5min ORB + Ripster EMA CloudsHere's an updated version that covers **1-minute candles** and explains **the clouds**:
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**5-Min ORB — Opening Range Breakout (with 1-Min Precision)**
This indicator marks the opening range of the session and highlights breakouts above or below it. While the range itself is built from the first 5 minutes of trading, you view and trade it on the **1-minute chart** for sharper entries and cleaner signals.
**Why use 1-minute candles**
Running this on a 1-minute timeframe gives you five candles inside the opening range instead of one. That means:
- You see exactly how the range forms — whether buyers or sellers dominated the open.
- Breakout timing is more precise, since a 1-min close through the level triggers sooner than waiting on a full 5-min candle.
- Stops and entries can be tighter, because you're reacting to smaller price increments.
- You catch fast momentum moves early, which matters most in the first 15–30 minutes when volatility is highest.
The trade-off: 1-minute charts produce more noise, so confirmation (a candle *close* beyond the level, not just a wick) becomes more important to avoid getting faked out.
**Understanding the clouds**
The "clouds" are the shaded zones the indicator paints on your chart. They give you instant visual context without reading exact price numbers:
- **The opening-range cloud** — the shaded box between the ORB high and ORB low. This is your no-man's-land. Price chopping inside this cloud means the market hasn't picked a direction yet, so most traders stay flat until price escapes it.
- **The bullish cloud (above the range)** — shades green (or your chosen color) once price breaks and holds above the ORB high. It signals the buyers are in control and marks the zone where long setups are valid.
- **The bearish cloud (below the range)** — shades red once price breaks below the ORB low, signaling seller control and the zone for short setups.
Think of the clouds as a traffic-light system: inside the range = wait, above = long bias, below = short bias. They keep you on the right side of momentum and stop you from fighting the trend.
**How to use it**
Let the first 5 minutes complete on your 1-minute chart to form the range. Watch for a 1-min candle to close outside the opening-range cloud. When price pushes into the bullish cloud, look for longs; when it drops into the bearish cloud, look for shorts. Combine with volume and higher-timeframe trend for the strongest setups.
*This tool is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice. Always backtest and manage risk before trading live.*
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[Dugan Algos] Trader's Command CenterOverview
Trader's Command Center consolidates the routine an active intraday trader repeats on every chart — marking the levels that matter, checking whether the trend actually agrees with itself, confirming that volume is present, and judging whether the move still has fuel — into a single overlay with one readable verdict.
The problem it addresses is fragmentation. Most traders end up running five or six separate scripts: one for previous-day levels, another for premarket, a VWAP, a moving-average package, something for relative volume, and a momentum oscillator in a lower pane. Each is fine alone, but reading them together means your eyes travel across the screen and you assemble the context manually, in real time, under pressure. That assembly step is where hesitation and inconsistency creep in.
TCC performs the assembly for you. Every component feeds one checklist table that resolves to a plain-language state — A+ LONG, A+ SHORT, LONG (low vol), SHORT (fading), or MIXED — so the question shifts from "what do all these indicators say?" to "does this setup meet my standard, yes or no?"
It works on stocks, options underlyings, and futures, and includes dedicated Asia and London session levels for overnight futures traders.
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Why these components are combined
The individual calculations here are standard and well documented — that is deliberate. The originality is in the scoring architecture, not in inventing a new formula.
Three specific pieces of integration logic do work that no combination of separate scripts performs:
1. Trend agreement is scored, not eyeballed. Six independent context checks (VWAP, EMA alignment, two SMAs, prior-day close, market breadth) are reduced to a single 0–6 score. Five or six agreeing is treated as directional conviction; anything less is explicitly labelled MIXED rather than left for you to interpret. The point is a consistent, repeatable threshold instead of a judgment call that shifts with your mood.
2. Volume and momentum act as gates on that score, not as more rows to weigh. Direction is necessary but not sufficient. A trend everyone agrees on but nobody is trading is a trap, and so is a trend that's already exhausted. Relative volume and momentum acceleration are therefore structurally separate from the directional score — they can only downgrade a verdict, never create one. This is why the header degrades in a defined order: `A+ LONG` → `LONG (low vol)` → `LONG (fading)`. Each tells you something different about why the setup is second-rate.
3. Momentum is measured relative to the prevailing bias. Every momentum reading in the script is sign-flipped to match the direction the checklist is pointing. On a short setup, a falling MACD histogram is momentum building, not fading. Bolting a standard MACD onto your chart requires you to perform that inversion mentally on every short — a small thing that produces real errors when you're managing a position quickly.
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Features
Automatic key levels
Drawn without any manual charting, and updated as each period completes:
Previous day high, low, and close
Premarket high and low, accumulated live through the pre-session
Opening range high and low, with a configurable duration (default 15 minutes)
Prior week high and low
Prior month high and low
Each level carries a compact right-edge tag (PDH, PDL, PDC, PM-H, ORB-L, PWH, PMoH and so on) so you can identify a line at a glance without opening the settings panel. Labels can be switched off if you prefer a cleaner chart.
Higher-timeframe values are requested with a one-period offset, meaning the script only ever reads completed periods. These levels do not repaint.
Futures session levels
For overnight and globex traders, optional Asia and London session highs and lows, alongside the standard prior-day and opening-range levels. Both session windows and the reference time zone are user-configurable — the defaults are New York time (Asia 18:00–03:00, London 03:00–09:30), which suit ES, NQ, CL and GC, but the fields accept any session string for other products or time zones.
A+ Trade Checklist
The centrepiece. A compact table scoring six directional checks:
Check Bullish when
Price vs VWAP Price above session VWAP
EMA alignment Fast EMA above slow EMA (default 9/21)
SMA 1 Price above the intermediate SMA (default 50)
SMA 2 Price above the long SMA (default 200)
Prior-day close Price above yesterday's close
Market breadth Advance-decline reading above zero
Five or six bullish gives a long bias; five or six bearish gives a short bias; anything in between reads MIXED. Two quality gates then qualify that bias — day RVOL and momentum — followed by two informational rows (bar RVOL and buy-volume percentage) that assist entry timing without affecting the verdict.
The header cell always states the conclusion outright, so you never need to count rows.
Momentum: accelerating or fading
A dedicated row answering the question most checklists ignore: is this move gaining or losing steam?
The measurement is the slope of the MACD histogram, normalised by ATR. The histogram is already the spread between fast and slow momentum, so its rate of change is effectively acceleration — an expanding histogram means the move is gaining separation, a contracting one means it's decaying even while price still drifts your way.
Dividing by ATR is what makes the reading portable. Raw histogram slope is expressed in price units, so a threshold tuned on SPY would be meaningless on ES or a four-dollar stock. Expressed as a percentage of average true range, a single threshold behaves consistently across every instrument.
The row displays one of three states — `▲ ACCEL`, `■ FLAT`, `▼ FADING` — with the normalised magnitude, plus a small `·adx↑` marker when ADX is simultaneously rising. A configurable flat zone prevents the state from flickering on trivial changes.
A dropdown controls how strictly momentum gates the verdict: Off (display only), Block if fading (default), or Require accelerating (strictest, suited to breakout entries).
Trending Stocks screener
Ranks up to eight watchlist symbols by daily relative volume, showing percent change alongside, sorted live so the most unusually active name sits at the top. Useful for deciding which chart deserves your attention before you commit to one.
Symbols are fully user-defined; the defaults are common large-cap names and index ETFs.
Volume analysis
Day RVOL — cumulative session volume against the 20-day average, the standard measure of whether a name is "in play"
Bar RVOL — current bar volume against its recent average, for spotting individual bursts
Buy/sell volume estimate — volume apportioned by where the bar closes within its range, giving a rough pressure read on each candle
Trade planner
Enter an intended entry, stop, and target in the settings; the script draws all three on the chart with an automatic risk-to-reward calculation, absolute risk, and absolute reward. A fast way to sanity-check a trade's geometry before committing, or to review one afterwards.
Alerts
Thirteen conditions covering breakouts, cross events, volume anomalies, and setup formation:
Break above previous day high / below previous day low
Break above premarket high / below premarket low
Opening range breakout, up and down
VWAP cross, up and down
Relative volume spike
A+ Long setup formed (bias + volume + momentum all confirmed)
A+ Short setup formed
Momentum fading — fires only while a directional bias is live, making it a genuine position-management trigger rather than background noise
Momentum accelerating
Setup instructions
1. Add the indicator to your chart.
2. Enable extended trading hours. Right-click the chart → Settings → Symbol tab → tick Extended trading hours. Premarket high and low cannot be calculated without pre-session data, and the row will stay blank until this is enabled.
3. Use an intraday timeframe. The level suite, opening range, and session VWAP are built for intraday charts — 1 to 60 minutes. On daily and higher, intraday-specific levels are intentionally suppressed.
4. Confirm the breadth symbol. The checklist defaults to `USI:ADD` (NYSE advance-decline). If that row shows "n/a", your data plan may not include it — substitute any breadth symbol you do have access to, or a broad index proxy. The row will read n/a and score as bearish if the symbol is unavailable, so it's worth resolving rather than ignoring.
5. Set your session times if trading futures. Enable the futures group and adjust the Asia and London windows to match your product and time zone.
6. Create alerts. Add alert → Condition → select Trader's Command Center → choose the event from the dropdown. Set Once Per Bar Close if you want confirmed signals only; leaving it on Once Per Bar will fire intrabar and can trigger on moves that reverse before the candle closes.
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How to read it during a session
A workflow that suits most intraday traders:
Before the open, glance at the screener to see which of your names are running unusual volume. Note where premarket high and low sit relative to the previous day's range — a premarket high above yesterday's high with real volume is a materially different setup from one inside the prior range.
Through the opening drive, let the opening range establish, then watch for a break of ORB high or low. The checklist header tells you whether that break has context behind it. An ORB breakout with an A+ LONG verdict is a fundamentally different proposition from the same breakout printing MIXED.
In a position, the momentum row is your management tool. Direction rows staying green while momentum turns to FADING is the classic signal that a move is maturing — a reasonable trigger to tighten a stop or take partial profit, well before the directional rows themselves flip.
When the verdict reads MIXED, that is information. The context checks disagree, which usually means chop. Most consistent traders lose more money forcing trades in this state than they make from the ones that work.
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Tuning guidance
Slope lookback (default 3 bars) governs momentum responsiveness. Drop to 2 on a 1-minute chart if the reading feels slow; raise to 5 or more on 15-minute and above.
Flat zone (default ±3% of ATR) controls how much movement is required before the momentum state changes. If the row flickers between states more than you find useful, raise it to 5 or 6. This is the first knob to reach for — if the momentum gate is talking you out of trades that later work, the flat zone is usually too tight rather than the concept being wrong.
Day RVOL threshold (default 1.5x) sets the participation bar. Lower it to 1.2 for large-cap index products where 1.5x is genuinely rare; raise it to 2.0 or beyond if you only want names that are decisively in play.
Opening range duration (default 15 minutes) is a matter of style. Five minutes gives earlier, noisier signals; thirty produces fewer, cleaner breaks.
Momentum requirement should match your entry style. Breakout traders want Require accelerating. Pullback and mean-reversion traders often prefer Off, since entering as momentum decelerates is the entire premise of that approach.
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Limitations and honest notes
Pine cannot scan the whole market. The screener ranks only the symbols you enter. This is a platform constraint on all Pine scripts, not a design shortcut — PulseWire limits the number of external symbol requests a script may make, and eight leaves headroom for the rest of the indicator's higher-timeframe calls.
Momentum measurement lags. MACD-derived acceleration is built on moving averages and inherits their delay. In a range, the histogram slope will whipsaw regardless of tuning. The momentum row is most reliable when the directional rows are already lopsided — it is a quality filter on an existing trend, not a standalone signal.
Buy/sell volume is an estimate. Without tick-level or order-flow data, the split is inferred from where each bar closes within its range. It is a reasonable proxy for pressure, not a substitute for a true delta feed.
Breadth is US-equity oriented. The default advance-decline symbol is meaningful for US stocks and index products. Trading FX, crypto, or non-US equities, the row should be repointed at something relevant or its influence on the score understood as noise.
The score is not a strategy. It describes context, not edge. It contains no backtest, makes no claim of profitability, and will happily print A+ LONG into a reversal. Entry, exit, position sizing, and risk management remain entirely yours.
Repainting: higher-timeframe levels read completed periods only and do not repaint. Live intraday values — the current bar's RVOL, momentum state, and checklist verdict — naturally update while the bar is forming and settle on close, as with any real-time indicator. Use Once Per Bar Close on alerts if you need confirmed-only behaviour.
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Settings reference
Group Contains
① Key Levels Toggles for previous day, premarket, weekly, monthly levels and labels
② Opening Range ORB on/off and duration in minutes
③ Futures Sessions Asia and London session windows, reference time zone
④ Moving Averages / VWAP VWAP toggle, two EMA lengths, two SMA lengths
⑤ Volume / RVOL Averaging length, day-RVOL threshold, bar-spike multiple
⑥ Momentum MACD lengths, slope lookback, ATR length, flat zone, A+ gate strictness
⑦ A+ Trade Checklist Table on/off, breadth symbol, table position
⑧ Trending Stocks Screener Table on/off, eight symbol slots
⑨ Trade Planner Entry, stop, target prices
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Disclaimer
This indicator is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It is not financial advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell any security or contract, and not a solicitation of any kind. It contains no strategy, no backtest, and makes no representation about past or future performance.
Trading stocks, options, and futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Levels, scores, and alerts produced by this script describe market context; they do not predict outcomes. All trading decisions, position sizing, and risk management are your own responsibility. Test any tool thoroughly on a simulated account before risking capital.
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Andean Oscillator ProFull credit to alexgrover for the Andean Oscillator, which this is built on.
Original script:
Original writeup: alpaca.markets/learn/andean-oscillator-a-new-technical-indicator-based-on-an-online-algorithm-for-trend-analysis/
WHAT THE ORIGINAL MEASURES
The oscillator tracks two exponential envelopes, one on price and one on price
squared. Differencing them recovers a standard deviation for each direction of
travel. The bull component grows as price pulls away above its lower envelope. The
bear component grows as price pulls away below its upper envelope. Whichever is
larger tells you which side is doing the work, and how hard.
The important thing to understand about this family of readings is that it is a
measure of distance already travelled. It cannot be large until a move has already
happened. That shapes everything about how you use it.
WHAT THIS VERSION ADDS
Adaptive envelope decay. The original decays its envelopes at a fixed rate set by one
length input. This version computes an efficiency ratio over a lookback and slides the
decay rate between a fast bound and a slow bound. In a clean directional move the
envelope forgets old extremes quickly, so the reading responds sooner. In chop it
slows back down to roughly the original behaviour. ER Power controls how much trend
quality it demands before speeding up.
Normalization. The raw components come out in price units, which means a threshold you
find on one symbol is meaningless on another. Percent mode expresses them as a share of
price. ATR mode expresses them in volatility units. Either way your settings travel.
Energy gate. The original compares the components to their own moving average, which
costs you several bars of lag. This version ranks the larger component as a percentile
of its own recent history instead. There is no smoothing involved, so it reacts the
moment expansion starts, and the number means the same thing on every instrument. A
gate of 90 means you only act on readings in the top tenth of what this market
normally produces.
Deadband with hysteresis. Entry requires the spread between the two components to
clear a percentile band. Exit only requires the spread to change sign. That asymmetry
is what lets the faster envelope run without producing constant flips around the zero
line.
Trade management on the chart. When bias flips, the script marks the entry and places
a stop at a multiple of ATR, both drawn on the price chart. Once price has moved a set
distance in your favour the stop jumps to just past your cost, then a chandelier trail
arms and ratchets in one direction only. It never loosens. The trade ends at that stop
or on an opposite signal, which closes and reverses. Stop colour tells you the state
at a glance. Red is the initial stop, orange means breakeven is locked, blue means the
trail is running.
Everything else. Optional squeeze filter requiring a quiet stretch before the gate
opens, the envelopes drawn on the price chart, bias shown three ways so you can read
direction without looking at numbers, and a single alert carrying entry, stop and
energy.
HOW TO READ IT
Green bars, green background, LONG label means the bull component leads and the gate
was open when it flipped. Red is the reverse. Grey bars mean no position. The two
faint black lines in the pane are the deadband, so you can see how far the spread has
to travel before a flip qualifies. Fill intensity between the components tracks
energy, so a washed out fill means the market is quiet by its own standards even if
the components have crossed.
Orange dots along the bottom mark bars where the gate is open but no bias has been
established yet. Think of those as armed and waiting.
SETTINGS
Energy Gate is the one that matters. It sets how selective the entries are, and
nothing else in the script changes behaviour as much. Raise it for fewer and larger
setups, lower it for more frequent ones. Expect a high gate to feel quiet. That is the
setting working.
Stop, breakeven and trail distances are all measured in ATR rather than in R, and that
is deliberate. Denominating protection distance in R ties how far you wait before
protecting profit to how far you are willing to be wrong, and those two should move
independently.
Defaults are set for 15 minute crypto. Presets are included for 5 minute and 1 hour.
Published open source under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, same license as the original. Indicator
Premarket High/Low + Prior Day High/Low + Opening PriceFutures Levels – Premarket High/Low + Prior Day High/Low + Opening Price
Clean and accurate session levels designed primarily for futures traders (ES, NQ, YM, RTY, etc.), but also usable on equities.
What it plots:
• Premarket High & Low – Highest high and lowest low of the most recent overnight/premarket session
• Prior Day High & Low – High and low of the most recent completed Regular Trading Hours (RTH) session
• Opening Price – The actual 09:30 ET opening price of the most recent session
Key Features:
• Shows only the most recent levels (no historical clutter)
• Correctly handles weekends and pre-market gaps — on Sunday or Monday before the open you will see Friday’s Premarket High/Low, Friday’s RTH High/Low, and Friday’s 09:30 open
• Lines start at their true origin bar and extend only to the right
• Fully independent settings for each level (color, line style, and thickness)
• Session times are fully adjustable
How to use:
1. Add the indicator to an intraday chart
2. Make sure Extended Hours (ETH) is enabled
3. Adjust colors, styles, and widths in the settings to your preference
Adjusting for Equities (Stocks/ETFs):
By default the sessions are set for futures (Premarket 18:00–09:29 ET).
For stocks and ETFs, simply change the session inputs in the settings to:
• Premarket Session → 0400-0929
• RTH Session → 0930-1600
Ideal for day traders and scalpers who want clean, reliable reference levels without the noise of older session lines. Indicator
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All-in-One: Symbol, TF, Weekday Labels, Countdown/ClockAll-in-One: Symbol+TF • Weekday Labels • Countdown/Clock
Version 1.0.0
Chart-furniture dashboard that puts four everyday reference pieces on one indicator: a symbol / timeframe / date table, forex-session weekday labels along the bottom, an on-chart candle countdown, and a right-hand Clock and Countdown Panel showing the London clock, the candle countdown and the current candle's open and close time. Each piece toggles on or off independently.
WHAT IT DRAWS
• Symbol and timeframe table: a bottom-right table showing the ticker, the chart timeframe and the current date (weekday plus day-month). Works on every timeframe from seconds up to weekly.
• Weekday labels: forex-session weekday text along the bottom of the chart, drawn on 5m to 4h charts only. Each label is projected forward onto the next session, so the text shows the upcoming day.
• On-chart candle countdown: a floating label to the right of the last bar counting down to the current bar's close, with per-timeframe control over how far right it sits.
• Clock and Countdown Panel: a middle-right table showing any of three rows: the candle countdown, the live London clock, and the current candle's open and close time. The panel sizes itself to the visible rows and stays vertically centred.
HOW IT WORKS
• The countdown reads the time remaining to the current bar's close and updates live. It shows on daily and below (not on weekly or monthly), and a Visibility timeframe input restricts it further if you want it only on the lower timeframes.
• The Clock and Countdown Panel's live clock reads real time, while the candle-time row reads the bar you are on. In Bar Replay the candle time tracks the scrubbed-to bar while the live clock keeps real time. Each of the three rows toggles independently and there is no master toggle: turn all three off to hide the panel.
• The weekday labels draw on 5m to 4h charts only. Below 5m the fixed forward projection (a bar count) throws them far off-screen, and on seconds charts the offset maths mis-places them, so both are gated out. A marker is drawn at each session's open bar but pushed forward so it renders over the next session, which is why Monday's marker reads "Tue", Tuesday's reads "Wed", and so on. Friday reads "Mon", projecting across the closed weekend so Monday's session still gets a label. The Sunday-evening open is not traded, so it is intentionally not labelled.
• Opacity inputs read as true opacity: 0 is invisible and 100 is solid.
EXTENDED TRADING HOURS WHERE THE SYMBOL OFFERS THE CHOICE
The weekday labels need the overnight session-open bar to exist in the data. On any symbol that offers a Regular / Extended hours choice (for example DE40, and some FX feeds), set the chart's Session to "Extended trading hours" (Chart Settings, Symbol, Session, Extended trading hours). On Regular Hours the session-open bar is trimmed out of the series, so the weekday labels simply do not appear. Only the weekday labels depend on this: the countdown, the live clock, the candle time and the symbol/timeframe table read the current bar or real time and work either way. Symbols that trade one continuous session (for example US500, USTEC, XTIUSD) have no such option and are unaffected.
WHAT IT RUNS ON
It runs on any instrument. Only the weekday-label placement is instrument-dependent, so on untested symbols confirm the day labels land where you want them. Tested on ICMarkets data across forex pairs, DE40, XAUUSD, USTEC, US500, XTIUSD and US30.
HOW TO USE
Add it to any chart. Use the symbol/timeframe table and the live clock as an at-a-glance header, and the countdown to see how long the current bar has left. On a 5m to 4h chart, turn on the weekday labels to mark each upcoming session along the bottom (enable Extended Trading Hours first if the symbol offers the choice). Open the Clock and Countdown Panel's candle-time row when working in Bar Replay to read the open and close of the bar you are scrubbed to.
FEEDBACK
Please let me know if you experience any issues, or have feedback for improvements or additions in the comments below. Thank you, Tom Indicator
J225 Markets - WatermarkInspired by and adapted from the "AG FX - Watermark" indicator by AG FX. This version significantly extends the original with independent show/hide toggles for each of 5 subtitle lines, individual color/size/alignment control per line, and a refined 9-point positioning system for both the main watermark and the symbol info badge.
Features:
- Editable title and up to 5 independent subtitle lines, each with its own show/hide toggle
- Full control over color, text size, and alignment for every line individually
- Optional symbol + timeframe + date info badge, positionable anywhere on the chart
- 9-point positioning grid (top/middle/bottom x left/center/right) for both the main watermark and the symbol info badge
- Adjustable cell width/height and background transparency
Default text ships with a trading psychology theme (patience, discipline, risk management, process over outcome) but every line is fully editable in the settings, so you can replace it with your own reminders, rules, or branding.
How to use: Add the indicator to your chart, then open the settings to customize the text, position, and styling to match your own trading plan.
This script does not provide trading signals, buy/sell alerts, or predictive analysis. It is a visual and psychological aid only, intended to help traders stay disciplined and consistent while viewing their charts. Indicator
Pivot Points | Falcon AI Draws Classic and Camarilla pivot levels from the previous daily or weekly
session, on any intraday chart.
How it works: at the start of each new period the script reads the previous
period's high, low and close. The Classic central pivot P is the average of
those three. R1–R3 and S1–S3 are then projected above and below P using the
previous period's range — R1/S1 nearest, R3/S3 widest. Camarilla works from
the previous close instead, adding and subtracting fixed fractions of that
same range (the published 1.1/12, 1.1/6, 1.1/4 and 1.1/2 series) to give
H1–H4 above and L1–L4 below. Because Camarilla is range-scaled rather than
average-based, its levels sit tighter to price, which is why intraday
traders often use them for smaller moves while the Classic set frames the
wider session.
Levels are calculated only from data that has already closed, so they are
fixed for the whole session and do not repaint. An optional setting lets
you compute from the still-forming period instead, in which case the lines
update live by design.
Only the current period extends to the right and carries labels; previous
periods remain as short segments over the range they belong to, so history
stays readable. Choose Classic, Camarilla or both, how many R/S pairs to
draw, daily or weekly, plus colours, widths and label side. Indicator
Kill Zones, Market Opens and NewsKill Zones, Market Opens and News
Version 1.0.0
Draws FX session kill zones, market opens and news event lines on intraday charts, with its own purpose built kill zones for DE40, the US indices and crude oil. First release, shared open source.
WHAT IT DRAWS
• Forex kill zones: London 07:00-10:00 UK and New York 12:00-15:00 UK, each with start and end boundary lines.
• Market open lines: 08:00 London/Frankfurt and 14:30 New York, each on its own toggle.
• News event lines, filtered to the relevant pair: GBP 07:00 / 09:30 / 12:00, USD 13:15 / 13:30 / 14:45 / 15:00 / 19:00 / 19:30, EUR 08:30 / 13:15. 13:30 USD is on by default, the rest off.
• DE40: London morning only, 08:00-10:00 Frankfurt. Own 08:00 open and 10:00 end line, no afternoon zone.
• US500 / USTEC / US30 (identical): AM orange pre-market 13:30-14:30 then green 14:30-17:00; PM green 18:00-20:00 then blue power hour 20:00-21:00.
• XTIUSD: two green zones, 08:00-10:00 and 13:00-19:00 UK, plus the 14:30 New York open and USD news.
• History range: the last 5 trading days, or the full loaded history.
• Colour, opacity, width and style adjustable on every element.
WHY THESE HOURS
• The windows come from an hour-of-day volatility study, the average bar range in each UK hour: five years of data to July 2026 for the forex majors, gold and index CFDs, and around two years for crude oil, cross-checked against real price action. The aim is to shade the hours that actually move and mark the opens and news that drive them.
HOW IT WORKS
• Each custom instrument shows only its own windows; the forex shading, session lines, opens and news are suppressed on DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD.
• Forex windows track a US (New York) data feed. The custom instruments are UK clock anchored and render correctly on any exchange timezone.
• The "UK-US Time Difference" input (5 or 4) covers the roughly 4 weeks a year when UK and US daylight saving are out of step. Leave it at 5 the rest of the year.
• Boundary lines draw below 1H; kill zone shading and market opens draw at 1H and below.
WHAT IT RUNS ON
• Intraday, 1H and below.
• Forex majors and XAUUSD get the standard drawing; DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD get their own custom zones.
• Custom zones match the exact symbols DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD. Other broker names (for example GER40, SPX500, NAS100, WTIUSD) fall back to the standard forex drawing. The script is open source, so you can add your broker's names.
• Tested so far on forex majors, XAUUSD, DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD.
HOW TO USE
• Add it to any intraday chart, 1H or below.
• On forex or gold: use the London and NY kill zones to see where the sessions sit, and turn on the opens and news you follow.
• On DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 or XTIUSD: it switches automatically to that instrument's own zones.
• In a DST gap week, set "UK-US Time Difference" to 4; otherwise leave it at 5.
• Use the History range control to keep the chart light (5 days) or show the full history.
IN THIS RELEASE (v1.0.0)
• First public release.
• Forex London and NY kill zones with adjustable boundary lines.
• 08:00 London/Frankfurt and 14:30 New York market opens.
• GBP / USD / EUR news lines, toggled individually and filtered per pair.
• Custom kill zones for DE40, US500 / USTEC / US30 and XTIUSD.
• UK clock anchored custom instruments, timezone independent, with the 5/4 DST toggle.
• History range, and full colour, opacity, width and style control.
FEEDBACK
Please let me know if you experience any issues, or have feedback for improvements or additions in the comments below. Thank you, Tom Indicator
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ACTS Point & FigurePoint & Figure strips time out of the chart.
What's left is structure - where price actually fought, and where it broke. This draws that structure as an overlay on your ordinary candlestick chart, so you see the P&F reading and the candles together.
And the source is open. You don't have to take my word for any of it: read the code, check that it does what this description says, change it if you disagree. That is the point of publishing it this way.
Most free P&F tools stop at double tops. This one carries the full classical vocabulary - triples, catapults, traps, poles, 45-degree trend lines and structural stops - built the way the literature specifies.
It draws levels and structure. It does not issue buy or sell signals, and it makes no claim about what any level will do next. The interpretation is yours.
HOW THE GRID IS BUILT
Price moves one box, you add a box. It reverses by three boxes, a new column starts. The grid is computed internally from the ordinary OHLC history of the chart you're on - not from PulseWire's Point & Figure chart type - so every level maps to a real price on a real bar with a real timestamp. Columns are built from closing prices, and the three-box reversal is fixed, the classical construction.
WHAT IT SHOWS YOU
Columns - the trend in its rawest form. A column of X's is buyers in control, O's sellers, and a new column means the move reversed by enough to matter. No wicks, no noise from time passing. Columns are numbered; the X/O characters and the column lines toggle independently.
Classic patterns and their breakout levels. Double and triple tops and bottoms, detected on the grid, each with its breakout level drawn and labelled. A breakout only counts if the column also clears every same-direction column behind it in the look-back window - so a "break" straight into overhead structure isn't one. A separate Pot BO line projects forward from the live column: the level the current column would have to reach for a breakout to register. It updates as the column builds.
45-degree trend lines. Bullish support and bearish resistance drawn at a fixed 45 degrees off the grid, plus internal lines, projecting a configurable distance to the right. On a P&F grid a 45-degree line has objective meaning, because the grid has a fixed geometry; on a time chart it does not. A line renders dotted while it is provisional and turns solid once a breakout confirms it, so you can see which lines have earned their keep.
The special formations. High and low poles, bull and bear catapults, bull and bear traps. A trap is a breakout that fails and pulls price back through its own level. A pole marks an unusually extended one-column move. Formations that have already resolved stay on the chart by default, tagged when the level was hit and when the formation was negated - so you can see what the recent structure actually did, not only what is still open. Two settings hide the hit and negated ones, and an age filter clears the old ones away; switch those on and what remains is only what is still live.
Structural stop levels - three modes, all box-denominated.
- Mode 1 - nearest. The extreme of the column immediately before the breakout, plus a buffer.
- Mode 2 - pattern-wide (default). The worst opposing extreme found across the whole width of the pattern, plus the same buffer. More conservative than Mode 1 by construction.
- Mode 3 - measured. A fixed distance from the breakout level itself (default two boxes), no buffer.
The buffer and the Mode 3 distance are both expressed as a percentage of your box size, never in pips. Nothing in this path assumes a decimal count, a pip value or an asset class, so the same settings behave sensibly on a 5-decimal FX pair, an index and a crypto pair alike.
TWO SETTINGS, AND THE SCRIPT HELPS YOU WITH ONE OF THEM
Set the Grid Anchor Price to a round number at or below current price - 1.0 for EURUSD, 100.0 for USDJPY. Then set the Box Size in price terms; a 10-pip EURUSD box is 0.00100.
Box size is instrument-specific by nature. A 0.001 box that reads EURUSD beautifully is meaningless on an index trading at 18,000, and there is no universal number. You don't need to know it in advance - the script tells you. If your box size is so large that the loaded history barely spans any boxes, or so small that it can't be read, an on-chart message says which way you're wrong and suggests a value for that instrument. So: put in any reasonable guess, read the message, adjust, and repeat until it stops complaining. Then check that the structure it draws matches moves you recognise. Write the number down - you'll reuse it.
Defaults are set for EURUSD. On anything else, expect the box-size message first. That's the setup assistant doing its job, not a fault.
MAKING IT READABLE
Two minutes of chart setup is the difference between "this is broken" and "oh, I see it."
1. Dim the candles - hollow bars or a muted grey. The P&F structure should be what your eye lands on; the candles are context. This one change does most of the work.
2. Lock the price-to-bar ratio, and set it to your box size divided by three. A column is three bars wide and a 45-degree line rises one box per column, so that ratio is what makes the geometry square - 0.00100 box on EURUSD gives 0.000333. To check it: draw an ordinary trend line at 45 degrees over one the script has drawn. If they lie on top of each other you are set. If they diverge, the ratio is wrong, and everything else on the chart is being read at the wrong angle.
3. Give it history. Too short a window and there is nothing to build.
4. Start on a timeframe you already read well. The structure comes from that chart's own data, so the timeframe you pick is the timeframe you're analysing.
HONEST NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION
- Standard charts only. Deliberately not run on PulseWire's P&F chart type, which produces synthetic bars - levels read off those don't correspond to prices anyone could have traded.
- Columns come from closing prices. A choice, not an oversight: closes filter intrabar noise. The cost is real - a spike that reverses before the close prints no box, and structure that depended on it won't appear.
- The most recent 160 columns are drawn. Deeper history isn't rendered. PulseWire caps how much any one script may draw, and the newest structure is the structure worth keeping.
- No alerts. There are none in this script.
- Price only. No volume input and no volume interpretation.
- It won't pick your box size for you. It will tell you when yours is wrong, which is a different and more honest thing.
- The detection is geometric. It will mark structure that later fails, as every structural method does.
- No performance claims are made here, and none are implied.
Pine v6, overlay, open source. Nothing in the file requests data from another symbol or timeframe.
If you're learning Point & Figure: put this on a market you already know and watch the columns build next to the candles you recognise. That is the fastest way in.
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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
Triple Confluence Meter - Trend, Momentum and Volume AgreementThree indicators agreeing feels like three reasons. Usually it is one reason counted three times — trend, momentum and volume all read the same price series, so of course they tend to point the same way.
This builds the ordinary confluence indicator and then does the thing confluence indicators never do: it grades itself.
THE THREE VOTES
Trend close above or below an EMA
Momentum RSI above or below 50
Volume the bar's direction, but only on bars where volume beats its average
Sum them for a score from −3 to +3. At the extremes all three agree, the bar is coloured, and a small triangle marks the first bar of each new alignment. On symbols with no volume feed the third vote abstains and the scale becomes −2 to +2 rather than quietly voting zero forever.
THE PART THAT MATTERS
Over the lookback, the script finds every alignment that happened at least one full horizon ago — so its outcome is already settled — and counts how often price actually went the signalled way. Then it does the subtraction almost nobody does:
Edge = hit rate after alignment − base rate over all bars
The base rate is the catch. A bullish signal firing during an uptrend will show a glorious 60% hit rate while price rose 60% of the time regardless, and an edge near zero tells you the signal contributed nothing. Only the difference is information.
READING THE SCORECARD
Trend / Momentum / Volume — each vote's current direction, with the RSI value shown so you can see how close the momentum vote is to flipping.
Score — the sum and whether it counts as aligned.
Base rate up — how often price rose over the horizon on all bars in the window. This is the number to beat.
After bull align / After bear align — the hit rate following each kind of alignment, with n= the number of events behind it. Read the n before the percentage. Alignment is rare by construction and thirty events is an anecdote.
Edge — the two subtractions, in percentage points. Positive means the alignment knew something the drift did not.
Sample — bar count and the roughly independent sample size. Overlapping horizons mean 500 bars at a 10-bar horizon is nearer 50 independent observations.
WHAT IT SHOWS RIGHT NOW
On BTCUSD 1h at the time of writing, with a 50% base rate: after bullish alignment price rose just 31.0% of the time across 58 events, an edge of −19.0 pp. Bearish alignment fared better but still negative at −7.9 pp.
Read that again, because it is the whole argument. Buying when trend, momentum and volume all agreed was substantially worse than a coin flip over this window. In a mean-reverting market that is exactly what a momentum confluence should do — it arrives late, at the point where the move it is confirming is closest to exhaustion. The indicator is not broken. The premise is.
Run it on your own symbol and timeframe before drawing any conclusion from mine. The answer changes, and being able to see it change is the point of shipping this rather than another confluence indicator that just glows green.
HONEST LIMITS
A hit rate is not a P&L. It ignores position size, cost, slippage, and the size of the moves it counts. Being right on small moves and wrong on large ones loses money at any hit rate.
Overlapping horizons correlate the observations, so the effective sample is much smaller than the event count implies. Treat differences of a few percentage points as noise.
Three votes drawn from one price series are not three independent opinions. That is a feature of the design being examined here, not a bug in the measurement.
Changing the EMA, RSI or volume lengths changes the answer. If you tune them until the edge looks good, you have fitted the window rather than found something.
NO REPAINT
There is no request.security call anywhere in this script, so the higher-timeframe lookahead problem does not arise. Every graded alignment sat at least one full horizon in the past and its outcome is already history. The current bar is scored but never graded.
Open source under MPL 2.0. Read it, fork it, tell me where I am wrong. Indicator
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Risk-Adjusted Performance Rankings | NickJoanRisk-Adjusted Performance Rankings | NickJoan
Core Idea
Risk-Adjusted Performance Rankings is a multi-asset comparison dashboard designed to rank up to 15 symbols by how efficiently they convert recent price movement into risk-adjusted return. Instead of looking only at raw price performance, the indicator evaluates three classic performance measures: Sharpe, Sortino and Omega over a user-defined lookback window and organizes the results into a table.
The script can be used in two ways:
• As a metrics table, where all three risk-adjusted values are shown side by side for each asset.
• As a ranking tool, where the symbols are sorted by Sharpe, Sortino, Omega, or a composite Z-Score score.
Calculation Logic
The indicator works by taking the percentage return of each symbol over the selected period and then building three separate statistics from that same return stream.
1. Return calculation
For each symbol, the script first calculates the one-bar rate of change. This creates a rolling return series that acts as the base input for all three risk-adjusted metrics.
2. Sharpe ratio
The Sharpe calculation measures average return relative to total return volatility.
• The script calculates the mean of returns over the selected lookback.
• It calculates the standard deviation of those returns.
• It divides mean return by standard deviation.
• It then multiplies by the square root of the lookback length to create a rolling-style scaled value.
In practical terms, a higher Sharpe reading means the asset has produced more return for each unit of total volatility.
3. Sortino ratio
The Sortino ratio is similar to Sharpe, but it only penalizes downside volatility.
• The script collects only negative returns from the lookback window.
• It computes the standard deviation of those downside returns.
• It divides mean return by that downside deviation.
• It then scales the result by the square root of the lookback.
This means Sortino rewards assets that may have volatile upside moves but relatively controlled downside behavior.
4. Omega ratio
The Omega calculation compares total gains to total losses over the selected window.
• All positive returns are summed as gains.
• All negative returns are converted to positive values and summed as losses.
• Omega is computed as the ratio of total gains to total losses.
A value above 1 suggests gains outweigh losses, while a value below 1 suggests the opposite.
Ranking Logic
The indicator supports several ranking modes, and each one uses the same asset list but applies a different sort key.
Metrics Table
In Metrics Table mode, the script shows:
• The ticker name.
• Sharpe.
• Sortino.
• Omega.
This mode is the most direct view if you want to inspect each asset’s raw values without sorting.
Sharpe / Sortino / Omega ranking
When one of these modes is selected:
• The table sorts the assets by that chosen metric.
• The highest values appear at the top.
• The table becomes a direct performance leaderboard.
Z-Score ranking
The Z-Score mode is a composite ranking system.
• The script first computes the mean and standard deviation of each metric across all 15 assets.
• It then converts each asset’s Sharpe, Sortino, and Omega into z-scores.
• Those three standardized values are averaged into one composite score.
• Assets are sorted by that final score.
This allows apples-to-apples comparison even when the raw metrics live on different numeric scales.
What the Colors Mean
The script uses color thresholds to make the table easier to read at a glance.
Sharpe colors
Sharpe cells are colored according to the input range defined by:
• Sharpe Min
• Sharpe Max
Values below the minimum are treated as weak.
Values between the lower zone and upper zone are shown as progressively stronger.
Values above the upper threshold are treated as strong.
Sortino colors
Sortino uses the same idea, but with its own range:
• Sortino Min
• Sortino Max
This allows the heatmap to reflect downside-adjusted performance independently from Sharpe.
Omega colors
Omega is especially important because it is naturally centered around 1.0.
• Values below the lower threshold are weak.
• Values between the band limits gradually improve.
• Values above the upper threshold are strong.
Z-Score colors
The Z-Score mode uses a standardized color logic:
• Strongly negative values are weak.
• Slightly negative values are mid-negative.
• Slightly positive values are mid-positive.
• Strongly positive values are strong.
This helps show whether an asset is above or below the group average on a normalized basis.
Table Output
Metrics Table output
In this mode, the table displays:
• Column 1: ticker.
• Column 2: Sharpe.
• Column 3: Sortino.
• Column 4: Omega.
Single-metric ranking output
In Sharpe, Sortino, and Omega modes, the table displays:
• Rank number.
• Ticker.
• Chosen metric.
This keeps the interface minimal while still showing the full ranked order.
Z-Score output
In this mode, the table displays:
• Rank number.
• Ticker.
• Sharpe Z.
• Sortino Z.
• Omega Z.
• Average score.
This view is useful when you want a compact, relative ranking rather than raw values.
Inputs
The indicator has four main input groups.
Calculation
• Period: defines the lookback window used for all metric calculations.
Table
• Display Mode: chooses between Metrics Table, Sharpe, Sortino, Omega, and Z-Score.
• Table Position: controls where the table is placed on the chart.
Color Scale
• Sharpe Min / Max: controls the heatmap thresholds for Sharpe.
• Sortino Min / Max: controls the heatmap thresholds for Sortino.
• Omega Min / Max: controls the heatmap thresholds for Omega.
Colors
• Strong: the strongest positive color.
• Mid +: the intermediate positive color.
• Mid -: the intermediate negative color.
• Weak: the weakest negative color.
Tickers
The script includes 15 symbol inputs, allowing you to compare a basket of assets at once. This makes it suitable for crypto rotation, watchlist comparison, or broad performance ranking across a selected universe.
How to Use It
This indicator is best used as a relative strength and quality filter, not as a standalone entry signal.
Trend selection
Use the ranking table to see which assets are showing the best risk-adjusted behavior over the chosen period.
Rotation analysis
If you track a basket of coins or market leaders, the indicator can help identify which names are improving in risk-adjusted terms and which ones are losing momentum.
Risk control
A raw gain is not always useful if it comes with excessive volatility or poor downside behavior. This script helps highlight assets with better return efficiency, not just bigger movement.
Multi-factor comparison
Because Sharpe, Sortino, and Omega emphasize different aspects of return quality, the script gives a more balanced view than a single metric alone.
Practical Interpretation
Here is a simple way to read the results:
• High Sharpe: efficient return relative to total volatility.
• High Sortino: strong return with less downside volatility.
• High Omega: gains outweigh losses over the lookback window.
• High Z-Score average: strong performance relative to the rest of the selected universe.
If an asset scores well across all three, it usually represents a stronger and more stable candidate than one that only looks good on one metric.
Best Use Cases
Typical uses include:
• Crypto basket comparison.
• Top-asset ranking.
• Risk-adjusted momentum filtering.
• Rotation watchlists.
• Regime-aware asset selection.
It is especially useful when you want to compare many symbols quickly without manually calculating which ones are actually performing best on a quality-adjusted basis.
Notes
The metric table is only as good as the selected lookback period and asset set.
• Shorter periods react faster but can be noisier.
• Longer periods smooth the results but may lag recent shifts.
• The Z-Score mode is relative to the selected group, so its meaning depends on the symbols you include. Indicator
Volume Nodes & Value Migration [MQLSoftware]Volume Nodes & Value Migration is an anchored volume profile engine that rebuilds the profile construction itself and then measures how price actually behaves around the profile's own structure: the Point of Control (POC), the Value Area (VAH / VAL), high-volume nodes (HVN) and low-volume nodes (LVN). Instead of a fixed number of rows filled by spreading each bar's volume uniformly, it derives the bin height from ATR at each window anchor, weights every bar's volume toward its close with a triangular kernel, recomputes the POC and Value Area on every confirmed bar so the migration of value is visible as a trail, arms the committed POC and high-volume nodes as trackable levels with an accepted / rejected state machine, and reports measured base rates for those events from the chart's own history.
This is a visual analytical tool intended for chart reading and volume-structure mapping. It does not execute trades and does not provide financial advice.
Key Features
Anchored volume profiles (Day / Week / Month / Quarter, or Auto per chart timeframe) with bin height derived from ATR at the window anchor, so the bin count follows the window's range-to-ATR ratio instead of a fixed row number
Close-weighted triangular distribution: each bar's volume is spread over its high-low span with the apex at the close, so the settled price carries more weight than the wick extremes
Developing POC step-trail and Value Area band for the active window, recomputed on every confirmed bar; committed windows keep their final POC and Value Area lines so history stays clean, and consecutive windows are chained with dotted POC-to-POC links labelled with the migration distance in ATR and percent
Committed POC and the strongest HVNs arm as horizontal levels and every return is tracked armed, then accepted (confirmed closes inside the node zone) or rejected (a probe through the node center that closes outside the zone)
Thin Zones (LVN) of each committed window shaded as context — the low-volume gaps price historically transits rather than builds business in
A statistics panel with the live window status, developing value, node states and measured base rates: how often price revisited the prior POC and how node retests resolved, each with its sample size
Four confirmed-bar alerts: node accepted, node rejected, profile committed, prior POC revisited
Core Concept
PulseWire already ships volume profile tools (Visible Range, Fixed Range, Session and periodic profiles), and most community profiles repeat the same construction: a fixed row count, each bar's volume spread uniformly across its high-low range, and a final static histogram left for the reader to interpret. This indicator rebuilds each of those stages and then closes the loop by measuring what price actually does at the profile's own levels. Five specific algorithmic elements:
1. Adaptive resolution. The bin height is derived from ATR at the window anchor (Coarse 0.50, Balanced 0.25, Fine 0.125 ATR per bin), so the number of bins follows the window's range-to-ATR ratio. A quiet range window and an expansion window get structurally comparable profiles on any symbol and timeframe, with no fixed row count and no per-market tuning. If a window's range outgrows the internal cap, bins merge 2:1 and the height doubles — resolution stays bounded by construction.
2. Close-weighted triangular distribution. Each bar's volume is distributed over its high-low span by a triangular kernel with its apex at the bar close: the weight a price bin receives is the integral of that kernel over the bin. For a bin inside a bar with low L, high H and close C, the weight is F(b) - F(a), where F(x) = (x - L)^2 / ((H - L)(C - L)) below the close and F(x) = 1 - (H - x)^2 / ((H - L)(H - C)) above it. The settled price therefore carries more weight than the wick extremes, which a uniform spread treats identically to the body.
3. Developing value area. POC, VAH and VAL are recomputed on every confirmed bar of the active window; the POC is drawn as a step trail and the Value Area as a developing band, so the reader sees value migrate through the window — POC ladders, value-area expansion and contraction — rather than only the final snapshot. Once a window commits, its trail retires and the final POC / VAH / VAL lines remain, so history stays readable. Committed windows are chained with dotted POC-to-POC links labelled with the migration distance in ATR units and percent.
4. Node acceptance state machine. When a window commits, its POC and the strongest HVNs (local peaks holding at least half of the POC volume) arm as horizontal levels. Every return is tracked on confirmed bars only: a retest is accepted after N consecutive confirmed closes inside the node zone (node center plus/minus half an ATR, never thinner than one bin), and rejected when a probe trades through the node center and closes outside the zone, or when a visit leaves the zone before N closes. A graze of the zone edge that neither trades the center nor closes inside resolves nothing. Resolutions are latched and marked on the chart; unresolved nodes expire when the next window commits.
5. Measured base rates. The panel reports observed frequencies from this chart's own loaded history: how often price traded back through the prior window's POC, how often POC retests resolved as accepted, and how often HVN retests were rejected — each with its sample size. Below a minimum sample the panel says "collecting" instead of quoting a percentage. Observed frequencies, not assumptions, and no claims attached to them.
Anatomy of the Display
The committed histogram is the final profile of each closed window, drawn from the window's start with bin brightness following volume share; the Value Area is shaded behind it. The POC row and line mark the single price bin that traded the most volume, labelled `POC · High Volume Node`; VAH and VAL are dashed lines labelled `VAH · Value Area High` and `VAL · Value Area Low`.
The developing trail is a step line of the active window's POC with the developing Value Area shaded behind it, both recomputed on every confirmed bar and existing only for the window still forming. The dotted migration link connects the final POCs of consecutive windows and carries a label with the shift in ATR units and percent.
Node lines extend right from each commit: the POC node in the bright POC color, HVNs in the profile color, each labelled by kind. When a retest resolves, the line recolors and a mark is printed: `✓ accepted` when price held the required confirmed closes inside the zone, `✕ rejected` when it was turned away. Expired (untested) nodes fade to dotted.
Thin Zones are faint dashed boxes labelled `LVN · Thin Zone` over the committed window's low-volume gaps. They carry no state machine and no alerts — context only.
The panel shows the window status (anchor period, bars, bins and bin height), the developing POC and Value Area, the POC migration versus the prior window, the state of each armed node, and the measured base rates with sample sizes.
Notes on Repainting
Volume accumulation, developing POC / VAH / VAL updates, node state transitions, base-rate counters and alerts run on confirmed bars only.
A committed profile is final: it is built exclusively from the confirmed bars of a closed window and is never recalculated afterwards.
Node resolutions are latched. An accepted or rejected mark cannot un-happen if price later trades back through the level.
The live developing histogram, POC trail and Value Area band of the current window redraw as the window grows — they are explicitly visual context for the forming profile, not signals.
The script requests no higher-timeframe data at all (no `request.security` calls); window anchors are detected with `timeframe.change` in the chart context.
Alerts are gated by confirmed-bar events and fire once per closed bar, never intra-bar.
Typical Analysis Workflow
A common analytical workflow may include:
Reading the committed profile for the prior window: where the POC sits, how wide the Value Area is, and where the Thin Zones are
Watching the developing POC trail of the active window — a POC laddering in one direction reads as value migrating, a static POC as value building in place
Comparing the migration link and the panel's MIGRATION row to see how far value shifted between windows in ATR terms
Waiting for price to return to an armed node and letting the state machine resolve the retest into accepted or rejected on confirmed bars
Consulting the measured base rates to see how often such revisits and retests actually occurred on this chart's history, then combining the read with other forms of analysis and risk management
Configuration
Anchor Period - the window each profile covers (Auto, Day, Week, Month, Quarter); Auto follows the chart timeframe and a pick at or below it escalates automatically.
Committed Profiles to Keep - how many closed windows keep their histogram drawn; statistics always use the full loaded history.
Profile Detail - target resolution (Coarse / Balanced / Fine), expressed as ATR per bin, never a bin count.
ATR Length - the ATR lookback used for bin height and migration distances.
Value Area % - the share of window volume the Value Area encloses.
Track POC / HVN as Nodes - arms committed levels for the accepted / rejected state machine.
Acceptance Closes - confirmed closes inside the node zone required for an accepted resolution.
HVN Nodes per Window - how many high-volume nodes arm besides the POC.
Thin Zones (LVN) - shades the committed window's low-volume gaps.
Resolved Marks to Keep - how many resolved node marks stay drawn on the chart; the measured statistics are unaffected.
Rendering - committed profiles, live developing profile, profile width, the active window's POC trail and Value Area band, migration links, glow, and the four palette colors.
Statistics Panel - visibility, corner and text size.
Markets and Timeframes
The indicator can be applied across multiple markets and timeframes:
Forex
Stocks and Indices
Commodities
Cryptocurrencies
Because the bin height, node zones and migration distances are all ATR-based, the visual behavior stays consistent across instruments and timeframes. On symbols that supply no volume data the script weights every bar equally (a time-at-price read) and the panel states so explicitly.
Alerts
Node accepted - price printed the required confirmed closes inside an armed node zone
Node rejected - an armed node turned the retest away (probe through the node center with a confirmed close outside the zone)
Profile committed - an anchor window closed; its profile is final and its nodes are armed
Prior POC revisited - price traded back through the previous window's Point of Control
All alerts evaluate on confirmed bars to avoid intra-bar oscillation. A dynamic alert message naming the exact event(s) is also provided. Indicator
Chandelier Exit Trend Navigator [MarkitTick]💡 A trend-following overlay that tracks directional shifts using a volatility-adaptive channel (Chandelier Exit methodology) and converts each flip into a fully structured trade plan — entry, stop-loss, and three R-multiple take-profit levels — displayed directly on the chart alongside a live status dashboard.
✨ Originality and Utility
While the Chandelier Exit concept itself (anchoring a trailing stop to the highest high or lowest low over a lookback, offset by a multiple of ATR) is a well-documented volatility-stop technique, this script extends that foundation into a complete navigation system rather than a simple trailing line.
Three layers separate this tool from a stock Chandelier Exit plot:
An optional adaptive pre-filter (Kalman Filter or a slope-adjusted moving average referred to here as LLAMA) that can be applied to the source series before the channel extremes are calculated, allowing the trend anchor itself to react differently to noise depending on which filter is selected.
A full trade-management layer built on top of the directional flip: automatic stop-loss placement, three independently configurable take-profit levels defined in R-multiples, and live linefill zones that visually separate risk from reward.
A condition-stacking filter system (higher-timeframe EMA bias and ADX strength) that must all align before a directional flip is treated as an actionable signal, reducing signals generated during weak or conflicting conditions.
The combination is not an arbitrary mashup — the adaptive filter conditions the input to the channel calculation, the HTF/ADX filters condition which flips are considered valid, and the trade-management layer converts a validated flip into a concrete, risk-defined plan. Each component feeds the next in a single directional pipeline.
🔬 Methodology and Concepts
● Chandelier Exit Core
The core channel is built from Average True Range (ATR), calculated over a user-defined lookback. Two boundaries are computed each bar:
A long-side stop, set below the highest value of the source over the lookback period, offset by a multiple of ATR.
A short-side stop, set above the lowest value of the source over the same lookback, offset by the same ATR multiple.
Users can choose whether the highest/lowest calculation uses close-based extremes or true high/low wicks, which changes how sensitive the channel is to intrabar spikes.
A persistent trailing line then locks in the tighter of the two boundaries as price develops: while the current directional state is bullish, the line only ratchets upward (never loosening on a pullback); while bearish, it only ratchets downward. A directional flip occurs when price closes beyond the opposite boundary from the prior bar, at which point the trailing line resets to anchor the new trend.
● Adaptive Source Filtering
Before the channel extremes are calculated, the source price can optionally be passed through one of two smoothing methods:
Kalman Filter — a recursive estimator that updates its estimate of the "true" price each bar based on a prediction-error and gain calculation, converging faster in stable conditions and adapting more cautiously during volatile ones.
LLAMA — a linear-regression-style approach that takes a simple moving average of the source and adjusts it by the recent slope (rate of change) over the same lookback, projecting the average forward in the direction the price has been drifting.
When neither is selected, the raw close is used directly, preserving the traditional Chandelier Exit behavior.
● Confirmation Filters
Two independent filters can be layered on top of the raw directional flip before it is treated as a signal:
A higher-timeframe EMA bias filter, which only allows long signals when price is trading above an EMA calculated on a higher timeframe, and only allows short signals when price is trading below it.
An ADX-based strength filter, which requires the Average Directional Index to be at or above a user-defined threshold before any signal — long or short — is permitted, filtering out flips that occur during weak, non-trending conditions.
Both filters default to off and can be combined or used independently.
● Trade Level Construction
When a filtered directional flip is confirmed on a closed bar, the script anchors a trade plan to the prior bar's close:
Risk per trade is defined as the prior bar's ATR multiplied by a user-set stop-loss multiplier.
The stop-loss is placed one risk-unit away from the entry, in the direction opposite the trade.
Three take-profit levels are placed at independently configurable R-multiples of that same risk distance (default 1R, 2R, and 3R), each extending in the direction of the trade.
This means every signal comes with a symmetric, volatility-scaled risk framework rather than a fixed point value, so trade levels automatically widen or tighten with current market volatility.
🎨 Visual Guide
Heatmap Candles — the chart's candle bodies and wicks are recolored to match the current directional state: teal/green while the trailing system is bullish, red while bearish, and gray when direction is undetermined (e.g. on the very first bar).
Entry Line (blue, dashed) — marks the anchor price of the most recent confirmed trade signal.
Stop-Loss Line (red, solid, thicker) — marks the calculated stop price for the active signal, labeled "✕ SL" with its price value.
Take-Profit Lines (green, dashed, three separate levels) — TP1, TP2, and TP3, each drawn with progressively fuller opacity so TP3 is the most visually solid, labeled "◆ TP1", "✦ TP2", and "◆ TP3" respectively with their price values.
Risk Zone Fill — a light red shaded region between the stop-loss and entry lines, visually sizing the risk portion of the trade.
Reward Zone Fill — a light teal shaded region between the entry and TP3 lines, visually sizing the potential reward portion of the trade.
Dashboard Table — a repositionable panel (default top-right) summarizing, in real time: Lock status, current Trend direction, HTF Bias reading, the numeric CE trailing-stop level, current ATR value, and the active Entry/SL prices. When enabled, it also displays the current ADX reading and which adaptive filter (if any) is active. A visual bar-and-percentage gauge shows the reward-to-risk ratio of the current trade relative to TP3, colored red/yellow/green depending on how favorable it is.
📌 Note : the best way to resolve visual overlap is to navigate to the Object Tree and drag the indicator above the main chart layer, or simply hide the native candles in your chart settings.
📖 How to Use
A directional flip in the heatmap candle color, together with a new Entry/SL/TP level set appearing on the chart, indicates a fresh signal in that direction.
The Stop-Loss line represents the level at which the trade thesis is considered invalidated under this system's logic.
TP1, TP2, and TP3 represent successive profit-taking references at increasing R-multiples; price reaching a level does not close or resize the plotted level automatically — it is a visual reference for scaling decisions.
The Risk and Reward zone fills give an immediate visual sense of the trade's risk framing without needing to read exact price values.
The Dashboard's R:R (TP3) gauge offers a quick read on how the reward potential compares to the initial risk for the most recent signal.
The Lock Signal input, when enabled, freezes the currently plotted levels in place and suppresses new signal generation — useful for reviewing a specific setup without the chart updating further trade plans in real time.
When the HTF or ADX filters are enabled but conditions aren't met, no new signal will fire even if the raw directional flip occurs — check the Dashboard's HTF Bias and ADX rows to understand why a flip may not have produced a signal.
⚙️ Inputs and Settings
ATR Len / ATR Mult — controls the lookback and volatility multiplier used to build the Chandelier channel; a longer length and/or larger multiplier produces a wider, slower-reacting trailing stop.
Use Close Extremes — toggles between close-based and high/low-based channel construction, changing sensitivity to intrabar wicks.
HTF Trend Filter / HTF TF / HTF EMA Len — enables and configures the higher-timeframe EMA bias filter that gates which direction of signal is permitted.
Use ADX Filter / ADX Threshold / ADX Length — enables and configures the trend-strength filter that must be satisfied for any signal to fire.
Adaptive Filter / Adaptive Filter Length — selects an optional smoothing method (Kalman Filter or LLAMA) applied to the source before channel calculation, and its lookback length.
Lock Signal — freezes the currently displayed trade levels and halts new signal generation.
SL ATR Mult — sets how many ATR units define one unit of risk for stop-loss placement.
TP1 R / TP2 R / TP3 R — sets the R-multiple distance for each take-profit level relative to the calculated risk.
Heatmap Candles / Show Trade Levels — toggle the directional candle coloring and the entry/SL/TP drawing layer independently.
Dash Pos — repositions the dashboard to any chart corner.
Color inputs — customize the bullish/bearish colors, stop-loss, entry, and take-profit line colors, and the dashboard's background, header, and text colors.
Alert action fields (Long/Short/Close Long/Close Short) — customize the text string sent in the "action" field of the JSON alert payload, useful for routing signals to automated systems expecting specific action keywords.
🔍 Deconstruction of the Underlying Scientific and Academic Framework
The trailing-stop core of this script belongs to a family of volatility-adjusted stop techniques that use Average True Range as a normalization factor for price movement, an approach popularized in trend-following and volatility-breakout literature as a way to size stops relative to an instrument's current, rather than fixed, volatility regime. Anchoring the stop to a rolling extreme (highest high or lowest low) rather than a fixed percentage or point distance reflects the broader class of "channel breakout" trend systems, in which a directional bias persists until price violates a level defined by recent extremes — a structure with roots in classical trend-following systems that predate modern indicator platforms.
The optional Kalman Filter smoothing draws on recursive Bayesian estimation theory, originally developed for tracking dynamic systems under measurement uncertainty. Applied to price, it treats each new close as a noisy observation of an underlying "true" value, blending the prior estimate with the new observation according to a gain term that adjusts based on estimated error — a formulation with parallels to adaptive filtering approaches used in signal processing and, more recently, in quantitative finance research on noise-reduction for price series.
The LLAMA-labeled alternative combines a simple moving average with a linear slope projection, conceptually related to local linear regression and momentum-adjusted smoothing techniques, where a lagging average is advanced along the estimated trend direction to partially compensate for the inherent lag of moving-average-based estimators.
The ADX-based strength filter draws on Welles Wilder's Directional Movement framework, which quantifies trend strength independently of trend direction; requiring a minimum ADX reading before accepting a signal reflects a common risk-management heuristic in trend-following systems — that directional signals generated during low ADX (ranging/choppy) conditions have historically shown less reliability than those generated during elevated trend strength, though this relationship is probabilistic rather than deterministic and varies across instruments and regimes.
The take-profit structure, expressed in R-multiples of the initial risk rather than fixed price or percentage targets, reflects standard position-sizing and risk-management theory in which trade outcomes are measured relative to the capital placed at risk, allowing performance to be evaluated on a risk-normalized basis rather than in absolute price terms.
⚠️ Disclaimer
All provided scripts and indicators are strictly for educational exploration and must not be interpreted as financial advice or a recommendation to execute trades. We expressly disclaim all liability for any financial losses or damages that may result, directly or indirectly, from the reliance on or application of these tools. Market participation carries inherent risk where past performance never guarantees future returns, leaving all investment decisions and due diligence solely at your own discretion. Indicator
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Gravity Well Trend | Lyro RSOverview:
Gravity Well Trend is a volume-weighted mean-reversion and trend tool built around a simple idea: the volume-weighted price center is where the market's "mass" sits, and price orbiting near it is effectively captured. A real trend only exists when price achieves sufficient distance from that center in ATR terms while the center itself is accelerating the same direction — an escape from the well, not just a temporary orbit. Three selectable signal modes let it run as a strict trend filter, a simple midline flip, or a band-reclaim system.
Key Features
Volume-Weighted Gravity Center: Calculates a volume-weighted moving average as the "center of mass" for price, forming the core reference line the rest of the indicator is built around.
Escape-Distance Trend Logic: In Trend mode, a bullish or bearish trend only confirms when price is far enough from the center (in ATR units) AND the center itself is moving the same direction — distance alone with a flat center doesn't count.
Three Signal Modes: Trend — flips only on a confirmed escape from the gravity well. Midline — simple long/short based on whether price is above or below the center. Bands — flips long on a cross above the lowest band and stays long until a cross below the highest band flips it short.
Layered Band Envelope: Plots an outer and inner band pair around the center (inner bands at half the outer width), with graded zone fills between center and bands for a clear visual sense of price's position within the well.
Gradient Strength Visualization: The gravity center line and candle coloring use a gradient blend based on how far price has traveled from center relative to the band width, giving an at-a-glance read on trend conviction.
Candle Coloring: Optionally recolors chart candles using the same gradient logic as the center line.
Customizable Visuals: Choose from 4 preset palettes — Classic, Mystic, Accented, Royal — or define your own custom bullish/bearish colors.
Built-In Signals: Automatically plots long/short labels on confirmed trend flips.
How It Works
Center Calculation – Computes a volume-weighted moving average of the source over the chosen length to establish the gravity center.
Distance Measurement – Measures the distance between price and the center in ATR units to gauge how far price has strayed from its center of mass.
Band Construction – Builds an outer band pair at the full Band Width setting and an inner pair at half that width, forming a layered envelope around the center.
Mode-Dependent Trend Logic – Trend mode requires both sufficient escape distance and a rising/falling center; Midline mode simply follows price relative to center; Bands mode uses crosses of the outer bands to flip and hold direction.
Visualization – Plots the gravity center with layered glow, the band envelope with graded fills, flip signal labels, and gradient-based candle coloring.
Practical Use
Trend Confirmation – Use Trend mode when you want to avoid acting on price simply drifting away from center without real directional follow-through in the center itself.
Simple Directional Bias – Use Midline mode for a straightforward above/below-center read when you want more frequent signals.
Range/Reclaim Trading – Use Bands mode to trade reclaims of extreme levels, holding a position until the opposite extreme is reclaimed.
Zone Awareness – Watch the graded band zones to see how extended price is relative to its recent volume-weighted center before committing to a trade.
Customization
Switch between Trend, Midline, and Bands signal modes to match your trading style.
Adjust Length to tune how responsive the gravity center is to recent price/volume.
Adjust Escape Distance to control how far price must travel (with a moving center) to confirm a trend in Trend mode.
Adjust Band Width and ATR Length to reshape the band envelope and its sensitivity.
Toggle bands, signal labels, and candle coloring independently.
Pick a preset palette or define fully custom bullish/bearish colors.
⚠️Disclaimer
This indicator is a tool for technical analysis and does not provide guaranteed results. It should be used in conjunction with other analysis methods and proper risk management practices. The creators of this indicator are not responsible for any financial decisions made based on its signals. Indicator
Fractal ZigZag with Retest & Filters By WiselyWealthIndicator ; Fractal ZigZag with Retest & Filters
Introduction
Welcome to the comprehensive guide for the 'Fractal ZigZag with Retest & Filters' indicator. This custom-built Pine Script indicator is an advanced technical analysis tool designed explicitly for the PulseWire platform. At its core, the primary objective of this script is to provide traders with high-probability entry signals by systematically filtering out market noise, avoiding false breakouts, and ensuring alignment with the overarching macroeconomic trend.
Many retail traders fall into the trap of entering positions during sudden, volatile price spikes, only to suffer heavy drawdowns when the market naturally pulls back. This script mitigates that risk by enforcing a strict, rules-based approach: identifying structural shifts, confirming the initial breakout, and mathematically demanding a pullback (or "retest") before issuing a final trading signal. Additionally, it features built-in alert conditions, making it perfectly suited for algorithmic traders who wish to automate their strategies via Webhooks, Telegram bots, or MT5 API integrations.
Technical Mechanism
The mechanical operation of this script is multi-layered, relying on a confluence of structural mapping, trend filtering, and volatility-based retest calculations. Here is a detailed, step-by-step technical breakdown of how the script detects and generates its buy and sell signals:
Mapping Market Structure with Williams Fractals:The foundation of the script relies on identifying key swing highs and swing lows using Williams Fractals. By default, the indicator evaluates a 5-bar lookback and look-forward period to pinpoint these structural pivots. Once a valid upward or downward fractal is identified, the script connects them using a dynamic ZigZag line. This creates an unambiguous visual map of the market's underlying structure, cleanly displaying the sequence of higher highs or lower lows.
Initial Breakout Identification: The indicator actively monitors the current closing price in relation to the most recently confirmed fractal levels. A raw bullish breakout is registered the moment a candle closes definitively above the last established fractal high. Conversely, a raw bearish breakout is noted when the closing price drops below the most recent fractal low. To prevent redundant alerts, the script locks the current trend state upon a successful breakout.
The ATR-Based Retest Engine: This is the most sophisticated aspect of the indicator. When "Enable Retest Mode" is activated, the script refuses to issue an immediate entry signal at the exact moment of the breakout. Instead, it uses the Average True Range (ATR) over a 14-period lookback to measure current market volatility. For a bullish setup, it calculates a "Retest Target" by subtracting a user-defined ATR multiplier (default 1.0) from the breakout close price. It then starts a countdown timer, allowing a maximum number of candles (default 3) for the price to drop back down and touch this target. If the pullback is successful within the time limit, the raw buy signal is triggered. If the time expires without a retest, the setup is safely invalidated.
Macro Trend Filtering: Before finalizing any signal, the script consults a 200-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA). If the trend filter is enabled, a buy signal is entirely suppressed unless the closing price is strictly above the EMA200. Sell signals similarly require the price to remain below the EMA200. Users can also force the script into a "Buy Only" or "Sell Only" mode to align with their long-term directional bias.
How to Use and Best Practices
To extract maximum profitability and accuracy from this script, traders must apply the correct settings and deploy it in appropriate market environments.
Recommended Settings and Configuration:
Conservative Swing Trading: Ensure the EMA200 Trend Filter remains enabled to keep you on the side of institutional momentum. You may also want to increase the Fractal Periods from 5 to 7 or 9. This filters out minor price fluctuations and forces the script to base its breakouts on major structural swing points.
Retest Calibration for Volatility:** The default ATR multiplier is 1.0, and the wait limit is 3 candles. If you are trading on lower timeframes (e.g., 5-minute or 15-minute charts), breakouts can take slightly longer to retest. Consider increasing the "Max Candles to wait" to 5 or 6. For highly volatile assets, increasing the ATR Multiplier to 1.5 can help you secure a deeper, more favorable pullback entry.
Directional Lock: If higher timeframe analysis dictates a strong bull market, use the "Trade Direction" setting to restrict signals to "Buy Only," eliminating counter-trend noise during minor market corrections.
Suitable Markets and Timeframes:
Forex and Indices: This indicator performs exceptionally well on major Forex pairs (EUR/USD, GBP/JPY) and Global Indices (US30, NAS100) on the 1-Hour and 4-Hour timeframes. These assets heavily respect market structure, and liquidity grabs (retests) are highly common after structural breakouts.
Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin and Ethereum on the 15-minute to 1-Hour charts are excellent candidates, provided you adjust the ATR multiplier to account for crypto's volatile, whipsaw movements.
Markets to Avoid: Avoid using this script in heavily consolidated, range-bound, or sideways markets. Breakout and trend-continuation logic inherently struggles during prolonged periods of low volatility, where price chops indiscriminately around the 200 EMA without clear directional follow-through. Indicator
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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