ICT Index Futures Session LinesICT Index Futures Session Lines
Description:
The script is based on one of ICT's concepts on trading Index Futures. The script lays out the daily range from an intraday basis.
Range:
00:00 - New York Midnight
08:30 – New York Open (News events come out)
12:00/13:00 - New York Lunch (No trade time period)
13:30 - (Algorithm)
16:30 - Close
* The open, high and low lines are plotted from 00:00 to 08:30
How To Use:
You will need to check the daily bias. Prior to 8:30 you are to look for previous swing points where liquidity may exist. During the open you want to see if a high or low is taken out, and then wait for an energetic break/displacement for a potential FVG/imbalance retracement entry.
Strategy is for LTF (1 to 15m)
Default time zone is set to America/New_York (UTC New York), so lines will be plotted correctly regardless of user’s local UTC chart setting.
Ict
Intraday Power 3 VisualDescription
This indicator draws a dynamic "Open High Low Close" type visual on intraday charts so the trader can easily keep track of the daily/weekly movement. This indicator was inspired by the Inner Circle Trader’s (ICT) “Power 3” concept, which is Accumulation, Manipulation, and Distribution of price on a daily timeframe.
Visual
This indicator plots the chosen timeframes opening price along with a live line for the current price. This makes it very easy to identify the daily/weekly range along it’s open. And the user can combine this indicator with my other indicator “Futures Exchange Sessions” to plot the midnight EST & 8:30 AM EST lines to get a great summation of over night price action.
Inputs and Style
In the Input section the user can dynamically switch between Daily and Weekly timeframes. Built in ability to move the entire Visual to the right makes preventing indicator overlap a breeze. All of the lines can be configured: color, style, and width. Independently toggle ON/OFF the Power 3 labels (Accumulation, Manipulation, Range Extension, Distribution) and can change labels color. The labels dynamically move and switch positions based upon bear or bull daily/weekly range.
Special Notes
The Futures market is open 23/5. It is closed everyday for 1-hour at 5pm EST and closed over the weekends. Because this Intraday Power 3 Visual is drawing in the 'future' on the users TradingView chart, when the visual is close or in a time when the market is closed, the visual doesn't behave properly. This is because TradingView doesn't display times when the Market is closed, thus the drawings cannot be displayed during those times. There is nothing wrong with the script. Please wait until the Market is open and the visual will be drawn normally.
This indicator is intended for use in the Futures Market
Smart Money Concepts(v0.01) - SoldiSmart Money Concepts
We are very pleased to be releasing our latest addition to the Soldi tools, called Smart Money Concepts. What this indicator was built to be is a guideline and tool to help a trader develop the mental mind state of a Smart Money Trader. Picking up on the digital footprints that they might have missed! This is our first iteration of this tool but we have so so much more coming to bring to this tool! So much that we might need to release 2 scripts to be able to efficiently fit it all in. As always Soldi/MMCFX always try to raise the bar on what is possible with PineScript and what advanced concepts we can bring to the retail market with ease, this project was insanely fun trying to get together and we spent a lot of months talking with and doing sessions with very well versed traders who only specialize and solely trade live with Smart Money/ICT Concepts. After many months of talking with and working with these traders we believe we have put together a very unique tool that any SMC trader would love to have in their tool belt.
What is Smart Money Concepts?
Smart Money Concepts (SMC) is the practice of trying to track the digital footprints left by Market Makers and large money traders like Institutional bodies and brokers. I believe this concept was originally developed by Inner Circle Trading (ICT), who has some great great content for free on YouTube. To my knowledge he was the father of the concepts being taken mainstream to retail individuals. Since then, there has been many other who have released content on these theories. For the sake of congruency we have only developed these tools based off the knowledge and practices taught by ICT.
What is Included within this tool?
What is currently Included with this tool are the following.
Market Structure - This includes Break of Structures (BOS) and Change of Characters (CHoCH), It was really important for us to define the different shifts that SMC traders track and follow so we built a unique customizable system that allows the traders to track these Market Structure shifts in real-time. Part of this module includes the option to plot the High/Low labels, by putting this settings on you will mark out the swing points as their respective Higher High(HH), High Low(HL), Lower Low(LL) and Lower High(LH) . This feature is a great way to help familiarize yourself with spotting these instances, there is a slight lag due to the nature of the calculations for tracking the Swing Points. By default we track 4 left bars and 4 right bars, on the 5th bar if the swing point returns true you will see the label plot itself. If you have a higher bar count you will need to wait till x+1 to see the label be plotted. eg. 7 bar count on the left and right, you will need to wait till the 8th bar to see the label be plotted.
By changing the bar counts you also change how the Market Structure module picks up the Market shifts (BOS/CHoCH)
4 bar left, 4 bar right example:
7 bar left, 7 bar right example:
Liquidity Sweep - This part of the Market Structure module is still being worked on and built out, this feature is meant to help a trader identify potential liquidity sweeps that have taken place past or present by switching the bar color to the user defined color (default yellow). There are many different types of liquidity sweeps that can take place and we are still working on the different profiles of these! More profiles will be added to the the updates in the future to help identify these potential trade areas
Liquidity Sweep example:
Trend Bars - This part of the Market Structure module helps traders identify structure trends based on the breaks of existing structure. Again this will shift as you play with the bar count settings, low bar count will identify faster swing points and shifts where as higher bar counts will identify longer term structures. By having this setting on it will change the bar colors to Red(Bearish) or Blue(Bullish) by default, we recommend to change your candles border settings to make this more visible.
7 bar left, 7 bar right. With High Low Labels and Trend Bars
Fair Value Gaps - This module will track the Fair Value Gaps and Imbalances that will take place in real-time. Once the final candle closes it will plot the FVG. Unlike other FVG indicators on TradingView we hold and store ALL the FVG's that take place, other indicators will only hold on to x amount of the FVG's and as new ones enter the list the old ones get bumped out. We didn't like this idea, so what we did was instead store all of the FVG's but create a threshold to where they would be plotted, eg. if you set the threshold to 4% it will only show you the FVG's within a 4% range from the current price. This way you still have access to all the data with out compromising but it helps you focus on the current data at hand.
Fair Value Gap/Imbalance - 3% threshold example
Fair Value Gap/Imbalance - 8% threshold example
Order Blocks - This was an especially interesting module to build, just like the FVG's we found that a lot if not all the authors on TradingView haven't actually been coming close to tracking and plotting true ICT style Order blocks. We set out to change that though, again through a unique approach we have built this Order Block indicator. To also comment on the other scripts out there that claim to track Order Blocks, not a SINGLE script mentions anything about Validated Order Blocks , which was especially important to all the SMC traders I have talked to and had help from building this indicator. Just like the FVG piece this also has a 'threshold' plot, but not only that it gives you the option to look at "No Validation" and "Validated" Order Blocks. With soon another style of Validation to choose from. If you choose the "Validated" option the script will actively seek Order Blocks that have a POI/liquidity sitting above it. I also want to make it clear that based on your bar count settings the order blocks will differ, as they are also based from structure breaks!
Order Blocks with "No Validation" example
Order Blocks with "Validation" example
Advanced Session Tracking - We always seek to out do what has been done and what we have already done, that being said we built our Advanced Session Tracking module to follow each user define Session's Open, High, Low, Close, Liquidity threshold and extend that into the next session . As per our last KillZone indicator we also included the Forward Plotting feature which will plot the defined sessions 24 hours in advance vs only showing you real time. Many if not all Session tracking tools on TradingView only show you real-time and in the past when the define sessions are but we find that to be a very silly practice because as SMC traders you know how important it is the relation between time and price. Instead of reacting to the sessions you and prepare for the sessions ahead of time anticipating when price might react to time.
note: There is a small bug with tracking the crypto based sessions, this is working to be fixed for the next update, check the release notes to see when the fix occurs
Session Background plots with forward plotting example
Session Backgrounds with High/Lows and Liquidity range example
What is to come with the updates?
We are always looking to improve anything, even if it is just a fraction better. That is why we are continuing to work with our SMC traders to refine the concepts, profiles, coding as well as the logic behind the calculations.
Here is a list of what we are planning and working on to be released in the updates to come!
Intra-Day Profiling - Each day has a profile, what we want to achieve is to track and predict these profiles
Liquidity Scanner - There are different types of liquidity that form and we want to be able to find and track these
Smart Trend Alerts - We want to combine quant methods into SMC to provide high probability trade ideas
User Suggestions - We are always open to work with the community to bring features they want
If it's not Soldi, it isn't money
Futures Exchange SessionsIn the 24-hour trading of the futures market, this indicator provides the user with full customization concerning the most important factor: time. This indicator is centered around three main visualizations: labels, backgrounds, and lines that minimalistically allows the user to keep track of the many time intervals that occur during a futures market 24-hour trading cycle. It also artfully displays the previous days highs and lows. And everything can be individually toggled and configured so the user can get exactly what they want.
Labels
There are three main futures market sessions in a 24-hour period: the London, New York, and Asian Sessions. Each session is given an independent label for the open and close times. The six labels (LO, LC, NYO, NYC, AO, AC) can be individually toggled on or off, the label background color changed, the text switched between black or white, and the height can be lowered or raised. These customizations are intended to give the user full control of the session they are interested in at the moment.
Backgrounds
Backgrounds are the heart of this indicator. There are different colored transparent backgrounds for each of the futures sessions. So the user can clearly see the session they want to highlight without cluttering their chart and getting in the way of analyzing the candles.
If you are familiar with the London and New York killzones, these backgrounds are each individually configured.
If you are familiar with the Inner Circle Trader’s (ICT) NY Morning and Afternoon sessions, these are available. Also, most times weird price action occurs during the lunch hour of these sessions. The London and New York have a background for their respective lunch hours so the user is never caught of guard during these periods.
Lines
The markets are constantly looking for liquidity. To help the user see runs on liquidity, this indicator projects the previous days highs and lows on to the current day with a line and a price label. The line make it very easy to see where price may be headed. See the image below for the perfect example of this phenomenon. Each of the lines can be independently controlled by color, style, and width. And even the labels can be toggled on or off if the user would prefer just to see the lines. Lastly, there is a line that marks the midnight open price in EST.
Special Notes
This indicator is specifically designed for futures tickers.
All of the backgrounds are not designed to be turned on a once (there are many that overlap). They are designed to give the user ultimate control over exactly what timeframe backgrounds to display on their charts.
The labels only appear when timeframe is 1 hour or less.
ICT KillZone [Index futures edition] Guided by new ICT Mentorship I create this versatile timezone or strikezone indicator to identify this without changing timezone (is based on America/New_York timezone, not your current timezone or GMT)
KVKZKVKZ = KV'S KILLZONES
This Indicator, break the charts into session: ASIAN, LONDON, NEW YORK.
-The 1st two vertical lines (red) indicates the ASIAN RANGE
-The 2nd two vertical lines (red & green) indicates the LONDON session
-The 3rd two vertical lines (green & blue) indicates the NEW YORK session
-The will be no trading in between the two red vertical lines
-A fake move is expected to happen in between the 2nd red vertical line and green line, this fake move is known as the JUDAS SWING by ICT, you can YouTube Judas Swing and check out his concepts
-There are two automatically moving horizontal lines (orange), that plots the ASIAN high and lows, these levels are expected to be manipulated in the London session, and this is called the Judas Swing
-the purple lines are known as Institution Zones, basically just levels 30pips above and below the ASIAN range
-this indicator works well with GBPUSD, EURUSD, USDCHF
-this indicator doesn’t work well with USDJPY, AUDUSD, NZDUSD
INPUTS:
HOUR 1: 17
MIN 1 : 0
HOUR 2: 0
MIN 2 : 0
HOUR 3: 6
MIN 3 : 0
HOUR 4: 12
MIN 1 : 0
THIS INDICATOR IS NOT A HOLY GRAIL, BUT IF YOU CAN READ PRICE ACTION WELL, THESE SESSIONS BREAK DOWN COULD BE VERY USEFULL.
Extras:
dot = dotted lines
dsh = dashed lines
sol = solid lines
NOTE: time has to be set to NY time.
Auto Order Block by D. BrigagliaThis indicator finds trend following engulfings, and draws order blocks based on the 1st candle's range (the first candle of the engulfing pattern).
It does filter the trend with simple moving averages of 21 and 55 periods, but it doesn't filter for retracements in the trend (you should consider only the order blocks that are coming from engulfings after a retracement)
ICT Fair Value Gap [LM]Hello traders,
I would like to present you ICT Fair Value Gap script. The idea is the same as in my other script to look form imbalances. I have improved the previous script from teaching of ICT and created this script to train the eye to see those gaps. Shrinking option also shows if the gap has been already filled and also in case gap is filled you can get alert in case you will set it up .
The script has two settings:
general settings - definition of volatility condition for middle candle
box settings - setting for boxes, box colors, shrinking
I hope you enjoy it,
Lukas
ICT Index Futures Vertical LinesLearning to trade is complicated enough, so to make the process it little less daunting, I decided to create something helpful.
This indicator relieves you of drawing the same lines and levels over and over each trading day.
It also provides key price levels for you to watch when the trading session starts.
This project is inspired by the ICT 2022 Mentorship.
This indicator was designed and tested to practice and trade the CME Index Futures like Nasdaq, S&P500 and the DOW.
The concepts by ICT are known to work on other markets like Crypto, but I haven't tested that so use at your own risk.
Features:
When a new trading day starts, the following lipstick is put on the chart:
Vertical lines:
- Globex (Overnight) Session Start @17.00
- New York Midnight @ 00:00
- New York AM Session Start @ 08.30
- CME Open @ 09.30
- New York Lunch Start @12.00
- New York PM Session Start @13.00
- New York PM Session End @ 16.30
Important levels:
- Globex (Overnight) Session Opening price
- Globex (Overnight) Session High
- Globex (Overnight) Session Low
- New York Mignight Opening Price
Additional features:
- Shows the day of the week at the bottom for your convenience
- London Killzone Vertical lines
- London Killzone Highlight
- NY Lunch No-Trade-Zone Highlight
- Important levels have a small label to show their meaning and price
- Almost everything is customizable: colors, line types, times, etc
- Customizable timezone setting in case you don't want to work on ICT's recommended timezone (New York UTC-4)
- Toggle to Show only Today's drawings on the chart. You can choose to display all chart lipstick from almost a month of trading data to do your research. Ideal if you want to determine the daily profiles for example.
Screenshots:
London Killzone Highlight turned on:
Multi Day Lipstick:
Previous OHLC (Nephew_Sam_)This indicator plots the OHLC of a previous HTF candle with an option to show the HTF candle too on the lower timeframe.
(uses latest pine script version 5)
Options:
1. Custom timeframe (requires a higher timeframe from current chart period)
2. Show or hide OC and/or LH lines of previous candle
3. Show or hide the candle at the beginning of the new period
Styles
1. You can style all lines and candle colors from this tab.
ICT Killzones [28Trades]Indicator plots weekdays and killzones of the most important trading sessions.
The times of each killzone come from the education material of Inner Circle Trader.
Asia killzone: 00:00 - 05:00
London open killzone: 07:00 - 10:00
New York killzone: 12:00 - 14:00
London close killzone: 15:00 - 17:00
GMT+0
It's not depended on your tradingview account timescale/setting, so the killzones always stay at the right place in the chart whether your timesetting is UTC or UTC+5.
It's made so that it automatically detects if a market is closed during weekends. Because of this, it works well for crypto as well as forex markets. The difference between this indicator and others is that this one is plotted on the actual chart instead of an oscillator below the chart, which gives a much cleaner chart in my opinion.
Settings:
Show day of week
show killzones
Hide indicator above specific timeframe
Choose where to display the weekdays or killzones, top or bottom of the chart
muh gap! [FAIR VALUE GAP FINDER]Change the colors of the indicator to contrast your chart! Make sure to also change the transparency for the colors.
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This indicator finds fair value gaps which are inefficiencies in price delivery. Gaps can be used for entry or even bias.
I've included midpoints, lines, and boxes. Boxes have the greatest range with respect to historic PA so keep that in mind.
I will be updating this script in the future, potentially adding an MTF function, mitigation of gaps and alarms.
Let me know if you guys have any additional ideas.
Best,
P
FX Mini-Day/Index Dividers V2This is a combination of the Mini-Day Separator Indicator, timings based off the research by Tom Henstridge/@LiquiditySniper and additional Index KZ delineations, based on ICT's 2022 Youtube Mentorship.
*It borrows some minor code from Enricoamato997 . Credit where it is due!
This is a joint effort by myself, @vbwilkes / Offseason Vince and @Tom_FOREX / TraderTom on the Index/Index Future portion.
Index Future Example
Forex Example
DFXT - ICT TRUE DAYScript to show a day separator using 00:00 Eastern standard time (New York) which is used by smart money traders, especially traders that trade based on the teachings of ICT.
Also with the vertical daily line separator, there is a horizontal line that marks the price at the beginning of the new ICT true day.
You can edit the colours and styles of these markers within the script settings.
DFXT Smart Money ToolsAdded some additional features that may be useful for those trading smart money concepts.
~ Higher time frame candle Open, High, Low and close marker: for reference of where you are in price.
~ Asian Session High and Low marker: Can be used to clearly see runs on the Asian range.
~ Engulfing Candle detector: Marks engulfing candles in a colour of your choice.
~ Impulsive Candle detector: Marks Impulsive candles in a colour of your choice.
~ Quarter's Theory: Marks Quarter levels on the chart.
~ Doji Candle: Marks Doji candles in a colour of your choice.
~ Inside Bar detector: Marks Inside bars in a colour of your choice.
~ Imbalance detector: Marks Bullish and bearish imbalance in a colour of your choice.
~ Zig-Zag structure: Classic ZZ indicator that can be used to simplify the structure.
~ Liquidity Wicks: Wicks that take Liquidity then close back inside the range.
~ Session Marker: Markers the various trading sessions in a background colour of your choice.
ICT New York NY Midnight Open and DividerThis simple indicator plots out ICT's New York midnight open price and a vertical divider at that time.
12am NY time is a key level to watch for daytrading and intraday scalping, often providing entry levels and orderblocks.
The session time may need to be adjusted for different exchanges, but the default is for most of forex.
FencesThis is a simple script that plots horizontal grid on your chart using .x000 .x200 .x500 .x800 levels. Mike mentioned these levels in one of his videos.
Fences is only a semi-automatic indicator. You have to input the central point AND number of decimals yourself.
• Decimals are set to 3 but JPY pairs need it to be 1.
• Anchor point is the nearest level ending with three zeroes.
ICT KillzonesThis Script plots the ICT Killzones in the Chart using a new Panel.
It's based on the Major Forex Sessions and this is usually where Key Swing Points occur.
It has a lookback of 20 days for Performance reasons.
CUSTOMISATION
- Time can be modified
- Lines width can be modified
- Lines colours can be modified
DEFAULT
By default the Killzones will be based on NY Time using the following order
- London Open: 02:00 to 05:00
- New York Open: 07:00 to 10:00
- London Close: 10:00 to 12:00
AMD-ImbalanceThis script looks at three consecutive candles and if there is an area between the wicks of the first and third candle, it will paint a box to mark the area.
The marked area is considered an imbalance or inefficiency in the market. Price usually finds its way back to that area of imbalance to clear it.
As price clears part of the area of imbalance, the box turns from a solid border to a dashed border.
AsianRange and KillZonesAsia Range Shadow Box and ICT Killzones
If you watch ICT on youtube you will know what to do with this :-)
I had found a lot of great ideas but none of them completely had what I was personally looking for so I put all of the great ideas I had found and added my own twist to it.
I wanted a easily customizable indicator that did the following
- Showed the Asia Range (customizable time)
- Allowed Asia range high and low to be extended
- Fill the asia range or just have it outlined
- The ability to have 4 customizable zones (default to ICT kill zones) but you can make them whatever you want
- Ability to turn off various zones if you want (Maybe you just want a New York Session and thats it)
I also place a "Max timeframe to display" - Personally I don't want this showing on anything over a 60min chart so you can adjust that parameter (in minutes) to your liking.
This was also fully converted to pine v4
I hope in a future revision to take use of the new "box" feature to get a cleaner box around Asia session.
ICT Time RangesICT Time Ranges is a concept around the fact that price likes to show volatility spikes in certain times of the day.
Although there are many other scripts such as that revolve around this concept, the difference between this one and some of the others out there is the fact that this code specifically focuses on the ranges like New York, London, Asia, and ICTs concept behind having a "True Day Range". Also, prior scripts draw horizontal lines to delineate the High and Low of the Day. Although this is useful in some cases, I find it to clutter up the chart too much for my liking, so this script negates any of that and simply prints a box in the parameters given within the settings pop-up. This also allows you the fact of having a shape and letter(s) marker for when a new day starts at 0:00.
With this script, you can enable / disable times of the day for:
- London Session
- New York Session
- London Close Session
- Asia Session
- "IPDA" True Day
You can also change the times that these sessions will update to, along with the opacity and color that they print to mark out these times / ranges. The same can be said with the "Day of Week" markers, which can be color coded and show different shapes / formats to your liking.
I find that putting the Session boxes opacity to 7-8% and the day of week markers to 20% is best as this makes them visible enough to see while also keeping it easy on your eyes to analyze your charts.
Overall, this script was based around specific concepts I liked from other individuals' scripts such as @BryceWH and @AvniPiro , but that are tweaked to what I personally find as most beneficial. To see others scripts like this one, you can search for "ICT Killzones" in the public script library!
Ict LookbackLookback
This indicator shows us on a daily timeframe:
Range high and range low from the last 20 days
Range high and range low from the last 40 days
Range high and range low from the last 20 days
Properties
Show quadrants (Shows additional lines: the last 20 days range quadrants)
Color of the lines
Additional information:
The 40 & 60 day trading range will only be visible on a daily timeframe
The 20 day trading range will be shown on a hourly timeframe to
The name ‘ict’ in the title of this indicator refers to ‘The Inner Circle Trader’. The Inner Circle Trader is my trading mentor and this indicator is based upon his ideas. I am proud to be one of his students. I hope this indicator can help more students!
Ict Time IndicatorIct Time Indicator
Forex Market or DXY:
This indicator plots a blue zone every day at midnight NY time. Which is used as a start of a trading day.
This indicator shows the days of the week.
The dark blue background is the first day of the week.
The light blue background are the start of the days in the week except for Monday
The first gray zone from the start of the day highlights the London Session from 2am to 5am
The second gray zone from the start of the day highlights the NY Session from 7am to 9am
The third gray zone from the start of the day highlights the London Close from 11am to 12am
Bond Market (symbol: ZB, ZN, ZF)
Start of the day (blue zone): 8am EST
First zone: 1am to 4am (London Session)
Second zone: 7am to 11am (NY am session)
Third zone: 11am to 2pm (NY pm session)
Index Futures (symbol: ES, NQ, YM)
Start of the day (blue zone): 5am
First zone: 1am to 4am (London Session)
Second zone: 8:30am to 11am (NY am session)
Third zone: noon to 3pm (NY pm session)
Currency Futures (symbol: 6A, 6B, 6C, 6E, 6J, 6N, 6S)
Start of the day (blue zone): 5am
First zone: 1am to 4am (London Session)
Second zone: 6am to 9am (NY Session)
Third zone: 10am to 11am (London Close)
Time is dependent on the trade session of the IBM symbol.
Properties available:
- Show Killzones (Show the gray zones: London session - NY session - London Close as described above)
- Show Days Of Week (Show the blue zones + days of the week)
- All colors are available to change
The indicator checks the timeframe you are in to visualize the zones to keep everything clean.
The name ‘ict’ in the title of this indicator refers to ‘The Inner Circle Trader’. The Inner Circle Trader is my trading mentor and this indicator is based upon his ideas. I am proud to be one of his students. I hope this indicator can help more students!
