Prime Volume Profile + Liquidity HeatmapThis indicator is designed to provide a clear, institutional-style view of market structure and liquidity distribution, combining a fully customizable Volume Profile with a dynamic Liquidity Heatmap.
It operates on a daily basis, automatically resetting at the start of each new trading day to ensure that all calculations reflect fresh, relevant market data.
🔍 Core Features
• Customizable Volume Profile (Daily)
The indicator builds a high-resolution Volume Profile for the current trading day, allowing traders to visualize where trading activity has been most concentrated.
It highlights three key levels:
POC (Point of Control) – the price level with the highest traded volume during the day. This represents the area where the market has found the strongest agreement between buyers and sellers.
VAH (Value Area High) – the upper boundary of the value area, where approximately 70% of the day’s total volume has been traded.
VAL (Value Area Low) – the lower boundary of the value area, completing the range in which most trading activity has occurred.
These levels are recalculated in real time and reset daily, making them highly relevant for intraday and scalping strategies.
• Liquidity Heatmap
In addition to the volume profile, the indicator provides a visual heatmap of recent liquidity.
Areas with higher intensity represent zones where a significant amount of volume has been transacted.
More transparent zones indicate low participation or “empty” areas in the market.
This allows traders to quickly identify:
Where liquidity is concentrated
Where price is more likely to react
Where inefficiencies or low-interest zones exist
🧠 Understanding Liquidity
In trading, liquidity refers to the amount of buy and sell orders available at specific price levels.
High liquidity zones:
Attract price like a magnet
Often act as support/resistance
Are commonly revisited by the market
Low liquidity zones:
Allow price to move quickly
Often result in sharp, impulsive moves
Understanding liquidity helps traders interpret why price moves, not just where it moves.
⚙️ How to Use This Indicator
This tool is best used as a confirmation layer within a broader trading strategy.
Common use cases:
POC as a magnet
Price often gravitates toward the Point of Control. Traders monitor reactions around this level for mean reversion or continuation setups.
VAH / VAL as reaction zones
These levels can act as dynamic support and resistance.
Breakouts or rejections around these zones can signal potential trade opportunities.
Heatmap for execution timing
Use the liquidity heatmap to identify:
High-interest zones for entries or exits
Low-liquidity areas where price may move quickly
⚠️ Important Disclaimer
This indicator is not financial advice and does not provide direct buy or sell signals.
It is intended to be used as a decision-support tool, ideally in combination with:
Price action analysis
Market structure
Other indicators or trading strategies
🎯 Summary
This indicator gives you a real-time map of market participation, helping you understand:
Where volume is concentrated
Where liquidity is sitting
Where price is likely to react
Used correctly, it provides a significant informational edge, especially for intraday and short-term traders. Indicator
Liquidity Depth [AlgoAlpha]OVERVIEW
This script visualizes market liquidity by identifying key price levels where significant volume has transacted. It highlights zones of high buying and selling interest, helping traders understand where liquidity is accumulating and how price may respond to these areas. By dynamically tracking volume at highs and lows, the script builds a real-time liquidity profile, making it a powerful tool for identifying potential support and resistance levels.
CONCEPTS
Liquidity depth analysis helps traders determine how price interacts with supply and demand at different levels. The script processes historical volume data to distinguish between high-liquidity and low-liquidity zones. It assigns transparency levels to plotted lines , ensuring that more relevant liquidity areas stand out visually. The script adds a profile to show the depth of liquidity (derived from historical volume data) for levels above and below the current price
FEATURES
Liquidity Levels: Tracks liquidity levels based on volume concentration at price high and lows.
Volume-Based Transparency: More significant liquidity levels are displayed with higher visibility, showing their significance.
Interpolation: interpolates the bullish and bearish liquidity depth at a user defined range away from the price, helping in comparing the liquidity amounts between bullish and bearish.
Depth Profile: Allows traders to visualize depth of liquidity in a more quantitative and clearer way than the liquidity levels/list]
USAGE
This indicator is best used to track liquidity levels and potential price reaction areas. Traders can adjust the Liquidity Lookback setting to analyze past liquidity levels over different historical periods. The Profile Resolution setting controls the granularity of liquidity depth visualization, with higher values providing more detail. The script can be applied across different timeframes, from intraday scalping to swing trading analysis. The plotted liquidity zones provide traders with insights into where price may encounter strong support, resistance, or potential liquidity-driven reversals.
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Open Liquidity Heatmap [BigBeluga]Open Liquidity Heatmap is an indicator designed to display accumulated resting liquidity on the chart.
Unlike any other liquidity heatmap, this aims to accumulate liquidity at specific levels that build up over time, showing larger areas of liquidity.
🔶 FEATURES
The indicator includes the following settings:
Lookback : Used to determine the range calculation of the heatmap.
Leverage : Leverage of the liquidation (Counted as % in price, Example: 4.5 will return a distance from price of 4.5%, indicating any possible resting liquidity in this range).
Levels : Amount of levels to display (Each level is counted as liquidity resting on the chart; fewer levels will return a bigger area of liquidity sitting on the chart).
Mode : Apply a color gradient from the minimum liquidation to the maximum liquidity level. Set the maximum color gradient value (Counted as volume).
Offset : Automatically determine the offset range of the Volume Profiles. Manual offset of the Volume Profiles.
🔶 CALCULATION
for i = 0 to step - 1
float plotter = na
switch i
0 =>
plotter := hs
=>
plotter := hs - diff * ( i )
cls.hm.gnL(plotter)
cls.vp.put(plotter, 0)
We calculate levels like a normal volume profile with steps, from the highest point within the lookback to the lowest one. Each level will contain the corresponding amount of volume that the candle has closed in that range.
As we can see in the image above, we add liquidity each time the distance in % from price is between two levels.
Unlike many liquidity indicators that provide a single candle liquidity heatmap, this aims to add up liquidity (volume) in already present levels.
This can be extremely useful to see which levels are likely to be more liquid and tend to get a bigger reaction to the price.
Imagine it like a range of levels that each time price revisits that area, a new position area is added; we add volume in that area each time price visits that zone. Liquidity builds up in those zones, causing a bigger reaction to the price once the price visits it.
This indicator is not the same as a single candle heatmap like many others. What is a single candle heatmap?
A single candle heatmap is when a level is created on every new candle, coloring the level based on the total volume of it.
This indicator, on the contrary, aims to provide a more specific use by adding up liquidity each time price visits it.
🔶 BASIC DEMOSTRATION
This is a basic demonstration of how we can spot high liquidity points overall using confluence:
We see the POC of the liquidation in a low volume area of the normal volume profile adding up as confluence.
Resistance from the POC Volume Profile suggesting price will go lower.
Major long open liquidity down.
As we can see, price takes out all the long liquidity and right after pumping, indicating that all the major liquidity got taken out.
Some key note to take is that a POC in the liquidation heatmap in a low volume area of the normal Volume Profile add confluence of a possible big reaction in that zone.
In the forex market, we suggest to use a low distance from price (Leverage) while in a crypto market you can use the one that fit the best the current timeframe.
🔶 CONCLUSION
This indicator aims to show open resting liquidity that had built up over time, showing the most amount of liquidation in specific areas in an aggregated way unlike many liquidation heatmap indicators that show single-level liquidation.
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