VWAP SAR Magnitude Filter [Gabremoku]VWAP SAR Magnitude Filter
Short description
A state-based long-only trend filter that combines VWAP context with Parabolic SAR structure. It uses VWAP as the main trend and invalidation line, while SAR confirms directional pressure and helps visualize momentum expansion or compression.
Descrizione completa
VWAP SAR Magnitude Filter is a long-only overlay designed to turn two familiar tools, VWAP and Parabolic SAR, into a cleaner operational framework rather than a simple indicator mashup.
The script uses VWAP as the primary market context and invalidation line. When price is above VWAP, the market is treated as having bullish intraday or swing context. When price falls back below VWAP, that context weakens and the script can trigger an exit.
Parabolic SAR is not used here as the primary exit engine. Instead, it acts as a structural confirmation tool. A valid long setup requires price to be above VWAP while SAR remains below the candle, which helps align directional bias and price structure. This reduces the number of signals that would appear if VWAP or SAR were used independently.
The script also includes an Auto mode engine. In Auto mode, lower intraday timeframes are handled with faster behavior, while higher timeframes are treated as swing conditions with additional filters. This makes the indicator adapt its sensitivity without requiring constant manual switching.
In Swing mode, the script becomes more selective by requiring:
persistence of the long condition for a minimum number of bars,
a minimum distance between price and SAR,
confirmed exit behavior below VWAP,
a longer cooldown after exits.
This approach is intended to reduce noise and avoid frequent re-entries during unstable or sideways phases. The indicator is therefore more focused on readable continuation structure than on generating many raw signals.
How it works
Long context: Price above VWAP.
Long confirmation: Parabolic SAR below the candle.
Long entry: The bullish context and structural confirmation align.
Exit logic: Main exit occurs on VWAP fallback; in Swing mode the fallback can require confirmation across multiple bars.
Mode engine: Auto selects Intraday or Swing behavior depending on the chart timeframe.
Visual features
VWAP line as the main reference level.
SAR line and glow for directional structure.
Magnitude fill between price and SAR to visualize pressure expansion and compression.
Optional bar coloring.
Dashboard with State, Mode, Regime, Flow, Distance %, SAR Side, and Exit Logic.
How to use it
This indicator works best when price is developing directional structure away from VWAP. In strong trends, it can help frame cleaner long continuation behavior. In choppy or sideways markets around VWAP, noise is naturally higher because the market lacks clear directional context.
A practical way to use it is:
monitor whether price is holding above VWAP,
wait until SAR is also positioned below price,
use the dashboard to confirm the current regime and state,
treat VWAP fallback as the main warning that the active long structure may be weakening.
Limitations
This indicator is not meant to eliminate all noise, especially in lateral environments where price oscillates around VWAP. In those conditions, repeated context shifts are part of market behavior, so no VWAP-based trend tool can remove all false transitions. The script is designed to reduce that noise, not to make it disappear completely.
It is also a context and structure tool, not a complete trading system. Users should still evaluate market conditions, liquidity, session behavior, and personal risk management before making decisions. Indicator
ICT Sessions & Killzones - VWAP + Asia Mid [Dots3Red]█ ICT SESSIONS & KILLZONES — VWAP + ASIA MID
This script visualizes the four major forex trading sessions alongside the four ICT killzone windows, with three analytical additions that most session scripts do not include: a per-session VWAP line, a Daily Open reference, and an Asia range midpoint that extends forward into the London and New York sessions.
It works on intraday timeframes. The number of historical session days displayed is configurable.
█ SESSIONS
Four sessions are available, each independently toggleable:
• Tokyo — 09:00–18:00 Asia/Tokyo
• London — 08:00–17:00 Europe/London
• New York — 09:30–16:00 America/New_York
• Sydney — 07:00–16:00 Australia/Sydney (off by default)
Each session draws a high/low line pair with a soft glow layer behind it, a midpoint dotted line at 50% of the session range, and optional quartile lines at 25% and 75%. A semi-transparent fill box covers the active session range and fades when the session closes. Historical sessions are preserved as lighter boxes and lines, controlled by the Historical Sessions (days) setting.
Session labels are positioned at the horizontal midpoint of the session and display the session name, current range in points, the range as a percentage of ATR(14), and the live VWAP value.
When two sessions are active simultaneously — London and New York from approximately 13:00–17:00 UTC, or Tokyo and London around 07:00–09:00 UTC — an overlap box is drawn over that window in a distinct color.
█ ICT KILLZONES
All four ICT killzone windows are implemented, each individually toggleable under a master switch:
• Asia KZ — 20:00–00:00 America/New_York
• London Open KZ — 02:00–05:00 America/New_York
• NY Open KZ — 07:00–10:00 America/New_York
• London Close KZ — 10:00–12:00 America/New_York
Each killzone box uses a dotted border when closed and switches to a solid border while the window is currently active. This makes it immediately clear at a glance whether a killzone is live or historical.
Most published session scripts include only two killzones (London Open and NY Open). The Asia and London Close windows are included here because they are part of the complete ICT framework — the Asia killzone in particular is where a significant portion of daily liquidity is engineered before the London session opens.
█ SESSION VWAP
A VWAP line is calculated independently for each session. It resets to zero at each session open and accumulates using the standard (High + Low + Close) / 3 × Volume formula throughout the session. This is not a daily or weekly VWAP — it is a session-scoped VWAP that resets with each new Tokyo, London, and New York open.
Price above the session VWAP indicates the session is currently net bullish in terms of volume-weighted price. Price below indicates net bearish. The VWAP value is also shown in the live metrics table and in the session label.
Sydney VWAP is not calculated as volume data on that session is generally unreliable outside of ASX-listed instruments.
█ DAILY OPEN LINE
A horizontal line is drawn at the price level at which the new day opened — specifically at midnight New York time (00:00 America/New_York). This corresponds to the ICT "00:00 line" or daily open reference, which is used in ICT methodology as a key intraday reference level for assessing whether price is trading at a premium or discount relative to the daily range.
The line extends forward through the trading day and refreshes at each midnight NY transition.
█ ASIA RANGE MIDPOINT EXTENSION
When the Tokyo session closes, the midpoint of its high-low range is calculated and projected forward as a dashed line into the London and New York sessions. This level — the 50% point of the Asian range — is referenced in ICT methodology as a key intraday equilibrium. London and New York sessions frequently interact with this level before establishing directional bias.
This extension is drawn automatically and requires no manual input. It is toggled by the Asia Range Mid Extension setting.
█ LIVE METRICS TABLE
A table in the corner of the chart displays eight columns for each active session:
• SESSION — name, color-coded to the session
• STATUS — ACTIVE or CLOSED
• RANGE (PTS) — current range in price ticks
• % ATR — range expressed as a percentage of ATR(14)
• VWAP DEV — current close deviation from session VWAP in percent (green = above, red = below)
• VS PREV % — current session range versus the equivalent previous session's range (green = larger, red = smaller)
• HIGH / LOW — current session extremes
The bottom row shows whether a session overlap is currently active.
█ HISTORICAL DISPLAY
The Historical Sessions (days) input controls how many past session blocks remain visible. The script uses a millisecond-based time window rather than a bar count, so the lookback is stable across different timeframes. Setting this to 1 shows only the current day's sessions. Setting it to 5 retains the last five days. Objects beyond the limit are deleted automatically to manage Pine's drawing object limits.
█ ALERTS
Eleven alert conditions are available:
• Tokyo, London, New York session opens and closes (6 alerts)
• Asia KZ, London Open KZ, NY Open KZ, London Close KZ starts (4 alerts)
• London + New York overlap start (1 alert)
█ NOTES
• Designed for intraday timeframes. Most useful at 5-minute through 1-hour.
• Session times adjust automatically for daylight saving time because timezone identifiers (America/New_York, Europe/London, etc.) are used rather than fixed UTC offsets.
• The Tokyo session uses Asia/Tokyo exchange hours (09:00–18:00). Forex traders who prefer the broader Asian session window (00:00–09:00 UTC) can adjust the time string in the source code.
• All session boxes and killzone boxes are gated to the historical window. Objects outside the configured lookback are not drawn, which keeps performance stable on lower timeframes with many bars.
█ DISCLAIMER
This is a visualization tool for session timing and reference levels. It does not generate trade signals and does not constitute financial advice. Past price behavior within or around session windows does not predict future results. Indicator
HTF Candle TerminalTitle: HTF Candle Terminal: Advanced Institutional Volume & Range Engine
Description:
Welcome to the HTF Candle Terminal – a complete, institutional-grade toolkit designed to bridge the gap between Higher Timeframe (HTF) market structure and Lower Timeframe (LTF) execution.
This indicator acts as a real-time trading terminal directly on your chart, projecting higher timeframe data, volume clusters, volatility bands, and dynamic price zones so you never lose track of the macro trend while executing on the micro level.
What does it do?
Instead of switching back and forth between timeframes, the HTF Candle Terminal anchors itself to a Higher Timeframe of your choice (e.g., 4-Hour, Daily). Once a new HTF session begins, the terminal starts mapping the battlefield in real-time, calculating institutional volume, statistically probable ranges, and liquidity sweeps.
🔥 Core Features (A to Z)
1. Live HTF Candle Projection
To the right of the current price action, the indicator draws a live, constantly updating "Macro Candle." This gives you an instant visual representation of what the higher timeframe candle looks like (Open, High, Low, Close) without ever leaving your current chart. Accompanying the candle is a real-time trend status (e.g., "Very Strong Bullish" or "Bearish") based on how price is behaving relative to the HTF Open and Volume Nodes.
2. Dynamic Volume Profiling & POC (Point of Control)
The terminal tracks every drop of volume from the moment the HTF candle opens.
Bull/Bear Zones: It creates distinct bullish (above open) and bearish (below open) volume zones.
Split POC: It isolates the highest volume node for buyers (Short Line) and sellers (Long Line).
Zone Breakouts: If price decisively breaks and closes through a POC line from the opposite side, it invalidates that volume node, dynamically clearing the map to signal a strong directional shift.
Auto Row Size: The script includes an intelligent algorithm that automatically calculates the perfect row/tick size for the volume profile based on the volatility of the previous HTF candle.
3. Statistical Range Projections (Excursions)
How far did the last HTF candle travel from its open? The terminal mathematically measures the percentage expansion of the previous HTF candle and projects those exact percentages (e.g., +1.25%, -0.80%) onto the current candle's open. This gives you highly accurate, historically-backed target zones for the current session.
4. HTF ATR & ADR Projections (Volatility Boundaries)
Knowing where price should stop is just as important as knowing where it is going.
ATR (Average True Range): Projects the HTF's current True Range (+/- 0.5 ATR by default) from the open price, giving you realistic daily/session volatility boundaries.
ADR (Average Daily Range): Projects the chart's average daily movement anchored to the HTF open. When price hits these outer bands, it signals mathematical exhaustion—perfect for take-profit targeting or mean-reversion setups.
5. Liquidity Sweep Detection (PH & PL)
The script draws dashed lines representing the Previous HTF High (PH) and Previous HTF Low (PL). If the current price action pokes through these levels but fails to hold, the terminal instantly marks the chart with a precise "✖" label, alerting you to a potential liquidity sweep/hunt.
6. HTF Anchored VWAP
An optional (toggleable) Volume Weighted Average Price anchored precisely to the start of the HTF candle. This acts as the ultimate institutional "fair value" baseline. If price is above the VWAP, momentum is confirmed bullish; if below, bearish.
💡 How to Use the Terminal in Your Trading
Trade the Open: The most critical level is the dashed HTF Open line. Treat it as the equator. Longs above, shorts below.
Target the Extremes: Use the Excursion lines, ATR, and ADR bands as your primary Take-Profit (TP) zones. When price reaches these levels, the market is mathematically overextended.
Watch the POCs: The Bull and Bear POC lines act as heavy magnets. If price is returning to the open, watch for bounces off the POC. If a POC is broken, ride the momentum in the direction of the break.
Trade the Sweeps: Look for an "✖" marker at the PH or PL lines. A sweep combined with a rejection back into the HTF Open zone is one of the highest probability reversal setups available.
⚙️ Full Customization
Every element is built to be customized. Change the colors of the HTF candle, adjust global label sizes, toggle VWAP/ATR/ADR on or off, and tweak the transparency of historical boxes to keep your chart perfectly clean.
Developed with precision for structural and quantitative traders.
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ORB ORB V2 plots the Opening Range Breakout for the Asia, London, or New York session, using the high and low of a selectable timeframe candle (1 to 240 min) captured at the exact session open in New York time.
What it draws:
High, midpoint (50%), and low lines of the opening range, extended live for the duration of the session
Color-coded labels showing the exact price of each level
A vertical opening marker at session start
Built-in bias filter:
A configurable EMA (default 20-period on the 1H timeframe, both adjustable) is calculated independently of the chart timeframe via request.security, and compared to price to display a simple Bullish/Bearish bias — useful for filtering ORB breakout trades in the direction of the higher-timeframe trend rather than trading every breakout blindly.
Dashboard:
A bottom-right table shows the total range size and the distance to the 50% level, converted into your choice of units (ticks, pips, or % for crypto), plus the previous day's high and low for additional context, and the current bias reading.
How to use it:
Select your session (Asia / London / NY) and the opening candle timeframe.
Watch for price to break above/below the ORB high/low.
Use the EMA bias reading to favor breakouts aligned with the higher-timeframe trend, and the 50% level as a mid-range reference for partial targets or re-entries.
Use the dashboard to gauge range size in your preferred unit before sizing a trade.
All colors, label sizes, and the dashboard display can be customized from the indicator settings. Indicator
Retest RangeRetest Range: Advanced Market Structure & Setup Engine
Overview
The Retest Range indicator is a sophisticated price action tool designed to identify powerful 3-candle reversal structures, automatically map out their internal mathematics, and project highly accurate support, resistance, and target zones. It combines raw momentum filtering with an internal Market Structure (BOS/CHoCH) engine to provide a complete, minimalist dashboard for serious traders.
How It Works: The 3-Candle Setup
The core engine hunts for a specific cluster of momentum:
Bullish Setup: A single bearish (red) candle followed immediately by 3 consecutive bullish (green) candles that engulf the high of the initial red candle.
Bearish Setup: A single bullish (green) candle followed immediately by 3 consecutive bearish (red) candles that engulf the low of the initial green candle.
Once a valid setup is identified, the indicator draws a transparent box around these 3 candles to visualize the "Range".
Mathematical Levels (0.75, 0.50, 0.25)
Inside every active Box, the script automatically projects three critical Fibonacci-like quartiles:
0.75, 0.50 (The Mid/Entry Level), and 0.25.
These lines extend forward to act as immediate dynamic support and resistance. The closest, untouched active box will continuously extend its lines along with the live price until a new box forms.
Box Targets & The "Inverse" Mechanics (Hocus Pocus)
Every valid setup projects a 1:1 Box Target based on its own range size.
A Bullish box projects a target box above it.
A Bearish box projects a target box below it.
The Inverse Trap: If the price fails to hit its intended target and instead reverses to close beyond the 0.50 mid-level of the active box, an "Inverse" is triggered.
When an Inverse occurs:
The original setup lines flip their colors (a failed Bullish box turns red).
The initial Box Target transforms into a hard "Resistance" (or Support) block.
A brand new Box Target is immediately projected in the opposite direction.
This allows traders to catch failed setups and instantly ride the momentum of the reversal trap!
Built-In Market Structure Engine (BOS / CHoCH)
Running silently in the background is a pure fractal-based Market Structure engine. It maps out confirmed Pivot Highs and Pivot Lows, labeling Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHoCH) levels. It requires a hard candle body close to confirm breaks, filtering out fake wick sweeps.
The Stats Dashboard
A clean, minimalist ICT-style panel adapts to your chart's theme (Dark/Light mode). It provides live intelligence:
Daily Bias: Compared to the daily open.
MS State: The latest trend direction from the BOS/CHoCH engine.
Live Momentum & Volume: Real-time percentage strength of the current 3-candle move compared to the historical average of all previous boxes (highlighting STRONG vs. WEAK moves).
RSI & DMI (DI+ / DI-): Essential trend strength metrics at a glance.
Key Features:
Fully customizable Body Multiplier to filter out weak/doji setups.
Automatic preservation of validated Support/Resistance (Inverse) target boxes.
Clean, non-overlapping labels and lines.
Minimalist aesthetics designed for Quant and Price Action traders. Indicator
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Liquidity Grab & PRL Engine [erdensedat]Liquidity Grab & PRL Engine
Overview
The Liquidity Grab & PRL Engine is a highly advanced, institutional-grade market structure indicator designed to identify macro liquidity sweeps, track wick rejections, and pinpoint high-probability trend reversals. Instead of relying on lagging indicators, this engine reads raw price action and liquidity pools to catch the exact moment a trend is exhausted and ready to reverse.
It comes equipped with an automated trade setup generator (Entry, SL, and TP zones) and a built-in backtesting panel to track your daily and all-time win rates in real-time.
Core Concepts & How It Works
1. Macro Liquidity Pools
The algorithm constantly scans the chart for significant structural pivots (Macro Highs and Lows). Once a major pivot is identified, it draws an unmitigated "Macro Liq" (Orange dashed line) representing a structural liquidity pool. Retail traders often place their stop losses at these levels, making them a magnet for institutional price delivery.
2. Liquidity Grab Zone (The Trap)
When the price breaks a Macro Liquidity line, the indicator does not immediately signal a continuation. Instead, it marks the breakout candle as a "Liq Grab Zone". This assumes the breakout might be a fake-out designed to hunt stops (a sweep) before a reversal.
3. PRL (Possible Reversal Line) Tracking
This is where the magic happens. After a Liquidity Grab, the engine activates its dynamic wick-tracking system:
It anchors a tracking line to the absolute high/low of the grab candle.
As long as consecutive candles keep pushing the extreme (higher highs or lower lows), the slope line follows the price tightly.
The Reversal Signal: The moment a confirmed candle fails to break the previous extreme (a shorter wick), the tracking stops. A solid, horizontal PRL (Possible Reversal Line) is instantly born. This flat line indicates that the liquidity sweep is over, momentum has shifted, and a reversal is imminent.
4. Automated Trade Setups & Dynamic Fibo Engine
Once a PRL is confirmed, the engine automatically generates a full trade setup:
Entry Level: The exact price of the PRL formation.
TP 1 Zone: A semi-transparent target box dynamically calculated using hidden Fibonacci logic (0.618 to 0.764) based on the distance between the grab and the previous macro level.
Stop Loss (SL): A dynamic invalidation line calculated using an adjustable multiplier (default: -0.25) beyond the extreme wick.
Smart Display: Only the most recent setup is tracked dynamically across the chart. Past setups are frozen exactly where they hit TP, SL, or were invalidated by a new setup, leaving a clean historical footprint.
5. Pro Winrate & Performance Panel
The indicator acts as its own backtester. A sleek, non-intrusive UI panel tracks every executed setup in the background:
Live Status: Tells you if a trade is "Awaiting Setup", "Active", "TP Hit", or "SL Hit".
Daily Stats: Tracks today's closed trades, Win/Loss ratio, and total R-R flow (Risk-to-Reward accumulation).
All-Time Stats: Calculates the overall Win Rate of the strategy, automatically changing color (Green/Red) based on profitability.
6. MA Trend Filter (Optional)
For traders who prefer trading with the higher timeframe trend, there is an optional Moving Average filter (default: 200 EMA). When enabled, the engine will only validate Long setups if the price is above the MA, and Short setups if the price is below the MA, drastically increasing the quality of the signals.
How to Use It
Wait for the price to sweep a Macro Liq line and print a Liq Grab Zone.
Watch the dashed tracking line follow the wicks.
Wait for the solid PRL line to form (Confirmed Reversal).
Execute the trade at the Entry Level, place your stop at the SL Line, and target the TP Zone.
Disclaimer
This indicator is for educational and informational purposes only. Trading in financial markets involves a high degree of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. The automated setups and win rates displayed by this tool are based on historical price action and mechanical algorithms; they do not guarantee future results. Always perform your own analysis, practice strict risk management, and never trade with money you cannot afford to lose. The author (erdensedat) assumes no responsibility for any trading losses incurred while using this script. Indicator
ADR percentage Completion Table Real-Time Daily Range Tracker ET📊 ADR % Completion Table
Track how much of the Average Daily Range (ADR) has been consumed in real time — works correctly on every timeframe from 1 minute to weekly.
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🔍 WHAT IT DOES
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This indicator calculates the 14-day Average Daily Range and compares it to the current day's high-to-low range, showing you exactly what percentage of the ADR has been reached so far today.
The daily session resets at 00:00 UTC-4 (New York midnight), making it ideal for forex, indices, and US equity traders.
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📋 TABLE DISPLAY
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- ADR (14d) — the average daily range over the last 14 completed days
- Day High / Day Low — intraday extremes since session open (00:00 UTC-4)
- Today Range — current high-to-low range in price points
- ADR % — percentage of ADR consumed (color-coded)
- Remaining — how many points are left to complete the ADR
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🎨 COLOR CODING
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🔘 Grey → 0–49% (early in the day)
🔵 Blue → 50–74% (halfway through)
🟠 Orange → 75–99% (nearing completion)
🟢 Green → 100%+ (ADR fully reached)
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⚙️ SETTINGS
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- ADR Lookback — customize the number of days (default: 14)
- Table Position — 8 placement options
- Text Size — Tiny to Huge
- Show/hide Day High & Low lines on the chart
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✅ KEY FEATURES
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✔ Timeframe-independent — ADR value is identical on 1m, 15m, 1h, 4h, and daily charts
✔ Session-accurate — day range always starts at 00:00 UTC-4 regardless of chart timezone
✔ Clean overlay table — no clutter, just the numbers that matter
✔ Works on all instruments — forex pairs, indices, stocks, futures, crypto
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💡 HOW TO USE IT
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When ADR % is low (grey/blue) early in the session, the market still has room to move. When it reaches orange or green, price has covered most or all of its expected daily range — useful for managing targets, avoiding late entries, and timing exits.
Best used alongside your existing strategy as a context filter, not a standalone signal.
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Structure Bias [FlowForge]Know the structural direction on two timeframes before you trade.
Structure Bias monitors market structure simultaneously on a higher and a lower timeframe, classifies each structural event in real time, and combines both readings into a single directional verdict. It answers the question most traders try to resolve by eye: are both timeframes pointing the same way?
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DUAL-TIMEFRAME STRUCTURE DETECTION
The indicator evaluates confirmed swings on both configured timeframes independently. Each time price clears a prior confirmed swing, the event is classified by whether it aligns with the existing directional trend or breaks against it. A Break of Structure signals that the prevailing trend is continuing: price has extended beyond a prior swing in the same direction. A Change of Character signals a potential bias shift: price has broken a prior swing against the existing trend for the first time, indicating the directional bias may be reversing. Both readings update independently per timeframe so you always have a clear picture of where each one stands.
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ALIGNED BIAS SUMMARY
The bottom row of the dashboard synthesizes both timeframe readings into a single verdict. When the higher and lower timeframe both report the same structural direction, the row shows a confirmed aligned bias. When they conflict, it shows Mixed, flagging a structurally undecided market where lower-conviction conditions apply. The most recently updated dashboard row is highlighted automatically so you can see at a glance which event is freshest.
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LIVE DASHBOARD
A compact two-column table delivers the complete structural picture without adding clutter to the chart.
✥ Higher timeframe CHoCH: current Change of Character reading and direction
✥ Higher timeframe BOS: current Break of Structure reading and direction
✥ Lower timeframe CHoCH: same for your trading timeframe
✥ Lower timeframe BOS: same for your trading timeframe
✥ Overall Bias: aligned directional read, or Mixed when timeframes conflict
✥ Most recent structural event highlighted automatically
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HOW TO USE
Add the indicator to your chart and configure the two timeframes to match your setup. A common starting point is your trading timeframe as the lower and one step above it as the higher. Read the four structure rows to understand what each timeframe is doing independently. Then look at the Overall Bias row as your directional filter: a confirmed aligned reading means both timeframes agree, which is the condition most traders treat as higher-conviction. A Mixed reading means the two timeframes disagree and the structural context is less clear. Use the CHoCH alerts to be notified when the lower timeframe bias flips; use the BOS alerts when a continuation move is confirmed. Use the Aligned variants when you only want signals under full dual-timeframe agreement.
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ALERTS
Seven alert conditions, all firing on confirmed closed bars only.
✥ Bullish CHoCH: lower timeframe bias flipped to long
✥ Bearish CHoCH: lower timeframe bias flipped to short
✥ Bullish BOS: lower timeframe uptrend continuation confirmed
✥ Bearish BOS: lower timeframe downtrend continuation confirmed
✥ Aligned BOS Bullish: both timeframes aligned, bullish continuation
✥ Aligned BOS Bearish: both timeframes aligned, bearish continuation
✥ Aligned CHoCH: both timeframes aligned, high-confluence bias flip
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CUSTOMIZATION
✥ Higher and lower timeframes: configurable independently
✥ Swing sensitivity: adjustable lookback depth for coarser or finer structure
✥ Dashboard position: four corner options
✥ Text size: four sizes
✥ Twenty color themes
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THEMES
Twenty palettes are available. Four samples are shown below covering the default and three contrasting options. All twenty are accessible from the Theme input in the script settings.
Colorful (default)
Vivid
Copper
Ember
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Volume Spike LevelsVolume Spike Levels detects abnormal volume candles, draws their price range as boxes or levels, and confirms whether the volume was resolved upward or downward.
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Volume Spike Levels is a clean volume spike indicator designed for visual price action analysis and intraday scalping.
Unlike a basic volume spike indicator that only places a marker on the candle where abnormal volume appears, this script first detects a volume spike candle and then draws the full price range of that candle as a box or horizontal levels.
The idea is simple:
when unusual volume appears, the range of that candle becomes important. Instead of only marking the volume candle, the indicator watches how price behaves around that range afterward.
If price breaks and confirms above the volume spike range, the indicator can mark it as VOL BUY.
If price breaks and confirms below the volume spike range, the indicator can mark it as VOL SELL.
This makes it easier to see whether the volume was actually absorbed, continued, inverted, or used as a reaction zone.
The indicator has two main marker modes:
Confirmed Direction mode:
The box or levels are drawn when the volume spike appears, but the directional marker appears only later, after price confirms above or below the spike range. Confirmation can be based on Wick, Body, or Close, depending on your settings.
Neutral Fast mode:
The indicator marks the volume spike immediately with a neutral marker. In this mode, the trader visually decides the direction based on price action around the box or levels.
Level display options:
You can display the volume spike range as a box, horizontal high/low levels, both, or turn the levels off and use markers only.
Volume strength:
The script supports weak, medium, and strong volume spike thresholds. These settings should be adjusted for your broker, symbol, and timeframe.
The screenshot shows XAUUSD on the 5-minute chart. The example settings were adjusted for OANDA gold data:
Weak Spike Multiplier: 1.9
Medium Spike Multiplier: 2.2
Strong Spike Multiplier: 3.0
Because volume data can differ between brokers and instruments, you should tune these multipliers so the number of signals on your chart feels useful and not overcrowded.
Alerts:
The indicator includes alerts for neutral volume spikes, bullish confirmed volume spikes, bearish confirmed volume spikes, and strong volume spikes only.
This tool can be useful for scalping, intraday trading, reaction zones, volume absorption, and identifying when volume appears in one area but price later confirms in the opposite direction.
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Phase Exhaustion Reversal [BullByte]Phase Exhaustion Reversal (PXR) is an intraday reversal engine that measures one specific market phenomenon: the moment a short-horizon directional burst exhausts itself against a broader structural gradient. It is built on a single mathematical primitive - directional efficiency - applied at two horizons, and turns the gap between them into an exhaustion-detection framework.
This is not a mashup of existing indicators. The entire engine is derived from one calculation family: how cleanly price travels over a window. The regime classifier, the signal trigger, the risk engine, and the dashboard are all layers of that single concept rather than separate components.
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Why This Indicator Exists
Most reversal tools fire on oscillator extremes or candlestick patterns. They answer the question "is price stretched?" but not "has the energy actually run out? " A market can stay stretched for a long time before reverting. PXR was built to answer a more precise question: when has a short-horizon momentum burst exhausted its energy against the prevailing structural direction? That moment - the exhaustion-and-recede - is what PXR isolates.
The phenomenon being studied can be observed on historical price data.
When price moves with high short-horizon efficiency in a direction that contradicts the medium-horizon efficiency gradient, that move is consuming energy faster than structure supports. Such bursts can appear to exhaust and then realign with the broader gradient on historical data. PXR visualizes that potential realignment as an observation worth studying.
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Why a Trader Might Use It
Intraday traders on 5-minute and 15-minute charts frequently face counter-trend bursts that look like reversals but are actually just temporary dislocations. PXR offers a structured way to read those bursts: it waits for the burst to peak, confirms the peak has begun receding, and only then marks the realignment as armed. The next-bar open execution model means the entry price on the chart matches what a real-time observer could actually have achieved.
PXR is designed for traders who want a single coherent reading of market state - regime, bias, setup progression, and signal - rather than juggling multiple unrelated indicators.
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The Concept
Imagine price as a hiker walking through terrain. Two things can be measured about that hiker over any window of time:
One - how far they ended up from where they started. This is transport.
Two - how much total ground they covered while getting there. This is agitation.
The ratio of transport to agitation is efficiency. If a hiker walked 100 meters in a straight line, transport equals agitation, and efficiency is 1.0 - perfectly directional. If a hiker zigzagged 500 meters total but ended up only 100 meters away, efficiency is 0.2 - most of the energy was wasted on the zigzag.
PXR computes this efficiency at two horizons simultaneously. The short horizon (around 35 minutes of bars, regardless of timeframe, by default) captures reactive bursts. The medium horizon (around 2 hours of bars by default) captures the structural gradient - the broader direction price is actually flowing in.
When the short-horizon efficiency spikes far from the medium-horizon efficiency, the two have dislocated. PXR normalizes this dislocation into a value called the Phase Gap. When the Phase Gap stretches to an extreme and then begins to recede, the short-horizon burst is exhausting. If the medium-horizon gradient points the opposite direction at that moment, PXR marks a realignment signal - the observed behavior is a possible realignment with the structural gradient.
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What Makes This Different From a Standard Momentum Tool
Three architectural choices separate PXR from typical oscillator-based reversal tools.
First, the use of two-horizon efficiency phase-gap normalization. The raw difference between two efficiency readings is rescaled by its own rolling maximum so the threshold stays meaningful across all volatility regimes. A 0.6 reading means the same thing on a quiet day as on a volatile one.
Second, regime-conditional adaptive thresholds. The signal threshold is not a fixed constant. It adapts based on whether the market is currently classified as Extended (clean trend), Compressed (range), Transitioning (regime shifting), or Neutral. Each regime gets a different sensitivity, and each timeframe gets its own scaling on top of that.
Third, an exhaustion-and-recede state machine gated by structural gradient sign. The signal does not fire when the Phase Gap simply crosses a level. It fires only when the gap has first reached a qualified peak and then receded by a meaningful fraction of that peak - confirming exhaustion has begun - and only when that exhaustion direction opposes the sign of the medium-horizon efficiency. This is a directional fade of short-horizon energy against the prevailing structural gradient.
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Mathematical Foundation
The script is built from three primitive calculations. All other logic flows from these.
Transport over n bars equals close minus close n bars ago. This measures net displacement.
Agitation over n bars equals the sum of absolute bar-to-bar price changes across that window. This measures total path length.
Efficiency over n bars equals transport divided by agitation. This produces a signed value bounded between -1 and +1. Positive values indicate net upward directional purity, negative values indicate net downward directional purity, and values near zero indicate chop.
The Phase Gap is the short-horizon efficiency minus the medium-horizon efficiency, divided by the rolling maximum of the absolute raw gap. This normalization keeps the Phase Gap roughly within plus or minus one regardless of market conditions.
A realignment signal fires when the Phase Gap has peaked beyond a regime-adjusted threshold and then receded by a meaningful fraction of that peak, AND the sign of the medium-horizon efficiency points in the direction opposite to the burst that just exhausted.
This calculation family is conceptually related to efficiency-ratio style measurements. PXR's originality lies in the multi-horizon phase-gap construction, the regime-adaptive thresholding, and the exhaustion-and-recede state machine.
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Recommended Timeframes and Markets
PXR is built for intraday operation. The timeframe-adaptive logic is tuned for 1-minute through 15-minute charts. The default Auto-Scale setting recalibrates the horizons so the same physical time window of analysis is used regardless of timeframe.
The phenomenon PXR studies appears most cleanly on liquid intraday instruments. Crypto majors such as BTCUSDT and ETHUSDT on 5-minute and 15-minute charts work well because crypto exhibits meaningful path tortuosity - the agitation-to-transport ratio carries real information. Index futures such as NQ and ES on 5-minute and 15-minute charts also work, though session boundaries can affect the normalization window on overnight sessions.
PXR is built for intraday use. Higher timeframes such as 1H, 4H, or daily may behave differently because the regime thresholds and recede fractions are tuned for intraday energy cycles rather than multi-day structural shifts.
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Chart Examples
The two examples below are illustrative historical signals chosen to show the engine's mechanics and visual elements. They are not representative of typical or expected outcomes. Many signals fail and reach the INVALIDATION level instead. These examples are educational only.
1. Example - Bull Realignment on BTCUSDT 15m
The annotated chart shows a complete PXR realignment cycle.
Price experienced a sharp short-horizon bearish burst from roughly 77,650 down to 76,150. During this drop, the medium-horizon efficiency gradient remained bullish - the slower 24-bar window still carried the structural upward bias from earlier hours. The yellow diagonal line traces this bullish medium-horizon gradient that the bearish burst was working against.
At the bottom of the move, the Phase Gap reached its negative peak . The bearish burst's energy was fully spent. The yellow rectangle marks the exhaustion zone where two indecision candles stalled the fall.
Beginning shortly after, the Phase Gap began receding from its negative peak. Once it had receded by the configured fraction, the exhaustion-and-recede condition was satisfied. The medium-horizon efficiency was still positive, so the structural gradient gate qualified the direction. The state machine flipped upward and the signal armed on the close of the trigger bar.
On the next bar, the entry executed at the open at 76,410. The four rails drew automatically - INVALIDATION at 75,982, TARGET 1 at 76,923, TARGET 2 at 77,351.
In this illustrative example, the price moved upward after the signal and later reached TARGET 1 and TARGET 2. This is one historical instance only. Outcomes vary, and many signals reach the INVALIDATION level instead.
2. Example - Bear Realignment and Engine
This chart illustrates three aspects of PXR that complement the phenomenon view.
First, the engine is bidirectional. The red downward callout marks a BEAR realignment signal. A short-horizon bullish burst pushed price upward over several hours. When that burst exhausted near 77,400, the Phase Gap reached its positive peak . As the gap began receding and the medium-horizon gradient pointed bearish, the exhaustion-and-recede condition triggered a BEAR signal . The four rails drew at INVALIDATION 77,465, ENTRY 76,765, TARGET 1 75,925, and TARGET 2 75,226.
Second, the regime ribbon is visible across the background. Subtle orange tints mark COMPRESSED periods where both efficiencies are low and the market is consolidating. Subtle cyan tints mark TRANSITIONING periods where the Phase Gap has stretched far and a regime shift is underway. These background colors give an at-a-glance read of market state without requiring a glance at the dashboard.
Third, the live dashboard in the top-right shows engine state in real time. State, Setup, Bias, Phase Gap, and Last all update on every bar. The five-line legend overlay explains what each field represents. At the moment of this screenshot, the BEAR signal was Triggered, the regime was COMPRESSED , and the Phase Gap reading was -0.07 - a sign the dislocation had largely normalized after the signal fired.
Together with the dashboard and regime ribbon, the engine provides a continuous reading of market state - not just point-in-time signals, but a live framework that contextualizes each signal as it forms.
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How to Read the Chart
PXR draws several elements. Each one represents something specific.
The PHASE EXHAUSTION label, marked with an upward or downward arrow, appears at the bar where the signal arms. An upward arrow with the text " Realign Up " means a short-horizon bearish burst has exhausted against a bullish gradient , and the studied behavior is upward realignment. A downward arrow means the opposite. The label is anchored outside the bar's price extreme so it does not clash with other chart elements.
The ENTRY rail is a dashed line drawn at the open of the bar immediately after the signal armed. This is the reference entry level. The script does not place orders - it visualizes the reference level a real-time user could have acted on.
The INVALIDATION rail is a solid red line. If price reaches this level, the realignment thesis is rejected. This level is calculated as the worse of two values: a structural swing high or low with an ATR buffer, or a minimum ATR-floored distance from entry. Whichever is further from entry is used. This guarantees the invalidation level is never crammed inside short-term noise.
The TARGET 1 and TARGET 2 rails are teal solid lines placed at user-configurable R-multiples of the invalidation distance. These represent profit objectives. The defaults are 1.2R and 2.2R, which can be modified in the Risk Settings group.
All four rails extend forward bar by bar while the trade is conceptually active, and their labels trail slightly ahead of the live bar so they remain visible at the right edge of the chart.
The regime ribbon is a subtle background tint. Red indicates an Extended regime, orange indicates Compressed, cyan indicates Transitioning, and faint grey indicates Neutral. The ribbon helps users see at a glance which regime the engine currently classifies the market in.
The active tint colors bars green during an active long observation and red during an active short observation. This is purely visual and can be toggled off.
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How to Read the Dashboard
The dashboard sits in the top-right of the chart and shows six live readings.
State shows the current regime classification. Extended means the medium-horizon efficiency is high - the market has a clean directional gradient. Compressed means both efficiencies are low - the market is ranging. Transitioning means the Phase Gap has stretched far - a regime change is in progress. Neutral means none of the above.
Setup shows the realignment setup progress. No Setup means nothing is forming. Forming means the Phase Gap has reached 60 percent of the threshold. Watching means the Phase Gap has reached 85 percent of the threshold - a setup is building but no signal has fired yet. Armed means a confirmed signal has fired and is awaiting next-bar execution. Triggered means a trade observation is currently active.
Bias shows the direction of the medium-horizon efficiency gradient. BULL means the structural gradient points up. BEAR means it points down. A dash means it is neutral.
Phase Gap shows the live normalized Phase Gap value, roughly bounded within plus or minus one. The color brightens when the absolute value exceeds the threshold.
Last shows the direction of the most recently triggered realignment.
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Settings Explained
Core Settings.
Auto-Scale Horizons: when on, the Short and Medium horizons are automatically recomputed per timeframe so the analysis covers similar physical time on every chart. When off, the manually entered horizon lengths are used. Recommended on for users who switch between timeframes.
Short Horizon: bars used to measure short-horizon efficiency. Lower values are more reactive but noisier. Default 7. Ignored when Auto-Scale is on.
Medium Horizon: bars used to measure the structural efficiency gradient. Should span one meaningful intraday cycle. Default 24. Ignored when Auto-Scale is on.
Phase Gap Threshold: the normalized Phase Gap level required for a peak to qualify as exhaustion-grade. Higher values yield fewer but stronger signals. Default 0.58.
Cooldown Bars: minimum bars between two consecutive signals. Prevents clustering during noisy regimes. Default 3.
Risk Settings.
ATR Length: the ATR window used for the volatility-based stop floor. Default 14.
ATR Floor Multiplier: minimum stop distance expressed as a multiple of ATR. Ensures the stop is never inside short-term noise. Default 1.0.
TP1 R-Multiple: first profit target expressed as a multiple of the invalidation distance. Default 1.2.
TP2 R-Multiple: final profit target expressed as a multiple of the invalidation distance. Default 2.2.
Visuals.
Show Regime Ribbon: toggles the background regime tint.
Show Active Tint: toggles the green or red bar coloring during an active observation.
Show Dashboard: toggles the top-right state dashboard.
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Execution Model - Why This Is Honest
PXR uses a strict two-bar workflow. The signal arms only on the close of a confirmed bar - this is enforced by a barstate-confirmed gate inside the engine. The entry then executes at the open of the next bar. This means the entry price shown on the chart matches what a real-time user could have achieved by placing a market order the moment the signal arms.
This workflow prevents the most common form of repaint illusion. The script does not use lookahead data. It does not use future bars. It does not modify past signal positions. Historical signals on the chart represent the same logic that fires in real time.
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What the Indicator Does Not Do
PXR does not predict future price. It identifies a measurable energy state and labels the observation. It does not place trades. It does not guarantee outcomes. It does not work on all markets in all conditions. It is not a substitute for risk management, position sizing, or contextual judgment.
The realignment behavior is an observed tendency on historical data, not a certainty or guarantee.
The invalidation rail exists precisely because failure is expected and must be bounded.
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Limitations You Should Know
Session boundaries on instruments such as NQ and ES can compress the rolling normalization window during overnight low-liquidity periods. This can make the Phase Gap appear weaker than it would on a continuous session.
The engine is intentionally reversal-focused. It does not generate continuation signals. In strong trending markets, reversal signals may underperform compared to a continuation tool because the structural gradient is not exhausting - it is reinforcing itself.
Auto-Scale produces horizon values that may differ substantially from the manual input defaults. If a user toggles Auto-Scale off after operating with it on, the manual values will be used immediately and behavior will shift.
On very long historical lookbacks at 1-minute resolution, the efficiency calculation may require additional processing time due to the bar-by-bar path-length computation. If performance is a concern, reducing the Medium Horizon input or enabling Auto-Scale on faster timeframes will reduce the load.
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Disclaimer
This script is provided for educational and analytical use only. It does not provide financial, investment, or trading advice. It does not guarantee any specific outcome. Past behavior of the indicator on historical data does not imply future results. Markets carry risk. Use independent judgment, sound risk control, and full market context before acting on any signal or observation produced by this tool. The author is not responsible for any decisions made on the basis of this script.
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AlgoStorm Institutional VWAP Suite (IVS)AlgoStorm Institutional VWAP Suite (IVS)
A multi-anchor, institutional-grade VWAP framework covering five distinct time horizons simultaneously — Daily, Rolling Time-Window, NY, European/London, and Asian/Pacific — with volume-weighted standard deviation bands, a configurable color suite, a live info table, and full alert coverage.
The AlgoStorm Institutional VWAP Suite (IVS) is built on a single conviction: VWAP is not a single line, it is a layered structural map. Professional traders and institutions do not reference one VWAP — they read the relationship between multiple anchored VWAPs across sessions and time windows to understand where the auction is relative to where it has been. IVS makes this entire multi-anchor framework available in one cohesive, configurable overlay, designed for futures, equities, forex, and any instrument with reliable volume data.
Why Multiple VWAPs?
Each anchor tells a different story. The Daily VWAP defines where the current session is balanced. The Rolling VWAP reflects dynamic equilibrium over a configurable time window, acting as a responsive benchmark for swing and position traders. The session VWAPs — NY, London, and Asia — reveal the price acceptance or rejection developing within each regional trading block. When price holds above the NY VWAP but stalls beneath the Daily VWAP, that tension itself is actionable information. IVS maps all five references simultaneously so those relationships are always visible.
Technical Architecture
Each VWAP anchor is computed through a dedicated VwapInstance User-Defined Type (UDT). This object maintains the running sums required for both the VWAP price and the volume-weighted population standard deviation, using the mathematically correct formula σ² = E − E ² . Deviation bands derived from this are true volume-weighted standard deviations — not ATR estimates or fixed percentage offsets.
The Rolling VWAP runs on a High-Fidelity Sliding Time-Window Engine . Rather than anchoring to a calendar boundary, it maintains four parallel arrays (price-volume, volume, squared price-volume, and timestamps) to continuously evict data older than the user-defined window. This produces a genuinely time-accurate rolling VWAP at any timeframe, not a bar-count approximation.
Session resets (NY, London, Asia) use a one-minute anchor window via time("1", range, timezone) , which fires accurately across all chart timeframes — not just 1-minute charts.
Features & Functionality
Daily VWAP: Anchors at each calendar day open using hlc3 as the price source. Resets correctly on the first bar of every session including overnight gaps. Paired with optional volume-weighted standard deviation bands (two configurable multipliers for ±1σ and ±2σ levels).
Daily VWAP Wave (H/L): Plots two companion VWAPs anchored to the daily high and low respectively, with a filled channel between them. This "wave" shows the intraday auction range as a structural envelope rather than a single midline — price inside the wave indicates balance, price outside indicates initiative direction.
Rolling Time-Window VWAP: Fully configurable window in days, hours, and minutes. Defaults to 1 day. Paired with optional volume-weighted standard deviation bands. Unlike a fixed daily anchor, the rolling VWAP adapts continuously, making it a natural trend reference for intraday and swing traders.
NY Session VWAP: Anchors at 09:30 ET (New York open). The primary reference for equities and US futures RTH participants. Resets each session regardless of the chart's display timezone.
European / London Session VWAP: Configurable anchor at either 03:00 ET (London) or 02:00 ET (Frankfurt). Essential for tracking European institutional participation, particularly on DAX and EUR/USD.
Asian / Pacific Session VWAP: Configurable anchor at either 20:00 ET (Tokyo) or 18:00 ET (Sydney). Useful for establishing overnight reference levels and identifying the range that NY will either accept or reject at the open.
Color Suite: Every line has an independently configurable color input. The defaults (Silver, White, Blue, Lime, Red, Yellow) are chosen for visual hierarchy on dark themes, but each can be adjusted for light themes, personal preference, or multi-indicator setups.
Live VWAP Info Table: An optional on-chart table (top-right, togglable) displaying the current numeric value of all six active VWAP levels, color-coded to match their respective lines. Values display as — for any anchor that has not yet reset in the current session. Populated only on the last bar to avoid unnecessary per-bar overhead.
10 Alert Conditions: Cross-above and cross-below alerts for every VWAP line. Alerts fire on bar close (confirmed bar only) to prevent repainting. Each message includes {{ticker}} and {{close}} placeholders for use in webhook automations or notification routing.
Usage Guide
For intraday futures traders (ES, NQ, DAX): Enable the Daily VWAP Wave and NY VWAP as your primary references. Price reclaiming the NY VWAP after a morning flush is a high-probability mean-reversion setup. Price pushing beyond the Daily Wave High with sustained delta confirms initiative buying.
For swing and multi-day traders : The Rolling VWAP is your core tool. Set the window to 3-5 days and treat it as a dynamic fair value anchor. When price returns to the Rolling VWAP after extended deviation, evaluate whether volume supports continuation or reversal.
For session transition analysis : Enable all three session VWAPs. At the NY open, observe where price is relative to the Asian and London anchors. Acceptance above the London VWAP at NY open is structurally bullish. Rejection and failure below it signals continuation of overnight selling.
For deviation band usage : The ±1σ bands define the statistically normal range for the session. Extended moves to ±2σ with declining volume are classic mean-reversion setups. Moves to ±2σ with expanding volume signal initiative behavior and potential trend continuation. Indicator
Session Volume Pulse [TSL]Session Volume Pulse shows whether the current bar's volume is unusual for this exact time of day — not just compared to the last 20 bars, but compared to the same minute across the last 14 trading sessions (configurable 5–60).
Most volume indicators give you raw volume and a moving average. The problem: the 9:30 AM open is always busy, and noon is always quiet. A 3x spike at 9:30 means nothing — that's just what 9:30 looks like. A 3x spike at noon is genuinely unusual. This indicator makes that distinction obvious.
═══ WHAT YOU SEE ═══
Two visual signals on the volume pane:
1. A subtle blue baseline line showing the typical volume for this exact minute of the trading day, averaged across the past 14 sessions. The line curves upward at the open, dips through lunch, rises into the close — because that's what the average session looks like.
2. A multiplier label drawn only on bars where volume is ≥ 2.5x the recent 12-bar average (e.g., "2.7"). Most bars don't get a label. The ones that do are the bars worth attention. Position and orientation are both configurable — see the settings reference below.
That's it. No divergence tints. No z-score overlay. No nine-row corner table. Two signals, both readable at a glance.
═══ HOW TO READ IT ═══
- Bar above baseline + no spike label = elevated participation, soft confirmation
- Bar at or below baseline + no spike label = normal session activity, ignore
- Spike label appears = conviction event worth attention
The combination matters most: a spike at the cash open is less meaningful than a spike at noon, because the baseline tells you what's typical for each minute.
═══ CRITICAL SETTING: BARS PER SESSION ═══
This is the only setting most users need to configure for non-default markets. The default of 0 auto-detects assuming 24h trading, which is correct for crypto/forex and close enough for ~23h futures (NQ, ES, MNQ, MES at 15m).
For US stocks during regular trading hours (6.5h), override to:
- 1m chart: 390
- 5m chart: 78
- 15m chart: 26
- 30m chart: 13
For futures across other timeframes:
- 1m: 1380
- 5m: 276
- 15m: 92 (or leave at 0)
- 30m: 46
- 1h: 23
On 4h and higher timeframes, disable "Show time-of-day baseline" — there aren't enough bars per session for the baseline math to be meaningful. The spike detection still works fine.
═══ TUNING THE LOOKBACK ═══
The "Baseline sessions to average" setting controls how many past sessions feed the time-of-day average. The default is 14, but the right choice depends on your style:
- 5–10 sessions: very responsive, adapts fast after regime shifts (vol expansion, holiday weeks). More spike-alert noise.
- 14 sessions: DEFAULT. Two trading weeks of context. Balances responsiveness with stability. Best for active intraday on 15m futures.
- 21 sessions: one calendar month. More stable baseline, fewer false-spike alerts. Slower to adapt to new regimes.
- 30–60 sessions: swing/positioning context. Very stable, very slow to update. Single high-impact event days (FOMC, CPI) linger in the average for weeks.
Rule of thumb: too many marginal spike alerts? Increase the lookback. Baseline feels stale after a vol regime change? Decrease it.
═══ ALERTS ═══
Two alert conditions, both useful:
1. "Volume spike" — fires when volume hits the spike threshold. Use for multi-symbol monitoring.
2. "Crossed session baseline" — fires when volume transitions from below to above the typical level (or vice versa). Quieter signal indicating regime change.
═══ HONEST LIMITATIONS ═══
- Does not predict direction. A spike with a green close is bullish confirmation; a spike with a red close is often capitulation or distribution. The indicator surfaces the conviction event; reading direction is on you.
- Does not work on symbols without volume. Most spot forex pairs on retail platforms report tick count, not volume. Use the equivalent futures contract (6E, 6J, 6B) for real volume analysis on forex.
- Needs history. On a fresh symbol with fewer sessions of historical bars than your lookback setting, the baseline averages whatever's available and may be choppy for the first few sessions.
- Not session-aware for time changes. DST transitions or holiday-shortened sessions in the lookback window will offset the baseline by a bar or two until they roll out of the average.
═══ WHY OPEN SOURCE ═══
Closed-source indicators in finance are a known yellow flag — they often do less than claimed or rely on lookahead bias to look better in backtests. Every line of this script is readable. Audit the math, fork it, modify it for your strategy. The math is straightforward by design.
═══ SETTINGS REFERENCE ═══
Acceleration lookback (bars): 12 default. How many recent bars feed spike detection. Use 20 for daily charts.
Spike threshold (× average): 2.5 default. How far above average a bar must be to get a label. Lower = more labels.
Baseline sessions to average: 14 default (range 5–60). See "Tuning the Lookback" above.
Bars per session: 0 (auto). See table above.
Spike label position: Four options.
- On bar (top) — text floats just inside the top of the orange bar
- On bar (middle) — text centered inside the bar
- On bar (bottom) — text sits at the base of the bar (DEFAULT)
- Below bar (pill) — legacy orange pill anchored below the bar
Spike label orientation: Two options.
- Vertical (stacked) — each character on its own line. Best for narrow bars on lower timeframes. DEFAULT.
- Horizontal — standard single-line text. Best for wider bars on higher timeframes or when bar width comfortably fits the ratio.
Position and orientation are independent — any of the four positions can use either orientation, giving you eight visual combinations.
Colors: Six configurable colors for bars, baseline, and labels.
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Disclaimer: This is an analytical tool that displays publicly available volume data with a time-of-day baseline overlay. It does not predict price direction or guarantee any trading outcome. Volume spikes can precede continuation, reversal, or no follow-through. Trading futures and equities involves substantial risk of loss. For educational purposes only. Indicator
Elaris Fast Scalp ProElaris Fast Scalp Pro is a professional lower-timeframe scalping indicator designed for fast-moving markets such as crypto, forex, and indices. The indicator combines trend alignment, momentum confirmation, volatility filtering, VWAP positioning, volume strength, and higher-timeframe confirmation into a clean non-repainting scalping system.
Built specifically for aggressive intraday traders, the script focuses on identifying high-quality momentum continuation opportunities while filtering out weak or choppy conditions that commonly generate false signals on lower timeframes.
The signal engine uses:
Fast EMA reclaim logic
Trend structure filtering
RSI momentum confirmation
ADX trend-strength filtering
VWAP positioning
Volume expansion validation
ATR-based volatility quality checks
Optional higher-timeframe directional confirmation
Cooldown logic to reduce over-signaling
The indicator also includes:
Professional dashboard panel
Real-time market condition overview
Risk/reward visualization
Dynamic stop loss and take profit levels
Configurable session filtering
Long and short signal alerts
Dark and light mode compatibility
Elaris Fast Scalp Pro is optimized for:
1m / 3m / 5m / 15m charts
Crypto scalping
Fast intraday momentum trading
Session breakout continuation moves
Trend-following scalp setups
Unlike many repainting scalping systems, all signals are confirmed only after candle close, making the indicator suitable for live trading and alert automation.
Features
Non-repainting confirmed signals
Fast scalp continuation engine
Smart trend filtering
Built-in volatility protection
Volume confirmation system
Optional HTF bias filter
VWAP institutional bias filter
Risk/reward plotting
Signal quality scoring
Professional dashboard UI
Fully customizable inputs
Best Usage
The indicator performs best during active market sessions with strong momentum and healthy volatility conditions. Lower-timeframe traders may combine it with market structure, liquidity zones, or session trading concepts for additional confirmation. Indicator
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Multi-Session Levels (Exclusive Logic)Overview
Multi-Session Levels (Exclusive Logic) is a specialized technical analysis tool designed for intraday traders who rely on session-based liquidity and reference levels (Highs, Lows, Opens, and Pivots). Unlike standard session indicators that often clutter the chart with overlapping historical data, this script utilizes a custom "Exclusive Display Logic" to ensure that traders only see the most relevant historical context based on the current time of day.
The primary innovation of this script is its context-aware filtering. When a specific market session is active (e.g., London), the script automatically hides that session's own previous day levels to prevent visual "intrusion" or bias. Instead, it projects the locked reference levels of the other major global sessions (Asia and New York) onto the current price action. This allows traders to focus on cross-session liquidity grabs and breakout retests without the distraction of redundant data.
Technical Methodology & Calculations
The script calculates levels based on the official exchange market hours using native timezones to ensure 100% accuracy regardless of the user's local clock:
Asia (Tokyo Stock Exchange): 09:00 - 15:00 JST
London (London Stock Exchange): 08:00 - 16:30 GMT/BST
New York (New York Stock Exchange): 09:30 - 16:00 EST/EDT
Key Calculations:
PSH / PSL (Previous Session High/Low): Uses a state-machine tracking algorithm that captures the absolute high and low of the defined session window. Once the session window closes, these values are "locked" and projected forward to the next relevant trading day.
PSO (Previous Session Open): Captures the open price of the very first bar within the session string.
PSP (Previous Session Pivot): Calculated as the Midpoint $(High + Low) / 2$ of the completed session, serving as a critical mean-reversion level.
Current Session Open: Identifies the real-time opening price of the active session to monitor current-day bias.
How to Use
Identify Liquidity Pools: Use the PSH (Previous Session High) and PSL (Previous Session Low) labels to identify where "buy-side" and "sell-side" liquidity may be resting from previous global sessions.
Monitor Cross-Session Breaks: While trading London, watch how price reacts to the Asia PSH/PSL. A break and retest of these levels often signals a trend continuation or a fake-out (liquidity sweep).
Pivot Midpoints: Use the PSP (Dashed line) as a value area. Price trading above the PSP generally indicates a bullish session bias, while trading below indicates a bearish bias.
Customization: Use the "Visibility" toggles in the settings to isolate specific levels (like just the Open or just the High/Low) depending on your specific trading strategy.
Settings
Market Hours: Users can refine the session strings if they wish to track "Pre-market" or "Electronic Trading Hours" instead of official exchange hours.
Visibility: Toggle PSH, PSL, PSP, and PSO individually.
Styling: Full control over session colors to match your chart theme. Indicator
Elaris Session Strength Indicator## Elaris Session Breakout Pro
Elaris Session Breakout Pro is a clean and professional session-based trading indicator designed to help traders identify high-probability breakout opportunities during key market sessions such as London and New York.
The indicator automatically tracks the opening range of the selected session and highlights breakout confirmations when price closes above or below the defined session range. This allows traders to quickly spot momentum expansion, liquidity-driven moves, and potential intraday trend continuation setups without manually drawing levels.
Built with a strong focus on clarity, usability, and real-time decision support, the indicator is optimized for scalpers, day traders, and momentum traders across crypto, forex, and index markets.
### Key Features
• Automatic session opening range detection
• Dynamic breakout signals for bullish and bearish moves
• Non-repainting breakout confirmations
• Clean chart visualization with minimal clutter
• Configurable session timings and breakout logic
• Visual breakout labels and session range plotting
• Suitable for crypto, forex, and traditional markets
• Optimized for lower timeframes and intraday trading
### How It Works
The indicator monitors the first candle or opening range of the selected trading session. When price successfully closes above the session high, a bullish breakout signal is generated. When price closes below the session low, a bearish breakout signal is generated.
This approach helps traders identify moments where liquidity and volatility expand during active market hours, often leading to strong directional movement.
### Best Use Cases
• London session breakout trading
• New York open momentum trades
• Crypto volatility expansion setups
• Intraday trend continuation strategies
• Liquidity and range breakout confirmation
### Notes
Like all trading indicators, this tool should be used as part of a complete trading plan with proper risk management and confirmation techniques. Market conditions can vary, and no indicator guarantees profitability or a 100% win rate.
PulseWire session concepts referenced in this script are based on PulseWire’s official Pine Script session documentation.
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VWAP Intraday, Weekly, MonthlyA clean, professional implementation of three anchored VWAPs — Intraday, Weekly and Monthly — with standard deviation bands, cloud fills and candle coloring. Built for futures, stocks and forex traders who use VWAP as a core part of their analysis.
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WHAT IS VWAP?
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Volume Weighted Average Price is the most widely referenced intraday benchmark used by institutional traders, market makers and algorithms. It represents the average price at which all volume has transacted over a given period. Price above VWAP is generally considered bullish, price below is bearish. The standard deviation bands show statistical distance from fair value — the further price extends from VWAP, the more extended and mean-reversion prone the move becomes.
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FEATURES
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▶ Intraday VWAP — resets each session. Band 1 and Band 2 with optional cloud fill.
▶ Weekly VWAP — resets each week. Band 1 and Band 2 with optional cloud fill.
▶ Monthly VWAP — resets each month, correctly anchored to the first session of the calendar month. Band 1 and Band 2 with optional cloud fill.
▶ Candle Coloring — green when price closes above Intraday Band 1, red when below. Neutral inside the bands.
▶ Multiple Anchors — Globex (18:00 ET, best for NQ/ES futures), Midnight (stocks and forex), Market Open (9:30 ET RTH), London session (03:00 ET) and Asia session.
▶ Source Selection — HLC3 (typical price, institutional standard), Close, HL2 or OHLC4.
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HOW TO USE
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Futures traders (NQ, ES, MNQ): use Globex anchor. This anchors VWAP to the 18:00 ET session open, matching institutional platforms like Sierra Chart and Bookmap.
Stock traders: use Midnight or Market Open anchor depending on your preference.
Forex traders: use Midnight anchor for a standard daily reset.
Band 1 (1.0 std dev) is the primary level. Price rejecting from Band 1 and reversing toward VWAP is one of the most reliable setups in VWAP trading. Price closing outside Band 1 signals a strong directional move. Band 2 (2.0 std dev) marks extended moves where mean reversion is statistically more likely.
Weekly and Monthly VWAPs act as macro support and resistance levels. Price above both is a bullish macro structure. Price between them shows a transitional zone. Price below both is bearish.
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SETTINGS
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All colors, opacity and line thickness are adjustable by clicking each color swatch — the popup includes color, opacity, thickness and line style in one place.
Each band's standard deviation multiplier is adjustable. The default 1.0 and 2.0 are the most commonly used values but some traders prefer 1.5 / 2.5 depending on their instrument and style.
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NOTES
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- Works on any timeframe and any instrument with volume data.
- For accurate Globex VWAP on NQ/ES, ensure your chart data includes the overnight session.
- Monthly VWAP is anchored to the first Globex session of each calendar month, not midnight of the 1st — this matches the institutional convention for futures. Indicator
VWAP Control Shift Map [AGPro Series]VWAP Control Shift Map
🧠 Core Idea
Has VWAP control shifted from mean reversion to directional acceptance?
📌 Overview / What it does
VWAP Control Shift Map is a VWAP control and acceptance visualization tool built to identify when price is balanced around value, accepted above control, accepted below control, or rejected back into the VWAP band.
The script builds a rolling volume-weighted control line, maps a VWAP control band, labels acceptance and rejection events, and summarizes the current VWAP state in a compact AG Pro panel.
This script does not predict future price direction, automate trades, or provide guaranteed buy/sell signals. It is a structured decision-support map for VWAP control, acceptance quality, mean-reversion risk, and shift context.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
VWAP is one of the most watched value references across intraday and swing trading contexts.
The problem is that price can cross VWAP many times without meaningful control transfer. This script was built to separate casual VWAP interaction from stronger acceptance, rejection, and reversion behavior.
The design philosophy is to make VWAP context visually readable: where control sits, which side is accepted, whether reversion risk is rising, and whether the shift has quality.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most VWAP tools plot a line, add bands, and leave interpretation entirely to the user.
This script does NOT simply mark every VWAP touch as important and does NOT treat every cross as a trend signal.
Instead, it frames VWAP as a control zone: acceptance above, acceptance below, rejection back into value, and mean-reversion risk are all organized into one visual map.
⚙️ Methodology
1. VWAP Control Detection
The script calculates a rolling volume-weighted control line using price and volume over the selected control window.
2. Control Band Mapping
It builds a volatility-adjusted band around VWAP to represent the current value-control area.
3. Acceptance Evaluation
Consecutive closes outside the band are used to identify directional acceptance.
4. Rejection Evaluation
If price returns into the band after a shift, the script marks VWAP rejection behavior.
5. Visual Output
The chart displays the VWAP control line, bordered control zone, centered band label, event labels, right-side state tags, and AG Pro panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
The VWAP control line represents the rolling volume-weighted value reference.
The control band represents the active VWAP acceptance area.
Labels mark acceptance, rejection, and mean-reversion events.
Right-side tags show the current control state and shift quality.
The panel summarizes VWAP control, acceptance state, control side, reversion risk, shift quality, control band, and next context.
🚦 Signals & States
• VWAP BALANCE → price has not established a clear accepted side
• ACCEPT ABOVE → price has accepted above the VWAP control band
• ACCEPT BELOW → price has accepted below the VWAP control band
• VWAP REJECTION → a control shift returned back into the band
• REVERSION RISK → price is back inside the band after a directional control state
🔔 Alerts Logic
VWAP Control Shift Up alert triggers when price accepts above the VWAP control band.
VWAP Control Shift Down alert triggers when price accepts below the VWAP control band.
VWAP Rejection alert triggers when price returns back into the band after a control shift.
Alerts are attention markers. They are not trade instructions.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The context becomes stronger when acceptance direction, VWAP slope, distance from VWAP, and candle body pressure align.
The context becomes weaker when price quickly returns into the control band after an attempted shift.
📊 When to Use
• VWAP-based intraday analysis
• Swing charts where volume-weighted value remains relevant
• Mean-reversion versus directional acceptance decisions
• Markets with liquid volume and clean price structure
• Trend continuation or failed acceptance review
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Very illiquid symbols
• Markets with unreliable volume
• Extremely noisy low-timeframe charts
• News shock environments where VWAP control changes abruptly
• Any context where a single indicator is being used without broader structure
🎛️ Key Inputs
• VWAP Control Length → controls the rolling volume-weighted control window
• Band Volatility Length → controls how the band width is calculated
• Control Band Multiplier → adjusts VWAP control band width
• Acceptance Bars → defines how many closes are needed for acceptance
• Rejection Window → controls failed-shift timing
• Visual settings → control the panel, zone, labels, font sizes, and projection
🖥️ Interface & Visual Design
The interface is designed for clean, premium chart reading.
The VWAP band uses visible four-edge zone boundaries so the control area remains clear in both editor and published PulseWire views.
The panel uses the AG Pro merged blue header standard and keeps the current context readable without covering the main chart.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Read the panel state.
2. Check whether price is inside, above, or below the VWAP control band.
3. Review acceptance or rejection labels.
4. Compare shift quality with reversion risk.
5. Use broader market structure before making any decision.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
VWAP control is not a prediction.
Acceptance shows where price has spent enough time outside the control band to suggest directional control.
Rejection shows that the attempted control shift returned back toward value.
Mean-reversion risk increases when price moves back into the VWAP control area after directional acceptance.
🚫 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
VWAP behavior can vary by timeframe, market session, liquidity, and volume quality.
Rolling VWAP control may differ from exchange-session VWAP or anchored VWAP tools.
Extreme volatility can temporarily reduce the usefulness of control-band interpretation.
Outputs should always be interpreted within broader market context.
🧠 Market Context Notes
VWAP often works as a value reference, but value can shift when acceptance becomes persistent.
A clean control shift is stronger when price accepts outside the band while VWAP slope supports the move.
A weak shift often returns back into the band and becomes a rejection or mean-reversion context.
🧾 Use Case Examples
When price accepts above the VWAP control band with strong shift quality, the chart may be showing directional control above value.
When price accepts below the band and VWAP turns down, the control context may favor downside acceptance.
When price quickly returns into the band after acceptance, VWAP rejection risk becomes more important.
🧱 System Philosophy
AGPro Series tools are built to convert complex market behavior into visual decision maps.
The goal is not certainty. The goal is structured context, cleaner interpretation, and better chart discipline.
🔐 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 VWAP control, acceptance shifts, rejection behavior, and mean-reversion risk.
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Volatility Coil Edge [BullByte]Volatility Coil Edge is a reversal detection script designed for intraday traders operating in futures, indices, and crypto markets. It identifies a specific and repeatable market condition: price compressing into a tight range at the extreme boundary of a session, then breaking out of that compression in the opposing direction. The compression is the footprint. The break is the trigger. Everything else - entry, stop, and three scaled targets - is calculated automatically from the structure itself.
This script is built from custom logic rather than a simple wrapper of standard indicators. VCE is built from a custom volatility state machine designed specifically for detecting absorption-and-release patterns at session extremes. There is no RSI. No MACD. No Bollinger Band. The logic is derived entirely from price geometry, ATR ratio mathematics, and session range physics.
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WHAT IS A VOLATILITY COIL
Price does not move in straight lines. It expands and contracts in cycles . When price reaches the edge of its established session range and begins contracting - forming smaller and smaller bars with decreasing volatility relative to recent history - it is coiling. This coil represents a temporary equilibrium between buyers and sellers at a structurally significant location.
The coil at a session high means sellers have been absorbing every attempt to push higher. The coil at a session low means buyers have been absorbing every attempt to push lower. When that absorption ends and price breaks through the coil boundary in the reversal direction, it signals that one side may be losing control and the opposite side may begin to take over.
VCE detects this moment and marks it on the close of the break bar. The script combines session-extreme context, multi-condition compression logic, violation tolerance, and post-impulse detection within one unified engine.
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WHY THIS WORKS AND WHY IT IS ORIGINAL
Most volatility indicators measure contraction globally across the entire chart. VCE measures contraction locally and contextually - it only cares about compression that forms at the edges of the current session range. A tight range forming in the middle of a session is noise. The same tight range forming at the session high or low is a structural event.
The detection engine uses three simultaneous compression conditions:
The first is a ratio comparison between a short-period local ATR and a longer-period background ATR . When the local ATR falls below a calibrated percentage of the background ATR, the bar qualifies as contracted.
The second is a drift-floor condition that catches low-volatility regimes where the ratio test alone would miss genuine compressions. It compares the current bar range against the rolling median bar range.
The third is Catalyst Mode, which identifies compressions forming immediately after a volatility expansion - the post-impulse coil. These are often a strong setup type because they represent price stalling after a strong directional move, often marking exhaustion at the extreme.
All three conditions feed a state machine that tracks how many consecutive bars meet the compression criteria, applies violation tolerance so that minor range extensions do not invalidate real coils, and enforces a maximum coil length to prevent stale consolidations from triggering signals.
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THREE SENSITIVITY TIERS
Conservative: Requires the tightest compression and the longest minimum coil duration. Generates fewer signals. Best for traders who prefer higher-filter setups and can wait.
Balanced: The recommended default. Moderate compression requirements and signal frequency. Suitable for most intraday traders across all supported markets.
Aggressive: Captures looser compressions and shorter coils. Higher signal frequency. Best for very active scalpers who want early entries and manage risk with tight stops.
All three tiers can be fully overridden with manual parameter control for experienced users who want to calibrate to a specific instrument.
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CATALYST MODE
When enabled, Catalyst Mode adds a fourth detection layer. If any of the last five bars showed a range greater than 1.5 times the background ATR, the engine recognizes that a volatility expansion just occurred. Compressions forming immediately after an expansion are flagged even if the ratio test alone would not qualify them. These post-impulse coils frequently mark the confirmed point where momentum stalls and reversal begins.
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SIGNAL MECHANICS
This tool provides a systematic framework for identifying the pattern and managing the trade once it fires. A historical bar is exactly what you would have seen in real time on that bar's close.
LONG signals fire when a qualified compression forms at the session low zone and price closes above the upper boundary of the coil on the break bar.
SHORT signals fire when a qualified compression forms at the session high zone and price closes below the lower boundary of the coil on the break bar.
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ENTRY, STOP, AND TARGETS
Entry is the close price of the signal bar.
The stop loss is placed beyond the structural extreme of the coil - below the coil low for longs, above the coil high for shorts - with an ATR buffer added for breathing room. A minimum stop distance floor prevents dangerously tight stops on very small coils.
The stop distance itself is bounded between an ATR floor and an ATR ceiling so that all three targets remain proportionally realistic regardless of coil size. Targets are then calculated as pure R-multiples of the final bounded stop distance:
TP1 defaults to 1.0R - the point where the trade has covered its own risk.
TP2 defaults to 1.5R - the primary partial profit zone.
TP3 defaults to 2.0R - the full target. Hitting TP3 closes the trade and removes all drawings.
TP1 and TP2 are milestone targets. When hit, a yellow dot marks the price level and the trade remains open. The stop loss and all three target lines remain live until TP3 or the stop is reached.
All R-multiple values are user-adjustable. The stop buffer and minimum distance are also adjustable.
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VISUAL ELEMENTS
Signal Card: A labeled marker appears at every signal bar showing direction (LONG or SHORT), the number of bars in the coil, and the TP2 R-multiple. In Minimalist mode, only the direction is shown. Signal cards are permanent - every historical signal remains visible for review.
Level Lines: At signal time, five horizontal lines are drawn - entry, stop loss, TP1, TP2, TP3 - each with a floating price label to the right. Lines extend forward bar by bar during the trade and terminate cleanly at the outcome bar.
Coil Box: While a compression is being watched, a dashed orange box outlines the coil range. The box updates in real time as the coil extends. A small tag shows direction bias and bar count.
Concentric Rings: Four nested rings are drawn around the signal bar at entry, scaling with ATR. They persist for the duration of the trade as a visual anchor and are removed automatically at outcome.
Milestone Dots: Yellow dots mark the exact bar and price where TP1 and TP2 are touched during the trade.
Signal Bar Highlight: The background of the signal bar is tinted green for longs and red for shorts.
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THE DASHBOARD
The dashboard panel shows the current state of the engine at a glance. It updates on every bar close.
The header shows the ticker symbol and timeframe so the panel is always self-identifying across multiple open charts.
STATE shows one of four conditions: IDLE when no coil is active, FORMING with a bar count when compression is building but not yet qualified, WATCH LONG or WATCH SHORT when a qualified coil is positioned at an extreme and the engine is waiting for a break, and ACTIVE LONG or ACTIVE SHORT during a live trade.
COIL shows the current compression bar count and the local-to-background ATR ratio as a percentage. Lower percentage means tighter compression.
ZONE shows where the active coil is positioned - session high, session low, or mid-range for forming coils that have not yet reached an extreme.
ENTRY shows the direction and confirmed entry price of the active trade.
TARGETS shows three dots - one for each TP level. Dots fill yellow as each milestone is hit during the trade.
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RECOMMENDED MARKETS AND TIMEFRAMES
VCE is designed for liquid intraday markets with defined session structure. It performs better on instruments that have clear daily range boundaries and regular volatility patterns.
Recommended markets: NQ, ES, MNQ, MES futures. BTC, ETH, SOL perpetual futures. Major crypto spot pairs. SPY, QQQ intraday.
Recommended timeframes: The script performs strongest on the 15 minute timeframe where session structure is cleanest and compression patterns carry the most weight. The 5 minute and 3 minute timeframes are well suited for standard intraday work. The 1 minute timeframe is for aggressive scalping and requires tighter risk management due to higher noise levels.
The Session Range Lookback input should be calibrated to approximately one full session worth of bars on your chosen timeframe. On a 5-minute chart, one RTH session is roughly 78 bars. On a 1-minute chart, approximately 390 bars. The default of 50 is a balanced starting point for 3-minute and 5-minute charts.
On a 15-minute chart one full RTH session is approximately 26 bars; set Session Range Lookback to 26 to 30 for clean session-extreme detection on this timeframe.
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HOW TO READ A LIVE SETUP (USAGE)
Step one : Watch for the dashboard STATE to change from IDLE to FORMING. This means compression is building somewhere on the chart.
Step two: When STATE changes to WATCH LONG or WATCH SHORT, the coil has qualified and is positioned at a session extreme. The orange coil box becomes visible. The engine is now armed.
Step three: Do not act on WATCH alone. Wait for the signal card to appear. The signal only fires on bar close when the coil has been broken in the reversal direction. The signal card, level lines, and rings all appear simultaneously at that moment.
Step four: Entry is the close of the signal bar. Place your stop at the SL line. Your targets are TP1, TP2, and TP3 as shown on the chart.
Step five: TP1 and TP2 mark themselves with yellow dots as they are hit. The trade closes automatically in the visual display when TP3 or SL is reached, and all lines are removed cleanly.
CHART EXAMPLE
The Science of Price Coiling : Silver 5m
Price surged aggressively into the session high zone, driven by strong buying momentum. But at the extreme, buyers ran out of fuel. Over the next 4 bars, the range shrank bar by bar, candles got smaller, volatility dried up, and neither buyers nor sellers could dominate.
This is the coil: not random sideways movement, but compressed energy at an unstable equilibrium. The longer price holds at an extreme without continuing, the more it signals that the side that drove it there is exhausting. When sellers finally overwhelmed the weakened buyers, price broke below the coil floor in a single decisive bar, releasing all stored tension in one direction.
That break was not a prediction. It was a consequence. The compression was the warning, the location was the context, and the break was simply the market resolving the imbalance it had been building. This is what VCE detects, not the move itself, but the conditions that make the move inevitable.
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ALERT SETUP
Two alert conditions are built in:
VCE Long Signal fires on bar close when a LONG setup triggers.
VCE Short Signal fires on bar close when a SHORT setup triggers.
To activate : open the Alerts panel, select Create Alert, choose VCE as the condition source, and select either Long Signal or Short Signal. Set the trigger to Once Per Bar Close. No additional configuration is needed.
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INPUTS REFERENCE
Sensitivity: Conservative, Balanced, or Aggressive preset. Controls compression tightness, minimum coil length, zone threshold, and break definition simultaneously.
Catalyst Mode: Enables post-impulse coil detection. Recommended ON for all markets.
Use Manual Overrides: Replaces the sensitivity preset with the four manual parameters below it.
Min Bars: Minimum consecutive compression bars required before a coil qualifies.
Max Bars: Maximum coil length before the coil is invalidated and reset.
Contraction Ratio: Local ATR must be below this fraction of the background ATR to register as a compressed bar.
Extreme Zone Percent: Defines what fraction of the session range constitutes the high and low extreme zones.
Background ATR Period: Smoothing period for the volatility baseline used in compression detection.
Session Range Lookback: Number of bars defining the rolling session high and low.
ATR Period: Period for the ATR used in stop and target calculations.
Post-Outcome Bar Gap: Minimum bars of silence after a trade closes before the next signal can fire.
SL Buffer: ATR multiplier added beyond the coil extreme when calculating the structural stop.
Min SL Distance: Floor for the stop distance as an ATR multiple. Prevents unrealistically tight stops.
Max SL Distance: Ceiling for the stop distance as an ATR multiple. Prevents absurdly wide stops on tall coils and keeps all TP levels proportionally realistic for the chosen timeframe.
TP1, TP2, TP3: Take-profit levels as multiples of the stop distance.
Label Right Offset: Controls how far to the right floating price labels appear.
Minimalist Signal Card: Shows only LONG or SHORT on the signal card when enabled.
Show Coil Box: Toggles the live orange compression box.
Highlight Signal Bar: Toggles background tinting on signal bars.
Show Concentric Ring Signature: Toggles the nested ring visual at signal bars.
Show Dashboard: Toggles the status panel.
Theme: Dark or Light. Adjusts all label, line, and panel colors for chart background compatibility.
Position: Sets the dashboard anchor position on the chart.
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NOTES ON PERFORMANCE AND EXPECTATIONS
VCE identifies a specific structural pattern. Not every coil produces a sustained reversal. Session context, macro flow, and news events all influence whether a given setup follows through. The tool provides a systematic framework for identifying the pattern and managing the trade once it fires. Risk management decisions remain with the trader.
The post-outcome bar gap input exists to prevent the engine from immediately re-entering after a stopped trade. This is a deliberate design choice, not a limitation.
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DISCLAIMER
This script is published for educational and informational purposes only. It is not financial advice and does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument. Past signal behavior does not guarantee future results. Trading involves significant risk of loss. Always conduct your own research and apply your own risk management framework before making any trading decision. Indicator
Session Bias Relay Map [AGPro Series]Session Bias Relay Map
🧠 Core Idea
Did Asia, London, and New York pass the same bias forward, or did the next session reject the market narrative?
📌 Overview / What it does
Session Bias Relay Map is an intraday session-structure tool built to visualize how directional bias moves from one major trading session to the next.
The script tracks Asia, London, and New York session ranges, scores each session's directional bias, and classifies whether the active session confirms, conflicts with, or reverses the previous session's narrative.
It does not predict price direction, automate trades, or claim that a session handoff must continue. It is a structured visualization and decision-support map for session bias, market narrative, and intraday context.
🎯 Purpose & Design Philosophy
Many session tools draw boxes, highs, lows, or kill zones.
This script was built to answer a more contextual question:
Did the next major session accept the prior session's directional story, or did it break the handoff?
The design goal is to help traders read sessions as a relay of market intent instead of isolated time windows. It supports discretionary market reading, session review, and intraday structure analysis.
⚡ Why This Script Is Different
Most session indicators focus on time blocks, session highs, and session lows.
This script does NOT stop at drawing session boxes.
Instead, it evaluates how each session behaves relative to the prior session. It scores bias strength, detects handoff confirmation, identifies conflict, and highlights reversal pressure when the active session builds a strong opposite narrative.
⚙️ Methodology
1. Session Detection
The script tracks configurable Asia, London, and New York session windows using the chart symbol's exchange timezone.
2. Session Range Mapping
For each session, it records open, high, low, close, midpoint, bar count, and live range behavior.
3. Bias Scoring
Session bias is scored using body pressure, close location inside the session range, and optional relative volume confirmation.
4. Relay Evaluation
London is compared against the completed Asia bias.
New York is compared against the completed London bias.
5. Visual Output
The chart displays session boxes, midpoint rails, centered session labels, relay event labels, right-side tags, alerts, and a compact AG Pro decision panel.
🗺️ How to Read the Chart
Session Boxes = the active session range built from each configured time window.
Centered Labels = the session name, current bias, relay state, and quality score.
Midpoint Rails = the middle of each session range, useful for reading control and balance.
Relay Event Labels = confirmation, conflict, or reversal events when a later session responds to the prior session.
Right-Side Tags = the current relay state and active session bias.
Panel = summarizes active session, relay state, bias score, prior session, session quality scores, next context, and timeframe scope.
🚦 Signals & States
• RELAY CONFIRMED → the active session supports the previous session's directional bias.
• RELAY REVERSAL → the active session builds strong bias opposite to the previous session.
• BIAS CONFLICT → the active session does not clearly confirm the previous session.
• FIRST LEG → Asia is building the first session bias for the daily relay.
• WAIT HANDOFF → the active handoff does not yet have enough evidence.
• BULLISH → the session is closing with bullish range pressure.
• BEARISH → the session is closing with bearish range pressure.
• NEUTRAL → the session does not have enough directional pressure.
🔔 Alerts Logic
Alerts trigger when a major relay state appears.
• Session Bias Relay Confirmed → the active session confirmed the directional bias passed from the previous session.
• Session Bias Conflict → the active session failed to confirm the previous session and is showing conflict.
• Session Bias Reversal → the active session built strong bias opposite to the previous session.
Alerts are attention markers, not trade instructions.
🧩 Confluence Logic
The context becomes stronger when:
• The previous session has a clear directional bias
• The active session has enough bars to evaluate
• The active session bias score is above the confirmation threshold
• Price closes with clear range position
• Relative volume supports participation
• The relay label and panel state agree
If these elements do not align, the script avoids forcing a strong directional interpretation.
📊 When to Use
• Intraday session analysis
• Forex, crypto, index futures, and liquid stock index products
• Asia-to-London handoff review
• London-to-New-York handoff review
• Market narrative tracking
• Session range and bias studies
• 15m, 30m, 1H, and 2H charts
⚠️ When NOT to Use
• Daily, weekly, or monthly charts
• Very low-liquidity symbols
• Markets with irregular or meaningless session windows
• Extremely noisy conditions where session closes do not carry useful information
• Situations where a single session should not be over-interpreted
• Symbols where the chart exchange timezone does not match the intended session model
🎛️ Key Inputs
• Asia Session → defines the first session window used to build the initial bias.
• London Session → defines the second session window used to evaluate the Asia handoff.
• New York Session → defines the third session window used to evaluate the London handoff.
• Max Chart TF Minutes → limits the largest timeframe that should build the relay map.
• Bias Confirmation Threshold → controls how strong a session must be before it can confirm a relay.
• Conflict Threshold → controls when a session is treated as weak or conflicted.
• Minimum Handoff Bars → prevents early-session noise from printing premature relay labels.
• Use Volume Confirmation → adds relative volume pressure to the bias score.
• Show Session Boxes → controls the main visual range boxes.
• Show Relay Event Labels → controls confirmation, conflict, and reversal labels.
• 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 session relay story.
Session boxes define the time windows.
Centered labels make each session readable without hunting through the chart.
Relay labels highlight the important handoff moments.
Right-side tags keep the current state visible.
The AG Pro panel summarizes the active session context in a clean, compact format.
🧪 Practical Usage Workflow
1. Choose session windows that match the market being studied.
2. Let Asia build the first bias leg.
3. Watch whether London confirms, conflicts with, or reverses Asia.
4. Watch whether New York confirms, conflicts with, or reverses London.
5. Use the panel to check relay state, active bias, quality score, and timeframe scope.
6. Interpret the result inside broader market structure, liquidity, and volatility context.
🔍 Interpretation Guidelines
A relay confirmation does not guarantee continuation. It means the active session is supporting the prior session's directional bias according to the script's rule set.
A relay reversal does not guarantee a full trend reversal. It means the active session is building strong opposite pressure relative to the previous session.
A bias conflict is not a failure. It is useful information that the market narrative is not clean.
The best use is contextual: combine the relay state with support, resistance, liquidity, volume, and higher-timeframe 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 provide guaranteed entry or exit signals.
It is not a generic session box indicator.
It is not a kill-zone strategy.
⚠️ Limitations & Transparency
Session settings matter. Poorly selected session windows can produce weak or misleading context.
Timeframe differences can affect how session handoffs appear.
Low-liquidity markets can distort bias scores.
Markets with irregular trading hours may need custom session inputs.
Relative volume can help, but it does not guarantee better interpretation in every market.
🧠 Market Context Notes
Session behavior is often shaped by liquidity, regional participation, volatility expansion, and macro timing.
The same relay state can mean different things depending on whether the market is trending, ranging, or reacting to news.
The script is strongest when used as a narrative map, not as a standalone decision machine.
🧾 Use Case Examples
• If Asia builds a bullish range and London also closes with strong bullish pressure, the relay may show confirmation.
• If Asia builds bullish pressure but London quickly forms strong bearish pressure, the relay may show reversal.
• If London begins with weak movement and no clear range pressure, the relay may show conflict or wait for more evidence.
🧱 System Philosophy
Session Bias Relay 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 market context faster without turning analysis into signal spam.
🔐 Non-Promise Statement
No script can know the future.
No session handoff is guaranteed.
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 market participation changes across sessions.
The value is not only in the label. The value is in learning how the session narrative develops, confirms, conflicts, or reverses over time.
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Bolsacava Stats FunOntheRide
Educational indicator created by Fun on the Ride / CryptoNews.
This script was built as a learning exercise after watching a public video by Bolsacava, where several intraday ideas about the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract (ES1!) were discussed.
The purpose of this publication is not to claim ownership of those ideas, impersonate Bolsacava, or present this as an official Bolsacava tool. It is an independent educational Pine Script project designed to show how recurring market claims can be translated into measurable statistics using 30-minute ES1! bars.
The goal is simple: learn, test, and verify.
Instead of assuming that a pattern works because it is often repeated, this tool checks how frequently it has actually occurred across recent historical sessions.
What the indicator shows
The script displays a compact on-chart table with the historical hit-rate of each pattern across three rolling windows:
- 20 sessions: short-term behaviour
- 60 sessions: medium-term context
- 120 sessions: broader baseline
This allows traders to compare whether a pattern is currently persistent, fading, or highly dependent on the selected sample size.
Patterns audited
The indicator tracks five ES1! intraday hypotheses:
H1 — Range-bound open between 15:30 and 17:00 Madrid time
H2 — Sell-off around the European close, from 17:00 to 18:00
H3 — Low-volatility window between 18:00 and 21:00
H4 — Volatility expansion between 20:00 and 21:00
H5 — Last-hour directional drift from 21:00 to 22:00
All times are referenced in Madrid local time. The calculations are based on bar timestamps and defined intraday windows.
Optional filters
The script can also recompute the statistics on a cleaner sample by excluding sessions affected by potentially anomalous events:
- CPI release days
- FOMC meeting days
- Extreme sessions, defined by unusually large range or volume
Comparing filtered and unfiltered results helps reveal whether a pattern is robust across normal sessions or mainly supported by outlier days.
How to interpret it
A higher percentage means that the pattern occurred more often within the selected rolling window.
This indicator does not provide buy signals, sell signals, stop-loss levels, take-profit levels, or position sizing. It is not a trading strategy.
It is a statistical screener designed to help traders test market narratives before using them as decision-making inputs.
Important notes
- Built for CME_MINI:ES1! on the 30-minute timeframe.
- Results may not translate to other symbols, sessions, or timeframes.
- The development sample covered approximately 600 historical sessions.
- Hit-rates will change over time as new sessions enter the rolling windows.
- Past frequency does not imply future reliability.
Attribution note
This is an independent educational project by Fun on the Ride / CryptoNews, inspired by a public Bolsacava video. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially published by Bolsacava.
The aim is to learn Pine Script, practice statistical thinking, and explore how trading narratives can be tested with data.
Disclaimer
This script is for educational and statistical research purposes only. It is not financial advice, does not recommend any trade, and makes no claim of profitability.
Open-source publication
The code is open-source so that users can inspect the logic, verify the calculations, adapt the hypotheses, and suggest improvements. Indicator
Precision Progressive ORB# Precision Progressive ORB (PORB)
A different approach to the Opening Range Breakout: instead of waiting for the full ORB window to complete before drawing anything, PORB builds the range progressively using smaller sub-boxes that develop live during the auction. You can watch the opening range form in real time rather than staring at empty space until the ORB completes.
> 🖼️ ** **
> *Above: a 45-minute ORB built progressively from nine 5-minute sub-boxes. Each sub-box shows where price was leaning during its window — red borders for holding low, green for holding high, white for neutral rotation. The dotted line is the live midpoint tracking the running aggregate. The status table on the right tracks state and classification in real time.*
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## The problem this solves
A standard 15-minute ORB script draws nothing until 15 minutes have passed. On fast-moving small caps, the trade is often half over by the time the box appears. PORB shows you what's happening *inside* those 15 minutes by breaking them into smaller development windows — for example, three 5-minute sub-boxes that build the full ORB. You see the opening auction develop in stages instead of all at once.
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## Quick setup
Default settings work out of the box for US stocks:
- **Timezone:** Exchange (auto-detects from the symbol)
- **Start time:** 9:30 (matches NYSE/NASDAQ market open via the Exchange timezone)
- **ORB duration:** 15 minutes
- **Sub-box duration:** 5 minutes (three sub-boxes per ORB)
**Important about timezone:** the Hour and Minute inputs are interpreted in the selected Timezone. With the default "Exchange" setting, 9:30 means 9:30 AM in the symbol's home exchange — Eastern Time for NASDAQ/NYSE, Central European Time for DAX, JST for Nikkei, etc. If you want to anchor to a non-native session (trading EUR/USD on the London FX open from a US chart, for example), pick a specific timezone from the dropdown — DST is handled automatically.
If you pick a sub-box duration that doesn't divide the ORB evenly (e.g., 15 / 7), PORB auto-snaps to the nearest valid divisor and shows a one-time notice.
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## How it works
During the ORB window:
- Sub-boxes draw live, one at a time
- Two display modes: **Rolling** (only the current sub-box visible) or **Show All** (every sub-box stays visible through completion)
- Internally, PORB tracks the aggregate high/low across the entire ORB window — that's the real range being built
When the ORB completes:
- All sub-boxes sweep away (development is done)
- The final aggregate high/low locks in
- A bordered final box anchors the locked structure to its origin time
- High/low lines, midpoint, and optional buffer lines extend right for ongoing reference
> 🖼️ ** **
> *Above: the same auction after the ORB locks. Sub-boxes are gone — the chart transitions from "watching the auction form" to "trading the resulting structure." The locked box, ORB high/low lines, and midpoint extend right as structural reference for the rest of the session.*
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## Two display modes
**Show All Sub-Boxes** (the hero image at the top) keeps every completed sub-box visible through the ORB window, so you can see the full development sequence as it builds.
**Rolling Sub-Box Only** shows just the current developing sub-box — only one box visible at any time, moving forward as each new window begins. Less visual weight, more focus on the active auction phase.
> 🖼️ ** **
> *Above: PORB in rolling mode. Only the currently developing sub-box is drawn — prior sub-boxes disappear as new ones begin. Cleaner look for traders who want minimal chart clutter while still watching the auction form live.*
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## Visual language
Two clean channels, two distinct concepts:
**Sub-box border = position lean**
- Silver — close in the middle third of the developing range
- Green — close in the upper third (holding high)
- Red — close in the lower third (holding low)
**Sub-box fill = movement energy**
Progressive green/red shading reflects the relative strength of each sub-box move. Fills stay light — atmospheric tint, not solid overlay — so candles and other indicators remain clearly readable. The fill thresholds adapt to the symbol's volatility regime so a sleepy Large cap doesn't need the same magnitude as a volatile small cap to show energy.
**Final box** I'm using a cyan border with a faint neutral fill — a structural anchor for the locked range. The color can be changed based on your preferred canvas color.
**Live midpoint** (optional, on by default): a dotted line tracking the running aggregate midpoint during build. Provisional by design — it shifts as the range develops. Replaced by the locked dashed midpoint when the ORB completes.
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## Classification table
A 4-column status table tracks live state:
| State | Development | ORB High | ORB Low |
|-------|-------------|----------|---------|
The Development column shifts meaning by phase:
- **During build:** range classification — `Forming`, `Inside`, `Expanding`, `Compressing`, or `Stable`. Compares the current sub-box's range to the prior sub-box's range, with a tolerance threshold to avoid flickering on small differences.
- **After lock:** position classification — `Above Range`, `Upper Range`, `Mid Range`, `Lower Range`, or `Below Range`. Tells you where price sits relative to the locked structure, including whether it's broken out above or below.
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## Buffer lines (optional, off by default)
Toggleable dotted lines just outside the locked ORB high and low. Sized by ticks, ATR multiple, or percent — your choice. These give you a "you actually broke this, not just kissed it" reference for traders who want a visual cushion against wick-pokes and liquidity sweeps.
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## What this is and isn't
PORB is a structural visualization tool. It does not generate buy/sell signals, fire alerts, or recommend trades. It shows you the opening auction's development in a way that pure-completion ORB scripts can't, and gives you a clean structural reference once the range locks. How you use that information is up to you.
Best suited for:
- Active intraday traders working opening-range setups
- Anyone watching fast-moving instruments where the first 5–15 minutes carry most of the move
- Traders who want to see auction structure form rather than waiting for the result
**Note on viewing:** sub-boxes draw live during the ORB build phase. If you load PORB onto a chart after the ORB has already completed for the day, you'll only see the final locked structure — sub-boxes are part of the live development view, not a historical replay. To see sub-boxes in action, watch the next ORB window form in real time, or set the start time to the upcoming session.
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Released open source under MPL 2.0. Indicator
