MULTITIMEFRAME_VWAP_MANOJVWAP is a powerful concept.
It denotes the fair price that is traded in the market.
In other words, it represents a variance of POINT OF CONTROL (POC) which is a Market Profile / Volume Profile Concept.
It is a leading indicator as it is dependent on the price and volume .
Usually VWAP is used for intraday trades and Trading view as an in built indicator which works only for intraday.
This script plots daily vwap , monthly vwap , quarterly vwap and yearly vwap .
The suggested combination is :
intraday charts - daily vwap
daily charts - monthly and / or quarterly vwap
weekly charts - quarterly and / or yearly vwap
Wyszukaj w skryptach "volume profile"
FHX Bands (VWMA BB)This study is an optimized version of Bollinger Bands based on volume weighted data points: more volume on a bar gives those prices a higher impact. FHX bands base on the assumptions of auction market theory (e.g., as does volume profiling). Bollinger Bands implicitly assume a uniform probability mass function for data points and consider only the - somewhat arbitrary - close price. In contrast to this, FHX bands take all four available data points into account (OHLC) and use the volume at each candle* to define a probability mass function in order to compute mean and standard deviation.
As an indicator, FHX bands could be used in the same way as BB to facilitate or confirm Break-Out trades and identify strong momentum moves. Settings for the standard deviation multiplier should be interpreted as follows (following the 68–95–99.7 rule):
x standard deviation set to 1: ~32% chance that a move outside the bands is by chance
x standard deviation set to 2: ~5% chance that a move outside the bands is by chance
x standard deviation set to 3: ~0.3% chance that a move outside the bands is by chance
This however assumes a fairly solid period of consolidation beforehand (visible through notable contraction of the bands) and a normal distribution of values within that consolidation period. Therefore users need to experiment within their time frame in order to identify a Length setting that suits their needs. Personally, I set Length to 21 or lower, depending on my targeted time frame. Note that the indicator does not test for normality in any way; you can, however, use a quick visual test using the fixed range volume profile indicator to increase its reliability.
Good luck and mind your risk
-fhx
* of course tick data would be the real deal, but we work with what we have
noodle Vol CompositionVolume composition of lower timeframes.
Divergences between active volume and regular volume shows undecided participants.
Being able to see the composition of the lower timeframes volume profile helps to see when price is likely to make a strong move in either direction.
PivotBuilderOverview
PivotBuilder is a versatile trading tool that allows traders to create up to eight pivot lines, calculated using moving averages and standard deviation offsets, for enhanced market analysis and trade signal generation. These pivot lines work in conjunction with a trigger line to generate long and short signals based on user-defined parameters.
Key features:
Build strategies based on interaction between a moving average and any one or more of the 8 pivot lines - all fully configurable.
Customizable moving average types for pivot and trigger lines (SMA, EMA, VWMA).
Optional global pivot line configuration to simplify parameter adjustments.
Signal persistence options: signals can last for only one bar or until the opposite signal is issued.
Strategy visualization on chart.
Ideal for intraday and swing traders seeking dynamic support/resistance analysis and related strategies.
Key Concepts:
Customizable Pivot Lines
Create up to eight pivot lines with individually adjustable lengths, moving average types, and standard deviation offsets.
Optionally enable or disable signal generation for each pivot line.
Global Pivot Line Settings
Use a single global length for all pivot lines with one input for quicker configuration.
Signal Persistence
Choose between signals lasting only for the current bar or remaining active until the opposite signal is issued.
Chart Highlighting
Green background: Long signal is active.
Red background: Short signal is active.
Alerts
Configure alerts for signals via email, Discord, pop-ups, or sound using TradingView's native alert function.
Input Parameters
Global Settings:
Use Global Length for Pivot Lines: Enable this to apply a single length value to all pivot lines.
Global Pivot Line Length: The length to apply when the global setting is enabled.
Signal Mode:
Signal Mode: Select how long signals persist.
One Bar Only: Signals last only for the current bar.
Until Opposite Signal: Signals remain active until the opposite signal is triggered.
Trigger Line:
Trigger Line Moving Average Length: Set the length of the moving average for the trigger line.
Trigger Line MA Type: Choose the moving average type (Simple - SMA, Exponential - EMA, Volume-Weighted - VWMA).
Pivot Lines:
Each of the eight pivot lines has the following configurable settings:
Length: Define the moving average length. Overrides the global length if global settings are disabled.
MA Type: Choose between Simple - SMA, Exponential - EMA, Volume-Weighted - VWMA.
Standard Deviation: Set the standard deviation offset for the pivot line.
Enable Signal: Turn signal generation on/off for the specific pivot line.
Example Strategy on Nasdaq Futures (NQ, 1-minute Chart)
Long Signal:
A long signal is generated when:
The trigger line crosses above Pivot Line, Pivot Line 2, Pivot Line 3, and Pivot Line 4.
Short Signal:
A short signal is generated when:
The trigger line crosses below Pivot Line, Pivot Line 2, Pivot Line 3, and Pivot Line 4.
Configuration Example:
Global Settings:
Use Global Length for Pivot Lines: Disabled (to allow individual lengths for each pivot line).
Signal Mode: Until Opposite Signal (signals persist until the opposite signal is triggered).
Trigger Line:
Trigger Line Moving Average Length: 5.
Trigger Line MA Type: EMA (Exponential Moving Average).
Pivot Line 1:
Length: 20.
MA Type: EMA (Exponential Moving Average).
Standard Deviation: 0.25.
Enable Signal: True.
Pivot Line 2:
Length: 50.
MA Type: EMA (Exponential Moving Average).
Standard Deviation: -0.5.
Enable Signal: True.
Pivot Line 3:
Length: 50.
MA Type: EMA (Exponential Moving Average).
Standard Deviation: 1.
Enable Signal: True.
Pivot Line 4:
Length: 40.
MA Type: EMA (Exponential Moving Average).
Standard Deviation: 2.0.
Enable Signal: True.
Set Pivot Lines 5-8 disabled.
Signals:
Green Highlight: Indicates a long signal is active.
Red Highlight: Indicates a short signal is active.
Alerts
PivotBuilder allows you to set alerts for long or short signals. Here’s how to set them up in TradingView:
Add the Indicator: Attach PivotBuilder to your chart.
Open Alert Menu: Right-click on the chart and select Add Alert.
Condition: Choose your symbol (e.g., NQ) and select PivotBuilder.
Alert Options:
Crossing: Choose if you want to be alerted for "long" or "short" signals.
Notifications: Configure alerts via:
Email: Receive email alerts when signals are triggered.
Webhook: Set up Discord notifications via webhooks.
Pop-ups: Show an on-screen alert in TradingView.
Sound: Play a sound when a signal is issued.
Create: Save the alert.
Signal Persistence: How It Works
PivotBuilder gives you control over how long signals remain active:
One Bar Only:
Signals are active for the current bar only.
At the close of the bar, signals reset automatically.
Until Opposite Signal:
A long signal remains active until a short signal is triggered and vice versa.
Useful for trend-following strategies.
Development Roadmap
Future updates for PivotBuilder will include:
New Moving Average Types: Expand the available moving average options for both the pivot and trigger lines. Planned additions include, Weighted Moving Average (WMA), Hull Moving Average (HMA), Least Squares Moving Average (LSMA), and more.
Dynamic Volume Filtering: Add volume-based conditions to validate signals during periods of high market activity, filtering out low-liquidity signals.
Incorporation of Support/Resistance Calculations: Integrate traditional and alternative methods of support and resistance calculations into pivot lines such as Fibonacci retracements, Average True Range (ATR), volume-profile based support.
Automated trading via Strategy companion add-on.
300-Candle Weighted Average Zones w/50 EMA SignalsThis indicator is designed to deliver a more nuanced view of price dynamics by combining a custom, weighted price average with a volatility-based zone and a trend filter (in this case, a 50-period exponential moving average). The core concept revolves around capturing the overall price level over a relatively large lookback window (300 candles) but with an intentional bias toward recent market activity (the most recent 20 candles), thereby offering a balance between long-term context and short-term responsiveness. By smoothing this weighted average and establishing a “zone” of standard deviation bands around it, the indicator provides a refined visualization of both average price and its recent volatility envelope. Traders can then look for confluence with a standard trend filter, such as the 50 EMA, to identify meaningful crossover signals that may represent trend shifts or opportunities for entry and exit.
What the Indicator Does:
Weighted Price Average:
Instead of using a simple or exponential moving average, this indicator calculates a custom weighted average price over the past 300 candles. Most historical candles receive a base weight of 1.0, but the most recent 20 candles are assigned a higher weight (for example, a weight of 2.0). This weighting scheme ensures that the calculation is not simply a static lookback average; it actively emphasizes current market conditions. The effect is to generate an average line that is more sensitive to the most recent price swings while still maintaining the historical context of the previous 280 candles.
Smoothing of the Weighted Average:
Once the raw weighted average is computed, an exponential smoothing function (EMA) is applied to reduce noise and produce a cleaner, more stable average line. This smoothing helps traders avoid reacting prematurely to minor price fluctuations. By stabilizing the average line, traders can more confidently identify actual shifts in market direction.
Volatility Zone via Standard Deviation Bands:
To contextualize how far price can deviate from this weighted average, the indicator uses standard deviation. Standard deviation is a statistical measure of volatility—how spread out the price values are around the mean. By adding and subtracting one standard deviation from the smoothed weighted average, the indicator plots an upper band and a lower band, creating a zone or channel. The area between these bands is filled, often with a semi-transparent color, highlighting a volatility corridor within which price and the EMA might oscillate.
This zone is invaluable in visualizing “normal” price behavior. When the 50 EMA line and the weighted average line are both within this volatility zone, it indicates that the market’s short- to mid-term trend and its average pricing are aligned well within typical volatility bounds.
Incorporation of a 50-Period EMA:
The inclusion of a commonly used trend filter, the 50 EMA, adds another layer of context to the analysis. The 50 EMA, being a widely recognized moving average length, is often considered a baseline for intermediate trend bias. It reacts faster than a long-term average (like a 200 EMA) but is still stable enough to filter out the market “chop” seen in very short-term averages.
By overlaying the 50 EMA on this custom weighted average and the surrounding volatility zone, the trader gains a dual-dimensional perspective:
Trend Direction: If the 50 EMA is generally above the weighted average, the short-term trend is gaining bullish momentum; if it’s below, the short-term trend has a bearish tilt.
Volatility Normalization: The bands, constructed from standard deviations, provide a sense of whether the price and the 50 EMA are operating within a statistically “normal” range. If the EMA crosses the weighted average within this zone, it signals a potential trend initiation or meaningful shift, as opposed to a random price spike outside normal volatility boundaries.
Why a Trader Would Want to Use This Indicator:
Contextualized Price Level:
Standard MAs may not fully incorporate the most recent price dynamics in a large lookback window. By weighting the most recent candles more heavily, this indicator ensures that the trader is always anchored to what the market is currently doing, not just what it did 100 or 200 candles ago.
Reduced Whipsaw with Smoothing:
The smoothed weighted average line reduces noise, helping traders filter out inconsequential price movements. This makes it easier to spot genuine changes in trend or sentiment.
Visual Volatility Gauge:
The standard deviation bands create a visual representation of “normal” price movement. Traders can quickly assess if a breakout or breakdown is statistically significant or just another oscillation within the expected volatility range.
Clear Trade Signals with Confirmation:
By integrating the 50 EMA and designing signals that trigger only when the 50 EMA crosses above or below the weighted average while inside the zone, the indicator provides a refined entry/exit criterion. This avoids chasing breakouts that occur in abnormal volatility conditions and focuses on those crossovers likely to have staying power.
How to Use It in an Example Strategy:
Imagine you are a swing trader looking to identify medium-term trend changes. You apply this indicator to a chart of a popular currency pair or a leading tech stock. Over the past few days, the 50 EMA has been meandering around the weighted average line, both confined within the standard deviation zone.
Bullish Example:
Suddenly, the 50 EMA crosses decisively above the weighted average line while both are still hovering within the volatility zone. This might be your cue: you interpret this crossover as the 50 EMA acknowledging the recent upward shift in price dynamics that the weighted average has highlighted. Since it occurred inside the normal volatility range, it’s less likely to be a head-fake. You place a long position, setting an initial stop just below the lower band to protect against volatility.
If the price continues to rise and the EMA stays above the average, you have confirmation to hold the trade. As the price moves higher, the weighted average may follow, reinforcing your bullish stance.
Bearish Example:
On the flip side, if the 50 EMA crosses below the weighted average line within the zone, it suggests a subtle but meaningful change in trend direction to the downside. You might short the asset, placing your protective stop just above the upper band, expecting that the statistically “normal” level of volatility will contain the price action. If the price does break above those bands later, it’s a sign your trade may not work out as planned.
Other Indicators for Confluence:
To strengthen the reliability of the signals generated by this weighted average zone approach, traders may want to combine it with other technical studies:
Volume Indicators (e.g., Volume Profile, OBV):
Confirm that the trend crossover inside the volatility zone is supported by volume. For instance, an uptrend crossover combined with increasing On-Balance Volume (OBV) or volume spikes on up candles signals stronger buying pressure behind the price action.
Momentum Oscillators (e.g., RSI, Stochastics):
Before taking a crossover signal, check if the RSI is above 50 and rising for bullish entries, or if the Stochastics have turned down from overbought levels for bearish entries. Momentum confirmation can help ensure that the trend change is not just an isolated random event.
Market Structure Tools (e.g., Pivot Points, Swing High/Low Analysis):
Identify if the crossover event coincides with a break of a previous pivot high or low. A bullish crossover inside the zone aligned with a break above a recent swing high adds further strength to your conviction. Conversely, a bearish crossover confirmed by a breakdown below a previous swing low can make a short trade setup more compelling.
Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP):
Comparing where the weighted average zone lies relative to VWAP can provide institutional insight. If the bullish crossover happens while the price is also holding above VWAP, it can mean that the average participant in the market is in profit and that the trend is likely supported by strong hands.
This indicator serves as a tool to balance long-term perspective, short-term adaptability, and volatility normalization. It can be a valuable addition to a trader’s toolkit, offering enhanced clarity and precision in detecting meaningful shifts in trend, especially when combined with other technical indicators and robust risk management principles.
Adaptive Range Breakout (ARB) IndicatorTitle: Adaptive Range Breakout (ARB) Indicator – Enhanced Mean Reversion with Dynamic Support/Resistance
Overview: The Adaptive Range Breakout (ARB) Indicator is designed to help traders identify potential mean reversion and breakout opportunities by leveraging a dynamic range based on recent price action and volatility. This script combines key elements such as Volume Profile analysis, ATR-based volatility adjustments, and an EMA trend filter to create a robust and adaptive trading tool. It aims to capture both trend continuations and reversals while filtering out noise in choppy markets.
Justification for Combining Components:
HVN (High Volume Node):
The core of this indicator is built around a custom VWAP calculation over a defined lookback period, which serves as the HVN line (High Volume Node). The HVN represents a volume-weighted average price, highlighting key levels where significant trading activity has occurred. These levels often act as areas of support or resistance, providing a reliable reference point for traders.
ATR-Based Dynamic Support and Resistance:
The Average True Range (ATR) is used to adjust the adaptive support and resistance levels around the HVN line. This ensures that the levels dynamically respond to changes in market volatility. The use of ATR helps filter out insignificant price movements and focuses on significant shifts in momentum, making the indicator adaptive to different market conditions.
EMA Trend Filter:
An Exponential Moving Average (EMA) is applied as a trend filter to distinguish between trending and range-bound market conditions. This filter helps in identifying whether the price movement is in line with the overall trend or if a potential reversal is more likely. By using the EMA crossover signals, the indicator can provide additional confirmation before generating buy or sell signals.
Adaptive Breakout and Mean Reversion Signals:
The indicator generates buy and sell signals based on the interaction between the price and the adaptive support/resistance levels. It incorporates a volatility filter to ensure that signals are only triggered when the market is sufficiently volatile, reducing the likelihood of false signals during low-volatility periods. Additionally, a cooldown period is implemented to prevent consecutive signals in quick succession, enhancing signal reliability.
Key Features:
Dynamic Range Levels: The adaptive support and resistance levels adjust based on recent price action and volatility, providing reliable areas for potential reversals or breakouts.
Volume-Weighted Analysis: The HVN line, derived from a custom VWAP calculation, highlights key price levels with significant trading activity, helping identify zones of support/resistance.
Trend Confirmation: The EMA trend filter helps differentiate between trend-following and mean-reversion signals, providing context for the generated buy and sell signals.
Volatility Filtering: The indicator uses ATR to gauge market volatility, ensuring signals are only generated during active market conditions.
Signal Cooldown: A customizable cooldown period reduces noise by spacing out signals, especially in choppy market environments.
Use Case:
The Adaptive Range Breakout (ARB) Indicator is suitable for traders looking to capitalize on both breakouts and mean-reversion opportunities. It is particularly useful in:
Range-Bound Markets: The adaptive support and resistance levels help capture reversals in range-bound conditions.
Trending Markets: The trend filter and breakout logic allow traders to follow momentum when the price breaks through key adaptive levels.
Intraday and Swing Trading: The dynamic nature of the indicator makes it applicable across different timeframes, catering to both intraday and swing traders.
Important Considerations:
This indicator does not guarantee future performance or provide an infallible prediction of price movements. It is a tool intended to support traders in their decision-making process based on historical price action and market conditions.
The effectiveness of the signals may vary depending on the asset, market conditions, and timeframe used. It is recommended to backtest the indicator and use it alongside other analysis techniques.
Always exercise caution and use appropriate risk management strategies when trading based on signals generated by this indicator.
Alerts: The indicator includes built-in alerts for:
Buy Signal Alert: Triggered when the price crosses above the adaptive support level, suggesting a potential reversal or continuation in an uptrend.
Sell Signal Alert: Triggered when the price crosses below the adaptive resistance level, indicating a potential reversal or continuation in a downtrend.
EMA Crossover Alerts: Alerts for EMA crossover signals, providing additional trend confirmation.
This script is a comprehensive tool designed to adapt to market conditions dynamically, combining multiple techniques to create a well-rounded approach to identifying trading opportunities. We encourage users to integrate it into their broader trading strategy and apply it with caution, understanding its strengths and limitations.
Professional Zones - Institutional Demand and Supply Imbalances
Intro to Supply and Demand Zone Technical Analysis
Supply and demand is an increasingly common strategy among day and swing traders in equity, forex, and the futures markets. The goal of analyzing supply and demand zones is to pre-determine where price action may pivot before that pivot happens, thus giving us an edge over the market. There are many unique charting/trading strategies that fit under the supply and demand umbrella, however we are going to focus primarily on Institutional Zones of Demand and Supply Imbalances, as this is what our TradingView indicator actively displays.
What are Institutional Zones of Demand and Supply Imbalances?
First, let’s break down the phrase above. The first word is ‘institutional’, which is a key aspect in our trading. As a retail trader, you must understand that retail traders (individual traders like you and I) have very little control and very little effect on price action in the major markets. The price action that we see everyday is caused by large institutions and hedge funds buying and selling equities in massive quantities.
This chart displays the price action for ES, which is the S&P500 E-mini futures .
At the time this guide was created, that chart for ES displays the low of this year (2022). You can see major highs and major lows, as well as steep drops and momentous runs.
Price action like this appears random to the naked eye, however it is all controlled by major institutions. These institutions place large buy and sell orders for markets such as the S&P 500 Index which causes these moves.
Our Institutional Demand and Supply Analysis attempts to discover the price zones where institutions have placed their buy/sell orders. Their buy orders create “demand zones”. And their sell orders create “supply zones”. Knowing where these zones exist allows us to anticipate price trend reversals so we can profitably participate in them alongside the major institutions when these key moves take place.
We are looking for areas in the chart where institutions have created major imbalances (more buy orders than sell orders or vice versa) which creates demand and supply zones that impact price action and trend reversals in predictable ways.
What Causes These Supply and Demand Zones?
Understanding that institutions control the price of the markets is crucial for understanding how these zones of supply and demand imbalances are formed, and it can be derived from historical price action.
There are two types of price action, balanced and imbalanced. Balanced price action is flat, consolidatory price action where the overall direction is sideways. Imbalanced price action is an exaggerated move in price either up or down. Now here is the key: institutional supply and demand imbalances are formed when price action goes from balanced to imbalanced. Below is an example of balanced price action .
There are clearly areas of institutional buy and sell orders that are causing price action to oscillate between the areas of demand and supply. The longer price action consolidates and moves sideways, the larger the volume profile will be in this range. In other words, more institutional orders will build up as price remains relatively the same for a longer period of time.
Here is how a demand zone is formed :
Due to bullish CPI news, price action went from balanced to imbalanced by exploding to the upside. This bullish price action filled all of the sell orders and broke past the previous area of supply. Because price moved up so fast, the buy orders did not get a chance to fill, essentially leaving an area with a high concentration of buy orders remaining. Hence, a new demand zone is formed which is shown here .
Our state-of-the-art indicator automatically scans for these historical shifts in price action (balanced to imbalanced) via our supply and demand zone detection formula, and displays them on your chart instantly. Remember the first image sent of blank price action? Here it is below:
The image below shows the exact same chart of ES, however, our advanced Professional Zones - Institutional Demand and Supply Imbalances indicator has been applied to the chart.
Just like that, price action has been transformed from unexplainable chaos to an orderly sequence of demand bounces and supply rejections.
Yes, all of these zones may be charted manually if one were to acquire the knowledge required to chart them by hand, and spend numerous hours going back in time to find all these zones. Additionally, these charts would then have to be constantly monitored and updated, which would require hours of work each day. This powerful indicator automates all of that work to give you more precious time to analyze and trade these zone-driven pivots in the markets.
How To Measure the Strength of Supply and Demand Zones?
The longer the consolidation takes place, the larger the demand/ supply zone will be. This strength is measured by the time frame of the origin of the zone.
Each zone may be formed on a different time frame, the biggest being the 1 Month time frame, and the smallest being the 30 Minute. Each supply and demand zone is automatically labeled based on the time frame from which the zone originated.
The weakest zones are derived from the 30 minute time frame. This means the zone only took two 30 minute candles to form, which is not a lot of time for institutions to place large orders. This means that the bounces and rejections off of these zones will usually be smaller, and usually won’t last more than a few days.
Larger zones such as 1 Day, 1 Week, and 1 Month often cause large swings in the market lasting weeks, months and even years. So pay attention not just to where the demand and supply zones currently appear, but also to the strength of that zone. You can see below that the demand zone that the market bottomed in and reversed out of in 2022 was in fact, a very strong weekly zone.
What is the Significance of Supply and Demand Zone Breaks?
These zones are order-based. This means that a supply zone level doesn’t turn into demand when price action breaks above it, and demand doesn’t turn into supply when price action breaks below it. It is unlike standard trend-based support and resistance levels. If price action breaks below demand by even $0. 01 , all of the buy orders have been filled and the demand must be deleted from the chart (and vice versa for a supply zone ).
While it is possible to play these zone breaks as continuation plays off of current momentous price action, it is unpredictable how far price will go up or down after breaking supply or demand during that leg.
However, in my years of supply and demand experience, I have noticed that if demand breaks, the market will eventually come down to the next viable demand zone . This is because without a pivot caused by an institutional-created demand or supply imbalance, there is often not enough participation to cause a sustainable trend reversal for a long period of time. Below is an example of this:
Above is the 4 Hour chart of TSLA bouncing up off of a demand zone . We call this a bounce in “no man's land”, as there is no major demand bounce to support this reversal to the upside. So in theory, price action should return lower to the next major historical zone of demand before it has a chance of pulling off a solid reversal. Here is what happened:
As you can see above, TSLA did indeed end up heading back down into the next major demand zone before getting a sustainable reversal to the upside. So you may play these supply and demand zone breaks as continuation trades, either long or short, with a price target at the next major zone. Just make sure to use proper risk management and position sizing, as timing the trigger of a price target can be difficult.
How Might I Place a Trade Using the Indicator?
Now that the basics of institutional supply and demand zones have been discussed, there will come a time that this strategy must be actively applied to personal trading with a goal of becoming profitable. Here is a step-by-step process to place a trade using supply and demand paired with an example of a day trade from the 1 minute time frame.
Step 1: Find a highly institutionally traded stock that is currently in supply or demand as shown by our indicator. For example, AAPL:
Step 2: Look for an above-average (exaggerated) volume spike. Because we are in one of the green zones at the bottom of the chart, we know that we are in demand where large institutional buy orders reside. We need to wait for some of these orders to actually fill before we take our trade. This is known as volume confirmation. The color of the volume usually does not matter in this situation.
Step 3: Now that we have a volume spike which is confirmation of large orders being filled, we need more confirmation that the institutional orders are not only a buy, but large enough to actually reverse the current trend.
This is ultimately a judgment call. A few green candles may be good enough to dictate a reversal, or a trend break. It comes down to personal preference and how aggressive you would like to be. Keep in mind, the longer you wait, the more confirmation your trade has, but also, the longer you wait, the greater the risk of missing the new trend. In this example, we will use a trend line to confirm our trend reversal.
Step 4: Enter the trade. Now that you have proper demand confirmation, you may place your trade. Be sure to determine your stop loss, price target, position size, and all other risk management factors along the way.
In this example, AAPL ran all the way up to supply before rejecting; making for a perfect demand to supply call trade. Also, more short trade entries could have been taken based off of the multiple supply rejections AAPL had.
The Bottom Line
There are many ways one may go about trading the stock market. However in my years of trading and teaching, there has never been a strategy that has not only changed my career, but improved the trading careers of my students, more dramatically than Institutional Zones of Demand and Supply Imbalances.
Though charting new zones and deleting broken ones everyday was time consuming and repetitive, the results of trading these zones made it well-worth the hours of charting. However, after months of development and fine-tuning, the painful charting process has been automated by this powerful indicator, completely replacing the tedious charting work for myself and my students.
While numerous other indicators include the name “Supply and Demand Zones”, we believe that no supply and demand indicator remotely this advanced and accurate available on TradingView. I am very blessed to finally bring this revolutionary tool to the market.
Introduction to the Aurora Demand and Supply Indicator for TradingView and its Functionality
This page is dedicated to providing a thorough walk-through of our Professional Zones - Institutional Demand and Supply Imbalances indicator. The settings functionality, customizability, and purpose will be discussed to give you an in-depth understanding of the indicator. Understanding the purpose of the different functions and settings is crucial to utilizing this powerful tool at its full potential.
First Look Upon Indicator Addition
After purchasing the indicator, your chart may initially appear cluttered, zoomed out, and hard to read. But do not worry, it just means the indicator settings must be fine-tuned to optimize your experience. Tt may appear overwhelming. However this page will discuss each major customizable setting and the functionality behind it to streamline your TradingView set up.
Filter Options Settings Category
This is the first customizable feature that appears when accessing the settings of the indicator. What Filter Zone Ranges does is allow you to filter the range at which zones appear both above and below the current asset price. With this setting unchecked, every single demand and supply zone within the 5k candle limit (or 20k limit if you have a premium TradingView account) will appear on your chart. This causes chart clutter which limits the visibility of price action.
If you have this setting activated, you can choose exactly the range of zones visible to you. This range is percent based and is measured both above and below the current market price. For example, if you activate Filter Zone Ranges and set the Filter Percentage at 7%, only zones within the range of 7% above, and 7% below the current asset price will be shown.
Demand/ Supply Zone Options Settings Category
The next two categories contain the majority of the customizability for supply and demand zones. The first option in both the Demand/ Supply Zone Options is Create Demand/Supply Zones. This toggle is very straight forward, you may choose whether or not to display all demand zones, or all supply zones.
The next two options are Demand/ Supply Zone Border and Demand/ Supply Zone Fill. Again, these are straight forward. The border setting allows you to edit both the color and opacity of the zones’ border lines. The fill setting allows you to edit the color and opacity of the interior of the supply/demand boxes.
Following the first pair of visual settings, you will see Demand/ Supply Zone Box Offset. This allows you to toggle how much the indicator offsets each zone from its origin point. In other words, move it to the left or right from the point in time at which the zone was created. The 0 offset is the base setting which is actually a slight offset to the right of the origin point to ensure that the candlesticks remain unobstructed visually.
After the offset options, you will find Demand/ Supply Zone ERC Multiple. This is a key setting which inputs the value our formula utilizes to scan the areas of institutional supply and demand imbalances. Unless you are extremely experienced with supply and demand analysis or you are running backtesting, it is highly recommended this value is left at ‘2’ for both the demand and supply options.
The next two options you will see in your indicator settings are Extend Demand/ Supply Zone and Demand/ Supply Zone Size. This feature allows you to customize exactly how far your zones will extend from the point of origin into the future.
The three options on the drop down menu are Extend, Fixed, and Dynamic. Each of these options extend your zones in a different fashion. It is important to note that the value inputted in the size option is the amount of units the zones will extend to the right for both Fixed and Dynamic options. The larger this input is, the further out the zones will extend into the future, and vice versa.
The final setting in the Demand/ Supply Zone Options category is Broken Zones to Keep and Broken Demand/ Supply Zone Fill. The Broken Zones to Keep input allows you to see recent supply or demand zones that have been broken and deleted from your chart. This may be useful for a trader in a few different ways. The Broken Demand/ Supply Zone Fill setting allows you to customize the number of broken zones displayed as well as their color and opacity. The most prominent example of this option’s utility is for traders that do not observe price action during the entirety of the market open.
If an individual left their charts for a few hours and missed a demand break, it may give the illusion that there was never a demand there and price action has been in “no-man's land” all day. However if that individual inputted ‘1’ in the Broken Zones to Keep setting, they would be able to see that a demand has broken. This may be useful as the trader may have an altered sentiment after knowing that a zone did in fact break.
Note: the value inputted is the amount of previously broken zones that will appear on your chart. For example, if the value ‘3’ is inputted, the three most recently broken zones will appear on your chart.
Time Frame Options Settings Category
Time Frame Options Settings allows you to toggle which supply and demand zones appear on your chart by time frame. For example, if you are analyzing a chart on a larger time frame such as the daily or weekly, the small 30 minute and 45 minute zones will often clutter your chart. By deselecting the weaker and smaller time frame zones, it will clean your chart up, allowing you to only see the zones that assist your analysis.
However the first two options in the category are unique.The first is Show Forming Zones. This option is extremely useful if you are watching price action play out live, when seeing the possibility of a supply or demand zone forming may be of benefit during your day trading. By toggling this setting ON, you will see all possible supply and demand zones forming in real time. However, this could cause clutter if multiple zones are forming at once in which case, toggling it off may be more beneficial.
The second option in the Timeframe Options category is the Show Zones Inside toggle, which controls the table at the top right of your screen (you may get rid of this table by deselecting tables in display settings).
This setting simply is a “yes” or “no” as to whether or not the table located at the top right of your screen will display the number of zones price action is currently sitting in. This setting is useful as zones may sometimes pile up on top of one another, making it hard to know exactly how many zones price action is currently sitting in.
Gap Options Settings Category
Just below the Timeframe Options category, is the Gap Options category. Gaps appear when two daily candles highs and lows do not overlap. These are often created when a catalyst is released into the market overnight causing a large move, resulting in a “gap” up or down the next morning.
A Gap often forms due to a strong move to the upside, and the indicator highlights this gap with a gray box. Gaps are important to many traders as there is often a large lack of liquidity inside the gap area, which often acts as a magnet that attracts future price action to fill it. If toggled on, the indicator displays the gap among the supply and demand zones seamlessly. The rest of the settings for this category are options to customize the color, opacity, size, and offset. These have the same effect as the options in the Demand/ Supply Zone Options category.
Text Options Settings Category
The final category in the indicator input settings is Text Options. This category allows you to toggle zone labeling on or off, and to specify how you would like the zone labels to appear. It’s strongly recommended that zone labeling is left ON because knowing the time frame a supply or demand zone originated from is a massive indicator of its strength. Top right alignment causes labeling such as “3H” to appear at the top right of each zone.
Indicator Data Limitations
There are a few limitations of TradingView which impact the Professional Zones - Institutional Supply and Demand Imbalances indicator. The first is the data TradingView provides to its users. With a basic TradingView account, a user only has access to 5,000 candles of data. So if a user is on the 1 minute time frame, that user can only see 5,000 candles before that current point. This is important because our advanced indicator scans historical price action that has formed supply and demand zones and displays it on your chart. This means that if a user is on a 1 minute time frame chart, they will only be able to see zones formed within the last 5,000 candles. Older supply and demand zones can not be displayed. However if a user has the Premium TradingView subscription, they can access up to 20,000 candles, which greatly increases the potential zones the user may see on the smaller time frames.
To counter this, we strongly recommend checking the larger time frames before starting your trading day, as there could be an old zone lurking behind the scenes. Once you spot it on the 30 minute time frame, for example, you may easily take note of the demand zone and its location.
The Bottom Line
This indicator has been intricately and powerfully designed to not only display institutional supply and demand imbalances more accurately and efficiently than any other TradingView indicator, but it has also been designed to give the user full control. Full control means the user has the ability to customize the appearance and inputs, as well as toggle specific objects visible to the trader.
We have meticulously designed the Professional Zones - Institutional Supply and Demand Imbalances indicator to be extremely valuable as a stand-alone strategy, as well as versatile enough to incorporate multiple other trading strategies on top of supply and demand .
However, in order for this indicator to be utilized by you at its full potential, it is important that you understand all of its features, capabilities and configuration options before you dive into trading.
VWAP From Multiple Sources With Cloud & Percentage GapVWAP CLOUD FROM CLOSE, OPEN, HIGH & LOW SOURCES WITH CLOUD & PERCENTAGE GAP
VWAP stands for volume weighted average price and shows the average price of buys/sells based on volume traded across the current session. This VWAP is based off of the Daily session.
***HOW TO USE***
Use the purple cloud between the VWAPs as your entry points as price will typically bounce from that cloud area.
The Yellow Line is the VWAP using the close price as a source.
The Green Line is the VWAP using the open price as a source.
The Blue Line is the VWAP using the high price as a source.
The Purple Line is the VWAP using the low price as a source.
When price is above the VWAP cloud, the background will paint green because the trend is bullish.
When price is below the VWAP cloud, the background will paint red because the trend is bearish.
In the bottom right hand corner, three is a table that will show you the current percentage gap between current price and the VWAP using close as the source.
All sources and colors can be easily switched in the settings menu.
***MARKETS***
This indicator can be used as a signal on all markets, including stocks, crypto, futures and forex.
***TIMEFRAMES***
This vwap indicator can be used on all timeframes but is calculated using the daily session.
***TIPS***
Try using numerous indicators of ours on your chart so you can instantly see the bullish or bearish trend of multiple indicators in real time without having to analyze the data. Some of our favorites are our Auto Fibonacci, Volume Profile, Directional Movement Index, Momentum, Auto Support And Resistance and Money Flow Index in combination with this VWAP Cloud. The other indicators all have real time Bullish and Bearish labels as well so you can immediately understand each indicator's trend.
Mayfair Volume Stochastic 1.0This indicator takes some of the simple tools such as RSI and Stochastic, and provides information of the macro picture for both trending and non-trending markets;
The Relative Strength Index part of the indicator is standard and is used in technical analysis that ranges between zero and one (or zero and 100 on some charting platforms.
This indicator has the ability to change between multiple settings; Elders Force Index, Money Flow Index, On Balance Volume & Price Volume Trend.
The Stochastic part is measuring not only the conventional Stochastic K – but also the accumulation/distribution and this is used with the volume bars at the bottom.
All are uniquely combined to give “False bar” signals when certain criteria is met – this is visualised by the Green turning Red on the upper and lower boundaries of the indicator. When Red, the trend is false, when green the trend is trending.
It’s a unique view of the market, confirmation of trend (false or not) inclusive of the volume profile across the bottom. Colour set to Red (Bearish), Green (Bullish) and Grey is undecisive volume.
ToTitans : Buy/Sell HHVWhat is it
It is a volume profile indicator base on y axis. It will show you when the buy/sell volume dominate the market
Differentiation
No one has done this before to calculate buy/sell volume indicator in this fashion
This indicator has been used in AJ Jim class for "Type 2" approach
Suitable for
Intra Day Trading (20m-2h)
TFEX:S501!
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VWAP OscillatorToday I'm proposing a simple VWAP oscillator script to trade buy and sell waves more easily.
You trade this similar to how you trade Awesome Oscillator, so if you want an explanation just look up YT videos.
In addition to that, this will also show volume squeezes, please note that this is a makeshift way and not real volume squeeze phenomena of volume profile and tape. None the less, it is quite good at allowing you to ride out good trending waves and locate weak price action due to volume squeeze. You can turn off bar coloring from settings if you don't want this.
For ease of reading, I've also applied Allenstars Dynamic zones on this indicator so you can easily locate where the reading is entering in long and where it is in sell, this is compared to selected sample size. I've already selected the most common setting for that, so you don't really need to fiddle with it unless you find something better.
This indicator can be used to trade divergences as well, in fact, I feel it is better for that compared to RSI/MACD, the usual suspects.
Past performance is not assurance of future performance and this idea is published for only educational purposes, author taken no responsibility for your profit or loss.
Pre-Market Volume ProfileThis indicator displays the pre-market volume (note: without the post-market of the previous day).
Unusual pre-market volume often indicates that institutional market makers are moving the market, which is a good sign for unusual high price movement.
The indicator helps me to spot stocks, if a pre-market gap is confirmed with enough (unusual) volume.
You can define, what "unusual" means by you, by adjusting the SMA length and the SMA multiplier.
The default is a length of 21 bars and a 2.5 multiplier, meaning I'm interested in a stock, if the pre-market volume exceeds the average pre-market volume by 2.5 times.
LONG MICRO-VOLUMES 3.0This script - when plotted below the chart - shows most important LONG VOLUMES during the sessions.
Volumes often anticipates turning points and/or show important support levels.
My advice is to plot volume profile too, to complete the view.
The script works with stocks, etf , commodities , futures , forex, spreads.
I use to trade with this tool looking at different time-frames in the same moment.
SHORT MICRO-VOLUMES 2.0This script - plotted on a panel above the chart - shows most important SHORT VOLUMES during the sessions.
Volumes often anticipates turning points and/or show important resistance levels.
My advice is to plot volume profile too, to complete the view.
The script works with stocks, etf , commodities , futures , forex, spreads.
I use to trade with this tool looking at different time-frames.
LONG MICRO-VOLUMESThis script - when plotted below the chart - shows most important LONG VOLUMES during the sessions.
Volumes often anticipates turning points and/or show important support levels.
My advice is to plot volume profile too, to complete the view.
The script works with stocks, etf, commodities, futures, forex, spreads.
I use to trade with this tool looking at different time-frames, in the same moment.
Angled Volume Profile [feeble]BETA VERSION
this indicator maps volume as brightness over an SMA. the brightness then fades over time.
It draws 30 bands, so you will need to load multiple instances to get a large picture.
Configure the settings, then copy and paste the indicator, modifying only the vertOffset attribute each time
Patience, bruh. This takes a long time load. Chrome runs it faster than Firefox. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Please let me know if you can think of how to optimize it.
Feedback is appreciated is you use it :)
sample with 6 instances:
settings:
useLog: enable if you are using a log graph
rowHeight: resolution of rows.
vertOffset: normally if you have 5 instances, the values will be -2,-1,0,1,2
fadeAmt: how long it takes for volume to fade once it is picked up
volumeMin and Max: the volume range displayed.
volumeResolution: time resolution at which volume data is collected - this is why the fadeAmt is so high, and why the graph runs out of data after a period back
EMA length: its Actually SMA but I wrote it wrong. eg. for a 20 day period on a 15min chart you go ( 20 days x 24 hrs x 4 quarter hours = 1920) - I hope to automate this in a future version :p
Synthetic OrderBookHow to Use the Enhanced Synthetic OrderBook Indicator
This indicator creates a synthetic representation of market order book data using price action, volume, and other technical factors. It's designed to help you identify significant market imbalances and potential price reversals, especially useful for crypto trading.
Overview
The Enhanced Synthetic OrderBook provides three different view modes, each offering unique insights into market conditions:
1. **Order Book View** - Shows simulated order book depth at different price levels
2. **Delta View** - Displays the imbalance between buying and selling pressure
3. **Liquidation View** - Highlights potential liquidation events that could drive price movements
How to Use Each View Mode
Order Book View
This view simulates what you would see in an exchange order book, showing bids (buy orders) in green and asks (sell orders) in orange/red.
**How to interpret:**
- **Green bars (bids)**: Represent buying interest at different price levels below the current price
- **Red bars (asks)**: Represent selling interest at different price levels above the current price
- **Bar height**: Taller bars indicate stronger buying/selling interest
- **Threshold lines**: The green line shows the bullish threshold, while the red line shows the bearish threshold
**Trading signals:**
- When green bars (bids) consistently exceed the bullish threshold, consider buying
- When red bars (asks) consistently exceed the bearish threshold, consider selling
- Look for imbalances where bids are significantly larger than asks (or vice versa)
Delta View
This view shows the difference between buying and selling pressure across different price ranges. It's more focused on the imbalance rather than raw order book depth.
**How to interpret:**
- **Green bars**: Positive delta (more buying than selling pressure)
- **Red bars**: Negative delta (more selling than buying pressure)
- **Threshold lines**: Indicate significant levels of imbalance
- **Zero line**: Neutral point between buying and selling pressure
**Trading signals:**
- When delta stays consistently above the bullish threshold, it suggests strong buying pressure
- When delta stays consistently below the bearish threshold, it suggests strong selling pressure
- Changes in direction of the delta can signal potential reversals
- When the bids/asks delta shallows
Liquidation View
This view estimates potential liquidation events in the market, which often lead to sharp price movements.
**How to interpret:**
- **Green bars**: Potential long liquidations (forced selling from leveraged long positions)
- **Red bars**: Potential short liquidations (forced buying from leveraged short positions)
- **Bar height**: Indicates the estimated severity of liquidations
**Trading signals:**
- Large liquidation events often lead to price continuation in that direction
- After a series of liquidations, the market may become exhausted, suggesting a potential reversal
- Short liquidations (red) tend to create faster upward price movements than long liquidations
Tips for Beginners
1. **Start with the Order Book view** to get a feel for buying and selling pressure
2. **Use the Delta view** for confirmation of trends and potential reversals
3. **Check the Liquidation view** when markets are volatile to anticipate sharp moves
4. **Watch for strong buy/sell signals** (green/red arrows) which suggest high-confidence trade opportunities
5. **Customize the threshold levels** in the settings to match the volatility of the asset you're trading
6. **Higher timeframes** (4H, daily) generally provide more reliable signals than lower timeframes
## Important Settings to Adjust
- **Order Book/Delta Thresholds**: Adjust these based on the asset's volatility (higher for more volatile assets)
- **Show Bids/Asks**: Toggle to focus on specific directions
- **Adaptive Threshold**: Enables the indicator to automatically adjust sensitivity based on market conditions
- **Volume Profile**: Uses historical volume distribution to improve accuracy
This indicator works best when combined with other confirmation tools like support/resistance levels, trend analysis, and traditional technical indicators.
Advanced Liquidity Trap & Squeeze Detector [MazzaropiYoussef]DESCRIPTION:
The "Advanced Liquidity Trap & Squeeze Detector" is designed to identify potential liquidity traps, short and long squeezes, and market manipulation based on open interest, funding rates, and aggressive order flow.
KEY FEATURES:
- **Relative Open Interest Normalization**: Avoids scale discrepancies across different timeframes.
- **Liquidity Trap Detection**: Identifies potential bull and bear traps based on open interest and funding imbalances.
- **Squeeze Identification**: Highlights conditions where aggressive buyers or sellers are trapped before a reversal.
- **Volume Surge Confirmation**: Alerts when abnormal volume activity supports liquidity events.
- **Customizable Parameters**: Adjust thresholds to fine-tune detection sensitivity.
HOW IT WORKS:
- **Long Squeeze**: Triggered when relative open interest is high, funding is negative, and aggressive selling occurs.
- **Short Squeeze**: Triggered when relative open interest is high, funding is positive, and aggressive buying occurs.
- **Bull Trap**: Triggered when relative open interest is high, funding is positive, and price crosses above the trend line but fails.
- **Bear Trap**: Triggered when relative open interest is high, funding is negative, and price crosses below the trend line but fails.
USAGE:
- This indicator is useful for traders looking to anticipate reversals and avoid being caught in market manipulation events.
- Works best in combination with order book analysis and volume profile tools.
- Can be applied to crypto, forex, and other leveraged markets.
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Reversal Opportunity📌 Indicator Description – Reversal Opportunity 🎯
🔍 General Overview
The Reversal Opportunity indicator is designed to identify ideal conditions for Reversal Trading, but it does not provide trade entry signals. Instead, it helps traders determine whether the market conditions are favorable for a potential reversal.
It is specifically designed for traders who execute Reversal trades (Long or Short) and want a clear indication of whether the market is currently suitable for such setups.
💡 What does this indicator do?
- Identifies strong momentum before a reversal (a sharp upward or downward move).
- Detects momentum slowdown (decreasing volume and smaller candles).
- Checks if the RSI is at an extreme level (above 70 or below 30), indicating potential overbought or oversold conditions.
- Displays a table at the top center of the screen with the following key data:
- Are the conditions for a reversal met?
- Is there a slowdown in momentum?
- Is RSI at an extreme level?
- Was there strong uptrend momentum before a possible Short Reversal?
- Was there strong downtrend momentum before a possible Long Reversal?
⚙️ How Does the Indicator Work?
The indicator displays a table in the center of the screen, updating every 5 candles to indicate whether the market conditions are ideal for a reversal trade.
📊 Main Status Row:
- ✔ Ideal Reversal Setup → Conditions for a reversal trade are met (not a trade recommendation).
- ✖ Not Ideal → Reversal conditions are not met; it may be better to wait.
📌 Key Criteria Displayed in the Table:
1. ⚠️ Momentum Slowdown
- Yes → Momentum is weakening (a good sign for reversal trades).
- No → The market is still moving strongly, and a reversal might not be ready yet.
2. 📈 RSI Extreme
- Yes → RSI is above 70 (overbought) or below 30 (oversold), indicating a potential reversal.
- No → RSI is still in a normal range, suggesting that waiting for further confirmation might be wise.
3. 📊 Uptrend Momentum Before Reversal
- Yes → There was a strong uptrend over multiple consecutive candles, potentially setting up for a Short Reversal.
- No → No strong upward momentum was detected, meaning conditions for a Short Reversal may not be ideal.
4. 📉 Downtrend Momentum Before Reversal
- Yes → There was a strong downtrend over multiple consecutive candles, potentially setting up for a Long Reversal.
- No → No strong downward momentum was detected, meaning conditions for a Long Reversal may not be ideal.
🛠️ How to Use the Indicator?
- If "✔ Ideal Reversal Setup" appears, there is a high probability of a market reversal – use your personal entry strategy for further confirmation.
- If Momentum Slowdown = Yes, RSI Extreme = Yes, and strong momentum occurred beforehand, this is an ideal setup for a reversal trade.
- If any conditions are missing ("No"), it may be better to wait for further confirmation instead of entering too early.
- The indicator does NOT provide trade entries! Use your existing trading system for confirmation before entering a trade.
👥 Who Is This Indicator For?
- Reversal traders (entering against the current trend after a strong move).
- Intraday traders looking for reversal trades at extreme market levels.
- Technical traders who rely on Price Action and Volume for trade setups.
⚠️ Disclaimer:
This indicator does not recommend trade entries but provides insight into market conditions. The trader is responsible for risk management and decision-making.
It is best used in combination with additional confirmations such as reversal candles, Order Flow, Bookmap, or Volume Profile to improve accuracy.
🚀 The indicator is ready to use – add it to TradingView and get instant feedback on whether the market is ideal for a Reversal trade!
G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics v1OVERVIEW:
The G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics indicator system enables users to discover unorthodox indicator patterns, reading price charts in unusual ways, thus gaining an edge over the majority of market participants they trade against.
CONCEPTS:
Th G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics is a system that aims to satisfy the fundamental condition for successful online trading - providing an edge.
It's a battle between advantages. To take other people's money, successful traders must have an advantage over everybody else. To hope for consistent success in trading, you need to do things differently and see what almost nobody else sees. Of course then you must act on it, and that's where the G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostic's mandate ends.
I believe the vast majority of indicators out there show you what everybody else sees. I've always been an indicator guy, I respect and cherish most indicators and I know a good indicator when I see it.
However, although most indicators are great works of art, their practicality is in most cases doubtful. Presenting great information is one thing, but providing an edge over the people you trade against is something different.
What Everybody Else Sees
The G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics is based on indicators most of you have probably heard of and used:
Moving Averages (particularly the Kaufman Moving Average, among others)
ADX and DI
Bollinger Bands
Stochastic (particularly the Stochastic RSI)
Most traders should be well familiar with these classic indicators, they've provided the basis for online indicator trading for decades. But it's also true that due to how popular online trading has become all over the world, one is more and more unable to use these indicators successfully on lower timeframes.
Usually, more noteworthy success is achieved by going up in scale and discovering the timeframe where a particular indicator produces no false signals. Often times these timeframes range from bi-weekly to multi-month scale. In other words, consistently successful low timeframe trading and scalp trading in particular are now almost impossible using indicators.
Traders that dominate the scalping arena are big professional/institutional groups of traders, who have systematic access to the order books of most exchanges. This can be achieved one way or another, but not by individuals, small groups without significant capital or simply traders who lack political/social power and influence in the trading field.
In other words - giant order book traders have an edge over everybody else, who use indicators to trade on lower timeframes.
Through a series of interventions into these classical indicators, the G.O.A.T. System brings them back into the lower timeframe competitive game. Most original formulas are preserved, but these immortal classics are applied in ways popular TA would consider unorthodox.
Ingenious Indicators Built by Creators
The G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics relies on the fundamental work of others. The System is developed on the basis of:
Quadratic Kernel Regression - it uses the publicly published library of Justin Dehorty: www.tradingview.com
PMARP - Price Moving Average Ratio & Percentile, publicly published by "The_Caretaker": www.tradingview.com
These Creators deserve full credit for their fundamental work and are endorsed by the G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics project.
And yet... ingenious and inspired as these tools are, in my humble opinion the general public is presented with a rather unproductive way to apply them. In my own view, these wonderful tools built by JDehorty and The_Caretaker have a massive potential should they be applied and wielded in a different direction. So I tried to bring my vision about them into flesh with the G.O.A.T. Diagnostics.
What the G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics Is and How to Use It
It's a System for new pattern discovery, bringing the disciplines of pattern and indicator trading together.
By using it as a stand-alone, or mixing it with other great indicators, one is able to discover new indicator patterns. Patterns can be compared, matched together and categorized. By applying statistics to differentiated historical pattern groups, we're able to derive their meaning.
Thus, the trader is able to research their own "alphabet" to read the price charts. After categorizing and differentiating pattern groups with statistically predominant meaning, the trader is then able to read into longer scenarios - price set-ups that are harder to detect due to them being stretched in time or misshapen according to the particular situation.
The G.O.A.T. Scalper leverages and encourages group trading, as different traders will probably discover different price "alphabets" for themselves, potentially giving rise to a social economy of sharing and combining "trading languages" based on indicator patterns people have discovered via the G.O.A.T. Diagnostics.
Support/Resistance Trading
The G.O.A.T. Scalper has its own way of deriving Support/Resistance.
Unlike most existing S/R indicators, The Scalper derives Support/Resistance not by measuring price highs, lows and closes, but solely by using momentum and trend strength.
This seems like a much more versatile way to plot S/R during scalping on low timeframes where time is of essence and the trader's view is too narrow to have macro S/R levels in constant consideration.
The Scalper's way to derive S/R in real time and on the go, while staying very relative to important higher timeframe S/R zones, makes it much more desirable than any other S/R indicator I've thus far encountered.
All S/R functionality is derived from the classical ADX and DI indicator. To do this, I use the ADX and DI in an unpopular way. To generate the actual plot of S/R levels I also modify the indicator's code, not by removing functional parts from it, but adding more to it in order to filter the signals it produces.
I can metaphorically describe its action in the following way:
Imagine you're Price action itself;
You're walking through a labyrinth or corridors. You're walking through one straight corridor, and it has a crossing with another corridor ahead;
Very strong wind is blowing along that other corridor. You can't see the wind, but when you reach it and try to move past it, the force of the wind resists your moving ahead and instead pushes you sideways.
At this point, the G.O.A.T. Diagnostics already knows this can only be one thing - resistance.
Orthodox TA and trading demand retests. In my opinion, this deeply rooted tradition wastes time proving the obvious, then wastes time again double-proving the validity of recent past, while scalping opportunities go to waste. Modern successful traders are way ahead of the popular strategy of testing and retesting S/R that almost every trader uses. So-called "Stops hunting" is just one expression of this situation, where wide adoption of the S/R retesting strategy actually lures unsuccessful traders into the schemes of the successful few.
In my own way of trading, I use the G.O.A.T. Diagnostics to take action on Support/Resistance as it's plotted in real time.
But probably my biggest heresy into the DI is my opinion, that the crossings of the +DI and -DI are useless and should actually be discarded.
My research shows that the DIs often show indications of being "oversold", but don't seem to exhibit an "overbought" state. Statistically, I've had much more success basing my TA on that, rather than cross-ups and cross-downs of the DI plot lines.
Therefore I discarded these crossings by presenting the DI part of the ADX and DI as a Heatmap channel rather than crossing lines.
To further enhance the ability of the System to provide S/R analysis, I plot this Heatmap onto an adjustable price offset plots (a percentage above and below current price).
In modern times, the vast majority of trading is done by automatic machines and algorithms. To give a specific example, one can easily notice, that a 5% offset of the BTC 1h price plot leads to remarkably accurate S/R charting. Following the rule to chart a S/R line connecting highs and lows on the 5% price offset often successfully "foresees" valid S/R zones before price ever visits them. Or, the levels were visited so far back in the timeframe's history that orthodox understanding considers them "invalidated" or washed away in the noise of the relevant volume profile.
My explanation for this is simple - I think Grid bots now dominate automatic trading across the majority of exchanges.
In my understanding, by adjusting the percentage offset of current price action I can often discover relevant conglomerations of dominating Grid bot cell parameters and anticipate price reaction. By plotting the DI heatmap on these price action offsets I can use the indicator for my trading decisions.
Heatmaps
Every heatmap produces different series of data. They're not the same.
Bollinger Band heatmap depicts the percentile distance between the Band's extremes.
The price candles heatmap, and the KAMA moving average heatmap, depict the percentile distance between price and the KAMA. So, it's the same thing. However, the percentile of that distance is calculated in two different ways, hence the difference in color in every particular moment. This color discrepancy aims to visualize the "strain" between price action and KAMA, like a soft and hard "springs" that go in unison with each other in sustainable moves, and in dissonance with each other during unsustainable moves.
Price offset heatmap depicts the percentile average of the +DI (above price) and the -DI (below price). A Hot temperature above price and a Cold temperature below price would mean a strong bullish sentiment, and vise versa, while Green would mean neutrality in sentiment.
There are important interplays between different heatmaps. For example, although representing totally different things, a Teal price bar would almost always (according to historical statistics) foreshadow a change in DI's heatmap sentiment. That's just one avenue of correlation between S/R analysis and sentiment analysis using the G.O.A.T. Diagnostics.
Oscillator Chart
In terms of applying Quadratic Kernel Regression, I endorse the natural principle that no center can exist without a periphery, and no periphery can exist without a center. Therefore I try to pay attention not only to the average of the regression's values, but also to the cloud of data points itself.
Following this understanding, I attempt to depict the natural cycles of price converging/diverging towards/from its regression average. To do this, I apply the classic Stochastic formula.
Thus, the Oscillator part of the System depicts the following:
Thin heatmap line displays the cycles of price converging with its quadratic kernel regression average (moving down), and diverging with its regression average (moving up). Its heatmap depicts the percentile of this oscillation.
The wider heatmap line displays the KAMA's cycles of convergence/divergence with its own quadratic kernel regression average. The reason for this is again creating discrepancy - while KAMA is based on price action, its regression data values differ from those of price action's regression. This discrepancy produces useful historic patterns that can be studied statistically.
The thin and wide purple oscillator lines depict the change of slope of price action regression average and KAMA regression average, respectively. Very often change of slope is not detectable with the naked eye, but clearly indicated by the oscillators.
By combining all these elements into a single analysis, a trader can detect hidden trends that are yet to become visible for the rest of market participants.
For example, convergence of price with its quadratic kernel regression average while the slope of the average deteriorates down in most cases (according to statistics) means a sideways consolidation in a downtrend before downtrend continuation. Conversely, deviation of price action from its regression average while the regression average slope deteriorates down usually marks the very beginning of a downtrend.
Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bands are not modified, but are based on quadratic kernel regression values. Thus, if Bollinger Bands themselves are indicative of volatility, then based on kernel regression values, they should indicate the volatility of change of values in the regression's window.
Again, applying it to both the price and KAMA regression data series, a discrepancy is highlighted that leads to useful historical patterns subject to analysis and categorization.
SOME EXAMPLES
Support / Resistance
Support/Resistance levels are market by White Triangles with dotted lines plotted from them, in real time. The indicator plots Ghost Triangles in anticipation of Support/Resistance, preparing the trader for the eventual confirmation of a zone of interest and signaling price is feeling Support or Resistance pressure.
Dialing the length of the S/R lines to 25 makes the indicator more useful.
Dialing the setting to 500 clearly shows macro S/R zones by conglomerating and bundling individual lines. The thicker the bundling and the confluence of lines, the more significant the zone.
Thus lower timeframe scalping and trading is made more easy, without the need to do nearly as much manual S/R charting. Support/Resistance analysis and plotting is entirely based on a modified ADX.
Heatmap
Sustainable moves are generally marked by Green price color and calm KAMA colors.
Unsustainable moves are usually marked by more extreme colors of price bars and KAMA. Red usually means price is unsustainably distanced from the KAMA, while deep Blue usually means price is undesirably close to the KAMA, foreshadowing a directional distancing.
Usually Teal color of price bars and KAMA foreshadow a change of sentiment of the outside Heatmap sentiment channel.
Red color of the outside channel always signals the direction of the desired sentimental movement, while Blue signals the extent at which the counter-element suffers. Thus, one side being Green, while the other is Blue, often means the Blue will soon evolve into a warmer color, attracting price in that direction. Outside Heatmap channel is entirely based on a modified DI.
Oscillator Chart
An example of Chart Diagnosis using the Oscillator and other elements of the G.O.A.T. Scalper:
First (far left), a Resistance is plotted. This coincides with price bars being Red (distressed state). The thin colorful Oscillator line takes an Up-turn, signifying a period of price moving away from its Quadratic Kernel Regression (pink moving average).
After Price cools down to Green sustainable colors, a Support is plotted. During this time, the thin colorful line is falling down, signifying a period when the distance between price action and its quadratic kernel regression average is decreasing.
During this phase, the thin purple Oscillator line goes up. This signifies the slope of the price regression is restoring to the upside.
Next, the thin colorful line starts going up again, signifying another period of price getting further away from its regression average. This time to the upside.
Resistance is being broken and new support is established. At this point, the thin colorful line starts falling again, signifying distance between price and its regression MA is shortening. This is clearly visible as a sideways consolidation (with a slight tilt up of slope).
A moment comes when all lines - the price and KAMA lines, and price and KAMA regression slopes, all point down. A new down period is clearly starting. This is further indicated by Teal price bars and new Resistance forming. Notice how the external heatmap channel goes into more balanced Green colors with trend enthusiasm calming down.
This analysis may appear to be overwhelming and confusing at first, as these metrics are unorthodox and unpopular. But different aspects of the indicator can be toggled ON/OFF to single them out, which makes observations much simpler for new users. After some time spent discovering personal patterns, or reviewing other users' catalogues with already published pattern libraries, it soon becomes easy to read charts in this new way.
Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bands provide another way to produce patterns that give users specific chart information.
One noteworthy indication is when the price and KAMA Bollinger Bands separate their value zones. Since the zones of these Bands are based on the kernel regression values of the respective sources, their separation is significant and too often means violent reversals or violent continuations (which usually can be judged using the other metrics the System provides, or additional indicators of choice).
Another noteworthy Bollinger Band pattern is when price action leaves a prolonged trending move.
First phase of the end of a prolonged trending move is the BB zones expanding and doing a significant overlap.
Second stage is price getting reaccepted in the Price BB. This however doesn't mean reacceptance in the KAMA BB and if the moment isn't right, usually leads to bounces and continuations.
The KAMA needs to "make space" for price to get reaccepted into the KAMA BB. While the KAMA is outside its BB or very near to its wall, price reacceptance into it is not very probable. When KAMA withdraws from its BB wall, opening an "entrance on its membrane", that's when price is eligible to get reaccepted into the KAMA BB. That's usually the moment the long awaited consolidation starts and a long trending move is over.
Users of the G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics can discover many more patterns and correlations between patterns within the System. But the System itself can multiply all possible patterns when inspected in the context of additional indicators, leading to vast possibilities of signal and pattern discovery with huge potential.
A very good idea would probably be to use the G.O.A.T. Diagnostics together with the Ichimoku.
Ichimoku has always been famous for its genius simplicity and elegant profoundness, but notorious for its total lack of accuracy, as well as general uselessness on lower timeframes. The G.O.A.T. System has the potential to enhance all of Ichimoku's strengths and cure its weaknesses.
Yet another good idea may be to pair it with kindred indicators, like the Gaussian Channel, which has a stunning performance, but suffers from too high level of generalization. The Diagnostics can provide the intricate texture of price manoeuvres the Gaussian Channel fails to register, while the GC can give the Scalper even more solid context for its patterns.
The worthwhile possibilities seem endless...
Entry Table
I've added a little Entry Table at the bottom right corner. It's designed to potentially help scalpers trade faster, and to visualize a potential trade they're thinking about before they execute it. A Stop Loss is visually plotted in real time to better visualize it's placement in the chart context.
It encourages responsible risk management in its settings:
The user enters the amount of their trading portfolio;
Then specify the percentage of their portfolio they're willing to risk at every trade;
After that the user can chose to specify a flat percentage Stop Loss.
The table will calculate the size of the entry of a market order, so the user only risks the specified percentage of their portfolio should the specified Stop Loss level is hit.
There's also the option to use automatically suggested Stop Loss, based on recent volatility. The actual Stop Loss is calculated 20% away from the actual volatility level, to better protect from unforeseen wicks.
In the current example, the user with a $1000 trading portfolio has to do a $1000 entry to lose 1% of their portfolio ($10) at a 1% Stop Loss.
But the user has to do a $2,525 entry in order to lose 1% of their portfolio (%10) at a much closer Stop Loss which is less than 1%, based on recent volatility.
The Entry Table should be considered as a cosmetic convenience and not a dedicated risk management tool.
CONCLUSION:
The G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics is an indicator System, based on popular, but modified and tweaked versions of indicators like the ADX and DI, Stochastic, Bollinger Bands and MAs. It also leverages the remarkable work of inspired creators: JDehorty's Quadratic Kernel Regression library, and The_Caretaker's PMARP .
The G.O.A.T. Scalper Diagnostics indicator system enables users to discover so-called new "indicator-pattern alphabets", reading price charts in new and unorthodox ways, thus gaining an edge over the majority of market participants they trade against.
The high degree of freedom when discovering new patterns, either within the System itself or correlating its output to external auxiliary indicators, highlights the System's potential for original discoveries leading to highly personalized trading strategies. Exchanging information about personal pattern libraries can potentially also give birth to new private trading communities.
The Real Koops - Darvas Box v2.1What Is the Darvas Box?
The Darvas Box strategy was developed by Nicholas Darvas. Aside from being a well known dancer, he began trading stock in the 1950s. Based on his success in trading, he was approached to write a book on his strategy. The book, “How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market,” outlines his approach together with “You can still make it in the market”.
Darvas Box Implementation
The intend behind the Darvas box was for it to be used for rapidly rising technology stocks, and in fact it was never tested or used by Darvas for Commodities. This implementation of the Darvas Box was created specifically in support of Commodity Trends, which tend to be very volatile over long periods of time. The main ones for an uptrend (e.g. longing the market. Shorting the market would work exactly the opposite):
1. When the price of a rapidly rising stock (pls note rapidly rising is key - we are not interested in a sideways trend) is reaching a resistance point, which is does not surpass for three or more consecutive days, that point represents the top of the box.
2. If, after falling from the upper limit, the stock reaches a downward resistance point which it does not penetrate for three of more consecutive days, that level represents the bottom of the box.
3. A stock is in a rising trend when it is in the topmost box. If it remains there, its price fluctuations should be ignored, and the stock is a HOLD.
4. If the price of the stock moves above the top of this topmost box, this stock becomes a BUY. A 10% stop loss should be set at the breakout.
5. Having formed a new higher box, if the price falls below the bottom into the stop loss area of this box, the stock is a SELL.
6. There is no reason to HOLD or BUY a stock that is not in its topmost box.
7. In case a candle pierces out of the top of the box while establishing the bottom of the box, the box is invalidated.
8. If the Box is broken out of on the top, the color is Yellow. If the Box is broken out of on the bottom, the color is Blue.
9. If a Box is being formed in the current timeframe, it is colored Grey, and has clear Buy and Stop Loss indicators so that the user knows how to configure his/her Broker.
10. All parameters for the implementation have been made configurable, so that users can tweak both the presentation of the boxes (background color, border width and style) as well as the configuration of the breakout %, stop loss %, textual presentation and box validation e.g. display arrows where the top and the bottom of the box was drawn, draw boxes only from All Time High back test after a configurable number of years, the number of boxes to be drawn from the last box etc.
11. In addition, two other key principles are critical for application of the indicator:
1. The stock’s price must be at or above its ATH for the past 3 years or more.
2. The volume profile needs to indicate a rapidly growing volume or insider buying (e.g., a volume spike).
How is this implementation different from others?
This implementation holds fully true to the way Darvas described his Darvas Box in his books, but applies it to Commodities. It is in addition, highly configurable, so that it can be used to debug itself (at which points have box boundaries been drawn), and it provides Buy/Sell/Stop Loss levels for entries and exits – again, highly configurable, with defaults set as per Darvas’ books.
Finally, it works over daily to quarterly timeframes (it is not suitable for high frequency trading).
How to use this Indicator?
First, use it with the default settings. Once a grey box is drawn for the current timeframe for the commodity you are interested in investing in (based on Darvas principles outlined above), this box will indicate a Buy level and a Stop loss level based on the principles described above, allowing you to make a purchase decision for that commodity asset accordingly. Then, stay the trade. As the stock continues to move up, more Darvas Boxes will be drawn with new Buy levels and stop loss levels – either add to your position or keep the original investment in play. Once a trend reversal occurs, the Stop loss level will be used to get you out of the trade.
Second, once you are comfortable with this trading methodology, you can refine the script to use a color scheme as you prefer for your Tradingview, as well as set buy, stop loss and sell levels, aligned with your own level of comfort to deal with volatility.
If you wonder why a certain box was drawn at certain levels, you can use the green and red arrows to show the levels based upon which the boxes were drawn.
Absolute KRI [vnhilton]The Kairi Relative Index (KRI) is a volatility momentum oscillator that plots the distance of price away from a moving average. An increase or decrease in distance is a sign of increasing/decreasing momentum respectively, & a relatively stable distance would mean momentum is also stable. An increase in momentum is a sign of strength, price extending away from the moving average, & has to revert back to the mean sooner than later, which is why some traders look to take profit or contrarian trades with this increase in momentum.
This indicator plots the KRI in absolute values, meaning that the value can never be lower than 0, helping to see momentum clearer, with colours to still give information on whether or price is in an uptrend or downtrend if it's above/below the moving average respectively. This indicator also includes a standard deviation band, to help spot abnormal distances between price & the moving average, which may be more worthy of attention as that's a sign of significant activity that's caused momentum.
The chart snapshot image above shows ATXI moving ~70% from its open on 30/09/22. From open to midday, we can see price extend away from the 21 EMA (impulses) several times, with retracements back towards the EMA following right after. Let's look at 3 main examples of price creating new highs.
- At (1), price attempts to make a new high, & but meets historical resistance, causing price to retrace back to the mean. On the indicator, you can see momentum failing to be higher than previous momentum after making new highs, which shows that historical resistance, alongside the whole $10 dollar level, were significant in causing a reversal (you can see sell volume using the periodic volume profile (pvp) for each bar). The indicator also shows momentum extending further than the standard deviation band, which is mostly expected as it's right at the open & the stock was in play at the time. The indicator falls back under the standard deviation band which confirms the retracement, as it's showing slowing of momentum.
- At (2), the indicator indicates significant activity again after exiting the standard deviation band, with the impulse slowing down right the resistance, testing it several times to satisfy passive sellers, until aggressive buyers were able to push the price higher. This confirmed new high that followed afterwards didn't exhibit the same momentum as (1), which means that the overall trend is slowing down, meaning that traders should be more cautious of trying to buy into new highs (i.e. take profit earlier, & look for reversals).
- At (3), the indicator shows significant activity again as price heads towards making a new high. As new highs were created, we can see that the momentum causing this breakout is lower than the previous momentum at (2) & (1), again showing that the overall trend is slowing down. The whole $12 dollar level, & FOMO/greed buyers being trapped at the wick (you can see buy volume using the pvp indicator), allowed for short-term resistance for a mean reversion play.
Money Flow Trend Strength [CraftyChaos]I devised this indicator because I wanted to find a way to track the Money Flow Trend to exhaustion for both directions.
Overview:
I use two MFI series and an EMA of the faster MFI series to derive when the Money Flow is trending in one direction or another.
What does this indicator not do:
This indicator does not give buy and sell signals.
What does this indicator do:
This indicator offers confluence with your other indicators to determine when a reversal is approaching after a sustained trend of money flowing in or out of an asset.
This indicator can help time your trades near reversal points, so you are not entering trades in the middle of some trending move.
How to Tune
I would not recommend changing the settings. I have exposed them for people that want to experiment. The short lengths are key to reducing lag
How to read the indicator:
When a red cross appears at the top, this indicates money flow into the asset is strong. Do not short an asset while there are red crosses. You will get REKT
When a green cross appears at the bottom, this indicates money flow exiting the asset is strong. DO NOT buy an asset while there are green crosses. You will get REKT.
When the white step line enters the top, but no crosses appear, this indicates money is flowing into the asset, but is weak. The trend will either gain strength soon or will collapse.
When the white step line enters the bottom, but no crosses appear, this indicates money is flowing out of the asset, but is weak. The trend will either gain strength soon or will collapse.
The green line is the slower MFI. I would not use any crosses with the white step line and the green line. These two lines can cross frequently and show divergences with price. very frequent crossing may indicate sideways movement with no real price movement.
I often see the white step line enter the bottom and top zones under two primary conditions:
Secondary tests of support and resistance zone which fail
Failed breakouts/pullbacks after a pump or dump
Additionally, I use my indicator with the following indicators. You may find them useful:
Jurik Filtered, Composite Fractal Behavior (CFB) Channels (on current timeframe). Note: I often find strong trends trace the upper/lower bands, and end when the upper or lower band flattens
Jurik Filtered, Composite Fractal Behavior (CFB) Channels (on smaller timeframe, i.e., 2hr on a 4h or 15m on the 1hr). Note: I often find weak trend pullbacks/breakouts touch the channel bands
Session Volume Profile. Note: find trend completion corresponds to price above/below VAL areas
