Range Commander ORB [JOAT]An Opening Range Breakout command center: captures the opening range, projects measured-move targets, and tracks the breakout live.
◆ WHAT IT IS
The opening range — the high and low of the first minutes of a session — is one of the most-watched intraday reference structures. Range Commander captures it automatically, locks it into a clean box, and builds a full breakout and target framework around it. It is a context and structure tool: it maps the range, marks the breaks, and tracks the targets — it does not fire endless buy/sell arrows.
This is 100% original code, written from scratch. It does not reuse any other author's ORB script.
◆ HOW IT WORKS
1. Range capture. During your chosen session window (default 09:30–09:45 New York, fully adjustable with a timezone selector), the indicator records the running high and low into a live box.
2. Lock and project. When the window closes, the range locks. Its height becomes 1R , and the tool projects measured-move target rails at ±0.5R, ±1R and ±1.5R (all configurable), plus the range midline.
3. Breakout logic. A breakout is registered on either a close beyond the range (cleaner) or a wick beyond the range (faster) — your choice. An option stamps only the first break per side per day to keep the chart immaculate. A minimum range-size filter (in ATR) lets you skip dead, low-range opens.
4. Retests and targets. After a break, the first return to the broken edge is marked with a subtle diamond, and each measured-move target is tracked as hit or unhit in the dashboard.
◆ WHAT YOU SEE
• A precision opening-range box with high/low rails and optional midline
• Measured-move target rails at ±0.5R / ±1R / ±1.5R
• Minimal breakout stamps and retest diamonds — no arrow spam
• A resizable command dashboard with breakout status, OR high/low with intact-or-broken state, range height, range-versus-ATR quality (tight / normal / wide), which targets have printed, and retest status
◆ HOW TO USE IT
• Set the session window to match your instrument and desired ORB length (e.g. 0930-1000 for a 30-minute range).
• A wide range vs. ATR often signals a more energetic session; a tight range warns breakouts may be prone to failure.
• Use the ±R target rails as objective, pre-defined profit references and the opposite range edge as a natural invalidation.
• Designed for intraday timeframes . On daily and higher charts the session concept does not apply, and the dashboard will say so.
◆ NOTES & LIMITATIONS
Use on standard candlestick charts and intraday timeframes. Opening-range breakouts fail as well as follow through — the tool maps structure and targets, it is not financial advice and cannot guarantee a break will run. Combine it with your own analysis and risk management.
— made with passion by officialjackofalltrade
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PDH / PDL / ONH / ONL (CST)PDH / PDL / ONH / ONL — Chicago Session Levels
Marks the four key reference levels traders watch each session, calculated in Chicago (CST/CDT) time:
PDH / PDL — the high and low of the previous Regular Trading Hours session (default 08:30–16:00 CT)
ONH / ONL — the high and low of the overnight range, from the prior RTH close to the pre-market cutoff (default 16:00–08:25 CT)
Each level is finalized when its session closes and extends to the right until the next session produces a new one.
Features
Fully customizable session windows and time zone — set it to any market you trade
Independent color, line style (solid/dashed/dotted), and width for each of the four levels
Optional lines anchored at the wick that created the extreme, so you can see exactly which candle produced the level
Vertical session dividers at day start and day end, with their own colors, styles, and history limit
Price labels that follow the right edge of the chart
Option to keep prior days' levels on screen as fixed segments
Built-in alerts for crosses above PDH/ONH and below PDL/ONL
How to use
Apply on an intraday timeframe — 5-minute or lower gives the most accurate overnight extremes. Enable "Extended Trading Hours" in your chart settings so overnight data is available. These levels commonly act as support/resistance, liquidity targets, and breakout reference points at the open.
This indicator is a visualization tool, not a trading signal. Test on your own instruments and timeframes before relying on it. Indicator
Global Sessions IST - High/Low & Range DashboardOverview
Global Sessions IST is a lightweight, clean, and highly customizable session tracking tool designed specifically for traders operating in Indian Standard Time (IST). It dynamically highlights the active market hours for Asia (Tokyo/Hong Kong), London, and New York, helping you identify liquidity sweeps, session ranges, and key intraday turning points without cluttering your price action.
Key Features
IST Native Alignment: Built from the ground up for Indian Standard Time (UTC+5:30), mapping out global session open and close times accurately.
Minimalist Session Boxes: Visualizes session High, Low, and price movement using soft, customizable box fills and subtle border styles.
On-Chart Mini Dashboard: A real-time summary table positioned in the top-right corner that updates each session's:
Session High
Session Low
Total Point Range
DST (Daylight Saving Time) Toggle: Easily adjust London and New York session times by +1 hour with a single setting toggle during summer/winter shifts.
Fully Customizable Visuals: Toggle session boxes, adjust fill opacity, change session colors, or hide the dashboard entirely for a pure price-action view.
How to Use
Identify Session Ranges: Observe how price builds high and low points during the Asian consolidation phase.
Monitor Session Overlaps: Keep an eye on the high-liquidity London–New York overlap (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM IST) for major breakout or reversal trades.
Analyze Range Expansion: Use the mini dashboard to gauge session volatility in points/pip range before entering trades.
Reflective Thought
"What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled."
True market discipline requires awareness when others are asleep. Keep your charts clean, execution sharp, and risk management paramount. Indicator
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Confluence Context - Regime Filter + Market Structure🎯 CONFLUENCE CONTEXT — REGIME FILTER + MARKET STRUCTURE
Your signal tool tells you WHEN. This tells you WHETHER.
Confluence Context — Regime Filter + Market Structure is the companion layer that sits on top of whatever you already trade and answers the one question that wrecks most setups: does the context actually agree? It draws no zones and fires no entries — it reads the environment, scores it, and hands you a single glance-readable verdict. 📊
🔥 WHY IT EXISTS
Most signal tools fire identically in every environment — trending, ranging, dead, or violent. The killer is the clean-looking signal taken in the wrong context: a breakout in a dead session, a continuation against structure, a trend entry while volatility is flatlined. Confluence Context — Regime Filter + Market Structure gates your entry with the four things signal tools love to ignore.
🧩 THE FOUR LAYERS
📐 Market Structure — Swing pivots labeled BOS (Break of Structure, with the trend) and CHoCH (Change of Character, against it), with a running bias: Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral. Confirmed-bar only, capped label history so the chart doesn't clutter.
🌊 Volatility Regime — ATR vs its own moving average, sorting the tape into Low, Normal, or Extreme. This is the regime filter — it tells you whether you're in the environment your strategy was actually built for. Flip on H1 mode to inherit a higher-timeframe regime read from the prior closed 60-min bar, no repaint.
🕐 Session Filter — London / New York / Asia with pair presets (JPY, USD majors, AUD/NZD) or fully custom windows + timezone. Reads the live wall clock, so it flips to "Closed" the moment the market closes instead of freezing on the last in-session bar.
📈 Trend — Price vs a configurable EMA. Simple, and it earns its weight.
These four checks are fused into two weighted tallies instead of shipped as four separate indicators because context only breaks down as a whole — a bullish structure read means nothing if the session is dead and volatility is flat. Splitting them apart would just recreate the blind spot this indicator exists to close.
⚡ HOW THEY STACK (the scoring engine)
Every layer casts a weighted vote into TWO independent tallies — a bull score and a bear score, scored separately so you can actually see when context is fighting itself instead of just being quiet. A fifth slot — External Zone Hit — is a manual toggle (bull and bear separately) you flip the moment YOUR zone or level tool confirms a touch. That's what makes this a companion, not a standalone: it lets your existing setup feed the one input it can't infer.
🎯 THE HIGHLIGHTER
Clear your threshold on the dominant side and the Highlighter collapses both scores into one verdict — Stacked Long, Leaning Long, Balanced, Leaning Short, or Stacked Short. Paint it on the candles, the background, or both. Two candle modes: Verdict Tint paints every bar by net confluence, or BOS/CHoCH Candle paints only the single bar where a structure break confirms, in that event's own label color — a quieter option if you just want structure flips to pop. It confirms context, it doesn't call trades, so it speaks BULLISH / BEARISH, never BUY / SELL.
📋 THE LIVE TABLE
A full breakdown, not just a verdict — all six weighted conditions get their own row with a pass/fail check for both bull and bear, plus ATR, active session, and bias/regime context underneath. An optional oversized headline row sits on top: CONTEXT: BULLISH · Stacked Long · 9 / 2. Six position options, so it never collides with your other panels.
🔔 ALERTS
Structure breaks, all four regime transitions, session opens and full-close, and confluence threshold crosses — all confirmed-bar only. The threshold alerts carry a full payload (symbol, timeframe, direction, score, bias, ATR, session, regime, timestamp) so your webhook or notification has enough context to act on without opening the chart. An optional toggle also alerts when a score drops back below threshold.
🛠️ HOW TO USE IT
Slap it on top of whatever you trade. Tune the EMA, regime multipliers, and session windows to your instrument. Read the verdict off the table or the candle tint — filter your primary signal so you only pull the trigger when context agrees, or let the confluence alert ping you when the dominant side clears threshold.
⏱️ BEST TIMEFRAMES
Built to shine on M15 through H4 — enough structure to mean something, fast enough to act on.
♾️ The whole idea: it stays useful after it's been on your chart for a while.
Repaint policy: structure, regime, and score history evaluate on confirmed bars; the HTF regime read uses a closed-bar offset and doesn't repaint; the session display is live by design and doesn't touch history. Settings are starting points, not advice — tune them to your market and validate before risking capital. Indicator
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Navyraid ToolNavyraid Tool - ICT All-in-One Suite
The Navyraid Tool is a comprehensive, all-in-one indicator designed for traders utilizing Inner Circle Trader (ICT). To prevent chart clutter from overlapping indicators, this tool intelligently consolidates time-based sessions, liquidity levels, price gaps, and SMT divergences into a single, lightweight suite.
Key Features & How It Works:
Smart Auto-DST Sessions: Visually highlights the Asia, London, and New York sessions. It features a built-in dynamic timezone engine that automatically shifts session start/end times based on the active Daylight Saving Time (DST / Non-DST) period. Users can simply toggle between "Forex & Gold Mode" or "Index Mode" to get the mathematically accurate session times without manual monthly adjustments.
Liquidity Levels (PDH/PDL & PWH/PWL): Automatically maps out the Previous Daily High/Low and Previous Weekly High/Low. These lines serve as visual aids for identifying potential draw-on-liquidity targets or purge levels.
True Price Gaps (NWOG & NDOG): Plots the New Week Opening Gap (NWOG) and New Day Opening Gap (NDOG). The indicator actively tracks price interaction; if a candle mitigates and closes outside the gap boundary, it dynamically changes color to represent an "Inverse Gap."
Multi-Timeframe FVG (Fair Value Gaps): Simultaneously displays Higher Timeframe (HTF) and Lower Timeframe (LTF) FVGs on your current chart. Similar to the price gaps, these zones turn into Inverse FVGs (IFVG) upon full mitigation.
Manual SMT Divergence Engine: A strictly manual, linear SMT tracking system. By inputting a correlated comparison symbol (e.g., SP500FT vs NAS100FT, or EURUSD vs GBPUSD), the script calculates and draws structural divergences across Weekly, Daily, and Sessional timeframes.
Why this script?
Most ICT indicators only focus on one concept. The Navyraid Tool integrates all crucial time-and-price theories into one organized dashboard while maintaining high performance through strict historical lookback limiters.
Disclaimer: This indicator is designed solely for educational and structural analysis. It does not generate buy/sell signals. Always use proper risk management. Indicator
Anchor rails - session levels and event countdown [AuraSznfx]Most intraday trading is organized around a handful of scheduled clock times — the London open, the 8:30 and 10:00 data releases, the cash open, the end of the first hour, the 2:00 policy release. This script makes that schedule visible on the chart instead of tracked in your head, and pairs it with the price levels that formed before each one.
There are many scripts that draw session highs and lows. What this one adds is the clock layer on top of them: a countdown to the next scheduled anchor, a phase read-out describing where the current bar sits relative to that anchor, a configurable window marked either side of it, and a running count of how many of the day's tracked levels have already been taken.
WHAT IT DRAWS
Five session ranges: overnight, London, premarket, opening range, and first hour. Each window's start and end time is a session input you can change, so the defaults are a starting point rather than a rule. While a window is open the script tracks its running high and low and shows them as a box. When the window closes, the box is deleted and replaced by two horizontal lines fixed at the final high and low, extended forward a configurable number of bars.
Yesterday's high, low and close, pulled from the daily timeframe with lookahead disabled. An optional midpoint is available.
HOW THE LEVEL-TAKEN LOGIC WORKS
Once a range is locked, each of its two lines is watched independently. The high is marked taken the first time a bar's high exceeds it. The low is marked taken the first time a bar's low falls below it. Detection is one-way and permanent for the session — a level does not un-take itself if price returns.
When a level is taken you can have it dim to a configurable transparency, dim and switch its label to a marked state, or delete outright. That choice is a style preference; the underlying state is tracked the same way regardless.
Note the deliberate limitation: detection uses the bar's high and low, so on a live bar a level can register as taken and then the bar can close back inside the range. If you want confirmed-close behavior instead, use a higher timeframe or wait for the bar to close before acting on the alert.
HOW THE ANCHOR CLOCK WORKS
You enable whichever of the nine preset times you care about, plus one custom hour and minute of your own. Every one is read in the timezone you select at the top of the settings.
On each bar the script builds a timestamp for every enabled anchor on the current date, then finds the nearest one ahead of the current bar close and the nearest one behind it. From those two distances it produces four outputs in the panel:
Time to the next anchor, formatted as a countdown.
A progress bar filling over the final 30 minutes before it.
A phase label, resolved in this priority order: inside the post-anchor window, within 15 minutes after, inside the pre-anchor window, inside 10 minutes, inside 30 minutes, otherwise standby.
A taken count out of the ten tracked level lines.
If every enabled anchor for the day has passed, the countdown rolls to the earliest one on the following day.
The event window is the pre and post minute values you set. When the current bar falls inside it, the chart is optionally tinted, and an alert can fire once as it begins. Nothing about this window predicts direction. It marks that a scheduled release is close, which is information you would otherwise be checking a calendar for.
HOW TO USE IT
Set your timezone first; everything else reads from it. Adjust the five session windows to the instrument you trade — the defaults are built around US index futures on New York time and will not suit an FX or crypto session structure without changes. Then switch off the anchor times that aren't relevant to your market.
The levels show where price has already been tested. The clock shows when the next scheduled event arrives. What you do with either is your decision — this script issues no buy or sell signals and takes no view on direction.
ALERTS
Two alert condition entries are provided, for any level taken and for the event window opening, usable from the standard alert dialog. Individual per-level alerts fire through the alert() function on bar close. Payloads can be sent as plain text or as structured JSON for webhook use, toggled in the settings.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
Written in Pine v6.
Locked levels do not repaint. A range only becomes lines after its window has closed, and those values never change afterward.
The daily request uses lookahead_off. No future data is accessed anywhere in the script.
The phase labels describe clock position only. They are not signals and carry no expectation of what price will do.
The script has no view on direction and produces no entry or exit signals. It is a context tool.
On very low timeframes the drawing limits of 500 lines, boxes and labels can be reached over a long history. Reduce the extend-right value or switch off sessions you do not need. Indicator
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Time-of-Day/Session Performance Stats [QuantAlgo]🟢 Overview
The Time-of-Day/Session Performance Stats is a comprehensive time-based analysis tool built for traders who want clear, ranked insight into when markets actually move. It measures average range, volume, bullish bias, and drift across every hour of the day and the four major sessions, then surfaces the strongest and weakest windows so you can focus activity where the data supports it. Whether you trade crypto around the clock or equity and forex sessions on a weekday schedule, the indicator turns raw historical bars into practical rankings, session comparisons, and non-repainting chart overlays.
🟢 What is Time-of-Day and Session Performance?
Markets are not uniform across the 24-hour cycle. Liquidity, volatility, and participation concentrate in specific hours and sessions. Sydney is typically the thinnest of the four major centers, Tokyo drives Asian activity, London often produces the widest ranges of the day, and the London-New York overlap is usually the busiest window. By averaging range, volume, the share of up closes, and net drift for each hour and each session over a configurable lookback, this tool converts those recurring patterns into ranked statistics instead of leaving you to rely on memory or anecdotal observation.
🟢 How It Works
The indicator walks a configurable window of past bars (limited by lookback days and a hard max-bar ceiling) in the timezone you select. Every usable bar is assigned to its hour of day and to any sessions it falls inside. Range can be measured in percent of close or in raw price units. Volume, directional closes, and drift are accumulated in parallel. Hours that do not meet a minimum bar-count threshold are dropped from every ranking so tiny samples cannot distort the boards.
Five ranking boards are produced: Activity (average range), Volume (when the symbol reports it), Bias (percentage of directional bars that closed higher), Drift (mean close-minus-open percentage), and Aggregated (the mean percentile of range, volume, and directional edge). Sessions are ranked solely on average range per bar and can be toggled or given custom windows. Overlaps count toward every session involved rather than being forced into one.
Chart overlays read a trailing window of the same length rather than the final ranking, so background shading and bar coloring never repaint. The Focus Hours panel converts the Aggregated ranking into three practical allocation plans plus the single quietest hour to avoid.
🟢 Key Features
▶ Ranking Boards
Five independent boards list every qualifying hour from strongest to weakest.
1. Activity Ranking: Orders hours by average bar range. Rank 1 is the hour with the most room; the last row is the quietest. This is the simplest and often most useful single board.
2. Volume Ranking: Orders hours by average volume. Read it alongside Activity. High range on low volume signals thin participation. The board is hidden automatically on symbols that report no volume.
3. Bias Ranking: Orders hours by the percentage of directional bars that closed above their open. Flat bars are excluded, so the figure reflects only bars that actually moved. There is no separate bearish column; the bottom of the board is the most bearish reading.
4. Drift Ranking: Orders hours by mean percentage change from open to close. An hour can post a high bull rate yet still show negative drift if its losing bars are larger than its winning ones. Divergences between Bias and Drift are often the most interesting signals.
5. Aggregated Ranking: Combines percentile ranks of range, volume (when present), and directional edge into a single composite score. This is the ranking that feeds both the Focus Hours panel and the Aggregated overlay option.
▶ Session Ranking Panel
The four major sessions are ranked by average range per bar and displayed with their window, bull rate, drift, and bar count. Rank 1 takes the bullish color and the last rank takes the bearish color on the same continuous gradient used by the boards. Because a bar inside an overlap is counted toward every session it belongs to, session bar totals can exceed the overall sample size.
▶ Focus Hours Panel
The Aggregated ranking is translated into four labeled plans: Aggressive (top hour only), Mix (top two with 80/20 weights), Conservative (top three with 50/30/20 weights), and Avoid (the single quietest hour by average range). Each row shows the relevant hours, their session affiliation, bull rate, drift, and score so the reading can be acted on immediately.
▶ Chart Overlay
Background shading and price-bar coloring can be driven independently by Session Ranking, Activity Ranking, Volume Ranking, Bias Ranking, Drift Ranking, Aggregated Ranking, or Focus Hours. All overlays are computed from a trailing window so they never repaint. Transparency controls let you keep the ranking obvious or keep it subtle enough not to compete with price.
▶ Session and Filter Controls
Sydney, Tokyo, London, and New York can each be enabled or disabled and given custom HHMM-HHMM windows in the selected timezone. A weekdays-only filter removes weekend bars for forex, futures, and equities while leaving crypto fully intact. The Bars To Include setting can restrict the entire study to all bars, any enabled session, or one named session.
▶ Built-in Alerts
Ready-made alert conditions fire when price enters the peak activity hour, the quietest hour, the peak volume hour, the most bullish or most bearish hour, or the top Aggregated hour. Separate alerts cover the open and close of each individual session, any session start or end, and the start and end of the London-New York overlap.
▶ Color Presets
Six presets (Classic, Aqua, Cosmic, Cyber, Neon, Custom) apply a continuous gradient from the bullish color at rank 1 to the bearish color at the last rank across every board, panel, and overlay. Custom mode exposes individual bullish and bearish color pickers; text contrast is calculated automatically so any chosen colors remain readable.
▶ Interval Warning
When the chart interval is higher than 1 hour, most of the 24 hour buckets never receive a bar, leaving the rankings incomplete. The indicator displays a clear warning label on the chart that explains the limitation and recommends switching to 5m, 15m, 30m, or 1h, for example. The warning can be turned off once the restriction is understood and a clean chart is preferred.
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Opening Range Breakout Engine - Session Range SignalsaDESCRIPTION:
RANGE BREAKOUT PRO is a complete range-breakout trading engine: it detects tradeable ranges from confirmed swing pivots, fires BUY and SELL signals when price breaks out in the direction of the trend, and then manages every trade on the chart with entry, stop loss, take profit, break-even and trailing logic - all fully visualized and fully automatable via webhook alerts.
HOW THE ENGINE WORKS
1. RANGE DETECTION - Confirmed swing highs and swing lows (pivot length configurable) become the active RANGE HIGH and RANGE LOW. Each extreme is marked on the chart with a dot and a vertical marker line. A range must be wide enough (minimum height in ATR) and fresh enough (maximum age in bars) to be tradeable - micro-ranges and stale levels are skipped automatically.
2. BREAKOUT SIGNAL - A signal fires only when a candle CLOSES beyond the range extreme plus an ATR buffer (no wick fake-outs), the gradient trend ribbon points in the breakout direction, the trend strength score clears your Buy/Sell Strength threshold, the breakout is not overextended (max distance from the ribbon in ATR - no chasing exhausted moves), and an optional cooldown after a losing trade has expired. Optional MTF Agreement requires the 15-minute trend to confirm.
3. TRADE MANAGEMENT - Every signal is managed like a real trade, live on the chart:
- TP1 (partial target) banks the win early and moves the stop to break-even
- the remainder runs to the full R-multiple take profit or a chandelier trail
- green TP box and red SL box grow bar by bar from the entry, exactly like a position tool
- price tags at the right edge show Entry, Stop Loss, Take Profit and live Profit/Loss %
- every closed trade is marked with a tick (win), circle (break-even) or cross (loss)
4. TWO TRADE MODES - "TP/SL Mode" (fixed targets, split TP1 + runner) or "Trailing Mode" (no fixed target, the trail line is the moving stop).
THE COCKPIT PANEL
- MARKET OVERVIEW: multi-timeframe trend dashboard - live trend strength meters for the chart timeframe, 15m, 1H, 4H and 1D
- SIGNAL SETUP: entry system, MTF agreement, current signal (Long / Flat / Short), Buy/Sell strength thresholds, trend filter state, trade mode, active Take Profit and Stop Loss levels
- PERFORMANCE: asset, exchange, timeframe, total trades and live win rate calculated from every signal on the chart history - no cherry picking, the counter runs over everything the engine fired
Win rate accounting is transparent: a trade counts as WIN when TP1 is banked, as LOSS when the initial stop is hit first, and break-even exits are tracked separately - the same split-target accounting professional scalpers use.
WHY-EXPLANATIONS ON THE CHART
Every BUY/SELL pill carries a tooltip that explains WHY the signal fired: which range level broke, the trend strength at the trigger, entry, stop and target prices. Range dots explain the level they mark. Nothing is a black box.
WEBHOOK AUTOMATION
Create one alert with condition "Any alert() function call" and paste your webhook URL. The indicator sends ready-to-use JSON for every event: BUY, SELL, TP_HIT, SL_HIT, TRAIL_EXIT, BE_EXIT - including symbol, price, stop, target, trade mode, win rate and timeframe. Connect it to any bridge or bot and the strategy runs hands-free.
WORKS ON
Any symbol and timeframe: indices (NASDAQ, S&P, DAX), gold and forex, crypto, stocks. Scalping on 1-5 minute charts, day trading on 15m-1H, swing trading on 4H-Daily. Defaults are tuned for intraday breakout scalping.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is a technical analysis tool, not financial advice. Past win rates do not guarantee future results. Always test on a demo account first and manage your risk.
WHY THESE PARTS BELONG TOGETHER
An opening range on its own produces a break in both directions on most days. The session filter
and the range-quality measurement exist to decide which of those breaks is tradeable: the session
defines when the range is allowed to form, and the quality measurement rejects ranges that are too
wide or too thin to hold. The breakout level is only meaningful once both have passed.
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Daily Range Exhaustion - ADR Probability MapAn intraday trader spends the whole session asking one question without ever measuring it: is there still room left in this move, or is the day already finished. Daily Range Exhaustion measures it.
The script records the completed range of every past day on the symbol you have open, and uses that sample to answer four things about the day in progress.
HOW MUCH OF THE DAY IS SPENT
Today's range is compared against the average daily range of the last 5, 10 or 20 days. The panel shows the result as a percentage. At 40 percent the day still has room in either direction. At 110 percent the day has already delivered more than an ordinary day and every further extension is, statistically, an outlier rather than the base case. The chart background tints once 100 percent is passed.
WHERE A FULL DAY COULD STILL REACH
Two levels are drawn:
Upside projection, today's low plus the average daily range. This is the highest point a statistically ordinary day could still print without becoming unusual.
Downside projection, today's high minus the average daily range.
Both compress as the session develops. Early in the day they sit far apart. By the afternoon they have squeezed toward price, and the distance left to each one is exactly the room the day has left. The shaded areas between price and each projection are that remaining room, made visible.
THE ODDS OF EXTENDING ANYWAY
Ranges are not a hard ceiling, so the panel reports how often the ceiling actually broke. Three lines show the share of past days whose range exceeded 100, 125 and 150 percent of the current average. On most liquid instruments roughly a quarter to a third of days exceed 100 percent, but far fewer reach 150 percent. Those numbers are the honest context for the exhaustion reading: they tell you whether a stretched day is rare or routine on this particular symbol.
WEEKDAY BREAKDOWN
A single average across all days hides a real effect. Many instruments have a quiet Monday and a violent Thursday, and judging Monday against a blended average will make it look exhausted when it is behaving normally. The panel breaks the sample down by weekday, shows the average range of each one, and expresses it as a percentage of the overall average. Today's weekday is highlighted.
HOW TO USE IT
As a filter on entries. Taking a fresh breakout when the day has already spent 120 percent of its average range is a different trade from taking the same breakout at 45 percent. The setup may be identical, the room available is not.
As target context. If the upside projection is 12 points away and your target is 30 points, the day would have to become a statistical outlier for that target to fill.
As mean reversion context. A day that hits the projection level and stalls has, by definition, reached the edge of its usual distribution.
As session planning. Check the weekday row before the session opens to know whether to expect a wide day or a narrow one.
NOTES ON THE DATA
The sample is built from the chart itself, so it needs history loaded. The panel shows a Building sample message and stays hidden until the minimum day count is reached, rather than showing statistics based on six observations.
Only intraday timeframes are supported. On a daily chart or higher the concept has no meaning, and the panel says so instead of printing misleading numbers.
Older days are dropped once the sample cap is reached, so the statistics follow the current volatility regime instead of averaging in a market from two years ago.
Days are bounded by the exchange session of the symbol. On instruments that trade nearly around the clock the day boundary is a convention, not a natural break, which slightly inflates the ranges of days that straddle a rollover.
WHAT IT IS NOT
There are no entry or exit signals here, and none are planned. This is context. A completed range is not a reversal signal, and an unfinished range is not a reason to expect continuation. Trends routinely spend two or three average ranges in a session, which is precisely why the extension odds are shown rather than hidden.
This is an analysis tool, not financial advice. Past distributions do not guarantee future ones. Use it alongside your own risk management and position sizing. Indicator
Session Range Completion ClockThis indicator measures WHEN, inside a chosen intraday session, that session's range is actually
built. It answers a question that session tools normally skip: by a given time of day, how much of
the day's eventual range is typically already spent, and has the extreme that will define the day
usually already printed?
It draws no levels, marks nothing on price, and produces no signals. It is a measurement
instrument that reports descriptive statistics over the sessions in your loaded history.
THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE
A session's range is not built at a constant rate, and how it is built differs by symbol, by
session and by contract. The script assumes nothing about the shape - it measures it on whatever
instrument and window you point it at.
"How much range is left" and "is the extreme already in" are two different statistics, and the
script keeps them separate. For every completed session in the loaded history it records the
running high and low at the end of each time bucket, then waits for the session to close so the
FINAL range is known. It then attributes, for each bucket:
- the fraction of the final range that had been traversed by the end of that bucket;
- whether the session's high had already been made at or before that bucket;
- whether the session's low had already been made;
- whether both were already in place, meaning the range was finished and everything afterwards
happened inside it;
- the traversed range expressed in units of daily ATR or of the previous day's range, which makes
the figure comparable across volatility regimes.
These are accumulated across sessions and reported as means and frequencies.
HOW TO READ THE TABLE
The table is drawn once, on the last bar of the chart. Each row is a point in time, labelled with
the clock time at the end of that bucket.
"n" is the number of sessions contributing to that row. "Range built" is the mean percentage of
the session's final range already traversed. "High set" and "Low set" are the percentage of
sessions in which that extreme was already established. "Both set" is the percentage of sessions
in which the entire range was already complete; that column is shaded by value. "Range/unit" is
the mean range so far in the normalization unit selected in the inputs, which is named in the
bottom-right cell.
If the session contains more buckets than the row limit, buckets are sampled at an even stride so
the table still ends on the session's final bucket.
The pane also plots two lines during a live session: the current session's range so far, and the
mean range so far of all prior qualifying sessions at the same point in the session, both in the
same unit. That is a like-for-like comparison at equal elapsed session time. It is not a
projection and the script does not extend either line forward.
On a daily or higher chart the table prints a message instead of statistics: the whole measurement
is defined on intraday bars and there is nothing to compute.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
It does not predict where price will go, does not identify breakouts, and does not mark levels. A
high "Both set" figure at a given time means only that historically, on this symbol and this
session, the range was usually already complete by then. It is a frequency over past sessions, not
a statement about today, and nothing in the script says whether acting on it would be a good idea.
METHOD, AND WHY IT DOES NOT REPAINT
A session is folded into the statistics only after it has closed, so the session in progress never
contributes to its own statistics.
Historical values are never recalculated. The statistics accumulate forward in time, which means
the historical-mean line on early bars was computed from a smaller sample than the same line on
recent bars. That is deliberate; the alternative would be a curve that silently rewrites its own
past.
The daily normalization unit comes from a single bundled request on the daily timeframe. The
requested expression is offset by one bar and the request uses lookahead, which is the pair the
Pine Script documentation specifies for confirmed higher-timeframe values: the offset discards the
daily bar that is still forming and returns the one before it, which was already final. Historical
and realtime bars therefore receive the same value. This matters more here than it looks, because
the unit is latched once at session start and then used for that whole session - a unit that
differed between live and reloaded charts would give a session two different "Range/unit" figures
depending on when you looked at it.
Time buckets are anchored to the declared session start time rather than to the first bar
observed. This keeps the time-of-day axis stable on illiquid symbols, on sessions that run through
midnight, and on continuous 24-hour sessions where there is no gap between sessions to detect. A
session string containing more than one range, such as 0900-1130,1230-1500, is treated as a single
window running from the first start to the last end; buckets falling inside the break carry the
pre-break state forward, which is what you want, because the range does not reset over lunch. An
optional day mask such as 0930-1600:23456 is respected.
SETTINGS
Session and Session time zone define the window. Use the exchange's own time zone so buckets stay
aligned across daylight-saving changes.
Bucket size should be a multiple of the chart timeframe. A bucket narrower than the chart
timeframe contains no bars of its own and simply carries the previous bucket's state forward.
Minimum session completeness excludes half-days, early closes and partially loaded history, which
would otherwise depress the late-session figures. Lower it if a market you are studying
legitimately has short sessions.
Normalise range by chooses between daily ATR and the previous day's range. ATR is smoother; the
previous day's range reacts faster.
ORIGINALITY
The session and time-of-day category on this platform is overwhelmingly made of level-drawing
tools: opening-range boxes, session high/low lines, session shading. Those draw where. Very little
published measures when, and the two are different objects - this script plots nothing on price at
all.
There is a small existing family of scripts that chart the distribution of the hour at which the
daily high or low prints, and the "High set" and "Low set" columns overlap with that idea. This is
not a reskin of any of them: the accumulator here is cumulative by elapsed session time rather
than a histogram of one timestamp, it is folded only on session close, it is keyed to a
user-supplied session string with mid-session-break handling and a day mask, and it is combined
with final-range-fraction and volatility normalization. No code is borrowed from any published
script.
LIMITATIONS
Requires an intraday chart timeframe.
The sample is whatever history the chart has loaded, which on lower timeframes may be only a few
hundred sessions - check "n" before reading anything into a row.
Results are sensitive to the chart timeframe, because the exact bar on which an extreme prints is
resolution-dependent. Coarser timeframes will place extremes in later buckets than they truly
occurred.
The "Range/unit" column can be based on a smaller sample than the percentage columns, because the
earliest sessions in the loaded history have no completed daily bar to normalize against and are
skipped for that column only.
Sessions spanning a daylight-saving transition can be misattributed by one hour for a single day.
On non-standard chart types - Heikin Ashi, Renko, Kagi, Point and Figure, Range - the highs and
lows are synthetic, so the statistics describe the synthetic series rather than traded prices.
The statistics describe the loaded history only and carry no assumption that the distribution is
stable over time.
Source is open and commented. Indicator
Intraday Price Path Signature - London New York Tokyo WindowsOverview
Intraday Price Path Signature is a time-window price-action study for traders who want to examine how price movement develops inside selected intraday focus periods, including windows commonly monitored around the Tokyo/Asia, London and New York opens.
A conventional session highlighter mainly answers when a regional session is active. This indicator addresses a different question: how was price travel distributed and directed inside the selected window?
Each enabled window is divided into four equal clock-time phases, P1 through P4. The script measures the amount, direction and efficiency of price travel in each phase, classifies the completed sequence, and compares its phase concentration with prior occurrences of the same named window.
The result is a compact price-path signature rather than a broad session background, a set of session levels, or a buy/sell signal. It can be used to research London, New York, Tokyo/Asia or custom focus windows sometimes described by traders as kill zones, without assuming that any time window guarantees a particular outcome.
What makes this different
Most session tools focus on time identification through background shading, open/close markers, session ranges or active-session status. This script focuses on the internal formation of price movement inside a narrower research window.
Its main analytical differences are:
- Four-phase decomposition of every enabled window.
- True-range-style gross price travel that includes gaps between consecutive sampled bars.
- Directional-efficiency filtering so a phase is not called upward or downward merely because it finishes slightly above or below its start.
- A deterministic completed-window classification based on path efficiency, direction alignment, phase concentration and direction changes.
- Independent rolling comparisons for each named window and each matching phase.
- A completed phase strip that states the full P1-P4 sequence directly on the chart.
- A fixed panel that keeps live analytical context away from the candle area.
Core calculation
For each bar inside a focus window, gross bar travel is calculated as:
Gross bar travel = max(high - low, abs(high - previous sampled close), abs(low - previous sampled close))
The first sampled bar uses its own high-low range. This is a bar-based, true-range-style approximation of movement. It includes gaps, but it does not reconstruct the exact tick-by-tick path inside a candle.
The accumulated travel is divided among four equal clock-time phases:
Phase share = phase gross travel / completed-window gross travel
A phase share identifies which quarter of the configured time window contained the greatest portion of measured price travel. It is not a volume measure.
Phase direction is filtered by directional efficiency:
Phase directional efficiency = abs(phase close - phase open) / phase gross travel
When efficiency reaches the configurable threshold, the phase is classified as upward or downward according to its net displacement. When it does not, the phase is classified as rotational. This distinguishes an efficient directional move from a phase that travels extensively but finishes near its starting point.
The completed window also receives a path-efficiency value:
Window path efficiency = abs(window close - window open) / completed-window gross travel
Completed path classifications
A completed window is assigned one descriptive classification. When more than one condition is true, the first matching classification in the following priority order is used:
- Persistent rise or Persistent fall: sufficient window path efficiency and enough phase travel aligned with the completed direction.
- Rotational path: the phase sequence contains the configured number of directional changes and does not qualify as persistent.
- Front-loaded rise or Front-loaded fall: the first two phases contain the configured share of total travel.
- Late acceleration up or Late acceleration down: the final two phases contain the configured share of total travel.
- Phase concentration: one phase contains the configured dominant share of total travel.
- Evenly distributed: the difference between the largest and smallest phase shares remains within the configured tolerance.
- Mixed path: no earlier classification is satisfied.
These labels describe the completed structure under the selected thresholds. They are not forecasts, probabilities or trade recommendations.
Reading the completed phase strip
The default chart annotation is a two-line phase strip for each completed focus window. An example is:
● ASIA P1↑ P2↔ P3↓ P4↑
Front-loaded rise · Peak P2 35.8%
The first line shows the phase sequence:
- P1 through P4 identify the four equal clock-time phases.
- ↑ means the phase completed with sufficient upward directional efficiency.
- ↓ means the phase completed with sufficient downward directional efficiency.
- ↔ means the phase was rotational or did not meet the directional-efficiency threshold.
- · means the phase was not sufficiently observed.
The second line states the completed path classification and identifies the phase containing the largest share of gross price travel. The strip color identifies the configured window. By default, Asia is cyan, London is amber and New York is pink.
Completed strips are anchored to the final bar of their own window and rendered in front of the price chart. Their bodies extend to the left of the anchor so later bars to the right are less likely to pass underneath a historical strip.
The default Auto opposite close placement puts an upward-closing window below its protected price envelope and a downward-closing window above it. Automatic clearance considers the completed-window range, twelve preceding bars, opening and closing gaps, sampled internal gaps, the first bar after completion, local bar range, ATR and a small window-specific lane offset.
This system is designed to reduce candle overlap during normal chart use, including gap conditions. Because labels have a fixed screen-space size while chart scale and zoom remain user-controlled, extreme chart compression can still change the apparent distance between a label and nearby bars. Additional clearance is available in the settings.
Reading the fixed panel
The default bottom-left panel displays only enabled windows and keeps live detail away from the candles.
FOCUS shows the window icon, short code and configured local hours.
STATUS shows whether the window is live, closed or waiting. A live row also shows current completion progress.
PATH identifies the current phase and developing direction sequence while a window is live. After completion, it shows the most recent path classification.
PULSE shows four activity blocks representing the relative gross-price-travel share of P1 through P4. Taller block characters indicate a larger share. PULSE is a price-travel distribution, not volume or order flow.
CTX shows the developing price range during a live window. After completion, it shows the peak phase, its share and, when available, its empirical percentile. A diamond followed by a number is the percentile rank of that peak phase against the same phase of earlier occurrences of the same named window.
Independent historical comparison
Asia P1 is compared only with earlier Asia P1 observations. London P3 is compared only with earlier London P3 observations. New York, London Close and Custom maintain their own independent histories. Data from different named windows or different phase positions is not mixed.
The default rolling baseline contains 24 eligible completed windows and requires at least six prior samples before displaying percentiles. The current completed observation is ranked before it is added to its own history, so it does not inflate its own percentile. Tied values use a mid-rank treatment.
These percentiles are descriptive empirical ranks from the available rolling sample. They are not probabilities of future direction, continuation or reversal.
The following observations are excluded from the rolling baseline:
- A window first encountered after its configured start time because chart history began partway through it.
- A completed window with fewer than the required number of observed phases.
- A window with no measurable gross price travel.
- A window sampled on a chart environment that does not meet the selected timeframe or chart-type requirements.
Default focus windows
Asia Open: 09:00-10:00, Asia/Tokyo, enabled.
London Open: 08:00-10:00, Europe/London, enabled.
New York Open: 09:30-11:00, America/New_York, enabled.
London Close: 15:00-16:30, Europe/London, disabled by default.
Custom Focus: 12:00-13:00, Etc/UTC, disabled by default.
The default day mask is Monday through Friday. Each window has its own IANA timezone, so London and New York follow their selected local daylight-saving rules. These times are configurable research references, not universal exchange, broker or instrument schedules.
Display modes and customization
Phase strip is the publication default. It shows completed phase strips and the fixed panel without broad session shading.
Phase strip + adaptive lens adds a very light live background lens whose hue and transparency respond to the current phase direction and concentration.
Research detail enables optional legacy pulse blocks, block captions and larger research summaries.
Panel only removes bar-anchored chart annotations and leaves the fixed panel.
Users can adjust window names, codes, icons, hours, days, timezones, colors, panel placement, strip clearance, retention limits, analytical thresholds, historical lookback, minimum sample count, visual modes and alerts.
Suggested use
This indicator is intended for intraday research. Five-minute charts generally provide the clearest balance between phase detail and readability. The default maximum timeframe is 15 minutes and can be changed by the user.
Possible research questions include:
- Did most movement occur early or late in the selected window?
- Was the path persistent, rotational, evenly distributed or dominated by one phase?
- Did the largest phase have an ordinary or unusual share relative to recent matching windows?
- Do different instruments show different path signatures around the same local open?
- Does a custom focus period behave differently from the standard Asia, London or New York defaults?
The study can be applied to liquid intraday markets where time-of-day behavior is relevant, including FX, index products, futures, equities and cryptocurrencies. Users should adapt the configured times to the instrument and data feed being studied.
Alerts
Optional informational alerts are available for focus-window start, focus-window completion and unusually high phase concentration relative to the selected historical percentile threshold. Alerts describe an observed state. They are not entry or exit signals.
Limitations and data behavior
- The calculation uses chart bars, not tick data, and cannot reconstruct the exact intrabar route taken by price.
- PULSE measures price travel, not traded volume, liquidity or order flow.
- Historical percentiles depend on the amount and quality of chart history currently available.
- Missing bars, illiquid periods and data-feed differences can change phase sampling.
- Holidays, early closes, exchange-specific breaks and broker-specific schedules are not detected automatically.
- Live panel values develop as new bars arrive and are not final until the window completes.
- Completed phase strips are created from information available when the window ends. The script does not use future bars or lookahead data.
- No higher-timeframe price request is used; calculations are based on the current chart bars and configured local times.
- A standard chart type is required by default. Transformed chart types can alter measured paths and are therefore disabled unless the user overrides the requirement.
- Classification results depend on the selected thresholds. Changing inputs recalculates historical results under the new configuration.
- Automatic label clearance reduces overlap but cannot control every possible screen layout, zoom level or manual chart-scale compression.
What this indicator does not do
- It does not generate buy or sell signals.
- It does not provide entries, exits, targets, stops or position sizing.
- It does not predict the next phase or the next session.
- It does not claim a win rate, accuracy rate or profitability improvement.
- It is not a strategy or a backtest system.
- It is not financial advice.
Use the output as descriptive context alongside independent analysis and risk management. Indicator
Session Range BoxSession Range Box
A universal tool that draws the range of a chosen session as a box. The trader
sets the conditions: the session, the timezone, and the window. The borders are
built from the session highs and lows - an area of potential liquidity, since
resting orders tend to build up above the highs and below the lows.
This is a tool, not a signal system. It gives a clean, non-repainting map of the
range. How to use it is up to the trader's own strategy.
How It Works
1. Accumulation window. The trader sets the session time in their own timezone.
The highest high and the lowest low inside this window become the box borders.
2. Freeze. Once the window closes, the borders are locked and never repaint.
What you see on history is what actually happened at that moment.
3. Extend. The frozen box is stretched to the right until the end of the day, so
you can watch price test the borders after the session. A new day starts a new box.
What It Pairs With
Smart Money logic and the accumulation - manipulation - distribution model. The box
shows where potential liquidity sits; the trader applies their own scenario on top.
Applications
- Trading the Asian range
- Trading the European and US range
- First-hour range
- Mean reversion (from the box midline)
Settings
- Timezone: city entries (which adjust automatically for daylight saving) or fixed
UTC offsets (to match a broker's server time).
- Accumulation window: any length, from one hour to a full session.
- Extend box to end of day: on/off.
- Style: color, fill, borders, midline, label.
To show several sessions at once (Asia + Europe + US), add the indicator to the
chart more than once with different settings.
Notes
- Recommended timeframe: M1 to H1, depending on the strategy.
- Time is based on the selected timezone; city entries adjust for daylight saving,
fixed offsets do not. Indicator
STRX - Session Range TrapsSTRX - Session Range Traps is a session-based market structure tool designed to map the main intraday sessions (Asia, Frankfurt, London, New York), measure their ranges, and highlight potential liquidity traps around those ranges.
The goal is not to provide automatic entry signals, but to help traders read intraday structure, liquidity pools, and potential manipulation zones more clearly.
How it works
For each configured session, the script:
draws a box from session high to session low, displaying the live range in points;
optionally plots a 50% midline to show the session’s equilibrium;
extends the session range into a defined “hunting” window, where price interaction with the box is monitored.
During the extension window:
When price trades above the session high and then closes back below it, the script flags a potential bearish liquidity trap.
When price trades below the session low and then closes back above it, the script flags a potential bullish liquidity trap.
A compact on-chart dashboard summarizes for each session: current status (ACTIVE / HUNT / DONE), range size and whether price is trading above, below or inside the session range.
Inputs and customization
Session times for Asia, Frankfurt, London and New York are fully configurable so you can adapt them to your broker feed, timezone or instrument (FX, indices, crypto, etc.).
Midlines, trap detection and the dashboard can be individually toggled on/off to match your workflow.
Colors and label sizes are customizable to keep the indicator readable on both light and dark chart themes.
How to use it
Treat the “TRAP” labels as context around liquidity and failed breakouts, not as standalone buy/sell signals.
Combine this tool with your own price action, HTF levels, order-flow or risk management rules.
Always validate the session times for your market and adjust them if necessary.
Limitations & disclaimer
The script does not account for specific exchange holidays or instrument-specific trading halts.
All logic is derived from price behaviour around session highs and lows only.
This script is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice or a guarantee of performance.
You are fully responsible for any trading decisions you make when using this tool.
Indicator
EU & US Open Levels (session trading)## Overview
The **EU & US Open Levels (Session Trading)** indicator is designed for intraday and intraweekly session traders (SMC, ICT, and Price Action users) who rely on key session opening prices to determine market bias, session expansion, and institutional liquidity pools.
By plotting the exact opening price of both the European (EU) and United States (US) sessions and dynamically shading the expansion zone relative to price action, this tool simplifies session context at a glance.
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## Key Features
- **Session Open Benchmarks:** Automatically plots static reference lines for both EU Open and US Open hours.
- **Dynamic Session Shading:**
- **EU Phase (Blue Zone):** Colors the area between the EU Open price and current price action from the start of the EU session until the US session opens.
- **US Phase (Red Zone):** Colors the expansion zone from the US session open through the remainder of the trading day.
- **Fully Customizable Inputs:** Users can easily adjust session open hours (in UTC) and visual preferences (colors and transparency) via the indicator settings.
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## How to Use & Trading Applications
### 1. Daily Bias & Valuation
The opening price of a session acts as a benchmark anchor:
- **Above Session Open:** Price is considered at a *Premium* (potential sell/short territory in a bearish environment).
- **Below Session Open:** Price is considered at a *Discount* (potential buy/long territory in a bullish environment).
### 2. Session Expansion & Volatility Tracking
The vertical depth of the shaded zones provides an immediate visual measurement of session expansion:
- **Narrow Zones:** Indicate low volatility or tight consolidation, often preceding an explosive breakout in the following session.
- **Deep Zones:** Highlight strong, directional trending momentum within that specific session.
### 3. Session Sweep & Liquidity Targets
The EU Open level frequently acts as a liquidity magnet during the US session. Traders can look for rejections, re-tests, or liquidity sweeps around the EU Open price when framing high-probability intraday trade setups.
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## Indicator Inputs
- **EU Session Open Hour (UTC):** Set the specific hour (0–23 UTC) for the European open (Default: `2`).
- **US Session Open Hour (UTC):** Set the specific hour (0–23 UTC) for the US open (Default: `8`).
- **EU background color:** Customize the background fill color and transparency for the EU session phase.
- **US background color** Customize the background fill color and transparency for the US session phase.
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*Note: This indicator is designed for intraday timeframes (e.g., 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h) to provide precise visual context during active session hours.* Indicator
Sesh FlowSessionFlow (Sesh Flow)
Summary
Previous-session highs/lows, session boxes, and two kill zones per session (London, New York, Asian) in one shared, configurable timezone — the time-of-day context layer for ICT/SMC traders.
Description
SessionFlow draws the previous trading session's high, low, and bounding box on your chart for three sessions — London, New York, and Asian — plus two toggleable kill zones per session (open and close). Everything operates in a single user-configurable timezone so the session map matches your trading day, not the exchange's.
It is built for ICT / Smart Money Concepts traders who plan the day around where liquidity rested overnight and during the prior session — and who need the chart's session context unambiguous at a glance before evaluating any setup.
Features
Three sessions, one shared timezone. London (07:00-16:00), New York (12:00-21:00), Asian (00:00-09:00) by default at UTC-5. Switch the timezone dropdown (UTC+0 / UTC-5 / UTC-4 / UTC+1 / UTC+9) and every session and kill-zone window shifts together.
Previous-session highs & lows. Two horizontal lines per session (high and low) drawn from the just-finished session, each labeled "London High" / "London Low", color-coded per session (London blue, NY orange, Asian teal).
Session boxes. Optional shaded background box over the previous session's full start-to-end range at 92% transparent fill, so you can see the session's range at a glance without cluttering the live chart.
Two kill zones per session (open + close). Each session has two independent kill zones — K1 (session open) and K2 (session close) — each with its own enable toggle, its own hours, its own shaded box (85% fill), and its own H/L lines and labels. Defaults follow ICT kill-zone windows: London K1 07:00-09:00, London K2 14:00-16:00, NY K1 12:00-14:00, NY K2 19:00-21:00, Asian K1 00:00-02:00 (Asian K2 off by default; configurable to 07:00-09:00 for the London overlap).
Extend lines to current bar. When ON, the previous-session H/L lines extend to the live bar's right edge so you can see where price sits relative to the prior session's range. When OFF, the lines stop at the previous session's end and stay there.
Label forward offset. A configurable Label offset (bars) input (default 10) pushes the session H/L line and its label forward of the forming candle, so neither covers the live bar you're trying to read. Setting it to 0 restores the original "label on the live bar" behavior. Kill-zone labels are bounded to their kill zone's own end time and are never offset.
Per-session enable + per-kill-zone enable. Toggle any of the three sessions off to hide everything it owns — lines, box, and kill zones — instantly. Toggle any individual kill zone off to suppress just that kill zone in its session.
Drawing budget. Designed to live comfortably within PulseWire's 500 box / 500 line / 500 label per-indicator budget: 17 drawing objects per session × 3 sessions = 51 worst-case, leaving hundreds of slots of headroom.
No repaint. Session and kill-zone boundaries are time-anchored (xloc.bar_time) and computed from time(timeframe.period, sessionString, timezone) which is stable per bar; previous-session H/L values are final once the session archives.
How to use
Add SessionFlow to your chart from the community library.
The script detects the previous session's high/low on the second trading day after install. On the first day, no previous-session levels exist yet — they appear the next day.
Open Settings → General :
Set the Timezone to the one you trade from (default UTC-5 / New York EST).
Adjust Line width , toggle Show kill zones , Show session boxes , Extend lines to current bar , and Label offset (bars) .
Open Settings → London / New York / Asian to configure each session's:
Enable toggle, Session hours , both Kill zone toggles and their Hours , and the session's Color .
Indicator
Judas Swing Detector [algo_aakash]Judas Swing Detector is a session-based reversal indicator that models the institutional Judas Swing as a complete, sequential price event rather than a single false-breakout candle. Instead of flagging every session-open wick that reverses, the script requires a full chain of confirmed conditions — a locked Initial Range, a liquidity sweep beyond it, a rejection close back inside, an optional market structure shift, institutional-grade displacement, and higher-timeframe trend agreement — before a signal is ever scored, drawn, or alerted.
Problem Statement
A Judas Swing is commonly described as "price sweeps one side of the session open and reverses," but that description alone matches an enormous number of ordinary, low-quality wicks. Scripts that flag every such wick generate far more noise than usable signal, because a sweep and a close-back-inside is only the first half of the institutional sequence — it says nothing about whether the reversal has real structural or momentum support, or whether it agrees with the underlying daily trend.
This indicator addresses that gap by treating the Judas Swing as a seven-stage sequence and only surfacing a signal once every enabled stage has been satisfied on confirmed price data, with the overall setup then ranked by a disclosed, weighted confidence score.
Methodology
A session window (London Open, New York Open, or a fully custom session and timezone) drives an Initial Range engine that locks the session's high and low once a configurable opening window (5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes) elapses. The Initial Range is drawn as a transparent box and extends for the remainder of the session.
Once the Initial Range is locked, the script watches for a liquidity sweep: a wick that pierces beyond the Initial Range high or low by at least a minimum ATR-based distance, with the same candle closing back inside the range. This closing-back-inside requirement is what separates a genuine sweep-and-reject from an ordinary breakout continuation.
A confirmed sweep becomes a pending candidate. If Market Structure Confirmation is enabled, the candidate must be followed by a genuine structure shift measured against minor swing pivots that form strictly after the sweep bar: a higher high following a low-side sweep, or a lower low following a high-side sweep. Candidates that do not produce this structure shift within a configurable bar timeout are discarded with no signal created.
A qualifying candidate is then subjected to a Displacement Filter, requiring the confirming candle's body to reach a minimum ATR multiple, and an optional Higher Timeframe Bias check, requiring a fast/slow EMA relationship on a user-selected higher timeframe (e.g. 1H, 4H, Daily) to agree with the reversal direction. Only after every enabled stage passes does the script compute the Judas Confidence Filter score.
The Judas Confidence Filter combines five independently disclosed, user-weighted factors into a single 0-100 score: sweep depth (how far price pierced beyond the Initial Range in ATR units), displacement (the confirming candle's body size in ATR units), HTF agreement (the normalized separation between the fast and slow higher-timeframe EMA, reflecting how decisively the higher-timeframe trend supports the direction), rejection quality (where the sweep candle closed within its own range), and reversal aggression (how few bars elapsed between the sweep and structure confirmation). Weights are user-adjustable and auto-normalized. A signal is only plotted and only triggers alerts if its score meets the Minimum Confidence Score threshold — this is a genuine filtering mechanism that changes what is drawn, not a cosmetic label applied afterward.
Confirmed signals optionally draw an Entry Zone between the 50% and 62% retracement of the confirming displacement candle, reflecting where institutional-style retracement entries are commonly sought after a confirmed reversal, along with a stop-reference line at the sweep extreme. Both extend forward and are visually dimmed once price closes back through the sweep extreme, marking the setup invalidated.
Signal Workflow
Step 1 — the selected session opens and the Initial Range begins building from the session's first 5-30 minutes of price action.
Step 2 — the Initial Range locks; the script now watches for a liquidity sweep beyond either side of that locked range.
Step 3 — a wick pierces beyond the range by a minimum ATR distance and the same candle closes back inside, registering a pending sweep candidate.
Step 4 — if enabled, the candidate must be followed by a market structure shift measured against post-sweep swing pivots, within a bounded bar timeout.
Step 5 — the confirming candle must clear the ATR-based displacement threshold, and if enabled, the higher-timeframe EMA bias must agree with the reversal direction.
Step 6 — the completed sequence is scored by the Judas Confidence Filter across five weighted factors; only scores at or above the minimum threshold are plotted and alerted.
Step 7 — an optional 50%-62% entry zone and stop-reference line are drawn from the confirming candle and remain active until price closes back through the original sweep extreme.
Why This Indicator Is Different
Most public "Judas Swing" or session-sweep scripts fire on the sweep-and-close-back-inside event alone, with no structural or momentum confirmation and no higher-timeframe context.
This script models the full institutional sequence explicitly — session, Initial Range, sweep, rejection, structure shift, displacement, HTF agreement — and only creates a signal after every enabled stage resolves in order on confirmed bar closes.
The Judas Confidence Filter converts five independently disclosed factors, including reversal aggression measured in bars-to-confirmation and rejection quality measured from close position within the sweep candle's own range, into a single adjustable score rather than a binary flag.
Confidence weighting is fully exposed, letting the ranking be tuned toward sweep depth, displacement strength, higher-timeframe agreement, rejection quality, or reversal speed depending on the trader's approach.
The optional 50%-62% Entry Zone models a specific, disclosed institutional retracement convention rather than simply marking the signal bar.
Inputs
Session Engine
Session (London Open / New York Open / Custom)
Custom Session Window
Session Timezone
Initial Range
Initial Range Duration (5/10/15/30 minutes)
Show Initial Range Box
Liquidity Sweep Detection
Minimum Sweep Pierce (x ATR)
Market Structure Confirmation
Require MSS Confirmation
MSS Pivot Length
MSS Timeout (bars)
Displacement Filter
Displacement Threshold (x ATR)
ATR Length
Higher Timeframe Bias
Require HTF Bias Agreement
HTF Timeframe
HTF Fast/Slow EMA Length
Judas Confidence Filter
Minimum Confidence Score
High-Confidence Threshold
Advanced weight sliders for sweep depth, displacement, HTF agreement, rejection quality, and reversal aggression
Entry Zone
Show Entry Zone (50%-62% Retracement)
Entry Zone Extension (bars)
Visual Settings
Show Sweep Markers / Confirmation Arrows / Stop Marker
Label Size
Bullish/Bearish/Initial Range/Elite Score Colors
Status Panel
Show Status Panel
Panel Position
Alerts
Alerts are available for:
Session Started
Liquidity Sweep detected
Bullish Judas Swing confirmed
Bearish Judas Swing confirmed
High-Confidence Judas Swing (Elite grade)
Higher-Timeframe Bias Change
Entry Zone Reached
Practical Usage
Use the status panel's HTF Bias reading as directional context before evaluating an individual Judas signal.
Treat a High-Confidence (Elite) signal as a materially stronger setup than one that merely clears the minimum threshold, since it reflects agreement across all five scored factors rather than a narrow pass.
Raise the Minimum Confidence Score on lower timeframes or noisy instruments to reduce the number of marginal signals generated.
Disable Require MSS Confirmation only if you specifically want to evaluate the sweep-and-rejection event on its own, understanding this removes one of the seven confirming stages.
Combine the alert feed with a broader trade plan, since each alert marks a structural event, not an execution signal.
Limitations
The Initial Range and session logic depend on the chart's intrabar data matching the selected session window; behavior on markets with irregular or 24-hour sessions may differ from traditional FX/futures sessions.
Market structure confirmation depends on minor swing pivots, which require bars to form on both sides before they confirm, introducing an inherent, bounded delay.
Confidence scoring is a relative, disclosed ranking and does not predict the outcome of any individual signal.
The higher-timeframe bias is read via a standard non-repainting security call and reflects EMA relationship only; it is not an independent trend-strength model.
As with any structure-based tool, results will vary across instruments, timeframes, and market regimes.
Notes
This indicator is a session and structure analysis tool intended to organize and score the Judas Swing sequence through a disclosed, multi-stage validation process.
All session state, sweep detection, structure confirmation, displacement, and scoring are evaluated on confirmed bar closes only, so no element of the script repaints once drawn.
The output is intended to support structural analysis and is not a standalone buy or sell recommendation.
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ICT Kill Zone Sniper [JOAT]═══ ICT KILL ZONE SNIPER ⚡ ═══
A session-aware sniper tool that paints every candle by its active kill zone, tracks the liquidity pool each session leaves behind, and fires a single clean BUY or SELL only after price sweeps the prior pool and reverses back inside the current kill zone. Built for traders who wait for the liquidity grab, not the breakout.
▎ WHAT IT DOES
It splits the trading day into four classic kill zones — Asia , London , NY-AM and NY-PM — colors the candles inside each one, and records the high and low that every finished session builds. Those prior highs/lows become the liquidity pools hunted in the next window. When the current kill zone reaches into one of those pools and then closes back through it, the tool marks the sweep and projects a full trade: entry, ATR stop, and an R-based target zone.
▎ HOW IT WORKS
• Kill-zone clock — each session window is evaluated in a chosen wall-clock timezone (New York by default). Membership is na-guarded, so it behaves correctly on any intraday timeframe and simply idles on higher timeframes.
• Session state machine — while a kill zone is live, the tool expands that session's running high and low. When the session ends, that high/low is frozen as the prior liquidity pool and drawn as dashed projection lines carried into the next window.
• Sweep + reversal detection — a high sweep needs price to trade above the prior pool high yet close back below it; a low sweep needs a dip below the prior pool low with a close back above. A Min Sweep Depth (× ATR) filter rejects micro-penetrations caused by spread and tick noise.
• Confirmation — sweeps can be evaluated on confirmed bar close only, so signals do not repaint intrabar. At most one long and one short can print per kill-zone occurrence when the one-per-side lock is on.
• Optional HTF bias — a higher-timeframe EMA (requested with lookahead off) can gate direction: longs only above it, shorts only below it.
• Trade projection — on a valid signal the stop is placed beyond the swept extreme plus an ATR buffer, risk is measured from entry to stop, and the target is set at your chosen R multiple. Reward and risk are drawn as tinted zone boxes with entry/SL/TP lines and level labels.
• Optional VWAP — a session-anchored VWAP with a ±σ band is available as extra context.
▎ HOW TO USE IT
• Wait for a BUY or SELL pill to print inside a colored kill zone — it means the prior pool was swept and price reversed back through it.
• The green zone box is the reward leg toward the R-target; the red zone box is the risk leg to the stop. The label pill shows the session and the R multiple.
• Use the dashed prior high/low lines as the liquidity being hunted this session — signals cluster around them.
• Treat the HTF bias as a directional filter and the sweep tags as confirmation that liquidity was actually taken before you commit.
• Combine with your own structure read; the tool marks the setup, you manage the trade.
▎ KEY SETTINGS
• Kill Zones — timezone plus editable session windows for Asia, London, NY-AM and NY-PM.
• Signal Engine — ATR length, confirm-on-close, one-signal-per-side lock, and minimum sweep depth.
• HTF Bias — toggle, higher timeframe, and EMA length.
• Trade Model — stop buffer beyond the sweep, risk/reward target in R, projection length, and how many past signals to keep.
• Visuals — candle tinting and transparency, session boxes, pools, sweep tags, signal labels, SL/TP lines and zone boxes, VWAP bands, and label size.
• Dashboard — show/hide, position, and text size.
▎ DASHBOARD
A cyberpunk chrome-gradient panel reporting the active session , current session high/low , a countdown to the next kill zone , the HTF bias state, the last liquidity grab side, the active signal with bars-since, the last entry , its stop / target , the current ATR , and a running long / short signal tally .
▎ ALERTS
• KZ Sniper Long — prior-pool low sweep plus bullish reversal inside a kill zone.
• KZ Sniper Short — prior-pool high sweep plus bearish reversal inside a kill zone.
▎ NOTES
• Works across assets; the session logic is intended for intraday timeframes and idles on higher ones.
• Confirm-on-close keeps signals non-repainting; the HTF EMA is requested with lookahead off.
• Nearly every visual has a toggle, so you can strip it down to just the candles and signals for a clean chart.
• Any on-chart tallies reflect historical signals only.
For research and education only. This is not financial advice. No indicator can predict the future, and past behavior does not guarantee future results. Always manage your own risk.
Made with passion by JackOfAllTrades ⚡ Indicator
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Opening Range Breakout Session Strategy [JOAT]Opening Range Breakout Session Strategy
Locks the opening range of your session, then trades disciplined, capped breakouts beyond it with fully framed risk.
What it is
The first minutes of a session set the day's battle lines. The opening range — the high and low forged during that early window — is where overnight orders, gap fills and early positioning collide, and price leaving that range tends to keep going. This indicator builds the opening range objectively, trades confirmed breakouts from it, and enforces the discipline that makes the approach workable: a session filter and a hard daily trade cap. It is an original implementation of the widely-used opening-range-breakout concept.
How it works
• Opening range — during a user-defined opening window (09:30–10:00 by default, in your chosen timezone) the tool records the high and low, then locks them as the reference range and draws a clean box with labelled ORH and ORL levels.
• Session and daily reset — signals are only allowed inside a separate trade-session window, and the range clears cleanly on each new day using a real day-change test, so nothing carries over stale.
• Breakout logic — a Buy fires on a confirmed close above the range high plus a small ATR buffer; a Sell on a confirmed close below the range low minus the buffer. The buffer filters marginal pokes through the edge.
• Discipline — a hard cap of N trades per day plus a minimum-bar spacing control prevent the range edges from generating repeated signals as price oscillates around them.
Trade framing
Each signal projects a red risk box and a green reward box. The stop is either the opposite opening-range edge (structure-based, the default) or an ATR distance, and the three targets ladder out in R multiples with labelled entry, stop and take-profit prices. Extension levels at 1R and 2R from the range edges are also projected as context for where a breakout may travel.
The dashboard
An adjustable session ticket shows the current phase (pre-open, opening, session or locked), the range size, the bias relative to the range, a breakout-extension meter, the trades used against the daily cap, the active signal, and a live first-target-before-stop tally from closed bars only.
How to use it
• Set the opening window, trade session and timezone to match your market (index or futures cash open, an FX session, or a crypto day boundary).
• Wait for the range to lock, then take confirmed breakouts; use the opposite edge as your invalidation and the extension levels as context.
• Respect the daily cap — the discipline is part of the method, not an afterthought.
Settings
Opening-range and trade-session windows, timezone, ATR length, stop mode and multiplier, breakout buffer, target R multiples, maximum trades per day, plus full visual and dashboard controls.
Originality and usefulness
Opening-range breakout is a public concept; the contribution here is the complete, disciplined implementation — objective range locking, a strict session and daily-reset model, buffered confirmed-close breakouts, structure-based stops at the opposite edge, and integrated non-repainting trade framing — explained so each control's purpose is clear.
Notes and limitations
• Range-bound sessions produce whipsaws around the edges; the buffer and daily cap reduce but do not remove this.
• Breakouts fail regularly — the opposite-edge stop and R-based targets exist precisely for that reason.
• Session settings must match the instrument, or the range will be measured at the wrong time.
• The win tally reflects only past bars on the current chart and is not a forecast.
• Educational and analytical tool, not financial advice.
— made with passion by officialjackofalltrades
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