World Sessions & Countdown [AFD]
Which session is actually running right now, and how many bars are left in it?
Every session tool on the shelf draws the same coloured stripes. Almost all of them are built on a fixed UTC offset, which means twice a year they are quietly an hour wrong and nothing on the chart says so. The highest-profile clock script in the niche states plainly in its own description that it requires manual UTC offset adjustment at each changeover.
World Sessions is anchored to IANA time zone names instead - Europe/London, America/New_York, Asia/Tokyo, Australia/Sydney. Each window follows its own city's daylight-saving policy, on its own, with nothing for you to adjust. The script draws a rectangle around each session's own bars rather than a full-height stripe, a separate rectangle wherever sessions overlap, and a dashboard that tells you what time it is in all four cities and how much of the
current session is left.
Why the time zone thing matters
14 January - London GMT, New York EST - overlap 15:00-17:00 UTC, two hours.
25 March - London BST, New York EDT - overlap 14:00-17:00 UTC, three hours.
15 July - London BST, New York EDT - overlap 14:00-16:00 UTC, two hours.
28 October - London GMT, New York EDT - overlap 14:00-17:00 UTC, three hours.
A fixed-offset script prints one identical row for all four. The late-October row is the one that bites: Europe has left summer time and the United States has not, so the two cities are five hours apart instead of the usual four, and every band built on a captured offset is an hour wrong for that week.
This is a statement about how the script resolves time. It says nothing about volatility, liquidity, or what you should do with any of it.
At a glance
Session boxes - one rectangle per session RUN, spanning that run's own high and low, not a full-height stripe.
Overlap box - a separate rectangle over the bars two or more sessions share, carrying its own composite name.
IANA time zones - each session follows its own city's daylight-saving policy, with no UTC offset to maintain.
Bars left in session - not minutes, BARS, on your current timeframe.
Dashboard - each session's hours, its city's live clock, an open/closed dot, a progress bar, and the countdown to its next boundary.
Five sessions - Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York, and one Custom slot of your own.
New York hours - regular, extended-equities, or CME Globex, chosen automatically from the symbol or forced by hand.
Eight alerts - four session opens, all sessions closed, overlap start, N seconds to bar close, and last bar of session.
Appearance - fill, four gradient depths in two directions, border transparency, width and style, or outline-only.
One box per run, not one box per chart
A session's rectangle is bounded by that session's run, identified by the instant that run closes, and not by a stretch of bars on which the session happened to be live. The distinction is not academic. On a regular-hours US chart every bar is inside New York's 09:30-16:00 window, so a liveness-based tool never sees New York stop being live: it opens one rectangle on the first
bar of history and never closes it, washing the entire chart in one color. This product drew exactly that defect once, and the lifecycle is now keyed on the run instead. You get one box per day, with clean gaps between them.
A box is a session's EXTENT, not a level. It has a top and a bottom and that is where the resemblance to a zone tool stops - no line is drawn at either edge, no edge is labelled or alerted with a price, and nothing downstream reads one.
The overlap box
Two or more enabled sessions running at once get their own rectangle over the shared bars, spanning the high and low of those bars only, and it carries the name of the sessions that actually made it - TOKYO + LONDON, LONDON + NEW YORK.
One color at any depth, deliberately: Sydney, Tokyo and London genuinely stack three deep, and a per-pair colour scheme has no honest answer for a three-way overlap.
Overlap only is the shipped default, so out of the box the chart draws the overlap rectangle and nothing else. On a chart with no overlap running that means no rectangles at all - the intended state, not a fault. Set Overlap to Highlight overlap to see every session box alongside it, or Off for session boxes with no overlap rectangle.
Every session is named exactly once. Where the overlap box is drawn it carries the joint name, so a session's own name centres on the bars it held ALONE. A session that is never alone shows no separate name, because it has already been named.
The dashboard
Per session - a colour chip, the name, an open/closed dot, that session's own hours, the current wall clock in its city (marked +1 or -1 when the city is on another date), a progress bar, and OPENS IN or CLOSES IN to its next boundary. The open session's row is tinted in its own color and its name set bold.
Two kinds of time, on purpose - LOCAL, the dot, PROGRESS and NEXT are real-world clock readings and stay current on a weekend, on a scrolled-back chart, and in Bar Replay. BAR CLOSE is a property of the bar in front of you and shows an em dash on anything but a genuinely live bar, because a countdown to the close of a bar that has already closed cannot mean what it says.
BARS LEFT keeps counting where BAR CLOSE cannot, because one is a bar-structure count and the other is a clock reading. It names the session it is following. Both step green, then amber, then red as they run out.
The progress column always says something - the bar while a session runs, Not in session while it is closed, and No bars here when that session's window has no bars at all on the symbol you are looking at. Tokyo on a US regular-hours chart is the common case.
Position, background, grid lines, the outer frame and its width, one text size for the whole panel, and progress-bar width are all settings. The frame's Countdown mode makes it the same green-amber-red traffic light BARS LEFT carries.
Weekdays are digits, and the rule has a trap in it
Weekdays live in a field of their own, because input.session() renders two clock fields and no weekday picker. 1 is Sunday through 7 is Saturday, so the shipped '23456' is Monday to Friday.
They are not optional. A session string without them applies to EVERY day of the week - invisible on a stock chart, but on a 24/7 symbol it draws a London box straight through Saturday.
For a session that runs past midnight, the digits name the day it ENDS. PulseWire's own documented example is 1700-1700:23456, in which the Monday session starts Sunday at 17:00 and ends Monday at 17:00. So the CME Globex window here is 1800-1700 with the ordinary 23456 - Sunday evening through Friday afternoon, five sessions, the real Globex week. The intuitive-looking 12345 invents a Saturday-evening session that never trades and loses Thursday evening entirely.
Alerts
Sydney session open
Tokyo session open
London session open
New York session open
All sessions closed
Session overlap start
N seconds to bar close - the threshold is a user input, and 0 turns it off
Last bar of session - off by default
Create these from PulseWire's alert dialog. How often an alert re-fires while
its condition holds is set in that dialog, not in the script.
How to use it
Add it to an INTRADAY time-based chart. Boxes and session names need an intraday timeframe; the dashboard works on any timeframe, because its countdowns read the wall clock.
Leave Overlap on Overlap only for the overlap rectangle alone, or switch to Highlight overlap to see every session.
Turn off the sessions you do not follow. Set hours and weekday digits to match what you actually trade.
On a futures contract, check the New York hours group is on extended hours if the Globex window is the one you want boxed. Auto by symbol handles this for you on a real futures contract.
Everything else - fill, gradient depth and direction, border style, boxes kept, panel appearance - is a setting to configure once to taste.
What it deliberately does not do
It draws no zone and publishes no session high or low as a level. It offers no fixed UTC offset option, because a dropdown reading UTC-5 would let you silently break the one thing the product is for. It gives no arrows, no signals, and nothing about what price will do during any session. Educational chart context, not financial advice.
Data, timeframes and repainting
The script uses current chart data only. There are no request.security() calls, no higher-timeframe imports, and no lookahead of any kind.
A running session's box updates as new highs and lows print on the forming bar, and its right edge advances with the chart; it is final once that session's run has ended. Confirm the behaviour with the bar-replay tool on your own chart and timeframe before relying on it.
The dashboard's clock columns advance per tick. Pine provides no timer, so on a closed market - where no tick arrives - they hold at the last moment the script executed rather than ticking on by themselves. Scrolling, zooming, or changing any setting re-executes the script and brings them current. This is platform behaviour, not a setting.
Boxes and session names are intraday-only. On a daily or higher chart a session window is shorter than one bar, so they are not drawn.
Drawing history is bounded by Pine's limits. The source declares budgets of 500 boxes and 500 labels, and Session boxes kept is trimmed automatically to stay inside the box ceiling - a faded session costs one box per gradient step plus its outline.
Standard time-based candles. The session arithmetic reads chart time.
A running alert keeps the inputs, symbol and timeframe it was created with - recreate an alert after changing any of them.
Originality and credit
Other session tools draw stripes on a fixed offset. This one bounds each session run by its own high and low, names the overlap for the sessions that actually made it, resolves every window through an IANA time zone so it holds across daylight saving, and reports the one number the shelf does not carry - how many bars are left in the session you are in, on the timeframe you are on. Open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. (c) Auction Foundry.
Disclosure: this indicator describes session structure and elapsed time on the current chart. It is not a forecast, a signal, or financial advice. Indicator
Previous Day Key Levels# Previous Day Key Levels
Previous Day Key Levels automatically plots the key reference points I use to frame each trading day:
* Previous RTH High and Low
* Asia High and Low
* London High and Low
The indicator is designed to work on an RTH chart while still calculating the Asia and London ranges from extended-hours data. Each level is drawn as a clean horizontal reference with a named label and a matching price marker on the right axis.
## How to use it
These levels help organize the market into clear areas of potential reaction, acceptance, rejection, breakout, or failed breakout.
Previous Day High and Low are especially useful as major reference points for the current RTH session. Price holding above or below them can support a directional thesis, while tests and rejections can highlight potential reversals or rotational conditions.
Asia and London Highs/Lows provide additional intraday structure before and during New York trading. They can act as liquidity targets, breakout points, or areas where an early New York move may stall, reverse, or accelerate.
The Asia range updates when the Asia session ends, and the London range updates when London ends. Previous Day High/Low refresh for the next RTH session.
## Pairing with Volume Profile
This indicator is intended as a supporting structure tool—not a standalone entry signal.
For a fuller market read, pair it with a Volume Profile indicator that provides:
* POC: the session’s highest-volume price area
* VAH: Value Area High
* VAL: Value Area Low
When a key session level overlaps with POC, VAH, or VAL, that confluence can make the area more meaningful. For example:
* A Previous Day High near VAH may act as a more significant resistance or breakout-acceptance area.
* A Previous Day Low near VAL may become a higher-quality support or breakdown-rejection zone.
* An Asia or London extreme aligning with POC can highlight a potential magnet, decision point, or support/resistance area.
Use the levels alongside price action, market context, and volume behavior. They are reference points—not guarantees—and are most useful for forming a structured trade idea and defining risk around meaningful market locations.
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Strategy
ICT Sessions & Killzones [JOAT]ICT Sessions and Killzones
Maps the trading day into sessions and killzones, then shows where each session's liquidity rests and when the next session raids it.
What it is
Intraday price is organised by time: different sessions have different behaviour, and each one leaves liquidity that the next session hunts. This indicator frames when the market is active and where that liquidity sits, so the raids become obvious in advance. It is an original session-mapping tool built around the widely-taught concept of session killzones and inter-session liquidity.
How it works
• Session boxes — Asia, London, New York AM and New York PM are each boxed from their own high to their own low across their clock window. The box is that session's realised range, and its edges are the liquidity the following sessions tend to seek.
• Liquidity lines — every completed session leaves its high and low as thin levels extended to the right. Resting buy-side liquidity sits at the highs, sell-side at the lows, each labelled.
• Sweeps — when a later session trades through a prior session's high or low, that raid is tagged, marking where stops were likely taken.
• Classic reference levels — the previous day's high and low and the midnight open are drawn as the anchor points this style of analysis leans on.
• Bias read — a simple, transparent read from the midnight open and the most recent killzone sweep-and-reclaim prints an understated directional tag. This tool is about mapping context and timing; it deliberately shows direction rather than full trade management.
The dashboard
An adjustable session-clock panel shows which session is currently active, the countdown context of the day, the most recent liquidity event, the current bias, and the reference levels in play, so the state of the day is readable at a glance.
How to use it
• Set the session windows and timezone to your market.
• Watch for a session to sweep the prior session's high or low and then reclaim — that is the timing this map is built to highlight.
• Use it as a context and timing layer beneath your own entry method, or alongside a structure or entry tool.
Settings
Session windows and timezone, which sessions and reference levels to display, sweep marking, bias options, plus full visual and dashboard controls.
Originality and usefulness
The contribution is a single, coherent map of session ranges, inter-session liquidity, sweeps and classic reference levels, with a transparent bias read — assembled so a trader can see the day's liquidity structure and timing without cluttering the chart. Everything evaluates on confirmed bars and does not repaint.
Notes and limitations
• Session times depend on the timezone and the instrument's trading hours; set them correctly for your market.
• The bias read is intentionally simple context, not a standalone trade signal.
• This tool maps liquidity and timing; it does not place stops or targets for you.
• Educational and analytical tool, not financial advice.
— made with passion by officialjackofalltrades
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GMS Session Rays (Sydney/Asia/London/NY)A lightweight Pine v6 indicator that plots the previous completed session’s High and Low for the four major sessions—Sydney, Asia, London, New York—so you always see the most actionable structure levels without chart clutter. Lines auto-update at the end of each session and extend right as horizontal rays. Labels are clean, stack automatically to avoid overlap, and can be placed on the left or right side of the chart.
What it shows
Previous session High/Low for each enabled session (not the current live session).
Right-extended rays at those prices, updated when the session closes.
Optional labels per session (e.g., “sydney high”, “london low”), with auto-stacking to prevent overlaps.
Customization
Per-session toggles: show/hide each session; show/hide labels per session.
Style controls: color, width, and line style (Solid/Dotted/Dashed) per session.
Label controls: global on/off, Left/Right placement, bars offset, Y-offset (in ticks), size (Tiny/Small/Normal), auto-stacking with adjustable step.
Session windows: editable HHMM-HHMM for Sydney/Asia/London/NY.
Timezone: set a single indicator timezone (default America/New_York).
Only Today mode: clears older rays daily to keep charts minimal.
How it works (under the hood)
Tracks High/Low only while a session is active; when it ends, those values are frozen and plotted as the previous session levels. Indicator
Best Sessions - New York, London & Asia - Xcelerate TradeXcelerate — Best Sessions: New York, London & Asia | Xcelerate Trade
A professional session-mapping overlay from the Xcelerate Trade team. It highlights the three major forex / index trading windows — Asia, London (Europe) and New York — plus a full daily range toolkit, all anchored to America/New_York (EST/EDT). Built for intraday traders who plan entries around session highs/lows, daily open/close and kill-zone timing.
What you get on the chart
Three session boxes (intraday only)
Each session draws a live box from session open to the current bar, then freezes it as history when the session ends:
Session Default window (EST) Color
Asia
20:00 → 05:00
Yellow
London
03:00 → 12:00
Blue
New York
09:30 → 16:00
Red
Live box — grows with price during the active session (high/low tracked in real time).
Historical boxes — completed sessions saved to chart history (FIFO cap per session).
Outline-only mode — optional per session: border highlight with transparent fill (“Daily Highlights” style).
Session times are fully editable via input.session — adapt them to your broker’s server time or personal kill-zone preferences.
Daily box (00:00 → 24:00 NY)
Current day — live lime box from midnight NY to midnight NY, expanding with the day’s high/low.
Historical days — completed daily ranges saved to history (default keep: 31 days).
Outline-only — optional transparent fill for a cleaner chart.
Daily high / low labels
D Hi and D Lo labels at the exact timestamp of the day’s extreme.
Separate toggles for historical and live labels.
Customizable colors, decimal precision and vertical offset (ticks).
Daily open / close lines
Horizontal Open line (purple by default) and Close/Last line (gray) spanning the full NY trading day.
Optional historical and live price labels on the lines.
Label placement by ticks or percentage offset from the daily range.
Global controls
Show Asia / Europe / New York — master toggles to hide entire sessions without digging into each group.
Per-session history — independent keep limits (default 31 sessions each).
Smart drawing guards — automatic FIFO caps scaled to your timeframe so you never hit PulseWire’s object limits (boxes, lines, labels). Works from 1-second charts up to monthly.
Timezone accuracy
All session detection and daily rollover use America/New_York consistently:
Session time() checks use the NY timezone string.
Daily box boundaries use timestamp(TIMEZONE, …) at 00:00 NY.
Daily open pulled via request.security(..., "1D", open) for alignment with the daily candle.
This keeps Asia / London / NY boxes and the daily box synchronized — no drift between session logic and daily logic.
Suggested settings
Forex (EURUSD, GBPUSD, XAUUSD) on 1m–15m: all three sessions ON, daily box + D Hi/Lo labels ON, open/close lines ON.
US indices (SPX, NQ) on 1m–5m: focus on New York session; optionally hide Asia if your broker’s overnight session is quiet.
Cleaner chart: enable Outline only on sessions and/or daily box; turn off historical labels if you only care about today.
Higher timeframes (1H+): session boxes auto-disable on daily+ charts (isIntraday guard) — only the daily toolkit remains active.
Inputs overview
Group What you control
Session schedules
Asia / London / NY time windows
Colors
Fill + border per session and daily
Daily Box
Historical + live, outline mode
Daily Labels
Hi/Lo labels, colors, offsets
Asia / London / NY
Per-session historical + live toggles
GLOBAL
Master show/hide per session
Daily Lines
Open/Close lines + labels
Promo Banner
Flash timing (minutes hidden / seconds visible)
Notes & disclaimers
Session boxes appear on intraday timeframes only (below 1D). On daily/weekly charts the session engine is disabled automatically.
Session boxes track the high/low range inside the window, not volume or order flow — use them as a time + range reference, not as a signal generator.
Default session times follow common EST conventions; verify against your broker if you trade instruments with different session cuts (e.g. futures RTH vs ETH).
Pine Script v6.
Built and maintained by the Xcelerate Trade team. Asia, London and New York session boxes + daily range, Hi/Lo labels and open/close lines — all in one clean, NY-timezone-aware overlay.
Indicator
HTF Session Sweep ModelHTF Session Sweep Model
The HTF Session Sweep Model is a session-based market structure tool designed to help traders observe how price interacts with the previous confirmed higher-timeframe candle during active trading sessions.
This script was created because session trading can become messy when traders manually mark multiple highs, lows, opens, boxes, sweeps, breakouts, and traps across different timeframes. Instead of adding unrelated indicators together, this model uses one central reference point: the previous confirmed HTF candle. Once an enabled session begins, the script maps that HTF candle’s high, low, midpoint, and optional session open level onto the chart. Price action during that session is then classified around that reference range.
The purpose of the script is not to predict price. The purpose is to provide a clean framework for reading session behaviour around a higher-timeframe range.
Core Concept
The script is built around the idea that the previous higher-timeframe candle can provide useful reference levels for intraday price behaviour. Its high and low can act as areas where liquidity may be taken, where breakouts may develop, or where failed breakouts may occur.
The model does not project the HTF candle before the session opens. It activates when an enabled session opens. At that point, it takes the most recent fully confirmed HTF candle and uses it as the active session reference.
This creates a consistent question for the trader:
How is price reacting around the previous confirmed HTF candle during the current session?
What Makes This Script Original
This script is not designed as a simple combination of unrelated indicators. The components are connected through one session-based model:
1. Session engine
The script allows users to enable Asia, London, and New York sessions. Each session can use its own time window and timezone setting.
2. HTF reference map
At the start of an enabled session, the script maps the previous confirmed HTF candle. This includes the HTF high, low, midpoint, optional candle body, and optional session open level.
3. Sweep model
The script checks whether price sweeps above the HTF high or below the HTF low. Users can choose between a basic wick sweep or a stricter sweep that requires price to close back inside the HTF range.
4. Delivery shift confirmation
After a sweep occurs, the script can wait for a delivery shift confirmation before marking a sweep entry. A bearish confirmation requires price to break below a recent low range after a high sweep. A bullish confirmation requires price to break above a recent high range after a low sweep.
5. Breakout model
If price closes and holds outside the HTF range, the script can classify the move as a breakout. Users can set how many bars price must hold beyond the range.
6. Displacement filter
The breakout model can optionally require stronger candle movement by comparing the candle body against ATR. This helps filter weaker breaks that do not show meaningful displacement.
7. Failed breakout trap model
If price breaks beyond the HTF high or low and then returns back inside the range, the script can classify that move as a failed breakout trap. A Bull Trap means price broke above the HTF high and failed back inside. A Bear Trap means price broke below the HTF low and failed back inside.
These parts work together because they all answer the same question: did price sweep the HTF range, accept beyond it, or fail after breaking it?
How The Script Calculates The Model
When a new enabled session begins, the script requests the previous confirmed candle from the selected higher timeframe. The selected HTF may be adjusted by the user, such as 1H, 2H, 4H, Daily, or Weekly.
The script then stores the following values:
* Previous HTF open
* Previous HTF high
* Previous HTF low
* Previous HTF close
* Previous HTF midpoint
* Current session open
These values become the session reference map.
During the active session, the script checks price against the HTF high and low.
High Sweep:
A high sweep is detected when price trades above the previous HTF high.
Low Sweep:
A low sweep is detected when price trades below the previous HTF low.
Close Back Inside Sweep Mode:
When this stricter mode is selected, a high sweep requires price to close back below the HTF high. A low sweep requires price to close back above the HTF low.
Sweep Entry:
A sweep entry is not triggered by the sweep alone. After a sweep, the script waits for a delivery shift confirmation using the selected lookback length.
Breakout Long:
A breakout long is detected when price closes above the HTF high and holds above it for the selected number of bars.
Breakout Short:
A breakout short is detected when price closes below the HTF low and holds below it for the selected number of bars.
Bull Trap:
A bull trap is detected when price breaks above the HTF high but later closes back below the HTF high.
Bear Trap:
A bear trap is detected when price breaks below the HTF low but later closes back above the HTF low.
Volume Filter:
The optional volume filter compares current volume against a moving average of volume multiplied by the selected volume multiplier. When enabled, sweep and breakout conditions must also pass the volume filter.
Bar Close Confirmation:
The script includes an option to confirm signals only after the bar closes. This is enabled by default to make signals more stable for alerts and historical review.
How To Use This Script
1. Choose the reference timeframe
Select the HTF candle you want to use as the session reference. Intraday traders may use 1H, 2H, or 4H. Higher-timeframe traders may prefer Daily or Weekly.
2. Enable the sessions you trade
The script supports Asia, London, and New York sessions. Users can enable or disable each session and adjust the session window and timezone.
3. Watch the HTF range during the session
Once the session opens, the script draws the previous confirmed HTF candle range. The high and low are the main reaction levels.
4. Read price behaviour around the range
If price sweeps a level and returns inside, it may indicate a liquidity sweep.
If price closes and holds outside the range, it may indicate breakout continuation.
If price breaks outside and then returns inside, it may indicate a failed breakout trap.
5. Use the labels as classifications, not automatic trade commands
The labels are designed to classify price behaviour. They are not guaranteed buy or sell signals.
6. Combine with your own confirmation
Users should combine this model with their own market context, risk management, higher-timeframe bias, and execution plan.
Main Visual Elements
HTF Range Box:
Shows the previous confirmed HTF candle range during the active session.
HTF Candle Display:
Optionally displays the previous HTF candle body and wick on the chart.
High and Low Lines:
Marks the previous HTF high and low.
Midpoint Line:
Marks the midpoint of the HTF range.
Session Open Line:
Marks the price at the open of the active session.
Sweep Marks:
Marks when price sweeps above or below the HTF range.
Sweep Entry Marks:
Marks when a sweep is followed by delivery shift confirmation.
Breakout Marks:
Marks when price closes and holds outside the HTF range.
Trap Marks:
Marks failed breakout conditions as Bull Trap or Bear Trap.
Dashboard:
Optional compact dashboard showing the current session, HTF reference, confirmation mode, state, high, low, and midpoint.
Important Settings
Reference HTF Candle:
Controls which higher timeframe is used for the previous confirmed candle reference.
Sweep Mode:
Choose between Wick Sweep or Wick Sweep + Close Back Inside.
Confirm Signals On Bar Close:
When enabled, signals confirm after candle close. This is recommended for cleaner historical review and alerts.
Delivery Shift Lookback:
Controls how many bars are used to confirm a shift after a sweep.
Breakout Hold Bars:
Controls how many bars price must remain outside the HTF range before a breakout is confirmed.
Displacement Filter:
Requires the candle body to be large enough compared with ATR before confirming a breakout.
Volume Filter:
Optional filter requiring current volume to exceed average volume by the selected multiplier.
Keep Historical Sessions:
When disabled, the chart stays cleaner by only showing the current/latest session map. When enabled, historical session maps can remain visible, with a limit to reduce chart clutter.
Visual Modes:
Clean mode is designed for normal use.
Stealth mode reduces visual intensity.
Debug mode makes internal reference levels easier to inspect.
Alerts
The script includes alert conditions for:
* HTF high swept
* HTF low swept
* Sweep short
* Sweep long
* Breakout long
* Breakout short
* Bull trap
* Bear trap
* Master alert for any model event
The master alert is included so users can create one alert condition instead of setting up many separate alerts.
Recommended Use
This script is best suited for traders who use session timing, higher-timeframe ranges, liquidity sweeps, breakout continuation, and failed breakout concepts.
It may be useful on intraday charts where Asia, London, and New York session behaviour matters. It can also be adjusted for different markets and timeframes by changing the reference HTF and session settings.
Limitations
This script does not predict future price movement. It classifies how price behaves around the previous confirmed HTF candle during active sessions.
A sweep does not guarantee a reversal.
A breakout does not guarantee continuation.
A trap does not guarantee a full trend change.
Volume data may behave differently depending on the market and symbol.
Session behaviour can vary across forex, crypto, futures, indices, and stocks.
This tool should be used as a market structure framework, not as a standalone trading system.
Originality And Usefulness Statement
The originality of this script is in how it combines session timing, previous confirmed HTF candle mapping, sweep classification, breakout confirmation, and failed breakout detection into one connected workflow.
The script is useful because it gives traders a structured way to observe whether price is taking liquidity, accepting outside a higher-timeframe range, or failing after a breakout attempt. Each component supports the same central model rather than acting as an unrelated indicator mashup.
Disclaimer
This indicator is for educational and analytical use only. It is not financial advice and does not guarantee trading results. Users are responsible for their own trading decisions, testing, and risk management.
Indicator
Sessions + Killzones [HermesCore]WHAT THIS INDICATOR DOES
Sessions + Killzones tracks the three desk sessions: Asia, London and New York, plus an optional custom window. While a session is open you see it as a live box. When it closes, its high and low become levels. Each level gets a simple 0 to 6 quality score, and from then on the script tracks what price does with it: swept, run, or held.
Every outcome feeds a statistics engine. It answers the core question of this script: what does the next session usually do with the levels of the previous one? Measured on your own chart, with sample sizes shown.
Killzones are the windows where institutional activity concentrates, around the desk opens. They render as background shading, set in New York time per ICT convention (Inner Circle Trader, the school this session vocabulary comes from). The dashboard shows which session and which killzone are active right now, each with a countdown. It also covers the daily window where nothing is open. I gave that window a name: the Dead Zone.
WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
Most session indicators draw boxes and stop. The few that score sessions usually hide how the score works. My rules are:
- A level gets its score at birth and the score never changes. It is built only from facts about how the session formed: range, volume, how clean the extreme was, and confluence with key levels. What happens later is shown by the lifecycle markings, not by changing the score.
- A sweep and a run are two different events. A wick beyond the level that closes back inside is a sweep. That is information: stops were taken and price came back. A close beyond the level plus a 0.1 ATR buffer (Average True Range, a standard volatility measure) is a run. The level is consumed.
- The statistics are counted honestly. A pair like "AS.H in LDN" only counts what happens while London is actually open. Levels that die before their judging session opens are not counted at all. The dashboard shows the n for every pair, so you always see how much evidence sits behind a percentage.
- Sessions are boxes, because their range matters: it becomes levels. Killzones are background shading, because only their timing matters. Two layers, two visual languages.
- Everything updates on confirmed bars only. No intrabar flicker. No levels that appear and disappear within the same candle.
HOW TO READ THE CHART
- Live session box: bright, thick border, session tag in the corner. Closed boxes fade into quiet history.
- Session levels: horizontal lines starting at the bar that set the extreme. A label like "LDN.H A S:5" reads: London session high, grade A, score 5. The abbreviations: AS is Asia, LDN is London, NY is New York, .H is the high, .L is the low.
- Gold color with a soft glow and larger text: the grade is A or S. Those are the premium sessions.
- Thick border on a level: it was swept. The label gets a "swept" suffix.
- Grey line without text: the level was run. It stays as quiet history, or you can have runs deleted.
- Levels expire when the next session of the same type closes. Yesterday's Asia high stops mattering once today's Asia delivers a fresh one.
- Killzone shading: vertical background bands for Asia, London, NY AM, and optionally London Close. All set in New York time.
- Dotted horizontal line: the midnight open at 00:00 New York.
- Dotted vertical lines to the right of price: the projected next open of each session, in session color. The chart version of the dashboard countdown. They respect the Weekdays Only filter.
- Neutral horizontal lines: previous day high and low (PDH, PDL) and previous week high and low (PWH, PWL), always from the last completed day and week. When a daily and a weekly level are equal they merge into one line with a combined label.
- Session midlines (CE, consequent encroachment, simply the middle of the range): dotted at the middle of each closed session, turning solid gold with a label like "AS CE" on the first touch. On by default.
- Killzone range lines: when a killzone closes, its high and low freeze as dashed lines in the killzone color. They carry no score, no lifecycle and no statistics. They are pure context and expire when the next killzone of the same type closes. On by default.
THE SCORE
Every component is measured at session close against the average of the last 20 sessions of the same type. Asia is always compared with Asia, London with London.
- Range: the session range is more than 1.2x its own average, +2
- Volume: the session volume is above its own average, +2
- Clean extreme: the high or low was set in the first half of the session and never revisited within 0.1 ATR, +1
- Key confluence: the level lies within 0.25 ATR of PDH, PDL, PWH or PWL, +1
Grades: S (6), A (5), B (4), C (3), D (0 to 2). There is no strength filter on purpose. A day produces at most six levels, which is scarce enough to show them all and let the grade speak.
SEQUENCE STATISTICS
Six pairs, following the natural hand-off: Asia levels are judged by London, London levels by New York, New York levels by the next Asia. For each pair the dashboard shows the swept share, run share, held share, and n, the number of judged levels behind those percentages. Held means the judging session closed without resolving the level. The optional custom session gets the full level lifecycle but stays out of these statistics.
This is regime information. If "AS.H in LDN" shows 36 percent swept while the lifetime base is 45, London is currently respecting Asia highs more than usual. An alert can warn you when a pair crosses 70 percent swept.
THE DEAD ZONE
Between the New York close and the Asia open, nothing is open. I named that window the Dead Zone, and it does real work here. Liquidity is thinnest there. A New York level that gets run inside the Dead Zone disappears before Asia ever gets to judge it. That is why the New York pairs always show a smaller n: n only counts levels that survived until their judging session opened. The dashboard names the Dead Zone when you are in it and counts down to the next open. Neutral shading, on by default, makes it visible on the chart. It is defined as "no session live", so it stays correct through every daylight saving (DST) change, and with Weekdays Only on, the whole weekend becomes one long Dead Zone.
DASHBOARD
Session now with a closing countdown, or Dead Zone with an opening countdown. Range and volume of each session against its own average, live sessions marked. The six pairs with percentages and n. Active level count, the lifetime swept versus run ratio, and Killzone now with its own countdown. Heat bars are proportional everywhere.
HOW I USE IT
My preferred timeframes, in order:
- 15m is the home base. Sessions are 30 plus bars wide, so the clean extreme component means something. The 09:30 New York open lands exactly on a bar. And the chart loads the most history, which gives the statistics their highest n.
- 5m is the execution frame. Sweeps and runs resolve on bar closes, so 5m shows the fight around a level in finer detail, and killzones become readable blocks. The cost is sample size: the statistics run on roughly a third of the history, so I treat those percentages as indicative and keep the regime read on 15m.
- 1h works but is the edge case. Hourly bars cut off the 09:30 New York open, and a six bar session makes the score coarse. Above 1h the script draws nothing on purpose.
On 15m I read the dashboard first: which session is live, how its range compares with average, and what the pair stats say about the current regime. Levels graded A or S from a session that expanded on volume are the ones I treat as real liquidity references, especially with key confluence. Then I watch how the next session treats them. A sweep, thick border, stops taken and price rejected, is a different trade than a clean run. I drop to 5m for execution around those levels and during killzones. I do not use this above 1h, and the script will tell you the same.
The way I think about it: session highs and lows are liquidity pools with a clock attached. Equal highs can form anywhere, but a session extreme tells you which desk made the level, when it stops being defended, and, through the statistics, what usually happens to it next.
SETTINGS THAT MATTER
- Sessions: four windows, each with its own IANA timezone (Asia/Tokyo, Europe/London, America/New_York by default). These are real timezone names, not UTC offsets, so daylight saving is handled automatically. The sessions simply follow their local clocks.
- Weekdays Only: off by default. Crypto trades the weekend, and weekend sessions usually grade D by themselves on thin range and volume. Turn this on and everything restricts to Monday through Friday: the weekend becomes one long Dead Zone, Friday New York levels wait for Monday Asia, and the countdown switches to a days format.
- Max Session Boxes: 42 keeps two weeks of session history for a zoomed-out view, 6 keeps two days for intraday focus.
- Run Levels Become: greyed history or deleted. Your choice of how loud the past is.
- Focus Fade: levels more than 6 ATR away from price render dimmed, gold glow included, so your eye goes to what is in play.
- Killzones: four windows in New York time, each with its own color. London Close is off by default. Killzone Range Lines adds the frozen high and low of each completed killzone as dashed lines.
- Timeframe guard: above 60 minutes the script draws nothing and says why. This is an intraday tool, and pretending otherwise would only produce misleading levels.
ALERTS
Session Opened, Session Closed, New A/S Session Level, Session Level Swept, Session Level Run, Killzone Started, Session Midline Tapped, Sweep Rate Threshold (a pair crossing 70 percent swept with n of at least 10).
CALCULATION DETAILS
- All state changes happen on confirmed bars. Sweeps, runs and statistics never repaint within a bar.
- Sessions use Pine session strings with full IANA timezone support. Without a day filter, Pine fires sessions on all seven days. That is correct for 24/7 markets, and it is what the Weekdays Only toggle changes.
- The rolling averages for range and volume use the last 20 completed sessions of the same type, calculated before the current session is added. A session is never compared with itself.
- A sweep needs a wick beyond the level with the close back inside the 0.1 ATR buffer. A run needs a close beyond the level plus the buffer. A first sweep marks the level, a later run still resolves it.
- Outcomes are only recorded while the judging session is open. A level that survives its judge counts as held at the judge's close.
- The statistics are computed from the bars your chart loads. They reload per chart timeframe. 15m loads the most history and gives the highest n. On 5m the same engine runs on roughly a third of the sample, treat those percentages as indicative.
HONEST LIMITATIONS
- The statistics describe the past, they do not predict. They tell you what this chart did over the loaded history, not what it will do next.
- n differs per pair by design. Levels run inside the Dead Zone leave the population before their judging session opens, which is why the New York pairs carry a smaller n. That is honest counting, not a bug.
- Statistics depend on the chart timeframe and the loaded history, so two timeframes show different percentages. Neither is wrong, they measure different samples.
- With Weekdays Only off, weekend sessions are part of the statistics. With it on, both n and the percentages change, because you measure a different market. Neither setting is the truth, they answer different questions.
- Scores compare a session with its own rolling history, so the first 20 sessions of each type on a fresh chart carry less reliable scores while the averages fill up.
- On 1h charts bar alignment can cut off session opens (there is no 09:30 bar on an hourly chart). That is part of why the timeframe guard sits at 60 minutes.
ORIGINALITY
The session and killzone concepts come from the public ICT vocabulary and from years of session-based intraday trading. Every line of code, the scoring system, the sweep versus run grammar, the judged-while-open statistics engine, the Dead Zone concept and the visual language are my own work.
Questions and suggestions are welcome in the comments. If the stats surprise you on your market, that is usually the most interesting place to start reading.
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Elaris Session Liquidity Grabs Pro# Elaris Session Liquidity Grabs Pro
Elaris Session Liquidity Grabs Pro is a professional session-based liquidity sweep and reversal detection tool designed for traders who focus on smart money concepts, stop hunts, failed breakouts, and institutional liquidity behavior.
The indicator automatically builds key liquidity ranges from major global trading sessions including London, New York, and Asia, then detects high-probability liquidity grabs when price sweeps session highs or lows and rejects back into range.
Unlike basic sweep indicators, this tool includes advanced filtering systems designed to reduce noise and focus on stronger reversal conditions using ATR displacement, candle strength analysis, EMA trend filtering, and optional volume confirmation.
Built for active intraday traders, scalpers, and smart money traders, the indicator provides a clean visual framework for identifying areas where liquidity may have been engineered before a market reversal or continuation move.
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FEATURES
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• Automatic London, New York, and Asia session ranges
• Session high/low liquidity tracking
• Bullish and bearish liquidity grab detection
• Wick sweep and close-break detection modes
• ATR-based sweep validation filters
• Strong displacement candle confirmation
• EMA trend filter for directional bias
• Volume confirmation filter
• Optional cooldown system to reduce signal clustering
• Session equilibrium (midline) plotting
• Clean session range visualization
• Professional dashboard panel
• Dark mode and light mode support
• Alert conditions for automation and notifications
• Non-repainting confirmed signals
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HOW IT WORKS
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The indicator builds liquidity ranges from selected market sessions and monitors price action after those sessions complete.
When price aggressively sweeps a session high or low and then rejects back into the range, the indicator identifies it as a potential liquidity grab event.
Examples:
• Price sweeps above London High and closes back below → potential bearish liquidity grab
• Price sweeps below New York Low and closes back above → potential bullish liquidity grab
Additional confirmation filters help reduce weak or low-quality signals by requiring stronger candle displacement, trend alignment, and optional volume expansion.
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BEST USE CASES
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• Smart money trading concepts
• Session liquidity trading
• Stop hunt reversals
• Scalping and intraday trading
• ICT-style trading approaches
• Breakout failure detection
• Market manipulation detection
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RECOMMENDED MARKETS
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• Crypto Futures
• Forex
• Indices
• Gold and Commodities
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RECOMMENDED TIMEFRAMES
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• 1 Minute
• 3 Minute
• 5 Minute
• 15 Minute
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NON-REPAINTING
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This indicator is designed to be non-repainting.
Signals are confirmed only after candle close and session levels are finalized after the session completes. No future data is used.
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NOTES
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This tool is designed to assist with identifying liquidity behavior and market structure reactions. It should be used alongside proper risk management, higher timeframe analysis, and additional trade confirmation techniques.
No indicator guarantees profitability or win rate consistency across all market conditions.
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Market Sessions [Crypto Imperija]Market Sessions is a clean session-mapping indicator designed for crypto traders who want to better understand how price behaves during different parts of the trading day.
The indicator highlights the main market sessions directly on the chart using customizable boxes, session names, session times, completed session high/low levels, sweep detection, reclaim detection and alerts.
It is especially useful for traders who work with liquidity concepts, session ranges, intraday market structure, and time-based trading analysis.
Default Sessions:
• Asian Session: 02:00 - 10:00 UTC;
• London Session: 09:00 - 17:30 UTC;
• New York Session: 16:30 - 23:00 UTC;
• Closed / Low Activity Session: 23:00 - 02:00 UTC.
1. Session Boxes
The indicator draws visual boxes around each selected session. Each box shows the full price range created during that session, including the session high and session low.
This helps traders quickly see:
• Where price ranged during a specific session;
• Which session created the most volatility;
• Whether price is expanding or consolidating;
• How the current session reacts to previous session ranges.
2. Session Names and Times
Each session box can display the session name and session time directly on the chart.
This makes it easier to follow the trading day without constantly checking the clock, especially when analyzing multiple timeframes or trading crypto markets that run 24/7.
3. Session High / Low Levels, Sweeps and Reclaims
After each session finishes, the indicator automatically draws the completed session high and low as horizontal levels. These levels are often important because previous session highs and lows can act as key liquidity areas. Traders commonly watch them to see whether price rejects from them, breaks through them, sweeps them, or reclaims them.
Examples of completed session levels:
• Asian High / Asian Low;
• London High / London Low;
• New York High / New York Low;
• Closed Session High / Closed Session Low.
The indicator detects two important events around these levels:
• Session Sweep:
A high sweep is detected when the current candle high reaches or moves above a completed session high.
A low sweep is detected when the current candle low reaches or moves below a completed session low.
• Session Reclaim:
After a sweep, the indicator watches the candle close.
If a completed session high is swept and price closes back below that high, it is considered a reclaim.
If a completed session low is swept and price closes back above that low, it is considered a reclaim.
This helps traders identify when price has interacted with a previous session liquidity level and whether the move continued or failed after the sweep.
4. Mitigated Levels
When a session level is swept, the trader can choose whether to remove it from the chart or keep it visible as a faded/dotted mitigated level.
This gives more control over chart cleanliness:
• Hide mitigated levels for a cleaner chart;
• Show mitigated levels to study how price reacts after liquidity is taken.
5. Customizable Visual Settings
The indicator includes multiple customization options:
• Show or hide session boxes;
• Show or hide session names;
• Show or hide completed session high/low levels;
• Show or hide price values on labels;
• Choose label size;
• Choose session level line style;
• Choose line width;
• Choose box border style;
• Choose box border width;
• Customize each session color;
• Hide weekend sessions.
This makes the indicator flexible for different trading styles, chart layouts, and visual preferences.
6. Alerts
The indicator includes alert conditions for:
• Session Sweep
• Session Sweep Reclaim
The alert messages can include the ticker, timeframe, swept level, price, and reclaim direction.
Important Notes:
This indicator does not predict price direction. It is a visual and alert-based tool that helps traders identify session ranges, completed session highs/lows, sweeps, and reclaims. A sweep does not guarantee a reversal, and a reclaim does not guarantee continuation in the opposite direction. These events should always be analyzed together with market structure, candle closes, volatility, volume, risk management, and a complete trading plan.
Trading involves risk. This indicator is for educational and analytical purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Indicator
Session Killzones ICT ConceptSession Killzones - ICT Concept
Session Killzones plots the four standard ICT killzone sessions
(Asia, London, NY AM, NY PM) in New York time. It tracks unswept
session highs and lows in real time, fires alerts on sweeps, and
displays a compact session info panel with countdown.
Built for ICT traders who need to know which session levels are
still active and which have already been taken.
SESSIONS
Draws session boxes and boundary lines for each killzone in New
York time with automatic DST handling (EDT/EST). Each session is
fully customizable: name, time range, and color.
Default sessions (New York time):
Asia: 20:00 - 00:00
London: 02:00 - 05:00
NY AM: 08:30 - 11:00
NY PM: 13:30 - 16:00
Each session can be toggled on/off independently. Time ranges can
be modified to match your broker's session definition.
UNSWEPT LEVELS
When a session closes, its high and low are extended forward as
dashed lines. These are unswept levels session liquidity that
price has not yet taken.
When price reaches an unswept level, the line is automatically
removed from the chart. No manual cleanup needed. This gives a
live, self-cleaning view of which session levels still matter.
Sweep events fire an alert. Alerts are available for high sweeps
and low sweeps independently.
SESSION PANEL
A compact info panel shows session context at a glance. Three
detail levels:
Simple - shows the active session name and time remaining (or next session and time until open). Standard - adds today's percentage range for each session that has occurred, with direction indicator relative to session open.
Advanced - includes unswept level prices from all closed sessions directly in the panel, alongside the session breakdown.
SESSION COUNTDOWN
Inside a session: "NY AM - 1h 23m left"
Between sessions: "London in 4h 10m"
Color indicators :
Green: session is active
Yellow: less than 15 minutes remaining (closing warning)
Gray: currently between sessions
The countdown adapts to custom session times. If you change the
London session to 01:00-04:00, the countdown reflects that.
HOW TO USE
Session boxes show the developing high and low of each killzone as the session progresses.
Dashed lines extending beyond the box are unswept levels. These represent liquidity that price has not yet reached.
When a dashed line disappears, that level has been swept. It is no longer an active reference.
Use the percentage range in Standard mode to gauge which sessions were high-range versus low-range days.
Use the countdown to plan your analysis around session opens and closes. Most high-probability ICT setups occur within the first 30 to 90 minutes of a killzone.
Enable alerts on sweep events to get notified the moment a session high or low is taken, even if you are not at the screen.
SETTINGS
Display
- Chart Theme: Dark / Light
- Timezone: Auto DST / Manual UTC-4 (EDT) / Manual UTC-5 (EST)
Sessions (per session: toggle, name, time range, color)
- Asia, London, NY AM, NY PM
Appearance
- Show Session Box, High/Low Lines, Midpoint Line, Opening Price
- Lines Only mode: removes box fill, shows boundary lines only
- Line Thickness: 1 to 4
- Boundary Line Style: Solid / Dashed / Dotted
- Color Intensity: global transparency adjustment (-50 to +50)
Levels
- Show Unswept Levels: toggle
- Level Line Style: Solid / Dashed / Dotted
- Anticipation Zone: how far unswept lines extend right (candles)
- Show Level Price Labels: toggle
Info Panel
- Detail Level: Simple / Standard / Advanced
- Position: Top Left / Top Right / Bottom Left / Bottom Right /
Middle Left / Middle Right
- Size: Tiny / Small / Normal
Display Limits
- Show on Timeframe: 1M / 3M / 5M / 15M / 30M / 45M / 60M
- Show Last N Days: 1 to 30
NOTES
Session Killzones is open source under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and is intended for educational purposes only. Nothing in this script constitutes financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any instrument.
The DST resolver calculates timezone offset from bar time rather than the system clock, which means the indicator behaves correctly in PulseWire replay mode. If you replay to November 2023, the resolver returns EST, not the current wall-clock timezone.
The indicator is designed for intraday timeframes from 1M to 60M and works on any instrument available on PulseWire, though it is primarily optimized for forex majors and gold (XAUUSD).
Internally, all session state is tracked using explicit boolean arrays. No state is inferred from drawing object positions or line coordinates, which avoids a common source of bugs in session-based indicators. Indicator
Session Killzones & Breakouts [BigBeluga]🔵 OVERVIEW
Session Killzones & Volume Flow Profile is a professional-grade market structure tool that merges time-based "Killzone" analysis with intraday volume distribution. This advanced version covers the full global trading cycle— Asia, London, and New York —and now includes a Performance Statistics Dashboard to track historical breakout success.
By visualizing the "Point of Control" (POC) and volume distribution, it helps traders understand institutional interest zones, while the new dashboard provides a quantitative edge by showing how often each session successfully hits its expansion targets.
🔵 CONCEPT
Three-Session Cycle — Automatically encapsulates the Asia, London, and New York sessions in dynamic, color-coded zones.
Real-Time Point of Control (POC) — Continuously calculates and plots the most traded price level during the session development, highlighting the current high-interest node as it forms.
Post-Session Volume Profile — Once a session ends, a high-resolution, stepped polyline profile is generated to visualize the final "Value Area."
Breakout Expansion — Projects three mathematical price targets (Deviations) once price escapes a session's range.
Performance Dashboard — A real-time table tracking the total number of bullish/bearish breakouts and successful target hits for every session.
🔵 HOW IT WORKS (IN-DEPTH)
1️⃣ Real-Time POC & Session Development
As each session develops, the indicator tracks every price tick and volume bar from the very first minute.
Live POC Tracking: While the session is active, the indicator plots a Real-Time POC box and extension line that shifts dynamically as new volume flows in. This identifies the "fairest price" exactly when it is being negotiated.
This allows traders to see the session's internal center of gravity before the final profile is even drawn.
2️⃣ Post-Session Volume Flow Profile
Immediately after a session concludes, the indicator finalizes the data and draws a high-resolution Polyline Profile.
Longer horizontal steps in the polyline represent "High Volume Nodes" where institutional accumulation or distribution was most intense.
The final POC is locked in, providing a permanent historical anchor for future support and resistance.
3️⃣ Breakout & Target Logic
Once a session ends, its High and Low act as structural boundaries.
A confirmed close outside these boundaries triggers a Breakout Signal (Triangle) and a dashed "Tether Line" connecting the move back to its source.
Three expansion targets (Dev 1, 2, and 3) are projected. These lines are "hit-aware," meaning they stop extending exactly when price reaches the target, providing a clean visual record of the move's completion.
4️⃣ The Performance Dashboard
The indicator maintains a global tally of all session events.
Break ▲ / ▼: Tracks how many times a session has broken out in either direction.
Hit |, ||, |||: Tracks how many times those breakouts successfully reached the first, second, and third deviation targets.
This allows traders to quickly see which session is currently providing the most reliable follow-through on the current asset.
🔵 KEY FEATURES
Global Session Coverage: Dedicated settings for Asia (Pink), London (Cyan), and New York (Orange).
Real-Time POC Visualization: A live-updating POC box and extension line that identifies high-interest levels as the session unfolds.
Finalized Volume Profile: A sleek, stepped polyline generated at session end for post-session structural analysis.
Statistics Dashboard: A customizable table (position and visibility) showing breakout and target hit counts.
"Hit-Aware" Targets: Target lines (marked |, ||, |||) stop automatically upon price contact to reduce chart clutter.
High-Resolution Polylines: Optimized volume visualization that provides granular detail without sacrificing chart performance.
🔵 HOW TO USE
Monitor the Live POC: During the session, watch where the POC box is located. Price often orbits this level as the "mean," and a strong move away from it often precedes a full session breakout.
Analyze the Final Profile: Once the session ends, use the Polyline Profile to identify the "Value Area." If price returns to the session range later, these high-volume nodes often act as strong support or resistance.
Consult the Dashboard: Use the performance table to identify which session has the highest win rate for breakouts on your specific timeframe.
Target Scaling: Use Deviation 1 (|) for high-probability scalps, Deviation 2 (||) for standard trend targets, and Deviation 3 (|||) for major institutional expansion points.
🔵 CONCLUSION
Session Killzones & Volume Flow Profile is a complete institutional roadmap. By combining the "When" (Sessions) with the "Where" (Live POC & Final Profile) and the "How Much" (Dashboard Stats), it provides a data-driven framework for navigating the most profitable hours of the trading day. Indicator
AMD Session TrackerAMD Session Tracker plots the three major forex sessions (Asia, London, New York) as live-growing colored boxes with high/low extension lines, then layers AMD framework analysis on top. Detects in real time when London sweeps the Asian range and when NY sweeps the London range — the core mechanics of the Accumulation / Manipulation / Distribution model.
WHAT IS AMD
AMD stands for Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution — a market structure framework popularized by ICT and SMC traders. The Asian session typically accumulates in a tight range, London manipulates by sweeping that range to grab liquidity above or below it, and New York distributes in the resulting direction. This indicator tracks all three sessions and detects the sweep relationships between them as price action develops.
FEATURES
Live-growing session boxes for Asia (7PM–3AM), London (3AM–8AM), and New York (8AM–12PM) — all times America/New York with automatic DST adjustment
Asian range high/low extension lines projected into London and NY for liquidity targeting
Sweep tracking: detects when London sweeps Asian high or low (manipulation phase) and when NY sweeps London high or low (distribution phase)
Dashboard shows current AMD phase, session high/low/range, and sweep status — sweep cells highlight amber the moment a sweep occurs
Auto-detects pip size for JPY pairs, other forex, metals, indices, and crypto — no manual configuration
Optional 50% midline marker for each session
Six dashboard position options for indicator layout flexibility
Built-in alerts for session opens AND first-time sweeps of prior session highs and lows
HOW TO USE
Watch for London to sweep the Asian range during the manipulation phase — this is the highest-probability AMD setup signal. After the sweep, look for displacement back into the Asian range and a fair value gap to enter on the retracement. NY then often continues in the post-sweep direction (distribution).
Set alerts on "Asia High Swept" and "Asia Low Swept" to get notified the moment manipulation occurs, even if you're away from the chart.
Pairs cleanly with Fair Value Gaps (FVG) and Key Swing Levels (KSL) from the same author — three indicators designed to coexist on the same chart with non-overlapping dashboards by default (AMD top-right, KSL also top-right but movable, FVG bottom-left).
Open-source. Feedback and forks welcome. Indicator
ES Breakout Toolkit London Session Highlighter FreePART OF THE ES BREAKOUT TOOLKIT
This is one of several free, standalone indicators that make up the ES Breakout Toolkit series. Each indicator isolates a single component used in the full ES London Breakout Pro strategy. They are designed to be useful on their own and educational for traders studying London session price action on ES futures.
WHAT THIS INDICATOR DOES
The London Session Highlighter marks the 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM Pacific Time window directly on your chart. During this session, it tracks and displays the developing session high, session low, and session open price as real-time reference levels. When the session closes, it labels the total range in points.
A small dashboard in the top-right corner shows whether the session is currently active, the session high and low, and the current range expressed as a multiple of ATR(20). This gives you an immediate sense of whether the session is producing normal or extended price action relative to recent volatility.
HOW TO USE IT
Apply this indicator to any ES futures chart on a 5-minute timeframe. The session start and end hours are adjustable in the inputs if you want to monitor a different window. The background highlight, range lines, and open line can each be toggled on or off depending on your preference.
The Range/ATR reading in the dashboard is particularly useful for gauging whether the session has room to expand or is already stretched. Values below 1.0x suggest a quiet session with potential for a breakout. Values above 2.0x suggest the session has already made a significant move.
KEY FEATURES
- Configurable session window (defaults to London 12AM-6AM PT)
- Real-time session high/low/open tracking
- Session range label on close
- Range vs ATR dashboard for context
- Clean, minimal chart overlay
- Alert not included — this is a visual reference tool
ABOUT THE ES BREAKOUT TOOLKIT
This indicator is part of a free series that breaks down the building blocks of a London session ES futures breakout strategy. Other free indicators in the series cover consolidation range detection, ADX regime filtering, breakout candle scanning, and momentum close analysis. Each is published separately on my profile.
The full ES London Breakout Pro indicator combines all of these components into a unified strategy with additional proprietary features including advanced risk management, trade qualification, and data tracking. It is available as an invite-only script on my profile. Use the access request instructions on that script's page if you are interested.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It is NOT financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any financial instrument. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance of any indicator or strategy is not indicative of future results. Always conduct your own research and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any trading decisions. You are solely responsible for your own trading activity. Indicator
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Global Sessions & Kill Zones [jpkxyz]Global Sessions & ICT Kill Zones Indicator
Overview
The Global Sessions & ICT Kill Zones indicator is a comprehensive trading tool designed to help traders identify and visualize the most critical time periods in the 24-hour forex and futures markets. This indicator combines traditional trading session analysis with Inner Circle Trader (ICT) Kill Zone methodology, providing traders with a complete picture of when institutional activity and liquidity are at their peak.
Trading Theory & Foundation
Session-Based Trading
The forex market operates 24 hours a day across four major trading sessions: Sydney, Tokyo, London, and New York. Each session has distinct characteristics in terms of volatility, liquidity, and price behavior. Understanding these sessions is crucial because:
Volatility Patterns: Each session exhibits unique volatility profiles based on which markets are open and which institutional players are active
Liquidity Concentration: Major price movements tend to occur when multiple sessions overlap, as more market participants are active simultaneously
Market Structure: Session highs and lows often act as key support and resistance levels that price respects throughout the trading day
Time-Based Strategies: Many professional traders structure their strategies around specific sessions that align with their preferred instruments and trading style
ICT Kill Zones
The Inner Circle Trader (ICT) methodology emphasizes specific time windows called "Kill Zones" - periods when institutional algorithms and smart money are most active. These time windows represent optimal trading opportunities because:
Institutional Activity: Banks, hedge funds, and large institutions execute their orders during these predictable time windows
Algorithmic Trading: Many institutional algorithms are programmed to operate during these specific periods
Liquidity Sweeps: Kill Zones often feature stop hunts and liquidity grabs before directional moves
Higher Probability Setups: Price is more likely to respect technical levels and follow through on setups during these periods
The four ICT Kill Zones are:
Asian Kill Zone (00:00-03:00 UTC): Early Asian session institutional activity
London Kill Zone (07:00-10:00 UTC): London open and European institutional entry
New York Kill Zone (12:00-14:00 UTC): New York open and North American institutional entry
London Close Kill Zone (15:00-17:00 UTC): European session close and position squaring
What This Indicator Visualizes
Trading Session Boxes
The indicator draws high-to-low range boxes for each major trading session:
Sydney Session (21:00-06:00 UTC): Captures the Australian and early Asian trading activity
Tokyo Session (00:00-09:00 UTC): Represents the main Asian trading period
London Session (08:00-17:00 UTC): Covers the European trading hours
New York Session (13:00-22:00 UTC): Encompasses North American trading activity
Each session box displays:
The session's high and low price levels
Customizable colored borders and fills
Labels showing the exact high and low values
Real-time updates as price moves within the active session
Session Overlaps
The indicator automatically identifies and highlights all session overlaps with distinct colored boxes:
Sydney/Tokyo Overlap: Asian liquidity concentration
Tokyo/London Overlap: Asian-European transition period
London/New York Overlap: The most volatile period with maximum liquidity
Sydney/New York Overlap: Late US session into early Asian session
These overlaps are crucial because they represent periods of increased liquidity when multiple major markets are operating simultaneously, often leading to significant price movements and breakouts.
ICT Kill Zones
Kill Zones are displayed as vertical background highlights that span the entire chart height during their active periods:
Visual clarity: Semi-transparent colored backgrounds that don't obstruct price action
Label identification: Each Kill Zone is labeled at its start for easy recognition
Overlay capability: Kill Zones overlay on top of session boxes, allowing you to see both simultaneously
Independent control: Each Kill Zone can be toggled on/off individually
How Traders Can Use This Indicator
Entry Timing
Wait for Kill Zones: Use Kill Zones as your primary trading windows to increase the probability of institutional support for your trades
Session Boundaries: Look for breakouts or reversals at session open/close times when new participants enter the market
Overlap Periods: Focus on high-conviction setups during session overlaps when liquidity is highest
Support & Resistance
Session Highs/Lows: Previous session highs and lows often act as key support/resistance levels
Sweep Setups: Watch for price to sweep session highs/lows during Kill Zones, then reverse (liquidity grab)
Range Trading: Trade within session ranges during low-volatility periods, breakout during overlaps
Risk Management
Volatility Awareness: Adjust position sizing based on which session is active (London/NY overlap = highest volatility)
Stop Placement: Position stops outside of key session levels to avoid being caught in normal intraday ranges
Time-Based Exits: Consider exiting or tightening stops as sessions close and liquidity decreases
Strategy Development
Session-Specific Strategies: Develop different approaches for different sessions based on your instrument's behavior
Kill Zone Confirmation: Require setups to occur within Kill Zones for higher probability trades
Backtesting Framework: Use historical session and Kill Zone data to backtest time-based strategies
Full Customizability
Session Customization
Every aspect of each trading session can be customized:
Toggle Visibility: Show/hide any session independently
Time Adjustment: Modify start and end hours to match your broker's server time or personal preference
Color Schemes: Customize box colors and border colors for each session
Transparency: Adjust fill transparency to see price action clearly while maintaining visual reference
Kill Zone Customization
Complete control over ICT Kill Zone display:
Individual Toggles: Enable or disable each Kill Zone independently based on your trading style
Color Selection: Choose distinct colors for each Kill Zone (default: Green, Blue, Yellow, Red)
Transparency Control: All Kill Zones use 70% transparency by default, fully customizable
Label Display: Toggle Kill Zone labels on/off via the main label settings
Visual Preferences
Border Control: Toggle session box borders on/off for cleaner charts
Label Size: Choose from tiny, small, normal, large, huge, or auto-sizing for all labels
Label Colors: Customize label background and text colors to match your chart theme
Box Transparency: Set individual transparency levels for each session and overlap
Overlap Customization
All four session overlaps have independent color controls:
Sydney/Tokyo Overlap
Tokyo/London Overlap
London/New York Overlap
Sydney/New York Overlap
Technical Features
Midnight Handling
The indicator uses advanced hour-based detection that seamlessly handles sessions crossing midnight (like Sydney's 21:00-06:00 UTC timeframe) without breaking the visualization into separate boxes.
Real-Time Updates
Active Sessions: Boxes extend and update in real-time as price moves during active sessions
High/Low Tracking: Session highs and lows are continuously updated until the session closes
Kill Zone Detection: Background colors appear/disappear precisely at Kill Zone boundaries
Clean Chart Integration
Minimal Clutter: Only shows active and recently completed sessions
Overlay Friendly: Works seamlessly with other indicators and doesn't obstruct price action
Performance Optimized: Efficient code that doesn't slow down chart rendering
Ideal For
Forex Traders: Track the four major forex sessions and plan trades around overlaps
Futures Traders: Identify when specific futures markets have peak activity
ICT Students: Implement Inner Circle Trader concepts with visual Kill Zone references
Session Traders: Build strategies around specific session characteristics
Scalpers & Day Traders: Focus on high-liquidity periods for tighter spreads and better fills
Swing Traders: Use session levels as key support/resistance for multi-day trades
Best Practices
Start Simple: Enable only the sessions and Kill Zones relevant to your instruments
Color Code Strategically: Use colors that stand out on your chart theme but don't overwhelm
Combine with Price Action: Use session levels and Kill Zones as context, not as standalone signals
Match Your Timezone: Adjust session times if your broker uses non-UTC server time
Focus on Overlaps: Pay special attention to London/New York overlap for highest-probability setups
Journal Performance: Track which sessions and Kill Zones work best for your strategy
Conclusion
The Global Sessions & ICT Kill Zones indicator provides traders with institutional-grade time-based analysis in a highly customizable, visually clear format. By combining traditional session analysis with modern ICT Kill Zone theory, traders gain a comprehensive understanding of when markets are most likely to move and where key levels are established. Whether you're a scalper looking for the highest liquidity periods or a swing trader using session levels for support/resistance, this indicator adapts to your needs while keeping your charts clean and professional.
Trade smarter by trading when the market is most active and predictable. Indicator
Saptx Trading Time Ranges v2Saptx – Trading Time Ranges is a session-based market timing indicator designed for traders who focus on specific intraday trading windows rather than constant screen time.
The indicator highlights predefined key trading times using vertical ranges and reference lines, allowing traders to quickly identify when to actively look for trade setups during live trading, backtesting, or PulseWire Replay Mode.
Unlike many session indicators, this tool is specifically engineered to work reliably in Replay Mode without auto-scale or zoom distortions.
Once a trading window has ended, its range automatically freezes to the true High and Low of that session, providing clean and stable historical reference levels.
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CORE FEATURES
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• Session-based trading time ranges
• Automatic High & Low range detection
• Ranges freeze after the session window ends
• Clean and non-intrusive chart visuals
• Replay and backtesting optimized logic
• No auto-scale or zoom distortion issues
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SESSION WINDOWS
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• Frankfurt Open
• London Open
• MMM1
• MMM2
• New York Open
• New York Trap
• Market Closing
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BACKTEST & REPLAY
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• Displays previous, current, and next trading day
• Fast navigation to key trading windows in Replay Mode
• Designed for efficient historical trade review
• Stable behavior while scrolling and zooming the chart
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CUSTOMIZATION
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• Adjustable UTC offset (Winter / Summer time support)
• Custom colors and transparency for ranges and lines
• Clean session labels with optional visibility
• Optional next-session countdown timer
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IMPORTANT NOTE
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This indicator does NOT generate trade signals.
It is a visual timing and structural tool intended to support discretionary and session-based trading strategies.
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RECOMMENDED MARKETS & TIMEFRAMES
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• Forex (EUR/USD, GBP/USD, DXY, etc.)
• Intraday timeframes (M5, M15, H1)
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