles for engulfing behavior and draws the exact zone
each pattern creates, from the candle that sets the level to the candle that breaks it.
Instead of treating "engulfing" as one generic signal, this script separates it into eight
distinct types and reports every pattern under exactly one of them, so what you see on the
chart is never double counted.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT FROM A STANDARD ENGULFING INDICATOR
1. Engulfing is measured by the CLOSE, not by body overlap.
Most engulfing scripts check whether one candle's body covers the previous candle's body.
This script requires the Confirm candle to CLOSE beyond the Base candle's High or Low, wick
included. A candle that merely covers the body but closes back inside the Base range is not
accepted. This is a stricter definition and it filters out a large number of weak signals that
body based detection would report.
2. Confirmation is allowed to be delayed.
A classic engulfing pattern is strictly two candles. In real markets the reaction is often
spread over several candles: a base forms, price pushes in the opposite direction for a few
bars, and only then does a close break the base level. This script detects those extended
setups as their own category rather than ignoring them.
3. Liquidity sweeps are identified as a separate class.
Sometimes the candles that produce the engulf first trade through the far side of the Base
candle, taking out the stop orders resting there, and only then close through the opposite
side. That behavior is meaningfully different from a clean engulf, so it is detected and
labelled separately as Type 1.
THE EIGHT PATTERNS
Throughout, a candle is Green when close is greater than open, Red when close is less than
open, and a Doji when close equals open. A Doji is neither Green nor Red, and is handled
explicitly. Only fully closed candles are read. The running candle is never used.
Regular (2 candles)
R Buy EG
Base candle is Red
The very next candle is Green
That Green candle closes above the Base candle's High
R Sell EG
Base candle is Green
The very next candle is Red
That Red candle closes below the Base candle's Low
E-Regular (3 or more candles)
ER Buy EG
Base candle is Red
It is followed by a run of consecutive Green candles
The run must contain at least 2 Green candles
Confirmation happens when one of those Green candles closes above the Base candle's High
A single Red candle appearing before confirmation cancels the run entirely
Doji candles are skipped: they neither count toward the run nor break it
ER Sell EG
Base candle is Green
It is followed by a run of consecutive Red candles
The run must contain at least 2 Red candles
Confirmation happens when one of those Red candles closes below the Base candle's Low
A single Green candle appearing before confirmation cancels the run entirely
Doji candles are skipped
If the very first candle after the Base already closes through it, that is by definition a
Regular pattern, so E-Regular requires the second candle or later to be the one that breaks
the level. Regular and E-Regular can therefore never both fire from the same Base candle.
Type 1: the same four patterns plus a liquidity sweep
Type 1 adds one requirement on top of the rules above. Before the close breaks through one
side of the Base candle, price must have traded through the opposite side.
T1 R Buy EG
An R Buy EG where the Confirm candle's Low is at or below the Base candle's Low.
T1 R Sell EG
An R Sell EG where the Confirm candle's High is at or above the Base candle's High.
T1 ER Buy EG
An ER Buy EG where at least one Green candle in the run has a Low at or below the Base
candle's Low. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
T1 ER Sell EG
An ER Sell EG where at least one Red candle in the run has a High at or above the Base
candle's High. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
The sweep is always measured against the Base candle, never against another candle in the run.
HOW A PATTERN IS CLASSIFIED
Every detected pattern is reported once, under its strongest matching type.
A Regular pattern that also swept is reported as T1 R and is not additionally reported as R.
An E-Regular pattern that also swept is reported as T1 ER and is not additionally reported as
ER. This means:
One pattern produces exactly one zone on the chart, never two stacked on top of each other
The summary table counts each pattern once
Turning off a type hides only that type and never silently hides another
Because Type 1 is a stricter version of its plain counterpart, hiding the plain types and
keeping the Type 1 types visible is a straightforward way to see only the sweep driven setups.
READING THE CHART
Each detected pattern draws a rectangle covering the Base candle's full High to Low range,
stretched horizontally from the Base candle to the Confirm candle. The rectangle is styled so
that its type can be read without looking at the label:
Solid border: Regular, confirmed by the very next candle
Dashed border: E-Regular, confirmation was delayed over several candles
Thin, softened border: a plain pattern, no sweep
Thick, crisp border: Type 1, a liquidity sweep occurred
Type 1 zones are also filled more solidly than plain zones, so stronger patterns stand out
when several zones sit close together.
On a Type 1 zone, a dotted line marks the exact Base level that was raided before the break:
the Base Low on the Buy side, the Base High on the Sell side. This makes the liquidity grab
visible instead of leaving it implied.
Each zone carries a label showing its pattern tag. Labels point at their own zone, below and
pointing up for Buy patterns, above and pointing down for Sell patterns, so it is always clear
which label belongs to which rectangle.
A summary table in the corner shows how many of each type were found inside the current scan
window, split into Buy and Sell columns. The table counts every detected pattern, including
types that are currently hidden, so it always reflects what the market actually printed rather
than what is currently switched on.
SETTINGS
Scan
Scan Length: how many closed candles are scanned backwards from the latest bar.
The running candle is always excluded.
Pattern Types
An individual on and off switch for each of the eight types.
Zone Style
- Bullish Zone and Bearish Zone: the two base colors used for all Buy and all Sell zones.
- Zone Transparency: fill transparency of a plain Regular or E-Regular zone.
- Type 1 Extra Opacity: how much more solid Type 1 zones are filled compared to the value
above.
- Mark Swept Level: draw the dotted line on the raided Base level of Type 1 zones.
- Swept Level Color: color of that line.
Labels
- Show Labels, Label Size, and Label Distance from Zone as a percentage of the Base candle
height. Increase the distance on noisy charts so labels clear the candles.
Summary Table
- Show, position, and size of the corner table.
ALERTS
Eight alert conditions are available, one per pattern type:
R Buy EG, R Sell EG, T1 R Buy EG, T1 R Sell EG, ER Buy EG, ER Sell EG, T1 ER Buy EG,
T1 ER Sell EG.
Each message carries the pattern tag, the symbol, the timeframe and the closing price. The
script also sends the same messages through the alert function, so the "Any alert() function
call" alert type can be used to receive every pattern through a single alert.
All alerts are evaluated only after a candle has fully closed.
REPAINTING
This script does not repaint.
- Detection reads confirmed candles only. The zone scan starts one bar behind the latest bar,
so the candle that is still forming is never part of any calculation.
- Every alert signal is written so that it can only become true once a candle has finished.
Price moving inside an open candle cannot make a signal appear and then disappear.
- Zones are rebuilt on the last bar using confirmed history. A zone that has been drawn does
not move or change type afterwards. It only leaves the chart when it falls outside the Scan
Length window.
When you create an alert, PulseWire may show a caution banner saying the indicator can
repaint. That banner appears automatically for any script that uses the built in bar state
variables, no matter how they are used, because the platform cannot check the intent behind
them. This script uses them for the opposite purpose: one of them is what restricts every
signal to bar close, and the other is what redraws the zones efficiently on the final bar.
Choosing "Once Per Bar Close" when creating the alert is still recommended.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
- The script draws on the last bar only. Increasing Scan Length raises the number of drawing
objects. PulseWire caps these at 500 boxes, 500 labels and 500 lines, and the oldest
objects are dropped once a cap is reached. The default value is chosen to stay well inside
those limits on normal charts.
- Detection is purely structural. It reports where a pattern occurred and nothing more. It
does not rank patterns by quality, measure follow through, or produce entries, targets or
stops.
- Doji candles are treated as neutral by design. They never act as a Base candle and never
break an E-Regular run. On symbols and timeframes that print many Doji candles this makes
runs slightly more tolerant than a strict same color rule would be.
HOW TO USE IT
The zones mark where one side of the market decisively lost control of a level. They are
reference areas, not entry signals on their own. Common approaches are to watch how price
behaves when it returns to a zone, or to use zone direction as context alongside higher
timeframe structure, support and resistance levels, or trend direction.
Type 1 zones deserve particular attention, because the sweep tells you the move happened after
liquidity was taken rather than before.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is a pattern detection tool. It is not financial advice and it makes no claim
about profitability. Trading involves risk. Always apply your own analysis and risk management. Indicator
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Engulfing Zone Finder (Box) by vinafxEngulfing Zone (EG) Finder is an overlay indicator that automatically detects and draws boxes for two types of momentum-based price action patterns: Engulfing Zones and Outside Bar Zones .
🔷 Engulfing Zone (EG)
An Engulfing Zone forms when a sequence of candles results in a breakout candle (BO) that closes beyond the high or low of an origin candle. Unlike the traditional 2-candle engulfing pattern, this indicator allows intermediate candles between the origin and the breakout candle, capturing a broader range of momentum shifts.
Bullish Engulfing Zone
The origin candle is a bearish candle.
A subsequent bullish candle closes above the high of the origin candle — this is the breakout (BO) candle.
A box is drawn from the origin candle to the BO candle, with the top and bottom set to the high and low of the origin candle .
The box is drawn with a green border by default.
Bearish Engulfing Zone
The origin candle is a bullish candle.
A subsequent bearish candle closes below the low of the origin candle — this is the breakout (BO) candle.
A box is drawn from the origin candle to the BO candle, with the top and bottom set to the high and low of the origin candle .
The box is drawn with a red border by default.
Smart filtering logic built in:
Origin Shift : If a new candle of the same type sweeps the wick of the current origin candle, it automatically replaces the origin. For example, if a new bearish candle has a higher high than the existing bearish origin, the new candle becomes the origin.
Opposite Break Invalidation : If price closes beyond the opposite side of the origin candle before a valid breakout occurs, the origin is discarded.
Nested Zone Filtering : If a smaller EG zone exists inside a larger one (same type), the indicator keeps the smaller zone and removes the larger one, reducing visual clutter.
Max Candle Duration : A configurable limit (default: 5) controls the maximum total number of candles from origin to BO (inclusive). This prevents excessively long zones.
🔶 Outside Bar Zone (OB)
An Outside Bar Zone is a 2-candle pattern where the second candle completely engulfs the first candle's range (higher high AND lower low), and both candles share the same direction.
Bullish Outside Bar Zone
Two consecutive bullish candles.
The second candle has a higher high and a lower low than the first.
The second candle's close is above the high of the first candle.
A box is drawn covering the first candle, with a green border by default.
Bearish Outside Bar Zone
Two consecutive bearish candles.
The second candle has a higher high and a lower low than the first.
The second candle's close is below the low of the first candle.
A box is drawn covering the first candle, with a red border by default.
⚙️ Settings
Engulfing Zone Settings (Bullish / Bearish)
Show/Hide: Toggle visibility for each zone type independently.
Border Color: Customize the box border color.
Background Color: Customize the box fill color and transparency.
Outside Bar Zone Settings
Show/Hide: Toggle visibility for Bullish and Bearish OB Zones independently.
Border Color / Background Color: Fully customizable for each type.
Performance & Limits
Max Total Candles (Origin to BO) : Controls how many candles (including origin and BO) are allowed to form an EG zone. Default is 5. Set to 0 for no limit.
Max Pending Origin Candles : Limits the number of origin candles tracked simultaneously. Default is 100.
Max Total Boxes Displayed : Limits the total number of boxes drawn on the chart across all zone types. The quota is shared flexibly — if one type produces fewer boxes, the remaining capacity is available for other types. Default is 200. PulseWire maximum is 500.
📝 Notes
This indicator is an overlay and draws directly on the price chart.
It works on all timeframes and all instruments (stocks, forex, crypto, futures, etc.).
Doji candles (where close equals open) are included in the detection logic. A Doji is treated as both bearish and bullish, so it can serve as an origin candle, a breakout candle, or part of an Outside Bar pattern.
The indicator uses open-source Pine Script v5. No external data requests or repainting techniques are used.
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Fake Pin Bar & Engulfing Pattern DetectorFake Pin Bar & Engulfing Pattern Detector
This indicator is designed to detect Fake Pin Bar structures and standard Engulfing candle patterns directly on the chart.
A Fake Pin Bar is a price action pattern that appears after price forms a Mother Bar, then one or more Inside Bars, and finally produces a false breakout candle. The signal candle briefly breaks outside the Mother Bar range, but then returns back inside the structure. If that breakout candle also has a strong rejection wick and a relatively small body, the indicator marks it as a Fake Pin Bar.
The idea behind this pattern is simple: price attempts to break above or below a consolidation area, fails to continue, and closes back inside the previous range. This can show rejection, trapped breakout traders, or a possible reversal area.
How The Indicator Works
The script looks for three main components:
1. Mother Bar
A candle that defines the main high and low range.
2. Inside Bar Sequence
One or more candles after the Mother Bar that remain inside the Mother Bar range.
3. False Breakout Pin Bar
The signal candle must break only one side of the Mother Bar range and then return back inside it. For a bearish signal, price breaks above the Mother Bar high and rejects downward. For a bullish signal, price breaks below the Mother Bar low and rejects upward.
The indicator also detects standard bullish and bearish Engulfing patterns. An engulfing pattern is detected when the current candle body fully engulfs the previous candle body in the opposite direction.
Best Use Cases
This indicator is best used as a price action confirmation tool, not as a standalone trading system.
It can be useful around:
- Support and resistance areas
- Supply and demand zones
- Previous session highs and lows
- Liquidity sweep areas
- Consolidation breakouts
- Higher timeframe key levels
- Trend pullbacks
- Range boundaries
Fake Pin Bars are generally more meaningful when they appear at important market levels instead of random areas in the middle of a chart.
Settings
Minimum Wick Ratio
Controls how large the rejection wick must be compared to the full candle range. A higher value requires a stronger wick and produces fewer signals.
Maximum Body Ratio
Controls the maximum allowed candle body size compared to the full candle range. A lower value requires a smaller body and makes the pin bar condition stricter.
Maximum Inside Bar Count
Defines how many Inside Bars the script can look for after the Mother Bar. A higher value allows the indicator to detect longer consolidation structures.
Confirm Signals After Bar Close
When enabled, signals are confirmed only after the candle closes. This helps avoid signals changing during the live candle.
Require Body Inside Mother Bar
When enabled, the signal candle body must return fully inside the Mother Bar range. This makes Fake Pin Bar detection stricter.
Show Engulfing Candles
Turns standard bullish and bearish Engulfing candle detection on or off.
Show Pattern Details
Shows or hides the Mother Bar pattern box and high/low guide lines.
Label Text Size
Changes the size of the Fake Pin Bar signal labels.
Inside Bar Area Opacity
Controls the opacity of the pattern area shown on the chart.
Bullish Candle Color
Sets the color used for bullish Engulfing candles.
Bearish Candle Color
Sets the color used for bearish Engulfing candles.
Important Notes
This indicator does not place trades, does not calculate stop loss or take profit levels, and does not provide financial advice.
Signals should be combined with market structure, trend direction, volume, support/resistance, and proper risk management.
No price action pattern is perfect. Fake breakouts and engulfing candles can fail, especially in low-volume or choppy market conditions. Indicator
Trend Structure Scale-In👋 What's up traders,
Decided to finally share this one after a lot of testing, tweaking, and more chart staring than I'd like to admit.
Trend Mitigation Scale-In Pro is built around a simple idea: trade with the trend, wait for quality pullbacks, and let probabilities do the heavy lifting.
The strategy combines:
• EMA200 trend filtering
• Pivot structure detection
• Engulfing candle confirmation
• Mitigation-based entries
• Controlled scale-ins on pullbacks
• Fixed basket take-profit management
The goal isn't to catch every move. It's to stay aligned with the bigger trend and focus on higher-quality setups while keeping execution simple.
Like every strategy, it's not perfect and should always be tested thoroughly before being used on a live account.
I'm constantly building, testing, and improving new ideas, so feedback is always appreciated.
If you find it useful, a ⭐ Favorite, 👍 Like, or 🚀 Boost helps more than you think and motivates me to keep sharing.
Wishing everyone green charts and disciplined trading. 🏆
Good luck out there.
— Tomukasss
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Engulfing Pattern Detector [SSFX]Engulfing Pattern Detector is candlestick analysis indicator designed to detect and highlight bullish and bearish engulfing patterns directly on the price chart.
The indicator focuses on two-candle engulfing formations. A bullish engulfing pattern is identified when the current bullish candle engulfs the previous bearish candle based on the selected engulfing method. A bearish engulfing pattern is identified when the current bearish candle engulfs the previous bullish candle based on the selected engulfing method.
The script provides two engulfing detection modes:
Body Engulfing: This mode checks whether the body of the current candle covers the body of the previous candle.
Full Candle Engulfing: This stricter mode checks whether the current candle also covers the full high-low range of the previous candle, in addition to meeting the body engulfing condition.
To reduce weak or unclear signals, the indicator includes a minimum body percentage filter. This allows users to require the current engulfing candle to have a minimum body size relative to its total candle range. This can help avoid candles with very small bodies or excessive wicks.
Key Features:
Detects bullish engulfing patterns
Detects bearish engulfing patterns
Option to display all patterns or only bullish/bearish patterns
Option to require opposite candle colors
Body engulfing and full candle engulfing modes
Minimum body percentage filter
Box highlight around the two-candle engulfing formation
Optional labels
Optional candle coloring
Optional background highlight
Custom bullish and bearish colors
Alert conditions for bullish, bearish, and any engulfing signal
How to Use:
Bullish engulfing patterns may be used as a visual clue that buying pressure is increasing after a prior bearish candle. Bearish engulfing patterns may be used as a visual clue that selling pressure is increasing after a prior bullish candle.
The box highlight is drawn around the full two-candle pattern, making it easier to visually identify where the engulfing structure occurred. Green boxes represent bullish engulfing formations, while red boxes represent bearish engulfing formations.
This indicator is intended to be used as a visual candlestick pattern tool. It does not predict future price movement and should not be used as a standalone trading system. Users may combine the signals with their own market structure, support and resistance, trend, volume, or risk management analysis.
Alerts:
The script includes alert conditions for:
Bullish Engulfing Detected
Bearish Engulfing Detected
Any Engulfing Pattern Detected
These alerts can be used to notify users when a new engulfing pattern appears on the chart.
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Sovereign Meridian [JOAT]Sovereign Meridian
Introduction
The Sovereign Meridian is a proprietary, closed-source charting suite designed to give traders a unified view of market structure, regime context, reaction zones, liquidity mapping, order flow dynamics, and institutional signal detection — all within a single overlay indicator. Rather than requiring traders to load multiple separate tools and mentally piece together their outputs, this indicator runs every analytical dimension through a shared engine so that each module informs the others. The result is a cohesive, context-aware charting environment where structure, volume, momentum, and volatility work together to produce a clear, actionable picture of what the market is doing right now and where it is likely to go next.
This indicator is built in Pine Script v6 and is published as invite-only because the proprietary scoring algorithms, signal prioritization logic, and the way each analytical module feeds into the others represent original work that goes significantly beyond standard implementations of these concepts. The source is protected to preserve the integrity of the detection logic and the specific calibration of thresholds, weights, and interaction rules that make this tool unique.
What Makes This Indicator Worth Protecting
The Sovereign Meridian is not simply a collection of standard concepts placed on the same chart. While the individual analytical principles it draws from — swing-based structure, fair value gaps, order blocks, VWAP analysis, volume delta, Wyckoff theory — are well-established in institutional trading education, the value of this indicator lies in how these concepts are unified, scored, and prioritized through a proprietary engine:
Unified Structure Engine: Every module — from regime detection to FVG creation to signal generation — operates through a single shared structure engine. This means that a Break of Structure event does not exist in isolation; it is immediately contextualized by the current regime state, the active reaction zones, the volume delta direction, and the volatility environment. This cross-module awareness produces more meaningful signals than running separate tools independently.
Proprietary Structure Score: A composite scoring algorithm evaluates the current market state across eight weighted dimensions — structural trend direction, swing pattern quality, active imbalance zone count, order block density, volume conviction, moving average alignment, regime classification, and delta flow direction. The specific weights, thresholds, and interaction rules that produce this score are original and calibrated through extensive testing.
Adaptive Sensitivity System: A single sensitivity control adjusts detection thresholds across every module simultaneously, ensuring that the entire indicator tightens or loosens its criteria in a coordinated way. This is not a simple multiplier — the sensitivity adjustment is calibrated differently for each module based on how that module's detection logic responds to threshold changes.
Priority-Based Signal Architecture: The institutional signal system uses a six-tier priority hierarchy with cooldown management to ensure that only the most significant event is displayed at any given time. Higher-priority signals (such as liquidity grabs and Wyckoff events) suppress lower-priority ones (such as delta surges and engulfing patterns) within a configurable cooldown window. The specific priority ordering, cooldown interaction rules, and signal qualification criteria are proprietary.
Multi-Factor Candle Coloring: Candles are colored through a cascading priority system that evaluates displacement status, VWAP band position, and structural trend direction in a specific order. This produces candle colors that immediately communicate the most important context about each bar without requiring the trader to check multiple indicators.
The Regime Engine
At the foundation of the Sovereign Meridian is a regime classification system that determines the current market state. The regime engine evaluates three independent analytical dimensions:
Trend Alignment: The indicator monitors the relationship between short-term, medium-term, and long-term moving averages to determine whether the market is in a directionally aligned state. Full alignment in one direction indicates a strong trending environment. Mixed alignment indicates transitional or range-bound conditions.
Institutional Flow Direction: VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) slope analysis measures the direction and intensity of institutional order flow over a lookback period. The slope is normalized to make it comparable across instruments with different price scales and volatility levels. A positive normalized slope indicates net institutional buying pressure; negative indicates selling pressure; flat indicates balanced flow.
Volatility State: Bollinger Band width percentile ranking classifies the current volatility environment. When volatility compresses into the lowest percentile, a Squeeze state is detected — often a precursor to an explosive directional move. When volatility expands into the highest percentile, an Expansion state is detected — indicating that a significant move is already underway.
These three dimensions combine to classify the market into one of five regimes: Trend Up, Trend Down, Range, Squeeze, or Expansion. The regime state directly influences how every other module behaves — from how reaction zones are colored to which signals are generated to how candles are tinted.
The Structure Engine
The structure engine tracks the market's swing-based directional bias using pivot-based swing high and swing low detection. It maintains a history of the last two swings on each side, enabling pattern recognition:
Swing Pattern Recognition: The engine identifies higher highs with higher lows (bullish structure), lower highs with lower lows (bearish structure), and transitional patterns where the swing sequence is mixed.
Break of Structure (BOS): When price closes beyond a previous swing level in the direction of the existing structural trend, a BOS is recorded. This confirms that the current trend is continuing and that the market is making new structural progress.
Change of Character (CHoCH): When price closes beyond a previous swing level against the existing structural trend, a CHoCH is recorded. This is a potential reversal signal — the market's character is shifting from one directional bias to the other. CHoCH events are labeled on the chart with reference lines extending forward from the break level.
Displacement Detection: The engine identifies displacement candles — bars with exceptionally large bodies relative to their range and to the recent average body size. These candles indicate aggressive institutional order flow and often coincide with the creation of new reaction zones. The sensitivity control adjusts the detection thresholds for displacement candles in coordination with all other modules.
Reaction Zones: Fair Value Gaps and Order Blocks
The Sovereign Meridian identifies and tracks two types of institutional reaction zones:
Fair Value Gaps (FVG) are three-candle price imbalances where the market moved so aggressively that a gap was left in the price ladder. These gaps represent areas where one side of the market was overwhelmed, and price often returns to fill them. The indicator:
Detects bullish and bearish FVGs using the classic three-candle pattern
Filters out insignificant micro-gaps using an ATR-based minimum size threshold (adjusted by the sensitivity control)
Draws each FVG as a dotted-border box with directional coloring — teal for bullish, coral for bearish
Tracks fill status in real-time: when price returns to close the gap, the box fades to grey, indicating the imbalance has been resolved
Automatically manages zone count, removing the oldest zones when the configurable maximum is exceeded
Order Blocks (OB) are the last opposing candle before a strong directional move, confirmed by above-average volume. They represent price levels where institutional orders were placed and where resting orders may still exist. The indicator:
Detects bullish and bearish OBs using engulfing-style pattern recognition with a configurable strength multiplier
Requires volume confirmation — the signal candle must have volume exceeding the 20-bar average
Draws each OB as a solid-border box with directional coloring — azure/cobalt for bullish, coral/rose for bearish
Tracks mitigation: when price returns to the OB zone after sufficient bars have passed, the box fades and its border becomes dashed, indicating the zone has been tested
Manages zone count with automatic cleanup of the oldest zones
Liquidity Mapping
The indicator maps key liquidity features that institutional traders use to plan entries, exits, and targets:
Equal Highs (EQH) and Equal Lows (EQL): When two consecutive swing highs or swing lows form at nearly the same price level (within an ATR-based tolerance), the indicator identifies them as Equal Highs or Equal Lows. These levels are significant because they represent areas where stop orders tend to cluster — above equal highs (buy stops) and below equal lows (sell stops). Institutional traders often engineer price moves toward these levels to fill large orders. EQH/EQL levels are drawn as dashed lines that extend forward and are automatically removed when price sweeps through them.
Premium and Discount Zones: The range between the last swing high and swing low is divided at the equilibrium (50%) level. The upper half is labeled Premium — where sellers have a statistical edge. The lower half is labeled Discount — where buyers have a statistical edge. A dotted equilibrium line marks the midpoint. These zones help traders understand whether they are buying at a discount or selling at a premium relative to the current structural range.
Key Institutional Levels: Prior Day High, Prior Day Low, Prior Week High, and Prior Week Low are drawn as dashed reference lines with labels. These levels are fetched using anti-repaint methodology (no future data references) and represent the most-watched institutional reference points on any chart.
VWAP Deviation Bands
The indicator plots VWAP with two standard deviation bands above and below, creating a statistical framework for price position:
Inner Band (+/- 1 standard deviation): Price within this band is in the "normal" range relative to the volume-weighted average. This is the fair value zone where most trading activity occurs.
Outer Band (+/- 2 standard deviations): Price beyond the inner band but within the outer band is in an extended state. Price beyond the outer band is at a statistical extreme — more than two standard deviations from the volume-weighted mean.
Regime-Adaptive Coloring: The VWAP bands change color based on the current regime state. In a bullish regime, the bands are azure. In a bearish regime, they are coral. In neutral conditions, they are silver. This provides immediate visual context about the directional environment without requiring the trader to check the HUD.
Band Fills: The area between the inner bands is filled with a subtle tint, and the area between the inner and outer bands receives a lighter fill. This creates a visual "channel" that makes it easy to see where price sits relative to the institutional benchmark.
Institutional Signal Detection
The Sovereign Meridian detects six types of institutional events, organized in a strict priority hierarchy to prevent visual clutter:
Liquidity Grab (highest priority): Price sweeps beyond a swing level and closes back inside, with a wick significantly larger than the body. This is a classic stop-hunt pattern where institutional traders push price into a liquidity pool to fill orders, then reverse. These events are marked with gold labels and include a reference line and highlight box at the grab level.
Wyckoff Spring / Upthrust: Price sweeps below a swing low (Spring) or above a swing high (Upthrust) and closes back inside, confirmed by above-average volume. These are accumulation and distribution signals from Wyckoff methodology — among the most reliable reversal patterns in institutional trading.
Absorption: High volume with small price range — the Wyckoff "Effort vs Result" concept. When large volume produces minimal price movement, it indicates that institutional orders are being absorbed without moving the market. This often precedes a directional breakout as the absorption phase completes.
Volume-Confirmed Engulfing: Classic engulfing candle patterns where the current bar's body fully engulfs the prior bar's body, confirmed by volume exceeding the 20-bar average. These patterns indicate a shift in short-term control from buyers to sellers or vice versa.
Delta Surge: When the buy/sell volume ratio becomes heavily skewed in one direction, indicating strong one-sided institutional flow. This confirms directional conviction in the current move.
Change of Character (lowest priority): CHoCH events from the structure engine are also displayed as signals with reference lines, providing structural context alongside the order flow signals above.
Each signal type has its own color and label style for instant recognition. The cooldown system ensures a minimum number of bars between signals on the same side (bull/bear), and higher-priority signals reset the cooldown for lower-priority ones. This means you will never see a cluttered chart with overlapping labels — only the most significant event at any given moment is displayed.
The Structure Score
The proprietary Structure Score (0-100) synthesizes information from every module into a single number that represents the overall conviction level of the current market state. The score evaluates:
Whether a directional structural trend is established
Whether the swing pattern supports the trend (higher highs/higher lows or lower highs/lower lows)
How many active, unfilled Fair Value Gaps exist (more active FVGs = more institutional imbalance)
How many unmitigated Order Blocks exist (more active OBs = more institutional interest)
Whether current volume is above average (confirming participation)
Whether moving averages are aligned in a trending configuration
Whether the regime engine confirms a trending state
Whether the volume delta supports the directional bias
Each component contributes a weighted amount to the total score, capped at 100. The specific weights and caps for each component are proprietary. Scores above 70 indicate strong directional conviction with multiple confirming factors. Scores between 40-70 indicate moderate conditions. Below 40 indicates weak or conflicting signals.
The Institutional Bias
The HUD displays a weighted institutional bias reading (BULL / BEAR / LEAN BULL / LEAN BEAR / NEUTRAL) computed from the weighted sum of all currently active signals and conditions. Each signal type carries a different weight based on its historical reliability — liquidity grabs and Wyckoff events carry the highest weight, while delta surges carry the lowest. The regime state and moving average alignment provide baseline directional context. This gives traders an at-a-glance summary of which side has the institutional edge right now.
HUD Dashboard
The real-time HUD displays 16 metrics in a compact, color-coded table:
Regime state (Trend Up / Trend Down / Range / Squeeze / Expansion) with regime-specific color
Structure direction (Bullish / Bearish / Neutral)
SMA alignment state (Bull Aligned / Bear Aligned / Mixed)
RSI value with directional color coding
Structure Score (0-100) with green/gold/coral color coding
Volume ratio (current vs 20-bar average) with classification (Surge / High / Normal / Low)
Delta value with directional sign and color
Imbalance classification (BUY PRESSURE / SELL PRESSURE / Buyers / Sellers / Balanced)
Effort/Result ratio with Wyckoff absorption detection (ABSORB / High / Elevated / Normal)
VWAP band position (Above +2s / Above +1s / Upper Band / Lower Band / Below -1s / Below -2s)
Volatility state with Bollinger percentile (Squeeze / Expansion / Normal)
Active FVG and OB zone counts
Current Swing High and Swing Low price levels
Weighted Institutional Bias (BULL / BEAR / LEAN BULL / LEAN BEAR / NEUTRAL)
Visual Design — The Sovereign Theme
The indicator uses a custom "Sovereign" color palette — a desaturated, professional aesthetic built around muted blues, orchids, teals, corals, and golds on a dark graphite background. Every color choice carries meaning:
Azure / Cobalt: Bullish structure, VWAP in bullish regime, SMA 20
Coral / Rose: Bearish structure, bearish regime, bearish signals
Teal / Mint: Bullish reaction zones (FVG), EQL levels, discount zone
Gold / Amber: Liquidity grabs, squeeze state, equilibrium, warnings
Orchid / Violet: Absorption events, SMA 50, CHoCH signals
Sage / Emerald: Strong bullish signals, springs, high scores
Silver / Iron: Neutral states, mitigated zones, mixed conditions
Ice / Lavender: Key levels (PDH, PWH), reference information
The palette is intentionally desaturated compared to typical trading indicators. This reduces eye strain during extended chart sessions and ensures that when a bright signal does appear (gold liquidity grab, emerald spring), it immediately draws attention because it contrasts with the subdued baseline.
Anti-Repaint Design
The Sovereign Meridian is designed to produce signals that do not repaint:
All signal generation is gated behind confirmed bar close logic — signals only appear after the bar has closed, never during an open bar
Prior day and prior week levels are fetched with anti-repaint methodology (no future data references, no lookahead)
Pivot-based swing detection has an inherent offset equal to the lookback period, which is accounted for in the structure engine
The confirmed-bars-only toggle allows traders to verify the anti-repaint behavior by comparing real-time signals with historical ones
Configurable Inputs
The indicator provides organized input groups for customization:
Core System: Sensitivity control (1-3) that adjusts all detection thresholds simultaneously, and confirmed-bars-only toggle
Structure Engine: Swing lookback period, FVG visibility and maximum count, FVG minimum size filter, OB visibility and maximum count, OB strength multiplier
Reaction Zones: EQH/EQL visibility and tolerance, Premium/Discount zone visibility, swing level line visibility
Volatility Engine: Bollinger Band length and multiplier for squeeze/expansion detection
Visuals: VWAP bands, SMA ribbon, key levels, candle coloring, signal display with cooldown, HUD panel, displacement markers, regime background tint — all individually toggleable
How to Use the Sovereign Meridian
Step 1: Read the Regime
Check the HUD for the current regime state and the background tint. Trending regimes (azure or coral tint) favor directional trades. Squeeze (gold tint) means wait for a breakout. Range (no tint) favors mean-reversion approaches.
Step 2: Identify the Structure
Look at the structural trend direction in the HUD and the swing pattern on the chart. Are you seeing higher highs and higher lows, or lower highs and lower lows? BOS labels confirm trend continuation. CHoCH labels warn of potential reversals.
Step 3: Find Reaction Zones
Identify unfilled FVGs and unmitigated OBs in the direction of the structural trend. These are areas where price is likely to react. A bullish FVG in a bullish structure within a Trend Up regime is a high-probability long zone.
Step 4: Check the Score and Bias
A Structure Score above 70 with a BULL or BEAR institutional bias means multiple factors are aligned. This is when the highest-conviction trades occur. Scores below 40 or a NEUTRAL bias suggest waiting for clearer conditions.
Step 5: Use Signals for Timing
Liquidity grabs and Wyckoff springs/upthrusts at reaction zones provide entry timing. Absorption events warn that a move is being loaded. Delta surges confirm directional conviction.
Step 6: Manage with VWAP Bands
Use the VWAP deviation bands for position management. Price at +2 standard deviations in a long trade may be a good area to take partial profits. Price returning to the inner band after an extended move may be a re-entry opportunity.
Who This Indicator Is For
Traders who study institutional price action concepts (market structure, order flow, Wyckoff theory) and want a unified tool that connects these concepts
Traders who are tired of loading 4-5 separate indicators and mentally correlating their outputs
Traders who want a quantified Structure Score and institutional bias reading rather than subjective chart interpretation
Traders who value clean, professional visuals that reduce eye strain and highlight only the most significant events
Traders on any liquid instrument (forex majors, large-cap equities, crypto majors, futures) on timeframes of 5 minutes and above
Limitations and Honest Assessment
Swing detection has an inherent delay equal to the lookback period. Pivots are confirmed only after the right-side bars have formed. This means structure signals appear with a slight lag.
Volume-based features (OB confirmation, delta analysis, absorption detection) require reliable volume data. Instruments with poor volume reporting will produce less reliable signals.
FVG and OB zones are probabilistic reaction areas, not guaranteed reversal points. Price can and does move through zones without reacting.
The buy/sell volume split is estimated from candle structure, which is an approximation of true order flow. True tick-level delta requires exchange data not available in Pine Script.
The Structure Score is a heuristic composite, not a statistical model. It provides a useful summary but should not be the sole basis for trading decisions.
During low-liquidity periods (overnight sessions, holidays), all signals may be less reliable.
This indicator provides context and identifies high-probability zones and events. It does not predict the future and should be used as part of a broader trading plan with proper risk management.
Alert Conditions
The indicator includes 14 configurable alert conditions:
BOS Long / BOS Short — structural break of structure in either direction
CHoCH Long / CHoCH Short — change of character (potential reversal)
Bull / Bear Liquidity Grab — stop-hunt reversal events
Wyckoff Spring / Upthrust — accumulation and distribution signals
Absorption — institutional order absorption detected
Buy / Sell Delta Surge — strong one-sided volume flow
Bull / Bear Displacement — aggressive institutional candles
Regime Change — market regime transition
Why Closed Source
The Sovereign Meridian is published as invite-only with protected source because the proprietary value lies not in the individual concepts it employs — which are well-documented in institutional trading education — but in the specific way these concepts are unified, weighted, scored, and prioritized through a shared engine. The Structure Score algorithm, the signal priority hierarchy with its cooldown interaction rules, the adaptive sensitivity system, the multi-factor candle coloring cascade, and the weighted institutional bias calculation represent original engineering work that goes beyond standard implementations. Protecting the source preserves the integrity of these systems while the description above provides full transparency about the underlying principles, what the indicator does, and how traders can use it.
Disclaimer
This indicator is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument. Market structure analysis, regime detection, and institutional signal identification are frameworks for understanding price behavior — they are not prediction systems. Signals do not guarantee future price movement. Past patterns do not guarantee they will repeat. Always use proper risk management and never risk more than you can afford to lose. The author makes no claims about guaranteed profitability and is not responsible for any losses incurred from using this indicator.
-Made by officialjackofalltrades
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Outside Bar & 2-Bar Reversal Alerts + SystemOutside Bar & 2-Bar Reversal — Price Action Reversal Detection with Integrated Trade Management
Hello friends and traders!
🔹 Introduction
This indicator — Outside Bar & 2-Bar Reversal — automatically identifies two of the most structurally sound price action reversal patterns and overlays a complete trade management system directly on your chart.
The patterns this indicator detects are rooted in a simple but powerful idea: momentum exhaustion followed by full absorption. When price makes an aggressive directional push and is then completely engulfed by the opposing side, it often signals that the prevailing move has run out of willing participants.
The indicator also includes an optional suite of confluence filters — VWAP, swing sweeps, and time-of-day — so you can isolate the highest-quality setups rather than trading every signal blindly.
I'll cover the pattern logic, the trade management system, and all filters in detail throughout this description.
🔹 The Premise
🔸 Why Reversal Candles Work
Price moves because of imbalance. When more aggressive buyers than sellers are active, price rises. When more aggressive sellers than buyers are active, price falls.
Reversal candle patterns are useful because they attempt to identify the moment that imbalance flips — where one side that was previously dominant is fully overcome by the other.
The key word is fully. A simple bearish candle after a bullish candle tells you very little. What's meaningful is when the opposing candle completely engulfs the prior move — taking out its low, closing above its open, and reaching above its high. That's not just a pause. That's a statement.
This is the foundation of both patterns this indicator detects.
🔸 What Is an Outside Bar?
An outside bar is a candle that completely engulfs the prior candle — its range exceeds the prior candle's range on both sides.
But not all outside bars are created equal. A random outside bar on a quiet consolidation bar means very little. The patterns this indicator targets require context and directionality before the signal fires.
Bullish Outside Bar — Full Conditions:
Candle 1 must be bearish — it closes below its open
Candle 1 must close below the prior candle's close — a genuine continuation of selling
Candle 1's low must be below the prior candle's low — it must make a lower low, showing directional commitment
Candle 2 (signal candle) must have a lower low than Candle 1 — extending the flush
Candle 2 must close above Candle 1's open — full absorption of the bearish candle
Candle 2 must have a higher high than Candle 1 — completing the engulf
The result: a setup where price made a committed bearish push, and then a single candle came in, swept below it, and closed above the entire prior move. Buyers didn't just show up — they overwhelmed every seller from the prior candle.
Bearish Outside Bar — Full Conditions:
The exact mirror. A committed bullish candle that makes a higher high, followed by a signal candle that sweeps above it and closes below its entire range. Sellers overwhelmed every buyer.
🔸 What Is a 2-Bar Reversal?
The 2-Bar Reversal is a related but distinct pattern. Rather than requiring full range engulfment, it focuses on close-to-close extremity.
Bullish 2-Bar Reversal:
Candle 1 closes entirely below the low of the candle before it — an aggressive, committed flush
Candle 2 closes above the open of Candle 1 — a full reclaim of the prior candle's starting point
The logic: if price closes below a prior candle's entire range, sellers were aggressive. If the very next candle reclaims all of that, buyers responded even more aggressively. The speed of the reversal is what makes this significant.
Bearish 2-Bar Reversal:
Candle 1 closes above the prior candle's high. Candle 2 closes below Candle 1's open. Immediate and full rejection of the breakout.
🔹 Integrated Trade Management
Every signal automatically places three levels on your chart so you never have to manually calculate a trade again.
🔸 Entry
The open of the candle immediately following the signal candle. You're not chasing — you're entering at the next structured open after confirmation is complete.
🔸 Stop Loss
The open of the signal candle itself. The reasoning: if price returns to where the signal candle opened, the reversal thesis is structurally compromised.
🔸 Take Profit
Fully user-adjustable R multiple. Default is 2R — meaning for every dollar risked, you're targeting two dollars of reward. Adjustable from 0.1R to any value via the settings panel.
🔸 Line Behavior
All three lines extend to the right in real time and automatically terminate the moment price hits either the TP or SL level. No manual cleanup. No cluttered leftover lines. Every historical trade remains visible on the chart so you can review setups at a glance.
🔹 Live Performance Table
A built-in stats table tracks every closed trade automatically:
Total Trades — all resolved trades
Wins — trades that reached the TP level
Losses — trades that hit the SL level
Win Rate — displayed as a percentage, color coded green above 50% and red below
Load any chart, any timeframe, any market — the table populates in real time and gives you an instant read on how the patterns have performed under your current filter settings.
🔹 Confluence Filters
Each filter is independently toggleable. Use one, all, or none — the indicator works standalone without any filters active.
🔸 VWAP Filter
VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) is widely used by institutional participants as an intraday benchmark. Price trading above VWAP is generally considered a bullish market structure for the session; below VWAP is bearish.
When enabled, this filter requires:
Bullish signals: the signal candle must close above VWAP
Bearish signals: the signal candle must close below VWAP
This keeps you aligned with the intraday institutional bias rather than trading reversals against the dominant order flow of the session.
🔸 Swing Sweep Filter
One of the most reliable contexts for a reversal pattern is when it occurs after a liquidity sweep — price briefly trading through a prior swing point before reversing. This is often where stop orders from trapped traders trigger, adding fuel to the reversal.
When enabled:
Bullish signals only show if the signal candle's low swept below a recent pivot low
Bearish signals only show if the signal candle's high swept above a recent pivot high
Both the lookback window and the pivot strength (number of bars required on each side to qualify as a swing) are fully adjustable.
🔸 Time Window Filter
Not all hours of the trading day are equal. The highest-quality price action signals tend to occur during periods of genuine institutional participation — typically the first few hours of the New York session when volume, spread, and volatility are all at their daily peak.
When enabled, signals are restricted to a user-defined time window. Default is 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST, covering the New York open. The start and end times are individually adjustable by hour and minute. Uses the America/New_York timezone, so EST/EDT daylight saving transitions are handled automatically.
🔹 Settings Overview
SettingDescriptionShow Bullish / Bearish SignalsToggle each direction independentlyShow Outside BarsToggle OB pattern on/offShow 2-Bar ReversalsToggle 2BR pattern on/offTake Profit R MultipleAdjustable TP target (default 2R)Show Trade LinesToggle entry/SL/TP linesLine ColorsIndependently customizableTime Window FilterOn/off + start/end timeVWAP FilterOn/offSwing Sweep FilterOn/off + lookback + pivot strength
🔹 Works On Any Market & Timeframe
The patterns are purely price-action based — no volume dependency, no indicator inputs. They apply equally to equities, futures, forex, and crypto. Most effective on intraday timeframes (1m–15m) during high-liquidity sessions, but the logic holds on higher timeframes for swing traders as well.
🔹 Closing Remarks
The Outside Bar and 2-Bar Reversal are not new concepts. Traders have been observing these patterns for decades. What this indicator adds is precision in definition — ensuring every signal meets a strict structural checklist rather than firing on any loosely engulfing candle — combined with a fully automated trade management overlay and a real-time performance table.
The filters exist because context matters. The same pattern in the middle of a choppy afternoon session, below VWAP, with no liquidity sweep, is a different proposition to the same pattern at the New York open, above VWAP, after a clean sweep of a prior swing low.
Use the filters to build a ruleset that matches your edge, and use the performance table to validate it.
Drop a comment below with the market and timeframe you're testing this on — always interested to see how different traders apply price action tools. Indicator
EBP + FibThis indicator automatically detects bullish and bearish EBP candles, highlights them visually, and generates an inverted Fibonacci framework used to plan continuation trades with precision.
🔍 What This Indicator Does
This tool fully automates the EBP workflow:
1. Detects Bullish & Bearish EBP Candles
Bullish EBP: price sweeps prior lows and closes strongly above the previous open/close.
Bearish EBP: price sweeps prior highs and closes strongly below the previous open/close.
EBP candles often serve as high-probability directional anchors, defining short-term and medium-term bias.
2. Plots an Inverted Fibonacci Framework
Once an EBP candle forms, the script builds a custom inverted fib projection using the candle’s high/low as anchor points.
The levels used:
1.0 – EBP extreme
0.75 / 0.65 / 0.50 / 0.25 / 0.0 – retracement levels
-0.25 / -0.50 – continuation targets
3. Clean Labeling & Custom Styling
You can customize:
Level colors
Line weights & styles
Label positions (left, middle, right)
Label text size
Vertical spacing (to separate labels from lines)
Labels show the actual fib value for fast reference during execution.
4. Directional Bias Made Simple
The indicator colors EBP candles and displays fib levels that express the market’s expected path:
Bullish: price is expected to retrace into 0.50–0.65, hold above the 1.0 extreme, and extend toward negative extensions.
Bearish: identical logic mirrored downward.
This makes bias extremely easy to read on any timeframe (1m → 4H → HTF).
5. Built-in Alerts
The indicator includes alert conditions for:
Bullish EBP detected
Bearish EBP detected
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📈 How Traders Use This Tool
This indicator is designed for traders who want a clean, systematic framework for trading EBP-based continuation setups.
Common execution models:
🔹 Bullish EBP
A 1H or 4H bullish EBP forms → bullish bias.
Wait for price to retrace into the 0.65 or 0.50 level.
Look for lower-timeframe confirmation (BOS, sweep + reclaim).
Target 0, -0.25, or -0.50.
🔹 Bearish EBP
Mirror the process above.
This workflow is widely used in algorithmic price action, continuation models, and liquidity-based trading.
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✨ Ideal For
Liquidity-based traders
Smart money / ICT-fluent traders
Continuation model traders
Systematic backtesters
Intraday ES/NQ/MNQ/MES traders
Crypto scalpers using HTF bias
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