Stop Hunts [MK]Liquidity rests above/below previous highs and lows because these are the areas where traders are most likely to leave their orders/stop losses. The market can tap into this liquidity source by going beyond the previous highs and lows, this liquidity can then be used to reverse the market in the opposite direction.
As traders we may want to know if price will continue beyond previous highs and lows, or reverse the market. If price looks to be reversing after tapping into liquidity, this can be a good area to enter a trade. The same area can be used as a take profit level also.
The indicator identifies previous high/lows in two ways:
1. previous high/lows using 'PIVOT POINTS'. Pivots are easy to spot and are obvious within a price trend. Also called 'higher highs", "lower lows" etc. The number of candles required to form the pivot point can be adjusted in the script settings.
see below example of pivot point and stop hunt:
www.tradingview.com
see how price reversed upwards after stop hunt on pivot point above.
2. previous candle high/lows. A previous candles high and low are also good areas of liquidity.
see below example of previous candle stop hunt:
see how price reversed upwards after stop hunt on previous candle low above.
Personally, I use the pivot point stop hunts on lower timeframes and previous candle stop hunts on higher timeframes. However users can adjust on which timeframes to show the indicator depending on their own trading style.
As ever all items within 'settings' are customizable.
The indicator is by no means a 'trading strategy' and users should be fully aware of the stop hunt concept and have conducted extensive back-testing before using with 'live' accounts.
The indicator may also serve as a 'teaching aid' to new students and as a reminder to more experienced traders.
Grab
Liquidity Concepts [BigBeluga]The Liquidity Concepts indicator is designed to represent the liquidity on the chart using pivot points as potential stop-losses / liquidity grabs.
The indicator is facilitated by a market structure detector and pivot points to identify resting liquidity / stop-loss levels.
A liquidity grab or a stop-loss hunt is when retail traders place their stop-loss orders at recent highs / most recent highs or lows. This is a spot where big players attempt to push the market to trigger all the stop-loss orders and gain a better entry in their favor.
🔶 CALCULATION
The indicator uses the Higher Lower script made by @LonesomeTheBlue to determine these pivot points. When a pivot point is formed, it is displayed on the chart with the corresponding symbol (HH - HL - LH - LL). When one of these points is broken, a line is drawn between the pivot point and the candle that broke it.
A liquidity grab is only recognized after it has occurred, and it is represented with a box showing all the candles that were involved in the sweep / stop-loss hunt.
A pivot point is established only after the selected lookback period and cannot be printed beforehand in any manner. This ensures that it captures the highest point within the lookback period following the candle formation.
An HL (Higher Low) point is established when it is lower than an HH (Higher High) point, whereas an LH (Lower High) point is established when it is higher than an LL (Lower Low) point.
Boxes are formed in two different types: Major and Minor.
- Major boxes occur when LH or HL points are breached, with their high or low point crossing above or below in the specific lookback period.
- Minor boxes occur when HH or LL points are breached, with their high or low point crossing above or below in the specific lookback period.
Minor points are less efficient since they represent key highs and lows, and before taking out those liquidity levels, the HL and LH points should be cleared.
Representation of Pivot Point Formation:
Liquidity wicks are a minor representation of a stop-loss hunt during the retracement of a pivot point. This means that a pivot point is broken only by the wick and not by the entire body.
Bigger wick = more liquidity
Lower wick = less liquidity
Liquidity wicks can be used as trade confirmation or targets for your entry to enhance accuracy.
Users have the option to display candle coloring based on the currently detected trend.
🔶 VERIFICATION
Users have the option to specify the verification length for when the liquidity should occur. This means that if the length is set to 7, the indicator will search for the liquidity formation within the last 7 candles; otherwise, it will be considered invalid.
🔶 CONCEPTS
The whole idea is to help find possible zone of stop loss hunting helping having a better entry in our trading, we can utilize a lot more tools, and this shoud be used as confluence only
🔶 OPTIONS
Users have complete control over the settings, allowing them to:
- Disable pivot points.
- Disable the display of boxes.
- Disable liquidity wicks.
- Customize colors to their preferences.
- Adjust lookback settings for historical data analysis.
- Modify candle coloring settings.
- Adjust the text size of labels for better readability and customization.
🔶 RECAP
Box => Represents liquidity formation / stop-loss hunt
- Minor Box HH / LL point
- Major Box LH / HL point
Liquidity Wicks => Formed when a pivot point is broken only by the wick
BOS / CHoCH => Calculated using the pivot points from the @LonesomeTheBlue script
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Price Action Concepts =>
h/l raid @joshuuuThis indicator shows, when important liquidity pools have been taken out.
Which liquidity pools are important and how should I use them?
The day can be divided into different session. asia, london and new york session, those sessions can be narrowed down even further into killzones, taught by ict.
The times for those killzones are:
Asia - 2000-0000 ny time
London - 0200-0500 ny time
ny am - 0830-1100 ny time
nypm - 13.30-1600 ny time
Highs/Lows that have been created within those killzones (sessions with highest volume) should hold some liquidity.
That's why this indicator displays arrows with different colors to highlight once those highs/lows get taken out.
Additionally, the indicator also shows raids (liquidity grabs) of the previous daily, previous weekly and previous monthly high/low.
All colors are adaptable.
How do I use that indicator for my trading.
Once those important liquidity pools are taken out, we often see a reversal in the marketplace. One can wait for a raid and then watch for a potential market structure shift into the opposite direction to anticipate a reversal.
Note:
It is possible to create alerts for those kind of raids.
Examples:
ES:
Price takes out Asia High (red triangle) and London High (blue triangle). Price then forms a market structure shift (lower low after a series of higher lows) and creates a fair value gap while doing so.
That would be a valid setup. Again, all these are concepts by TheInnerCircleTrader.
EU:
On this EurUsd Chart, we can see, how the triangles (liquidity grabs) can be an early indication for potential reversals.
Asia high and london high has been taken out. market structure shift (light bulb) and then a fairvalue gap.
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.
Daily and Weekly Sweep - LiquidityDaily and Weekly Sweep – Liquidity
Description:
The script is designed to illustrate the sweeps of the high and low of the previous day and week. The larger the ratio of shares traded to the percentage price change, the more deep and liquid the market is presumed to be, therefore the market maker always seeks liquidity. Liquidity rests above previous highs and below previous lows as many traders see these as obvious points to place their stops. These are areas on the chart where many orders are placed together and serve as tipping points for market makers. The script focuses on the previous day and week. We can assume these are potential areas for mitigation.
How to use:
The indicator plots the highs and lows of the previous day and week. On default, it also shows the high and low price for the first 8 hours of the opening day of the week. Users can customise this in settings. The weekly open is also plotted. The background changes colour once a daily/weekly high or low has been breached and stops at the extreme point of price. These areas may provide points of interest in the future.
A good understanding of supply and demand, order blocks, market structure, and how to identify fresh levels is expected to utilise it's full potential.
Alert function added for:
- Daily Sweep
- Weekly Sweep
Indicator in use:
Jimmy's Dikfat DaytraderThis Day Trading Indicator applies the use of multiple techniques designed to maximize profits and trade success probability while utilizing proprietary mathematical techniques to calculate specific high probability Pivot Points, Break of Structure, Supply and Demand, previous days High and Low, Liquidity Hunts, Dynamic Trend Lines and Fibonacci Discount Zones. The combination of these techniques combined with unique mathematical calculation & variance allow the user to make an informed analysis to take high probability trades by exposing Market Maker discount zones and highlight smart money purchasing.
Pivot Points: A traditional pivot point is described as an individual candle high that is higher than the previous two candles to the left and forward two candles to the right. Likewise a pivot is also an individual candle low that is lower than the previous two candles to the left and forward two candles to the right. In this indicator standard pivots are highlighted as yellow and white candles. Yellow candles are High or Top Pivots; White Candles are Low or Bottom Pivots. The number of pivots checked for either left or right or both can be changed in the settings. Increasing this value will add more pivot points to the chart, decreasing this value will add less. It is recommended to change values left and right with the same number.
Note: In this study, all traditional pivots will be highlighted by yellow or white for the advanced user, but not all pivot markers will highlight all pivots for the purposes of identifying a high probability trade.
Break of Structure: Break of structure occurs when current price drops below or likewise rises above a pivot point. For the purposes of this study, a break of structure tag will appear over a previous pivot tag ONLY when there is a candle close below or above the previous pivot for the purposes of identifying liquidity hunts and high probability trades. As you will note in the example chart, break of structure is used to determine not only trend but high probability trade areas by identifying market structure. Unbroken pivot highs or lows can be used to take trades, with a stop below the low (or above the high) of the unbroken pivot candle. BOS (Break of Structure) Tags will effectively show where market participants do not want to take a trade and be chopped up in a market that is trending only 30% of the time. BOS also gives future indication of where the Market Makers are taking price action. Breaks of structure in a particular direction typically indicate a continuation of price action in that direction. Trade opportunities occur after the pullback in the opposite direction of break of structure. This highlights areas traders can take on the pullback, in the direction of structure breaks, typically on unbroken pivots.
Note: In this study, not all BOS (Break of Structure) markers will highlight all breaks of structure for the purposes of identifying a high probability trade. Some very few examples of structure is not marked as broken to assist in identifying Liquidity Hunts.
Liquidity Hunt: A Liquidity Hunt is where price action moves in the opposite direction of an intended move (typically with high magnitude and velocity) to gather "Liquidity" and trigger stops created by traders caught in the break of structure zone. Any unbroken pivot is a relevant area of Liquidity. Some of the High probability areas of Liquidity will be found at Equal (or near equal) Lows or Equal High pivots. Current areas of Liquidity are marked on the chart as an Aqua (Light Blue) Background line that extends right infinitely. Once Liquidity has been taken at one of these lines, the Line will "Break" And stop displaying forward. The number of pivots calculated specifically for break of structure and Liquidity Hunts can be changed under the Liquidity Hunt setting. Much like with pivots, it is recommended to change these numbers with the same value for best results.
Due to the complexity of the math, Some liquidity pivots will only confirm and display a pivot tag after twice the candles defined have been found to the left and right under liquidity hunt settings, and some will display after the exact number specified in settings. As noted previous some will not display at all due to the high probability nature of this indicator and having been found as a "cluster" in the Supply and Demand Boxes.
Supply and Demand Boxes: Supply and Demand boxes will be created when a specific number of pivots are found in succession or in a "cluster" and a box will be drawn from the current grouping of pivots, first pivot high to the nearest pivot low in the cluster. This unique style of supply and demand box drawing has been proven to be an effective identifier of buying and selling in the price action, or likewise support or resistance upon return to these boxes. The boxes were specifically designed to identify high probability areas of Supply and Demand and are more likely to be areas of high probability buying and selling. Supply is when price action moves into or creates an area where sellers are waiting. Demand is when price action moves into or creates an area where Buyers are waiting. When price action creates a box, the box will remain Neutral with a white color while Price action remains within the box. This box will turn Red or into a Supply Box, when price action drops below the box boundaries. The box will likewise turn Green or into a Demand Box, when price action rises above the box boundaries. Any return to a colored box from the direction it was created could be anticipated as a retracement to continue in the direction of price action indicated by the box.
In the settings boxes can be extended to the current bar right to show previous areas of supply and demand, or can be left "Truncated" or in box form as a highlighter for cluster analysis.
Previous Days High and Low: The previous days High and low will be displayed on the current day as a magenta line. Some traders use these lines to anticipate price action on the day compared to where price action is moving relative to the previous day. Historical Magenta lines are also the marked on a specific day, for the previous days High and low. Historical Lines can be turned off by reducing Opacity of the setting to Zero, leaving only the previous days high and low on the current day.
Dynamic Trend Lines: Trend Lines will be created automatically that will connect unbroken pivots and extend right, highlighting the current trend. (Coming Soon™️)
Fibonacci Discount Zone: The Fibonacci Discount Zone can be found by measuring an unbroken pivot High or Low, that breaks structure left to create a new High or Low. When structure is broken and price begins a retracement before moving back in the direction of the broken structure, the retracement is typically back into the "Discount Zone" between the 618 and 786 Fibonacci zone. This zone will be automatically plotted as a light grey box in the background of the chart. (Coming Soon™️)
Grab Trading SystemHello All,
This is "Grab Trading System" script defined in the book "Trend Following" by Michael W. Covel. also named as "Two-box system". I made small changes and I guess that it can be improved more.
The definition: Far box defines major trend; system trades only in same direction as major trend, meanwhile fading the signals of near box. Last trade in each trend exits at break of far box - at the same time as the trend reverses. All trades, except the last in the trend, use a limit order, as they are fading the near box. The last trade exits on a stop, as the trend changes.
As you can see there is Longterm Period and Shortterm Period in the indicator options. Longterm period is used for major trend and shortterm period is used to take position according to major trend. in my test I got better performance in small time frames. you need to set longterm/shortterm periods by your trading strategies.
Enjoy!
GRAB or TrendStrength Bars with Highlights[Salty]GRAB or TrendStrength Bars with Propulsion Dots and Highlights for Squeeze Pro, CCI-Arrows, and SlowStoch
This indicator shows GRAB or TrendStrength candles and allows several moving averages to be displayed at the same time.
It has arrows and diamonds above or below the candles to show CCI values above 100 or below -100 with the arrow pointing in the direction of the momentum.
Diamonds indicate slightly weaker momentum than arrows, but still consider strong.
It has background coloring that is light green to show bullish trends and light red to show bearish trends that are derived from slow stochastics.
In general Darker colors are used for down moves and lighter colors are use to show up moves. Also, red indicates bearish, and green indicates bullish throughout.
It has yellow background to show squeezes with additional Squeeze Pro information shown at the bottom of the chart in the form of letters and momentum arrows.
L = Low compression squeeze, S = Normal Squeeze, and H = High Compression Squeeze.
It has a set of propulsion dots for each Moving Average. The trend is consider bullish when green colored dots print, and bearish when red dots print.
3 ATR Keltner channels are printed. The first two show the values used by the squeeze by default
2 Bolinger Bands are displayed based on the values used by the Squeeze by default.
1 VWAP line may be displayed.
TIP: overlaying the TICK symbol is great for confirming a bias where positive values are bullish and negative values are bearish.
Salty GRaB Wave with Highlights for Squeeze CCI-Arrows SlowStochThis indicator shows GRaB candles and allows several moving averages to be displayed at the same time.
It uses background coloring to identify momentum shifts. Wide bands of color can be used to identify trends while short bands of color can be used to identify reversals.
It has arrows above or below the candles to show CCI values above 100 or below -100 with the arrow pointing in the direction of the momentum.
It has red background coloring to show slow stochastic Overbought ranges and dark red signals indicating a cross of the fast and slow lines.
It has green background coloring to show slow stochastic Oversold ranges and dark green signals indicating a cross of the fast and slow lines.
It has yellow background to show squeezes with additional Squeeze information shown at the bottom of the chart in the form of letters and momentum arrows.
Simpler Trading GRaB CandlesThe GRaB candles are painted candles based on the relationship between the close of a candle and these averages.
- A candle paints green when it closes above the 34-bar EMA of the high.
- A candle paints red when it closes below the 34-bar EMA of the low.
- A candle paints blue when it closes between the 34-bar EMA of the high and 34-bar EMA of the low.
-
GRaB candles are a visual aid in identifying not only the trend but also the sentiment and momentum in the market on any time frame. The colors of the GRaB candles still reflect traditional Japanese candlesticks with lighter and darker shades of green, red and blue. The lighter shades are akin to hollow or "up close" Japanese candles while the darker shades are akin to shaded or "down close" candles.
- Green candles indicate bullish sentiment and momentum
- Red candles indicate bearish sentiment and momentum
- Blue candles indicate neutral sentiment and momentum
Since a trend is organized sentiment and momentum, it is also important that green candles dominate a market that is moving upwards with higher highs and higher lows. Red candles should then dominate a downtrend (lower lows and lower highs). Blue GRaB candles dominate a market in consolidation and quick shifts between green, red and blue are a sign of volatility and congestion.
GRaB Candles by mattlacoco with MMM by Harold_NL V1.1Update v1.1:
GRaB colors now green, red, gray
Added Murrey Range lines.
Cleaned up the code.
GRaB candles and a murrey math "midline" in one script.
Some traders using methods of Rob Booker (40% club, trifecta5) like to use both GRaB candles and Murrey Math to combine, or to compare entry and exit moments.
Color of candles are as GRaB candles.
Midline use: Crossing the midline is a change of color in murrey. Candles closing above the midline would be green and below would be red as murrey candles.
Credits:
Original script of Raghee Horner's GRaB Candles by Matt Lacoco (BUY BLUE SELL RED).
Murrey Math Midline added by Harold van Berk (most code copied from "UCS_Murrey's Math Oscillator_V2" by ucsgears)
Candle colors defined by GRaB
Green bulish, Red bearish, Gray neutral
Dark for close lower than open
Light for close higher than open
Candles that close above the Murrey Math Middle line would normally be (murrey) green. Below would be (murrey) red.
Murrey lines can be switched off in "format" of the indicator.
GRaB Candles by mattlacoco with Murrey Math Midline(use V1.1 now See links below)
GRaB candles and a murrey math "midline" in one script.
Some traders using methods of Rob Booker (40% club, trifecta5) like to use both GRaB candles and Murrey Math to combine, or to compare entry and exit moments.
Color of candles are as GRaB candles.
Midline use: Crossing the midline is a change of color in murrey. Candles closing above the midline would be green and below would be red as murrey candles.
Credits:
Original script of Raghee Horner's GRaB Candles by Matt Lacoco (BUY BLUE SELL RED).
Murrey Math Midline added by Harold van Berk (most code copied from "UCS_Murrey's Math Oscillator_V2" by ucsgears)
GRaB Candles w/NotificationsJust added "notifications" to the previous script I found from mattlacoco.
