Nebbia Session Map & HTF Levels Nebbia Market Sessions & Liquidity Levels is an open-source intraday market-mapping indicator designed to combine session structure, liquidity references, higher-timeframe levels and the US Initial Balance in a single charting tool.
The script is intended primarily for traders who work on lower intraday timeframes and want a clear view of where price is trading relative to important session ranges, historical highs and lows, confirmed swing levels, opening prices and Initial Balance projections.
Market Sessions
The indicator can display the main intraday trading sessions:
Asia
London
New York AM
New York Lunch
New York PM
Each session can be enabled or disabled independently and has customizable hours, colors and transparency.
The first hour of the Asia and London sessions can also be highlighted separately, making it easier to identify their initial range and early-session price development.
Session times use timezone-aware calculations, allowing daylight-saving changes to be handled correctly when IANA timezones such as America/New_York, America/Chicago, Europe/London, Europe/Rome and Asia/Tokyo are selected.
Killzone Pivots
For every enabled killzone, the script can track the session high and low and extend them forward as potential liquidity levels.
These pivots can remain active according to three different expiration rules:
until the end of the trading day;
until the next occurrence of the same session;
until the level is mitigated.
A pivot stops extending once price trades through it.
Alerts can also be enabled for killzone pivot breaks.
Higher-Timeframe Liquidity Levels
Nebbia can display historical liquidity references from several timeframes:
past daily highs and lows;
past weekly highs and lows;
past monthly highs and lows;
two optional confirmed swing-timeframe slots.
The two swing slots are fully configurable. They may be used, for example, for:
4-hour swings;
1-hour swings;
30-minute swings;
or any other supported timeframe.
Swing highs and lows are confirmed only after the selected number of right-side bars has closed, preventing an unconfirmed pivot from being displayed prematurely.
The timeframe name is generated automatically in the label, producing references such as:
4H H
4H L
1H H
30M L
When two swing levels occur at the same price, the higher timeframe takes priority.
Level Confluence
When multiple liquidity references share the same price, Nebbia merges them instead of drawing several overlapping lines.
The hierarchy is:
Monthly → Weekly → Daily → higher swing timeframe → lower swing timeframe
The highest-priority line remains visible, while the label can report the relevant confluence.
Examples:
W LOW 09.06 / 4H L
D HIGH 16.07 / 1H H
M LOW 01.07 / W LOW 07.07
This keeps the chart readable while preserving the information contained in lower-timeframe confirmations.
Active and Mitigated Levels
Active liquidity levels are displayed using the selected active line style.
Once price trades through a level, it can be converted into a mitigated level using a separate broken-line style and transparency.
A dedicated setting allows mitigated levels to be shown or hidden completely.
This means the chart can be configured either to retain historical interaction points or to display only liquidity levels that remain untouched.
Level labels can also be enabled or disabled independently.
High labels are positioned above their level, while low labels are positioned below it.
Current Trading-Day High and Low
An optional developing mode can display the high and low of the current Chicago trading day.
These levels update throughout the session and are treated as provisional rather than as already-confirmed historical levels.
At the beginning of the next trading day, the completed daily range is transferred into the normal historical daily-level logic.
ADR5 Distance Filter
Nebbia includes an optional ADR5 filter, based on the average daily range of the five most recently completed trading days.
The ADR5 value is calculated and frozen at the beginning of each new trading day.
Only levels located within the selected ADR5 distance multiplier are displayed.
This can reduce chart clutter by hiding historical liquidity references that are too far away from current price.
For example:
1.0 displays levels within one ADR5;
1.5 displays levels within one and a half ADR5;
2.0 displays levels within two ADR5.
Opening Prices
The indicator can display the latest opening price for:
Daily Open — 00:00 Rome
Tokyo Open — 09:00 Tokyo
London Open — 08:00 London
US Cash Open — 08:30 Chicago
Each opening price has an independent visibility option, color and editable label text.
Only the latest relevant opening line is retained, preventing older opening levels from unnecessarily accumulating on the chart.
Time Markers and Separators
Optional vertical timestamps can identify:
00:00 Rome;
08:30 Chicago.
Daily, weekly and monthly separators can also be displayed independently.
Optional day-of-week labels may be placed at the top or bottom of the chart, with the possibility of hiding weekend labels.
US Initial Balance
Nebbia includes a dedicated US Initial Balance module based on the first hour of the US cash session:
08:30–09:30 America/Chicago
The Initial Balance can display:
IB High;
IB Low;
50% midpoint;
optional ×2 and ×3 extensions;
optional 50% levels between the main extensions;
a highlighted IB time window;
a tinted area between IB High and IB Low;
optional price labels;
configurable extension direction and line styles.
When lines are extended to the right, they remain active until the beginning of the next trading day’s Initial Balance rather than extending indefinitely.
The script can also calculate statistics from the previous 20 completed Initial Balance sessions.
Customization
Most visual components can be configured independently, including:
session colors and transparency;
swing timeframes and pivot sensitivity;
level colors and widths;
active and mitigated line styles;
label visibility and distance;
opening-price labels;
timestamp styles;
Initial Balance colors, widths and extensions;
timeframe visibility limits;
session-history drawing limits.
Credits
This open-source project was inspired in part by:
ICT Killzones + Pivots
by tradeforopp
Full recognition is given to the original author for the concepts and foundation that helped inspire the session and pivot components of this project.
Nebbia Market Sessions & Liquidity Levels is an independent expansion and redesign that adds higher-timeframe liquidity mapping, swing-timeframe slots, confluence management, ADR5 filtering, opening prices, timestamps and a complete US Initial Balance module.
Disclaimer
This indicator is provided for educational and analytical purposes only.
It does not constitute financial advice, investment advice or a recommendation to enter or exit any trade. Historical levels, session ranges, pivots and Initial Balance projections do not guarantee future market behavior. Indicator
Anchored VWAP Engine [Quantum Algo]Anchored VWAP Engine
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🔶 OVERVIEW
Anchored VWAP Engine is a multi-stream anchored Volume Weighted Average Price indicator that removes the hardest part of trading with anchored VWAP: choosing the anchor. The engine runs up to seven independently anchored VWAP streams that place and reset their own anchors automatically — the week open (the default stream), session open, month open, confirmed swing highs and swing lows, the highest-volume bar in a lookback, and a liquidity-sweep anchor that re-anchors from the exact bar where a stop run occurred. On top of the streams it adds volume-weighted deviation bands, automatic confluence cluster zones where multiple streams converge, band-rejection signals, and a stability metric that names which VWAP the market is currently respecting most.
Out of the box the chart shows a single clean line: the week-anchored Volume Weighted Average Price with its deviation bands. Every additional stream is one checkbox away.
🔶 WHAT IS AN ANCHORED VWAP?
The Volume Weighted Average Price is the average price of an instrument weighted by traded volume — the closest public approximation of the average position price of everyone who transacted since a chosen starting point. An anchored VWAP starts that calculation from a meaningful event rather than an arbitrary date: a weekly open, a swing low, a high-volume climax bar. Price above an anchored VWAP means the average participant since that event is in profit; price returning to it often behaves as a decision level, because it is where the average position breaks even. The power of the tool depends entirely on where it is anchored — which is exactly what this engine automates.
🔶 WHY THIS SCRIPT IS ORIGINAL
1. Automatic multi-anchor engine. Seven streams anchor and re-anchor themselves from objectively defined events — no manual anchor placement, no stale anchors, no guessing.
2. The liquidity-sweep anchor. When a swing level is wicked through and rejected — a stop run — the sweep stream re-anchors from that exact bar and colors itself by implication: the accumulation tone after a sell-side sweep, the distribution tone after a buy-side raid. Averaging from the stop-run bar tracks the entry basis of the participants who engineered it. To our knowledge this anchor type has not been published before.
3. Exact swing anchoring. Swing-anchored streams rebuild their sums retroactively from the true pivot bar once the pivot confirms, so the calculation is mathematically identical to a VWAP hand-anchored on the swing itself — not started late at the confirmation bar.
4. Confluence clusters. When two or more active streams converge within an Average True Range tolerance, the engine draws a cluster zone and labels its strength. Multiple independent volume-weighted averages agreeing on one price is the strongest form of VWAP confluence, detected automatically.
5. The In Control metric. An exponentially decayed crossing-rate measures how cleanly price is respecting each stream; the dashboard names the stream currently in control. Users learn which anchor matters today instead of watching all of them equally.
6. True volume-weighted deviation bands. The bands are built from the volume-weighted variance of the primary stream — not a simple price standard deviation — at two configurable widths, with band-rejection signals printed as a single σ character whose full context lives in the hover tooltip, protected by a signal cooldown.
7. Quiet by default. One stream, one set of bands, capped signals, and a compact dashboard. The engine detects everything; the chart shows only what is asked of it.
🔶 HOW IT WORKS
Streams: Each stream maintains volume-weighted price and variance sums that reset on its anchor event — new week, new session, new month, a confirmed swing, a lookback volume record, or a qualified liquidity sweep. Between events the sums accumulate bar by bar, producing the stream's live anchored VWAP.
Sweep detection: A sweep qualifies when price wicks through the last confirmed swing level but closes back inside it, with per-level memory so the same level cannot re-trigger. The sweep stream then re-anchors from that bar.
Deviation bands: The primary stream (selectable; week open by default) carries inner and outer bands at configurable sigma multiples computed from its own volume-weighted variance, with softly tinted zones between them.
Signals: A wick beyond the outer band with a close back inside, on the correct side of the VWAP, prints the σ rejection signal — reversion bias toward the average — evaluated on closed bars only and rate-limited by the cooldown.
Clusters: On the live bar the engine groups all active stream values within the tolerance and draws a labeled zone for each group of two or more.
Dashboard: A fully themeable panel lists every stream with its live distance from price in Average True Range units and side, plus the In Control stream, active cluster count, and the current band width.
Non-repainting: Anchors use confirmed events, sweeps and signals are evaluated at bar close, and swing streams rebuild exactly rather than approximately.
🔶 HOW TO USE IT
1. Works on any market with reliable volume — cryptocurrency, stocks, indices, futures. On the default settings, read the week-anchored VWAP as the institutional benchmark: above it with rising distance means the average weekly participant is in profit.
2. Treat the VWAP itself as the decision level and the outer bands as stretch: σ rejections at the outer band carry a reversion bias back toward the average.
3. Enable the swing and sweep anchors to study reactions: price returning to a sweep-anchored VWAP is returning to the average entry of the stop-run — a level worth watching.
4. Cluster zones are the highest-value levels the engine produces: several independent volume-weighted averages agreeing on one price. Watch how price behaves on first touch.
5. Use the In Control row to pick which stream deserves your attention today, and the distance column to see what is nearby before it is hit.
6. Intraday traders can switch the primary stream to Session Open; swing traders can promote Month Open.
🔶 SETTINGS
- Anchors: independent toggles for all seven streams, swing pivot length, highest-volume lookback. Default: Week Open only.
- Primary stream selection with inner and outer band multiples.
- Cluster detection with Average True Range tolerance.
- Signals: toggle, cooldown, and signals to keep.
- Individual colors for every stream plus accent and neutral colors.
- Themeable dashboard: position, four text sizes, title band, background, frame, grid, and three text colors.
🔶 ALERTS
- Bullish / Bearish Band Rejection — price rejected the outer deviation band of the primary stream.
- Price Crossed Above / Below Primary VWAP.
- VWAP Cluster Formed — two or more streams converged into a confluence zone.
- Sweep Anchor Reset — a liquidity sweep occurred and the sweep stream re-anchored from the stop-run bar.
🔶 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Does the indicator repaint? No. Anchor events are confirmed before they act, swing streams rebuild exactly from the confirmed pivot bar, and signals are evaluated on closed bars. Swing confirmation carries its standard pivot lag by design.
Why do I only see one line? By default only the week-anchored stream is enabled for a clean first chart. Every other anchor is a checkbox in settings.
What makes the sweep anchor special? It averages price and volume from the exact bar where stops were run — the basis of the participants who engineered the move — rather than from a calendar date or swing alone.
Why is there no cluster or In Control reading? Both features compare multiple streams; enable two or more anchors and they activate.
Which markets should avoid it? Any Volume Weighted Average Price tool is only as good as the volume feed. On symbols with unreliable or synthetic volume reporting, treat every stream with caution.
🔶 CREDITS
The Volume Weighted Average Price was introduced by Stephen Berkowitz, Dennis Logue and Eugene Noser (1988), and the anchored application was popularized by Brian Shannon, whose work established anchoring from meaningful events as a discipline. This script gratefully acknowledges both. The multi-stream auto-anchoring engine, the liquidity-sweep anchor, the exact retroactive swing rebuild, confluence clustering, the In Control stability metric, and all code in this script are original work — no third-party or open-source script code was reused.
🔶 LIMITATIONS
Volume quality determines VWAP quality; symbols with unreliable volume produce unreliable averages. Deviation bands need bars to mature after each re-anchor. Cluster detection reports convergence, not a guarantee of reaction. The In Control metric measures recent respect, not future behavior. No indicator replaces independent analysis.
🔶 DISCLAIMER
This script is provided strictly for educational and informational purposes. It is not financial advice, an investment recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any financial instrument. Past behavior of any average, band, or cluster does not guarantee future results. Trading involves substantial risk. Always do your own research and manage risk independently. Indicator
3m Cycles3m Cycles is a PulseWire indicator that draws vertical lines on your chart at fixed clock-based time intervals — every 20 seconds, every 1 minute, and every 3 minutes — to help you visually track recurring market cycles.
Each cycle is fully independent and configurable: you can set the line color, width, and style (solid, dashed, or dotted), control how far back and ahead the lines project, and choose which chart timeframes each cycle appears on. The 3-minute cycle acts as the master clock — all three cycles' visible windows shift forward together every time a new 3-minute boundary is crossed, keeping everything in sync. Lines are pre-drawn into the future so they're already on the chart before the candle forms, and they automatically disappear once they fall outside your configured lookback window. Indicator
Auto Support and Resistance [3Commas]Auto Support and Resistance
This indicator maps market structure automatically. Instead of drawing levels by hand, it derives them from recent price action and volatility, then presents a single, consistent read of where price is trading, the zones around it, and the two most likely paths from here.
How it works (the method):
- Macro ceiling & floor — the highest high and lowest low over a configurable lookback window define the outer boundary of the current regime (Macro Resistance / Macro Support).
- Local decision levels — the indicator tracks confirmed swing pivots (a high or low with a set number of bars on each side) and selects the nearest significant pivot above and below price, ignoring any that hug the current price so the levels stay meaningful. These become the Local High / Decision and Local Low. Equilibrium marks the current price.
- Volatility-scaled zones — the Resistance, Support and Accumulation zones are sized from Average True Range (ATR), so they widen on volatile symbols and tighten on calm ones, staying meaningful across different assets and timeframes.
- Two scenario paths — from equilibrium the script projects a bullish and a bearish path as multi-leg zig-zags scaled to ATR, each ending at a target. You choose what the targets represent: an ATR-based measured move (default), the nearest local levels, or the macro boundary. Measured-move targets are capped to the macro range so they always stay on the chart.
How to use it:
1. Add it to any chart and timeframe. Levels, zones and paths populate automatically.
2. Tune detection in Settings: "Macro lookback" sets how far back the ceiling/floor is measured; "Swing sensitivity" controls how strong a pivot must be to count; "Min level distance", "Zone width" and "Scenario swing size" refine spacing; "Scenario target" picks what the arrows aim at.
3. Read it as a decision map: is price nearer the ceiling or the floor, which local level must break first, and which scenario path is in play.
Optional manual mode: turn "Auto-detect" off to enter your own levels, zones and targets — useful for presenting a pre-planned idea.
Colors: red = resistance/ceiling, blue = equilibrium/current price, green = support/floor. White = projected scenario paths.
This tool is for chart visualisation and educational purposes only and is not financial advice. It does not generate buy/sell signals. Indicator
Regime-Conditional Correlation [RC Tools]RC Tools — Regime-Conditional Correlation
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█ OVERVIEW
Plain rolling correlation between two assets is well-covered ground. The angle here: correlation is not a constant — it changes with the market regime. This tool computes rolling correlation against a second symbol of your choice and buckets it by the same regime framework as the Regime Classifier, so you can see whether a correlation you're relying on actually holds up across market conditions, or only shows up in one of them.
█ WHAT IT DOES
Plots rolling correlation (Pearson, default 20-bar window) between the current chart's symbol and a compare symbol you choose. Colours the background by the current market regime (Trending — Expansion/Exhaustion, Ranging — Quiet/Volatile), using the identical directionality × volatility-percentile logic as the Regime Classifier. A table shows the current regime and correlation, plus the average correlation, its standard deviation, and the sample count for each of the four regimes historically.
█ THE THEORY BEHIND IT
A single "the correlation is 0.8" number hides a lot. Two assets can be tightly linked during calm trending markets and decouple completely during volatile chop — or vice versa. Regime-conditioning the correlation surfaces that structure instead of averaging it away. This matters directly for anything relying on a stable cross-asset relationship: hedges, pairs, or diversification assumptions that quietly break exactly when you need them most (in the volatile regime).
█ HOW IT IS CALCULATED
CORRELATION: standard Pearson correlation between the current symbol's close and the compare symbol's close (fetched via request.security on the same timeframe), over a rolling window (default 20 bars).
REGIME: identical to the Regime Classifier — Efficiency Ratio for directionality, percentile-ranked realised volatility for volatility state, crossed to give four states. Regime is measured on the CURRENT chart's own price action, not the compare symbol. See the Regime Classifier's description for the full methodology.
The correlation reading and the regime are both "as of now" — contemporaneous — so unlike the Regime Classifier's forward-return table, no forward-looking attribution is needed here: each confirmed bar's correlation is added directly to the running average for whichever regime was active on that same bar.
█ SETTINGS & CONFIGURATION
• Compare Symbol (default BTCUSD) — the second asset to correlate against
• Correlation Length (default 20 bars)
• Regime settings mirror the Regime Classifier exactly (Efficiency Ratio lookback, directionality threshold, realised vol lookback, percentile window, volatility percentile threshold) — keep these in sync if you run both indicators together
• Paint Main Chart Background — off by default; enable on only one of the two indicators if running both, to avoid overlapping backgrounds
█ HOW TO USE IT
Check whether a correlation you're relying on is regime-dependent before trusting it. Example: if a hedge shows strong negative correlation in Ranging — Quiet but the average correlation flips or weakens in Ranging — Volatile, that hedge may not protect you exactly when volatility spikes. Always check the sample count (N) per regime before drawing conclusions — a regime with few historical bars hasn't been tested enough to trust its average.
█ LIMITATIONS
• Correlation is measured over a short rolling window and is noisy by nature — it will swing even when the underlying relationship is stable.
• The compare symbol is fetched via request.security on the same timeframe; illiquid symbols, different exchange sessions, or timezone misalignment can introduce lag or missing values.
• Regime classification carries the same caveats as the Regime Classifier: it is backward-looking by construction, unstable near threshold boundaries, and needs substantial history to be reliable.
• Per-regime correlation statistics accumulate only from where the chart's loaded history begins — early sample counts are small and not yet statistically meaningful.
• This script does NOT repaint. All classification and correlation display values update on confirmed bar close only.
█ DISCLAIMER
For educational and informational purposes only. Nothing here is financial advice. Past correlation between any two assets does not indicate future results. Trade at your own risk.
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Auto Support/Resistance ZonesAuto Support Resistance Zones is a visual support and resistance mapping tool built from confirmed pivot highs and pivot lows.
The script automatically detects confirmed swing pivots, clusters nearby pivot prices into horizontal zones, and displays the most relevant zones around current price. Instead of drawing single-price support or resistance lines, it builds price areas because real market reactions often occur around ranges rather than exact levels.
What the script shows
- Horizontal support and resistance zones
- Zones built from confirmed pivot highs and pivot lows
- Touch count for each zone
- Zone role: S, R, or Inside
- Relative strength label: Valid, Good, or Strong
- Pivot source label: H, L, or H/L
- Zone price range
- A compact state label showing the nearest support and resistance context
- Optional alerts for zone entry, zone exit, support break, and resistance break
How it works
The script uses confirmed pivot highs and confirmed pivot lows. A pivot is only available after the selected Pivot strength bars have passed.
Nearby pivot prices are grouped into zones using an ATR-based clustering method. If multiple pivots occur close to the same price area, they are merged into one zone. The script then evaluates each zone using touch count, recency, and zone width.
The displayed zones can be selected using:
- Nearest to price
- Most touches
- Balanced strength
Balanced strength is designed to keep the chart cleaner by considering both the number of touches and the freshness of the zone.
Zone labels
Each zone label can show:
- S: price is above the zone, so the zone is currently acting as support
- R: price is below the zone, so the zone is currently acting as resistance
- Inside: price is currently trading inside the zone
- x count: number of confirmed pivot touches
- H: zone mainly built from pivot highs
- L: zone mainly built from pivot lows
- H/L: mixed pivot-high and pivot-low area
- Valid / Good / Strong: a relative descriptive strength label
The strength label is not a prediction. It is only a descriptive score based on the zone’s structure.
State label
The state label summarizes the current relationship between price and nearby zones. It can show whether price is inside a zone or between zones, and it displays the nearest resistance and support areas when available.
Main inputs
Pivot Detection:
- Pivot strength
- Lookback bars
Zone Building:
- Cluster width x ATR
- Zone padding x ATR
- Maximum zone height x ATR
- Minimum touches
- Minimum bars between touches
- Maximum zones shown
- Zone selection mode
Display:
- Zone starts from first touch or last touch
- Show zone labels
- Show S/R role
- Show touch counts
- Show strength
- Show pivot source H/L
- Show price ranges
- Show state label
- State label offset
- Right-side zone extension
- Label size
Style:
- Zone border width
- Zone fill transparency
- Zone border transparency
- Support color
- Resistance color
- Inside-zone color
- State label text color
Alerts
The script includes alert conditions for:
- Zone entered
- Zone exited
- Resistance broken
- Support broken
These alerts are descriptive chart events. They are not buy or sell signals.
Repainting and confirmation note
This script uses confirmed pivot highs and confirmed pivot lows. Because pivots require confirmation, a new pivot appears only after the selected Pivot strength bars have passed.
When new pivots are confirmed, zones can be rebuilt, merged, or reclassified as support, resistance, or inside-zone areas depending on current price. This is normal behavior for a confirmed-pivot support and resistance tool.
The script does not use future-looking signals to predict price movement. It displays zones derived from confirmed historical pivot structure.
Limitations
Support and resistance zones are visual reference areas, not guaranteed reaction levels.
A zone with more touches or a stronger label does not guarantee that price will reverse, hold, reject, or break from that zone.
The script is intended for chart analysis, education, and visual review of horizontal price structure. It is not a trading system, financial advice, or a standalone buy/sell tool. Indicator
Momentum Cascade | Lyro RSOverview:
Momentum Cascade is a rate-of-change momentum tool that passes a single momentum reading through three sequential smoothing stages to filter out early, unconfirmed moves. Rather than reacting to the first sign of a shift, it waits for the momentum signal to "cascade" through instant, reactive, and committed stages before confirming a trend, giving a cleaner read on when a move has genuine follow-through.
Key Features
Three-Stage Cascade Engine: Calculates a rate-of-change momentum value, then passes it through two successive EMA smoothing stages. Stage 1 is the raw instant impulse, Stage 2 is the first reactive smoothing, and Stage 3 is the fully committed signal.
Trend Confirmation Score: Each stage contributes +1 or -1 depending on its direction. A trend only confirms when all three stages agree (score of +3 or -3), filtering out momentum blips that fade before they cascade through.
Gradient Strength Visualization: The committed Stage 3 line and candle coloring use a gradient blend based on how strong the current agreement is across all three stages, giving an at-a-glance read on conviction.
Multi-Layer Plotting: Displays all three cascade stages simultaneously (thin instant line, mid-weight reactive line, and a glow-effect committed line) so you can see momentum building in real time, not just the final confirmation.
Candle Coloring: Optionally recolors chart candles using the same gradient logic as the oscillator, aligning price action visually with the cascade's current trend strength.
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 (when the score crosses into full +3 or -3 agreement).
How It Works
Momentum Calculation – Computes rate-of-change of price over the chosen length as the raw momentum impulse (Stage 1).
Cascade Smoothing – Passes that momentum through an EMA to produce Stage 2 (reactive), then smooths again to produce Stage 3 (committed).
Scoring – Assigns +1/-1 per stage based on sign, summing to a score between -3 and +3.
Trend Confirmation – A trend state only flips when the score reaches full agreement (+3 or -3), meaning all three stages point the same direction.
Signal Plotting – Trend flips are marked with long/short labels, and candle/line coloring reflects both direction and agreement strength via gradient.
Practical Use
Trend Confirmation – Use full cascade agreement (score of ±3) as confirmation that a momentum shift has enough follow-through to be tradeable, rather than acting on Stage 1 alone.
Early Warning – Watch Stage 1 and Stage 2 for early signs of a potential shift before the full cascade confirms, useful for anticipating entries.
Conviction Reading – Use the gradient strength on Stage 3 and candles to gauge how strongly the current trend is holding versus weakening.
Combine with Structure – Pair cascade confirmations with support/resistance or market structure levels for higher-quality entries.
Customization
Adjust Momentum Length and Stage Smoothing independently to tune responsiveness vs. lag.
Toggle signal labels and candle coloring on/off.
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
Advanced Fibonacci Golden Zone [HexaTrades]Advanced Fibonacci Golden Zone automatically finds the market's significant swing legs and projects the Fibonacci Golden Zone, the 0.5 – 0.618 retracement pocket of the latest leg. That band is where trend-continuation entries are classically hunted. No manual fib drawing: the script detects the swing, anchors the retracement correctly for both directions, draws the zone the moment the swing confirms, manages the setup's whole lifecycle, and drives a duplicate-free alert stream.
⭐️How it works
True late-zone detection:
When a swing confirms, the script scans every bar from the actual pivot through the confirmation bar (wicks or closes, per Zone Touch Source). If the price has already reached the zone's near edge anywhere in that window, the zone is late and is skipped; no zone is ever painted behind a reaction that already happened. Strict rule: exactly touching the edge counts as late.
Superseded setups :
A skipped candidate retires the previously active setup immediately: status “Superseded”, zone frozen/faded, and total silence no false “Invalidated” alert (that one is reserved for setups price actually broke).
Invalidation frozen ATR buffer:
A setup dies when a bar closes beyond the protective swing by more than the Invalidation Buffer (× ATR). The buffer is measured once, at setup creation, and the invalidation price stays fixed for the setup's lifetime; later ATR changes can't move it. Dead zones gray out instantly and can never alert again; a broken leg is “poisoned” so its later extensions can't spawn a fresh setup.
Zone anchoring retracements vs projections
Bullish (up-leg): Retracement anchored at 0.0 at the high, 1.0 at the low → the 0.5–0.618 band sits below price as potential support.
Bearish (down-leg) : Mirror-anchored → the 0.5–0.618 band sits above the price as potential resistance.
Retracements (0–1.0) and continuation projections (1.272× / 1.618× of the impulse, beyond the extreme) are computed by separate functions and labelled separately projections are targets, not retracement ratios.
True late-zone detection :
When a swing confirms, the script scans every bar from the actual pivot through the confirmation bar (wicks or closes, per Zone Touch Source). If the price has already reached the zone's near edge anywhere in that window, the zone is late and is skipped; no zone is ever painted behind a reaction that already happened. Strict rule: exactly touching the edge counts as late.
Superseded setups:
A skipped candidate retires the previously active setup immediately: status “Superseded”, zone frozen/faded, and total silence no false “Invalidated” alert (that one is reserved for setups price actually broke).
Invalidation frozen ATR buffer:
A setup dies when a bar closes beyond the protective swing by more than the Invalidation Buffer (× ATR). The buffer is measured once, at setup creation, and the invalidation price stays fixed for the setup's lifetime; later ATR changes can't move it. Dead zones gray out instantly and can never alert again; a broken leg is “poisoned” so its later extensions can't spawn a fresh setup.
⭐️ Features
- Automatic Golden Zone (default 0.5 – 0.618, both ratios configurable)
- Optional fib levels: retracements 0 · 0.236 · 0.382 · 0.5 · 0.618 · 0.786 · 1.0 + separately labelled 1.272× / 1.618× projections
- ZigZag + HH / HL / LH / LL structure labels with live structure bias
- Historical zones stay frozen & softened; optional “One zone per leg” replaces same-leg drafts in place (off by default)
- Zone lifecycle: Waiting → Inside Zone → Rejected / Broke Out → Invalidated / Superseded dead zones gray out and go permanently silent
⭐️How to use it
- Wait for a fresh zone in the direction of the structure (HH+HL → longs, LH+LL → shorts).
- Let price come into the zone covered by the “Price Enters Golden Zone” .
- Look for the rejection: a candle that gets into the zone and closes back out in the trend direction.
- Targets & invalidation: Target 1 = the 0.0 level (the impulse extreme), Target 2 = the 1.272× projection, Target 3 = the 1.618× projection; status “Invalidated” (close beyond the protective swing + buffer) is the classical exit.
⭐️Alert
1 · Golden Zone Invalidated: close beyond the protective swing + frozen ATR buffer — kills the setup
2 · 1.618× Projection Reached: continuation target hit (also completes 1.272× if reached directly)
3 · 1.272× Projection Reached: continuation target hit
4 · Bullish / Bearish Rejection: candle gets into the zone, closes back out in trend direction (completes the entry latch too)
5 · Zone Breakout: price closes straight through the zone
6 · Price Enters Golden Zone: first touch of the zone
No zone-interaction alert can fire on the candle that creates a setup; signals are eligible from the following confirmed candle.
Bar-close confirmation is enforced in code (barstate.isconfirmed is part of every alert condition); alerts cannot trigger intrabar regardless of the frequency you pick. Still select “Once Per Bar Close”.
Advanced Fibonacci Golden Zone combines confirmed market structure, automatic Fibonacci mapping and complete setup management in one tool. It helps traders identify fresh retracement opportunities without manually drawing Fibonacci levels while keeping invalidation, projections and alerts consistent. Use it alongside trend context, price action and proper risk management—not as a standalone entry signal.
We would love to hear your suggestions. If you have ideas for new features, indicators, analytics, or improvements, please share your feedback. Your input helps guide future updates and improve the indicator for all traders.
Wedge pattern detector indicator is for educational and analytical purposes only. It is not financial advice. Trading involves risk. Always use proper risk management and combine this indicator with your own analysis before taking any trade.
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EMA Ribbon Trend Filter [StrixEDGE]EMA Ribbon Trend Filter is a multi-layered trend analysis system built around a triple EMA ribbon (8/21/55) enhanced with squeeze detection, a composite momentum score, multi-timeframe confluence, and dynamic slope-adaptive coloring.
This is not another moving average overlay. It is a full trend diagnostics dashboard designed to answer five questions at a glance: what is the trend, how strong is it, how long has it been running, is the ribbon compressing toward a breakout, and do higher timeframes agree.
🔹 CORE CONCEPT
Three exponential moving averages — fast (8), mid (21), and slow (55) — form a visual ribbon on the chart. When the EMAs stack in order (fast > mid > slow), the trend is bullish. When they invert, the trend is bearish. Anything else is a transitional state labeled neutral.
The ribbon is more than directional. The distance between the fastest and slowest EMA (the "spread") measures trend strength as a percentage, and the rate at which the ribbon expands or contracts reveals momentum shifts before price confirms them.
🔹 WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
Most EMA ribbons stop at direction and color. This indicator adds four analytical layers that standard ribbons lack:
▸ Ribbon Squeeze Detection
The indicator continuously measures ribbon width against its own moving average. When the three EMAs converge below a configurable threshold (default: 30% of average width), the ribbon turns yellow and the dashboard flags an active squeeze. Compression precedes expansion — a squeeze ending often marks the start of a directional move. Dedicated markers appear on the chart when a squeeze releases into a bullish or bearish trend.
▸ Composite Momentum Score (0–100)
A single number synthesizing four components, each weighted equally at 25 points:
— EMA alignment: full bullish or bearish stack scores 25, mixed scores 0
— Slope agreement: all three EMAs rising or all falling scores 25, partial agreement scores 12
— Spread strength: scaled between 0–25 based on where the current spread falls relative to the user-defined weak and strong thresholds
— Price position: price above the ribbon in a bullish trend (or below in bearish) scores 25, inside the ribbon scores 10, on the wrong side scores 0
The score is color-coded: cyan (80+), teal (60–79), orange (40–59), red (below 40).
▸ Dynamic Slope-Adaptive Colors
When enabled, each EMA line independently changes color based on its own slope — rising EMAs render green, falling EMAs render red. This provides an early visual warning when individual EMAs begin to flatten or turn, even while the overall stack remains intact. A bullish stack where the slow EMA has turned red is a qualitatively different signal than one where all three are green.
▸ Multi-Timeframe Dashboard
A built-in table displays trend state, spread, and grade across five timeframes simultaneously: the current chart timeframe plus 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour, and daily. The active chart timeframe is marked with ► in the MTF rows if it matches one of the fixed timeframes. A confluence row at the bottom counts how many timeframes are bullish versus bearish and outputs a directional bias: Strong Bull (4–5 aligned), Bull Lean (3), Neutral (mixed), Bear Lean (3 bearish), or Strong Bear (4–5 bearish).
🔹 CROSSOVER SIGNAL HIERARCHY
Not all EMA crossovers carry equal weight. The indicator differentiates three tiers with distinct marker sizes and shapes:
▸ Fast × Mid (tiny triangles) — Early signal. The 8 EMA crossing the 21 EMA indicates short-term momentum shift. Frequent, noisy, best used as an alert rather than a trigger.
▸ Fast × Slow (standard triangles) — Confirmation signal. The 8 EMA crossing the 55 EMA has more significance and filters out minor pullbacks.
▸ Mid × Slow (diamonds) — Trend shift signal. The 21 EMA crossing the 55 EMA typically marks a genuine change in trend direction. This is the least frequent and most reliable crossover in the set.
All crossover markers can be toggled off independently.
🔹 DASHBOARD COMPONENTS
The top-right dashboard (position and size adjustable) contains:
Row 1 — TREND: Current trend state (▲ Bullish / ▼ Bearish / ◆ Neutral) with bar count showing how long the trend has been active.
Row 2 — ZONE: Where price sits relative to the ribbon (Above / Inside / Below) alongside the momentum score out of 100.
Row 3 — SQUEEZE: Active squeeze status with a visual strength bar (██████░░░░) showing current spread intensity relative to its recent range.
Rows 4–9 — MTF OVERVIEW: Trend, spread, and grade for the current chart, 15m, 1H, 4H, and 1D timeframes.
Row 10 — BIAS: Multi-timeframe confluence verdict with bull/bear count.
🔹 SETTINGS
EMA Settings
▸ Fast / Mid / Slow EMA Period — Default 8/21/55. Periods must be in ascending order.
▸ Source — Close, Open, High, Low, HL2, HLC3, or OHLC4.
Overlay Settings
▸ Background Transparency — Controls the intensity of the trend-colored chart background (0–99).
▸ Crossover Signals — Toggle the three-tier crossover markers.
▸ Ribbon Fill — Toggle the colored fill between EMA lines. Fill turns yellow during active squeeze.
▸ Dynamic EMA Colors — Toggle slope-based EMA coloring (green = rising, red = falling).
▸ Bar Coloring — Optional candle coloring by trend state and price position. Off by default.
▸ Squeeze Detection — Toggle squeeze markers and dashboard squeeze status.
Dashboard
▸ Table Size — Tiny, Small, Normal, or Large.
▸ Table Position — 8 positions (corners, centers, sides).
Thresholds
▸ Weak/Strong spread thresholds (%) — Define what constitutes a weak, moderate, or strong trend spread. These should be adjusted per asset class (e.g., lower for forex, higher for crypto).
▸ Squeeze Lookback — Number of bars used to calculate the average ribbon width for squeeze detection.
▸ Squeeze Ratio — The compression threshold. A ribbon narrower than this ratio × average width triggers a squeeze flag.
🔹 ALERTS
Nine configurable alert conditions:
▸ Bullish / Bearish EMA Crossover (any tier)
▸ Mid × Slow Bullish / Bearish Shift
▸ Bullish / Bearish Stack Formed
▸ Squeeze Detected (compression begins)
▸ Squeeze Released (expansion starts)
▸ High Momentum (score crosses above 80)
🔹 SUGGESTED USE
This indicator works as a trend filter, not a standalone entry signal. Use it to:
▸ Confirm directional bias across timeframes before entering trades
▸ Identify compression phases where breakouts are likely
▸ Gauge trend quality and exhaustion via the momentum score and bar duration
▸ Filter crossover signals — a Fast × Mid cross during an active squeeze with MTF confluence is a higher-probability setup than the same cross in isolation
Pairs well with oscillators (RSI, Stochastic), volume-based indicators, or support/resistance tools for entry timing. Indicator
Auto Fibonacci ZonesAuto Fibonacci Zones is a visual Fibonacci retracement tool built around confirmed swing pivots.
The script automatically detects the most recent significant swing leg using confirmed pivot highs and pivot lows, then draws Fibonacci retracement levels from that leg. It is designed to reduce the need for manually redrawing Fibonacci levels each time a new swing structure forms.
What the script shows
- Fibonacci retracement levels from the latest confirmed swing leg
- Optional Fibonacci extension levels
- A highlighted 0.5 - 0.618 retracement zone
- A dashed anchor leg showing the selected swing
- A compact state label describing the current retracement condition
- Optional alerts for key retracement events
How it works
The script uses confirmed pivot highs and confirmed pivot lows to define the current swing leg. A new Fibonacci sheet is accepted only when the detected high-low leg is large enough relative to ATR. This helps avoid redrawing levels on very small price movements.
The main retracement levels include:
- 0
- 0.382
- 0.5
- 0.618
- 0.786
- 1
The script can also show optional extension levels:
- 1.272
- 1.618
Extensions are disabled by default because they are reference geometry only and should not be interpreted as price forecasts.
Level sets
The user can choose between three level display modes:
- Core: shows 0, 0.5, 0.618, and 1
- Major: shows the main Fibonacci levels with a cleaner chart layout
- Standard: shows the common retracement levels
Golden zone
The script highlights the area between 0.5 and 0.618. This zone is commonly watched by traders as a retracement area, but it should not be treated as a guaranteed reversal zone or standalone trading signal.
State label
The state label gives a quick reading of the current retracement condition, such as:
- Shallow retracement
- Deep retracement
- Inside 0.5 - 0.618 zone
- Near full retrace
- Full retrace exceeded
- Beyond 0 level
The state label is only a descriptive reading of where price is relative to the current Fibonacci sheet.
Old or inactive sheets
The script includes options to fade older or fully retraced Fibonacci sheets. This helps keep the chart clean when the selected swing leg is no longer fresh or has already been fully retraced.
Main settings
Swing Detection:
- Pivot strength
- Minimum leg height x ATR
Levels:
- Level set
- Show extensions
- Shade 0.5 - 0.618 zone
Display:
- Show anchor leg
- Show level labels
- Show level prices
- Show state label
- State label offset
- Fade old / invalid sheet
- Expire sheet after bars
Lines and colors:
- Level line width
- Key level line width
- Anchor leg width
- Level colors
- Golden zone color
- Extension color
- Label colors
- Transparency controls
Alerts
The script includes alert conditions for:
- Price entering the 0.5 - 0.618 zone
- Price exiting the 0.5 - 0.618 zone
- Price crossing the 0.618 level
- Price touching or exceeding the 1.0 retracement level
- Price retesting the 0 level
These alerts are descriptive chart events. They are not buy or sell signals.
Repainting and confirmation note
This script uses confirmed pivot highs and confirmed pivot lows. A pivot can only be confirmed after the selected pivot-strength bars have passed.
Because of this, Fibonacci anchors appear only after confirmation. When a newer valid swing leg is confirmed, the current Fibonacci sheet can be replaced by the new one.
This is normal confirmation delay for pivot-based tools. The script does not use lookahead, and the levels are based on confirmed swing structure.
Limitations
Fibonacci levels are visual reference levels, not predictive levels.
A price reaction near any Fibonacci level does not guarantee continuation, reversal, support, or resistance.
The selected swing leg is determined automatically by the script. In some cases, a trader may manually choose a different swing leg based on broader market context.
This indicator is intended for chart analysis, education, and visual review of retracement structure. It is not a trading system, financial advice, or a standalone buy/sell tool. Indicator
Key Levels - By DukleKEY LEVELS — current day dH / dO / dL and previous day pdH / pdL
WHAT IT DOES
Draws the five reference levels most day traders check first, as clean horizontal lines with small tags to the right of each line: the current day's Open (dO), High (dH) and Low (dL), plus the previous day's High and Low (pdH, pdL) in a second color.
HOW IT WORKS
The levels are computed directly from the chart's own intraday bars — no higher-timeframe security calls. The day boundary follows the symbol's exchange trading day, the same boundary the built-in daily candles use. dO is fixed at the session open. dH and dL update in real time: the moment price prints a new high or low of the day, the line moves with it — that is by design, since "today's high so far" is a moving value until the session closes. At the daily rollover, the finished day's high and low become the new pdH and pdL, and the current-day lines reset to the new open.
HOW TO USE IT
Works on any intraday timeframe (it deliberately draws nothing on Daily and above, where the current candle already is the day). Typical uses: pdH/pdL as breakout or rejection zones for the session, dO as the intraday bull/bear line, dH/dL as the developing range. All five lines can be toggled individually; colors, line width and how far the lines extend to the right of price are configurable in the settings.
NOTES
The current-day lines updating with new highs/lows is intended behavior, not lookahead — the previous-day levels never change during the session. Nothing here is financial advice.
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MRB Cycle Oscillator Alpha**Overview**
The "MRB Cycle Oscillator Alpha" is a highly advanced, multi-dimensional momentum and trend-analysis tool. It is not just another MACD; it upgrades traditional momentum concepts by combining Triple Exponential Smoothing (TES), mathematically derived momentum "Cycle Candles," RSI-confluent Bollinger Bands, and an ADX/DMI-driven background. This provides traders with a unified dashboard for trend direction, momentum strength, and mean-reversion zones without cluttering the main chart.
**What makes it original? (Core Concepts)**
This script brings originality to the Community Scripts by fusing several independent mathematical concepts into a single cohesive oscillator:
1. **TES-MACD (Triple Exponential Smoothing):** Instead of standard EMAs, this indicator calculates the MACD utilizing a custom Triple Exponential Smoothing (TES) algorithm. This significantly reduces market noise and lag compared to a traditional MACD.
2. **Momentum Cycle Candles:** Instead of displaying a raw oscillator line, the script extracts the open, high, low, and close values directly from the TES-MACD's historical delta. It then applies a custom smoothing algorithm to generate "Cycle Candles." This unique transformation visualizes momentum shifts and trend persistence much more clearly than a standard line or histogram.
3. **RSI-Dynamic Bollinger Bands:** Bollinger Bands are applied directly to the oscillator (users can choose to base it on the MACD Line EMA or the Signal Line TES). Furthermore, the outer bands dynamically change color based on the traditional chart's RSI values (e.g., turning green when RSI is overbought, red when oversold). This provides a dual-confirmation for extreme conditions.
4. **ADX/DMI Background Matrix:** The indicator calculates ADX and ±DI in the background. If the ADX crosses a user-defined threshold, the chart background changes color based on the dominant DI (green for uptrends, red for downtrends). This acts as a macro-trend filter.
**How to use it**
* **Trend Confirmation:** Use the background color (driven by ADX/DMI) to filter your trades. Only look for long setups when the background is green, and short setups when red.
* **Momentum Shifts:** Watch the color and body of the Cycle Candles in the oscillator pane. A transition from red to green indicates a shift to bullish momentum.
* **Overextended Zones (Mean Reversion):** When the Cycle Candles pierce the outer Bollinger Bands, AND the bands themselves change color (triggered by RSI extremes), it signals a highly overextended market, warning of a potential reversal or pullback.
**Customization**
Every element is modular. Traders can disable the Cycle Candles view in favor of a standard line, toggle the Bollinger Bands, adjust the RSI thresholds for band coloring, and fine-tune the ADX/DMI periods for background filtering. Indicator
Liquidity Sweep Detector ProLiquidity Sweep Detector Pro with Smart Trade Setups
Overview
Liquidity Sweep Detector Pro with Smart Trade Setups is an advanced Pine Script® v6 indicator designed to identify one of the most important institutional price action concepts in modern financial markets: Liquidity Sweeps.
Instead of relying on traditional indicators that simply react to price movement, this indicator focuses on how liquidity is collected around swing highs and swing lows, how false breakouts occur, and where institutions may trigger stop-loss orders before reversing price.
The indicator automatically detects Buy-Side Liquidity, Sell-Side Liquidity, confirmed liquidity sweeps, and then generates a structured trade setup complete with Entry, Stop Loss, and Take Profit zones. Every sweep is evaluated using a proprietary scoring system that combines multiple market factors into a single confidence score.
The purpose of this indicator is not to predict the future, but to organize liquidity-based market behavior into a clear visual framework that helps traders identify high-quality reversal opportunities and potential institutional activity.
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Why This Indicator Was Created
Most liquidity indicators only highlight swing highs and swing lows or draw simple liquidity lines. They often leave traders with the difficult task of manually deciding whether a sweep is genuine, whether the rejection is strong enough, and where a logical trade setup should be placed.
Liquidity Sweep Detector Pro was created to automate this entire workflow.
Instead of requiring multiple indicators, it combines liquidity detection, sweep confirmation, scoring, trend filtering, session filtering, dynamic trade setup generation, and live market statistics into a single comprehensive tool.
The objective is to simplify institutional liquidity analysis while keeping the chart clean, organized, and easy to interpret.
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How the Indicator Works
The indicator continuously scans the chart for confirmed swing highs and swing lows.
These swing points become potential liquidity pools where market participants commonly place stop-loss orders.
Once a sufficient number of highs or lows cluster together, the indicator identifies them as:
• Buy-Side Liquidity
• Sell-Side Liquidity
These liquidity areas remain active until price interacts with them.
When price temporarily moves beyond one of these liquidity pools but quickly closes back inside the previous range, the indicator identifies this behavior as a Liquidity Sweep rather than a genuine breakout.
After confirmation, the sweep is analyzed using multiple filters before being displayed on the chart.
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Buy-Side & Sell-Side Liquidity Detection
The indicator automatically marks important liquidity locations throughout the market.
Buy-Side Liquidity
Buy-Side Liquidity represents areas above previous highs where stop-loss orders from short positions and breakout buy orders commonly accumulate.
When price briefly trades above these highs but immediately returns back below them, the indicator identifies a Bearish Liquidity Sweep.
The chart labels these levels as:
Buy Side Liq
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Sell-Side Liquidity
Sell-Side Liquidity represents areas below previous lows where stop-loss orders from long positions are typically concentrated.
When price temporarily trades below these lows before rapidly reversing back upward, the indicator identifies a Bullish Liquidity Sweep.
The chart labels these levels as:
Sell Side Liq
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Liquidity Sweep Confirmation
A sweep is not confirmed simply because price trades beyond a previous high or low.
Several confirmation filters are applied before the signal becomes valid.
These include:
• ATR displacement confirmation
• Relative volume confirmation
• Market structure validation
• Candle rejection strength
• Liquidity cluster quality
• Session filtering
• Trend filtering (optional)
Only when these conditions align does the indicator generate a confirmed liquidity sweep.
This helps reduce false signals while focusing on stronger market reactions.
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Smart Strength Score
Every detected sweep receives a proprietary Strength Score ranging from 0 to 100.
The score is calculated using multiple components including:
• Liquidity quality
• Number of liquidity touches
• ATR displacement
• Relative volume
• Rejection candle strength
• Market structure
• Age of the liquidity level
Higher scores indicate stronger technical confirmation.
The indicator also displays a star rating to provide an instant visual assessment of signal quality.
Example:
★★★★★ Elite
★★★★ Strong
★★★ Good
★★ Moderate
★ Weak
This allows traders to prioritize higher-confidence setups.
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Automatic LONG & SHORT Trade Setups
One of the most unique features of this indicator is its ability to automatically generate a complete trade setup immediately after a confirmed liquidity sweep.
After a Bullish Liquidity Sweep
When the indicator detects that Sell-Side Liquidity has been swept, it automatically builds a LONG setup.
The setup includes:
• Entry Zone
• Stop Loss Zone
• Target Zone
• Risk-to-Reward calculation
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After a Bearish Liquidity Sweep
When the indicator detects that Buy-Side Liquidity has been swept, it automatically builds a SHORT setup.
The setup includes:
• Entry Zone
• Stop Loss Zone
• Target Zone
• Risk-to-Reward calculation
This provides traders with a structured trade framework instead of only highlighting the sweep itself.
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Automatic Risk Management Visualization
Each generated setup includes clearly displayed trading zones.
The indicator automatically draws:
• Green Target Zone
• Red Stop Loss Zone
• Entry Price
• Stop Loss Price
• Target Price
These zones remain visible on the chart, allowing traders to easily evaluate the trade structure and monitor price progression after the sweep.
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Liquidity Zones
Following each confirmed sweep, the indicator creates a liquidity reaction zone.
These zones represent the area where institutional rejection occurred.
Users can configure how these zones behave after price revisits them.
Available options include:
• Extend
• Fade
• Delete
This provides flexibility depending on individual trading preferences.
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Trend Filter
An optional trend filter helps align liquidity sweeps with the broader market direction.
Supported filters include:
• EMA 50
• EMA 200
• EMA 50 + EMA 200
When enabled, the indicator prioritizes sweeps that occur in alignment with the selected trend.
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Session Filter
The indicator can restrict sweep detection to specific Forex trading sessions.
Supported sessions include:
• Sydney
• Tokyo
• London
• New York
Users can analyze liquidity behavior only during preferred institutional trading hours.
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Dashboard
A real-time dashboard summarizes important market statistics, including:
• Bullish Sweeps Today
• Bearish Sweeps Today
• Strong Sweeps
• Weak Sweeps
• Average Strength Score
• Highest Score
• Current Market Trend
• Active Trading Session
This allows traders to quickly evaluate current market conditions without manually reviewing the entire chart.
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Alerts
The indicator includes alert conditions for:
• Bullish Liquidity Sweep
• Bearish Liquidity Sweep
• Strong Sweep
• Elite Sweep
• Liquidity Zone Filled
• LONG Setup Created
• SHORT Setup Created
• Target Hit
• Stop Loss Hit
These alerts allow traders to monitor liquidity events without continuously watching the chart.
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Works on Any Market
Although designed primarily for institutional Forex trading, the indicator also performs effectively on:
• Forex
• Gold
• Silver
• Indices
• Futures
• Commodities
• Cryptocurrency
• CFDs
• Stocks
Because liquidity exists in every actively traded market, the underlying methodology remains applicable across multiple asset classes.
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Works on Any Timeframe
The indicator automatically adapts to every PulseWire timeframe, including:
• 1 Minute
• 3 Minute
• 5 Minute
• 15 Minute
• 30 Minute
• 1 Hour
• 4 Hour
• Daily
• Weekly
Lower timeframes are generally more suitable for scalping and intraday liquidity analysis, while higher timeframes provide broader institutional market context.
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Typical Trading Workflow
A common workflow using this indicator is:
1. Allow the indicator to identify Buy-Side and Sell-Side Liquidity.
2. Wait for a confirmed liquidity sweep.
3. Review the Strength Score and star rating.
4. Confirm the setup using your preferred market analysis.
5. Use the automatically generated LONG or SHORT setup as a structured trading framework.
6. Monitor the trade using the predefined Entry, Stop Loss, and Target zones.
7. Manage risk according to your personal trading plan.
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Key Features
✔ Automatic Buy-Side Liquidity Detection
✔ Automatic Sell-Side Liquidity Detection
✔ Liquidity Sweep Confirmation
✔ Proprietary Strength Score (0–100)
✔ ATR Confirmation
✔ Relative Volume Confirmation
✔ Market Structure Confirmation
✔ Session Filter
✔ Trend Filter
✔ Automatic LONG Setup Generation
✔ Automatic SHORT Setup Generation
✔ Entry, Stop Loss & Target Visualization
✔ Dynamic Liquidity Zones
✔ Real-Time Dashboard
✔ Custom Alerts
✔ Fully Customizable Inputs
✔ Supports All Markets
✔ Compatible with All Timeframes
✔ Clean Institutional Chart Visualization
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Important Note
This indicator is designed as a liquidity and market structure analysis tool. It does not guarantee profitable trades, predict future market direction, or provide financial advice. All automatically generated trade setups are based on predefined liquidity sweep conditions and should be used alongside your own technical analysis, market context, and disciplined risk management.
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Originality & Author Verification
Liquidity Sweep Detector Pro with Smart Trade Setups is an original Pine Script® v6 implementation independently researched, designed, and developed by Forex_Market_Insights.
The complete concept, indicator architecture, liquidity workflow, visualization, scoring methodology, trade setup generation, dashboard design, user interface, confirmation logic, and overall implementation were created specifically for this project from first principles.
This script is not a clone, copy, conversion, or modification of any existing PulseWire publication. While concepts such as liquidity, swing highs/lows, ATR, volume, market structure, and price action are widely known within technical analysis, the way they are combined, processed, scored, and presented in this indicator represents an original implementation developed by the author.
Author: Forex_Market_Insights
Pine Script® Version: v6
Implementation: Original
Concept & Design: Original
Algorithm: Original
Visualization: Original
Trading Workflow: Original
Developed by: Forex_Market_Insights Indicator
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Points from open price marker**Points From Open Price Marker**
The Points From Open Price Marker is a customizable tool designed to help traders visualize how far price moves above and below a selected candle's opening price.
The indicator identifies a user-selected reference candle and marks:
• The exact opening price
• The highest price reached above the open
• The lowest price reached below the open
• The total point expansion in both directions from the opening price
Each marker displays the actual price level and the number of points gained or lost from the candle's open, allowing traders to quickly measure volatility, expansion, and range development.
Features include:
✅ Select any candle timeframe
✅ Select any reference candle start time
✅ Measure upward and downward price expansion from the open
✅ Display price values, point distance, or both
✅ Customizable marker colors and sizes
✅ Optional open price bubble for quick reference
This tool can be used for studying opening ranges, session behavior, volatility expansion, market structure, and price movement patterns. Traders can apply it to futures, stocks, forex, or crypto to analyze how far price typically travels from important opening levels.
The indicator does not predict direction or provide trade signals. It is designed as a visual measurement tool to help traders understand price movement relative to a key candle open.
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Trendlines [FEELS]Auto trendline tools tend to draw every line they can find, then quietly redraw them when price disagrees. This indicator does the opposite: a line is drawn only after price has respected it three times, and once drawn it never moves. Every line carries its own proof, a plain-text counter of how many times price has touched it.
HOW IT WORKS
The engine pairs confirmed swing pivots and validates the segment between them: if price closed through it anywhere along the way, the pair is rejected. Survivors become invisible candidates. A candidate is promoted to a real chart line only when a third touch confirms that the market actually respects it, and from that moment the geometry is locked.
- Touch counter: every line is labeled in plain text, "Support · 3 touches". More touches also make the line thicker, so the most respected line on the chart is the most visible one.
- Two scales: the base set tracks the swings you trade, the Major set (thicker, built from roughly 3x bigger swings) tracks the macro structure.
- Breaks: a break is a close beyond the line plus an ATR buffer, marked on the chart when it happens. Wicks through the line do not count.
- Flip watch: a broken line is not deleted. It stays on the chart as a dotted grey ghost, and when price returns to it from the other side, a Retest marker prints: broken support acting as resistance, tracked automatically. Ghosts expire on their own.
- Housekeeping: near-duplicate lines merge into the stronger one, and lines nobody has touched for a long time, or that drifted more than 10 ATR away from price, retire quietly. The chart stays at a few lines that matter instead of a fan of guesses.
HOW TO READ IT
1. The touch counter is a strength ranking. A line with 5 touches has proven itself more than a line with 3, and the strongest lines are where reactions have historically been most consistent.
2. Touches and breaks read differently. Price returning to a rising support with a high touch count is the classic trend pullback structure. A close through the line (Break marker) means the structure that carried the trend is gone.
3. Retest markers show the flip. After a break, the old line often gets tested from the other side; the Retest marker prints when that happens, with the line itself as the natural invalidation level of the pattern.
HONESTY
- Confirmation has a cost. A swing pivot confirms only after the "Swing size" number of bars, so a line appears on the chart only once its third touch is confirmed, and at that moment it is drawn back to its origin. On a bar replay this looks like a line appearing into the past out of nowhere. That is the price of the no-repaint rule, not a glitch.
- After a line is drawn its position never changes. Breaks are evaluated on closed bars only, and Break/Retest markers stay where they printed.
- The touch badges at the right edge follow the last bar for readability; that movement is cosmetic, not a signal.
- Touch and break tolerances are ATR-based, so they adapt to each symbol's volatility instead of using fixed percentages.
- Works on any symbol and timeframe with enough history to form swings.
ALERTS
New support line · New resistance line · Support touched · Resistance touched · Support broken · Resistance broken · Flip retest.
SETTINGS
Every input has a tooltip. The ones that change the picture most: "Swing size" sets how big a swing must be to anchor a line, "Touches to confirm" is the promotion rule (3 by default), "Max lines per side" caps the chart at the lines that matter, "Macro lines" adds the thicker second scale, "Line width" and "Text size" scale the visuals for presentations.
ORIGINALITY
Most auto-trendline scripts connect the latest two pivots and update the line as new pivots print, so the line you see today is not the line you saw yesterday. This engine is built the other way around: lines must earn their place through touch-count validation before they exist, their geometry is locked after, near-duplicates are merged, and broken lines move to a ghost stage that keeps tracking them for the support/resistance flip. The pivot pairing, segment validation, touch accounting and the line lifecycle are written from scratch for this script.
This is a descriptive tool for reading trendline structure. It is not financial advice and does not predict price. Indicator
ICT IRL ERL Liquidity Rotation Indicator v1This indicator automates a full ICT-style liquidity rotation model: it builds dealing ranges for the Daily, London, and NY AM sessions, plots OTE (Optimal Trade Entry) fib zones on each, locates a confirming Fair Value Gap inside that OTE zone across multiple timeframes (1H → 15m → 5m), and then tracks a full setup lifecycle — tap, manipulation leg, inversed-1m-FVG or CISD confirmation, and entry — from IDLE through HUNTING to TRIGGERED. A second, independent engine does the reverse: it watches key session highs/lows (London and Asia) for a liquidity sweep and runs the same manipulation-leg / iFVG / CISD confirmation logic in the opposite direction (ERL → IRL).
What it plots
Session highs/lows (Asia, London, NY AM, NY PM) with live and locked untaken-liquidity levels
NDOG/NWOG opening gaps
Daily, London, and NY Killzone dealing ranges with OTE fib levels (0, 0.5, 0.62, 0.705, 0.79, 1)
The specific FVG (labelled by timeframe and range) sitting inside each range's OTE zone
LONG/SHORT labels the moment a setup's entry trigger fires
How to use it
Run the indicator on a 1-minute chart — the entry-trigger logic is designed specifically for 1m confirmation.
Watch the two status tables (top-right: IRL→ERL per session; bottom-right: ERL→IRL per level) to see each setup's current state: IDLE (nothing happening), HUNTING (tapped and watching for confirmation), TRIGGERED (entry signal fired), or COMPLETED.
A LONG/SHORT forecast appears on the chart when a setup triggers — that's your entry signal.
All key parameters — session times, swing sensitivity, FVG timeframe priority, minimum displacement for a valid trigger — are adjustable in the settings.
Note: This is a decision-support tool, not signal-and-forget automation — always apply your own judgment and risk management before acting on any label. Indicator
Candlestick Edge Auto-Preset MTF Self-CalibratingCandlestick Edge only fires a candlestick pattern when it is "rightly placed" — confirmed by a higher-timeframe trend AND by where price sits in the developing volume profile. Then it does what most pattern tools don't: it forward-tests every signal and reports the MEASURED edge per pattern, so you read realized performance instead of a marketing claim.
WHY THIS IS ONE TOOL (not a bundle)
The parts answer one question about one candle: "is this pattern in a place that has historically paid, and does it beat a coin-flip here?"
PATTERN detection says WHAT printed (24 classic candlestick patterns).
HTF ALIGNMENT says whether the bigger trend agrees.
VOLUME-PROFILE POSITIONING says WHERE it printed — reversals only at value-area edges, naked POC, HVN support/resistance, or liquidity sweeps; continuations only through low-volume voids or on a value breakout.
The CALIBRATION SPINE forward-resolves each signal with a triple barrier and reports Hit% vs a matched Base% (Edge) with a Wilson confidence interval, so a placed-and-confirmed pattern can be told apart from a small-sample fluke.
One pattern substrate, one location read, one calibration spine.
MEASUREMENT (the differentiator)
Each signal opens at close with target = ±TP·ATR, stop = ∓SL·ATR, over a fixed horizon. The first barrier touched decides win/loss (same-bar tie counts as the stop — conservative). Base% is the unconditional same-barrier win-rate for that direction. Edge = Hit% − Base%; a "*" marks rows whose Wilson 95% lower bound clears the base rate. A leave-one-out row prices each filter's marginal contribution, and a footer lists only the patterns that are green AND have enough samples to trust in the current configuration.
AUTO PRESET (default on)
Candlestick edges are timeframe-specific. Auto Preset reads the chart's timeframe and switches on the pattern subset plus higher-timeframe distance that performed best for that timeframe in the author's study of NSE index futures, and forces the two filters on. Turn it OFF for full manual research mode: all 24 patterns selectable, filters and HTF distance (3x / 5x / 15x / custom) under your control. Nothing is ever removed — the preset only curates which patterns are active by default per timeframe.
HOW TO USE
Leave Auto Preset on and read the labelled signals (teal = bullish, red = bearish, each tagged with the pattern name). Open "Show scoreboard" to see measured Edge per pattern — trust the EDGE column and the "*", never a raw hit-rate. Best behaviour is on intraday timeframes (1H and below).
ORIGINALITY
Standard techniques are credited below. What is original is the combination: a location-gated pattern engine whose every signal is forward-calibrated, a timeframe-adaptive auto-preset, a leave-one-out filter attribution, and an auto-surfaced tradeable set — measured edge, not asserted.
NON-REPAINT
Signals open on confirmed bars; triple-barrier outcomes resolve on bars AFTER the trigger; all higher-timeframe / lower-timeframe / prior-day-POC requests use lookahead_off and confirmed intrabars. Pivots used by sweeps confirm first.
DATA & MARKETS
Runs on any symbol that reports volume; the developing profile needs volume to be meaningful. Defaults are tuned for intraday index futures. On the Enhanced data tier the delta read uses intrabar aggregation (richer on paid plans) and auto-falls-back to an OHLCV proxy when intrabars aren't served — safe to leave on for any plan.
CONCEPT CREDITS (methods operationalized — original Pine re-derivations)
Candlestick patterns — Nison; pattern-performance framing per Bulkowski
Market / auction profile, POC / Value Area — Steidlmayer; Dalton
Bulk Volume Classification — Easley, Lopez de Prado & O'Hara (2012)
Triple-barrier labelling — Lopez de Prado
Wilson score interval — Wilson (1927)
HONESTY / LIMITS
The profile is an ATR-binned developing session profile (not tick POC). Delta is an estimate (proxy or intrabar reconstruction), not true bid/ask. Reported edge is context measured on loaded history — not a prediction or a promise. The preset defaults were tuned on one instrument over a recent window, so treat them as a well-measured hypothesis, not proven alpha.
Educational tool. Not financial advice — you alone are responsible for your trading decisions. Indicator
[Core Convexity] SMT Divergences
## Description
The SMT Divergences indicator is a comprehensive tool designed to detect and manage Smart Money Tool (SMT) divergences across multiple assets directly on your primary chart. SMT divergence is a classic concept used to identify institutional accumulation or distribution by revealing a lack of correlation between highly correlated assets (such as NQ, ES, and YM, or Gold and Silver) at key structural swing points.
This script automates the detection process, filters out duplicate signals, and tracks mitigation (when an SMT structure is broken or invalidated by price action) to keep your charts clean and actionable.
### Key Features
* **Automatic Asset Pairing:** Detects the root symbol of your current chart and automatically pulls data for the most relevant correlated instruments. For example, if you are viewing NQ, it will automatically check ES and YM. It also features a dedicated "No YM" mode to simplify index correlation down to NQ and ES exclusively.
* **Custom Asset Input:** Switch the selection mode to "Custom" to manually input any two symbols you wish to compare against your primary chart.
* **Dual-Layer Detection:** The script scans both immediate pivot points and structural swings (Highs/Lows) to provide both near-term and macro SMT identification.
* **Dynamic Mitigation Stack:** When price invalidates an SMT level, the indicator can immediately remove the visual lines or keep them on the chart for a specified expiration window with a configurable tag to track historical structural breaches.
* **Advanced Merging Logic:** To eliminate chart clutter, the script includes options to merge duplicate rays triggering on the same candle, as well as merging same-origin SMTs into a single combined projection point.
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## How It Works
An SMT Divergence occurs when one asset fails to confirm a new swing high or low made by a correlated asset:
* **Bearish SMT:** The primary asset fails to make a higher high while the correlated asset successfully drives to a higher high, indicating underlying weakness.
* **Bullish SMT:** The primary asset fails to make a lower low while the correlated asset successfully drives to a lower low, indicating underlying strength.
The script runs a safe lookback sequence up to 450 bars to find matching historical pivot structures, compares the relationship between the primary chart and your secondary/tertiary assets, and plots precision lines directly between the corresponding structural points.
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## Settings and Inputs
### System
* **Real-Time Detection:** When enabled, calculations update dynamically on the live, open bar. When disabled, signals confirm strictly on the close of the candle.
* **Merge Duplicate Rays:** If both tracked assets trigger an SMT divergence on the exact same bar, this option condenses them into a single line with a combined text label.
* **Merge Same-Origin SMTs:** Combines multiple SMT lines originating from the exact same candle, extending the line to the furthest matching historical point and appending an (M) tag.
* **Enable Structure SMT:** Expands the algorithm to look for structural pivot failures in addition to immediate, strict candle-to-candle alignment.
* **Lookback:** Determines how many historical bars the script will scan to find a matching structural pivot point (capped safely up to 500 bars).
* **Min Bars for Line/Label:** Configures the strict visual threshold required before rendering a line or a text label to screen, filtering out negligible, noise-level divergences.
### Broken SMT Mitigation
* **Remove Broken SMTs:** Activates the garbage collection system to handle lines when price violates the divergence level.
* **Bars to Keep After Invalidation:** Determines how long a broken SMT line remains visible on your chart before deletion. Set this to 0 for immediate visual removal.
* **Show (X) Tag on Invalidated:** Appends an (X) character to the text labels of broken levels during their expiration window.
* **Mitigation Logic:** Choose between "Pair Only (Strict)" which invalidates the line if the primary chart and the specific asset break structure, or "All Connected (Global)" which requires all three assets to breach the level before declaring an invalidation.
### Asset Selection and Styling
* **Asset Selection Mode:** Toggle between Automatic, Automatic (No YM), or Custom routing.
* **Check Mode:** Options include "Strict" (where bullish lines check highs and bearish lines check lows) or "Both High & Low" for unrestricted pivot mapping.
* **Styling Groups:** Fully customize visibility, font sizes, colors, line widths, and line styles (Solid, Dashed, Dotted) independently for both Asset 1 and Asset 2 configurations. Indicator
Order Flow Volume Delta, CVD, Absorption & Divergence [LunqFX]Price shows you WHERE the market went. Order flow shows you WHO pushed it there — buyers or sellers — and whether they had real volume behind the move. This Order Flow indicator reads the volume delta on every candle (the balance of buying volume vs selling volume), builds it into a cumulative volume delta (CVD) trend, and automatically marks the two order-flow events that lead price: absorption and delta divergence. Everything is drawn on your chart as clean delta candles, order-flow support/resistance levels and a live buying-pressure dashboard.
❶ THE CONCEPTS (so it's clear)
▸ VOLUME DELTA — the difference between buying volume and selling volume inside a bar. Positive delta = buyers were more aggressive, negative = sellers. It is the core of all order-flow analysis.
▸ CVD (CUMULATIVE VOLUME DELTA) — delta added up over time. A rising CVD means buyers are steadily accumulating; a falling CVD means distribution by sellers. CVD is how you see the real trend of order flow, not just price.
▸ ABSORPTION — a bar with heavy volume but almost no price movement. It means a large player (smart money / institutional) is absorbing every market order at that level. Absorption very often appears right before a reversal.
▸ DELTA DIVERGENCE — price makes a new high but CVD does not (or a new low but CVD does not). The move has no real volume behind it — a trap / exhaustion signal that warns a reversal is likely.
❷ WHAT YOU SEE ON THE CHART
▸ Delta candles — sky-blue when buyers won the bar, coral when sellers won; the brighter the candle, the more one-sided the flow. You read buying and selling pressure at a glance.
▸ Order-flow levels — every absorption (gold) and divergence (blue / coral) is projected to the right as a support/resistance level with its exact price. These are the levels where big volume actually traded, so price reacts to them again.
▸ Live dashboard — who is in control (buyers vs sellers) from the CVD, the CVD value, the current bar's buy/sell pressure split, and the latest signal.
❸ HOW TO TRADE IT — STEP BY STEP
1 — Read the BIAS. The panel shows ▲ BUYERS or ▼ SELLERS IN CONTROL from the CVD. Trade with the side that controls order flow, not against it.
2 — Watch for DELTA DIVERGENCE against the move. Price higher high while CVD makes a lower high = buyers are exhausted → look for shorts. Price lower low while CVD makes a higher low = sellers are exhausted → look for longs. This is the highest-value order-flow reversal signal.
3 — Use ABSORPTION as a reversal cue. When heavy volume fails to move price, the move is being absorbed; watch for the turn and use that gold level as your invalidation line.
4 — Trade the reaction at order-flow levels. Old absorption and divergence levels act as support and resistance — enter when the delta flips back in your favour as price returns to a level.
5 — Confirm with Bar pressure. The panel's ▲/▼ % buy shows the live buy/sell split — take the trade when it agrees with your setup and the bias.
❹ HOW IT WORKS (fully transparent)
Each bar's volume is split by where price closed in its range: buy-volume = volume × (close − low) ÷ range, sell-volume = volume × (high − close) ÷ range, and delta = buy − sell. This is a transparent, range-based volume-delta estimate — it needs no tick or bid/ask feed, so it runs on any symbol. CVD is the running sum of that delta (session-anchored on intraday charts, fully cumulative on daily and higher, handled automatically). Absorption is flagged when volume rises above its average by your chosen multiple while the candle body stays smaller than a fraction of ATR. Divergence compares each confirmed swing pivot in price with the CVD value at that pivot. Every reading comes from closed bars and confirmed pivots — no repainting, no lookahead.
Order flow is strongest on markets with true exchange volume — crypto, stocks, futures and indices — and on intraday timeframes (1m–4h), where buying and selling pressure is most meaningful. On forex, volume is broker tick-volume, so treat the delta as an approximation of order flow rather than exact.
SETTINGS — CVD reset (Session / Week / None), absorption sensitivity, divergence swing length, number of order-flow levels + glow, delta candles on/off, dashboard position.
ALERTS — bullish delta divergence, bearish delta divergence, absorption, and CVD crossing zero (buyers / sellers taking control).
This indicator is an educational market-analysis tool, not financial advice. The volume delta shown here is a transparent estimate from price and volume, not exchange-audited bid/ask order flow, and past behaviour does not guarantee future results. Always confirm with your own analysis and manage your risk.
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Market Regime Engine [NQ Labs] WHAT THIS ANSWERS
Almost every indicator tells you WHAT the market is doing. Very few tell you
whether the current market has enough exploitable structure to be worth
risking money on at all. The Market Regime Engine is built for that second
question: should I be trading this right now, and if so, what style of
approach do current conditions actually favour?
It is not a signal generator. It produces no entries. It is a filter you run
underneath whatever you already trade.
WHY IT IS BUILT THIS WAY
Two design decisions separate this from a conventional regime or trend filter.
1. EVERY AXIS IS PERCENTILE-RANKED AGAINST ITS OWN HISTORY.
Most regime tools use fixed thresholds - an ADX of 25, an ATR multiplier of 3.
Those numbers are calibrated to whatever the author tested on. They are the
reason a tool behaves sensibly on one instrument and nonsensically on the
next. Here, each axis is ranked against its own recent distribution on the
current symbol and timeframe, so a 65th-percentile reading carries the same
meaning on a crypto pair as it does on an FX major. Nothing needs retuning
per market.
2. THE THREE AXES ARE ORTHOGONAL BY DESIGN.
Many "confluence" tools stack three views of momentum and present the
agreement as confirmation. Correlated inputs agreeing is not evidence. These
three measure genuinely different properties:
DIRECTIONAL EFFICIENCY - net distance travelled divided by the total path
walked to get there. A value near 1 is a straight line. A value near 0 means
price ended where it started after a great deal of work. This is the most
direct available answer to "is there a trend here", and it is independent of
direction.
VOLATILITY STATE - ATR ranked against its own history. Not "is volatility
high" in absolute terms, but "is volatility high for this instrument".
RETURN PERSISTENCE - lag-1 autocorrelation of log returns. Positive means an
up bar tends to be followed by an up bar, so momentum approaches have
something to work with. Negative means the market reverts. Near zero means
returns carry no usable memory.
THE SCORING LOGIC
The Tradeability Score (0-100) rests on one idea:
Efficiency is the signal. Volatility is the cost of being wrong.
Volatility only hurts you when there is no direction to exploit.
So the noise penalty is the product of how little direction exists and how
violent the market is. It approaches zero inside a strong trend no matter how
wild conditions get - because volatility inside a trend is opportunity, not
noise - and it peaks precisely where traders are most reliably ground down:
low efficiency combined with high volatility. That specific combination is
what the engine exists to flag.
THE FIVE REGIMES
TREND Efficiency high. Directional. Follow it.
VOLATILE CHOP Efficiency low, volatility high. No direction, maximum cost
of being wrong. The state that does the damage.
COIL Efficiency low, volatility low. Compression. Wait.
RANGE Efficiency low, volatility middling. Edges are tradeable.
TRANSITION Efficiency mid-range. No clean read. Reduce size.
A raw regime read must hold for a configurable number of consecutive bars
before it is confirmed. Without that filter, readings that straddle a
threshold flip back and forth for single bars.
REGIME MATURITY - THE PART I HAVE NOT SEEN ELSEWHERE
The engine records the length of every completed regime run on the current
chart and reports the current run against that learned baseline, together with
the sample size behind it.
A trend at 0.3x its typical duration and a trend at 2.4x are not the same
trade, even though every conventional indicator prints the identical reading
for both. A compression that has lasted three times longer than compressions
normally last on this instrument is a different proposition to one that
started six bars ago.
The sample size (n=) is shown deliberately. Below the configured threshold the
cell dims, because a baseline built from two observations is not evidence and
should not be dressed up as though it were.
HOW TO USE IT
The engine is a gate, not a trigger. The intended workflow:
1. Read the Verdict first. STAND DOWN means your edge, whatever it is, is
probably not present. The most valuable output of this tool is the trades
it talks you out of.
2. Read the Regime and Favoured Style. Trend-following systems belong in
TREND. Mean-reversion belongs in RANGE, and only when Persistence confirms
the market is actually reverting rather than merely quiet. COIL means the
setup has not arrived yet. VOLATILE CHOP means nothing you own works here.
3. Read Persistence before choosing an approach. If it reads Random, the
market has no memory to exploit in either direction, and both momentum and
mean-reversion are coin flips.
4. Use vs Typical for position management, not entry. An extended regime is
not a reversal signal. It is a reason to stop adding and to tighten what
you already hold.
5. Let the ribbon and score do the work on the price chart. The dashboard can
be forced onto the main pane so the engine occupies a pane without costing
you chart real estate.
SETTINGS THAT ACTUALLY MATTER
RANKING LOOKBACK is the important one. It must span several complete regime
cycles on your timeframe or every axis will rank near the middle and
everything will read TRANSITION. 250 bars on a daily chart is roughly a year -
a real baseline. 250 bars on a 5-minute chart is under a day, and is not.
On intraday timeframes, raise it substantially.
MINIMUM REGIME RUN trades responsiveness for stability. Higher values give a
calmer read and a cleaner duration baseline at the cost of confirming changes
later. Set it to 1 to see the unfiltered classification.
CHOP PENALTY controls how hard low-efficiency volatility is punished. Set it
to 0 and the score becomes pure efficiency rank.
EFFICIENCY and VOLATILITY thresholds are percentiles, not raw values. They do
not need adjusting per instrument. That is the point.
LIMITATIONS - STATED PLAINLY
- This is a lagging, descriptive tool. It classifies conditions that have
already formed. It does not forecast, and it cannot tell you a regime is
about to end.
- Confirmation costs lag. A genuine regime change registers a few bars late by
design. That is the price of not flickering.
- The maturity baseline is learned from visible chart history and rebuilds
whenever settings, symbol, or timeframe change. It is not persistent memory.
Early in a chart, or for a rarely-occurring regime, the sample is thin. The
n= value tells you when to discount it.
- On intraday equity charts, overnight gaps inflate ATR and distort the
persistence reading. Daily and above, or extended hours, handle this better.
- Autocorrelation is a weak statistic on short samples. Persistence readings
close to zero should be read as "no information", not as a subtle signal.
- Efficiency is directionless. TREND tells you a trend exists, not which way
it points. Pair it with something that reads direction.
- No regime classification is correct at the moment it matters most, which is
the turn. Nothing here changes that.
This script is open-source. Read the code, disagree with it, improve it.
This is an analytical tool for studying market conditions. It is not financial
advice, and it does not generate trade recommendations. Trading involves risk
of loss. Indicator
ICT SMC H4 FVG Retest M15 Scalping KillzonesICT SMC H4 FVG Retest — M15 Scalping Killzones
Overview
ICT SMC H4 FVG Retest — M15 Scalping Killzones is a multi-timeframe trading indicator designed to identify structured intraday setups based on:
* Confirmed higher-timeframe Fair Value Gaps
* M15 execution Fair Value Gaps
* ICT-style killzones
* Session highs and lows
* H4 buy-side and sell-side liquidity
* Market or limit-entry models
* Liquidity-based profit targets
The indicator is intended to be used on a 15-minute chart.
Its purpose is not to generate a large number of signals. It is designed to wait for a higher-timeframe imbalance, a valid departure from that zone, and a later retest during an active trading session.
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Core strategy
The standard short setup follows this sequence:
1. A bearish H4 Fair Value Gap is confirmed.
2. Price moves below the H4 FVG.
3. Price later returns to the H4 FVG during an enabled killzone.
4. A bearish M15 FVG forms and overlaps the H4 zone.
5. The M15 candle closes and confirms the setup.
6. The indicator displays the proposed entry, stop-loss and target.
The bullish setup uses the opposite sequence:
1. A bullish H4 FVG is confirmed.
2. Price moves above the H4 FVG.
3. Price later returns to the H4 FVG during an enabled killzone.
4. A bullish M15 FVG forms inside or overlapping the H4 zone.
5. The M15 candle closes and confirms the setup.
6. The indicator displays the proposed entry, stop-loss and target.
The H4 FVG that is created during the initial market displacement is treated as a future retest zone. The indicator does not use the M15 FVGs that formed before the H4 candle was confirmed.
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Non-repainting higher-timeframe logic
The indicator only uses confirmed higher-timeframe candles.
A new H4 FVG is therefore displayed only after the third H4 candle in the three-candle FVG sequence has closed.
This avoids using an H4 imbalance that may appear intrabar and disappear before the H4 candle closes.
The trade-off is intentional:
* the FVG is not shown as confirmed while the H4 candle is still forming;
* once the H4 candle closes, the confirmed zone appears on the M15 chart;
* the indicator then waits for a future retest.
The confirmed HTF FVG is used for signals and alerts. No unconfirmed HTF data is used for trade validation.
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Fair Value Gap definition
Bullish FVG
A bullish FVG exists when the low of the third candle is above the high of the first candle.
The imbalance is the price range between:
* the high of the first candle;
* the low of the third candle.
Bearish FVG
A bearish FVG exists when the high of the third candle is below the low of the first candle.
The imbalance is the price range between:
* the high of the third candle;
* the low of the first candle.
The large middle candle is usually the displacement candle, but its full body is not the FVG. The FVG is only the untraded space between the first and third candles.
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Entry modes
The indicator includes three HTF retest models.
A — Strict retest
Price must first close outside the HTF FVG, then return to the zone.
For a bearish FVG:
* price must close below the FVG;
* price must later return into it.
For a bullish FVG:
* price must close above the FVG;
* price must later return into it.
This is the most selective mode and is the default setting.
A′ — Tolerant retest
A wick outside the HTF FVG is sufficient to validate the departure.
This mode produces more opportunities than the strict model but may accept less decisive departures.
B — Direct tap in killzone
No prior departure from the HTF FVG is required.
A direct touch of the HTF zone during an enabled killzone can become eligible if the remaining entry conditions are satisfied.
This is the least selective mode.
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M15 confirmation
By default, the indicator requires an M15 Fair Value Gap in the same direction as the HTF FVG.
For a short:
* the HTF FVG must be bearish;
* the M15 FVG must also be bearish;
* the M15 FVG must overlap the HTF FVG.
For a long:
* the HTF FVG must be bullish;
* the M15 FVG must also be bullish;
* the M15 FVG must overlap the HTF FVG.
The M15 FVG size filter can be used to ignore very small imbalances.
When Require an M15 FVG is disabled, the indicator can generate a setup from a simple HTF FVG retest during a killzone.
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Candle-close confirmation
The setting:
Validate signals only at M15 close
should normally remain enabled.
When enabled:
* an intrabar M15 FVG is not enough;
* the setup must still be valid when the M15 candle closes;
* triangles and alerts are produced only from confirmed M15 conditions.
This prevents signals from appearing during a candle and disappearing before its close.
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Killzones
Killzones are anchored to the native timezone of each market. They automatically follow daylight-saving changes where applicable.
Asia killzone
Default timezone:
Asia/Tokyo
Default window:
09:00–13:00 Tokyo time
London killzone
Default timezone:
Europe/London
Default window:
07:00–10:00 London time
New York AM killzone
Default timezone:
America/New_York
Default window:
09:30–11:00 New York time
New York PM killzone
Default timezone:
America/New_York
Default window:
13:30–16:00 New York time
Each killzone can be enabled, disabled or adjusted independently.
The background colors only indicate an active trading window. They do not indicate bullish or bearish direction.
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Entry types
Market at close
The proposed entry is the closing price of the confirmed signal candle.
The setup becomes visually active immediately after confirmation.
Limit at FVG edge
The indicator places a theoretical limit entry at the relevant edge of the M15 FVG.
For a bearish setup, the entry is placed at the lower boundary of the bearish M15 FVG.
For a bullish setup, the entry is placed at the upper boundary of the bullish M15 FVG.
If M15 confirmation is disabled, the relevant HTF FVG boundary is used instead.
The limit order remains pending for the selected number of M15 candles. If it is not filled before expiration, the order is cancelled and the HTF zone may become available for a later setup.
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Stop-loss placement
For a bearish setup, the stop-loss is placed:
* above the opposite side of the M15 FVG;
* plus the selected tick buffer.
For a bullish setup, the stop-loss is placed:
* below the opposite side of the M15 FVG;
* minus the selected tick buffer.
When M15 FVG confirmation is disabled, the stop is placed beyond the opposite side of the HTF FVG.
The Stop buffer in ticks setting adds a small safety margin beyond the imbalance boundary.
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Profit targets
The indicator supports two target models.
Liquidity target
When enabled, the indicator searches for the nearest eligible liquidity level in the direction of the trade.
Possible targets include:
* previous Asia session high or low;
* previous London session high or low;
* previous New York session high or low;
* H4 buy-side liquidity;
* H4 sell-side liquidity;
* the current session high or low.
A target must offer at least the selected minimum reward-to-risk ratio.
Fixed R:R fallback
If no eligible liquidity target is available, the indicator uses the selected fixed reward-to-risk ratio.
The default fallback is:
2.0R
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Swept liquidity handling
Two modes are available.
Legacy v3.3
Previously swept session levels and H4 liquidity levels may still be used as targets.
This mode preserves the original behavior of the earlier indicator.
Untouched liquidity only
Once a liquidity occurrence has been swept, it is no longer eligible as a target.
A new pivot or a new completed session may later create a new active liquidity occurrence at the same or a similar price.
This mode is generally more selective because it targets liquidity that has not yet been consumed.
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Session levels
The indicator tracks the highs and lows of:
* Asia
* London
* New York
Each session is calculated in its native timezone, which prevents the levels from drifting when the United Kingdom or the United States changes between standard time and daylight-saving time.
At the end of a session:
* the high and low are frozen;
* their labels remain anchored to the session close;
* the levels can be used as potential liquidity targets.
The number of stored sessions can be adjusted in the settings.
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H4 SSL and BSL levels
The indicator also plots confirmed H4 pivot liquidity.
BSL
Buy-Side Liquidity
Displayed above confirmed H4 swing highs.
SSL
Sell-Side Liquidity
Displayed below confirmed H4 swing lows.
The pivot lookback determines the significance and confirmation delay of these levels.
A larger lookback produces more structurally significant levels, but they are confirmed later.
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Dashboard
The dashboard shows the current state of the setup for both long and short directions.
Three display sizes are available:
* Small
* Medium
* Large
HTF active
A confirmed HTF FVG is currently active in that direction.
HTF departure
Price has moved outside the HTF FVG according to the selected A or A′ departure logic.
In Mode B, a prior departure is not required for the final signal.
HTF retest
The current candle is touching or overlapping the active HTF FVG.
Killzone
The current candle is inside at least one enabled killzone.
M15 FVG
A valid M15 FVG exists in that direction and passes the minimum-size filter.
HTF overlap
The M15 FVG overlaps the active HTF FVG.
M15 close
The current M15 candle is confirmed.
While the live M15 candle is still forming, this field may display No.
Available
No previous trade or pending limit order is currently blocking a new setup.
Raw signal
The structural conditions are satisfied before final trade-availability and candle-close validation.
Signal
All required conditions are satisfied and a valid setup has been produced.
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Signal markers
A confirmed short setup is displayed as:
* a red downward triangle;
* the letter S.
A confirmed long setup is displayed as:
* a green upward triangle;
* the letter L.
The indicator also creates a label containing:
* entry price;
* stop-loss;
* target;
* expected reward-to-risk ratio.
The risk and reward areas are displayed directly on the chart.
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Near-miss labels
The optional Show near misses setting helps diagnose why an otherwise valid-looking setup was rejected.
Possible reasons include:
* LEFT — price has not yet departed from the HTF FVG;
* KZ — the setup is outside an enabled killzone;
* CLOSE — the M15 candle has not yet closed;
* BUSY — a trade or limit order is already active.
Near-miss labels are primarily intended for testing and configuration. They may create visual clutter during normal use.
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Alerts
The indicator provides separate alert conditions for:
* LONG setup detected;
* SHORT setup detected;
* LONG limit order filled;
* SHORT limit order filled;
* target reached;
* stop-loss reached.
For confirmed signals, alerts should be configured to trigger once per bar close.
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Recommended starting configuration
For index futures such as NQ or MNQ:
* Chart timeframe: 15 minutes
* HTF FVG timeframe: 240 minutes
* Entry logic: A — Strict retest
* Require M15 FVG: Enabled
* Validate only at M15 close: Enabled
* Entry type: Limit at FVG edge or Market at close
* Minimum M15 FVG size: adjust to the instrument
* Liquidity mode: Untouched liquidity only
* Minimum target R:R: 1.0–1.5
* Fallback R:R: 2.0
* London killzone: Enabled
* New York AM killzone: Enabled
The Asia and New York PM killzones can be enabled according to the instrument and the trader’s preferred session.
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Practical workflow
1. Apply the indicator to an M15 chart.
2. Confirm that an HTF FVG is active in the dashboard.
3. Wait for price to move away from the HTF FVG.
4. Wait for price to return to the zone during an enabled killzone.
5. Look for a same-direction M15 FVG inside or overlapping the HTF FVG.
6. Wait for the M15 candle to close.
7. Review the proposed entry, stop and target.
8. Confirm the broader market context before placing a trade.
The indicator is best used as a structured decision-support tool rather than as a fully autonomous trading system.
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Important limitations
* A confirmed H4 FVG appears only after the relevant H4 candle closes.
* The indicator will not retrospectively use an M15 FVG that formed before the H4 FVG became confirmed.
* H4 pivot liquidity is confirmed with delay because pivots require candles on both sides.
* If both the stop and target are touched during the same M15 candle, the visual trade logic uses the stop-loss as the conservative outcome.
* The script is an indicator, not a broker emulator or complete backtesting strategy.
* No indicator can guarantee profitability.
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Disclaimer
This indicator is provided for educational and analytical purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice, investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument.
Trading futures, leveraged products and other financial markets involves substantial risk. Users are responsible for testing the indicator, defining their own risk-management rules and determining whether the methodology is suitable for their trading plan. Indicator
1st Presented Fvg's [M1D]OVERVIEW
1st Presented Fvg's (M1D) isolates the very first Fair Value Gap each hourly window prints —
the one everything else in that hour reacts to — and tracks its full lifecycle: does it
hold, does it fail, does it invert, and does the inversion validate on a retest. Instead of
marking every FVG on the chart, it keeps only the one gap the model cares about per hour and
reports what happened to it.
It is a single-timeframe, event-tracking tool rather than a signal generator. It tags one
gap per hourly window, runs a strict hold / fail / invert / validate state machine on it, and
rolls a running Hold %, Inverted count and Valid IFVG count into a small dashboard so you can
see how the current session is actually behaving.
Detection and every state transition evaluate on confirmed bars only — nothing is decided
intrabar, and the chart requires an intraday timeframe of 60 minutes or less.
WHAT IT PLOTS
- 1st Presented FVG zone — a coloured box drawn from the exact three-candle gap, labelled
with its hourly window (e.g. "1st - 2pm") and an optional macro-window time suffix (e.g.
"1st - 2pm 1:50-2:10"). Zone colour cycles through your chosen palette by hour.
- NY Open tag — inside the 9:30-10:00 NY session specifically, the gap is labelled "1st -
NY Open" instead of the generic hour label, and only appears once price has swept a recent
pivot high or low first (see Key Definitions below).
- Inversion (IFVG) tag — a gap that held, then closed through, turns orange and is
relabelled IFVG.
- Valid IFVG tag (✔) — once an inverted gap is retested (price trades back into it), it
gains a check mark and a brighter fill, so a live, usable IFVG stands out from one still
forming.
- Failed gap (optional) — a gap that closed through without ever holding can be kept on
chart dimmed for context, or deleted outright; either way it is counted in the stats.
- Dashboard (M1D) — a small monospace table showing the current session, current time, and
a Today vs. Total read of gaps tagged, gaps held, Hold %, gaps inverted, and validated
IFVGs.
KEY DEFINITIONS
- Held — the point at which a 1st Presented FVG is considered to have defended its zone,
rather than just being tagged. Governed by the Hold Definition setting below.
- Reject & Close Away (default Hold Definition) — price must trade into the gap and then
close back outside its proximal edge before it counts as held. A tap that closes through
without that rejection is scored as a fail, not a hold — so Hold % reflects confirmed
rejections, not every incidental touch.
- Touch & Hold (alternate Hold Definition) — any trade into the gap that doesn't close
through it counts as held immediately, no rejection required.
- Inversion (IFVG) — a gap that held first, then later closed through it. This sequence is
mandatory: a gap that runs straight through without ever holding is a fail, never an
inversion.
- Valid IFVG — an inverted gap that price has subsequently traded back into.
- Hold % — held gaps ÷ gaps tagged, shown separately for Today and All-Time.
- NY Open liquidity sweep — inside the 9:30-10:00 New York session, the 1st Presented tag
runs on its own daily slot, separate from the normal hourly one, so an earlier random gap
in the same clock hour can't use up the slot before the open range even happens. That slot
only fills once price has swept a recent confirmed swing pivot — a low for a bullish gap,
a high for a bearish gap — immediately before the gap forms, so the tag reflects a genuine
liquidity grab rather than the first random three-candle gap after 9:30.
HOW TO USE IT
Reading the state of the current gap
- A live-coloured zone with no orange means the 1st Presented FVG is still fresh or holding
— treat it as an active zone.
- Orange means it has inverted — price closed through it after holding, so it now has the
opposite role.
- Orange with a ✔ means the inversion has been retested and validated — the strongest read
of the three, since price has both flipped the gap and come back to confirm it.
- A dimmed zone (if you keep failed gaps) means it closed through without ever holding —
context only, not a level to lean on.
Reading the dashboard
- Hold % (Today vs. All-Time) tells you how respected first-hour gaps have been — a low
reading suggests today's imbalances are being run through rather than defended.
- Inverted vs. Valid IFVG counts show how often a failed gap actually resolves into a
confirmed continuation level (✔) rather than just failing outright.
- Session tells you which killzone you're in without leaving the chart.
Choosing your settings
- Use Reject & Close Away when you only want gaps that show a confirmed rejection —
Touch & Hold is looser and counts the first touch, useful for comparing how often price
even reaches the gap versus how often it truly holds.
- Switch Mode to First Of Each Direction if you want to track a bullish and a bearish 1st
gap side-by-side within the same hour, instead of only the first of either.
- Turn on the Displacement Filter if you want the tag to skip small, low-conviction gaps in
favour of the next one that clears your ATR multiple.
- Leave NY Open: Require Liquidity Sweep on if you specifically want the opening-range gap
isolated from the generic hourly noise; adjust Pivot Lookback to make the swing-pivot
reference tighter (fewer bars, more sensitive) or wider (more bars, more established swings).
SETTINGS
- Detection — 1st FVG Mode (First Of Either / First Of Each Direction), Hourly Window
Timezone, Displacement Filter (ATR × multiple), Restrict To Time Window, NY Open (9:30-
10:00): Require Liquidity Sweep, Pivot Lookback.
- Inversion (IFVG) — Track Inversions toggle, Hold Definition (Touch & Hold / Reject &
Close Away).
- Labels — Show Labels, Label Text prefix, Show Macro Window Time, Label Size, Label
Colour.
- Colours — Colours In Cycle (2 or 3), the cycle colours, Inversion Colour, Zone
Transparency.
- Display — Gap Lifetime (Until Invalidated / End Of Hour / End Of Day), Keep Failed Gaps
(Dimmed), Max Gaps On Chart.
- Stats Table — Show Stats Table, Position, Text Size.
This is a decision-support and context tool for discretionary ICT trading. It does not
generate buy or sell signals and does not place trades. This is not financial advice, and no
market's past behaviour is indicative of future results.
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