Advanced Realized Volatility (Crypto Stocks Indices Forex)**Advanced Realized Volatility — Detailed Guide**
### What This Indicator Does
Advanced Realized Volatility (Crypto) measures the actual historical price fluctuation of an asset over a user-defined calendar-day window and expresses it as an annualized percentage. Unlike simple standard-deviation tools, it offers six statistically grounded estimators (Close-to-Close, Parkinson, Garman-Klass, Yang-Zhang, Rogers-Satchell, and EWMA), automatically converts a calendar-day lookback into the correct number of bars for any timeframe, and applies the proper annualization factor (√365 for crypto by default, √252 for traditional assets).
The indicator places the current volatility reading in historical context through percentile rank, classifies the market into four regimes (Low / Normal / High / Extreme), calculates Expected Moves for 1-, 7-, and 30-day horizons, and allows direct visual comparison with up to three other symbols. All key metrics appear in a compact on-chart table.
### Core Concepts Explained Simply
- **Realized Volatility (RV)** shows how much the asset has actually moved in the recent past, scaled to a one-year basis. Higher RV means larger typical price swings.
- **Percentile Rank** answers the question: “Is the current volatility high or low relative to its own history?” A reading of 15 means the present volatility is lower than 85 % of the readings in the chosen historical window.
- **Volatility regimes** translate the percentile into actionable categories:
- Low (compression) — percentile below 20
- Normal — 20 to 80
- High — above 80
- Extreme — above 95
- **Expected Move** converts the current annualized RV into an approximate price range the market is statistically likely to traverse over the next 1, 7, or 30 days.
- **Relative Volatility** and multi-asset lines show whether the current instrument is quieter or more turbulent than its peers or its own longer-term average.
### How to Set Up and Read the Indicator
1. Apply the script to any chart (crypto, stocks, indices, and forex work correctly).
2. Choose the volatility method. Yang-Zhang is the recommended default because it efficiently incorporates overnight gaps, open-to-close drift, and the high-low range.
3. Select a lookback in calendar days (30 days is a balanced starting point; shorter windows react faster, longer windows are smoother).
4. Leave annualization on Auto unless you have a specific reason to force 365 or 252.
5. Optionally enable one to three comparison symbols (e.g., BTC vs ETH, SOL, or QQQ) using the same method and period.
6. Turn on background regime coloring and the information table for at-a-glance context.
7. Observe three primary visual elements:
- The main RV line and any comparison lines
- Horizontal reference levels (mean, 20th and 80th percentiles)
- Background color that changes with the regime
The table always displays the current annualized RV, percentile rank with regime label, relative volatility, Expected Moves, and the values of any enabled comparison assets.
### Practical Trading Applications and Patterns
**1. Volatility Compression → Expansion (Breakout Preparation)**
When the percentile rank falls below 20 and the background turns to the Low-volatility color, the market is in a compressed state. Historically, prolonged low-volatility periods are frequently followed by a sharp expansion in range. Traders watch for price to break a well-defined consolidation, range, or chart pattern while RV is still low or just beginning to rise. The Expected Move values help set realistic profit targets once the expansion starts.
**2. High / Extreme Volatility Regime (Risk Management & Mean-Reversion Bias)**
A percentile above 80 (especially above 95) signals elevated or extreme turbulence. In these conditions:
- Position sizes are typically reduced.
- Stops are widened or switched to volatility-based (ATR or Expected Move multiples).
- Mean-reversion or fade strategies become more attractive after a climax move, because extreme readings often revert toward the mean.
- Trend-following systems may stay in the market but with tighter risk controls.
**3. Regime Shifts as Timing Filters**
A cross of the RV line above its longer-term mean or a move of the percentile from Low into Normal/High can confirm that a new directional move has volatility support. Conversely, a drop back into the Low regime after an expansion often marks the end of a volatile phase and the start of a quieter consolidation.
**4. Cross-Asset Relative Volatility**
When the main asset’s RV line sits significantly above or below the comparison lines, relative volatility strength or weakness appears. Example patterns:
- BTC RV rising while ETH RV stays flat or declines → possible BTC leadership or capital rotation into Bitcoin.
- An altcoin showing persistently higher RV than BTC → higher-risk, higher-reward environment that may require stricter position sizing.
- Equity index (QQQ or SPX) RV rising together with crypto → broader risk-off or risk-on regime alignment.
**5. Expected Move for Targets and Option Structures**
The 1-day, 7-day, and 30-day Expected Move figures provide statistically derived price ranges. Common uses:
- Setting take-profit levels at approximately 1× or 1.5× the Expected Move.
- Judging whether an options premium is rich or cheap relative to recent realized movement.
- Sizing positions so that a 1–2 Expected Move adverse excursion remains within acceptable risk.
**6. Volatility of Volatility (VoV)**
When enabled, VoV highlights periods when volatility itself is unstable. Rising VoV often accompanies regime transitions and can serve as an early warning that the current quiet or elevated state is about to change.
### Typical Workflow for Discretionary Traders
1. Note the current regime and percentile rank.
2. Check whether RV is rising or falling and how it compares with the chosen benchmark assets.
3. Read the Expected Move numbers to gauge the probable size of the next swing.
4. Align the volatility picture with classical price action (breakouts from compression, exhaustion after extreme readings, relative strength between assets).
5. Adjust position size, stop distance, and profit targets accordingly.
6. Use the built-in alerts for regime changes, RV crosses of its mean, or sharp expansions so that monitoring can be partly automated.
### Recommended Starting Settings
- Method: Yang-Zhang
- Lookback: 30 calendar days
- Annualization: Auto
- Percentile lookback: 365 days
- Background coloring and table: enabled
- One or two comparison symbols relevant to the traded asset
These settings provide a balanced, responsive view on most crypto pairs while remaining stable enough for higher-timeframe analysis.
The indicator does not generate buy or sell signals by itself. It supplies a quantitative volatility context that improves timing, risk management, and cross-market comparison. When combined with price structure, volume, and a clear trading plan, the regimes, percentile extremes, and Expected Moves become reliable filters for identifying high-probability compression-to-expansion setups, managing risk during turbulent periods, and comparing the relative “temperature” of different assets.
⚠️ Disclaimer
This indicator is for *educational and informational purposes only*. It does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research before making investment decisions.
*Indicator by:* iCD_creator
*Version:* 1.0
*Pine Script™ Version:* 6
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Intraday VWAP, Multi-EMA & RSI Price TrackerOverview:
The Intraday VWAP, Multi-EMA & RSI Price Tracker is a clean, non-repainting indicator designed specifically for intraday traders. It combines essential session value, momentum tracking, and higher-timeframe context to give you key dynamic support/resistance levels at a glance—without cluttering your chart with extra windows or table overlays.
Key Features:
Intraday Session VWAP: Plots the session VWAP exclusively on intraday timeframes (1m to 240m) and automatically hides on Daily or higher charts to keep long-term charts clean.
Non-Repainting Daily EMAs: Calculates and overlays key daily Exponential Moving Averages (20, 50, 100, and 200 EMA) directly onto your intraday chart using historical daily closures ( ). This guarantees zero real-time repainting or shifting lines.
Intraday 200 EMA: Includes a dynamic 200 EMA based on your current chart timeframe to quickly identify short-term trend bias.
Dynamic RSI Tracking: Displays a clean Relative Strength Index (RSI 14) label that dynamically updates its background color to highlight Overbought (>70) and Oversold (<30) conditions.
Clean Right-Margin Labels: Displays color-coded price labels for all active EMAs, VWAP, and RSI in the right-hand margin. Labels update in real-time and automatically delete old instances to eliminate trailing chart clutter.
Fully Customizable: Easily toggle individual EMAs, VWAP, or the RSI label on/off directly from the indicator settings menu.
📊 Indicators & Labels Included
Session VWAP (Intraday Only) – Cyan Line & Label
Intraday 200 EMA – White Line & Label
Daily 20 EMA – Yellow Line & Label
Daily 50 EMA – Orange Line & Label
Daily 100 EMA – Pink Line & Label
Daily 200 EMA – Purple Line & Label
RSI (14) – Dynamic Right-Margin Label (Green / Red / Gray)
💡 How to Use
Trend & Confluence: Check if price is holding above/below key Daily EMAs (e.g., Daily 20 or 50 EMA acting as strong dynamic support/resistance during intraday pullbacks).
Session Value: Use VWAP as your institutional benchmark for value during the trading session.
Momentum Checks: Keep an eye on the RSI margin label for quick momentum context without taking up vertical panel space at the bottom of your chart.
At-a-Glance Levels: Look at the right margin to see exact numerical price levels instantly without having to trace lines back to the Y-axis.
Disclaimer:
For Educational and Informational Purposes Only.
This script is an open-source technical analysis tool designed for charting convenience and display optimization. It does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Past performance of any indicator or strategy is not indicative of future results.
Trading stocks, futures, forex, and cryptocurrencies involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Always perform your own due diligence, implement strict risk management, and consult a qualified financial advisor before making any live trading decisions. Indicator
MQE - Market Quality Engine v1.4MQE — Market Quality Engine v1.4
MQE is not a buy/sell signal generator. It is a Decision Support System that measures the quality of the current market environment on a standardized 0-100 scale. Its purpose is not to dictate "Buy" or "Sell," but to present, transparently and explainably, how favorable current market conditions are for opening a directional position.
Methodology
MQE combines evidence from five independent analytical engines:
Trend Engine — Evaluates market structure direction using EMA structure, AlphaTrend, and Comparative Relative Strength (CRS) against a benchmark (default BTCUSDT).
Flow Engine — Measures directional capital commitment using a Cumulative Delta Volume (CDV) approximation; unlike raw volume, it prioritizes directional information over mere activity.
Opportunity Conditions Engine — Built around Relative ATR, this engine evaluates "tradability" rather than raw volatility; neither extreme compression nor extreme expansion is treated as inherently favorable.
Participation Engine — Uses Relative Volume to assess whether sufficient market participation supports the current move; it is non-directional and primarily feeds into the Confidence output.
Momentum Engine — MFI-based; deliberately avoids classic overbought/oversold interpretation and instead evaluates the persistence of directional energy as a supporting, confirmatory layer.
The output of these five engines is combined using regime-adaptive weighting — based on the current market Regime (Bull Trend / Bear Trend / Range / Transition) — into independent Long Score and Short Score values (0-100). Contradictions between engines are captured separately by a Penalty mechanism that only ever reduces the score, while the internal consistency of the evidence is reported through a fully independent Confidence value (0-100) that never alters the score itself. A high score paired with low confidence signals an environment that looks attractive but is backed by inconsistent evidence; high score with high confidence signals strong agreement across all evidence families.
For quick manual screening, MQE also provides a composite Grade (A+ through D), calculated separately for both directions.
Dashboard
Two independent panels are provided: a Primary Dashboard (Long/Short Score, Confidence, Regime, and per-engine summaries — shown side-by-side for both the last closed bar and the live bar), and a Diagnostics Panel (per-engine breakdowns, penalty sources, raw indicator values, and active confirmation timeframes).
Timeframe Adaptivity
Higher-timeframe confirmation and the AlphaTrend calculation automatically scale to the chart's timeframe (from 5-minute up to weekly), so no manual configuration is required by default; manual overrides remain available for advanced customization.
Credit
The AlphaTrend calculation logic is adapted from the publicly known AlphaTrend concept originally developed by Kıvanç Özbilgiç.
Disclaimer
MQE is not financial advice; it provides a statistical assessment of market conditions only. Past performance or evidence consistency does not guarantee future price behavior. All trading decisions and risk management remain the sole responsibility of the user. Indicator
STRX - Balance RangeSTRX - Balance Range is a price-structure indicator designed to identify and track balanced trading ranges directly on the chart.
It detects periods of compression by comparing the recent price box width to ATR-based volatility, then validates the structure using persistence, edge interaction, and price position inside the range.
The script draws historical range boxes, can optionally connect consecutive ranges, and includes a compact statistics table showing the last closed range, the average of the last 10 ranges, and the average of the last 100 ranges.
This makes it useful for traders who want to study how current balance conditions compare with recent and broader market structure.
How it works:
A reference range is built from the highest high and lowest low of the previous lookback window.
The range is accepted only when its width remains compressed relative to ATR and the current price continues to behave inside that structure.
Additional filters help reduce random consolidations by requiring repeated interaction with the range boundaries and a minimum confirmation period.
How to use it:
Use the boxes to locate areas where price is rotating in balance rather than expanding directionally.
Compare the latest closed range with the 10-range and 100-range averages to judge whether current balance conditions are relatively small, typical, or expanded.
The tool is designed for structure reading and contextual analysis, not as a standalone buy/sell signal generator.
Inputs overview:
Range Length controls how many bars are used to define the reference box.
ATR Length and ATR Multiplier control how strict the volatility compression filter is.
Center Distance, Edge Touches, and Confirmation Bars refine the quality of detected ranges.
Visual options allow you to show or hide historical boxes, range markers, connection lines, and the statistics table.
Notes:
The statistics table uses closed historical ranges, so the values remain stable and easier to compare.
This indicator is intended for standard chart types and discretionary structure analysis.
It does not guarantee future performance and should be used together with your own risk management and market context reading.
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Bolinger Bands Range RSI Oscillator [ChartPrime]🔶 OVERVIEW
Traditional oscillators live in a separate sub-window beneath your price chart, forcing you to constantly split your focus between market structure and momentum data. The BB Range RSI Oscillator solves this by projecting Relative Strength Index momentum directly onto an adaptive Bollinger Bands channel right on your main chart layout.
This indicator normalizes standard RSI readings and maps them directly into price coordinates, letting you track momentum extremes, zone expansions, and automated structural divergences directly over the candles.
🔶 HOW IT WORKS
The indicator executes its structural calculations through a multi-tier transformation pipeline:
Adaptive Channel Matrix: The engine computes a moving average basis and applies a standard deviation multiplier to project upper and lower outer boundaries, alongside half-deviation warning lines, framing the primary price canvas.
Normalized RSI Mapping: Instead of rendering a separate panel, raw RSI values are normalized on a standardized scale and mapped directly relative to the middle basis and band width, translating momentum oscillations into exact price-level coordinates.
Dynamic Transparency Engine: The core oscillator line features a dynamic fade factor based on its distance from the center, shifting opacities to visually emphasize when momentum is pushing toward outer band extremes.
Automated Pivot Divergence Logic: The script evaluates pivot points on the mapped oscillator coordinates against price highs and lows. It measures exact bar spacing intervals to flag regular and prime momentum divergences.
🔶 KEY FEATURES
On-Chart Core Oscillator: Plots a fluid momentum curve directly onto the price candles, complete with an optional smoothing signal line to track trend momentum changes.
Dynamic Zone Shading: Automatically fills the upper and lower channel boundaries with custom color fills when the oscillator breaks past half-deviation or outer band extremes.
Automated Divergence Callouts: Pins custom signal badges (+ Bull, Bull, Bear, + Bear) directly onto historical pivot points when structural momentum divergences are detected.
Customizable Palette & Layout: Full user control over band lengths, RSI lookbacks, divergence parameters, and accent color schemes to fit your preferred charting setup.
🔶 TRADING APPLICATIONS
Extreme Band Rejection Entries: When the core oscillator pushes outside the outer Bollinger Band boundaries and flashes zone shading, look for price action reversal confirmations to catch institutional exhaustion moves.
Momentum Divergence Reversals: Utilize the automated Bullish and Bearish divergence tags to spot hidden shifts in market pressure. A regular or prime divergence near outer bands often signals an impending trend reversal.
Signal Line Crossovers: Enable the signal line to track short-term momentum shifts relative to the core mapped oscillator, giving you clean cross-over execution triggers.
🔶 SETTINGS
Bollinger Bands Settings (Length / Multiplier): Controls the lookback window and standard deviation width of the primary channel boundaries.
RSI Oscillator Settings (Period Length / Signal Line): Adjusts the sensitivity of the underlying momentum engine and configures the optional signal line length and styling.
Divergence Settings (Pivot Lookbacks / Min-Max Bars): Fine-tunes the strictness and spacing constraints used by the pivot detection engine to filter out noise.
🔶 CONCLUSION
The BB Range RSI Oscillator unifies volatility bands and momentum oscillators into a single, cohesive on-chart tool. By mapping RSI directly to price structure, it gives you a clean, distraction-free environment for spotting momentum extremes and institutional divergence setups. Indicator
Adjusted SuperTrendAdjusted SuperTrend | MisinkoMaster
The Adjusted SuperTrend is a refined, low-lag evolution of the traditional SuperTrend indicator. Standard SuperTrend formulas rely on classic Average True Range (ATR) calculations that treat all price ranges linearly. This often results in delayed trend shifts during explosive volatility spikes or premature whipsaws during choppy consolidation phases.
The Adjusted SuperTrend solves this issue by incorporating a specialized, smoothed True Range filter that balances extreme high-low spreads with close-to-close variations. By anchoring an exponential moving average baseline to this modified volatility metric, the indicator provides a more adaptive, reactive trailing stop line that keeps you aligned with genuine market trends while minimizing false breakout signals.
How It Works (The Core Architecture)
The indicator evaluates trend direction and trailing support/resistance through a three-stage framework:
Linearized True Range Volatility: Rather than using standard ATR, the engine evaluates the absolute maximum and minimum true range components on each bar and averages them. This balances intra-bar high-low expansion with bar-to-bar gap volatility, creating a smoother measurement of true market variance.
Exponential Baseline Alignment: The modified range is processed through an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) volatility lookback filter and applied as a multiplier factor around a core price EMA baseline, establishing dynamic upper and lower tracking boundaries.
Asymmetric Trailing Regime State: When the selected price source closes cleanly above the upper boundary, a bullish trend regime is locked in, plotting the lower band as an active trailing stop. Conversely, when the price drops below the lower boundary, a bearish regime is initiated, using the upper band as trailing overhead resistance.
Key Features
Low-Lag Volatility Smoothing: Uses a specialized True Range derivation to react faster to sudden breakout expansions while remaining resilient against minor noise.
Synchronized Candlestick Morphing: Automatically colors on-chart price bars (green for bullish, red for bearish) to give you instant visual feedback on the active trend bias.
Layered Diamond Breakout Markers: Highlights structural trend flip points with multi-layered diamond markers painted directly on the trailing support/resistance line.
Status Line Volatility Tracking: Includes an integrated ATR status reading for easy monitoring of real-time market expansion directly from your chart legend.
Input Parameters & Optimization Guide
Source: Sets the price series used for baseline calculations and band cross checks (Default: Close).
Baseline Lookback Period: Controls the lookback window for the core EMA trend line. A lower value makes the baseline more sensitive to immediate price action, while a higher value maps macro trend direction (Default: 14).
Volatility Lookback: Sets the length for the smoothed range calculation. Lowering this value makes the trailing bands expand and contract faster during volatility spikes (Default: 8).
Factor: The volatility band multiplier. Adjusting this parameter changes the distance between the baseline and the outer bands. Lower values (e.g., 1.5 - 2.0) work well for tight scalping, while higher values (e.g., 2.5 - 3.0) filter out noise for swing trading (Default: 2.5).
Trading Strategies & Execution
Trailing Trend Continuations
Use the active line as a dynamic trailing stop-loss or trend direction filter:
Bullish Alignment: When the green lower line is active, look for long entries on pullbacks toward the line, keeping your stop-loss placed just below the dynamic support.
Bearish Alignment: When the red upper line is active, look for short setups on rallies toward overhead resistance, trailing your stop along the red line.
Regime Flip Breakouts
A structural change in market bias occurs when price invalidates the active outer boundary:
A candle closing above the red upper band triggers a Bullish Trend Flip, marked by glowing green diamonds on the chart.
A candle closing below the green lower band triggers a Bearish Trend Flip, marked by glowing red diamonds.
Disclaimer: Trading financial markets involves high risk. This technical script is designed as an informational analytical tool to support your rule-based mechanical execution system and does not constitute financial advice. Indicator
The Oloid (OWMA) Oloid Weighted Moving AverageThe Oloid (OWMA) — Oloid Weighted Moving Average
WHAT IT IS
The Oloid is a trend-following indicator built on the geometry of the oloid — a three-dimensional solid discovered by Paul Schatz in 1929. The oloid is the convex hull of two perpendicular circles, each passing through the center of the other. It is one of the few known solids that develops (unrolls) its entire surface onto a plane while rolling, touching every point of its surface exactly once per cycle — no point is missed, no point repeats.
This indicator translates that geometry into a novel, non-linear moving average: the Oloid Weighted Moving Average (OWMA).
MATHEMATICAL LEGACY
OWMA belongs to the lineage of geometry-inspired data analysis tools:
• Fourier Transform (1822) — decomposition of a signal into circular components.
• Wavelet Transform (1980s) — multi-scale analysis with shaped basis functions.
• OWMA (2026) — weighting of time-series data using the developable surface of a three-dimensional geometric solid.
The key innovation: using the coupling of two perpendicular circles as the weighting kernel. Fourier uses single circles. Wavelets use scaled and shifted basis functions. OWMA uses the interaction of two perpendicular oscillating systems to determine the informational value of each data point.
THE CORE IDEA
Every classic moving average weights bars by time: linearly (WMA), exponentially (EMA), or adaptively by a single volatility measure (KAMA, VIDYA). OWMA weights bars by their position on the oloid's developable surface, determined by two coupled market cycles simultaneously:
• Circle A — Momentum cycle. Each bar's local directional efficiency (a 4-bar Kaufman-style efficiency ratio) maps to an angle on the first circle.
• Circle B — Volatility cycle. Each bar's range relative to the recent average range maps to an angle on the second circle.
The oloid's center-of-mass height at the coupled position (alpha, gamma) is:
h(alpha, gamma) = h_min + dh * (0.5 + 0.5 * sin(2*alpha) * sin(2*gamma))
where h_max = sqrt(2)/2 and h_min = 3*sqrt(3)/8 are the exact geometric height extremes of a rolling oloid. The bar's weight is the INVERSE of this height:
• Bars at turning points (height minimum — the moment the rolling oloid "tips over") receive maximum weight. These are transition bars: pivots, regime changes, structure shifts.
• Bars during smooth rolling (height maximum) receive minimum weight. These are continuation bars, carrying less new information.
The result is a moving average that emphasizes market turning points and de-emphasizes continuation — behavior no linear, exponential, or single-factor adaptive MA produces, because the weight depends on the coupled state of two independent cycles, not on time or one factor alone.
HOW IT WORKS ON THE CHART
1. Oloid Line (center). The visible line does not plot OWMA directly — it tracks OWMA with adaptive speed derived from the oloid's current height. Two refinements prevent lag during strong trends:
— Velocity Lead: when adaptation is slow, the line aims where OWMA is going (target = OWMA + delta-OWMA * lead), like the contact point of an oloid rolling down a slope leading its center of mass.
— Adapt Floor: a strong trend (high efficiency ratio) guarantees a minimum tracking speed — gravity keeps the oloid rolling even at maximum height.
2. Oloid Field. ATR-based dynamic bands around the center line. The field narrows as trend efficiency rises (trending markets get a tighter channel) and widens in chop. Field color reflects price position: green above, red below, gray inside.
3. Energy metric (Data Window / dashboard). Energy = efficiency ratio * range regularity. It measures whether the oloid is "rolling" — whether the market has coherent, structured motion. Energy Up / Energy Down split it by the Oloid Line's slope direction. These values are not drawn as chart lines — they live in the dashboard and the Data Window, where the Pine Screener can also read them.
4. Slope Engine. Tracks the slope of RangeReg Bull% — the percentage of bars in the window that made new highs. The slope is classified as RISING / FLAT / FALLING. A flat-to-rising transition marks "momentum awakening": after a structural pause, bullish breadth resumes.
SIGNALS — TWO INDEPENDENT ENTRY ENGINES
• LONG-SLOPE (Pure Slope — enabled by default): RRB slope transitions flat-to-rising while close is above the Oloid Center. Catches "momentum awakening" — trend starts after a structural pause.
• LONG (OWMA Cross — off by default, optional): close crosses above the upper field boundary, with all filters passing. A dedicated filter blocks these entries while the slope is falling ("tired trend" protection). Enable this engine if you want additional breakout-style entries alongside the slope engine.
• SHORT / CLOSE: mirror logic below the field (part of the OWMA Cross engine, so they appear only when that engine is enabled); in "Long Only" mode a short signal closes the long instead. With the default configuration, positions are closed by the selected exit mode's stop.
Signal filters: an Energy window (default 0–20% — signals are suppressed when momentum is overheated), an optional minimum efficiency ratio, and a cooldown between signals.
EXIT MODES (selectable)
• Wide ATR (default, x3.5): a loose trailing stop that lets winners develop and captures more of the favorable excursion.
• ATR Trail (x2.0): classic tighter trail.
• Slope+Stop: exits when the RRB slope turns falling (momentum exhausting), with a fixed protective stop as the floor.
• Hybrid: fixed protective stop for the first N bars, then an ATR trail activates.
The current trailing stop is plotted as a step-line while a position is open.
HOW TO USE IT
1. Add to any symbol and timeframe. Defaults (Radius 21, Long Only, Pure Slope engine, Wide ATR exit) are a reasonable starting point for daily charts of trending assets.
2. Watch the dashboard (top right): Circle A (trend efficiency), Circle B (volatility state), Energy with its window check, Field width and direction, Slope state, and the active stop level.
3. Higher-quality entries tend to occur when: Energy is in the lower half of the window and rising, volatility (Circle B) is below ~110%, and the Field is narrow or narrowing (squeeze conditions).
4. Pine Screener: the "Energy Up Trend" value is exported to the Data Window — filter "Energy Up Trend between 3 and 20" to scan for symbols entering a sustained bullish momentum phase.
5. Alerts are provided for both entry engines, exits, the Bullish Trend Zone, and slope-state transitions (diagnostic).
INPUTS SUMMARY
• Oloid Geometry: Radius (base period of both circles, default 21), Circle Coupling (0.5 = the oloid's natural geometry), Meander Intensity.
• Signals: mode (Long Only / Short Only / Both), Energy window, minimum ER, cooldown.
• Slope Engine: enable/disable each engine, falling-slope filter, slope smoothing and flat threshold.
• Exit Mode: the four modes described above with their parameters.
NOTES
• The indicator is self-contained: all mathematics is computed from the oloid's parametric geometry (height function, surface development, coupling), plus standard building blocks (ATR, efficiency ratio, SMA/EMA smoothing).
• A square-root recency decay is combined with the oloid surface weight, so the total weighting respects both surface position and recency.
• Signals are generated on bar close and do not repaint: the position state machine uses confirmed values only.
• This is a technical analysis tool, not financial advice. Test on your instruments and timeframes before using signals in live trading.
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[SkuldX] Average Daily RangeSkuldX Average Daily Range
by SkuldX Trading Systems
What is it?
SkuldX ADR calculates the Average Daily Range across three independent periods and projects statistical price targets directly on the chart. Instead of just showing a raw number, it tells you exactly where today's statistically likely high and low are — and how much of that range has already been consumed. This transforms a simple volatility measure into a practical decision-making tool for every session.
The core concept
Every instrument has a characteristic daily range — how far it typically moves from low to high in a single day. ADR measures this by averaging the daily High minus Low over a chosen number of past sessions. When today's price approaches the ADR High or Low level projected from the daily open, the market is statistically reaching its expected limit for the day. This is where momentum tends to slow, consolidate, or reverse.
The key insight: if the market has already consumed 90%+ of its average daily range, the probability of further directional movement drops significantly. Conversely, if only 20% of the range has been used, there is substantial room left to move.
Three periods — three perspectives
🟡 ADR 5 — 5-day average (one trading week) . Most reactive to recent conditions. Best for identifying short-term volatility shifts and current week behavior.
🔵 ADR 10 — 10-day average (two weeks) . Balanced view of recent momentum without excessive noise.
🟠 ADR 20 — 20-day average (one month) . The standard institutional reference. Most stable and reliable for setting daily targets and stops.
All three periods are independent and can be toggled on or off. When all three are active simultaneously, the spacing between their levels gives a visual read on volatility expansion or contraction — tight clustering means stable conditions, wide separation means the market is in a transitional phase.
What you see on the chart
Each enabled period draws two horizontal lines per day — an ADR High and an ADR Low — projected symmetrically above and below the daily open (00:00 NY time). A dotted midline marks the daily open itself.
Each label shows three pieces of information simultaneously:
ADR20 H 2415.50 72% used
The projected level price
The ADR value in brackets — how many points the average daily range is
The percentage of today's range already consumed
Lines are drawn fresh at the start of each day and historical days remain visible on the chart for reference and backtesting.
Daily Range Used %
This is the most actionable metric in the indicator. It answers the question: how much room does the market have left today?
Below 50% — significant range remaining, directional moves are still viable
50–80% — range is being consumed, momentum may slow near ADR levels
Above 90% — statistically exhausted, high probability of slowdown, consolidation or reversal at ADR levels
Above 100% — unusual day, range has exceeded the historical average, often signals a news-driven or institutional event
Alerts
A configurable alert fires when the daily range consumed exceeds your threshold (default 90%). This allows you to catch exhaustion points in real time without watching the chart constantly. The alert specifies which ADR period triggered and the exact percentage consumed.
Settings
ADR 5 / 10 / 20 — enable or disable each period independently with custom colors
Show ADR High / Low levels — toggle the projected level lines
Show Daily Open — toggle the dotted midline at 00:00 NY open
Show Daily Range Used % — toggle the consumption percentage in labels
Show Labels — toggle all right-edge labels
Label Size — tiny, small, or normal
Line Width / Style — visual customization
Alert threshold % — percentage of ADR consumed that triggers the exhaustion alert
How to use it in practice
As a take-profit guide — when price approaches ADR High or Low with 80%+ range consumed, consider taking partial or full profit rather than holding for further extension.
As a reversal filter — avoid entering new directional trades when the ADR Used % is above 85–90%. The statistical edge has diminished significantly.
As a stop-loss reference — place stops beyond the ADR High or Low to avoid being caught by normal daily volatility.
Combined with session analysis — ADR levels are most powerful when they align with session structures. An ADR High that coincides with London High or Asian High becomes a confluence zone with significantly higher reversal probability.
Combined with OI data — if price reaches ADR High while the OI Delta shows Short Squeeze conditions, the move is likely unsustained and a reversal is probable. If it reaches ADR High with Bullish Trend OI, the day may extend beyond the average range.
Why 00:00 NY as the daily open
Crypto trades 24/7 without a traditional open. The New York midnight open (00:00 NY) is used as the reference point because it aligns with institutional risk resets, matches the TDO used across the SkuldX suite, and provides a consistent reference across all instruments and timezones with automatic DST adjustment.
Built for SkuldX ecosystem
SkuldX ADR is designed to work alongside the full SkuldX suite. ADR levels combined with TDO/TWO session opens, OI Delta signals, and Level Patterns reactions give a complete picture of where price is likely to pause, reverse, or accelerate on any given day. Indicator
Volatility Regime Classifier [AFD]
**What it does**
It answers one question: *is this symbol moving more, or less, than it usually does?*
It measures how far this symbol's own bars have been travelling, ranks that against its recent history, and states the answer as a percentile from 0 to 100 plus a named tier — **QUIET**, **NORMAL**, **ELEVATED** or **EXTREME**. Alongside it you get how the recent stretch compares with the longer one, whether the reading is rising or falling, and a plain-English line saying what that amounts to.
Everything comes from the chart you have open. No VIX, no options data, no implied volatility, no other symbol, and no `request.*()` call of any kind — so it behaves the same on a currency pair, a small-cap, a future or a crypto chart, none of which have an index volatility proxy to borrow.
**How it works**
Realized volatility is measured over three rolling windows — short, mid and long — and one **Sensitivity** setting picks them: Fast 5/15/30, Normal 10/30/60, Slow 20/60/120. Fast is the default.
Four estimators, and this choice matters more than any other setting:
- **Parkinson** (default) — reads the bar's high-low range.
- **Garman-Klass** — reads the range and the open-to-close move.
- **Close-to-close** — reads the dispersion of returns.
- **ATR** — a plain N-bar average of true range. **Not Wilder's smoothing**, so it will
not match PulseWire's built-in ATR at the same length. Deliberate, not a bug.
Parkinson is the default because of a specific failure of the close-to-close default it replaced. Close-to-close measures how *scattered* returns are; a chart reader measures how *far* price went. A clean one-way slide has every return pointing the same way, so its dispersion is genuinely low — and a choppy bounce covering the same ground scores higher than the slide did. Range-based estimators read what the eye reads.
The short-window reading is ranked against the last **400 bars** to give the percentile, and the tier follows from that rank with a **band around each boundary**, so a reading parked on a threshold does not flip back and forth on sampling noise. The panel tells you when the band is holding a tier back.
There is a second route into EXTREME, and it exists because a percentile is self-normalising: roughly a tenth of all bars sit in the top tier however quiet the year has actually been. So a bar is also called EXTREME when the short window reaches a set multiple of the long one, whatever its rank. The multiple differs per estimator, because the four do not put that ratio on the same scale.
On intraday charts the **session-gap return is excluded**. It spans a close and the next open, so it is not a return over one bar of trading, and leaving it in made every session open read as a volatility event that never happened. It is dropped, not zeroed.
**How to use it**
Add it and read the dashboard. It starts compact at four rows; switch **Compact dashboard** off for the full nine, which name every window, bound and setting actually in force rather than the defaults. Hover the marker at the end of the line for a glossary of every number, also built from your current settings.
- **The percentile line** in the lower pane, tier zones shaded behind it.
- **Price-chart markers** — the bar column painted when a tier you have chosen is reached, or a box spanning the whole episode. EXTREME is marked by default; QUIET, NORMAL, ELEVATED and RISING are all available, and a marked tier always beats RISING so an overlapping bar's colour is never an accident of ordering.
- **The market context box** on the price chart, at the corner you pick or off. A headline names the character of the tape — `RANGE EXPANDING`, `RANGE COMPRESSING`, `WIDE AND HOLDING` and eight others — over a line naming what to re-check, a line stating what the short-to-long ratio amounts to in words, and a standing line reading **`Size only - this says nothing about direction.`**
That last line has no off switch, and the vocabulary above it never uses the words "up or "down". `EXPANDING` is equally what a hard rally and a hard sell-off look like.
**Three alerts**, all evaluated on confirmed bars only: the regime tier changed, the short-vs-baseline state changed, and the EXTREME tier was entered.
**Repainting**
The script reads nothing but the current chart's own bars. There are no `request.*()` calls, no higher-timeframe data and no `barmerge.lookahead_on` anywhere in it, so there is no future data for it to borrow. Once a bar closes, its reading is settled and does not change afterwards.
The bar still forming is the ordinary exception, and it is worth being explicit about: its high, low and close are still moving, so the reading on it moves too, and the tier on the live bar can change before the bar is done. The three alert conditions are gated to confirmed bars for that reason. Drawn elements — the panel, the context box, the episode box — are drawn at the last bar and update with it.
**Why it is original**
It is built for the **Pine Screener**, which is unusual in this category. The first ten plots are the contract — percentile, tier code, ratio, short-vs-baseline code, acceleration tier, regime-changed flag, the two raw RV levels, the percentile's sample count, and a flag saying whether the outputs are fully defined — so you can rank or filter a whole watchlist by volatility regime instead of reading one chart at a time. Zero `request.*()` calls, and the warmup is sized to fit the Screener's 500-bar window.
The other difference is that **the regime is a number, not a colour.** The visual layer is drawn *from* the percentile and never replaces it; every tinted panel row still states its value in words, and the whole visual layer switches off without a single reported number changing.
**Limitations**
- **It says nothing about direction, and it is not a signal.** No entries, no exits, no targets, no probability, win-rate or expectancy language anywhere in the script. It describes what has already happened on the chart in front of you.
- **It needs history.** At the default Fast preset the percentile is undefined until bar 404 and shows blank until then. The size-based EXTREME route is defined from bar 30, so **a bar can legitimately show an EXTREME tier beside a blank percentile row** — the panel says which is which, and the `Outputs fully defined` plot flags it.
- **A percentile is relative to this symbol's own recent history.** QUIET on one instrument and QUIET on another are not the same absolute amount of movement. The panel carries the absolute RV level next to the rank for exactly this reason.
- **ATR here is a simple average, not Wilder's**, as above.
**Licence:** Mozilla Public License 2.0. Indicator
RSI + Bollinger BandsRSI + Bollinger Bands — RSIBB
RSIBB combines the Relative Strength Index with Bollinger Bands by projecting RSI momentum directly into price space. Instead of displaying RSI in a separate oscillator pane, this indicator places the RSI Flow alongside price and the Bollinger Band structure, allowing momentum, volatility, and price action to be evaluated together on a single chart.
How It Works
The RSI Flow is centered around the Bollinger Band basis:
RSI 50 aligns with the Bollinger Band basis.
The upper RSI threshold, set to 70 by default, aligns with the primary Upper Band.
The lower RSI threshold, set to 30 by default, aligns with the primary Lower Band.
RSI values beyond the selected thresholds extend into the outer momentum and volatility zones.
The yellow RSI Flow line represents projected RSI momentum. The white RSI Flow-Base line applies EMA smoothing to the projected RSI Flow, making momentum shifts and potential crosses easier to identify.
Bollinger Band Settings
The Bollinger Band system includes adjustable:
Length
Source
Basis moving-average type
Standard-deviation multiplier
Extended-band multiplier
Extended-band visibility
Supported basis moving averages include:
SMA
EMA
SMMA/RMA
WMA
VWMA
The optional Extended Bands highlight areas where momentum and price have moved beyond the primary Bollinger Band range.
RSI Settings
The RSI system includes adjustable:
RSI length
RSI source
Upper RSI threshold
Lower RSI threshold
EMA smoothing length
The default thresholds are 70 and 30, but they can be changed to make the projection more or less sensitive.
Interpretation
When the RSI Flow moves above the basis, momentum is positioned on the bullish side of its range. When it moves below the basis, momentum is positioned on the bearish side.
Movement near or beyond the primary bands indicates that RSI has reached or exceeded its selected upper or lower threshold. The extended zones can help identify stronger momentum expansion, volatility extremes, and possible exhaustion areas.
Crosses between the RSI Flow and its smoothed Flow-Base may help visualize changes in momentum direction. These signals should be evaluated alongside market structure, trend, volatility, and other forms of confirmation.
RSIBB does not provide automatic trade entries or guarantee reversals at the bands. It is designed as a visual analysis tool that places RSI momentum and Bollinger Band behavior into one unified price-chart display.
This indicator is intended for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Indicator
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Caheeen Pulse v3.0Caheeen Pulse is a market-regime visualization tool designed to summarize trend structure, directional alignment and volatility-normalized price positioning in one compact view.
HOW IT WORKS
The indicator combines four independent observations into a composite regime score ranging from -4 to +4:
Price position relative to the long-term Trend EMA.
Alignment between the Fast EMA and Slow EMA.
Direction of the Trend EMA slope.
Price distance from the Trend EMA, normalized by ATR.
The combined score classifies the current market environment into five states:
• Strong Bull
• Bull
• Neutral
• Bear
• Strong Bear
This approach differs from a basic moving-average crossover. It evaluates several dimensions of market structure simultaneously and normalizes price displacement using volatility, allowing the same framework to adapt across instruments and timeframes.
VISUAL COMPONENTS
• Long-term Trend EMA
• Fast and Slow EMAs
• Regime-based chart background
• Confirmed regime-transition markers
• Dashboard displaying the composite score, ATR-normalized price distance, trend slope, EMA spread and ATR volatility
ALERTS
Caheeen Pulse includes alert conditions for confirmed transitions into Strong Bull, Strong Bear and Neutral regimes. Transition alerts and markers are confirmed only after the candle closes. When creating an alert, select “Once Per Bar Close.”
USAGE
Caheeen Pulse is intended to help users:
• Identify the prevailing market regime
• Distinguish directional conditions from transitional periods
• Compare trend structure with current volatility
• Apply an additional market-context filter to their own analysis
The indicator does not place orders, manage positions or provide personalized investment advice. It should not be used as a standalone instruction to buy or sell.
The live regime display can change while the current candle is forming. Confirmed transition markers and alerts are generated at candle close.
Historical or hypothetical observations do not guarantee future results. Trading involves risk, and users remain responsible for their own decisions and risk management. Indicator
Volatility Corridor - Quantized Equilibrium LevelsMost range and channel tools slide. The midline is a moving average, so it moves on every bar, and the levels drawn from it move with it. That makes them fine as a trend read and close to useless as levels, because the level you looked at ten bars ago is no longer where you left it.
Volatility Corridor does the opposite. It holds still, and then it jumps.
HOW THE CORRIDOR IS BUILT
An equilibrium anchor sits at the centre of the corridor. Once placed, it is frozen. It does not drift, it does not smooth, it does not respond to anything at all until price closes more than one volatility step away from it.
When that happens, the anchor jumps by a whole number of steps in the direction of the breach, lands at the new location, re-measures its step size from ATR at that exact moment, and freezes again.
Three bands are drawn one step apart above the anchor and three below, giving seven horizontal levels: S3, S2, S1, EQ, R1, R2, R3. Because the anchor and the step are both frozen between jumps, every one of those levels is a genuine flat horizontal line for the entire life of the corridor. Across a chart the result is a staircase of stable shelves rather than a wave, and the jump bars are marked so the history of the structure is readable at a glance.
The quantization matters. The anchor moves by whole steps, never by fractions, so successive corridors line up on a common grid instead of drifting off it. When price returns to an area it traded weeks ago, the corridor tends to rebuild on the same shelves rather than near them.
WHAT IS ON THE CHART
Seven stepline levels, thickest at the equilibrium.
Six filled bands between them, darkening toward the outer edges, so the corridor reads instantly without inspecting a single number.
Candles tinted by their position inside the corridor, running from the lower colour at the bottom edge through neutral at equilibrium to the upper colour at the top.
Background tint whenever price is trading fully outside the corridor.
Price labels on every level at the right edge, in four selectable sizes.
Jump markers at the top and bottom of the pane showing every bar the corridor re-anchored, and in which direction.
SETUPS
Two setups are defined, and either can be switched off.
Reversion. Price has pushed into the outer band and closes back inside it while still on its own side of equilibrium. The stop is the far outer level, and the targets are the levels above: equilibrium first, then the next band, then the one after that. The reasoning is that a corridor that is holding will pull price back toward its centre, and the level structure already provides the map for that journey.
Breakout. Price closes fully beyond the outer level of the corridor. The stop is the first level back inside, and the targets are projected one, two and three steps beyond the corridor edge, on the same grid the corridor itself uses.
In both cases the stop and the targets are structural levels, not multiples of risk. Nothing is placed at an arbitrary distance. The stop is where the structure would be wrong, and the targets are the next shelves on the grid.
Only one setup is tracked at a time. A new signal cannot silently replace an unresolved one.
The panel keeps a record of whether the first target or the stop was reached first, and prints collecting rather than a percentage until the sample is large enough to mean anything. That number is a narrow measurement of one mechanical rule, not a backtest, and it says nothing about what a trader who moved a stop or scaled out would have achieved.
SETTINGS
Step Size is the one dial that matters. It sets the width of a single band in ATR terms, and therefore how far price must travel to force a jump. Larger values give wider, rarer, more significant corridors. Smaller values give a tighter grid that re-anchors often.
Volatility Length sets the ATR lookback used to measure a step at each anchor. Longer is more stable.
Everything else is cosmetic: fills, candle painting, label size, level thickness, background tint.
REPAINTING
The anchor, the step size, the jumps, the setups and the alerts all evaluate on confirmed bars only. A level that is drawn is final for the life of the corridor and is never moved retroactively. The script requests no higher timeframe data.
READING IT
Equilibrium is the fair value the corridor is currently defending. Price oscillating around it is a market with no directional decision.
The outer bands are where the current corridor stops being an adequate description of price. Price reaching them means one of two things is about to happen: it is rejected and the corridor holds, or it closes through and the whole structure jumps to a new shelf. Both are tradable and both have a setup defined for them.
A corridor that survives many bars is a market that has agreed on value. A rapid sequence of jumps in one direction is a trend, and the jump markers make that sequence obvious even when the candles do not.
This is an analysis tool, not financial advice, and not a trading system. The setups are two mechanically defined patterns, and no pattern has an edge on its own. Use it with your own risk management and position sizing. Indicator
Time-Price Volume Heatmap with Liquidity SweepsWhat it does
Most volume tools compress everything into a single vertical profile, so you can see at which price volume traded, but not when. This script splits the lookback window into a grid of time columns × price rows and paints each cell by how much volume was actually traded inside it — producing a time-and-price heatmap of where activity concentrated as the market moved.
On top of that map it tracks the resting liquidity pools that price left behind, and flags the exact bar where each pool is taken.
How it is calculated
The heatmap
The lookback window (default 300 bars) is divided into Time Resolution columns (default 16) and Price Resolution rows (default 26), built between the highest high and lowest low of the window.
For every bar, its volume is distributed evenly across all price rows its high-low range covers. A bar spanning 5 rows adds one fifth of its volume to each. This approximates where inside the candle the activity sat, rather than assigning it all to the close.
Each cell is normalised against the busiest cell in the grid and coloured on a 3-stop gradient. Transparency scales with intensity, so cold zones stay faint and hot zones glow. Cells below Min Intensity are not drawn at all — this keeps the chart readable and stays inside the 500-object limit.
Point of Control Rows are summed across all columns; the heaviest row is drawn as the POC line. The panel also shows POC Density — that row's share of total mapped volume. A high number means volume is concentrated on one shelf; a low number means it is spread out.
Liquidity pools Confirmed pivot highs and lows (Pivot Strength, default 8) mark levels where stop orders typically rest. Each is drawn as a dotted line extending right, labelled with its price. When price trades through a level it is re-drawn solid grey and marked SWEPT, and the sweep counter increments. Levels older than Level Max Age are removed automatically.
Volume bursts Volume is converted to a z-score over Volume Window bars. Two dot sizes mark bars above the strong (2σ) and extreme (3.5σ) thresholds — useful for spotting which bar actually did the damage at a level.
Volume Pressure Volume of up-closes minus volume of down-closes across the window, expressed as a percentage of total. A rough directional bias for the mapped period.
How to read it
Hot zones = price spent time and volume there. They tend to act as magnets and as friction; moves through them are usually slower.
Cold gaps = thin areas. Price often travels through them quickly.
A sweep followed by an immediate move back inside the previous range is the classic liquidity-grab pattern. The sweep marker plus an extreme volume dot on the same bar is the strongest version of it.
POC as reference: the panel tells you whether price is above or below the heaviest shelf. Indicator
Gravity Trend | ADX Strength Meter & Quality-Scored DMI SystemA fully modular DMI/ADX trend-following strategy built around a live Trend Quality Score rather than a raw crossover signal.
Instead of entering on the initial DI crossover, this script waits for pullback entries within an already-confirmed trend regime (DI direction + ADX strength + optional EMA filter), aiming to capture better average entry prices than chasing the initial signal.
Core features:
Pullback entry engine — enters on EMA reclaim within a confirmed DMI trend regime (toggle back to classic DI crossover anytime)
Trend Quality Score (0–100) — a weighted composite of ADX level, DI spread, ADX slope, and EMA slope, visualized as a glowing trend line whose brightness scales with signal quality
Peak-ADX decay exit — tracks the highest ADX reached since entry and exits once trend conviction decays a set percentage off its peak, independent of price action
True initial stop anchored to strategy.position_avg_price, transitioning into a Chandelier-style ATR trailing stop that only ratchets in your favor
Volatility- and quality-adjusted position sizing — risk per trade scales with ATR and with the current Trend Quality Score
Cooldown filter to avoid re-entering immediately after a stop-out in the same chop zone
Live dashboard table showing ADX, DI spread, trend score, position status, and a self-updating win-rate table bucketed by ADX strength regime at entry — so you can see empirically which trend-strength conditions are actually working on your instrument
Every major mechanic (EMA filter, DI spread minimum, pullback mode, Chandelier trail, ADX decay exit, cooldown, quality-based sizing, and each individual Trend Score component) is independently toggleable — designed for methodical A/B testing rather than a fixed black-box system.
This is a trend-following strategy, not mean-reversion. It is intended for educational and research purposes. Past performance shown in backtests does not guarantee future results — always forward-test and paper-trade before risking real capital, and adjust default parameters (ADX threshold, ATR multiples, EMA lengths) to suit your instrument and timeframe. Strategy
Premarket High/Low + Prior Day High/Low + Opening PriceFutures Levels – Premarket High/Low + Prior Day High/Low + Opening Price
Clean and accurate session levels designed primarily for futures traders (ES, NQ, YM, RTY, etc.), but also usable on equities.
What it plots:
• Premarket High & Low – Highest high and lowest low of the most recent overnight/premarket session
• Prior Day High & Low – High and low of the most recent completed Regular Trading Hours (RTH) session
• Opening Price – The actual 09:30 ET opening price of the most recent session
Key Features:
• Shows only the most recent levels (no historical clutter)
• Correctly handles weekends and pre-market gaps — on Sunday or Monday before the open you will see Friday’s Premarket High/Low, Friday’s RTH High/Low, and Friday’s 09:30 open
• Lines start at their true origin bar and extend only to the right
• Fully independent settings for each level (color, line style, and thickness)
• Session times are fully adjustable
How to use:
1. Add the indicator to an intraday chart
2. Make sure Extended Hours (ETH) is enabled
3. Adjust colors, styles, and widths in the settings to your preference
Adjusting for Equities (Stocks/ETFs):
By default the sessions are set for futures (Premarket 18:00–09:29 ET).
For stocks and ETFs, simply change the session inputs in the settings to:
• Premarket Session → 0400-0929
• RTH Session → 0930-1600
Ideal for day traders and scalpers who want clean, reliable reference levels without the noise of older session lines. Indicator
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Kill Zones, Market Opens and NewsKill Zones, Market Opens and News
Version 1.0.0
Draws FX session kill zones, market opens and news event lines on intraday charts, with its own purpose built kill zones for DE40, the US indices and crude oil. First release, shared open source.
WHAT IT DRAWS
• Forex kill zones: London 07:00-10:00 UK and New York 12:00-15:00 UK, each with start and end boundary lines.
• Market open lines: 08:00 London/Frankfurt and 14:30 New York, each on its own toggle.
• News event lines, filtered to the relevant pair: GBP 07:00 / 09:30 / 12:00, USD 13:15 / 13:30 / 14:45 / 15:00 / 19:00 / 19:30, EUR 08:30 / 13:15. 13:30 USD is on by default, the rest off.
• DE40: London morning only, 08:00-10:00 Frankfurt. Own 08:00 open and 10:00 end line, no afternoon zone.
• US500 / USTEC / US30 (identical): AM orange pre-market 13:30-14:30 then green 14:30-17:00; PM green 18:00-20:00 then blue power hour 20:00-21:00.
• XTIUSD: two green zones, 08:00-10:00 and 13:00-19:00 UK, plus the 14:30 New York open and USD news.
• History range: the last 5 trading days, or the full loaded history.
• Colour, opacity, width and style adjustable on every element.
WHY THESE HOURS
• The windows come from an hour-of-day volatility study, the average bar range in each UK hour: five years of data to July 2026 for the forex majors, gold and index CFDs, and around two years for crude oil, cross-checked against real price action. The aim is to shade the hours that actually move and mark the opens and news that drive them.
HOW IT WORKS
• Each custom instrument shows only its own windows; the forex shading, session lines, opens and news are suppressed on DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD.
• Forex windows track a US (New York) data feed. The custom instruments are UK clock anchored and render correctly on any exchange timezone.
• The "UK-US Time Difference" input (5 or 4) covers the roughly 4 weeks a year when UK and US daylight saving are out of step. Leave it at 5 the rest of the year.
• Boundary lines draw below 1H; kill zone shading and market opens draw at 1H and below.
WHAT IT RUNS ON
• Intraday, 1H and below.
• Forex majors and XAUUSD get the standard drawing; DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD get their own custom zones.
• Custom zones match the exact symbols DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD. Other broker names (for example GER40, SPX500, NAS100, WTIUSD) fall back to the standard forex drawing. The script is open source, so you can add your broker's names.
• Tested so far on forex majors, XAUUSD, DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 and XTIUSD.
HOW TO USE
• Add it to any intraday chart, 1H or below.
• On forex or gold: use the London and NY kill zones to see where the sessions sit, and turn on the opens and news you follow.
• On DE40, US500, USTEC, US30 or XTIUSD: it switches automatically to that instrument's own zones.
• In a DST gap week, set "UK-US Time Difference" to 4; otherwise leave it at 5.
• Use the History range control to keep the chart light (5 days) or show the full history.
IN THIS RELEASE (v1.0.0)
• First public release.
• Forex London and NY kill zones with adjustable boundary lines.
• 08:00 London/Frankfurt and 14:30 New York market opens.
• GBP / USD / EUR news lines, toggled individually and filtered per pair.
• Custom kill zones for DE40, US500 / USTEC / US30 and XTIUSD.
• UK clock anchored custom instruments, timezone independent, with the 5/4 DST toggle.
• History range, and full colour, opacity, width and style control.
FEEDBACK
Please let me know if you experience any issues, or have feedback for improvements or additions in the comments below. Thank you, Tom Indicator
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Chandelier Exit Trend Navigator [MarkitTick]💡 A trend-following overlay that tracks directional shifts using a volatility-adaptive channel (Chandelier Exit methodology) and converts each flip into a fully structured trade plan — entry, stop-loss, and three R-multiple take-profit levels — displayed directly on the chart alongside a live status dashboard.
✨ Originality and Utility
While the Chandelier Exit concept itself (anchoring a trailing stop to the highest high or lowest low over a lookback, offset by a multiple of ATR) is a well-documented volatility-stop technique, this script extends that foundation into a complete navigation system rather than a simple trailing line.
Three layers separate this tool from a stock Chandelier Exit plot:
An optional adaptive pre-filter (Kalman Filter or a slope-adjusted moving average referred to here as LLAMA) that can be applied to the source series before the channel extremes are calculated, allowing the trend anchor itself to react differently to noise depending on which filter is selected.
A full trade-management layer built on top of the directional flip: automatic stop-loss placement, three independently configurable take-profit levels defined in R-multiples, and live linefill zones that visually separate risk from reward.
A condition-stacking filter system (higher-timeframe EMA bias and ADX strength) that must all align before a directional flip is treated as an actionable signal, reducing signals generated during weak or conflicting conditions.
The combination is not an arbitrary mashup — the adaptive filter conditions the input to the channel calculation, the HTF/ADX filters condition which flips are considered valid, and the trade-management layer converts a validated flip into a concrete, risk-defined plan. Each component feeds the next in a single directional pipeline.
🔬 Methodology and Concepts
● Chandelier Exit Core
The core channel is built from Average True Range (ATR), calculated over a user-defined lookback. Two boundaries are computed each bar:
A long-side stop, set below the highest value of the source over the lookback period, offset by a multiple of ATR.
A short-side stop, set above the lowest value of the source over the same lookback, offset by the same ATR multiple.
Users can choose whether the highest/lowest calculation uses close-based extremes or true high/low wicks, which changes how sensitive the channel is to intrabar spikes.
A persistent trailing line then locks in the tighter of the two boundaries as price develops: while the current directional state is bullish, the line only ratchets upward (never loosening on a pullback); while bearish, it only ratchets downward. A directional flip occurs when price closes beyond the opposite boundary from the prior bar, at which point the trailing line resets to anchor the new trend.
● Adaptive Source Filtering
Before the channel extremes are calculated, the source price can optionally be passed through one of two smoothing methods:
Kalman Filter — a recursive estimator that updates its estimate of the "true" price each bar based on a prediction-error and gain calculation, converging faster in stable conditions and adapting more cautiously during volatile ones.
LLAMA — a linear-regression-style approach that takes a simple moving average of the source and adjusts it by the recent slope (rate of change) over the same lookback, projecting the average forward in the direction the price has been drifting.
When neither is selected, the raw close is used directly, preserving the traditional Chandelier Exit behavior.
● Confirmation Filters
Two independent filters can be layered on top of the raw directional flip before it is treated as a signal:
A higher-timeframe EMA bias filter, which only allows long signals when price is trading above an EMA calculated on a higher timeframe, and only allows short signals when price is trading below it.
An ADX-based strength filter, which requires the Average Directional Index to be at or above a user-defined threshold before any signal — long or short — is permitted, filtering out flips that occur during weak, non-trending conditions.
Both filters default to off and can be combined or used independently.
● Trade Level Construction
When a filtered directional flip is confirmed on a closed bar, the script anchors a trade plan to the prior bar's close:
Risk per trade is defined as the prior bar's ATR multiplied by a user-set stop-loss multiplier.
The stop-loss is placed one risk-unit away from the entry, in the direction opposite the trade.
Three take-profit levels are placed at independently configurable R-multiples of that same risk distance (default 1R, 2R, and 3R), each extending in the direction of the trade.
This means every signal comes with a symmetric, volatility-scaled risk framework rather than a fixed point value, so trade levels automatically widen or tighten with current market volatility.
🎨 Visual Guide
Heatmap Candles — the chart's candle bodies and wicks are recolored to match the current directional state: teal/green while the trailing system is bullish, red while bearish, and gray when direction is undetermined (e.g. on the very first bar).
Entry Line (blue, dashed) — marks the anchor price of the most recent confirmed trade signal.
Stop-Loss Line (red, solid, thicker) — marks the calculated stop price for the active signal, labeled "✕ SL" with its price value.
Take-Profit Lines (green, dashed, three separate levels) — TP1, TP2, and TP3, each drawn with progressively fuller opacity so TP3 is the most visually solid, labeled "◆ TP1", "✦ TP2", and "◆ TP3" respectively with their price values.
Risk Zone Fill — a light red shaded region between the stop-loss and entry lines, visually sizing the risk portion of the trade.
Reward Zone Fill — a light teal shaded region between the entry and TP3 lines, visually sizing the potential reward portion of the trade.
Dashboard Table — a repositionable panel (default top-right) summarizing, in real time: Lock status, current Trend direction, HTF Bias reading, the numeric CE trailing-stop level, current ATR value, and the active Entry/SL prices. When enabled, it also displays the current ADX reading and which adaptive filter (if any) is active. A visual bar-and-percentage gauge shows the reward-to-risk ratio of the current trade relative to TP3, colored red/yellow/green depending on how favorable it is.
📌 Note : the best way to resolve visual overlap is to navigate to the Object Tree and drag the indicator above the main chart layer, or simply hide the native candles in your chart settings.
📖 How to Use
A directional flip in the heatmap candle color, together with a new Entry/SL/TP level set appearing on the chart, indicates a fresh signal in that direction.
The Stop-Loss line represents the level at which the trade thesis is considered invalidated under this system's logic.
TP1, TP2, and TP3 represent successive profit-taking references at increasing R-multiples; price reaching a level does not close or resize the plotted level automatically — it is a visual reference for scaling decisions.
The Risk and Reward zone fills give an immediate visual sense of the trade's risk framing without needing to read exact price values.
The Dashboard's R:R (TP3) gauge offers a quick read on how the reward potential compares to the initial risk for the most recent signal.
The Lock Signal input, when enabled, freezes the currently plotted levels in place and suppresses new signal generation — useful for reviewing a specific setup without the chart updating further trade plans in real time.
When the HTF or ADX filters are enabled but conditions aren't met, no new signal will fire even if the raw directional flip occurs — check the Dashboard's HTF Bias and ADX rows to understand why a flip may not have produced a signal.
⚙️ Inputs and Settings
ATR Len / ATR Mult — controls the lookback and volatility multiplier used to build the Chandelier channel; a longer length and/or larger multiplier produces a wider, slower-reacting trailing stop.
Use Close Extremes — toggles between close-based and high/low-based channel construction, changing sensitivity to intrabar wicks.
HTF Trend Filter / HTF TF / HTF EMA Len — enables and configures the higher-timeframe EMA bias filter that gates which direction of signal is permitted.
Use ADX Filter / ADX Threshold / ADX Length — enables and configures the trend-strength filter that must be satisfied for any signal to fire.
Adaptive Filter / Adaptive Filter Length — selects an optional smoothing method (Kalman Filter or LLAMA) applied to the source before channel calculation, and its lookback length.
Lock Signal — freezes the currently displayed trade levels and halts new signal generation.
SL ATR Mult — sets how many ATR units define one unit of risk for stop-loss placement.
TP1 R / TP2 R / TP3 R — sets the R-multiple distance for each take-profit level relative to the calculated risk.
Heatmap Candles / Show Trade Levels — toggle the directional candle coloring and the entry/SL/TP drawing layer independently.
Dash Pos — repositions the dashboard to any chart corner.
Color inputs — customize the bullish/bearish colors, stop-loss, entry, and take-profit line colors, and the dashboard's background, header, and text colors.
Alert action fields (Long/Short/Close Long/Close Short) — customize the text string sent in the "action" field of the JSON alert payload, useful for routing signals to automated systems expecting specific action keywords.
🔍 Deconstruction of the Underlying Scientific and Academic Framework
The trailing-stop core of this script belongs to a family of volatility-adjusted stop techniques that use Average True Range as a normalization factor for price movement, an approach popularized in trend-following and volatility-breakout literature as a way to size stops relative to an instrument's current, rather than fixed, volatility regime. Anchoring the stop to a rolling extreme (highest high or lowest low) rather than a fixed percentage or point distance reflects the broader class of "channel breakout" trend systems, in which a directional bias persists until price violates a level defined by recent extremes — a structure with roots in classical trend-following systems that predate modern indicator platforms.
The optional Kalman Filter smoothing draws on recursive Bayesian estimation theory, originally developed for tracking dynamic systems under measurement uncertainty. Applied to price, it treats each new close as a noisy observation of an underlying "true" value, blending the prior estimate with the new observation according to a gain term that adjusts based on estimated error — a formulation with parallels to adaptive filtering approaches used in signal processing and, more recently, in quantitative finance research on noise-reduction for price series.
The LLAMA-labeled alternative combines a simple moving average with a linear slope projection, conceptually related to local linear regression and momentum-adjusted smoothing techniques, where a lagging average is advanced along the estimated trend direction to partially compensate for the inherent lag of moving-average-based estimators.
The ADX-based strength filter draws on Welles Wilder's Directional Movement framework, which quantifies trend strength independently of trend direction; requiring a minimum ADX reading before accepting a signal reflects a common risk-management heuristic in trend-following systems — that directional signals generated during low ADX (ranging/choppy) conditions have historically shown less reliability than those generated during elevated trend strength, though this relationship is probabilistic rather than deterministic and varies across instruments and regimes.
The take-profit structure, expressed in R-multiples of the initial risk rather than fixed price or percentage targets, reflects standard position-sizing and risk-management theory in which trade outcomes are measured relative to the capital placed at risk, allowing performance to be evaluated on a risk-normalized basis rather than in absolute price terms.
⚠️ Disclaimer
All provided scripts and indicators are strictly for educational exploration and must not be interpreted as financial advice or a recommendation to execute trades. We expressly disclaim all liability for any financial losses or damages that may result, directly or indirectly, from the reliance on or application of these tools. Market participation carries inherent risk where past performance never guarantees future returns, leaving all investment decisions and due diligence solely at your own discretion. Indicator
