NightWatch 24/5 [theUltimator5]NightWatch 24/5 is a comprehensive indicator designed to seamlessly display both regular and overnight trading (BOATS exchange) into a single chart. Current TV limitations don't allow both overnight trading and regular exchanges to appear on the same chart due to timeframe visibility settings. We can either select between RTH (Regular Trading Hours) or ETH (Extended Trading Hours). There is no option to show 24 hour charts when looking at a stock. This indicator attempts to solve this issue.
Please read the entire description thoroughly because this indicator takes a little bit of setup to work properly!
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This indicator MUST be used over a liquid cryptocurrency chart, like Bitcoin. It requires access to something that trades 24/7 and has volume data for all periods. Bitcoin on Coinbase is the best option. Please select Bitcoin as your main ticker before adding this indicator to the chart.
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This indicator combines the price of both the regular trading hours and the overnight trading to create a single price line and volume candles. You can select view settings to either overlay the price on the chart, or have it below the chart. Volume can be toggled on or off as well.
Default settings:
Ticker = GME
Overlay Candles on Main Chart = true
Display Data = Both Price and Volume
Show Status Table = true
Here is an explanation for each of these settings:
Ticker - Type in the ticker you want to track overnight and intraday data for
Overlay Candles on Main chart - This will push the price candles onto the main chart area instead of below it. Volume candles will remain in their own separate pane below. This is useful if you want to track both price and volume without adding the indicator twice.
Display Data - This determines what data to show. Volume, price, or both volume and price.
Show Status Table - This toggles on or off the table that shows the ticker name, current session, and the price (change) of the ticker since the most recent daily close.
If you overlay the price onto the chart, the price of the stock you are looking at will likely be a VERY different price than the crypto it is overlaying against. There are a couple workarounds. You can either zoom into the chart around the price of the stock you are looking at (time consuming), or you can go into your object tree and drag the indicator up into the main chart area. This will overlay the price onto the crypto while maintaining it's own unique y-axis.
After you move the indicator up, you can add the indicator back a second time, then change the settings to only show the volume candles. You can then toggle off the table on one of the two so you don't see duplicate tables. This is the setting I am showing in my chart above. The indicator is added twice with the price being pulled up into the same window as Bitcoin, then a second instance below showing just volume.
--LIMITATIONS--
Since the indicator requires the use of a 24 hour market ticker like Bitcoin, it DOES NOT display extended hours data. The price and volume data STOPS at 16:00 EST then resumes back up at 20:00 EST when BOATS opens. At 04:00, the price and volume then stops until 09:30, when the regular trading hours begin. This causes a flat line in the price during those periods. Unfortunately, there is no current workaround to this issue.
If Bitcoin becomes illiquid (or whatever crypto you choose), it will only populate data for the ticker you want if there is data available for that crypto at the same time period. A gap in Bitcoin volume will show a gap in trade activity for your ticker.
Boats
Blue Ocean BOATS 24/5 US Market DataThis script utilizes Blue Ocean's ATS (Alternative Trading System) and U.S. exchange market data to create a continuous candlestick chart. The continuous data has the option to be used as an indicator or strategy source.
Requirements
The main chart symbol (which can be unrelated to the user-input Ticker Symbol) needs to be a 24/7 chart. An example symbol is CRYPTO:BTCUSD. CME_MINI:ES1! and FX:SPX500 work too, but are not truly 24/5 and will miss ~4 hours of the total trading week from the extended U.S. session.
The main chart's timeframe needs to be intraday. Because the script's output is currently inconsistent on daily or higher timeframes, it will disable itself.
The Ticker Symbol chosen should be a ticker that is traded on U.S. exchanges. This will provide both U.S. extended session data and a BOATS equivalent.
Usage & configuration
This script visualizes the 24-hour Monday-Friday chart of a U.S. exchange ticker. Going a step further, it can be used to compare the performance indices or cryptocurrencies to stock constituents of indices, cryptocurrency treasury stocks or holding ETFs.
The script's output, candlesticks, can be overlaid on the main chart or used as is. A "Price Source" plot is used for indicators or strategies.
Ticker Symbol: The U.S. ticker you'd like to view extended session and Blue Ocean ATS session data for.
Price Source: Price source that can be used for indicators or strategies.
Highlight Sessions: Highlight the different trading sessions.
Last Price Line: Show a horizontal line at the last traded price.
Ticker Symbol Check: Plots a label that will display only if the selected Ticker Symbol is not detected as a U.S. exchange traded ticker.
Earnings Label: Creates a label at the time of past earnings of the chosen Ticker Symbol. The time that the earnings are plotted is approximate. Because of this, the label is meant as an explanation for price action.
What this script does and how it works
It creates OHLC candlesticks by merging Blue Ocean's ATS market data and U.S. exchange data. From the OHLC data of both, a single output can be used for indicators or strategies.
References and further information
www.tradingview.com
The Blue Ocean ATS allows trading from 20:00 to 4:00 Eastern Time, Sunday through Thursday. This critical timeframe bridges the eight-hour overnight gap when major U.S. exchanges are closed.
blueocean-tech.io
Blue Ocean ATS, LLC is a US broker dealer which operates the alternative trading system BOATS. Our trading platform offers electronic access, price discovery, compliant regulatory reporting requirements, and standard clearing and settlement processes.
www.nyse.com
Hours mentioned are in Eastern Time.
Overnight trading remains far less active than extended hours trading. The hour with the highest overnight volume is 9:00PM, which averages 2.94 million shares per day and coincides with several Asian market opens. This volume is a fraction of the last hour of extended hours trading, which averages 43.22 million shares. The first hour of pre-core reported volume averages 113.30 million shares per day.
Overnight executions, in addition to the peak in the 9:00PM hour, also exhibits a smaller peak at 3:00AM, of 2.35 million shares. This coincides with several Asian bourses’ end of their regular trading day.
Example of using the script in the main chart window and the difference in how RSI may be calculated.
Note: ATS is not the name of the 20:00 to 4:00 ET session itself, and the term refers to a broader definition of trading systems that include dark pools, which can be different.
24/5 Monday-Friday really means NY time Sunday night to Friday afternoon.
