Session CandlesThis indicator is designed to visually represent different trading sessions on a price chart, highlighting candlestick colors to distinguish between bullish (upward movement) and bearish (downward movement) trends during various market sessions. Here's an overview of how the indicator works:
1. Session Definition: The indicator defines four distinct trading sessions:
- London Session: Typically covering the European trading hours.
- New York AM Session: Representing the morning hours of the New York trading session.
- New York PM Session: Representing the afternoon hours of the New York trading session.
- Asia Session: Encompassing the trading hours of the Asian markets.
2. Configuration Options: Users can customize the behavior of the indicator through input options. For each session, users can enable or disable the display of session-specific candles.
3. Candle Coloring: The indicator determines the color of candles based on the following criteria:
- For each session, it checks whether the current candle's closing price is higher than its opening price.
- If the closing price is higher, the candle is considered bullish, and a user-defined green color is used for the candle.
- If the closing price is lower, the candle is considered bearish, and a user-defined red color is applied.
4. Display: The indicator then applies the calculated candle colors to the respective candles of each trading session on the price chart. This visual distinction helps traders quickly identify the prevailing trend during different market sessions.
To use the indicator, traders can overlay it on their price charts in TradingView. By enabling or disabling specific trading sessions, they can focus on the trends and price movements during those specific time periods.
Please note that the actual appearance of the indicator on the chart depends on the user's chosen settings for session enablement and color preferences.
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Smart Money Range [ChartPrime]The Smart Money Range indicator is designed to provide traders with a holistic view of market structure, emphasizing potential key support and resistance levels within a predefined range. This indicator is not just a visually pleasing, but also a comprehensive guide to understanding the market’s dynamics at a given level.
Key Features:
Defined Range: The indicator demarcates a clear range, highlighting support and resistance levels within it. This aids in identifying potential areas of buying and selling pressure. These are derived from highly significant areas that have been touched many times before.
Touches Counter: Underneath the support and resistance lines, there are numerical values that show the number of times price has interacted with these levels. This can provide insights into the strength or weakness of a particular level.
Zig-Zag Projections: Within the range, there's a zig-zag pattern indicating possible future touches, helping traders anticipate future price movements.
Double-Sided Profile: To the right of the range, a dual-profile is showcased. One side of the profile displays the volume traded at specific price levels, giving insights into where significant buying or selling has occurred. On the other side, it reflects the number of touches at that given price level, reinforcing the importance of particular price points.
Customizability: Users have the option to adjust the period setting, allowing them to cater the indicator to their specific trading style and configuration. Additionally, with volume levels settings, traders can adjust the number of bins in the profile for a tailored view.
SMC Structures and FVGThe SMC Structures and FVG indicator allows the user to easily identify trend continuations (Break Of Structure) or trend changes (CHange Of CHaracter) on any time frame. In addition, it display all FVG areas, whether they are bullish, bearish, or even mitigated.
Fair Value Gap :
The FVG process shows every bullish, bearish or even mitigated FVG liquidity area. When a FVG is fully mitigated it will directly be removed of the chart.
There is an history of FVG to show. By selecting specific number of FVG to show in the chart, the user can focus its analysis on lasts liquidity area.
Here's the rules for FVG color :
Green when it's a bullish FVG and has not been mitigated
Red when it's a bearish FVG and has not been mitigated
Gray when the bullish / bearish FVG has been mitigated
Removed when the FVG has been fully mitigated
Structures analysis:
The Structure process show BOS in grey lines and CHoCH in yellow lines. It shows to the user the lasts price action pattern.
The blue lines are the high value and the low value of the current structure.
Master Pattern [LuxAlgo]The Master Pattern indicator is derived from the framework proposed by Wyckoff and automatically displays major/minor patterns and their associated expansion lines on the chart.
Liquidity levels are also included and can be used as targets/stops. Note that the Liquidity levels are plotted retrospectively as they are based on pivots.
🔶 USAGE
The Master Pattern indicator detects contraction phases in the markets (characterized by a lower high and higher low). The resulting average from the latest swing high/low is used as expansion line. Price breaking the contraction range upwards highlights a bullish master pattern, while a break downward highlights a bearish master pattern.
During the expansion phase price can tend to be stationary around the expansion level. This phase is then often followed by the price significantly deviating from the expansion line, highlighting a markup phase.
Expansion lines can also be used as support/resistance levels.
🔹 Major/Minor Patterns
The script can classify patterns as major or minor patterns.
Major patterns occur when price breaks both the upper and lower extremity of a contraction range, with their contraction area highlighted with a border, while minor patterns have only a single extremity broken.
🔶 SETTINGS
Contraction Detection Lookback: Lookback used to detect the swing points used to detect the contraction range.
Liquidity Levels: Lookback for the swing points detection used as liquidity levels. Higher values return longer term liquidity levels.
Show Major Pattern: Display major patterns.
Show Minor Pattern: Display minor patterns.
Algo Targets [Premium]The Algo Targets indicator includes a suite of tools that attempt to identify market maker liquidity targets in advance.
These levels can be used by traders to determine:
1. future support/resistance
2. entries/exits
3. directional bias
4. potential reversal levels
5. pullback targets
The script uses a proprietary prediction model based on specific candle sequences, historical moves and volatility projections.
These tools have been live tested across a variety of instruments and timeframes, but should be backtested against your preferred ticker for best performance.
Primary Features:
1. Anchors
Anchors are derived from a simple, but powerful, three-candle breakout pattern. We have found that this pattern, when combined with the relative position to previous Anchor patterns on the chart, gives us clues to predicting future price structure.
Common use case: The simplest way to trade Anchors is to know that price *almost always* makes a return visit. This can be a useful tool for reversal traders. Additionally, Anchors often occur just before strong directional momentum. This can be useful for trend traders looking for entry signals.
Power User feature: Projected Ranges can be enabled in Settings. Each Anchor provides a Retracement leg (measured as the midpoint between the last two Anchors) and an Expansion leg (measured as twice the size of the Retracement leg, projected in the opposite direction). If Projected Ranges are enabled, the directional bias is also highlighted within the range, making it easy to spot at a glance.
Caveats: Expansion legs require patience and solid risk management. Additionally, the Expansion leg contains an additional Trigger level which price MUST cross before we consider the Expansion leg to be "in play" as a valid price target. This Trigger is marked on each Expansion legs as a dotted line.
Please note, Anchors require a 3 candle lookback before they are printed to the chart.
2. Target Zones
Target Zones are an advanced feature, and can be enabled in the Settings panel.
Each Target Zone consists of three levels:
Trigger — This the level closest to the current price. We expect it to act as a support/resistance level until price breaks through.
Target — This is the level farthest from the price. This is how far price is likely to move AFTER crossing the Trigger.
Midpoint — This is the level between the Trigger and Target. If price enters a Target Zone and wicks off of the Midpoint line, it’s usually a reversal signal. In this case we would cut our trade, consider the Target “filled” and potentially enter a reversal trade.
Common use case: When prices crosses a Trigger into a Target Zone, we consider that Target level to be “unlocked.” Our expectation is that price will gravitate toward the Target.
Power User feature: There are many strategies that a trader can build around Target Zones. One of our favorites is to use Targets strictly as reversal entries. On ranging days, price will often wick off of a Target level, before making a quick move in the opposite direction.
Caveats: After a Target is unlocked, it may be reached within the next few bars, or it may be saved by the market algorithms for later. Keep an eye on the Midpoint for potential reversals, and as always, proper risk management is key.
IMPORTANT: The presence of a Target Zone on the chart is neither bullish not bearish by itself. We consider the Target to be in play if, AND ONLY IF, price has crossed the Trigger level.
3. Pullback Levels
Pullback Levels are algorithmically detected return levels. They usually act as a strong draw on price, and often appear just before a pullback in price.
Common use case: The simplest way to use Pullbacks is to look for ones that have not been filled, either from a previous day or in after-hours/pre-market. We use them for confirmation bias along with Anchors and unlocked Targets.
Power User feature: For day trading, we set Alerts on our favorite tickers for any detected Pullbacks on the 5 min chart. This usually gives us plenty of time to review the chart for a possible day trade entry.
Settings:
All features are customizable, including color, line length and visibility. This lets you keep your chart as clean as you like, while only displaying additional data when it is needed.
Alerts:
Alerts can be set for all features, with the ability to set bearish and bullish alerts separately, depending on your trading preference. It is recommended to use "Once Per Bar Close" when you create an alert.
Liquidity Sweeps and RaidsThis basic script calculates and plots runs on liquidity levels through Raids and Sweeps. When the price violates the 3 fractal level, a raid or sweep occurs. You can use it to automate markup, understand liquidity levels, and reduce human error in your analysis. Additionally, you can set up an alarm to notify you when new sweeps or raids occur. Combine it with your current strategy or try any price action theory you prefer. Essentially, the price always seeks liquidity, so when some of it is taken, it makes sense to look for a reaction and potential reversal. Stay ahead by capitalizing on liquidity insights for potential reversals. Cheers, Cancamurria.
Market Structure CHoCH/BOS (Fractal) [LuxAlgo]The Market Structure CHoCH/BOS (Fractal) indicator is an experimental take on classical market structure, whereas fractal patterns are used for their construction instead of swing points.
Compared to utilizing swing points for highlighting market structure like our Smart Money Concepts indicator , fractal-based market structure can appear as more adaptive, however, it can also be more restrictive when it comes to returning swing points which can cause the indicator to miss reversals in some cases.
If enabled from within the settings, users can see support and resistance levels returned from the detected market structure with breakouts highlighted on the chart. Alongside this feature, an additional dashboard showing the structure to fractal structure percentage is also provided.
🔶 SETTINGS
Length: Length of the fractal patterns to detect.
🔹 Style
Bullish Structures: Show bullish structures.
Bearish Structures: Show bullish structures.
Support: Show support levels.
Resistance: Show resistance levels.
🔹 Dashboard
Show Dashboard: Show structure to fractal percentage dashboard on the chart.
Location: Location of the dashboard on the chart.
Size: Dashboard size.
🔶 USAGE
Market structure is commonly used to determine trend direction by using price positions relative to prior swing points. Using fractal patterns to determine market structure can allow users to obtain shorter, more frequent structure labels.
Market structure is commonly classified as follows:
Change of Character (CHoCH), also referred to as Market Structure Shift (MSS)
Break of Structure (BOS), also referred to as Market Structure Break (MSB)
Change of Characters indicate a shift in the market trend, confirming trend reversals. Break of Structures on the other hand occur once a trend is already determined, confirming new higher highs/lower lows.
Using higher length values allow users to detect longer-term fractals, thus highlighting longer-term market structures. The image above detects fractal patterns made of 7 candles, even if the increment is only of 2 bars this significantly reduces the amount of detected market structure labels.
The result obtained by utilizing fractals and higher settings can be a more dynamic view of market structure, however, as seen in the image above this can introduce very significant delay compared to utilizing pure swing points.
🔹 Support/Resistance
The indicator also returns support/resistance levels constructed from the market structure, these levels are obtained similarly to order blocks, finding the minimum on the interval of a bullish market structure and the maximum of a bearish market structure.
Price reaching a support/resistance level can be expected to bounce from it. Once a level is broken, the support/resistance level will no longer extend, and a circle will be displayed highlighting the break.
While utilizing this script for fractal-based market structure, these levels can be useful to ensure all swing points are still considered by the user with the possibility of the indicator missing reversals due to its calculation not being based on swing points themselves.
🔹 Dashboard
The dashboard reports the structure to fractal percentage, that is the amount of bullish/bearish market structures relative to the total amount of detected bullish/bearish fractal patterns.
This allows us to see how often a detected fractal pattern is used to display a market structure.
🔶 DETAILS
🔹 Fractals
In the context of technical analysis, Fractals refer to specific patterns that exhibit self-similarity at different scales or timeframes.
The most commonly known fractal pattern consists of a consecutive sequence of candles (more commonly 5), with the central candle being the lowest (in case of a bullish fractal) or highest (in case of a bearish fractal).
A bullish fractal has candles on the right side of the central candle with increasing lows, while candles on the left side have decreasing lows.
A bearish fractal has candles on the right side of the central candle with decreasing highs, while candles on the left side have increasing highs.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
🔹 Smart Money Concepts
🔹 Market Structure Trailing Stop
🔹 ICT Concepts
Order Block Scanner - Institutional ActivityIntroducing the Order Block Scanner: Unleash the Power of Institutional Insight!
Unlock a whole new realm of trading opportunities with the Order Block Scanner, your ultimate weapon in the dynamic world of financial markets. This cutting-edge indicator is meticulously designed to empower you with invaluable insights into potential Institutional and Hedge Funds activity like never before. Prepare to harness the intelligence that drives the giants of the industry and propel your trading success to new heights.
Institutional trading has long been veiled in secrecy, an exclusive realm accessible only to the chosen few. But with the Order Block Scanner, the doors to this realm swing open, inviting you to step inside and seize the advantage. Our revolutionary technology employs advanced algorithms to scan and analyze market data, pinpointing the telltale signs of institutional activity that can make or break your trades.
Imagine having the power to identify key levels where Institutional and Hedge Funds are initiating significant trades. With the Order Block Scanner, these hidden order blocks are unveiled, allowing you to ride the coattails of the market giants. This game-changing tool decodes their strategies, offering you a window into their actions and allowing you to align your trading decisions accordingly.
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The algorithm operates on data from Options and Darkpool markets, which is first exported to Quandl DB and then imported to TradingView using an API. The indicator also identifies patterns based on volume, volatility, and market movements, increasing the number of identified institutional activities on the markets.
SMC Toolkit |ASE|This indicator provides 10+ features all-in-one. Focusing on price action and Smart Money concepts, we have provided automated multi-timeframe features such as Market Structure(BOS / CHoCH) to identify trends, Fair Value Gaps to identify Imbalances, and much more.
Pure price action analysis is a preferred strategy over indicators due to their lag and noise. Many traders popularized SMC or “Smart Money” concepts to identify and trade like/with institutions or Smart Money traders. We have automated these features and made them multi-timeframe to simplify your charting process and advance your trading so you can efficiently trade.
Features:
The included price action features are listed below:
- Multi-Timeframe Market Structure (BOS, CHoCH, MSS, IDM)
- Trend based Candle Coloring
- Multichart (Extra time frame on the same chart)
- Multi-Timeframe Fair Value Gaps & Balanced Price Ranges
- Trapped Market Participants (Multi-Time Frame based on Orderblocks)
- SMT Divergences
- Volume Imbalances
- Premium Discount Array
- Displacement Candles
- Previous OHLC (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)
- VWAP and Std.Dev. Waves
Benefits & Examples:
In the image below we can see plenty of trade setups that formed in confluence with the features we were using. Displayed we have higher timeframe FVGs as our point of interests, Market Structure (Trend Bar Coloring) as our entry confirmation, and Liquidity Levels as our targets.
In this image we can see the same setup as before, higher timeframe FVG with Market Structure reversal targeting a Liquidity Level. In addition we can see the Trapped Market Participants feature showing trapped sellers at the low which provides additional confluence for our long position and offers a cleaner and safer entry on the pullback.
Our goal is to provide as many useful features as possible, automating the process to make it easier and quicker for us as traders. We want to spend less time charting and more time planning proper trades.
Liquidity Grab ReversalIndicator looks for liquidity grab & reversal trades on any timeframe. These types of trades reveal how the big institutions, banks and hedge funds trade with big money. If they want their very big positions to be filled they need to find areas in chart where the majority of the money is sitting. Where is it? Where is the majority of orders placed? Right below supports or right above resistances, these orders are stoplosses or stop orders. So they need to push the price to these areas, take all the available stoplosses and trigger all the available stop orders in order to fill their positions and then push the price to the opposite side to make profit (and retail to lose).
Indicator looks for support or resistance (S/R) areas which are represented by dotted lines. This S/R areas are created by minimum of 2 pivot high/low (H/L). Every pivot H/L that creates the S/R area is marked with diamond label. This S/R area is called liquidity. After liquidity is created, indicator looks for liquidity grab (mostly represented by fast spike to this area) and then price should go fast to the opposite side. This behaviour can be called reversal after liquidity grab. If we want to participate in the reversal we can put stop order at high of the candle that grabbed the support/liquidity if it is long liquidity grab or at low of the candle that grabbed the resistance/liquidity if it is short liquidity grab. These entry points are represented by solid lines. Stoplosses can be placed to the local maximum/minimum created after liquidity grab - so if entry is at high of the liquidity grab candle then stoploss can be put at low of the structure created after liquidity grab.
In settings of the indicator you can set whether only long or only short liquidity grabs are shown. Long liquidity grabs are green and short ones are red.
You can adjust core settings of the indicator:
Liquidity H/Ls Look Back/Forward Period: For PIVOT HIGH there has to be X (by default 1) candle/s lower to the left and X (by default 1) candle/s lower to the right and vice versa for PIVOT LOW,
Liquidity Grab by Close or High/Low.
Master Pattern ScreenerMaster Pattern Screener
This is an indicator based on the concept known as the Forex Master Pattern, which contains three phases. The contraction, expansion, and trend phases This indicator, based on your current timeframe, finds out if there is a contraction on 10 symbols that you can customize to suit your needs.
How does it work?
The indicator is a table, and it finds 10 different symbols on the current timeframe that you have selected. Then it does volume and volatility calculations to determine if a contraction is occurring, which is the first phase and probably the most important phase in the FOREX MASTER PATTERN .
This indicator is meant to be used in conjunction with our contraction plotter. We would have placed this indicator in the contraction and expansion plotter, but there were memory limitation issues, so we placed it in a separate indicator.
How traders can use this indicator
The contraction phase is extremely important because once a contraction is occurring, what always happens is an expansion. Some traders will avoid placing trades in the contraction phase, while others will enter to use the momentum for their trades. This indicator just makes it more convenient to identify the contraction phases.
Examples of the indicator:
Things you should know
The symbols can be customized to whatever you want. You can choose your own stocks, cryptocurrencies, currencies, etc.
Make sure that it's exactly the same; if you use, for example, BTCUSDT Coinbase but check on BTCUSDT Binance, then it may show inaccurate results.
Since this script involves a decent amount of calculations, it may not work properly in low timeframes, like anything less than a minute.
Smart Money Concepts Probability (Expo)█ Overview
The Smart Money Concept Probability (Expo) is an indicator developed to track the actions of institutional investors, commonly known as "smart money." This tool calculates the likelihood of smart money being actively engaged in buying or selling within the market, referred to as the "smart money order flow."
The indicator measures the probability of three key events: Change of Character ( CHoCH ), Shift in Market Structure ( SMS ), and Break of Structure ( BMS ). These probabilities are displayed as percentages alongside their respective levels, providing a straightforward and immediate understanding of the likelihood of smart money order flow.
Finally, the backtested results are shown in a table, which gives traders an understanding of the historical performance of the current order flow direction.
█ Calculations
The algorithm individually computes the likelihood of the events ( CHoCH , SMS , and BMS ). A positive score is assigned for events where the price successfully breaks through the level with the highest probability, and a negative score when the price fails to do so. By doing so, the algorithm determines the probability of each event occurring and calculates the total profitability derived from all the events.
█ Example
In this case, we have an 85% probability that the price will break above the upper range and make a new Break Of Structure and only a 16.36% probability that the price will break below the lower range and make a Change Of Character.
█ Settings
The Structure Period sets the pivot period to use when calculating the market structure.
The Structure Response sets how responsive the market structure should be. A low value returns a more responsive structure. A high value returns a less responsive structure.
█ How to use
This indicator is a perfect tool for anyone that wants to understand the probability of a Change of Character ( CHoCH ), Shift in Market Structure ( SMS ), and Break of Structure ( BMS )
The insights provided by this tool help traders gain an understanding of the smart money order flow direction, which can be used to determine the market trend.
█ Any Alert function call
An alert is sent when the price breaks the upper or lower range, and you can select what should be included in the alert. You can enable the following options:
Ticker ID
Timeframe
Probability percentage
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HHLL and Liquidity LevelsHHLL AND Liquidity Levels
Description: This indicator shows hidden support and resistance levels and liquidity levels. The indicator allows traders to select source data from open/close or the high and low. The indicator also allows for appearance customization.
How can Higher highs and Lower lows and liquidity levels benefit traders?
HHLL refers to a series of higher highs and lower lows in an asset's price trend, which can indicate a potential reversal in the trend. Liquidity, on the other hand, refers to the ease with which an asset can be bought or sold without affecting its price. HHLL can help traders identify potential trends, while liquidity can ensure that trades can be executed smoothly and without significant price impact.
How can traders use this indicator?
Traders can use the indicator to identify potential market trends and market momentum. When the indicator show a series of higher highs and higher lows it can show a possible uptrend, meanwhile a series of lower lows and lower highs could show a possible uptrend with liquidity to confirm their trading decisions.
The script could also capture hidden support and resistance levels by showing areas where liquidity is concentrated and where price has repeatedly made higher highs and lower lows.
Features:
Support and Resistance levels based on Highs and Lows
Zig zags to show the HHLL's
Liquidity Levels
BOS and CHOCHS labels
Here are some examples of the indicator in action:
The HHLL and Liquidity Levels indicator being used with the Contraction and Expansion indicator to see when expansions are due and then price retest the liquidity levels.
Expansion IndexWhat is the expansion index?
The expansion index is a concept that charts the relative strength or weakness based on the comparison of recent price changes and overall prices changes for the period.
It can be used as an momentum oscillator and show overbought or oversold price conditions by measuring the relation between the sum of "strong" price changes (which can form trends).
The Expansion Index is most typically used on an 8 day timeframe. It changes on a scale from −100 to +100, with the overbought and oversold levels marked at +60 and −60, respectively.
What about this indicator?
This indicator basically shows the rate of expansion from zero, but also has other uses apart from finding over bought or over sold territory.
Scenarios:
Lets say you are identifying a contraction zone (low volume zone of candles), you can further confirm the contraction if the Index is at or near 0, in this case it might have more strength
and play out more accurately the contraction and expansion.
Once the Expansion begins and price expands from the 0 level you can determine if its overbought which would be around the 1.00 Level or Oversold which would be at around the -1.00 Levels, and a reversal can follow out.
With the rate of change line you can identify trends in market and when reversals will start.
This indicator is best used with contraction, expansion, and trend principles also known as the Forex Master Pattern, as it was for what this specific indicator was designed for.
Thanks to NNAMDERT for writing this indicator and giving full rights. :)
Trade Entry Check list - Smart Money ConceptThe indicator you see is written to evaluate the input parameters for a trade. Since my own style is smart money, and I always used to write on paper or mentally calculate the necessary inputs for a trade, I wrote this indicator to prevent mental or paper calculations.
This indicator is made up of different sections that you can see in the table and make the necessary changes in the Options section.
The first section is your instrument, which is automatically displayed on every chart.
The next section is the current market, which is written based on smart money and divided into Asia Time, Frankfurt Time, London Time, Lunch Time, and New York Time sections. Depending on our style, we usually do not trade during the Frankfurt Time and Lunch Time sections.
The next section is about the ascending or descending structure of the 4-hour and 15-minute timeframes, which of course, you can change this structure to your desired one.
These two sections have both manual and automatic modes. I went through a lot of trouble for the automatic section, so don't easily skip it and be sure to test it.
The following sections relate to other reasons for entering a trade, which are divided into several sections. The first section is the entry reasons related to my personal strategy, which is completely defined and shows the input calculation in the Calculation section. The second section is your inputs without calculation in the Counter section, and the third section is your personal inputs including the Counter. You have deep access to customizing this table.
The Zone Seeker Supply and Demand - by Karoshi TradingThe Zone Seeker Supply and Demand - by Karoshi Trading
The Zone Seeker is based on the Supply & Demand Methodology.
Activating this indicator will mark all the zones of your chart.
Depending on your setting preferences, some zones will be showed or not.
The indicator code works as follow:
We will use the number of consecutive candles, body size compared to the wick and body length to calculate the zones.
Here is an example of the indicator.
1# Consecutive Candles
The indicator will search for minimum 2 consecutive candles of the same color. That means, that both candles has to close above the opening price of each candle (Bullish) or close below there opening prices (Bearish).
2# Body Size
After the first condition is met, the Code will now look into each candles of step #1.
Each of the candles should be equal or above 50% body, to meet the second requirement.
It will calculate the body size, compared to the full candle size to determine the percentage of the body itself.
3# Body Length
If the first two steps are positive, the code will jump into the 3rd phase of the indicator, the „Body Length“. With 2 options (ATR & MA) the code will calculate within a 14 candles period the average range of the candles. With that information, the code will now compare the average range to our candles from step #1.
The candles from step #1 has to be equal or bigger than 1.5 times the range/size of the average candle to met our last requirement.
4# Demand & Supply Zones
After all 3 requirements are met, the code will search for the last candle of the opposite color, to mark a zone. As example, if we have a demand zone with all conditions met, the indicator will search for the latest candle where the price closed below the opening price.
After finding such a candle, the indicator will mark the whole range of this candle (body + wick) and create a colored rectangle with a description in it. As example „Demand CTF“
CTF = Current Time Frame
5# Testing the Zones
As a test, we only count if the price went inside or touched the zone and left it and closed outside the zone. (You can choose by yourself if touched is on or off in the settings).
The code will not count each candle as a test, but each phase where the price went into the zone and closed outside the zone. As an example, if price went into a demand zone and closes 2 candles within the zone and the 3rd candle closes above the demand zone, that will count as one test.
Each test, will change the color of the zone, to keep in track of the freshness of the zones. After the 3rd test of a zone, the zone will be automatically deleted.
6# Flipping Zones
As a flipping zone is meant, that if the demand zone get broken to the downside by 2 or less candles it will automatically turn into a fresh supply zone. Important to know is, it will only occur if the candles closes below the demand zone. Same occurs for supply zones.
7# Multiple TimeFrames
It is possible, to choose one more time frame on top of the current time frame your are actually trading.
The code will separate both time frames, so you can choose how many zones you want to see in each time frame.
The supplementary time frame zones will be in 3 different grey colors, to destinguish the zones.
Also, overlapping zones will have a little info box, to avoid overlapping text.
On top of that, you can also show "all" time frames at once.
Current Time Frame = Colorized Zones
Supplementary Time Frames = Grey Zones
Market Interest ZoneGeneral description
The Market Interest Zone (MI Zone) indicator is designed to facilitate market analysis and meet the needs of most traders by building zones that can act as support or resistance.
The logic of each MI Zone is based on the culminating increase in volume (the analysis of such volume is done by comparing the volume of each candle with the SMA plotted for a certain period with the input volume data). This logic is not very useful in the middle of a pulse, so by comparing the OHLC of candles, the indicator builds such zones only on local pulse extremes. The indicator also has a built-in super trend indicator that acts as a trend filter. We have compared many technical indicators that can help filter zones, but in our opinion, super trend shows the best results due to more flexible settings compared to moving average. Each drawn Japanese candlestick is an independent zone from which you can open a position with a limit order and close a position, depending on the trader's usual risk management.
In this version of the indicator, only the D1 timeframe is available, but it is enough for long-term trades
The indicator has two modes:
Trend/Reversal - in which absolutely all zones are displayed;
Trend - which displays only those zones that have passed the filter in the direction of the current trend;
Opening a position with a market order when a zone of interest appears is not part of the strategy's logic, as it increases the commission and limits the trading potential. However, if you understand the market context, then such an entry with a market order can be realized.
In cases when the candle that formed the zone is quite volatile and has a large spread, it is permissible to place a limit order for 50% of this zone.
Examples of using a trading strategy
As we wrote earlier, each Japanese candlestick drawn is an independent zone that can be worked with without additional conditions and understanding of the context. The MI Zone appears under certain conditions, when the second candlestick closes after the zone itself. After that, you can place a limit order at the high/low of this zone (depending on the direction) + a protective stop order on the opposite side of the zone.
Simple Limit Entry in Trend/Reverse Mode:
Simple Limit Entry in Trend Mode:
Retest Limit Entry in Trend/Reverse Mode:
Mirror Retest Limit Entry in Trend/Reverse Mode:
Risk management strategy
Fixing positions is recommended when the RR reaches 1:3 to 1:5. It is also possible to split a position, the second part of which will be fixed at more global levels.
In the above examples, position fixation is shown exclusively at global levels. In real trading, we recommend closing part of the position when local levels are reached.
Also, when RR 1:1 is reached, it is recommended to move the stop loss to breakeven.
Conclusion
It is important to understand that this logic can have different meanings depending on the financial instrument used. Therefore, we recommend performing a basic backtest of the methods of use and risk management parameters before using the indicator directly.
SMM - MTF S/D Zones & TrendwatcherHello Traders,
Introducing the SMM - MTF S/D Zones & Trendwatcher, a powerful tool designed to make your trading easier and eliminate guesswork. Our goal is to save you time by automatically marking up the chart with key points of interest.
Our newest tool combines multiple time frames (MTF) to provide a comprehensive view of supply and demand zones, and includes a trendwatcher that tracks the trend of the input timeframes.
The indicator is based on calculations of supply and demand zones, providing valuable insights for traders looking to make informed decisions about buying and selling. With its MTF functionality, the SMM - MTF S/D Zones & Trendwatcher is a valuable tool for any trader looking to stay on top of the market.
Features Version 1.1
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-- MTF S/D Zones
Our indicator includes three adjustable supply and demand zones, which can be set to a desired higher timeframe.
Each zone includes options for:
- Extending the boxes.
- Show the 50% mitigation line.
- Let a zone disappear, change color, or do nothing.
- Option to plot/show the zones on the chart.
-- Trendwatcher
A convenient table that provides a quick overview of the trends of the set supply and demand.
You can configure the Trendwatcher the following ways:
- Option enable/disable the S/D trends to show in the table.
- Trendwatcher location on the chart.
- Trendwatcher size.
Swing Rapat Jik ( LOW-HIGH ) Smart Money TrendBandSWING RAPAT JIK ( LOW-HIGH ) Smart Money TrendBand
( 2023 updated edition )
The Swing Rapat Jik indicator is a method of knowing whether the current market is either at the highest or the lowest price.
It is also a relatively less risky strategy and suitable for long-term traders such as swing traders.
The analysis tool used is based on the Relative Strength Index ( RSI ) indicator as a parameter to measure the lowest price and the highest price in each cycle. If the price is at the extremely oversold level, then it shows the lowest price signal (LL/HL). Vice versa, if the price is at the extreme overbought level, then the signal will show the highest price signal (HH/LH).
It should be noted that this indicator is a repaint where it will make a re-mark if the price is at the lowest level of the previous signal. So, the solution is that I’ve added the Moving Average parameter as confirmation of the reversal of the LL price to the uptrend. That means the signal to enter the market only occurs when there is an Entry Price (EP) signal after LL/HL signal appears.
Please, do not enter the market when the EP signal is released if the LL/HL signal is not yet released. Make sure these two signals come out consecutively, starting with HL/LL and then the EP signal.
Key Signal;
LL = LOWER LOW
HL = HIGHER LOW
HH = HIGHER HIGH/TAKE PROFIT
LH = LOWER HIGH/TAKE PROFIT
EP = ENTRY PRICE
Hopefully, it can help traders to track the price at the lowest level before making a reversal and the highest price during the market supply situation.
*So far, the invention of the entry market is for the stock market only, which is to use buy signals only. Any updates for other markets will be notified from time to time.
Major updates;
1. Update version to Version 5 pine script
2. variable value used for the EP signal, to obtain a more significant weighted value.
3. Change of label color
4. Colored bars- bullish and bearish trends detected
SOPs and strategies
colored bars are pointers of the current trend and the period in which it occurred.
Use this combination as a strong confirmation
ICT SM Trades PREMIUMIndicator looks for ICT & Smart Money trades on any timeframe. These types of trades reveal how the big institutions, banks and hedge funds trade with big money. If they want their very big positions to be filled they need to find areas in chart where the majority of the money is sitting. Where is it? Where is the majority of orders placed? Right below supports or right above resistance, these orders are stoplosses or stop orders. So they need to push the price to these areas, take all the available stoplosses and trigger all the available stop orders in order to fill their positions and then push the price to the opposite side to make profit (and retail to lose).
Indicator looks for support or resistance (S/R) areas which are represented by dotted lines. This S/R areas are created by minimum of 2 pivot high/low (H/L). Every pivot H/L that creates the S/R area is marked with diamond label. This S/R area is called liquidity. After liquidity is created, indicator looks for liquidity grab (mostly represented by fast spike to this area - it is labeled with x-cross) and then price should go fast to the opposite side of the created structure. Indicator considers as a created structure everything that was created on the other side of the candles from the oldest pivot H/L which creates particular liquidity. For example, if liquidity is created with 3 pivot highs, indicator looks at the oldest pivot high and from there it is looking for the lowest low. Under this lowest low is dashed line which means that this level should be broken with closed candle. This action is called market structure shift (MSS), when the price shifted very fast from highs to lows. After MSS, when the price went fast to one direction, there were some imbalances in prices, in our example selling pressure was a lot bigger than buying pressure and there were created some long untested bearish candles. This untested areas in candles are called imbalances or gaps of fair value gaps (FVG). These are labeled with rectangles. It is expected that these gaps will be tested in near future to "balance the market".
We can put limit orders into these gaps (or into order blocks in PREMIUM indicator) and await some retracement after MSS to open our positions and after the positions are opened we can expect trend continuation in the direction where market structure shift was made (away from liquidity grab). So stoplosses can be placed above/below liquidity grab candle (marked with x-cross).
Alerts can be set for MSS to Long & Short and for liquidity grabs to Long & Short.
All settings of this indicator should be self-explanatory and most of them have tooltips for better understanding.
Supertrend Rally RollercoasterSupertrend indicator is a trend following indicator similar to moving averages. You can use this on any timeframe if there is enough market data.
What about the Supertrend Rally Rollercoaster?
The main objective of this indicator is to avoid fake trends as much as possible and find the best bull and bear runs.
The best timeframe is the 15 minute timeframe.
This indicator consist of 4 Supertrend periods. The most important period of this indicator is the fourth period. This is the period that determines the overall trend for the timeframe.
The rest of the bands can be used as confirmations to the trend, determine trade entries, and possible as trade exits and scalping.
The main use of this indicator is to be used with value lines and contraction zones, as showed in the picture below.
So basically the average price or the mean is the value line produced by the contraction. The expansion follows, and then you must wait for the actual trend.
If price is below the value line then you wait for a uptrend and preferably a proper entry. Then you ride it up to the value line as TP, or you can
also let it continue on riding, but your preference.
If price is above value then, you wait for a downtrend and then short to value. This is the main trading strategy behind this indicator and what it has intended for.
The indicator also comes with alerts on when the trend changes and also on the arrows which are take profit symbols.
On an uptrend you will see red take profit signals which work with RSI. They tell you when a possible trend reversal can take place.
ICT SM Trades (liquidity find & grab, MSS, FVG, killzones)Indicator looks for ICT & Smart Money trades on any timeframe. These types of trades reveal how the big institutions, banks and hedge funds trade with big money. If they want their very big positions to be filled they need to find areas in chart where the majority of the money is sitting. Where is it? Where is the majority of orders placed? Right below supports or right above resistance, these orders are stoplosses or stop orders. So they need to push the price to these areas, take all the available stoplosses and trigger all the available stop orders in order to fill their positions and then push the price to the opposite side to make profit (and retail to lose).
Indicator looks for support or resistance (S/R) areas which are represented by dotted lines. This S/R areas are created by minimum of 2 pivot high/low (H/L). Every pivot H/L that creates the S/R area is marked with diamond label. This S/R area is called liquidity. After liquidity is created, indicator looks for liquidity grab (mostly represented by fast spike to this area - it is labeled with x-cross) and then price should go fast to the opposite side of the created structure. Indicator considers as a created structure everything that was created on the other side of the candles from the oldest pivot H/L which creates particular liquidity. For example, if liquidity is created with 3 pivot highs, indicator looks at the oldest pivot high and from there it is looking for the lowest low. Under this lowest low is dashed line which means that this level should be broken with closed candle. This action is called market structure shift (MSS), when the price shifted very fast from highs to lows. After MSS, when the price went fast to one direction, there were some imbalances in prices, in our example selling pressure was a lot bigger than buying pressure and there were created some long untested bearish candles. This untested areas in candles are called imbalances or gaps of fair value gaps (FVG). These are labeled with rectangles. It is expected that these gaps will be tested in near future to "balance the market".
We can put limit orders into these gaps and await some retracement after MSS to open our positions and after the positions are opened we can expect trend continuation in the direction where market structure shift was made (away from liquidity grab). So stoplosses can be placed above/below liquidity grab candle (marked with x-cross).
In settings of the indicator you can set whether only long or only short trades will be shown. Long trades are green and short trades are red. You can set if fair value gaps will be shown as well. The last thing in settings is session. You can set custom session which will be shown as background color on your chart.
Contraction and Expansion PlotterContraction and Expansion Plotter
Volatility , Contraction, and Expansion Plotter
This indicator is based on the contraction, expansion, and trend phases concept.
I wrote this indicator and optimized it to be user-friendly and show the best value levels in various different timeframes.
The script itself uses Average True Range , WMAs, RSI , and volatility to determine contraction zones and possible expansions.
The contraction phase is the first phase of the market. The script will automatically plot the box, which is the contraction. This is the phase that traders should avoid trading because the value line has yet to be formed. You don't know if the trade will violently go up or down since it is in the next phase.
The expansion is the next phase where high volume and volatility occur. I decided to use RSI crossovers and crossunders to help find the expansion zones since it can be pretty difficult to get a program to recognize them and also since this is the phase where accumulation by the big liquidity players, like the institutions, starts.
The trend phase isn't yet implemented into the script, but basically is when these big liquidity players start taking profits. This is the part where it tends to go back to the value line , even if it is bullish or bearish .
This concept is extremely versatile and can be used to create various different strategies, from long-term strategies to scalping strategies. You can combine this with indicators and not be lost.
To be clear, the boxes are the contraction mapped and the zones you should always avoid trading in.
On timeframes that are hourly and above, the value lines will automatically be plotted by the script.
Some Customization Features:
You can decide different line styles like dotted, solid, dashed, or arrows.
You can also customize the width of the value line but the recommended widths is either 1 or 2.
On default, the value lines retrieved by the contractions will be disabled on timeframes lower than the hourly or daily because it can become unorganized but the option
to enable lower timeframe value lines have been added now.
The value lines will automatically extend until another contraction is present
Option to choose if you want filtered contractions or unfiltered contractions.
