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Trap Score - Institutional Liquidity & Trapped Trader Index
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DESCRIPTION:
The Trap Score Index is a quantitative, non-repainting trading indicator designed to detect inducement, liquidity sweeps, trapped buyers, trapped sellers, absorption, and failed breakouts near key higher-timeframe (HTF) level locations.
Rather than relying on subjective pattern recognition, this tool translates order flow dynamics and price action into a deterministic 0 to 100 Trap Score computed at the close of every candle.
CORE CONCEPT:
Markets frequently generate fake breakouts beyond key swing highs and lows to trigger retail stop orders and attract aggressive breakout traders into illiquid positions. When institutional participants absorb these breakout orders, price fails to advance and reclaims the broken level, leaving retail traders trapped.
This indicator calculates two independent normalized metrics:
• 🟥 Bearish Trap Score: Measures trapped buyers at key resistance ➔ Short Setup
• 🟩 Bullish Trap Score: Measures trapped sellers at key support ➔ Long Setup
11 QUANTITATIVE SCORING FACTORS (100 Points Max):
Each candle evaluates 11 weighted mathematical conditions to build the 0–100 score:
1. Liquidity Sweep at Level (15 pts): Candle wicks past an N-bar swing level and closes back inside with wick ratio ≥ 35% and sweep distance ≤ 0.50 ATR.
2. Failed Breakout / Reclaim (15 pts): Price traded outside a key level and failed to hold outside within 3 bars.
3. Extreme Delta (10 pts): Intrabar volume delta ≥ 2.0× its 20-period average.
4. Volume Expansion (10 pts): Candle volume ≥ 1.5× its 20-period SMA.
5. Absorption (15 pts): Extreme volume/delta expansion accompanied by minimal price progress (≤ 0.15 ATR).
6. Delta-Price Divergence (10 pts): Volume delta achieves a new 5-bar extreme while price close fails to confirm.
7. Large-Trade Absorption (10 pts): Extreme volume spike (≥ 2.5× average) with a large wick (≥ 40%) and price progress ≤ 0.15 ATR.
8. HTF Location Proximity (10 pts): Current price within 0.15 × HTF ATR of HTF Swings, Previous Day High/Low (PDH/PDL), Previous Week High/Low (PWH/PWL), or Session VWAP.
9. VWAP / Value Area Rejection (5 pts): Rejection wick crossing Session VWAP or ± 1 stddev bands.
10. Confirmation Candle (5 pts): Candle close confirming directional momentum past the sweep range.
11. Exhaustion (5 pts): 3 consecutive bars of declining volume with narrow candle range (< 0.50 ATR).
HOW TO TRADE WITH TRAP SCORE:
1. Conviction Tiers & Signal Thresholds:
• Score < 50: Neutral / No Trade
• Score 50 – 64: Low Conviction (Observe)
• Score 65 – 79: Standard Setup (Default Alert Trigger)
• Score 80 – 89: High Conviction Setup
• Score ≥ 90: Exceptional Setup
2. Entry Rules:
• Enter on the open of the bar following a confirmed signal candle where Trap Score ≥ 65.
• Ensure market has not established acceptance outside the swept reference level.
3. Stop Loss Placement:
• Long Position: Sweep Low - (ATR × 0.10)
• Short Position: Sweep High + (ATR × 0.10)
4. Profit Targets (Partial Scale-Out):
• TP1 (50%): At 1.0R or Session VWAP (Move stop loss to Breakeven).
• TP2 (25%): At range midpoint or opposing value area.
• TP3 (25%): At opposing liquidity pool (PWH for longs, PWL for shorts) or 3.0R.
KEY SETTINGS & CUSTOMIZATION:
• HTF Resolution: Higher timeframe context resolution (Default: 240 / 4H).
• Swing Lookback: Number of bars to confirm reference highs and lows (Default: 20).
• Minimum Entry Score: Configurable signal score threshold (Default: 65).
• Dashboard Table: Toggleable top-right status summary panel displaying live scores, conviction levels, sweep states, and signals.
NON-REPAINTING GUARANTEE:
This indicator uses strict non-repainting Pine Script v6 syntax. Higher timeframe security requests fetch only closed completed bars (lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_off) to prevent lookahead bias or hindsight repainting.
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Virgin RTH Levels with Alerts# Virgin RTH Levels with Alerts
If you're looking to trade breakouts or breakdowns and/or fake-outs without having to be glued to the screens, or manually drawing the levels every day, then this is the script for you!
## What it does
This indicator automatically marks the Regular Trading Hours (09:30–16:00 New York) High and Low of every prior day — plus the prior day's Halfback (50% of the RTH range), prior week's and prior month's RTH High/Low, and the year-to-date RTH High/Low — and keeps each level on the chart only while it remains **virgin**.
A level is *virgin* if price has never traded back to it during a subsequent RTH session. These untested levels often act as magnets and reaction zones: old session extremes that were never revisited during regular hours tend to get sought out later, and the first touch frequently produces a tradeable reaction.
## The core rule: RTH touches clear, ETH touches alert
The defining feature of this script is how it separates the two sessions:
- **Touch during RTH (09:30–16:00 NY):** the level is considered tested. An alert fires and the level is removed from the chart (or optionally kept as a dotted line).
- **Touch during ETH (overnight/extended hours):** an alert fires so you know price is interacting with the level, but **virgin status is preserved** — only regular-session trade can "spend" a level.
This lets you run alerts around the clock on futures and extended-hours equities while keeping the level logic strictly RTH-based.
## Levels drawn
- **PDH / PDL** — each prior day's RTH High and Low (all of them, as far back as your lookback setting)
- **PD50** — prior day's Halfback: the midpoint of the prior day's RTH range
- **PWH / PWL** — prior weeks' RTH High and Low (thicker line by default)
- **PMH / PML** — prior months' RTH High and Low (thicker still)
- **YTDH / YTDL** — the year's running RTH High and Low (thickest). These update in place as new yearly extremes are made and reset at the new year.
Every line begins at the 09:30 open of the session that created it and extends right until it is touched during RTH. Optional labels show the level name and price.
## Alerts
Create one alert on the indicator and choose either:
- **"Any alert() function call"** — one alert covers everything, with dynamic messages naming the symbol, the exact level (e.g. "virgin PWH 7,554.00"), the session it was touched in, and whether the level was cleared or preserved.
- **A specific condition** — twelve individual conditions are available: any level (any session / RTH only / ETH only), Prior-Day High, Prior-Day Low, Prior-Day Halfback, Prior-Week High/Low, Prior-Month High/Low, and YTD High/Low. Messages are fully editable and support PulseWire placeholders such as {{ticker}} and {{close}}.
Alerts fire in **all** sessions, so overnight tags of untested levels reach you even though they do not clear the level.
## Settings
- **Session** — RTH window and timezone are configurable (defaults 09:30–16:00 America/New_York), so the script works on any instrument and any regular session definition.
- **Lookback** — how far back to keep levels: trading days for daily levels (minimum 1 = prior session only), weeks for weekly, months for monthly.
- **Visuals** — independent color, line width (1–10), and line style (solid/dashed/dotted) for each of the nine level types; label on/off and label size; toggles for weekly, monthly, YTD, and Halfback levels; option to keep touched levels as dotted lines instead of deleting them.
- **Alerts** — RTH and ETH touch alerts can be enabled independently.
## How it works
The script accumulates the High/Low of each RTH session bar-by-bar using the configured session and timezone (it does not rely on higher-timeframe requests, so levels match exactly what printed during regular hours on your chart's symbol). When a session, week, or month completes, its extremes are stored as level objects and drawn from that period's 09:30 anchor. On every bar, each stored level is checked against the bar's range: an RTH touch clears it, an ETH touch only alerts. Weekly levels finalize at the first bar of the new week, so on futures they are already in place for the Sunday evening open.
## Usage notes
- Use an **intraday** chart. For ETH alerts, enable extended hours on the chart; on an RTH-only chart the script still works, but ETH touches obviously cannot fire.
- If long lookbacks distort your price scale, right-click the price scale and enable **"Scale price chart only"** — the chart will fit the candles and ignore the lines.
- Works on futures, stocks, and ETFs; set the session/timezone to match your instrument's regular hours. Indicator
Opening Range Breakout ORB - Signals, Targets & Alerts [LunqFX]The Opening Range Breakout (ORB) is one of the most traded intraday strategies — but most ORB indicators only draw the opening range box and leave you guessing. This Opening Range Breakout indicator goes further: it marks the opening range, detects the first genuine breakout, filters fakeouts, projects measured-move targets, and — uniquely — builds a live breakout statistics engine from the last 100 trading days of the symbol on your chart.
What makes this ORB indicator different
Instead of a static box, you get a data-driven read on how your market actually behaves after the opening range:
First-break direction split — how often the day breaks up vs down
Hold rate — how often the first breakout direction holds into the close
Fakeout rate — how often the first breakout fails back inside the range
Target hit rates — how often price reaches 1x and 2x the opening-range height
So before you take the trade you can see, for example, that on this symbol the upside breakout holds into the close 62% of the time and the 1R target is reached on 48% of breakout days.
How the opening range breakout is calculated
Auto mode works on every market with zero setup. The opening range starts at each day's open of the symbol's own exchange — stocks at the 09:30 session open, crypto at the 00:00 UTC daily open, forex and futures at their session open — and lasts a chosen number of minutes (the classic 5-minute, 15-minute or 30-minute ORB). A Custom mode lets you define any session window, such as the London or New York open.
When the opening-range window closes, the range high and low are locked and projected forward as levels.
The first candle close beyond the range (or wick, if you prefer) is treated as the breakout. Targets are projected at 1x and 2x the range height in the breakout direction.
A close back inside the range before the first target is reached is flagged as a fakeout. A breakout that reaches 1R first and only then returns is counted as a valid breakout, not a fakeout.
At the end of each trading day the outcome is recorded — direction, hold, fakeout, targets — and the dashboard percentages are plain rolling hit rates. No repainting, no curve fitting.
How to use it
Breakout day trading: trade the first breakout with more context — use the hold rate to judge whether the break on your symbol is worth taking, and size your target from the 1R / 2R hit rates.
Fakeout fade: when a symbol shows a high fakeout rate, the failed breakout back inside the range is often the better setup; the fakeout is marked in real time.
Range-quality filter: the dashboard shows the opening range as a multiple of ATR, so you can skip abnormally small ranges that tend to break out randomly.
Works on any symbol and any intraday timeframe (1m–15m recommended): index futures and CFDs (NAS100, SPX500, US30, NQ, ES), stocks and ETFs (SPY, QQQ), gold (XAUUSD), Bitcoin and crypto, and forex majors.
Dashboard
A clean on-chart panel shows today's live status (building range → inside range → breakout → target hit or fakeout), the opening-range high/low and its size in ATR, and the full statistics block with the sample size always visible.
Settings
Auto anchor (any market, zero setup) or fully custom session window with timezone control — 5 / 15 / 30-minute ORB or any session open
Close-based or wick-based breakout logic
Adjustable target multiples, rolling statistics window, and visuals
Alerts for range locked, breakout up, breakout down, fakeout, target 1 and target 2
Optional gradient momentum candles that can be switched off
No repainting
The opening range is fixed the moment its window closes. Breakouts, fakeouts and targets are confirmed on closed bars only, and the statistics are built exclusively from completed trading days — never recalculated backwards.
This indicator is an educational market-analysis tool, not financial advice. Historical statistics describe past behavior and are not a guarantee of future results. Always confirm with your own analysis and manage your risk.
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Volatility Compression Release Map [AGPro Series]Volatility Compression Release Map
🧠 Core Idea
Is the market quietly building expansion energy, or has the release already failed back into the shelf?
📌 Overview / What it does
Volatility Compression Release Map is a volatility regime and compression shelf visualization tool built to identify quiet range contraction, release attempts, fake releases, and expansion quality.
The script maps a projected compression shelf when volatility rank and range size contract together. It then tracks whether price releases away from that shelf, returns back inside it, or continues to hold expansion pressure.
This script does not predict future price direction, automate trades, or produce guaranteed buy/sell signals. It is designed as a structured chart-reading layer for volatility compression, release quality, and contextual risk.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
The script was built for traders who care about the transition between quiet markets and expansion phases.
Many charts look calm before movement starts. The challenge is not simply seeing a tight range, but understanding whether that range is still building energy, whether the release is active, or whether the move has already failed back into the shelf.
The design philosophy is simple: reduce volatility noise into a readable map, preserve the important shelf story, and make the current regime understandable at first glance.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most tools focus on breakout arrows, squeeze dots, or raw volatility bands.
This script does NOT treat every contraction as an immediate trade signal and does NOT frame every expansion candle as confirmation.
Instead, it builds a full compression-to-release map: the shelf, volatility rank, range size, release direction, fake-release risk, quality score, right-side state labels, and a compact AG Pro panel all work together.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Context Detection
The script evaluates ATR rank, recent range size, and whether price is still inside a quiet shelf.
2. Shelf Mapping
When compression conditions align, the active range is stored and projected forward as a compression shelf.
3. Release Evaluation
The script checks whether price leaves the shelf with enough candle body expansion to qualify as a release attempt.
4. Failure Tracking
If price quickly returns into the shelf during the fake-release window, the state changes to fake release.
5. Visual Output
The chart displays a projected shelf, dotted rails, a centered shelf-quality label, event labels, right-side state tags, and a compact AG Pro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Zones represent the active compression shelf.
The shelf label shows the current shelf quality score using a compact `SHELF | Q` format.
Green/teal visual states generally indicate constructive expansion or defended release behavior.
Pink visual states highlight failed release or adverse volatility behavior.
Indigo/accent visuals represent compression and neutral shelf structure.
The panel summarizes compression state, release direction, volatility rank, range size, quality score, shelf range, and next context.
🚦 Signals & States
• COMPRESSION BUILD → a quiet shelf is forming and volatility is compressed
• RELEASE ACTIVE → price has moved away from the shelf with sufficient body expansion
• FAKE RELEASE → price returned back into the shelf after a release attempt
• SHELF WATCH → a shelf exists but the market has not produced a clean active release
• WAIT COMPRESSION → no valid compression shelf is currently active
🔔 Alerts Logic
Compression Build alert triggers when a new volatility compression shelf is detected.
Compression Release alert triggers when price releases from the active shelf with enough candle body expansion.
Fake Release alert triggers when price returns back into the shelf within the defined fake-release window.
Alerts are attention markers. They are not trade instructions.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The context becomes stronger when low volatility rank, compact range size, a visible shelf, and a strong release candle align.
The context becomes weaker when price fails back into the shelf shortly after release.
📊 When to Use
• Before potential expansion phases
• During quiet range compression
• Around breakout preparation zones
• When evaluating whether a move is expanding or failing
• On liquid markets where volatility structure is meaningful
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Extremely illiquid symbols
• Very noisy low-timeframe charts
• News shock environments where volatility structure changes suddenly
• Markets with unreliable volume or large gaps
• Situations where a single indicator is being used without broader context
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Compression Lookback → controls the range window used to detect the shelf
• Volatility Rank Lookback → controls how ATR rank is measured
• Compression Rank Max → changes how selective compression detection is
• Range ATR Max → limits how wide a valid shelf can be
• Release Body ATR Min → defines how strong a release candle must be
• Fake Release Window → controls how quickly a release failure is detected
• Visual settings → control shelf projection, labels, panel, theme, and font sizes
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The interface is designed to look clean, premium, and publication-ready.
The shelf is the main visual anchor. Event labels are intentionally limited so the chart does not become crowded.
The AG Pro panel uses a merged blue header row and summarizes the state without covering the main chart story.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel state.
2. Locate the active compression shelf.
3. Check whether price is inside, releasing, or failing back into the shelf.
4. Compare the quality score with the visual structure.
5. Use broader market context before making any decision.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
Compression is not direction.
A shelf shows where volatility has contracted.
A release shows that price moved away from the shelf with expansion pressure.
A fake release shows that the market rejected the expansion and returned to the compression area.
The strongest interpretations come from combining the shelf, state, quality score, and surrounding market structure.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
This script is not a prediction engine.
It is not financial advice.
It is not an auto-trading system.
It does not guarantee profitable trades.
It does not replace risk management or independent analysis.
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
Timeframe differences can change how compression and release behavior appears.
High volatility news events may reduce the usefulness of shelf-based interpretation.
Low-liquidity markets can produce misleading shelves and sudden false releases.
The script is rule-based and should always be interpreted within broader market context.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Volatility often contracts before expansion, but compression alone does not define direction.
The shelf helps identify where the market has stored recent range energy.
Release quality helps separate stronger expansion attempts from weak movement outside the range.
🧾 Use Case Examples
When price remains inside a shelf while volatility rank is low, the market may still be building energy.
When price leaves the shelf with strong body expansion, the script marks release behavior.
When price returns into the shelf quickly, the script flags a fake-release context.
🧱 System Philosophy
AGPro Series tools are built to turn complex market behavior into structured visual maps.
The goal is not to simplify markets into certainty, but to make important context easier to read.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No script can know the future.
No signal is certain.
No visual state should be treated as a guaranteed outcome.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk.
Markets can move unexpectedly.
Users are responsible for their own decisions, risk management, and trade execution.
This script does not provide financial advice.
📚 Educational Note
This tool is intended for educational and analytical use. It can help traders study volatility compression, release behavior, fake-release risk, and shelf-based market context.
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Failed Continuation Trap Map [AGPro Series]Failed Continuation Trap Map
🧠 Core Idea
Did a continuation attempt fail strongly enough to trap traders and create pressure in the opposite direction?
📌 Overview / What it does
Failed Continuation Trap Map is a rule-based price-action and market-structure visualization tool designed to study failed continuation attempts.
The script identifies trend-aligned continuation attempts, maps the attempted breakout zone, evaluates whether the move fails back through that zone, and highlights when trapped longs or trapped shorts may create opposite pressure.
It does not predict reversals, automate trades, or guarantee that a failed continuation will produce follow-through. It is a structured decision-support map for continuation failure, trap behavior, and opposite-pressure context.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
Many breakout and continuation tools focus on whether price moved beyond a level.
This script was built to answer a more selective question:
Did the continuation attempt fail in a way that changes the market narrative?
The design goal is to help traders read failed continuation as a trap context instead of treating every rejection as a reversal signal.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most tools focus on breakouts, pullbacks, continuation signals, or reversal labels.
This script does NOT label every failed move as a trap.
Instead, it waits for a trend-aligned continuation attempt, tracks the attempt zone, evaluates failure quality, maps the trap pocket, and checks whether opposite pressure confirms after trapped participants are created.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Continuation Bias Detection
The script uses fast and slow EMAs to define the active continuation bias.
2. Attempt Mapping
When price attempts continuation beyond recent structure, the script records the attempt level and builds an attempt zone.
3. Failure Evaluation
After the attempt, the script watches a defined failure window to detect rejection back through the attempt level.
4. Trap and Pressure Scoring
Trap quality uses rejection wick behavior, relative volume, and failure timing.
5. Visual Output
The chart displays the attempt zone, trap pocket, opposite-pressure rail, centered trap label, event labels, right-side tags, alerts, and a compact AG Pro decision panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Attempt Zone = the area around the continuation level where breakout or continuation participants may enter.
Trap Pocket = the area where failed continuation can create trapped participants.
Opposite-Pressure Rail = the level used to read whether the failed continuation is turning into stronger pressure against the attempt.
Centered Trap Label = the main visual anchor inside the active trap pocket.
Event Labels = compact labels for attempts, long traps, short traps, and pressure confirmation.
Right-Side Tags = current trap state, attempt level, and pressure quality.
Panel = summarizes trap state, attempt type, trapped side, trap quality, pressure quality, next context, and timeframe.
🚦 Signals & States
• ATTEMPT ACTIVE → price attempted continuation and is still inside the failure evaluation window.
• TRAP ACTIVE → the continuation attempt failed back through the attempt level.
• OPPOSITE PRESSURE → price confirmed pressure away from the failed continuation attempt.
• CONTINUATION HOLD → the attempt is holding beyond the continuation zone.
• ATTEMPT EXPIRED → the attempt did not create a timely failure or pressure signal.
• WAIT ATTEMPT → no valid continuation attempt is active.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts trigger when a major continuation-failure state appears.
• Continuation Attempt → price attempted continuation beyond recent structure.
• Failed Continuation Trap → continuation attempt failed back through the attempt zone with trap quality.
• Opposite Pressure Confirmed → opposite pressure confirmed after a failed continuation attempt.
Alerts are attention markers, not trade instructions.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The context becomes stronger when:
• Continuation bias is clear
• Price attempts continuation beyond recent structure
• The attempt fails back through the zone quickly
• Rejection wick quality is strong
• Relative volume supports participation
• Opposite-pressure rail confirms after the trap
• The panel state agrees with the chart labels
If these elements do not align, the script avoids forcing a trap interpretation.
📊 When to Use
• Breakout failure analysis
• Failed continuation review
• Trend continuation trap studies
• Intraday and swing market-structure analysis
• Crypto, forex, stocks, and index markets
• 1H, 4H, and daily charts
• Markets where continuation attempts are common and readable
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Very low-liquidity symbols
• Extremely sideways markets with no continuation bias
• News-driven candles that distort rejection quality
• Ultra-low timeframes with excessive noise
• Markets where recent structure is too compressed to define a clean attempt zone
• Situations where a single failed attempt should not be treated as a standalone decision
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Fast EMA Length → defines the faster continuation-bias component.
• Slow EMA Length → confirms the broader continuation direction.
• ATR Length → normalizes attempt zones, trap pockets, labels, and failure levels.
• Continuation Breakout Lookback → defines recent structure used to identify continuation attempts.
• Failure Evaluation Window → controls how long after an attempt the script can classify failure.
• Attempt Zone ATR → controls the thickness of the continuation attempt zone.
• Trap Wick Threshold → defines how much rejection quality is needed before a failure becomes trap context.
• Use Volume Confirmation → adds relative volume to trap-quality scoring.
• Projection Bars → controls how far zones, rails, and right-side tags project.
• Label Font Size → controls chart label and tag text size.
• Panel Font Size → controls panel text size.
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The visual hierarchy is built around the failed-continuation story.
The attempt zone shows where continuation was attempted.
The trap pocket shows where trapped participants may become part of the next narrative.
The opposite-pressure rail gives a clean reference for pressure confirmation.
The centered badge keeps the active trap context readable at first glance.
The AG Pro panel summarizes the current trap state without forcing the user to decode every element manually.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Let the script identify the active continuation bias.
2. Watch for an attempt beyond recent structure.
3. Check whether the attempt holds or fails back through the zone.
4. If trap context appears, watch the opposite-pressure rail.
5. Use the panel to confirm trap state, trapped side, and quality scores.
6. Interpret the output inside broader trend, liquidity, volatility, and support/resistance context.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
A continuation attempt does not guarantee follow-through. It means price attempted to move beyond recent structure in the trend direction.
A trap active state does not guarantee reversal. It means the continuation attempt failed back through the attempt zone with enough quality to deserve attention.
Opposite pressure does not guarantee trend change. It means trapped participants may be adding pressure against the attempted continuation.
The strongest readings occur when trap state, pressure rail, and broader market context align.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
This script is not a prediction engine.
It is not financial advice.
It is not an auto-trading system.
It does not provide guaranteed entry or exit signals.
It is not a generic breakout indicator.
It is not a simple reversal marker.
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
EMA bias can lag during fast reversals.
Failure windows may miss slow-developing traps.
Low-liquidity markets can produce misleading wick behavior.
High volatility can make attempt zones wider or less stable.
Timeframe differences can change how continuation attempts appear.
The script is designed for structured interpretation, not certainty.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Failed continuation traps often matter most when traders are leaning heavily in one direction and price fails to reward that pressure.
The same failed attempt can have different meaning in a strong trend, range, liquidity sweep, or volatility shock.
The script should be read together with broader structure, volume, liquidity, and trend context.
🧾 Use Case Examples
• If price attempts upside continuation and then closes back below the attempt level with a strong upper wick, the script may show long-trap context.
• If price attempts downside continuation and then rejects back above the attempt level, the script may show short-trap context.
• If price continues beyond the pressure rail after a trap, the script may show opposite-pressure confirmation.
🧱 System Philosophy
Failed Continuation Trap Map is part of the AGPro Series approach to decision-support tools:
clear structure, premium chart readability, honest interpretation, and no promise of certainty.
The goal is to help traders see when continuation logic breaks, without turning every failure into a forced reversal signal.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No script can know the future.
No failed continuation guarantees reversal.
No signal should be interpreted without broader market context.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk.
Markets can move unpredictably.
This script is for educational and analytical purposes only.
It does not provide financial advice or guaranteed trading outcomes.
Users remain responsible for their own decisions.
📚 Educational Note
Use this script to study how continuation attempts fail and how trapped participants can affect the next phase of market behavior.
The value is not only in the trap label. The value is in learning when a continuation narrative is accepted, rejected, or converted into opposite pressure.
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Breakout Participation Gate [AGPro Series]Breakout Participation Gate
🧠 Core Idea
Does the breakout have enough participation and structure to deserve attention?
📌 Overview / What it does
Breakout Participation Gate is a breakout validation tool built to separate structured breakouts from weak breaks and fakeout-prone moves.
The script builds upper and lower breakout gate levels from recent structure, evaluates breakout candle quality, checks relative volume, body commitment, close location, trend context, retest behavior, expansion potential, and fakeout risk.
It does not predict price direction, automate trades, or claim that a gate-open event must continue. It is a structured visualization and decision-support tool for breakout participation review.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
Breakouts are among the most searched and most misunderstood market events.
Many tools mark every move above resistance or below support.
This script was built to ask a stricter question:
Did the breakout pass the participation gate?
The design goal is to help traders avoid treating every structural break as equally meaningful.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most breakout tools focus on the break itself.
This script does NOT mark every breakout as valid.
Instead, it checks whether the breakout had enough relative volume, body commitment, close location, range expansion, trend context, and retest behavior. It also keeps the active gate visible so users can watch whether the breakout holds, expands, or fails back inside the structure.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Context Detection
The script identifies recent upper and lower gate levels using a structure lookback.
2. Breakout Qualification
When price closes beyond a gate, the script scores participation through volume, candle body, close location, range expansion, and trend context.
3. Gate Classification
High-quality breakouts can become GATE OPEN events. Lower-quality breaks can be classified as WEAK BREAK.
4. Retest Evaluation
After a gate opens, the script projects a retest shelf and watches whether price defends the shelf.
5. Fakeout and Expansion Review
The script tracks whether price closes back inside the gate shelf or expands beyond the active gate with acceptable participation.
6. Visual Output
The chart displays breakout gate lines, retest shelf, event labels, right-side tags, alerts, and a compact AG Pro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Upper Gate = recent upper structure level that price must break to start an upside gate evaluation.
Lower Gate = recent lower structure level that price must break to start a downside gate evaluation.
Breakout Retest Shelf = the active zone around the gate where retest behavior is evaluated.
GATE OPEN = breakout passed the participation gate.
WEAK BREAK = price broke the gate but participation quality was not strong enough.
RETEST HOLD = price defended the active retest shelf after the breakout.
FAKEOUT RISK = price closed back inside the gate shelf after the breakout.
EXPANSION READY = price expanded beyond the gate while participation remained acceptable.
Panel = summarizes gate status, quality score, direction, relative volume, body commitment, retest health, fakeout risk, and next context.
🚦 Signals & States
• GATE OPEN → breakout passed the participation gate.
• WEAK BREAK → price broke structure but did not show enough participation quality.
• GATE WATCH → active gate is being monitored after a breakout.
• RETEST HOLD → active retest shelf was defended.
• FAKEOUT RISK → price closed back through the gate shelf.
• EXPANSION READY → price expanded beyond the gate with acceptable participation.
• WAIT BREAKOUT → no active gate has been triggered.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts trigger when a major breakout-gate state appears.
• Breakout Gate Open → breakout passed the participation gate.
• Weak Breakout → price broke a gate level without enough participation quality.
• Breakout Retest Hold → active retest shelf was defended.
• Breakout Fakeout Risk → price closed back inside the gate shelf after the breakout.
Alerts are attention markers, not trade instructions.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The context becomes stronger when:
• Price closes beyond a defined structure gate
• Relative volume is above normal
• Candle body commitment is strong
• Close location supports the breakout direction
• Range expands versus ATR
• The breakout direction agrees with trend context
• Retest behavior respects the active gate shelf
When these elements do not align, the script avoids treating the breakout as automatically valid.
📊 When to Use
• Breakout validation
• Failed breakout review
• Retest planning
• Trend continuation review
• Crypto, stocks, futures, forex, and liquid markets
• 15m, 30m, 1H, 4H, and 1D charts
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Very low-liquidity assets
• Extremely noisy micro timeframes
• Symbols with unreliable volume
• News-driven spikes where structure can be distorted
• Markets where every wick break is being over-interpreted
• Situations where a single breakout label is expected to act as a guaranteed signal
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Gate Structure Lookback → defines the recent structure window used for upper and lower gates.
• Breakout Close Buffer ATR → controls how far beyond the gate price must close.
• Minimum Breakout Relative Volume → defines how much participation is required for strong volume credit.
• Minimum Body Commitment % → controls how much candle body participation is required.
• Gate Quality Threshold → separates gate-open breakouts from weak breaks.
• Retest Evaluation Window → defines how long the active gate shelf remains under review.
• Retest Shelf Width ATR → controls the thickness of the retest shelf around the active gate.
• Expansion Ready Distance ATR → defines when a breakout has expanded far enough to be monitored as continuation-ready.
• Event Label Mode → Premium focuses on higher-quality gate states. Detailed allows more weak-break labels.
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The visual hierarchy is built around the gate:
Gate lines define the structure.
The retest shelf shows where the breakout should hold.
Event labels mark gate-open, weak-break, retest-hold, fakeout-risk, and expansion-ready states.
Right-side tags keep the active gate context visible.
The AG Pro panel compresses the current breakout context into a fast, readable summary.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel gate status.
2. Check whether price has broken the upper or lower gate.
3. Compare quality score with the event label.
4. Watch the active retest shelf.
5. Check whether price holds, expands, or fails back inside the gate.
6. Confirm with broader market structure, liquidity, volume, and risk planning.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
A gate-open label does not guarantee continuation.
A weak-break label does not guarantee reversal.
A retest-hold label means the active shelf was defended according to the script's rules.
A fakeout-risk label means the breakout structure weakened.
The script is best used as a breakout-quality layer, not as a standalone trading system.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
This script is not a prediction engine.
It is not financial advice.
It is not an auto-trading system.
It does not provide guaranteed entry or exit signals.
It is not a simple support/resistance breakout marker.
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
Breakout quality depends on market structure and liquidity.
Volume behavior can differ across crypto, futures, stocks, and forex.
Choppy ranges can create repeated weak-break and fakeout states.
Different timeframes may show different gate behavior.
Highly volatile news events can distort breakout quality.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Breakouts are strongest when structure, candle commitment, participation, and retest behavior align.
The first break is only one part of the story.
The active gate shelf helps users watch whether the market accepts the breakout after the first impulse.
🧾 Use Case Examples
If price closes above the upper gate with strong participation, the script may mark GATE OPEN.
If price breaks a gate but quality is weak, the script may mark WEAK BREAK.
If price returns to the active shelf and defends it, the script may mark RETEST HOLD.
If price closes back through the shelf, the script may mark FAKEOUT RISK.
🧱 System Philosophy
The goal is not to chase every breakout.
The goal is to filter breakout attention.
This script treats breakout quality as a sequence:
structure break → participation gate → retest shelf → expansion or failure.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No breakout label guarantees continuation.
No weak-break label guarantees reversal.
No retest label guarantees a successful trend move.
All outputs should be interpreted as analytical context.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk.
This script is for educational and analytical purposes only.
It does not provide financial advice, investment advice, or guaranteed trading outcomes.
Users are fully responsible for their own decisions, risk management, and trade execution.
📚 Educational Note
Use the script to study which breakouts attract real participation and which breaks fail to hold their gate.
The most useful question is not only whether price broke structure.
The better question is whether the breakout deserved attention after the break.
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Pre-Breakout Pressure Planner [AGPro Series]Pre-Breakout Pressure Planner
🧠 Core Idea
Is pressure building before a breakout, or is the setup still premature?
📌 Overview / What it does
Pre-Breakout Pressure Planner is a chart-first breakout readiness tool designed to evaluate pressure before price leaves a range.
The script maps an active pressure box, upper and lower trigger corridors, directional buildup side, volume support, fakeout-risk context, invalidation reference, and target-room projection. These factors are converted into a 0-100 Pressure Score with a clear next-action state such as Bull Pressure, Bear Pressure, Coil Watch, Premature, Fakeout Risk, or Trigger Review.
It does not predict breakouts, automate entries, or confirm post-breakout acceptance. It is built to help traders organize the pre-breakout decision process before reacting to price movement.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
This script was built for traders who want to evaluate whether a breakout setup is becoming valid before the breakout actually happens.
Many traders notice a range only after price has already moved. This tool focuses on the earlier planning phase: Is the range compressed? Is one side applying pressure? Is volume supportive? Is the candle behavior constructive? Is there fakeout risk near the boundary?
The design supports a planning mindset. It helps the user read pressure quality, risk location, target room, and next-action context without turning the chart into a generic signal board.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most breakout tools focus on the moment price breaks a level.
This script does NOT focus on post-breakout confirmation, measured move corridors, generic support/resistance boxes, or simple buy/sell labels.
Instead, it evaluates the setup before the break. The core question is whether pressure is building in a structured way or whether the range is still too early, too wide, too weak, or vulnerable to a fakeout.
This keeps the concept separate from consolidation breakout tools. The purpose is not to grade a completed breakout. The purpose is to organize the pre-breakout readiness window.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Context Detection
The script builds a live pressure range from prior bars and evaluates whether price remains inside the active box, probes a boundary, or enters a trigger corridor.
2. Reference Mapping
It maps the pressure box, upper trigger corridor, lower trigger corridor, active-side invalidation reference, and projected target-room reference.
3. Reaction Evaluation
The model scores range compression, higher-lows or lower-highs buildup, relative volume behavior, candle pressure, and close location inside the box.
4. Visual Output
The script displays the active pressure box, centered status label, trigger corridors, optional risk/target guides, compact event labels, alerts, and a premium AGPro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Pressure Box = the active range where pre-breakout pressure is being evaluated.
Trigger Corridors = narrow upper and lower zones where breakout review becomes relevant.
Risk / Target Guides = active-side invalidation and target-room references used for planning context.
Labels = compact state markers showing pressure, watch, fakeout risk, or trigger-review context.
Colors = teal supports bullish buildup, pink supports bearish buildup, amber marks neutral or developing pressure, and red marks elevated fakeout risk.
Panel = summarizes Pressure Score, Buildup Side, Volume Support, Fakeout Risk, Risk / Target, and Action.
🚦 Signals & States
• Bull Pressure → bullish buildup is forming inside the pressure box near the upper trigger context.
• Bear Pressure → bearish buildup is forming inside the pressure box near the lower trigger context.
• Coil Watch → compression or pressure exists, but the directional side is not clear enough yet.
• Premature → the setup does not yet meet the pressure score or structural requirements.
• Fakeout Risk → a boundary probe appears with weak support, poor candle pressure, or elevated rejection risk.
• Trigger Review → price has entered or crossed a trigger corridor and deserves context review.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts can trigger when bullish pressure appears, bearish pressure appears, fakeout risk appears, or price enters trigger-review context.
Each alert is an attention marker. Alerts are not trade instructions, entry commands, exit commands, or automated strategy rules.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The strongest pressure read appears when multiple conditions align:
Range compression + directional buildup + supportive relative volume + constructive candle pressure + close location near the active trigger side.
When these conditions weaken, the planner can shift toward Coil Watch, Premature, or Fakeout Risk.
📊 When to Use
• Before evaluating a potential range breakout.
• During tight ranges where pressure may be building on one side.
• Around breakout watchlists where fakeout risk needs context.
• During volatility compression before expansion attempts.
• On liquid symbols where ATR, range boundaries, and relative volume are meaningful.
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Extremely low-liquidity symbols with unreliable candles or volume.
• Very noisy micro-timeframes where range boundaries change too often.
• News-driven volatility spikes where pre-breakout pressure can distort quickly.
• Markets where the recent range is too wide to represent meaningful compression.
• As a standalone reason to enter or exit a trade.
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Pressure Range Lookback → controls the prior range used to build the active pressure box.
• Buildup Slope Lookback → controls how the script measures rising lows or falling highs.
• Sensitivity → changes how strict the compression model is.
• Minimum Pressure Score → sets the score needed for Bull Pressure or Bear Pressure states.
• Volume Support Level → defines constructive relative volume before breakout.
• Trigger Corridor ATR Width → controls the size of the upper and lower trigger corridors.
• Invalidation Buffer ATR → controls the active-side invalidation reference.
• Target Room Multiple → projects target-room context from the pressure range height.
• Visual settings → control boxes, guides, labels, panel visibility, panel location, theme, and font sizes.
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The interface is designed to be chart-first.
The main visual object is the active pressure box with a centered status label. Trigger corridors are narrow and controlled so the chart does not become a generic zone map. Event labels are compact, offset away from candles, and limited by cooldown and maximum-visible settings.
The AGPro panel follows the standard publication layout with a single merged blue title row, adjustable panel location, adjustable theme, and adjustable font size.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel Pressure Score and Action.
2. Check whether the pressure box is tight or still too wide.
3. Review the Buildup Side and Volume Support rows.
4. Check whether Fakeout Risk is Low, Moderate, or Elevated.
5. Compare the active trigger corridor with invalidation and target-room context.
6. Treat labels and alerts as attention markers inside broader analysis.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
A high Pressure Score means the pre-breakout setup is more organized according to the script's rule set. It does not mean price must break out.
Bull Pressure and Bear Pressure describe directional buildup, not guaranteed direction.
Fakeout Risk means the boundary behavior deserves caution and context review. It does not mean a breakout cannot continue later.
Trigger Review means price is interacting with a corridor. It is a review state, not a command.
🚫 What This Script Is NOT
• Not a prediction engine.
• Not financial advice.
• Not auto trading.
• Not guaranteed signals.
• Not a buy/sell signal service.
• Not a post-breakout confirmation engine.
• Not a generic support/resistance zone map.
• Not an order-block, FVG, or supply/demand scanner.
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
The script depends on selected lookback values, ATR normalization, relative volume behavior, and current timeframe.
Different symbols may compress differently. Some markets can show pressure for a long time before expansion. Others may probe a boundary and return inside the range several times.
The model is rule-based. Outputs should always be interpreted with broader structure, volatility, liquidity, and trader-defined risk controls.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Pre-breakout pressure is useful because the quality of a range can change before the breakout candle appears.
Rising lows can show pressure toward the upper boundary. Falling highs can show pressure toward the lower boundary. Volume support and candle pressure help judge whether that buildup is constructive or weak.
The script organizes these factors into a clean planner view so the user can decide whether the setup deserves attention, patience, or caution.
🧾 Use Case Examples
When price remains inside a tight range and the panel shifts to Bull Pressure with supported volume, the upper trigger corridor becomes the main review area.
When price presses into a boundary but the panel shows Elevated Fakeout Risk, the user can recognize that the probe may be weak or vulnerable to rejection.
When the score stays low and the state remains Premature, the range may need more time before it deserves attention.
🧱 System Philosophy
Pre-Breakout Pressure Planner follows the AGPro decision-engine approach: a script should help traders evaluate setup quality, risk, target room, and next action without promising an outcome.
The goal is not to add another signal. The goal is to improve the quality of the planning process before the chart forces a decision.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No script can guarantee direction, continuation, breakout success, or outcome.
This tool provides structured pre-breakout context only.
📉 Risk Disclosure
Trading involves risk.
Users are responsible for their own analysis, risk controls, position sizing, and trading decisions.
This script does not provide financial advice, investment advice, or guaranteed trading outcomes.
📚 Educational Note
Use the script to study how pressure builds inside ranges before breakout attempts.
The strongest learning value comes from comparing the panel state, pressure box, trigger corridors, and fakeout-risk labels with the broader chart context.
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AG Pro Inside Bar Breakout Quality [AGPro Series]AG Pro Inside Bar Breakout Quality
Overview / What it does
AG Pro Inside Bar Breakout Quality is an overlay tool built to study one of the market’s most familiar compression structures: the inside bar. Instead of stopping at simple detection, the script evaluates what happens after the pattern forms and grades the breakout attempt with a structured quality model. The result is a workflow-oriented view of inside bar compression, breakout strength, and failed continuation behavior.
The script first identifies a strict inside bar condition, where the current bar remains fully contained within the previous bar’s range. That parent range becomes the active reference zone. From there, the script monitors whether price resolves above or below the structure, whether the move is confirmed by close, whether volume supports the breakout, and whether the breakout later fails and re-enters the range within a user-defined window.
This is not designed as a generic “any breakout” marker. Its purpose is narrower and more specific: it focuses on a compact volatility contraction event, then measures how decisively price leaves that compression. In practical chart work, this helps separate a low-commitment range poke from a more convincing expansion move.
The visual presentation is intentionally structured. Inside bar zones are boxed, breakout direction is marked, quality is scored, and fakeouts are labeled when the breakout reverses back into the monitored range. This makes the script suitable for traders who want a cleaner way to inspect inside bar behavior without manually drawing every structure.
Unique Edge
The main difference here is that the script does not treat every inside bar break as equally meaningful. Many tools stop at “pattern detected” or “level broken.” This script adds a second layer: breakout quality. That layer is derived from close position, volume context, candle body participation, and alignment with the parent candle’s directional bias.
A second differentiator is the built-in fakeout logic. After a breakout is detected, the script continues to watch price for a limited number of bars. If the move quickly returns back through the breakout boundary, the event is tagged as a fakeout. This adds post-event context instead of only marking the first directional move.
Another distinction is that the methodology is deterministic and chart-native. The logic is rule-based, visible, and reproducible from bar to bar. Users can decide whether to require close confirmation beyond the inside bar range, whether to require volume confirmation, and how strict they want the displayed threshold to be through the minimum score filter.
In short, this script is not only about finding compression. It is about ranking the quality of the expansion attempt that follows the compression, while also acknowledging that some breakouts fail quickly and should be read differently.
Methodology
1) Inside Bar Detection
An inside bar is identified when the current bar’s high is lower than the previous bar’s high and the current bar’s low is higher than the previous bar’s low. This creates a strict containment definition based on the previous candle’s full range.
2) Reference Zone
Once an inside bar is detected, the prior candle becomes the parent reference bar. Its high and low define the active breakout boundaries. That range can be visualized as a box, with an optional midpoint line to make the compression zone easier to read on chart.
3) Breakout Confirmation
A bullish breakout occurs when price moves above the parent high. A bearish breakout occurs when price moves below the parent low. Users can choose whether breakout confirmation should be based on close beyond the range or on a less restrictive intrabar break condition.
4) Quality Score
Each breakout can be scored on a 0–10 scale. The score is built from multiple components:
- close position relative to the inside bar boundary
- volume ratio versus the selected moving average
- body participation within the breakout candle’s total range
- directional alignment between the breakout and the parent candle bias
This scoring model is designed to estimate how committed the breakout candle appears, rather than assuming all breaks have equal informational value.
5) Fakeout Detection
If enabled, the script monitors a user-defined number of bars after breakout. A bullish breakout that returns back below the upper boundary within that window is labeled as a bull trap / fakeout. A bearish breakout that returns back above the lower boundary within that window is labeled as a bear trap / fakeout.
6) Visual Layer
The script can display the inside bar zone, midpoint, breakout arrows, score labels, and fakeout markers. A summary panel tracks aggregate statistics such as total inside bars, total breakouts, breakout direction counts, fakeouts, and the latest breakout score.
Signals & Alerts
The script can provide alert conditions for:
- bullish inside bar breakout
- bearish inside bar breakout
- fakeout detection
- high-quality breakout events
- any breakout event
These alerts are intended to help users monitor the pattern and its resolution more efficiently. They do not replace trade planning, confirmation from broader market context, or independent risk management.
Key Inputs
Min Score to Show Breakout
Filters displayed breakout labels by quality threshold. This can be useful for reducing low-quality visual noise.
Volume Confirmation Required
When enabled, breakout evaluation requires volume to be above its moving average threshold. This can help remove low-participation breaks.
Volume MA Period
Defines the lookback length for average volume comparison.
Require Close Beyond IB
When enabled, breakout confirmation depends on bar close beyond the parent range. This creates a more conservative and more stable breakout definition.
Max IBs to Display
Controls how many recent structures and related objects remain visible on chart.
Show IB Box / Midline / Breakout Arrow / Score Label
Lets users decide how much visual detail they want to keep on screen.
Glow Effect on High Score
Adds emphasis to stronger breakout events without changing the underlying logic.
Fakeout Window
Defines how many bars after breakout the script should continue monitoring for a return back through the breakout boundary.
Limitations & Transparency
This script studies inside bar compression and subsequent breakout behavior. It does not claim to identify all meaningful consolidations, and it does not attempt to classify every market regime. The methodology is intentionally focused on one structure.
The score is a rule-based quality model, not an objective measure of future outcome. A high score does not guarantee continuation, and a lower score does not guarantee failure. It simply reflects how the breakout candle and its context behave according to the script’s internal criteria.
Volume-based interpretation may vary across symbols and markets. On some instruments, especially those with inconsistent or synthetic volume data, volume confirmation may be less informative than on others. Users should evaluate whether volume filtering is appropriate for the asset they are studying.
Fakeout detection is also definition-dependent. The script labels a fakeout when price returns through the breakout boundary within the selected lookback window. Different traders may prefer a different timing window or a different failure definition.
As with any overlay, chart readability depends on market volatility, timeframe, and user settings. On lower timeframes or during highly active periods, more visual events may appear. The built-in filters and display controls are there to help manage that density.
Risk Disclosure
This script is an analytical tool for chart study. It is not financial advice, not a trade recommendation, and not a promise of future results.
Inside bar breakouts can behave differently across timeframes, instruments, and market regimes. Users should not rely on a single pattern, score, or alert in isolation. Context still matters, including trend condition, liquidity environment, nearby structure, volatility regime, and execution discipline.
Before using this script in any live decision process, it should be reviewed in the specific market and timeframe relevant to the user’s own approach. Testing, observation, and risk controls remain essential.
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Spring & Upthrust Trap (Zeiierman)█ Overview
Spring & Upthrust Trap (Zeiierman) is a Wyckoff-style “range sweep” indicator that highlights liquidity traps using a simple ZigZag pivot structure. It’s designed to catch the moment price briefly breaks a range boundary to trigger stops, then quickly snaps back into the range (rejection).
⚪ What It Detects
A Spring (Bull) is a downside fakeout. Price sweeps below the range boundary (taking liquidity), then rejects and returns back above the opposite boundary. In other words, it looks bearish for a moment, then flips bullish as the sweep fails.
An Upthrust (Bear) is the upside version. Price sweeps above the range boundary, then rejects and falls back through the opposite boundary. It looks bullish briefly, then flips bearish when that breakout fails.
█ How It Works
⚪ 1) Pivot Extraction (ZigZag Structure)
The script first compresses price into a small set of swing pivots using a ZigZag-style method driven by ZigZag Length. A bar becomes a pivot when it is the highest/lowest point inside the lookback window.
⚪ 2) Pattern Framing (X → A → B → C)
When there are at least four pivots available, the script maps the most recent pivot sequence into four labeled points:
X and A define the range boundaries (the box height is based on |A − X|)
B is the sweep pivot (the “fakeout” that breaks a boundary)
C is the rejection/snapback pivot that confirms the sweep failed
This is the minimum structure needed to define a trap without overfitting.
⚪ 3) Sweep Sizing (Filtering Noise vs Real Sweeps)
Not all boundary breaks are meaningful. The script measures sweep magnitude relative to the range size:
Sweep Fraction: |B − X| / |A − X|
This does two things:
Filters tiny pokes through a boundary (often random noise)
Filters extremely large breaks that are more likely to be true trend continuation rather than a trap
This is controlled by:
Min Sweep (minimum required violation)
Max Sweep (maximum allowed violation)
⚪ 4) Spring vs Upthrust Logic (Directional Trap Detection)
The script then decides which trap is forming:
Spring (Bull)
A downside sweep that fails: price breaks below the boundary, then returns strongly back through the opposite side.
Upthrust (Bear)
An upside sweep that fails: price breaks above the boundary, then returns strongly back through the opposite side.
█ How to Use
⚪ Interpreting a Spring (Bull)
A Spring is best treated as a failed breakdown. The sweep suggests stops were taken under the range, but the snapback implies that the market rejected lower prices.
Common behaviors after a good Spring:
fast reclaim back into the range
retest of the boundary from above (acceptance test)
continuation away from the sweep area if buyers remain in control
⚪ Interpreting an Upthrust (Bear)
An Upthrust is a failed breakout. Stops get taken above the range, but the price cannot hold outside and collapses back into/through the structure.
Common behaviors after a good Upthrust:
rejection wick and rapid return
retest of the boundary from below
continuation downward if sellers remain in control
█ Settings
ZigZag Length – pivot sensitivity. Higher = smoother, fewer signals. Lower = more pivots, more traps.
Show Patterns – detect Springs only, Upthrusts only, or both.
Min Sweep – minimum sweep size relative to range height (filters micro sweeps).
Max Sweep – maximum sweep size relative to range height (filters “real breaks”).
Confirm Pad – extra snapback requirement beyond the boundary (adds confirmation).
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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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Session Open Range, Breakout & Trap Framework - TrendPredator OBSession Open Range, Breakout & Trap Framework — TrendPredator Open Box
Stacey Burke’s trading approach combines concepts from George Douglas Taylor, Tony Crabel, Steve Mauro, and Robert Schabacker. His framework focuses on reading price behaviour across daily templates and identifying how markets move through recurring cycles of expansion, contraction, and reversal. While effective, much of this analysis requires real-time interpretation of session-based behaviour, which can be demanding for traders working on lower intraday timeframes.
The TrendPredator indicators formalize parts of this methodology by introducing mechanical rules for multi-timeframe bias tracking and session structure analysis. They aim to present the key elements of the system—bias, breakouts, fakeouts, and range behaviour—in a consistent and objective way that reduces discretionary interpretation.
The Open Box indicator focuses specifically on the opening behaviour of major trading sessions. It builds on principles found in classical Open Range Breakout (ORB) techniques described by Tony Crabel, where a defined time window around the session open forms a structural reference range. Price behaviour relative to this range—breaking out, failing back inside, or expanding—can highlight developing session bias, potential trap formation, and directional conviction.
This indicator applies these concepts throughout the major equity sessions. It automatically maps the session’s initial range (“Open Box”) and tracks how price interacts with it as liquidity and volatility increase. It also incorporates related structural references such as:
* the first-hour high and low of the futures session
* the exact session open level
* an anchored VWAP starting at the session open
* automated expansion levels projected from the Open Box
In combination, these components provide a unified view of early session activity, including breakout attempts, fakeouts, VWAP reactions, and liquidity targeting. The Open Box offers a structured lens for observing how price transitions through the major sessions (Asia → London → New York) and how these behaviours relate to higher-timeframe bias defined in the broader TrendPredator framework.
Core Features
Open Box (Session Structure)
The indicator defines an initial session range beginning at the selected session open. This “Open Box” represents a fixed time window—commonly the first 30 minutes, or any user-defined duration—that serves as a structural reference for analysing early session behaviour.
The range highlights whether price remains inside the box, breaks out, or rejects the boundaries, providing a consistent foundation for interpreting early directional tendencies and recognising breakout, continuation, or fakeout characteristics.
How it works:
* At the session open, the indicator calculates the high and low over the specified time window.
* This range is plotted as the initial structure of the session.
* Price behaviour at the boundaries can illustrate emerging bias or potential trap formation.
* An optional secondary range (e.g., 15-minute high/low) can be enabled to capture early volatility with additional precision.
Inputs / Options:
* Session specifications (Tokyo, London, New York)
* Open Box start and end times (e.g., equity open + first 30 minutes, or any custom length)
* Open Box colour and label settings
* Formatting options for Open Box high and low lines
* Optional secondary range per session (e.g., 15-minute high/low)
* Forward extension of Open Box high/low lines
* Number of historic Open Boxes to display
Session VWAPs
The indicator plots VWAPs for each major trading session—Asia, London, and New York—anchored to their respective session opens. These session-specific VWAPs assist in tracking how value develops through the day and how price interacts with session-based volume distributions.
How it works:
* At each session open, a VWAP is anchored to the open price.
* The VWAP updates throughout the session as new volume and price data arrive.
* Deviations above or below the VWAP may indicate balance, imbalance, or directional control.
* Viewed together, session VWAPs help identify transitions in value across sessions.
Inputs / Options:
* Enable or disable VWAP per session
* Adjustable anchor and end times (optionally to end of day)
* Line styling and label settings
* Number of historic VWAPs to draw
First Hour High/Low Extensions
The indicator marks the high and low formed during the first hour of each session. These reference points often function as early control levels and provide context for assessing whether the session is establishing bias, consolidating, or exhibiting reversal behaviour.
How it works:
* After the session starts, the indicator records the highest and lowest prices during the first hour.
* These levels are plotted and extended across the session.
* They provide a visual reference for observing reactions, targets, or rejection zones.
Inputs / Options:
* Enable or disable for each session
* Line style, colour, and label visibility
* Number of historic sessions displayed
EQO Levels (Equity Open)
The indicator plots the opening price of each configured session. These “Equity Open” levels represent short-term reference points that can attract price early in the session.
Once the level is revisited after the Open Box has formed, it is automatically cut to avoid clutter. If not revisited, the line remains as an untested reference, similar to a naked point of control.
How it works:
* At session open, the open price is recorded.
* The level is plotted as a local reference.
* If price interacts with the level after the Open Box completes, the line is cut.
* Untested EQOs extend forward until interacted with.
Inputs / Options:
* Enable/disable per session
* Line style and label settings
* Optional extension into the next day
* Option for cutting vs. hiding on revisit
* Number of historic sessions displayed
OB Range Expansions (Automatic)
Range expansions are calculated from the height of the Open Box. These levels provide structured reference zones for identifying potential continuation or exhaustion areas within a session.
How it works:
* After the Open Box is formed, multiples of the range (e.g., 1×, 2×, 3×) are projected.
* These expansion levels are plotted above and below the range.
* Price reactions near these areas can illustrate continuation, hesitation, or potential reversal.
Inputs / Options:
* Enable or disable per session
* Select number of multiples
* Line style, colour, and label settings
* Extension length into the session
Stacey Burke 12-Candle Window Marker
The indicator can highlight the 12-candle window often referenced in Stacey Burke’s session methodology. This window represents the key active period of each session where breakout attempts, volatility shifts, and reversal signatures often occur.
How it works:
* A configurable window (default 12 candles) is highlighted from each session open.
* This window acts as a guide for observing active session behaviour.
* It remains visible throughout the session for structural context.
Inputs / Options:
* Enable/disable per session
* Configurable window duration (default: 3 hours)
* Colour and transparency controls
Concept and Integration
The Open Box is built around the same multi-timeframe logic that underpins the broader TrendPredator framework.
While higher-timeframe tools track bias and setups across the H8–D–W–M levels, the Open Box focuses on the H1–M30 domain to define session structure and observe how early intraday behaviour aligns with higher-timeframe conditions.
The indicator integrates with the TrendPredator FO (Breakout, Fakeout & Trend Switch Detector), which highlights microstructure signals on lower timeframes (M15/M5). Together they form a layered workflow:
* Higher timeframes: context, bias, and developing setups
* TrendPredator OB: intraday and intra-session structure
* TrendPredator FO: microstructure confirmation (e.g., FOL/FOH, switches)
This alignment provides a structured way to observe how daily directional context interacts with intraday behaviour.
See the public open source indicator TP FO here (click on it for access):
Practical Application
Before Session Open
* Review previous session Open Box, Open level, and VWAPs
* Assess how higher-timeframe bias aligns with potential intraday continuation or reversal
* Note untested EQO levels or VWAPs that may function as liquidity attractors
During Session Open
* Observe behaviour around the first-hour high/low and higher-timeframe reference levels
* Monitor how the M15 and 30-minute ranges close
* Track reactions relative to the session open level and the session VWAP
After the Open Box completes
* Assess price interaction with Open Box boundaries and first-hour levels
* Use microstructure signals (e.g., FOH/FOL, switches) for potential confirmation
* Refer to expansion levels as reference zones for management or target setting
After Session
* Review how price behaved relative to the Open Box, EQO levels, VWAPs, and expansion zones
* Analyse breakout attempts, fakeouts, and whether intraday structure aligned with the broader daily move
Example Workflow and Trade
1. Higher-timeframe analysis signals a Daily Fakeout Low Continuation (bullish context).
2. The New York session forms an Open Box; price breaks above and holds above the first-hour high.
3. A Fakeout Low + Switch Bar appears on M5 (via FO), after retesting the session VWAP triggering the entry.
4. 1x expansion level serves as reference targets for take profit.
Relation to the TrendPredator Ecosystem
The Open Box is part of the TrendPredator Indicator Family, designed to apply multi-timeframe logic consistently across:
* higher-timeframe context and setups
* intraday and session structure (OB)
* microstructure confirmation (FO)
Together, these modules offer a unified structure for analysing how daily and intraday cycles interact.
Disclaimer
This indicator is for educational purposes only and does not guarantee profits.
It does not provide buy or sell signals but highlights structural and behavioural areas for analysis.
Users are solely responsible for their trading decisions and outcomes. Indicator
True Breakout Pattern [TradingFinder] Breakout Signal Indicator🔵 Introduction
In many market conditions, what initially appears to be a decisive breakout often turns out to be nothing more than a false breakout or fake breakout. Price breaks through a key swing level or an important support and resistance zone, only to quickly return to its previous range.
These failed breakouts, which are often the result of liquidity traps or market manipulation, serve more as a warning sign of structural weakness than confirmation of a new trend.
This indicator is designed around the concept of the fake breakout.
The logic is simple but precise : when price breaks a swing level and returns to that level within a maximum of five candles, the move is considered a false breakout. At this point, a Fibonacci retracement is applied to the recent price swing to evaluate the pullback area.
If price, within ten candles after the return to the breakout level, enters the Fibonacci zone between 0.618 and 1.0, the setup becomes valid for a potential entry. This area is identified as a long entry zone, with the stop loss placed just beyond the 1.0 level and the take profit defined based on the desired risk-to-reward ratio.
By combining accurate detection of false breakouts, analysis of price reaction to swing levels, and alignment with Fibonacci retracement logic, this framework allows traders to identify opportunities often missed by others. In a market where failed breakouts are a common and recurring phenomenon, this indicator aims to transform these traps into measurable trading opportunities.
Long Setup :
Short Setup :
🔵 How to Use
This indicator operates based on the recognition of false breakouts from structural levels in the market, specifically swing levels, and combines that with Fibonacci retracement analysis.
In this strategy, trades are only considered when price returns to the broken level within a defined time window and reacts appropriately inside a predefined Fibonacci range. Depending on the direction of the initial breakout, the system outlines two scenarios for long and short setups.
🟣 Long Setup
In the long setup, price initially breaks below a support level or swing low. If the price returns to the broken level within a maximum of five candles, the move is identified as a fake breakout.
At this stage, a Fibonacci retracement is drawn from the recent high to the low. If price, within ten candles of returning to the level, moves into the 0.618 to 1.0 Fibonacci zone, the conditions for a long entry are met.
The stop loss is placed slightly below the 1.0 level, while the take profit is set based on the trader’s preferred risk-reward ratio. This setup aims to capture deeply discounted entries at low risk, aligned with smart money reversals.
🟣 Short Setup
In the short setup, the price breaks above a resistance level or swing high. If the price returns to that level within five candles, the move is again treated as a false breakout. Fibonacci is then drawn from the recent low to the high to observe the retracement area.
Should price enter the 0.618 to 1.0 Fibonacci range within ten candles of returning, a short entry is considered valid. In this case, the stop loss is placed just above the 1.0 level, and the take profit is adjusted based on the intended risk-reward target. This method allows traders to identify high-probability short setups by focusing on failed breakouts and deep pullbacks.
🔵 Settings
🟣 Logical settings
Swing period : You can set the swing detection period.
Valid After Trigger Bars : Limits how many candles after a fake breakout the entry zone remains valid.
Max Swing Back Method : It is in two modes "All" and "Custom". If it is in "All" mode, it will check all swings, and if it is in "Custom" mode, it will check the swings to the extent you determine.
Max Swing Back : You can set the number of swings that will go back for checking.
🟣 Display settings
Displaying or not displaying swings and setting the color of labels and lines.
🟣 Alert Settings
Alert False Breakout : Enables alerts for Breakout.
Message Frequency : Determines the frequency of alerts. Options include 'All' (every function call), 'Once Per Bar' (first call within the bar), and 'Once Per Bar Close' (final script execution of the real-time bar). Default is 'Once per Bar'.
Show Alert Time by Time Zone : Configures the time zone for alert messages. Default is 'UTC'.
🔵 Conclusion
A sound understanding of the false breakout phenomenon and its relationship to structural price behavior is essential for technical traders aiming to improve precision and consistency. Many poor trading decisions stem from misinterpreting failed breakouts and entering too early into weak signals.
A structured approach, grounded in the analysis of swing levels and validated through specific price action and timing rules, can turn these misleading moves into valuable trade opportunities.
This indicator, by combining fake breakout detection with time filters and Fibonacci-based retracement zones, helps traders only engage with the market when multiple confirming factors are in alignment. The result is a strategy that emphasizes probability, risk control, and clarity in decision-making, offering a solid edge in navigating today’s volatile markets.
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Real Time Swing Trap DetectorThe Real Time Swing Trap Detector is a minimalist, pro-grade tool for instantly spotting classic “bull traps” and “bear traps” on any chart.
This indicator identifies swing traps in real time by tracking significant swing highs and lows, then watching for fast, false breakouts (bull traps) and breakdowns (bear traps) within a user-defined window.
How it works:
Detects when price breaks a major swing high/low (using configurable lookback).
If price quickly reclaims the broken level within X bars (trap window), a trap is confirmed and a subtle icon (🐂 for bull, 🐻 for bear) is displayed on the chart—no labels, no clutter.
You can enable/disable alerts for bull/bear traps individually or together, and receive notifications the moment a trap is detected.
Use cases:
Spot and avoid classic market “fakeouts” that trap breakout traders.
Confirm SMC/ICT “Judas swing” setups, or filter for high-probability reversals.
Works on all timeframes and assets: stocks, crypto, forex, indices.
Inputs:
Swing Lookback Bars: How far back to define swing points (default: 50)
Major Swing Filter: Additional filter for only the most significant highs/lows (default: 200)
Trap Bars (Look Ahead): Window in which a trap must be confirmed (default: 10)
Enable Bull/Bear Trap Alerts: Toggle real-time alerts for each trap type.
Visuals:
🐻 icon below bar for bear trap (short squeeze/reversal)
🐂 icon above bar for bull trap (long squeeze/reversal)
How to set up alerts:
Add the indicator to your chart, open PulseWire’s Alerts panel, and choose “Bear Trap Alert,” “Bull Trap Alert,” or “Any Trap Alert” for instant notifications. Indicator
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Half-Trend Channel [BigBeluga]Half Trend Channel is a powerful trend-following indicator designed to identify trend direction, fakeouts, and potential reversal points. The combination of upper/lower bands, midline coloring, and specific signals makes it ideal for spotting trend continuation and market reversals.
The base of the channel is calculated using smoothed half-trend logic.
// Initialize half trend on the first bar
if barstate.isfirst
hl_t := close
// Update half trend value based on conditions
switch
closeMA < hl_t and highestHigh < hl_t => hl_t := highestHigh
closeMA > hl_t and lowestLow > hl_t => hl_t := lowestLow
=> hl_t := hl_t
// Smooth
float s_hlt = ta.hma(hl_t, len)
🔵 Key Features:
Upper and Lower Bands:
The bands adapt dynamically to market volatility.
Price movements toward the bands help identify areas of overextension and potential reversal points.
Midline Trend Signal:
The midline changes color to reflect the current trend:
Green Midline: Indicates an uptrend.
Purple Midline: Signals a downtrend.
Fakeout Signals ("X"):
"X" markers appear when price briefly breaches the outer bands but fails to sustain the move.
Fakeouts help traders identify areas where price momentum weakens.
Reversal Signals (Triangles):
Triangles (▲ and ▼) mark potential tops and bottoms:
▲ Up Triangles: Suggest a potential bottom and a reversal to the upside.
▼ Down Triangles: Indicate a potential top and a reversal to the downside.
Dynamic Trend Labels:
At the last bar, the indicator displays labels like "Trend Up" or "Trend Dn" , reflecting the current trend direction.
🔵 Usage:
Use the colored midline to determine the overall trend direction.
Monitor "X" fakeout signals to spot failed breakouts or momentum exhaustion near the bands.
Watch for reversal triangles (▲ and ▼) to identify potential trend reversals at tops or bottoms.
Combine the bands and midline signals to confirm trade entries and exits:
Enter long trades when price bounces off the lower band with a green midline.
Consider short trades when price reverses from the upper band with a purple midline.
Use the trend label (e.g., "Trend Up" or "Trend Dn") for quick confirmation of the current market state.
The Half Trend Channel is an essential tool for traders who want to follow trends, avoid fakeouts, and identify reliable tops and bottoms to optimize their trading decisions. Indicator
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Dodge Trend [MyTradingCoder]Introducing the "Dodge Trend" indicator, an innovative variant of the Supertrend indicator designed to help traders better avoid fakeouts and maintain positions in established trends.
Like the Supertrend, the Dodge Trend uses Average True Range (ATR) but incorporates a unique adaptive adjustment feature that differentiates it from its counterparts. While the conventional Supertrend rises with the trend and only descends when the price crosses it, the Dodge Trend is designed to 'dodge' potential fakeouts.
This 'dodging' mechanism works by allowing the Dodge Trend to fall slightly during pullbacks, reducing the risk of a premature exit due to a temporary price drop. The recovery rate after the pullback is quicker but is slightly lower than the rate at which a new Dodge Trend high would be established in an uptrend. This unique adjustment feature allows the Dodge Trend to chase price action in an exponential fashion, potentially enabling a quicker exit when the trend shifts.
Key Settings:
Length: Adjust how much price action is taken into consideration for the ATR average. Lower values yield higher responsiveness to recent price action.
Size: Determines the initial deviation of the Dodge Trend when it resets after every flip/break.
Source: Specifies the data point (close, high, open, low, hl2, etc.) used for the Dodge Trend.
Dodge Intensity: Adjusts the intensity of the pullback effect. Higher values result in more intense pullbacks. Range is limited between 0 and 99, with 95 as the recommended default.
Bullish Color Setting: Sets the color for the uptrend Dodge Trend.
Bearish Color Setting: Sets the color for the downtrend Dodge Trend.
Dodge Trend is a powerful tool for traders looking to ride trends and avoid unnecessary exits due to short-term price fluctuations. While it offers a unique feature that may potentially improve trading outcomes, it should be used in conjunction with other indicators and analysis methods for a comprehensive trading strategy. As with all tools, it does not guarantee profitable trades but aims to give traders more actionable and precise information to base their decisions on.
Experience trend-following in a more adaptive and efficient manner with the Dodge Trend indicator, a tool designed to help you 'dodge' false exits and stay in line with the overall trend. Indicator
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