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IVX: Institutional Velocity X-Ray [Ash_TheTrader]
The Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray: Seeing Institutional Speed Inside the Candle ⚡🐢
Stop getting trapped by standard candlesticks. It’s time to see how fast the money is actually moving.
A standard candlestick tells you four things: Open, High, Low, and Close. It’s the foundation of technical analysis.
But it hides the most important metric of all: Speed.
Two bullish 1-Hour candles can look identical on your chart. Both opened at $100 and closed at $105.
Candle A hit $105 in the first 5 minutes, then spent 55 minutes holding that level.
Candle B ground slowly upwards, finally hitting $105 in the 59th minute.
To a standard indicator, these candles are the same. To a professional trader, they are opposites. One shows aggressive, front-loaded institutional buying; the other shows weak, exhausted retail grinding.
As Ash_TheTrader, I developed the Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray to solve this problem. It stops looking at the surface of the candle and looks inside it.
🧠 The Concept: Time-To-Form
This indicator uses advanced Pine Script technology to conduct an "X-Ray" scan of the bar you are looking at.
If you are on a 1-Hour chart, the script uses request.security_lower_tf to fetch the data of the 60 individual 1-minute bars hidden inside that single hour bar.
It then asks a critical question: How long did it take for this candle to achieve its ultimate High or Low?
In a Bullish candle, we measure the time it took to hit the specific minute of the bar's High.
In a Bearish candle, we measure the time it took to hit the specific minute of the bar's Low.
By measuring this "Time-To-Form," we can classify the intent behind the move.
⚡ The "Fast" Candle (Institutional Aggression)
When smart money wants to move an asset, they don't wait all day. They execute large block orders that move price rapidly to their desired level, and then they defend it.
The Signal: The indicator identifies a bar as "Fast" if it hits its High (for bulls) or Low (for bears) in the first 20% of the candle's duration.
The Visual: The bar turns Neon Cyan and is marked with a lightning bolt ⚡.
Interpretation by Ash_TheTrader: This is urgent liquidity. Institutions are front-loading their orders. These levels are often strong zones of support or resistance on retests because the big players showed their hand early.
🐢 The "Slow" Candle (Retail Grind)
Conversely, when a move is driven by retail traders chasing price, or when a trend is exhausted, price struggles to make new extremes. It grinds slowly, taking the entire duration of the candle just to inch slightly higher or lower.
The Signal: The indicator identifies a bar as "Slow" if it takes more than 80% of the candle's duration to finally reach its High or Low.
The Visual: The bar turns Orange and is marked with a turtle 🐢 beneath it.
Interpretation by Ash_TheTrader: This is "weak" movement. Even if the candle is green, if it took 58 minutes of a 60-minute bar just to make a new high, the buyers are exhausted. Be wary of reversals after seeing a cluster of 🐢 candles.
💻 Features and The Dashboard
To make this data actionable in real-time, I have engineered a clean Heads-Up Display (HUD) directly on the chart.
The On-Chart Dashboard: Located in the top right, the dashboard gives you the live stats of the current forming bar. It tells you exactly what percentage of the time has passed and whether the current structure is considered Institutional ⚡ or a Retail Grind 🐢.
Other Features:
Dual Polarity Logic: Works seamlessly for both bullish trends (tracking speed to Highs) and bearish trends (tracking speed to Lows).
Smart Volume Filtering: The indicator automatically ignores insignificant low-volume "noise" bars, only highlighting speed on candles with above-average volume.
Full Alert Capability: Set alerts for "Fast ⚡" detections to catch sudden institutional activity as it happens.
⚙️ Best Practices for Using This Tool
Because this tool looks inside a bar, it is designed to be used on Higher Timeframes.
Recommended Timeframes: 30-Minute, 1-Hour, 4-Hour, or Daily charts.
Do Not Use On: 1-Minute or 5-Minute charts. (You cannot effectively "X-Ray" a 1-minute bar using 1-minute data; the math doesn't work).
A Final Note from Ash_TheTrader
Trading is about information asymmetry. The market hides the most valuable data beneath the surface of the Open and Close. Use the Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray to stop guessing the speed of the market and start seeing it.
Trade safe, trade smart.⚡
Stop getting trapped by standard candlesticks. It’s time to see how fast the money is actually moving.
A standard candlestick tells you four things: Open, High, Low, and Close. It’s the foundation of technical analysis.
But it hides the most important metric of all: Speed.
Two bullish 1-Hour candles can look identical on your chart. Both opened at $100 and closed at $105.
Candle A hit $105 in the first 5 minutes, then spent 55 minutes holding that level.
Candle B ground slowly upwards, finally hitting $105 in the 59th minute.
To a standard indicator, these candles are the same. To a professional trader, they are opposites. One shows aggressive, front-loaded institutional buying; the other shows weak, exhausted retail grinding.
As Ash_TheTrader, I developed the Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray to solve this problem. It stops looking at the surface of the candle and looks inside it.
🧠 The Concept: Time-To-Form
This indicator uses advanced Pine Script technology to conduct an "X-Ray" scan of the bar you are looking at.
If you are on a 1-Hour chart, the script uses request.security_lower_tf to fetch the data of the 60 individual 1-minute bars hidden inside that single hour bar.
It then asks a critical question: How long did it take for this candle to achieve its ultimate High or Low?
In a Bullish candle, we measure the time it took to hit the specific minute of the bar's High.
In a Bearish candle, we measure the time it took to hit the specific minute of the bar's Low.
By measuring this "Time-To-Form," we can classify the intent behind the move.
⚡ The "Fast" Candle (Institutional Aggression)
When smart money wants to move an asset, they don't wait all day. They execute large block orders that move price rapidly to their desired level, and then they defend it.
The Signal: The indicator identifies a bar as "Fast" if it hits its High (for bulls) or Low (for bears) in the first 20% of the candle's duration.
The Visual: The bar turns Neon Cyan and is marked with a lightning bolt ⚡.
Interpretation by Ash_TheTrader: This is urgent liquidity. Institutions are front-loading their orders. These levels are often strong zones of support or resistance on retests because the big players showed their hand early.
🐢 The "Slow" Candle (Retail Grind)
Conversely, when a move is driven by retail traders chasing price, or when a trend is exhausted, price struggles to make new extremes. It grinds slowly, taking the entire duration of the candle just to inch slightly higher or lower.
The Signal: The indicator identifies a bar as "Slow" if it takes more than 80% of the candle's duration to finally reach its High or Low.
The Visual: The bar turns Orange and is marked with a turtle 🐢 beneath it.
Interpretation by Ash_TheTrader: This is "weak" movement. Even if the candle is green, if it took 58 minutes of a 60-minute bar just to make a new high, the buyers are exhausted. Be wary of reversals after seeing a cluster of 🐢 candles.
💻 Features and The Dashboard
To make this data actionable in real-time, I have engineered a clean Heads-Up Display (HUD) directly on the chart.
The On-Chart Dashboard: Located in the top right, the dashboard gives you the live stats of the current forming bar. It tells you exactly what percentage of the time has passed and whether the current structure is considered Institutional ⚡ or a Retail Grind 🐢.
Other Features:
Dual Polarity Logic: Works seamlessly for both bullish trends (tracking speed to Highs) and bearish trends (tracking speed to Lows).
Smart Volume Filtering: The indicator automatically ignores insignificant low-volume "noise" bars, only highlighting speed on candles with above-average volume.
Full Alert Capability: Set alerts for "Fast ⚡" detections to catch sudden institutional activity as it happens.
⚙️ Best Practices for Using This Tool
Because this tool looks inside a bar, it is designed to be used on Higher Timeframes.
Recommended Timeframes: 30-Minute, 1-Hour, 4-Hour, or Daily charts.
Do Not Use On: 1-Minute or 5-Minute charts. (You cannot effectively "X-Ray" a 1-minute bar using 1-minute data; the math doesn't work).
A Final Note from Ash_TheTrader
Trading is about information asymmetry. The market hides the most valuable data beneath the surface of the Open and Close. Use the Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray to stop guessing the speed of the market and start seeing it.
Trade safe, trade smart.⚡
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Wyłączenie odpowiedzialności
Informacje i publikacje nie stanowią i nie powinny być traktowane jako porady finansowe, inwestycyjne, tradingowe ani jakiekolwiek inne rekomendacje dostarczane lub zatwierdzone przez TradingView. Więcej informacji znajduje się w Warunkach użytkowania.