EZ$ AMDBrief update description
EZ$ AMD Extreme Distribution v2.2 refines the indicator around higher-timeframe AMD narrative and precise lower-timeframe execution. Its primary purpose is to identify one high-quality AMD BUY near the lowest qualified manipulation area or one AMD SELL near the highest qualified manipulation area.
AMD signals require a completed accumulation period, manipulation beyond the accumulation range, a meaningful external-liquidity sweep, a confirmed reclaim, microstructure shift, displacement, and majority multi-timeframe bias agreement. The default model uses 4-hour AMD with 1-minute or 5-minute execution, making it suitable for Asia, London, and New York trading.
The live higher-timeframe candle synchronizes with the selected AMD model and changes color in real time:
Yellow: accumulation or waiting
Aqua: low-side manipulation
Purple: high-side manipulation
Green: bullish distribution
Red: bearish distribution
Standard BUY/SELL signals are optional and disabled by default. Support/resistance and higher-timeframe supply/demand origin zones remain available as visual context without independently creating AMD entries.
Settings guide
1. Recommended: AMD extreme signals only
This is the cleanest setup and the one I recommend.
Simple Signal Engine
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Off
Confirm Signals on Candle Close On
Signal Gap 8
Microstructure Length 2
Displacement Range × ATR 0.80
Displacement Body ÷ Range 0.60
This removes ordinary reaction signals and leaves AMD as the main entry engine.
Optimal Higher-Timeframe Signals
Setting Value
Show Confirmed HTF BUY / SELL Off
This prevents additional HTF labels from appearing.
Bias Dashboard
Setting Value
Show Bias-Only Dashboard On
Use Confirmed HTF Candles On
Count 5m, 15m, 1H, 2H, 4H, Daily All On
Minimum Matching Biases 4
An AMD BUY requires at least four bullish timeframes, while an AMD SELL requires at least four bearish timeframes. The aligned side must also outnumber the opposing side.
AMD settings
Setting Value
Show 4-Hour AMD On
All other AMD timeframes Off
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals On
Hide Standard Signals When AMD Signals Are On On
AMD Signals Only on 1m / 5m Charts On
AMD Signal Timeframe 4H
Require External Level Liquidity Sweep On
Require Close Back Through Swept Level On
Require Microstructure Shift + Displacement On
One AMD Signal Per Candle On
Use Accumulation High / Low On
Use Selected AMD Candle Open Off
AMD Zone Trigger Mode Deepest Zone Reaction
Use HTF Origin Zones for AMD Location On
Use HTF Zone Edges + Midpoint On
Require Level Cluster Inside HTF Zone On
Minimum Levels in Cluster 2
Show Manipulation Extreme Diamond Off
This is the strict A+ configuration.
2. Structural-zone visuals
For your 4-hour AMD and 1-minute execution workflow:
Setting Value
Zone Model Adaptive
Chart Timeframe Zone Off
5-Minute Zone Off
15-Minute Zone Off
1-Hour Zone Off
2-Hour Zone Off
4-Hour Zone On
Daily Zone Off
Show Interaction Volume Off
Show Timeframe + Zone Type On
Use Visible Zones for Standard Signals Off
Require FVG / Imbalance for S/D On
Maximum S/D Retests 1
The 4-hour supply/demand origin zone remains visible and can improve AMD location, but it does not create an entry by itself.
3. Key levels
Keep these on:
Camarilla H4/L4
Previous day high/low
Previous week high/low
Previous 4-hour high/low
Asia high/low
London high/low
New York high/low
Overnight high/low
Keep these off for less noise:
Central Pivot
H3/L3
Daily, weekly, and monthly opens
Previous mids
Monday levels
Quarter levels
Yearly levels
Timed opens
The highs become possible SELL-side liquidity, and the lows become possible BUY-side liquidity.
4. Live AMD candle
Setting Value
Show Live HTF Candle On
Sync Live Candle to AMD Signal Timeframe On
Color Live Candle by Real-Time AMD Phase On
Show Timeframe Label On
Show Candle Timer On
The candle color is developing visual context. An actual AMD signal still requires a confirmed execution candle.
To show regular BUY/SELL signals too
Use:
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Bias-Aligned Only
Hide Standard Signals When AMD Signals Are On Off
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals On
This displays both:
Ordinary bias-aligned BUY/SELL
Strict AMD BUY/AMD SELL
For even stricter ordinary signals, turn Use AMD to Filter Standard Signals on. Ordinary BUY/SELL signals will then require matching AMD distribution.
I would leave this off initially because your primary focus is the AMD extreme signal.
To show only regular signals
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Bias-Aligned Only
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals Off
Show Confirmed HTF BUY / SELL Off
This returns the indicator to ordinary level reactions filtered by majority bias.
To show no signals at all
Use this visual-only mode:
Setting Value
Standard BUY / SELL Display Off
Show AMD Extreme-Level Signals Off
Show Confirmed HTF BUY / SELL Off
Show Manipulation Extreme Diamond Off
You may still keep these visible:
4-hour AMD boxes
Live AMD candle
Bias dashboard
Key levels
4-hour supply/demand zone
This provides AMD market context without any entry symbols.
When no AMD signal appears
That does not necessarily mean the indicator is malfunctioning. Under the recommended settings, all of these must qualify:
You are using a 1-minute or 5-minute chart.
The 4-hour accumulation period completed.
Price manipulated beyond the correct accumulation boundary.
An external high or low was swept.
Price closed back through the swept level.
Price reclaimed into the accumulation range.
Microstructure shifted.
Displacement confirmed.
At least four of six biases agreed.
The required level cluster or HTF origin-zone condition qualified.
No earlier AMD signal was already issued for that 4-hour model.
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True Order Blocks & Liquidity LevelsTrue Order Blocks & Liquidity Levels — a comprehensive price action toolkit for market structure analysis, liquidity mapping, and institutional zone detection across any instrument and timeframe.
The logic behind order blocks, imbalances, and internal pullbacks is built in strict accordance with the inside bar methodology — one of the most precise approaches to identifying institutional points of interest. Every module accounts for whether a bar is an inside bar, which significantly improves signal quality and eliminates false zones that commonly appear with traditional approaches.
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MODULES
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▸ Internal Pullbacks
Displays market structure as lines connecting sequential pivot highs and lows. Inside bars are ignored during structure building, keeping pullback lines clean and noise-free. The last open line redraws in real time as price develops.
Adjustable number of visible lines
Color, style (solid / dashed / dotted) and width customization
▸ Internal Liquidity
Horizontal lines automatically placed at each confirmed pivot high and low. A line persists until price crosses it — at that moment the line is removed and an alert fires. These levels mark clusters of stop orders and serve as potential targets for liquidity sweeps.
Independent limit on the number of visible levels
Color and style customization
Alert on level breach
▸ Imbalance (FVG)
Fair Value Gap detector built on three consecutive non-inside bars. The algorithm steps over inside bars when searching for the FVG — this means the gap can span more than 3 candles visually if inside bars appear in between, which is intentional and produces cleaner zones. Open-price gaps are handled by clipping FVG boundaries to the body of the middle candle.
Separate colors for bullish and bearish FVG zones
Maximum number of displayed zones
Midline drawn inside each zone for easier reference
▸ Order Blocks
Institutional interest zones formed by a strict algorithm: an order block is drawn only when the bar preceding a FVG performed a liquidity sweep — meaning it broke the high or low of the prior significant pivot. The block is placed on the candle immediately preceding the impulsive move. If an absorption candle stands between the OB candidate and the FVG, the candidate is reset — preventing false blocks from forming on overly aggressive moves.
Automatic mitigation tracking: when price touches the zone, the block changes to a "mitigated" color
Option to hide mitigated blocks entirely
Separate colors for bullish, bearish, and mitigated blocks
Adjustable history depth
Alerts on new block formation and on mitigation
▸ Inside Bars
Highlights bars that fit entirely within the range of the previous mother candle. A series of consecutive inside bars signals compression and accumulation ahead of a directional move.
Barcolor highlight with customizable color
Adjustable lookback depth
▸ Absorption
Marks candles that fully engulf the range of the previous mother candle (high > mother high and low < mother low). These candles often indicate absorption of accumulated positions and a short-term shift in intent.
Separate highlight color independent of Inside Bars
Alert on absorption candle formation
▸ PDH / PDL — Previous Day High & Low
Displays high and low levels from previous trading days (up to 7 days). Levels that have been fully engulfed by price are automatically hidden. Each level is labeled: the most recent is marked "PDH" / "PDL", older ones show the date in month/day format.
Adjustable number of days displayed
Unified color for all PDH/PDL levels
Alert when price crosses a level
▸ Market Sessions
Draws session boxes for each trading session over the last N days. Five fully independent sessions are supported — defaults are Asia, Frankfurt, London, New York, and one custom user-defined session.
Custom name, start and end time (UTC), and background color per session
Optional horizontal border lines showing session high and low
Border style and width customization
Adjustable display depth (number of days)
Alerts when price crosses the high or low of a closed session
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TREND FILTER
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Colors the chart background based on WaveTrend oscillator alignment across up to three independent timeframes. When all selected timeframes show WT above zero simultaneously — bullish background. When all show WT below zero — bearish background. When timeframes disagree — no background, signalling an unclear or transitional market state.
How WaveTrend is calculated: WT is built as a double-smoothed normalized channel index on HLC3. The first EMA measures the average deviation of price from its mean; the result is normalized and smoothed again to produce the final oscillator value. Values above zero indicate bullish bias, below zero — bearish.
Show trend filter — master on/off switch
WT Channel Length — EMA length for channel calculation. Shorter = more reactive
WT Average Length — smoothing EMA applied on top. Larger = calmer signal
TF 1 / TF 2 / TF 3 — each row has an enable toggle and a timeframe selector. Defaults: 15m, 1h, 4h. A disabled timeframe is treated as neutral and excluded from alignment check
Confirm trend on bar close — when enabled, background and alerts only react to values from the last closed HTF bar, eliminating intra-bar repainting. When disabled, the background updates in real time as the HTF bar forms
Bullish / Bearish background colors — customizable with transparency
Trend Changed alert — fires on bar close on any of the six possible state transitions: uptrend ↔ neutral ↔ downtrend and direct flip. Alert message specifies the exact transition
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DASHBOARD
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A compact table showing WaveTrend values for each enabled timeframe. Only enabled timeframes are displayed — from one to three rows.
Column 1: timeframe label (15m, 1h, 4h etc.)
Column 2: current WT value rounded to one decimal. Cell background reflects signal strength: neutral grey (−10 to +10), weak green/red (±10 to ±40), saturated green/red (beyond ±40)
Position — 9 placement options across the chart
Text size — Tiny / Small / Normal / Large
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ALERTS
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Every module has its own independent alert toggle. All messages can optionally be prefixed with the instrument ticker — useful when monitoring multiple charts simultaneously.
Liquidity level breached
Absorption candle formed
New order block created
Order block mitigated
Session high or low crossed
PDH / PDL level crossed
Trend changed (WaveTrend multi-TF)
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HTF Candle PO3 AMD SessionsHTF Session Dashboard (Higher Timeframe Candles)
Core idea: This indicator allows you to view the price action of a Higher Timeframe (HTF) drawn as full candles directly on your current lower timeframe chart. It's designed to keep you aware of the macro market structure without needing to constantly switch timeframes.
How It Works
Instead of just showing standard HTF levels, this indicator dynamically builds and projects the current day's higher timeframe candles (e.g., 4-Hour candles) off to the right side of your active chart (e.g., a 1-minute or 5-minute chart).
The candles are constructed in real-time. As price moves on your lower timeframe, the active "current" HTF candle will grow its wicks and adjust its body live.
Key Features
Live HTF Candle Projection: Displays the sequence of HTF candles that make up the current trading day, spaced neatly to the right of the current price action.
Session Extremes: Automatically draws dotted reference lines stretching across your chart to highlight the absolute High, Low, Body High, and Body Low of the entire current session.
Live Countdown Timer: Shows a dynamic timer above and below the candle cluster indicating exactly how much time is left until the active HTF candle closes.
Hour Labels: Every HTF candle has a small label indicating its open hour (with an adjustable timezone offset setting) to help you quickly identify Kill Zones within the macro candles.
Visual Customization: Fully adjustable body width, transparency, spacing, offset distance, and bull/bear color schemes.
Clean Daily Reset: The indicator automatically clears the prior day's candles at midnight (exchange time) and begins building the new sequence, keeping your chart uncluttered.
Why Use This?
When trading intraday (like on a 1m chart), it's easy to get lost in the noise and trade right into a major 4-Hour support or resistance level. By projecting the 4-Hour candles directly onto your 1-minute chart, you always know exactly where you are relative to the higher timeframe narrative and structure.
Recommended Settings
HTF Setting: 240 (4 Hours) or 60 (1 Hour) when trading on a 1m–15m chart.
Hour Label Offset: Adjust this (e.g., +1 or -1) if you want the candle hour labels to match a specific local time zone (like EST) rather than exchange time.
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Power of Three (AMD) Map [AGPro Series]Power of Three (AMD) Map
🔹 Overview
The Power of Three (AMD) Map visualizes ICT's foundational session-framework concept directly on the chart: Accumulation → Manipulation → Distribution. For each daily or weekly session, the indicator automatically segments the AMD phases, detects classic liquidity sweeps during Manipulation, and projects a distribution target based on the accumulation range. Built for ICT / Smart Money Concept traders who want session-aware bias, transparent sweep validation, and forward-looking expansion projections.
🔹 Unique Edge vs Other PO3 Scripts
Most PO3 indicators on PulseWire simply highlight time-based session blocks and leave liquidity detection to the user's eye. This implementation distinguishes itself through:
• Phase detection by bar count, not timestamps — ensuring consistent AMD ratios across every timeframe from 15m to 1D
• Adaptive sweep confirmation — accepts both same-bar ICT-strict sweeps (wick + close-back) and 2-bar delayed confirmations, significantly improving setup capture without sacrificing quality
• Dual-reference sweep logic — checks both the previous session's accumulation range AND the current session's accumulation range, capturing sweeps that single-reference scripts miss
• TF-adaptive target multiplier — Daily sessions project targets at 0.7× accumulation range, Weekly sessions at 0.3×, aligned with realistic crypto volatility profiles
• Transparent dual-KPI panel — separates Sweep Rate (how often valid sweeps occur) from Target Hit rate (how often the projected expansion completes), giving traders honest, verifiable performance metrics
🔹 Methodology
Each session is divided into three bar-count-based windows:
• Accumulation (first 33% of expected session bars) — tracks the initial range
• Manipulation (next 17%) — scans for liquidity sweeps against the previous session's accumulation high/low and the current accumulation extremes
• Distribution (remaining 50%) — the expected expansion phase, measured against the projected target
A valid Manipulation sweep requires a wick penetrating a reference level followed by a body close back inside (classic ICT definition). In Adaptive mode, sweeps can also confirm within a 2-bar window. The detected sweep direction determines the PO3 bias: sweeping a high produces a Bearish PO3 (expected downside distribution); sweeping a low produces a Bullish PO3 (expected upside distribution). A target price is projected from either the accumulation midpoint (default, symmetrical expansion) or the sweep extreme, multiplied by the configured ratio.
🔹 Signals & Alerts
Four built-in alert conditions:
• Manipulation phase started — Accumulation complete
• Bullish sweep detected — Low was swept, Bullish PO3 forming
• Bearish sweep detected — High was swept, Bearish PO3 forming
• Distribution target hit — Expansion reached projected level
🔹 Key Inputs
• Session Scope — Auto (TF-adaptive), Daily, or Weekly
• Accumulation / Manipulation window percentages (defaults 33% / 17%)
• Sweep Reference — Previous Accumulation, Current Accumulation, or Both (default)
• Sweep Confirmation — Strict (same-bar) or Adaptive (up to 2-bar, default)
• Target Projection Method — From Accumulation Mid (default) or From Sweep Extreme
• Multiplier Mode — Auto TF-adaptive (default) or Manual
• Historical sessions to display (default 5, max 10)
• Full visual customization — colors, label position, font size, panel position & theme
• Premium visuals — sweep triangle markers, target price label (toggleable)
🔹 How to Use
1. Add the indicator to any crypto or forex chart with timeframe 1H–4H (for Daily PO3) or 1D (for Weekly PO3)
2. Watch the Accumulation range form at the start of each session — this defines the sweep reference level
3. When Manipulation phase begins, monitor for a wick that sweeps the previous accumulation high/low with a body close-back (triangle marker appears on confirmed sweeps)
4. Once a sweep confirms, the panel displays the directional bias (Bullish/Bearish PO3), the projected target price, and a dashed target zone extends toward the session end
5. Use the Sweep Rate and Target Hit percentages in the panel to contextualize reliability on your chosen symbol and timeframe
6. The panel's Completion counter grows as new sessions close — give the script enough historical bars to build meaningful statistics
🔹 Limitations & Transparency
• AMD phase windows are bar-count approximations — real sessions do not cleanly segment into 33/17/50 splits. The indicator is a structural guide, not a timing oracle
• Sweep detection requires the chart timeframe to contain at least 4 bars per session. On 1D charts, use Weekly mode; on 1W charts, the indicator will display a warning
• The projected target is a statistical expectation based on the accumulation range. The Target Hit rate (shown in panel) reflects the historical frequency of this expectation being met on the current symbol/timeframe — typically 40–55% on crypto majors
• Sweep Rate shows the percentage of completed sessions where a valid Manipulation sweep was detected; sessions without sweeps produce no bias and no target
• Historical statistics accumulate from the first bar available on the chart and reset only when the chart reloads
🔹 Risk Disclosure
This indicator is a visualization and analysis tool. It does not generate trade signals, predict price movement, or guarantee outcomes. Past Sweep Rate and Target Hit statistics reflect historical behavior only and do not imply future performance. All trading decisions and risk management remain the responsibility of the user. Indicator
Traders Peak [OmegaTools]Traders Peak is a professional chart overlay built to identify statistically unusual candles that combine elevated volume, pronounced wick rejection, and meaningful price range. The purpose of the tool is to isolate moments where market participation expands sharply while price simultaneously shows signs of rejection from one side of the auction. These events often reveal areas where aggressive buying or selling met equally strong opposition, creating levels that may remain relevant for future price interaction.
The script evaluates three core elements of candle behavior. First, it measures whether volume is abnormally high relative to recent activity. Second, it detects whether wick development is unusually large compared with the recent average, helping uncover rejection and failed continuation attempts. Third, it filters for candles with sufficient body size so that only structurally relevant bars are considered. When all of these conditions align, the indicator marks the candle as a Traders Peak event and projects a zone and reference level forward on the chart.
Each signal is then classified by the dominant side of rejection. A candle with a stronger upper rejection is treated as a bearish reaction area, while a candle with a stronger lower rejection is treated as a bullish reaction area. The indicator draws a colored box over the rejected portion of the candle and extends a horizontal line from the wick extreme, allowing traders to monitor whether price respects, revisits, or invalidates the level over time. This makes the tool especially effective for highlighting exhaustion points, liquidity grabs, failed breakouts, reversal zones, and highly reactive areas created by one-sided participation.
The Threshold input controls how extreme the statistical conditions must be before a signal is generated. Higher values make the script more selective and focus only on the most exceptional candles, while lower values increase signal frequency. The Length input defines the normalization window used to compare current candle behavior against recent market conditions. Together, these settings allow the indicator to adapt across asset classes, volatility environments, and timeframes.
Traders Peak can be used in several ways. It can serve as a reversal detection tool when a strong rejection appears after an extended directional move. It can be used as a confirmation layer for market structure traders who want extra evidence before acting on support, resistance, or supply and demand zones. It can also help intraday traders identify possible exhaustion at session highs or lows, where abnormal activity and rejection often reveal failed continuation attempts. For breakout traders, it can be useful in detecting false breakouts and trap conditions, especially when price briefly expands beyond a level but is immediately rejected with strong participation. Swing traders may use it to locate significant reaction zones that can remain relevant for multiple sessions, while scalpers may use it as a precision aid to refine entries, exits, or invalidation points around highly active candles.
In practice, bullish signals may be useful when a market sells off into an important level and forms a high-volume candle with strong lower rejection, suggesting that sellers were absorbed and price rejected lower values. Bearish signals may be useful when price rallies into resistance and prints a high-volume candle with strong upper rejection, suggesting that buyers were unable to maintain higher prices. In both cases, the projected zone and line provide an immediate visual reference for tracking future reactions and managing trade decisions around those levels.
Traders Peak is not designed to predict direction in isolation, but to highlight candles that deserve attention because they reflect abnormal participation and rejection dynamics. For best results, it should be used alongside broader contextual tools such as trend structure, key levels, session analysis, volatility conditions, and execution logic. When combined with solid market reading, it offers a clean and systematic way to transform exceptional candles into actionable chart information. Indicator
Volumetric Order Flow Structure [LuxAlgo]The Volumetric Order Flow Structure indicator is a comprehensive technical analysis tool designed to visualize market structure through the lens of volumetric distribution and institutional order flow.
🔶 USAGE
Traders can use this tool to identify institutional supply and demand zones backed by high-volume nodes. The glowing structure bars provide immediate feedback on breakout conviction, while the manipulation bubbles highlight areas where institutional players may be trapping retail traders before a reversal.
The indicator is particularly useful for identifying:
High-conviction breakouts versus low-volume "fakeouts."
Precise price levels within a zone where the most volume was transacted (POC).
Liquidity raids that suggest a potential reversal or trend continuation.
🔹 Volumetric Market Structure
The script automatically detects Change of Character (CHoCH) and Break of Structure (BOS). Breakout levels are represented by glowing "Volumetric Bars" that fill horizontally based on the breakout bar's volume delta, representing the internal buying or selling pressure of the move.
🔹 Stepped Volume Profiles
Active Order Blocks feature a 15-row horizontal histogram. The script calculates the volume distribution within the pivot candle, highlighting the Point of Control (POC) in orange to identify the most significant price node within the supply or demand zone.
🔹 Manipulation Bubbles
This feature identifies liquidity raids where price wicks beyond a zone but fails to close through it. These events are marked with circular "bubbles" sized dynamically by volume, featuring external volume data labels for precise analysis of institutional activity.
🔶 DETAILS
The script employs a dynamic zone management system where zones extend across the screen until the price closes beyond them. An advanced 'Hide Overlapping' filter ensures that if multiple zones occur in the same price range, only the most relevant (highest volume) block is displayed to maintain chart clarity.
Additionally, the indicator utilizes ATR-based scaling to ensure visual thickness and label sizes are perfectly proportional across all assets, ensuring a consistent experience whether trading Forex, Stocks, or high-priced Cryptocurrencies.
🔶 SETTINGS
🔹 Detection
Pivot Length: Sets the lookback period for detecting high and low pivots used for structure.
Volume Lookback: The window used to calculate relative volume for scaling and sensitivity.
🔹 Visuals
Max Recent Blocks: The maximum number of active supply/demand zones to display on the chart.
Base Transparency: Controls the overall opacity of the volumetric zones.
Hide Overlapping Blocks: When enabled, the script removes smaller/lower volume blocks that reside within the price range of a more significant block.
🔹 Manipulation
Show Manipulation Bubbles: Toggles the visibility of liquidity raid markers.
Size Sensitivity: Adjusts how aggressively the bubble sizes react to volume spikes.
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OTT Volatility [RunRox]📊 OTT Volatility is an indicator developed by the RunRox team to pinpoint the most optimal time to trade across different markets.
OTT stands for Optimal Trade Time Volatility and is designed primarily for markets without a fixed trading session, such as cryptocurrencies that trade 24/7. At the same time, it works equally well on any other market.
🔶 The concept is straightforward. The indicator takes a specified number of historical periods (Samples) and statistically evaluates which hours of the day or which days show the highest volatility for the selected asset.
As a result, it highlights time windows with elevated volatility where traders can focus on searching for trade setups and building positions.
🔶 As the core volatility metric, the indicator uses ATR (Average True Range) to measure intraday volatility. Then it calculates the average ATR value over the last N Samples, creating a statistically stable estimate of typical volatility for the selected asset.
🔶 Statistically, during these highlighted periods the market shows higher-than-average volatility.
This means that in these time windows price is more likely to be subject to stronger moves and potential manipulation, making them attractive for active trade execution and position management.
⚠️ However, historical behavior does not guarantee future results.
These periods should be treated only as zones where volatility has a higher probability of being above normal, not as a promise of movement.
As shown in the screenshot above, the indicator also projects potential future volatility based on historical data. This helps you better plan your trading hours and align your activity with periods where volatility is statistically expected to be higher or lower.
🔶 Current Volatility – as shown in the screenshot above, you can also monitor the real-time volatility of the market without any statistical averaging.
On top of that, you can overlay the current volatility on top of the statistical volatility levels, which makes it easy to see whether the market is now trading in a high- or low-volatility regime relative to its usual behavior.
4 display modes – you can choose any visualization style that fits your trading workflow:
Absolute – displays the raw volatility values.
Relative – shows volatility relative to its typical levels.
Average Centered – centers volatility around its average value.
Trim Low Value – filters out low-volatility noise and highlights only more significant moves.
This indicator helps you define the most effective trading hours on any market by relying on historical volatility statistics.
Use it to quickly see when your market tends to be more active and to structure your trading sessions around those periods.
✅ We hope this tool becomes a useful part of your trading toolkit and helps you improve the quality of your decisions and timing. Indicator
ICT Anchored Market Structures with Validation [LuxAlgo]The ICT Anchored Market Structures with Validation indicator is an advanced iteration of the original Pure-Price-Action-Structures tool, designed for price action traders.
It systematically tracks and validates key price action structures, distinguishing between true structural shifts/breaks and short-term sweeps to enhance trend and reversal analysis. The indicator automatically highlights structural points, confirms breakouts, identifies sweeps, and provides clear visual cues for short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term market structures.
A distinctive feature of this indicator is its exclusive reliance on price patterns. It does not depend on any user-defined input, ensuring that its analysis remains robust, objective, and uninfluenced by user bias, making it an effective tool for understanding market dynamics.
🔶 USAGE
Market structure is a cornerstone of price action analysis. This script automatically detects real-time market structures across short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term levels, simplifying trend analysis for traders. It assists in identifying both trend reversals and continuations with greater clarity.
Market structure shifts and breaks help traders identify changes in trend direction. A shift signals a potential reversal, often occurring when a swing high or low is breached, suggesting a transition in trend. A break, on the other hand, confirms the continuation of an established trend, reinforcing the current direction. Recognizing these shifts and breaks allows traders to anticipate price movement with greater accuracy.
It’s important to note that while a CHoCH may signal a potential trend reversal and a BoS suggests a continuation of the prevailing trend, neither guarantees a complete reversal or continuation. In some cases, CHoCH and BoS levels may act as liquidity zones or areas of consolidation rather than indicating a clear shift or continuation in market direction. The indicator’s validation component helps confirm whether the detected CHoCH and BoS are true breakouts or merely liquidity sweeps.
🔶 DETAILS
🔹 Market Structures
Market structures are derived from price action analysis, focusing on identifying key levels and patterns in the market. Swing point detection, a fundamental concept in ICT trading methodologies and teachings, plays a central role in this approach.
Swing points are automatically identified based exclusively on market movements, without requiring any user-defined input.
🔹 Utilizing Swing Points
Swing points are not identified in real-time as they form. Short-term swing points may appear with a delay of up to one bar, while the identification of intermediate and long-term swing points is entirely dependent on subsequent market movements. Importantly, this detection process is not influenced by any user-defined input, relying solely on pure price action. As a result, swing points are generally not intended for real-time trading scenarios.
Instead, traders often analyze historical swing points to understand market trends and identify potential entry and exit opportunities. By examining swing highs and lows, traders can:
Recognize Trends: Swing highs and lows provide insight into trend direction. Higher swing highs and higher swing lows signify an uptrend, while lower swing highs and lower swing lows indicate a downtrend.
Identify Support and Resistance Levels: Swing highs often act as resistance levels, referred to as Buyside Liquidity Levels in ICT terminology, while swing lows function as support levels, also known as Sellside Liquidity Levels. Traders can leverage these levels to plan their trade entries and exits.
Spot Reversal Patterns: Swing points can form key reversal patterns, such as double tops or bottoms, head and shoulders, and triangles. Recognizing these patterns can indicate potential trend reversals, enabling traders to adjust their strategies effectively.
Set Stop Loss and Take Profit Levels: In ICT teachings, swing levels represent price points with expected clusters of buy or sell orders. Traders can target these liquidity levels/pools for position accumulation or distribution, using swing points to define stop loss and take profit levels in their trades.
Overall, swing points provide valuable information about market dynamics and can assist traders in making more informed trading decisions.
🔹 Logic of Validation
The validation process in this script determines whether a detected market structure shift or break represents a confirmed breakout or a sweep.
The breakout is confirmed when the close price is significantly outside the deviation range of the last detected structural price. This deviation range is defined by the 17-period Average True Range (ATR), which creates a buffer around the detected market structure shift or break.
A sweep occurs when the price breaches the structural level within the deviation range but does not confirm a breakout. In this case, the label is updated to 'SWEEP.'
A visual box is created to represent the price range where the breakout or sweep occurs. If the validation process continues, the box is updated. This box visually highlights the price range involved in a sweep, helping traders identify liquidity events on the chart.
🔶 SETTINGS
The settings for Short-Term, Intermediate-Term, and Long-Term Structures are organized into groups, allowing users to customize swing points, market structures, and visual styles for each.
🔹 Structures
Swings and Size: Enables or disables the display of swing highs and lows, assigns icons to represent the structures, and adjusts the size of the icons.
Market Structures: Toggles the visibility of market structure lines.
Market Structure Validation: Enable or disable validation to distinguish true breakouts from liquidity sweeps.
Market Structure Labels: Displays or hides labels indicating the type of market structure.
Line Style and Width: Allows customization of the style and width of the lines representing market structures.
Swing and Line Colors: Provides options to adjust the colors of swing icons, market structure lines, and labels for better visualization.
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Benford's Law Actual [Tagstrading]Benford’s Law Chart — First Digit Analysis of Percentage Price Drops
This script visualizes the distribution of the leading digit in the percentage change of price drops, and compares it to the theoretical distribution expected by Benford’s Law.
It helps traders, analysts, and quants to detect anomalies, unnatural behavior, or price manipulation in any asset or timeframe.
How to Use
Add to any chart or symbol (stocks, crypto, FX, etc.) and select the timeframe you wish to analyze.
Set the “Number of Bars to Analyze” input (default: 500) to control the length of the historical window.
The chart will display, for the latest window:
A blue line: the actual leading-digit distribution for percentage price changes between bars.
A red line: the expected distribution per Benford’s Law.
Labels below and above: digit markers and the expected (theoretical) percentages.
Summary panel on the right: frequency counts and actual vs. theoretical % for each digit.
Interpretation:
If your actual (blue) curve or digit counts are significantly different from the red Benford’s Law curve, it could indicate unnatural price action, fraud, bot activity, or structural anomalies.
Why is this useful for PulseWire?
Financial forensics: Benford’s Law is a classic tool for detecting data manipulation and fraud in accounting. On charts, it can reveal if price movements are statistically “natural.”
Transparency and confidence: Helps communities audit markets, brokers, or exchanges for irregularities.
Adaptable: Works on any market, any timeframe.
What makes this script unique?
Focuses on % price changes, not raw prices.
This provides a fair comparison across assets, symbols, and timeframes.
Measures only the direction and magnitude of drops/rises — more suitable for detecting manipulation in active markets.
Clear and customizable visualization:
The Benford line, actual data, and summary are all visible and readable in one glance.
Optimized for speed and clarity (runs efficiently on all major charts).
How is it different from stg44’s Benford’s Law script?
This script analyzes the leading digit of percentage price changes (i.e., how much the price drops or rises in %),
while the original by stg44 analyzes the leading digit of price itself.
Results are less sensitive to price scale and more comparable across volatile and non-volatile assets.
The summary panel clearly shows ( ) for actual and for Benford theoretical values.
Full code is commented and open for the community.
Credits and Inspiration
This script was inspired by “Benford’s Law” by stg44:
Thanks to the PulseWire community for sharing powerful visual ideas.
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Edufx AMD~Accumulation, Manipulation, DistributionEdufx AMD Indicator
This indicator visualizes the market cycles using distinct phases: Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution, and Reversal. It is designed to assist traders in identifying potential entry points and understanding price behavior during these phases.
Key Features:
1. Phases and Logic:
-Accumulation Phase: Highlights the price range where market accumulation occurs.
-Manipulation Phase:
- If the price sweeps below the accumulation low, it signals a potential "Buy Zone."
- If the price sweeps above the accumulation high, it signals a potential "Sell Zone."
-Distribution Phase: Highlights where price is expected to expand and establish trends.
-Reversal Phase: Marks areas where the price may either continue or reverse.
2. Weekly and Daily Cycles:
- Toggle the visibility of Weekly Cycles and Daily Cycles independently through the settings.
- These cycles are predefined with precise timings for each phase, based on your selected on UTC-5 timezone.
3. Customizable Appearance:
- Adjust the colors for each phase directly in the settings to suit your preferences.
- The indicator uses semi-transparent boxes to represent the phases, allowing easy visualization without obstructing the chart.
4. Static Boxes:
- Boxes representing the phases are drawn only once for the visible chart range and do not dynamically delete, ensuring important consistent reference points. Indicator
XAMD/AMDX ICT 01 [TradingFinder] SMC Quarterly Theory Cycles🔵 Introduction
The XAMD/AMDX strategy, combined with the Quarterly Theory, forms the foundation of a powerful market structure analysis. This indicator builds upon the principles of the Power of 3 strategy introduced by ICT, enhancing its application by incorporating an additional phase.
By extending the logic of Power of 3, the XAMD/AMDX tool provides a more detailed and comprehensive view of daily market behavior, offering traders greater precision in identifying key movements and opportunities
This approach divides the trading day into four distinct phases : Accumulation (19:00 - 01:00 EST), Manipulation (01:00 - 07:00 EST), Distribution (07:00 - 13:00 EST), and Continuation or Reversal (13:00 - 19:00 EST), collectively known as AMDX.
Each phase reflects a specific market behavior, providing a structured lens to interpret price action. Building on the fractal nature of time in financial markets, the Quarterly Theory introduces the Four Quarters Method, where a currency pair’s price range is divided into quarters.
These divisions, known as quarter points, highlight critical levels for analyzing and predicting market dynamics. Together, these principles allow traders to align their strategies with institutional trading patterns, offering deeper insights into market trends
🔵 How to Use
The AMDX framework provides a structured approach to understanding market behavior throughout the trading day. Each phase has its own characteristics and trading opportunities, allowing traders to align their strategies effectively. To get the most out of this tool, understanding the dynamics of each phase is essential.
🟣 Accumulation
During the Accumulation phase (19:00 - 01:00 EST), the market is typically quiet, with price movements confined to a narrow range. This phase is where institutional players accumulate their positions, setting the stage for future price movements.
Traders should use this time to study price patterns and prepare for the next phases. It’s a great opportunity to mark key support and resistance zones and set alerts for potential breakouts, as the low volatility makes immediate trading less attractive.
🟣 Manipulation
The Manipulation phase (01:00 - 07:00 EST) is often marked by sharp and deceptive price movements. Institutions create false breakouts to trigger stop-losses and trap retail traders into the wrong direction. Traders should remain cautious during this phase, focusing on identifying the areas of liquidity where these traps occur.
Watching for price reversals after these false moves can provide excellent entry opportunities, but patience and confirmation are crucial to avoid getting caught in the manipulation.
🟣 Distribution
The Distribution phase (07:00 - 13:00 EST) is where the day’s dominant trend typically emerges. Institutions execute large trades, resulting in significant price movements. This phase is ideal for trading with the trend, as the market provides clearer directional signals.
Traders should focus on identifying breakouts or strong momentum in the direction of the trend established during this period. This phase is also where traders can capitalize on setups identified earlier, aligning their entries with the market’s broader sentiment.
🟣 Continuation or Reversal
Finally, the Continuation or Reversal phase (13:00 - 19:00 EST) offers a critical juncture to assess the market’s direction. This phase can either reinforce the established trend or signal a reversal as institutions adjust their positions.
Traders should observe price behavior closely during this time, looking for patterns that confirm whether the trend is likely to continue or reverse. This phase is particularly useful for adjusting open positions or initiating new trades based on emerging signals.
🔵 Settings
Show or Hide Phases.
Adjust the session times for each phase :
Accumulation: 19:00-01:00 EST
Manipulation: 01:00-07:00 EST
Distribution: 07:00-13:00 EST
Continuation or Reversal: 13:00-19:00 EST
Modify Visualization : Customize how the indicator looks by changing settings like colors and transparency.
🔵 Conclusion
AMDX provides traders with a practical method to analyze daily market behavior by dividing the trading day into four key phases: Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution, and Continuation or Reversal. Each phase highlights specific market dynamics, offering insights into how institutional activity shapes price movements.
From the quiet buildup in the Accumulation phase to the decisive trends of the Distribution phase, and the critical transitions in Continuation or Reversal, this approach equips traders with the tools to anticipate movements and make informed decisions.
By recognizing the significance of each phase, traders can avoid common traps during Manipulation, capitalize on clear trends during Distribution, and adapt to changes in the final phase of the day.
The structured visualization of market phases simplifies decision-making for traders of all levels. By incorporating these principles into your trading strategy, you can enhance your ability to align with market trends, optimize entry and exit points, and achieve more consistent results in your trading journey.
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Power Of 3 ICT 01 [TradingFinder] AMD ICT & SMC Accumulations🔵 Introduction
The ICT Power of 3 (PO3) strategy, developed by Michael J. Huddleston, known as the Inner Circle Trader, is a structured approach to analyzing daily market activity. This strategy divides the trading day into three distinct phases: Accumulation, Manipulation, and Distribution.
Each phase represents a unique market behavior influenced by institutional traders, offering a clear framework for retail traders to align their strategies with market movements.
Accumulation (19:00 - 01:00 EST) takes place during low-volatility hours, as institutional traders accumulate orders. Manipulation (01:00 - 07:00 EST) involves false breakouts and liquidity traps designed to mislead retail traders. Finally, Distribution (07:00 - 13:00 EST) represents the active phase where significant market movements occur as institutions distribute their positions in line with the broader trend.
This indicator is built upon the Power of 3 principles to provide traders with a practical and visual tool for identifying these key phases. By using clear color coding and precise time zones, the indicator highlights critical price levels, such as highs and lows, helping traders to better understand market dynamics and make more informed trading decisions.
Incorporating the ICT AMD setup into daily analysis enables traders to anticipate market behavior, spot high-probability trade setups, and gain deeper insights into institutional trading strategies. With its focus on time-based price action, this indicator simplifies complex market structures, offering an effective tool for traders of all levels.
🔵 How to Use
The ICT Power of 3 (PO3) indicator is designed to help traders analyze daily market movements by visually identifying the three key phases: Accumulation, Manipulation, and Distribution.
Here's how traders can effectively use the indicator :
🟣 Accumulation Phase (19:00 - 01:00 EST)
Purpose : Identify the range-bound activity where institutional players accumulate orders.
Trading Insight : Avoid placing trades during this phase, as price movements are typically limited. Instead, use this time to prepare for the potential direction of the market in the next phases.
🟣 Manipulation Phase (01:00 - 07:00 EST)
Purpose : Spot false breakouts and liquidity traps that mislead retail traders.
Trading Insight : Observe the market for price spikes beyond key support or resistance levels. These moves often reverse quickly, offering high-probability entry points in the opposite direction of the initial breakout.
🟣 Distribution Phase (07:00 - 13:00 EST)
Purpose : Detect the main price movement of the day, driven by institutional distribution.
Trading Insight : Enter trades in the direction of the trend established during this phase. Look for confirmations such as breakouts or strong directional moves that align with broader market sentiment
🔵 Settings
Show or Hide Phases :mDecide whether to display Accumulation, Manipulation, or Distribution.
Adjust the session times for each phase :
Accumulation: 1900-0100 EST
Manipulation: 0100-0700 EST
Distribution: 0700-1300 EST
Modify Visualization : Customize how the indicator looks by changing settings like colors and transparency.
🔵 Conclusion
The ICT Power of 3 (PO3) indicator is a powerful tool for traders seeking to understand and leverage market structure based on time and price dynamics. By visually highlighting the three key phases—Accumulation, Manipulation, and Distribution—this indicator simplifies the complex movements of institutional trading strategies.
With its customizable settings and clear representation of market behavior, the indicator is suitable for traders at all levels, helping them anticipate market trends and make more informed decisions.
Whether you're identifying entry points in the Accumulation phase, navigating false moves during Manipulation, or capitalizing on trends in the Distribution phase, this tool provides valuable insights to enhance your trading performance.
By integrating this indicator into your analysis, you can better align your strategies with institutional movements and improve your overall trading outcomes.
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Advanced Pivot Manipulation SuperTrend - Consolidation ZoneHere’s the description translated into English for your PulseWire publication:
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Advanced Pivot Manipulation SuperTrend - Consolidation Zone
Description :
This advanced indicator combines multiple technical tools to provide a comprehensive analysis of trends, key levels, and consolidation zones. Ideal for traders seeking to spot opportunities while avoiding the traps of flat markets, it helps you better understand market dynamics and improve your trading decisions.
Key Features:
1.
Dynamic SuperTrend with Pivot Points:
- An enhanced SuperTrend algorithm based on pivot points for more precise trend tracking.
- Thresholds (Up/Dn) are dynamically adjusted using ATR (Average True Range) for improved volatility adaptation.
2. Consolidation Zones:
- Automatically identifies periods when the market moves within a narrow range (1% by default).
- Consolidation zones are visually highlighted to help avoid risky trades.
3. Dynamic Support and Resistance:
- Automatically calculates support and resistance levels based on a rolling period (configurable).
- These levels serve as key references for potential breakouts or trend reversals.
4. Advanced Detection Tools:
- Includes a volume multiplier and shadow-to-body ratio to signal unusual or potentially manipulated moves (e.g., spoofing).
5. Intuitive Visuals:
- SuperTrend lines are color-coded to indicate bullish (green) or bearish (red) trends.
- Semi-transparent lines mark support and resistance levels, and red backgrounds indicate consolidation zones.
Customizable Parameters:
- Pivot Point Period: Adjust the period for detecting pivot highs and lows.
- ATR Factor and Period: Control the sensitivity of the SuperTrend indicator.
- Lookback Period for S/R: Define the duration for calculating support and resistance levels.
- Volume Multiplier and Shadow/Body Ratio: Configure thresholds for detecting high volumes or anomalies in candlestick patterns.
How to Use:
- Easily identify dominant trends using the SuperTrend.
- Spot consolidation zones to avoid inefficient trades or prepare breakout strategies.
- Use support and resistance levels as reference points for placing orders or adjusting risk management.
Target Audience:
- Intraday and swing traders.
- Anyone looking for a comprehensive and customizable indicator to effectively analyze volatile markets.
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Notes:
The indicator is fully customizable to suit your needs and strategies. Feel free to experiment with the parameters to maximize its effectiveness according to your trading style.
Keywords: SuperTrend, Support and Resistance, Consolidation, Pivot Points, Trends, ATR, Advanced Trading.
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This description highlights the indicator’s strengths and is designed to appeal to the PulseWire community. Indicator
ICT Power Of Three | Flux Charts💎 GENERAL OVERVIEW
Introducing our new ICT Power Of Three Indicator! This indicator is built around the ICT's "Power Of Three" strategy. This strategy makes use of these 3 key smart money concepts : Accumulation, Manipulation and Distribution. Each step is explained in detail within this write-up. For more information about the process, check the "HOW DOES IT WORK" section.
Features of the new ICT Power Of Three Indicator :
Implementation of ICT's Power Of Three Strategy
Different Algorithm Modes
Customizable Execution Settings
Customizable Backtesting Dashboard
Alerts for Buy, Sell, TP & SL Signals
📌 HOW DOES IT WORK ?
The "Power Of Three" comes from these three keywords "Accumulation, Manipulation and Distribution". Here is a brief explanation of each keyword :
Accumulation -> Accumulation phase is when the smart money accumulate their positions in a fixed range. This phase indicates price stability, generally meaning that the price constantly switches between up & down trend between a low and a high pivot point. When the indicator detects an accumulation zone, the Power Of Three strategy begins.
Manipulation -> When the smart money needs to increase their position sizes, they need retail traders' positions for liquidity. So, they manipulate the market into the opposite direction of their intended direction. This will result in retail traders opening positions the way that the smart money intended them to do, creating liquidity. After this step, the real move that the smart money intended begins.
Distribution -> This is when the real intention of the smart money comes into action. With the new liquidity thanks to the manipulation phase, the smart money add their positions towards the opposite direction of the retail mindset. The purpose of this indicator is to detect the accumulation and manipulation phases, and help the trader move towards the same direction as the smart money for their trades.
Detection Methods Of The Indicator :
Accumulation -> The indicator detects accumulation zones as explained step-by-step :
1. Draw two lines from the lowest point and the highest point of the latest X bars.
2. If the (high line - low line) is lower than Average True Range (ATR) * accumulationConstant
3. After the condition is validated, an accumulation zone is detected. The accumulation zone will be invalidated and manipulation phase will begin when the range is broken.
Manipulation -> If the accumulation range is broken, check if the current bar closes / wicks above the (high line + ATR * manipulationConstant) or below the (low line - ATR * manipulationConstant). If the condition is met, the indicator detects a manipulation zone.
Distribution -> The purpose of this indicator is to try to foresee the distribution zone, so instead of a detection, after the manipulation zone is detected the indicator automatically create a "shadow" distribution zone towards the opposite direction of the freshly detected manipulation zone. This shadow distribution zone comes with a take-profit and stop-loss layout, customizable by the trader in the settings.
The X bars, accumulationConstant and manipulationConstant are subject to change with the "Algorithm Mode" setting. Read the "Settings" section for more information.
This indicator follows these steps and inform you step by step by plotting them in your chart.
🚩UNIQUENESS
This indicator is an all-in-one suite for the ICT's Power Of Three concept. It's capable of plotting the strategy, giving signals, a backtesting dashboard and alerts feature. Different and customizable algorithm modes will help the trader fine-tune the indicator for the asset they are currently trading. The backtesting dashboard allows you to see how your settings perform in the current ticker. You can also set up alerts to get informed when the strategy is executable for different tickers.
⚙️SETTINGS
1. General Configuration
Algorithm Mode -> The indicator offers 3 different detection algorithm modes according to your needs. Here is the explanation of each mode.
a) Small Manipulation
This mode has the default bar length for the accumulation detection, but a lower manipulation constant, meaning that slighter imbalances in the price action can be detected as manipulation. This setting can be useful on tickers that have lower liquidity, thus can be manipulated easier.
b) Big Manipulation
This mode has the default bar length for the accumulation detection, but a higher manipulation constant, meaning that heavier imbalances on the price action are required in order to detect manipulation zones. This setting can be useful on tickers that have higher liquidity, thus can be manipulated harder.
c) Short Accumulation
This mode has a ~70% lower bar length requirement for accumulation zone detection, and the default manipulation constant. This setting can be useful on tickers that are highly volatile and do not enter accumulation phases too often.
Breakout Method -> If "Close" is selected, bar close price will be taken into calculation when Accumulation & Manipulation zone invalidation. If "Wick" is selected, a wick will be enough to validate the corresponding zone.
2. TP / SL
TP / SL Method -> If "Fixed" is selected, you can adjust the TP / SL ratios from the settings below. If "Dynamic" is selected, the TP / SL zones will be auto-determined by the algorithm.
Risk -> The risk you're willing to take if "Dynamic" TP / SL Method is selected. Higher risk usually means a better winrate at the cost of losing more if the strategy fails. This setting is has a crucial effect on the performance of the indicator, as different tickers may have different volatility so the indicator may have increased performance when this setting is correctly adjusted.
3. Visuals
Show Zones -> Enables / Disables rendering of Accumulation (yellow) and Manipulation (red) zones. Indicator
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Liquidity Spike PoolThe “Liquidity Pools” indicator is a tool for market analysts that stands out for its ability to clearly project the intricate zones of manipulation present in financial markets. These crucial territories emerge when supply or demand takes over, resulting in long shadows (wicks) on the chart candles. Imagine these regions as "magnets" for prices, as they represent authentic "liquidity pools" where the flow of money into the market is significantly concentrated. But the value of the indicator goes beyond this simple visualization: these zones, when identified and interpreted correctly, can play a crucial role for traders looking for profitable entry points. They can mutate into important bastions of support or resistance, providing traders with key anchor points to make informed decisions within their trading strategies.
A key aspect to consider is the importance of different time frames in analyzing markets. Larger time frames, such as daily or 4h, tend to host larger and more relevant liquidity zones. Therefore, a successful strategy might involve identifying these areas of manipulation over longer time frames through the use of this indicator, and then applying these findings to shorter time frames. This approach allows you to turn manipulation zones into crucial reference points that merit constant surveillance while making trading decisions on shorter time frames.
The indicator uses color to convey information clearly and effectively:
- Dark blue lines highlight candles with significant upper wick, signaling the possible presence of an important manipulation area in the considered area.
- Dark red lines are reserved for sizable candlesticks with significant upper wick, emphasizing situations that are particularly relevant to traders.
- Dark gray lines highlight candles with significant lower wick, providing a valuable indication of manipulation zones where the bid may have prevailed.
- White lines highlight sizable candlesticks with significant lower wick, clearly indicating situations where demand has been predominant and may have helped form a liquidity pool.
This indicator constitutes an important resource for identifying and clearly displaying candles with significant wicks, allowing traders to distinguish between ordinary market conditions and circumstances particularly relevant to their trading strategies. Thanks to the distinctive colors of the lines, the indicator offers intuitive visual guidance, allowing traders to make more informed decisions while carrying out their analyses.
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90 Minute Cycles + MTFCredit goes to LuxAlgo for the inspiration from 'Sessions' which allowed users to analyse specific price movements within a user defined period with tools such as trendline, mean and vwap.
Settings
Sessions
Enable Session: Allows to enable or disable all associated elements with a specific user set session.
Session Time: Opening and closing times of the user set session in the hh:mm format.
Range: Highlights the associated session range on the chart.
Ranges Settings
Range Area colour: Set each range to a specific colour.
Range Label: Shows the session label at the mid-point of the session interval.
Usage
By breaking 24hrs in quarters, starting with an Asian range of 18:00 NY time you can visualise the principles of Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution and Rebalance. Know as AMD or PO3 (Power of Three), the principle is that the Manipulation phase will break above or below the Accumulation, before moving in an apposing direction and then rebalancing. This only works when there is a higher timeframe PD array or liquidity to support an apposing move.
Further to the daily quarters, each one can then be broken down again into 90min cycles. Again, each represents AMD, allowing the user an opportunity to watch for reversals during the 90min manipulation phase.
Note: Ensure the Asian Cycle always begins at 18:00 NY time.
The example shows that the 90min cycle occurs, followed by an apposing move away in price action
Here is the Daily cycle, highlighting the Manipulation phase.
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ICT Macros [LuxAlgo]The ICT Macros indicator aims to highlight & classify ICT Macros, which are time intervals where algorithmic trading takes place to interact with existing liquidity or to create new liquidity.
🔶 SETTINGS
🔹 Macros
Macro Time options (such as '09:50 AM 10:10'): Enable specific macro display.
Top Line , Mid Line , Bottom Line and Extending Lines options: Controls the lines for the specific macro.
🔹 Macro Classification
Length : A length to detect Market Structure Brakes and classify macro type based on detection.
Swing Area : Swing or Liquidity Area selection, highest/lowest of the wick or the candle bodies.
Accumulation , Manipulation and Expansion color options for the classified macros.
🔹 Others
Macro Texts : Controls both the size and the visibility of the macro text.
Alert Macro Times in Advance (Minutes) : This option will plot a vertical line presenting the start of the next macro time. The line will not appear all the time, but it will be there based on remaining minutes specified in the option.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) : Adjust time appropriate to Daylight Saving Time of the specific region.
🔶 USAGE
A macro is a way to automate a task or procedure which you perform on a regular basis.
In the context of ICT's teachings, a macro is a small program or set of instructions that unfolds within an algorithm, which influences price movements in the market. These macros operate at specific times and can be related to price runs from one level to another or certain market behaviors during specific time intervals. They help traders anticipate market movements and potential setups during specific time intervals.
To trade these effectively, it is important to understand the time of day when certain macros come into play, and it is strongly advised to introduce the concept of liquidity in your analysis.
Macros can be classified into three categories where the Macro classification is calculated based on the Market Structure prior to macro and the Market Structure during the macro duration:
Manipulation Macro
Manipulation macros are characterized by liquidity being swept both on the buyside and sellside.
Expansion Macro
Expansion macros are characterized by liquidity being swept only on the buyside or sellside. Prices within these macros are highly correlated with the overall trend.
Accumulation Macro
Accumulation macros are characterized by an accumulation of liquidity. Prices within these macros tend to range.
The script returns the maximum/minimum price values reached during the macro interval alongside the average between the maximum/minimum and extends them until a new macro starts. These levels can act as supports and resistances.
🔶 DETAILS
All required data for the macro detection and classification is retrieved using 1 minute data sets, this includes candles as well as pivot/swing highs and lows. This approach guarantees the visually presented objects are same (same highs/lows) on higher timeframes as well as the macro classification remain same as it is in 1 min charts.
8 Macros can be displayed by the script (4 are enabled by default):
02:33 AM 03:00 London Macro
04:03 AM 04:30 London Macro
08:50 AM 09:10 New York Macro
09:50 AM 10:10 New York Macro
10:50 AM 11:10 New York Macro
11:50 AM 12:10 New York Launch Macro
13:10 PM 13:40 New York Macro
15:15 PM 15:45 New York Macro
🔶 ALERTS
When an alert is configured, the user will have the ability to be notified in advance of the next Macro time, where the value specified in 'Alert Macro Times in Advance (Minutes)' option indicates how early to be notified.
🔶 LIMITATIONS
The script is supported on 1 min, 3 mins and 5 mins charts.
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