VWAP Balance Zones - SessionsVWAP Balance Zones Sessions Version is an alternate take on the Original VWAP Balance Zones indicator. The Sessions version allows users to select a specific session to view the VWAP Balance Zones at while still utilizing the full ETH Data.
The Session version provides a better focused display while still maintaining the core functions of the original script with mindful optimizations.
Author's Note: "VBZ Sessions was made with logistics in mind, for the users who only trade within certain times of the day. While it displays the same core concepts, it is not as "Raw" of a display as the Original. For this reason, some users may prefer the Original VWAP Balance Zones, which is why I have opted to release this alternate version instead of updating the original."
> What are VWAP Balance Zones?
"VWAP Balance Zones" is an original concept aimed at identifying the equilibrium area between market participants within the current trend by averaging the Daily Extremes and the Daily VWAP.
Refer to the illustration below for a better understanding of exactly how VWAP Balance Zones are formed:
These zones are displayed for the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly VWAPs, with the most interactive timeframe being the Daily.
> Features
1. The Session Version uses ETH data at all times, and does not solely rely on the chart's data to create the VWAPs or Zones.
This allows the user to focus on a specific trading session, while not losing out on the full VBZ Calculation, with the notable benefit of a cleaner display.
The Original VBZ starts drawing at the beginning of the chart's "Day", and would produce different results when using an RTH chart vs an ETH chart. Along with creating a bird's nest of unusable data at the beginning of the day.
2. Session Start and End lines are displayed for easier identification of the designated trading session.
3. The extreme "Close" Lines are no longer displayed to reduce noise and redundancy.
4. Additionally, the interior VWAP lines are no longer displayed. Ultimately, this was to reduce noise and focus the script on the 50% zones.
5. Weekly and Monthly Zones are now displayed due to the reduced noise!
6. As with the original, the weekly display will yield to the daily, and the monthly display will yield to the weekly.
In the screenshot below, you can observe this behavior.
Enjoy!
Hwb
VWAP Balance ZonesVWAP Balance Zones (VBZ) Is based on 3 concepts.
Many Traders use VWAP to help determine Price Trends.
Trends are typically identified by new Highs or new Lows.
Balanced is found when Supply and Demand are mostly Equal.
VBZ tracks the daily, weekly, and monthly highs and lows; Then plots the average (50%) between the VWAP and the respective extremes.
50% VWAP Zones can be considered significant since they attempt to identify the equilibrium between market participants within the current trend, serving as key reference points to consider for decision making. >While in an uptrend, Buyers may see price falling to the Hi 50% as an attractive value entry for the continuation upwards.
>While ALSO in an uptrend, Sellers may see price falling to the Hi 50% as a change in sentiment with more downwards movement on the way.
Because of these conflicting mindsets, these zones are thought to display areas of balance between buyers and sellers, which can serve as potential decision points throughout the day.
VBZ Draws Zones from the Daily (High/Low/Close) VWAPs and the Day's (High/Low/Close) extremes as seen below.
Technically speaking, an average between vwap and extreme is a single point, to make these into zones I am using multiple sources for vwap and tracking different points of the bar throughout the day (ex. Close VWAP & Daily Highest Close)
Weekly and Monthly are only displaying the Average Price between the VWAP and the (Weekly or Monthly) High/Low.
These hold up as important levels for speculation; however, since most action will be discovered at the daily zones, I am not displaying the zones for the Weekly and Monthly to keep noise to a minimum.
Unique Behaviors:
- Weekly values are hidden on the first day of the week since they are similar to the daily values on the first day of the week.
- Monthly values are hidden in the first week of the month for the same reason.
PATIThis indicator is part of our educational suite focused on teaching price structure, momentum, and mean reversion trading strategies for intraday trading. Our team has selected this set of tools and metrics, which define our trading style and serve as the foundation for our teaching, to be included in this indicator. We are displaying each component in a way we believe is helpful to their understanding which also provides a clean, comprehensive look.
This indicator is for Intraday Trading
Our Traders most commonly use this indicator on the 1,3 or 5 minute chart.
Components of this Indicator:
Multiple VWAP Levels: monthly, weekly, standard (anchored to the right of price)
Dynamically Anchored VWAP Cloud (trend tool)
13 EMA (trend tool)
Structural Orderblocks
Multi-Timeframe Fair Value Gap detection
Key Daily Price Levels (anchored to the right of price)
Customizable Opening Range (anchored to the right of price)
15 minute “Golden Zone” (shows the .5-.618 zone of the previous 15m candle)
ADR (Average Daily Range)
A4R (Average 4hr Range)
These tools are used in conjunction with the education we provide to help our users determine their optimal trade plan to utilize their edge.
Specific Functionalities and Uses:
Monthly-VWAP & Weekly-VWAP (M-VWAP/W-VWAP):
VWAP = “Volume Weighted Average Price”
These levels provide probable zones where price may mean revert and risk should be taken off/ put on. We have anchored these to the right-hand side of your chart by default to minimize the noise on your chart.
Average Daily Range (ADR): The Average Daily Range is a technical indicator used to measure the volatility of an asset. It displays how much an instrument can move on average during a given day. The significance is that each market has a unique range that is likely to be covered on any given day.
Average 4hr Range (A4R): The Average 4hr Range is a technical indicator used to measure the volatility of an asset twice in a single session. It displays how much an instrument can move on average during a session and is measured twice in a day. Calculating a smaller volatility range may seem strange at first but can be a huge advantage by analyzing the volatility of the intraday action, giving you average price targets based on more recent market data.
Tip: When used in conjunction with key support and resistance levels, ADR & A4R can be a huge edge to traders to determine where to push/pull risk.
Opening Range: The open often establishes the trend and sentiment for the day, but there is also statistical significance to the open that is overlooked. Statistically, on average, the open is near the high or low of the day and offers plenty of opportunities to build trading strategies. The chart below provides some potential trades that could be taken once the opening range has been established.
Dynamically Anchored VWAP Cloud: Our dynamically anchored VWAP cloud tracks the most recent impulsive move and re-anchors to show you potential bounce points in a trend. We re-anchor at each structural shift to give the most probable targets for buyers/sellers to defend their positions to continue the current trend push.
By utilizing the re-anchoring at each significant structural inflection point, we can establish a much less lagging trend following technique.
We have also included the feature to substitute this cloud for a 34/55 EMA cloud for the traders already familiar with that system.
The chart below provides potential trades that could be taken using the VWAP cloud system.
FVGS (Fair Value Gaps/ Imbalances): These areas represent potential buy/sell side liquidity imbalances where price is pushed aggressively, sweeping the orderbook and will likely return to “fix” the structure before continuing. Below is an example of 3 possible trade paths we look for inside these structural imbalances.
Structural Orderblocks:
These areas are based on structural pivots that have been pushed out of with aggression determined by subsequent structural breaks to confirm their validity. Because of this, when price returns to these areas we can anticipate this area to be defended.
The blue boxes track Orderblocks. These highlight instances of past participation which create areas likely to be defended again when retested.
Swing High/Low/Previous:
We use swing high and lows as points of short-term support and resistance, a break of these levels can signify a shift in market sentiment.
-The dashed green line shows the previous structural swing high or low pivot point.
-The solid green lines show the high and low in our current trading structure.
Note: Displaying the previous swing can provide us with context of the current market trend, and will assist us make better decisions.
15 Minute Golden Zone:
Displayed as a gray box, it tracks the .5-.618 of the previous 15m candle and gives us an area where we look for short-term resistance/support on smaller time frame price action. This area can be viewed as an equilibrium of the current range. If the price can hold this area, it can show a likely support area for continuation.
13 EMA:
This is the choice length ema of our traders, they use this ema to confirm (short-term) trend direction and reference it for a common bounce point for re-entries. Our traders consider this as a crucial point to speculate reversals and break of short-term trends.
Note: Typically in a trend we see the price hold to one side of this ema, by looking for this characteristic, it brings confidence to staying in trades.
Please check the Author Instructions Below for how to gain access to our indicators.
HTF Tool 2HTF Tool 2: Because the previous version was removed for being too powerful.
HTF Tool allows Users to display Higher Timeframe(HTF) Candles on their Chart with retracement lines drawn from the (High/Low) range of the HTF candle, as well as a live HTF MA.
This indicator perfectly handles Requested data to display a non-lagging HTF Moving Average(MA) by bridging a solid historical data stream with the live data stream.
This is done by offsetting plot data backwards to the middle of the last HTF candle, and then drawing a line from the last candle middle, to the live candle middle.
I have manipulated the data display to give the appearance that it consists of only 1 plot line, Whereas in reality, The HTF MA consists of 3 different processes:
- 1 historical plot value, to display the (correct) historical EMA with the same plot points you would see on the HTF chart from the same ema.
- 1 live line, re-drawn at every tick to mimic the way plot values move around while the bar is live.
- 1 live plot value, that is only displayed as a number on the status line and price scale to make it look like these are the outputs from the constantly redrawing line.
Because of this, This indicator displays the exact same way you would see this data on the requested timeframe's chart .
Note: You will see 2 values on the status line, these are the Historic MA, and Live MA values (Left, Right).
When hovering over historic values, a Historic MA value will only display in the middle of the HTF bars (same bar as the HTF wick)
This indicator include:
- HTF Candles, Drawn in the Traditional Candlestick Fashion.
- A User Adjustable HTF EMA / SMA , This Moving Average is accurate the the display you would see on a HTF chart.
- User Adjustable Retracement lines, up to 3 levels. These levels dynamically delete when price crosses them.
- Adjustable Display Range to display more or less HTF candles.
- Toggleable "Safe Mode" to keep the indicator display looking clean at all times.*
All Colors are Customizable to fit your layout style (Candle, Levels, HTF MA)
*Safe mode checks that your current chart's timeframe cleanly multiplies into your requested timeframe an odd number of times. This keeps the HTF candle wicks perfectly centered, and keeps the candle body width perfectly consistent.
If you choose to turn safe mode off here are some things to consider:
All Vertical data is consistent with the HTF requested , ONLY the horizontal alignment of the indicator will be thrown off.
When on low timeframes requesting other relatively low timeframes these issues are extremely more apparent than when requesting substantially larger timeframes.
Example: Safe Mode will likely need to be turned off for any 4h chart request, but as seen in the following image, the bars still look very normal.
Note: If you ONLY want to see the Levels and Moving Average... You ARE capable of requesting the current chart's timeframe. If you do this, the indicator will stop drawing the HTF candles, since your chart already shows that timeframe's candles.
Enjoy!
