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RID (INTRADAY SHELTERS/REFUGES) INDICATOR
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*Fair warning: this may be more words than a humble, simple indicator truly
needs… but Claude insisted.
// ** INTRODUCTION ** //
RID (Intraday Shelters/Refuges) is a lightweight, fast, and easy-to-implement
indicator designed for monitoring price action on intraday timeframes — the same
ones used by institutional operators to execute their trades within each market session.
The indicator generates a framework of support and resistance levels automatically
calculated from the asset's Daily Opening Price (D.O.P.). These levels are established
using fixed percentages that have proven their effectiveness in institutional trading
for decades, constituting "textbook" references widely adopted by market professionals.
RID integrates as an optional module within our Weekly Shelters (RS) indicator, allowing
the operator to simultaneously control their weekly positions and, when conditions warrant,
move down to intraday operations without loading additional indicators or losing sight
of the higher timeframe.
// ** INDICATOR FUNDAMENTALS ** //
The foundation of RID rests on a proven market principle: the daily opening price acts
as a "psychological anchor" that influences participant behavior throughout the entire session.
Why does this method work?
• UNIVERSAL REFERENCE POINT: The daily opening price is objective data, visible to all
market participants simultaneously. Institutions, algorithms, and retail traders use it
as a common reference to calibrate their decisions.
• STANDARD PERCENTAGE LEVELS: The percentages used (0.382%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 2.0%, 2.5% and
extensions) are not arbitrary. They represent intraday volatility thresholds that have
historically acted as inflection points across multiple asset classes.
• SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY EFFECT: When a critical mass of operators place orders at the
same percentage levels —whether for profit-taking, protective stops, or entries—
these levels become high-probability price reaction zones.
• INSTITUTIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT: Institutional trading desks frequently define their daily
loss limits and profit targets in percentage terms relative to the open. RID captures
this logic and makes it visible for retail operators.
The ±0.382% level deserves special mention: it's a derivation of the Fibonacci golden ratio
(0.382) applied to the intraday context, representing the first significant movement threshold
from the opening.
// ** INDICATOR OBJECTIVES ** //
1) Facilitate manual intraday trade execution by providing a framework of target prices
established under a scheme of mathematical certainty, eliminating subjectivity in
defining entries, exits, and stops.
2) Serve as a lightweight and modular tool, easily integrable —either as an overlay or
source code— with strategies and indicators specialized in intraday trade execution,
both manual and automated.
3) Provide a visual reference framework that allows the operator to quickly assess the
intraday market "temperature": Is price near a key support or resistance? Has it already
reached the session's typical movement target? Is it time to seek entries or protect profits?
// ** INDICATOR TECHNICAL FEATURES ** //
• 21 CONFIGURABLE LEVELS: 11 main levels (±0.382%, ±1.0%, ±1.5%, ±2.0%, ±2.5% and D.O.P.)
plus 10 extended levels (±3.0% to ±5.0%) for high volatility sessions. Each level can
be individually enabled or disabled according to operator needs.
• AUTOMATIC D.O.P. DETECTION: The indicator automatically identifies the start of each daily
session and captures the opening price without user intervention.
• CONFIGURABLE HISTORY LIMIT: Option to limit processing to the last N days (default: 3),
optimizing performance on very low timeframes (1m, 5m) where excess historical data can
slow down the chart.
• PROFESSIONAL VISUALIZATION: Labels with formatted price (thousands separators) and
percentage, placeable with configurable offset. The D.O.P. level (0%) is highlighted
with differentiated width.
• VERTICAL REFERENCE LINES: From D.O.P. to each level, facilitating visualization of the
percentage distance traveled.
• FULL CUSTOMIZATION: Colors, widths, line styles (solid, dashed, dotted), label opacity,
and forward extension fully adjustable.
• PRICE SCALE INTEGRATION: Levels can be displayed on the right margin of TradingView,
controllable from the indicator's Style tab.
• BAR REPLAY COMPATIBILITY: Works perfectly with Bar Replay for back-testing
intraday strategies.
• OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE: Efficient architecture with persistent arrays and intelligent
updating, suitable for timeframes down to 1 minute.
// ** OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS ** //
INITIAL SETUP:
1) Load the indicator on a chart with 4H or lower timeframe (1H, 30m, 15m, 5m, 1m).
2) Enable "Limit history by days" and adjust "Maximum days to display" according to your needs:
• For scalping (1m-5m): 1-2 days
• For day trading (15m-1H): 2-3 days
• For intraday swing (4H): 3-5 days
OPERATIONAL USE:
3) Identify the D.O.P. (0% line): This is your central reference point for the session.
4) Observe current price position relative to levels:
• Price above D.O.P. → Session with bullish bias
• Price below D.O.P. → Session with bearish bias
5) Use levels as:
• ENTRIES: Look for reversal signals when price reaches S1-S5 (buys) or R1-R5 (sells)
• TARGETS: Set take-profits at the next resistance level (longs) or support (shorts)
• STOPS: Place protective stops beyond the immediate opposite level
PRACTICAL RULES:
6) The ±1.0% and ±2.0% levels are historically most respected; prioritize them.
7) If price exceeds ±2.5% from open, it might be time to take profits and close your position
or consider enabling extended levels (±3.0% to ±5.0%).
8) High volatility days (news, earnings): wait for price to respect at least one level
before trading in its direction.
9) Combine RID with other indicators from our ecosystem (RS, RMP, RLP/RLPS) to confirm level
confluence across multiple timeframes.
VISUAL OPTIMIZATION:
10) For clean charts: keep enabled only main levels (±0.382% to ±2.5%).
11) For detailed volatile asset analysis: also enable extended levels.
12) Adjust "Label margin" to prevent overlap with current price.
// ** INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SHELTER VALUE INDICATORS ** //
RID is part of a complete shelter-based analysis ecosystem we have developed:
• RLP (Long-Term Shelters): For automatic determination of the preponderant phase
of a Zigzag, which institutional investors choose as the base of a Fibo whose
levels calculate order placement projection over the following months and years.
• RLPS (Simplified Long-Term Shelters): Simplified version of RLP where known
coordinates of the preponderant phase are captured, obtained through own analysis
or automatically with the RLP indicator.
• RMP (Medium-Term Shelters): Provides psychological shelter and resistance levels
that institutional investors establish at the beginning of each year. They
constitute the main framework used by professionals to plan operations
throughout the year.
• RS (Weekly Shelters): For short-term tactical analysis (4H, 1H) based on selected
phases of one or two Zigzags that define Fibo tracing, over recent major and minor
degree pauses, whose levels take effect during the current and following weeks.
• RID (Intraday Shelters): This indicator. For intraday operations based on levels
calculated from daily opening price, designed for 4H or lower timeframes,
including scalping strategies.
By combining RID with RLP/RLPS, RMP and RS, a multilevel scaffolding is built that
allows trading with clarity on any time horizon, from minute positions to operations
projected over months and years.
// ** NOTES ** //
• All comments regarding detected errors and improvement suggestions are welcome and deeply appreciated. Your feedback helps us refine these tools.
• To our Hispanic speaking friends, we sincerely regret to inform you that we have not
included the Spanish translation in the published version, due to our latent concern
regarding the ambiguous rules about prohibitions on publishing indicators documented
or described in languages other than English.
• Sharing is motivating because there’s no better way to receive genuine feedback
of real acceptance.
• RECOMMENDED VALIDATION METHOD: Use TradingView's Bar Replay to verify, session by
session, how price of your favorite asset interacts with RID levels. This personal
validation will give you statistical confidence before incorporating the indicator
into your actual trading.
Happy hunting in this magnificent jungle!
Refuges
RLP V4.3 -Long Term Support/Resistance Levels (Refuges-Shelters)// Introduction //
We have utilized the Zigzag library technology from ©Trendoscope Pty Ltd for Zigzag generation, allowing users the freedom to choose which of the different Zigzags calculated by Trendoscope as "Levels and Sub-Levels" is most suitable for generating ideal phases for evaluation and selection as "most preponderant phases" over long-term periods of any asset, according to its particular behavior based on its age, volatility, and price trend.
// Theoretical Foundation of the Indicator //
Many traditional institutional investors use the latest higher-degree market phase that stands out from others (longest duration and greatest price change on daily timeframe) to base a Fibonacci retracement on whose levels they open long-term positions. These positions can remain open to be activated in the future even years in advance. The phase is considered valid until a new, more preponderant phase develops over time, at which point the same strategy is repeated.
// Indicator Objectives //
1) Automatically find the latest most preponderant long-term phase of an asset, analyzing it on daily timeframe while considering whether the long-term market trend is bullish or bearish.
2) Draw a Fibonacci Retracement over the preponderant phase (reversed if the phase is bullish).
3) The indicator automatically numbers and locates the 3 most preponderant phases, selecting Top-1 for initial Fibo drawing.
4) If the user disagrees with the indicator's automatic selection, they have the freedom to choose any of the other 2 Top phases for the Fibo drawing and its levels.
5) If the user disagrees with the amplitude or frequency of the initially drawn Zigzag phases, they can modify the Zigzag calculation algorithm parameters until one of the Top-3 matches the phase they had in mind.
6) As an experimental bonus, the indicator runs a popularity contest (CP) of "bullseye" daily price (OHLC) matches, subject to user-defined tolerance ranges, against all Fibo levels of the Top 3 selected phases, to verify which phase the market prices are validating as the most popular for placing trades. Contest results are displayed in the POP. CONTEST column of the Top-3 phases table. If the contest detects a change in the winning phase, a switch can be enabled to activate an alert that the user can utilize with TradingView's alert creator to display an alarm, send an email, etc.
7) This indicator was designed for users to find the preponderant long-term phase of their assets and manually record the date-price coordinates of the i0-i1 anchors of the preponderant phase. The Top-1 phase coordinates are shown in the Top-3 phases table where they can be captured. The date-price coordinates of all HH and LL pivots, from all Zigzag phases, can be displayed via a switch. With the pivots, the user can select a different phase than those automatically found by the indicator, according to the conclusions of their own research. Subsequently, the user can forget about this RLP indicator for a while and move on to apply in their normal trading our RLPS indicator (Simplified Long-Term Shelters), in which they can draw and simultaneously track the long-term shelters of up to 5 different assets, simply by entering their corresponding date-price coordinates, previously located with this RLP indicator or through their own observation.
// Additional Notes //
1) As of the this V4.3 publication date (01/2026), the Zigzag generation parameters were adjusted by default to find the long-term preponderant phases for the following assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin futures BTC1! (all generated due to the 2020-2021 pandemic). It also provides by default the confirmed preponderant phases for the following assets: Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, PayPal, NQ1!, ES1! and SP500 Cash.
2) Prices, phases, and levels shown on the graphic chart correspond to results obtained using daily Bitcoin data from the Bitstamp exchange, BTCUSD:BITSTAMP (popular here in Europe).
3) Any error corrections or improvements that can be made to the phase selection algorithms or the CP phase popularity contest algorithm will be highly appreciated (statistics and mathematics, among many other sciences, are not particularly our strong suit).
4) We sincerely regret to inform you that we have not included the Spanish translation previously provided, due to our significant concern regarding the ambiguous rules on publication bans related to indicators.
4) Sharing motivates. Happy hunting in this great jungle!
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ENGLISH VERSION (SPANISH TEXT AT THE END)
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MID-TERM REFUGES (RMP) V1.0
The Mid-Term Refuges (RMP) indicator plots psychological support and resistance levels based on a methodology used by institutional investors since auction floor days. RMP automatically calculates 31 key levels (refuges) from the asset's annual opening price.
METHODOLOGY
• RESISTANCES (R1-R15): Projected at +10% intervals from annual opening, identifying selling pressure zones
• SUPPORTS (S1-S15): Calculated at -10% intervals, marking buyer interest areas
• ANNUAL OPENING PRICE (PA): Central reference level
The 10% intervals represent significant psychological thresholds that capture market indecision, consolidation, or reversal moments. When critical mass of participants uses these same levels, they become self-fulfilling prophecies.
VALIDATION
Test RMP effectiveness on your assets:
1. Use TradingView's Bar Replay
2. Review periods with +/-10% movements
3. Count price reactions at refuge levels
4. Higher frequency = higher institutional usage probability
ECOSYSTEM INTEGRATION
RMP integrates with our other indicators:
• RLP/RLPS (Long-Term Refuges): Structural analysis
• RS (Weekly Refuges): Short-term tactical analysis
FEATURES
• 31 configurable levels with individual switches
• Professional visualization with formatted prices
• Complete customization (colors, widths, styles)
• Native integration with TradingView's price scale
• Bar Replay compatible
PHILOSOPHY
RMP doesn't predict the future—it observes price action at objective levels. No oscillators, no curve-fitting. Pure technical analysis based on auction floor techniques proven over decades.
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VERSION EN ESPANIOL
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(La version completa con entrada de datos y textos de ayuda en espaniol (Roman Paladino) estara proximamente disponible en mi repositorio GH: aj-poolom-maasewal)
REFUGIOS DE MEDIANO PLAZO (RMP) V1.0
El indicador Refugios de Mediano Plazo (RMP) traza niveles psicologicos de soporte y resistencia basados en una metodologia utilizada por inversores institucionales desde los tiempos de los pisos de subastas. RMP calcula automaticamente 31 niveles clave (refugios) a partir del precio de apertura anual del activo.
METODOLOGIA
• RESISTENCIAS (R1-R15): Proyectadas a intervalos de +10% desde la apertura anual, identificando zonas de presion vendedora
• SOPORTES (S1-S15): Calculados a intervalos de -10%, marcando areas de interes comprador
• PRECIO DE APERTURA ANUAL (PA): Nivel de referencia central
Los intervalos del 10% representan umbrales psicologicos significativos que capturan momentos de indecision, consolidacion o reversion del mercado. Cuando una masa critica de participantes utiliza estos mismos niveles, se convierten en profecias autocumplidas.
VALIDACION
Pruebe la efectividad de RMP en sus activos:
1. Use el Reproductor de Barras de TradingView
2. Revise periodos con movimientos de +/-10%
3. Cuente las reacciones del precio en los niveles refugio
4. Mayor frecuencia = mayor probabilidad de uso institucional
INTEGRACION CON NUESTRO ECOSISTEMA DE INDICADORES DE REFUGIOS CON ACCION DEL PRECIO
(Disponibles para descarga proximamente)
Este indicador RMP se complementa fuertemente con el uso de los siguientes indicadores nuestros:
• RLP (Refugios de Largo Plazo): Busqueda y definicion automatizada de fases preponderantes.
• RLPS (Refugios de Largo Plazo Simplificado): Analisis en base a fase preponderante ya conocida.
• RS (Refugios Semanales): Analisis tactico de fases de corto plazo.
CARACTERISTICAS
• 31 niveles configurables con switches individuales
• Visualizacion profesional con precios formateados
• Personalizacion completa (colores, grosores, estilos)
• Integracion nativa con la escala de precios de TradingView
• Compatible con Reproductor de Barras
FILOSOFIA
RMP no predice el futuro. Observa la accion del precio en niveles objetivos. Sin osciladores, sin sobreajustes. Analisis tecnico puro basado en tecnicas de piso de subastas probadas durante decadas.
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Desarrollado por: aj p'oolom masewal
Codificado con la colaboracion de: Claude Sonnet 4.5 de Anthropic
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