Zero Lag MTF On Balance Volume Oscillator by CoffeeShopCrypto

Introducing the Zero Lag Multi Timeframe On Balance Volume Oscillator — the next evolution in volume trading.
Imagine tracking both your trading timeframe and any higher timeframe volume in real time, with absolutely zero lag and no waiting for candles to close.
Whether you’re comparing a 1-minute chart to a 2-hour chart, or a 5-minute to a daily, you’ll instantly see how volume is shifting across timeframes — live, as it happens.
This unique oscillator reveals volume divergences, confirms breakouts, and shows you exactly when buyers or sellers are in control by oscillating around a zero line — with no repainting, ever.
Don’t let delayed tools make you miss the move. Stay ahead of the market with the Zero Lag Multi Timeframe OBV Oscillator — and trade with volume on your side.


(OBV) was created by Joe Granville and introduced in his 1963 book Granville's New Key To Stock Market Profits.
The indicator is significant in history because it was one of the first known indicators to account for positive and negative volume flow.
However the concept and method most people use for today is simply observing a singular current timeframe chart of volume.
The purpose of this volume indicator is to tell you when both the higher timeframe volume and lower timeframe volume are moving in accordance with each other so you have a more clear understanding of the broad picture of the market movement.
This indicator uses the same basic concept of OBV but plots it as an oscillator.



Volume Divergence


What is a Volume Divergence:
A volume divergence takes place when the spread between the HTF and LTF volume isnt reaching higher highs or lower lows while price is reaching higher highs and lower lows. This is more accurate than noting divergence peaks from other indicators like the RSI or MACD because those are giving you an average but the OBV in its "RAW" setting is giving you actual bullish or bearish volume spikes per candle.

How to trade a Volume Divergence:
When you note either a bullish or bearish volume divergence you need to switch to a divergence trading strategy.

BULLISH DIVERGENCE STRATEGY
1.Zone out the range of candles that caused the divergence
2. If this is a bullish divergence, find the swing high on the volume between point A and B and mark that price level
3. This level should play out as a new support level for price.
4. Let the price break and retest this level

OR

BEARISH DIVERGENCE STRATEGY
1.Zone out the range of candles that caused the divergence
2. If this is a bearish divergence, find the swing low on the volume between point A and B and mark that price level
3. This level should play out as a new resistance level for price.
4. Let the price break and retest this level.

Confirming Trendline Breaks


While following short term trendlines on price, you can detect when price trends are broken.
If volume still supports the previous trend when the trendline is broken, you wait for price to react to a previous support or resistance level, or you want for price to retrace to a fair value gap and follow the trend that follows the supporting volume.

Confirming Trend Direction

Confirming a trend direction means that both the high timeframe and low timeframe trend agree with each other while price is moving away from a previously tested support or resistance area. Once price moves out of these key levels and the oscillator confirms a particular direction, you have the start of your new trend and are open for trades.
Volume Smoothing Settings
You can look at Volume in different ways. Commonly you want to smooth it to match your trading style. So if price is trending between range levels, you want to see HOW its trending. If your go to is to use an EMA, SMA, WMA, or other smoothing style, then set the ZLMTF OBV to match this in the "smoothing settings.

Here are the different ways you can set it and how it appears on the chart.

Raw Volume
This gives you the Raw volume calculations with no smoothing taking place.
(Commonly you would use this as price intercepts key levels.


SMA Smoothed Volume
This gives you the Raw volume smoothed over an SMA calculation which you would watch if you commonly use Smoothed Moving Averages on your chart while price is not near a support or resistance area.


Other Smoothing Outputs
You also have the ability to choose between EMA, SMMA, WMA, and VWAM types of smoothing to compare to the smoothing you use on your chart.