IQ Liquidation Heatmap [TradingIQ]Introducing "IQ Liquidation Heatmap".
IQ Liquidation Heatmap is a proprietary indicator designed to identify and display price zones where large numbers of crypto position liquidations are likely to occur. It presents both current liquidation zones—areas where a cascade of liquidations would be triggered if the price is reached—and historical liquidation zones, where such events have taken place before.
Why Liquidations and Liquidation Cascades Are Important
Liquidation cascades are important because they can lead to rapid and significant price moves in the market. When many traders have set stop-loss orders or are highly leveraged at similar price levels, a move that hits these zones can force a large number of positions to close at once. This mass closing of positions not only accelerates the price movement but can also trigger further liquidations in a self-reinforcing loop.
Understanding where these cascades occur helps traders recognize potential support and resistance levels. It also provides insights into where market participants are most vulnerable, allowing for better risk management and more informed trading decisions. In short, liquidation cascades highlight key areas of market stress that can lead to increased volatility and opportunities for those prepared to act.
In short, if a lot of short positions are liquidated simultaneously, an upside liquidation cascade can occur. During an upside liquidation cascade, price will increase intensely to the upside with high volatility.
If a lot of long positions are liquidated simultaneously, a downside liquidation cascade can occur. During a downside liquidation cascade, price will decrease intensely to the downside with high volatility.
Knowing where these liquidation cascades can occur is invaluable information for crypto traders.
What IQ Liquidation Heatmap Does
IQ Liquidation Heatmap visually maps price levels that have seen or may see liquidation cascades. In plain terms, it shows you where many stop-losses or leveraged positions have been triggered in the past and where similar events can occur in the future. By highlighting these zones, the indicator helps you understand areas of market stress that could lead to rapid price movements.
The image above shows a historical liquidation cascade occurring. Clustered bubbles show large amounts of liquidations occurring - the more bubbles and the brighter they are, the stronger the liquidation cascade. During a liquidation cascade, there is a higher chance that a strong downtrend or uptrend will continue.
Current Liquidation Levels
The image above explains current liquidation levels.
Current liquidations levels are price areas where a large number of positions will be liquidated. If a liquidation level is above the current price, then it is considered a price zone where shorts will be liquidated. If a liquidation level is below the current price, then it is considered a price zone where longs will be liquidated.
In this image, bright green levels represent price areas where the highest amount of positions will be liquidated, while dark purple levels represent price areas where the lowest amount of positions will be liquidated.
An active (current) liquidation level will extend to the right beyond the current price because they have not yet been hit.
When strong liquidation levels (green - bright green) are hit and are above price, it is expected that an upside liquidation cascade will occur. When strong liquidations are hit and are below price, it is expected that a downside liquidation cascade will occur.
Historical Liquidation Levels
The image above explains historical liquidation levels.
Historical liquidation levels stop at the bar where they are hit, so you can see how price responded to hitting a key liquidation level.
In this image, bright green levels represent price areas where the highest amount of positions will be liquidated, while dark purple levels represent price areas where the lowest amount of positions will be liquidated.
If price moves up into a liquidation level, then shorts are being liquidated. If price moves down into a liquidation level, then longs are being liquidated. In the image, we can see that when bright green liquidation levels were hit - a liquidation cascade occurred. During this cascade, price continued to move strongly to the downside with high volatility.
During the uptrend after the downtrend, we can see some bright green liquidation levels were also hit - causing an upside liquidation cascade that resulted in strong, volatile upside price moves.
Gradient Bar
The image above explains the liquidations gradient bar.
The bar located on the right of your chart shows what colors correspond to low, medium, and high liquidation levels.
In this image, bright green means the liquidation level is strong, while dark purple means the liquidation level is weak. By extension, we would expect liquidation cascades or strong price moves to more likely occur when a cluster of bright green liquidation zones are hit. Additionally, we would expect a small reaction (or no reaction at all) when dark purple liquidation zones are hit.
Colors are customizable.
Liquidation Cluster Bar
The image above explains the liquidation cluster bar.
The liquidation cluster bar aggregates liquidation zones and shows the approximate price areas where the highest number of liquidation points are located.
In this image, the green portion of the bar represents where the largest number of traders will be liquidated in aggregate. While the purple portions of the bar shows where the smallest number of traders will be liquidated in aggregate.
This bar is useful for clustering liquidations zones across larger price areas to see where the highest number of traders are likely to be liquidated.
Concept Behind IQ Liquidation Heatmap
The basic idea is simple: in crypto markets, when price reaches certain levels, many traders’ positions can be liquidated at once, causing sharp moves in price. These zones are not random. They are built on historical price data and statistical analysis of past liquidation events. IQ Liquidation Heatmap captures this information and presents it in an easy-to-read format.
Key points include:
Current Liquidation Zones: These are the areas where, if the price moves into them, a high number of liquidations could occur.
Historical Liquidation Zones: These show where liquidation cascades have happened in the past, offering context on how the market has behaved under stress.
Key Features of IQ Liquidation Heatmap
Real-Time and Historical Data:
The indicator combines current market conditions with historical liquidation events. It updates dynamically to reflect real-time data while also showing past liquidation zones.
Visual Heatmap:
The display uses color gradients to represent the intensity of liquidation activity. Brighter or more intense colors indicate zones with a higher likelihood of triggering liquidations, while darker colors represent areas with lower activity.
User-Friendly Interface:
IQ Liquidation Heatmap is designed to be simple and straightforward. The visual output clearly marks the price levels of interest, making it easy for traders to see where liquidations might occur.
Proprietary Calculation:
The data behind the indicator is calculated using proprietary methods that consider historical price action, statistical ranges, and liquidity distribution. This means the indicator adapts to the specific characteristics of different crypto assets and timeframes.
Dynamic Updates:
The indicator recalculates its output in real time as new price data comes in. This ensures that the displayed liquidation zones are always current and reflect the latest market conditions.
How IQ Liquidation Heatmap Works
Data Collection:
IQ Liquidation Heatmap gathers historical price data as well as data on liquidation events. This data is used to identify key price ranges and levels where liquidations have previously occurred.
Statistical Analysis:
The indicator applies statistical methods—such as calculating medians and percentiles—to determine the significance of each price range. This analysis helps to rank the importance of various liquidation zones.
Liquidity Clustering:
Areas with a high concentration of liquidations are identified by examining how many positions or stop orders are clustered at specific price levels. These clusters are then represented on the chart using a heatmap style.
Visual Mapping:
The calculated data is overlaid onto the trading chart. Graphical elements like lines, boxes, or filled regions mark the identified liquidation zones. Color gradients help to differentiate between zones with high versus low liquidation risk.
Real-Time Recalculation:
As new price data becomes available, IQ Liquidation Heatmap continuously updates its analysis. This ensures that the indicator remains relevant throughout the trading session and can quickly adjust if market conditions change.
Using IQ Liquidation Heatmap
Traders can use IQ Liquidation Heatmap as an additional tool to support their trading decisions. Here are some practical applications:
Trade Entry And Exit Planning:
The visual cues provided by the indicator can serve as reference points for planning entries and exits. When the price nears a zone known for triggering liquidations, traders can adjust their strategies accordingly.
Risk Management:
By identifying key liquidation zones, traders can better manage risk. Knowing where a liquidation cascade is likely to occur helps in setting more effective stop-loss orders and managing overall exposure.
Market Structure Analysis:
The historical data offered by IQ Liquidation Heatmap gives insight into how the market has reacted in the past during periods of stress. This historical perspective can help in understanding broader market trends and potential future movements.
Summary
IQ Liquidation Heatmap is a straightforward indicator that provides clear visual information about price levels where liquidation cascades have occurred or are likely to occur. By merging historical data with real-time updates and proprietary liquidity analysis, it offers traders a neutral and data-driven way to understand areas of potential market stress for entries and exits. The indicator is simple to use and does not require complex adjustments, making it suitable for traders looking for clear visual cues in the crypto market.
By incorporating IQ Liquidation Heatmap into your analysis toolkit, you can gain a better understanding of key price zones, support effective risk management, and identify liquidation cascades before they occur and potentially identify breakouts before they occur.
Liquidation
Open Interest and Liquidity [by Alpha_Precision_Charts]Indicator Description: Open Interest and Liquidity
Introduction:
The "Open Interest and Liquidity" indicator is an advanced tool designed for traders seeking to analyze aggregated Open Interest (OI) flow and liquidity in the cryptocurrency market, with a special focus on Bitcoin. It combines high-quality Open Interest data, a detailed liquidity table, and a visual longs vs shorts gauge, providing a comprehensive real-time view of market dynamics. Ideal for scalpers, swing traders, and volume analysts, this indicator is highly customizable and optimized for 1-minute charts, though it works across other timeframes as well.
Key Features:
Aggregated Open Interest and Delta: Leverages Binance data for accuracy, allowing traders to switch between displaying absolute OI or OI Delta, with value conversion to base currency or USD.
Liquidity Table: Displays the analyzed period, active liquidity, shorts, and longs with visual proportion bars, functioning for various cryptocurrencies as long as Open Interest data is available.
Longs vs Shorts Gauge: A semicircle visual that shows real-time market sentiment, adjustable for chart positioning, helping identify imbalances, optimized and exclusive for Bitcoin on 1-minute charts.
Utilities:
Sentiment Analysis: Quickly detect whether the market is accumulating positions (longs/shorts) or liquidating (OI exits).
Pivot Identification: Highlight key moments of high buying or selling pressure, ideal for trade entries or exits.
Liquidity Monitoring: The table and gauge provide a clear view of active liquidity, helping assess a move’s strength.
Scalping and Day Trading: Perfect for short-term traders operating on 1-minute charts, offering fast and precise visual insights.
How to Use:
Initial Setup: Choose between "Open Interest" (candles) or "Open Interest Delta" (columns) in the "Display" field. The indicator defaults to Binance data for enhanced accuracy.
Customization: Enable/disable the table and gauge as needed and position them on the chart.
Interpretation: Combine OI Delta and gauge data with price movement to anticipate breakouts or reversals.
Technical Notes
The indicator uses a 500-period VWMA to calculate significant OI Delta thresholds and is optimized for Bitcoin (BTCUSDT.P) on high-liquidity charts.
Disclaimer
This indicator relies on the availability of Open Interest data on TradingView. For best results, use on Bitcoin charts with high liquidity, such as BTCUSDT.P. Accuracy may vary with lower-volume assets or exchanges.
Liquidity Location Detector [BigBeluga]
This indicator helps traders identify potential liquidity zones by detecting significant volume levels at key highs and lows. By using color intensity and scoring numbers, it visually highlights areas where liquidity concentration may be highest while incorporating trend analysis through EMAs.
🔵Key Features:
Liquidity Zone Detection: Automatically detects and marks areas where significant volume has accumulated at swing highs and lows.
Dynamic Box Plotting: Draws liquidity boxes at key highs and lows, updating based on market conditions.
Volume Strength Scaling: Uses a scoring system to rank liquidity zones, helping traders identify the strongest areas.
Color Intensity for Volume Strength: More transperent color indicate less liquidity, while less transperent represent stronger volume concentrations.
Customizable Display: Users can adjust the number of displayed liquidity zones and modify colors to suit their trading style.
Real-Time Liquidity Adaptation: As price interacts with liquidity zones, the indicator updates dynamically to reflect changing market conditions.
Auto-Stopping Liquidity Zones: Liquidity boxes automatically stop extending to the right once price crosses them, preventing outdated zones from interfering with live market action.
Trend Analysis with EMAs: Includes two optional EMAs (fast and slow) to help traders analyze market trends. Users can enable or disable these EMAs in the settings and use crossover signals for trend confirmation.
🔵Usage:
Identify Key Liquidity Areas: Use color intensity and transparency levels to determine high-impact liquidity zones.
Support & Resistance Confirmation: Liquidity zones can act as potential support and resistance levels, enhancing trade decision-making.
Market Structure Analysis: Observe how price interacts with liquidity to anticipate breakout or reversal points.
Scalping & Swing Trading: Works for both short-term and long-term traders looking for liquidity-based trade setups.
Liquidation Map Insight: A liquidity map highlights areas where large amounts of leveraged positions (both long and short) are likely to get liquidated. Since many traders use leverage, sharp price movements can trigger a cascade of liquidations, leading to rapid price surges or drops. Monitoring these liquidity zones and trends helps traders anticipate where price might react strongly.
Liquidity Location Detector is an essential tool for traders seeking to map out potential liquidity zones, providing deeper insights into market structure and trading volume dynamics.
Liquidations Levels [RunRox]📈 Liquidation Levels is an indicator designed to visualize key price levels on the chart, highlighting potential reversal points where liquidity may trigger significant price movements.
Liquidity is essential in trading - price action consistently moves from one liquidity area to another. We’ve created this free indicator to help traders easily identify and visualize these liquidity zones on their charts.
📌 HOW IT WORKS
The indicator works by marking visible highs and lows, points widely recognized by traders. Because many traders commonly place their stop-loss orders beyond these visible extremes, significant liquidity accumulates behind these points. By analyzing trading volume and visible extremes, the indicator estimates areas where clusters of stop-loss orders (liquidity pools) are likely positioned, giving traders valuable insights into potential market moves.
As shown in the screenshot above, the price aggressively moved toward Sell-Side liquidity. After sweeping this liquidity level for the second time, it reversed and began targeting Buy-Side liquidity. This clearly demonstrates how price moves from one liquidity pool to another, continually seeking out liquidity to fuel its next directional move.
As shown in the screenshot, price levels with fewer anticipated trader stop-losses are indicated by less vibrant, faded colors. When the lines become more saturated and vivid, it signals that sufficient liquidity - in the form of clustered stop-losses has accumulated, potentially attracting price movement toward these areas.
⚙️ SETTINGS
🔹 Period – Increasing this setting makes the marked highs and lows more significant, filtering out minor price swings.
🔹 Low Volume – Select the color displayed for low-liquidity levels.
🔹 High Volume – Select the color displayed for high-liquidity levels.
🔹 Levels to Display – Choose between 1 and 15 nearest liquidity levels to be shown on the chart.
🔹 Volume Sensitivity – Adjust the sensitivity of the indicator to volume data on the chart.
🔹 Show Volume – Enable or disable the display of volume values next to each liquidity level.
🔹 Max Age – Limits displayed liquidity levels to those not older than the specified number of bars.
✅ HOW TO USE
One method of using this indicator is demonstrated in the screenshot above.
Price reached a high-liquidity level and showed an initial reaction. We then waited for a second confirmation - a liquidity sweep followed by a clear market structure break - to enter the trade.
Our target is set at the liquidity accumulated below, with the stop-loss placed behind the manipulation high responsible for the liquidity sweep.
By following this approach, you can effectively identify trading opportunities using this indicator.
🔶 We’ve made every effort to create an indicator that’s as simple and user-friendly as possible. We’ll continue to improve and enhance it based on your feedback and suggestions in the future.
Synthetic OrderBookHow to Use the Enhanced Synthetic OrderBook Indicator
This indicator creates a synthetic representation of market order book data using price action, volume, and other technical factors. It's designed to help you identify significant market imbalances and potential price reversals, especially useful for crypto trading.
Overview
The Enhanced Synthetic OrderBook provides three different view modes, each offering unique insights into market conditions:
1. **Order Book View** - Shows simulated order book depth at different price levels
2. **Delta View** - Displays the imbalance between buying and selling pressure
3. **Liquidation View** - Highlights potential liquidation events that could drive price movements
How to Use Each View Mode
Order Book View
This view simulates what you would see in an exchange order book, showing bids (buy orders) in green and asks (sell orders) in orange/red.
**How to interpret:**
- **Green bars (bids)**: Represent buying interest at different price levels below the current price
- **Red bars (asks)**: Represent selling interest at different price levels above the current price
- **Bar height**: Taller bars indicate stronger buying/selling interest
- **Threshold lines**: The green line shows the bullish threshold, while the red line shows the bearish threshold
**Trading signals:**
- When green bars (bids) consistently exceed the bullish threshold, consider buying
- When red bars (asks) consistently exceed the bearish threshold, consider selling
- Look for imbalances where bids are significantly larger than asks (or vice versa)
Delta View
This view shows the difference between buying and selling pressure across different price ranges. It's more focused on the imbalance rather than raw order book depth.
**How to interpret:**
- **Green bars**: Positive delta (more buying than selling pressure)
- **Red bars**: Negative delta (more selling than buying pressure)
- **Threshold lines**: Indicate significant levels of imbalance
- **Zero line**: Neutral point between buying and selling pressure
**Trading signals:**
- When delta stays consistently above the bullish threshold, it suggests strong buying pressure
- When delta stays consistently below the bearish threshold, it suggests strong selling pressure
- Changes in direction of the delta can signal potential reversals
- When the bids/asks delta shallows
Liquidation View
This view estimates potential liquidation events in the market, which often lead to sharp price movements.
**How to interpret:**
- **Green bars**: Potential long liquidations (forced selling from leveraged long positions)
- **Red bars**: Potential short liquidations (forced buying from leveraged short positions)
- **Bar height**: Indicates the estimated severity of liquidations
**Trading signals:**
- Large liquidation events often lead to price continuation in that direction
- After a series of liquidations, the market may become exhausted, suggesting a potential reversal
- Short liquidations (red) tend to create faster upward price movements than long liquidations
Tips for Beginners
1. **Start with the Order Book view** to get a feel for buying and selling pressure
2. **Use the Delta view** for confirmation of trends and potential reversals
3. **Check the Liquidation view** when markets are volatile to anticipate sharp moves
4. **Watch for strong buy/sell signals** (green/red arrows) which suggest high-confidence trade opportunities
5. **Customize the threshold levels** in the settings to match the volatility of the asset you're trading
6. **Higher timeframes** (4H, daily) generally provide more reliable signals than lower timeframes
## Important Settings to Adjust
- **Order Book/Delta Thresholds**: Adjust these based on the asset's volatility (higher for more volatile assets)
- **Show Bids/Asks**: Toggle to focus on specific directions
- **Adaptive Threshold**: Enables the indicator to automatically adjust sensitivity based on market conditions
- **Volume Profile**: Uses historical volume distribution to improve accuracy
This indicator works best when combined with other confirmation tools like support/resistance levels, trend analysis, and traditional technical indicators.
FU Candle Indicator V3.2What the FU Candle Indicator does:
First we need to understand what FU candles are. There's bullish and bearish FU candles.
Bullish FU candles are candles that have a long wick that takes out the previous candles low, then turns around and closes above the high of the previous candle.
Bearish FU candles are candles that have a long wick that takes out the previous candles high, then turns around and closes below the low of the previous candle.
Then there's so called attempted FU candles (ATT FU)
The difference between normal FU candles and ATT FU candles is, that the ATT FU candle doesn't close above/below the high/low of the previous candle but only above the previous candle's body close.
Bullish ATT FU Candle:
Bearish ATT FU Candle:
Detection of Bullish FU Candles:
Bullish FU Candles are detected by measuring the distance between the low of the previous candle and the low of the current candle.
Then the distance between the previous candles high and the current candles close price are measured.
If current candle low < previous candle low and current candle close > previous candle high = Bullish FU Candle.
Detection of Bullish ATT FU Candles:
Bullish ATT FU Candles are detected by measuring the distance between the low of the previous candle and the low of the current candle.
Then the distance between the previous candles close or open price and the current candles close price are measured. If the previous candle closed bearish, the open price is used for comparison, if the previous candle closed bullish, the close price is used for comparison.
If current candle low < previous candle low and current candle close > previous candle open or close = Bullish ATT FU Candle.
Detection of Bearish FU Candles:
Bearish FU Candles are detected by measuring the distance between the high of the previous candle and the high of the current candle.
Then the distance between the previous candles low, AND the current candles close price are measured.
If current candle high > previous candle high, AND current candle close < previous candle low = Bearish FU Candle.
Detection of Bearish ATT FU Candles:
Bearish ATT FU Candles are detected by measuring the distance between the high of the previous candle and the high of the current candle.
Then the distance between the previous candles close or open price and the current candles close price are measured. If the previous candle closed bearish, the open price is used for comparison, if the previous candle closed bullish, the close price is used for comparison.
If current candle high > previous candle high and current candle close < previous candle open or close = Bearish ATT FU Candle.
What makes this script unique?
It shows and liquidity grab and a break of structure on a lower timeframe in one candle.
It allows to adjust the settings for the asset and timeframe you're using
The built in filters (Fractal Filter and EMA Filter) are both optional but allow to filter out certain candles and most importantly it leaves room for experimentation and optimisation to your trading style.
Input Settings and how to use them:
Bullish FU Candle Color --> This setting is to set the color for bullish FU candles.
Bearish FU Candle Color --> This setting is to set the color for bearish FU candles.
Chart --> This setting enables you to display FU's on different timeframes instead of only the current time. It's set to current timeframe by default.
Liq. Grab in Points --> This is the strength of the liquidity grab. By how many points has the current candle taken out the low/ high of the previous candle. It's set to 20 by default but it has to be adjusted to the timeframe and asset you're using.
Engulfing in Points --> This the strength of the engulfing of the previous candle. It measures the distance of the current close price to the open, close, high or low of the previous candle. It depends if the current candle is bullish or bearish and if the previous candle was bullish or bearish and if ATT FUs are enabled but this setting applies to all methods. It's set to 20 by default but you have to adjust it to the asset and timeframe you're using.
Min. Size in Points --> This setting is to filter out tiny candles. It measures the overall size of the FU candle from low to high. It's set to 20 by default but you have to adjust it to the asset and timeframe you are using.
Min. Body Size in Points --> This setting is to filter out FU candles that have a tiny body. It measures the size of the body from open to close. It's set to 20 by default but you have to adjust it to the asset and timeframe you are using.
Max. Body Size in Points --> This setting is to filter out FU candles that have a huge body. It measures the size of the body from open to close. It's set to 10000 by default but you have to adjust it to the asset and timeframe you are using.
Show ATT FU Candles --> ATT FU Candles are FU's where the body only engulfs the previous candles body but not the wick. This type of FU candles is just as valid as the strong FU's where the Body and the wick of the previous Candle is engulfed. The setting is enabled by default.
Rejection Filter --> This setting is used filter out FU candles where the opposite side rejection is stronger than the body direction of the FU. This filters out a lot of traps. It's disabled by default.
Fractal Filter --> FU's are only valid if they broke a fractal of the past x candles. This filters out some of the FU candles that are inside a range and therefore invalid. This is an optional filter and disabled by default.
EMA Filter --> FU's are only if they are above/ below the EMA. This is to filter out most of the FU candles that are inside ranges. The EMA period can be set too. This is an optional filter and enabled and EMA length set to 7 by default. You can enable it and/ or change the length of the EMA to fit your trading style.
Show Entry Lines --> The entry line setting has been changed in terms of styling. The upper and lower line has been removed. Now only the 50% retracement line of the candle body is displayed and the line type, color, strength and length can be set to keep charts as clean as possible.
Alert Timeframes --> You can select the timeframes for which you want to receive an alert if you set and alert for the FU Candle indicator. If you set an alert for the FU Candle Indicator it will send an alert for every FU candle on every selected timeframe.
TF1-TF8 --> This setting is to enable or disable alerts for timeframe 1 - timeframe 8. By default all alerts are disabled, I recommend only enabling the ones that you actually use.
Recommended use:
A bullish FU candle doesn't necessarily mean it's a long and vice versa a bearish FU candle doesn't necessarily mean it's a short. In fact, most FU candles are traps. Often times you'll see a bullish FU candle starting a bearish reversal.
Whenever you see an FU Candle check the following:
Did the FU candle take relevant liquidity?
Is the FU Candle in line with the overall bias or does it go against the bias?
Where did the FU react? Example: A bearish FU candle that reacts in a bullish FVG is a perfect long entry and vice versa.
A bullish FU candle that takes out a relevant swing high can often be a fake-out and price can immediately reverse as the next candle opens.
Timing is also very important. Usually the valid FU candles happen after a strong move to one direction during high volume times and right before or right after a new candle opens on a higher timeframe.
Examples of valid setups:
Nr. 1) Mitigation Setup
Overall bullish on the higher time frame, liquidity grab to the downside, shift in momentum, strong move to the upside left a FVG. later price comes back into the FVG and forms a FU candle --> perfect long trade targeting the opposite side of the range.
Entry either at close of the FU or at the 50% retracement.
Nr. 2) Trap Setup
Clear bullish trend respecting the trend line, bearish FU candle forms but it didn't take any relevant liquidity to the upside. Only internal range liquidity. Perfect long entry using a buy limit below the lower wick of the FU candle with the SL below the nearest low.
Nr. 3) Liquidity Grab Setup
Bearish trend, price comes up aggressively and takes out a high and forms an FU Candle. Market entry short at close of the FU candle or at the 50% retracement of the FU candle or by putting a limit order right above the wick of the candle that follows the FU candle, targeting the opposite side of the range.
Nr. 4) Fake Breakout Setup
Price takes out a significant HTF low, then makes at least 2 BOS on the LTF and forms an Order Block or leaves an FVG. Price forms a bearish U that fails to close below the FVG or Orderblock.
Market entry long at the close of the bearish FU targeting the opposite side of the range. Vice versa for shorts. In simple terms: Bullish FUs at the top of the range and bearish FUs at the bottom of the range are usually always traps.
Sometimes price takes out the high/low of a trap FU before reversing aggressively so you can also have a limit order below the low of the bearish FU or above the high of a bullish FU in this case. But you risk missing the trade.
Entry Methods:
Entry Type 1) Market Entry at the close of the FU candle. --> Never miss a trade, not the best RRR.
Entry Type 2 Limit Entry at the 50% retracement of the body of the FU candle. --> Miss some of the trades but better RRR.
Entry Type 3 Limit order below the wick of the candle that follows the FU candle. --> Miss quite a lot of trades but by far best RRR.
Why this is a closed source script:
The source code of this script is not open because I have spent several years of my life developing it and I use it in all my trading bots.
Also I'm open for feedback and will modify/ update the script for free if I get input that can make it better.
For questions, please reach out via DM or check out my youtube channel. I have several videos explaining in detail how I use these candles, which are valid and which aren't.
[Spinn] LeveragesThis indicator is designed to visually measure the levels of the position at different leverage values. It acts as a "ruler", the level of levels at which it can cause liquidation, which helps the trader estimate whether it is gradually risky to use this or that leverage.
The indicator works in two modes:
Basic mode:
Levels of prescriptions for standard leverage values (1x, 2x, 5x, etc.), allowing you to quickly assess the risk of consequences when using these coefficients.
Pivots mode:
Levels are built on the basis of local extremes (pivots) on the visible section of the chart, tied to key reversal points.
The pivot is determined by the number of bars to the left and right of it, which is set as a source (the number of bars to the right of each specific roller does not matter).
In this mode, levels will be shown only for the visible part of the chart.
Color marking: green indicates liquidation levels for longs, red - for shorts. Each approach corresponds to a price tag for ease of use.
It is important to note that the indicator uses pure coefficients, without taking into account exchange commissions and other adjustments. Therefore, the calculated levels may not coincide with the actual liquidation levels on the exchanges.
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Данный индикатор предназначен для визуальной оценки уровней ликвидации позиций при разных значениях плеча. Он выступает в роли «линейки», показывая уровни, на которых может произойти ликвидация, что помогает трейдеру прикинуть, насколько рискованно использовать то или иное плечо.
Индикатор работает в двух режимах:
Режим Basic (базовый):
Уровни привязаны к стандартным значениям плеча (1x, 2x, 5x и т. д.), позволяя быстро оценить риск ликвидации при использовании этих коэффициентов.
Режим Pivots (пивотный):
Уровни строятся на основе локальных экстремумов (пивотов) на видимом участке графика, привязываясь к ключевым точкам разворота.
Пивот определяется по количеству баров слева и справа от него, что задается в настройках (количество баров справа от пивота особой роли не играет).
В этом режиме будут показаны уровни только для видимой части графика.
Цветовая маркировка: зелёным обозначены уровни ликвидаций лонгов, красным — шортов. Каждому уровню соответствует метка с ценой для удобства работы.
Важно отметить, что индикатор использует чистые коэффициенты, без учета комиссий бирж и других поправок. Поэтому рассчитанные уровни могут не совпадать с фактическими уровнями ликвидации на биржах.
Open Interest liquidation map [Ox_kali]This script is inspired by @LeviathanCapital work on aggregating Open Interest , as presented in the Open Interest Suite Aggregated script. This script aims to provide a liquidation map of Open Interest by identifying significant anomalies across multiple trading platforms. By integrating data from Binance, BitMEX, and Kraken, this script tries to offer a comprehensive and detailed view of Open Interest movements and attempts to define zones of interest.
Key Points
1. Multiple Data Sources : The script retrieves Open Interest data from several trading platforms, including Binance (USDT, USD, BUSD), BitMEX (USD, USDT), and Kraken (USD).
2. Anomaly Detection : Utilizes a simple moving average (SMA) to calculate the average size of Open Interest candles and identify anomalies based on a user-specified size factor.
3. Background Coloring : Offers an option to color the background of the charts based on detected anomalies, allowing for clear visualization of significant movements.
4. Dynamic Support and Resistance Zones : Defines and dynamically updates support and resistance zones based on Open Interest anomalies.
5. Alerts : Configures alerts to notify the user when an Open Interest anomaly is detected.
Trading Utility
This script can be useful for monitoring significant changes in Open Interest and potential liquidation zones across multiple platforms. The main trading applications include:
1. Identifying Liquidation Points : By detecting Open Interest anomalies, it is possible to identify potential liquidation points where significant price movements might occur.
2. Multi-Platform Analysis : By aggregating Open Interest data from multiple platforms, a more comprehensive market overview is obtained.
3. Detecting Support and Resistance Zones : Dynamic support and resistance zones help identify key price levels where trend reversals might occur.
4. Customized Alerts: Anomaly alerts allow for automated responses to market changes.
Conclusion
The “Open Interest liquidation map ” script is an experimental tool for analyzing Open Interest across multiple trading platforms. Inspired by Leviathan’s work, this script attempts to identify liquidation and interest zones. This is an experimental version, and I welcome any comments and feedback for improvement.
Please note that the Open Interest liquidation map is not a guarantee of future market performance and should be used in conjunction with proper risk management. Always ensure that you have a thorough understanding of the indicator’s methodology and its limitations before making any investment decisions. Additionally, past performance is not indicative of future results.
Liquidations [ChartPrime]Liquidations Indicator:
The Liquidations indicator is a powerful tool designed to help traders identify significant liquidation levels in financial markets. By analyzing volume data over a specified lookback period, the indicator highlights potential areas where market participants with high leverage positions may face liquidation, providing valuable insights into market dynamics.
Usage:
Traders can use the Liquidations indicator to:
◈ Identify liquidity grab opportunities: Liquidation levels often attract price action as market participants with leveraged positions face the risk of forced liquidation. Traders can anticipate price movements as the market aims to trigger these stops, potentially leading to rapid price movements or reversals.
◈ Confirm trend strength: A cluster of liquidation levels in the same direction as the prevailing trend may confirm the strength of the trend, while divergences between liquidation levels and price movements may signal potential trend reversals.
Settings:
◈ Previous Value Bars Back: Specifies the number of previous bars used in calculating the liquidation levels.
◈ Show Leverage: Allows users to selectively display liquidation levels for different leverage multiples, including 5x, 10x, 25x, 50x, and 100x.
◈ Liquidation Levels Width: Sets the width of the lines representing liquidation levels on the chart.
◈ Short Liquidations Color: Specifies the color of the lines representing short liquidation levels.
◈ Long Liquidations Color: Specifies the color of the lines representing long liquidation levels.
◈ Bar Color: Sets the color of the background bar when the indicator is active.
Visual Representation:
◈ Liquidation levels are plotted as horizontal lines on the chart, with different colors representing short and long liquidation levels.
◈ Each liquidation level is labeled with the corresponding leverage multiple (e.g., 5x, 10x, etc.).
A dashboard displays the active liquidation levels for each leverage multiple, allowing traders to quickly assess the current market conditions.
◈ Time Window allows users to cut off unnecessary part of the chart and concentrate on a current active part of the chart to make better trading decisions:
Interpretation:
Market participants tend to place stop-loss orders near liquidation levels , creating clusters of pending orders. As price approaches these levels, it may trigger a cascade of stop-loss orders, providing liquidity for market orders and potentially leading to rapid price movements in the opposite direction.
Traders can anticipate price reversals or accelerations as price interacts with liquidation levels, using them as reference points for identifying potential entry or exit opportunities.
Note:
While the Liquidations indicator provides valuable insights into market dynamics, traders should use it in conjunction with other technical analysis tools and risk management strategies to make informed trading decisions.
Unmitigated Liquidity Imbalances [AlgoAlpha]🎉 Introducing the Unmitigated Liquidity Imbalance Indicator by AlgoAlpha! 🎉
Dive into the depths of market analytics with our "Unmitigated Liquidity Imbalance" indicator. This tool harnesses unique algorithms to detect liquidity imbalances between bulls and bears, helping traders spot trends and potential entry and exit points with greater accuracy. 📈🚀
🔍 Key Features:
🌟 Advanced Analysis : Analyses candle direction and length to forecast market peaks and valleys.
🎨 Customizable Visuals : Tailor the chart with your choice of bullish green or bearish red to reflect different market conditions.
🔄 Real-Time Updates : Continuously updates to reflect live market changes.
🔔 Configurable Alerts : Set up alerts for key trading signals such as bullish and bearish reversals, as well as trend shifts.
📐 How to Use:
🛠 Add the Indicator : Add the indicator to your favourites and customize the settings to suite your needs.
📊 Market Analysis : Monitor the oscillator threshold; readings above 0.5 suggest bullish sentiment, while below 0.5 indicate bearish conditions. And reversal signals are displayed to show potential entry points.
🔔 Set Alerts : Enable notifications for reversal conditions or trend changes to seize trading opportunities without constant chart watching.
🧠 How It Works:
The core mechanism of the indicator is based on detecting changes in candlestick size and direction to identify bullish and bearish liquidity levels from the peak & valley indicator's logic. By comparing the length of a current candle to the previous one and checking the change in direction, it pinpoints moments where market sentiment could be shifting, indicating if the liquidity at that point is bullish or bearish. The script then looks at what percentage of the past few unmitigated levels are bullish or bearish based on a customizable lookback and determines the liquidity imbalance which can then be interpreted as trend.
Empower your trading with the Unmitigated Liquidity Imbalance indicator and navigate the markets with confidence and precision. 🌟💹
Happy trading, and may your charts be ever in your favour! 🥳✨
💎 Related Indicator
Crypto Liquidation Heatmap [LuxAlgo]The Crypto Liquidation Heatmap tool offers real-time insights into the liquidations of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, presenting the current state of the market in a visually accessible format. Assets are sorted in descending order, with those experiencing the highest liquidation values placed at the top of the heatmap.
Additional details, such as the breakdown of long and short liquidation values and the current price of each asset, can be accessed by hovering over individual boxes.
🔶 USAGE
The crypto liquidation heatmap tool provides real-time insights into liquidations across all timeframes for the top 29 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. The assets are visually represented in descending order, prioritizing assets with the highest liquidation values at the top of the heatmap.
Different colors are used to indicate whether long or short liquidations are dominant for each asset. Green boxes indicate that long liquidations surpass short liquidations, while red boxes indicate the opposite, with short liquidations exceeding long liquidations.
Hovering over each box provides additional details, such as the current price of the asset, the breakdown of long and short liquidation values, and the duration for the calculated liquidation values.
🔶 DETAILS
🔹Crypto Liquidation
Crypto liquidation refers to the process of forcibly closing a trader's positions in the cryptocurrency market. It occurs when a trader's margin account can no longer support their open positions due to significant losses or a lack of sufficient margin to meet the maintenance requirements. Liquidations can be categorized as either a long liquidation or a short liquidation.
A long liquidation occurs when long positions are being liquidated, typically due to a sudden drop in the price of the asset being traded. Traders who were bullish on the asset and had opened long positions will face losses as the market moves against them.
On the other hand, a short liquidation occurs when short positions are being liquidated, often triggered by a sudden spike in the price of the asset. Traders who were bearish on the asset and had opened short positions will face losses as the market moves against them.
🔹Liquidation Data
It's worth noting that liquidation data is not readily available on TradingView. However, we recognize the close correlation between liquidation data, trading volumes, and asset price movements. Therefore, this script analyzes accessible data sources, extracts necessary information, and offers an educated estimation of liquidation data. It's important to emphasize that the presented data doesn't reflect precise quantitative values of liquidations. Traders and analysts should instead focus on observing changes over time and identifying correlations between liquidation data and price movements.
🔶 SETTINGS
🔹Cryptocurrency Asset List
It is highly recommended to select instruments from the same exchange with the same currency to maintain proportional integrity among the chosen assets, as different exchanges may have varying trading volumes.
Supported currencies include USD, USDT, USDC, USDP, and USDD. Remember to use the same currency when selecting assets.
List of Crypto Assets: The default options feature the top 29 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, currently listed on the Binance Exchange. Please note that only crypto assets are supported; any other asset type will not be processed or displayed. To maximize the utility of this tool, it is crucial to heed the warning message displayed above.
🔹Liquidation Heatmap Settings
Position: Specifies the placement of the liquidation heatmap on the chart.
Size: Determines the size of the liquidation heatmap displayed on the chart.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Liquidations-Meter
Liquidation-Estimates
Liquidation-Levels
Genuine Liquidation Delta [Mxwll] - No EstimatesTHANK YOU TradingView for allowing us to upload custom data!!!
As a result, Mxwll Capital is providing an indicator that shows REAL liquidation delta for over 100 cryptocurrencies sourced directly from a popular crypto exchange!
Features
Crypto exchange sourced liquidation delta
Crypto exchange sourced long liquidation daily count
Crypto exchange sourced short liquidation daily count
All provided data extends back 2 years!!
Various aesthetic components to illustrate data
Liquidation delta data (sourced from a popular exchange) is provided for:
1000shib
aave
ada
algo
alice
arb
audio
alpha
ankr
ape
apt
atom
avax
axs
bal
band
bat
bch
bel
blz
blur
bnb
bnx
btc
chr
chz
comp
coti
crv
ctk
dash
defi
doge
dot
dydx
edu
egld
enj
ens
eos
etc
eth
fil
flm
ftm
fxs
gala
gmx
grt
hbar
hnt
icx
id
inj
iost
iota
joe
kava
knc
ksm
ldo
lina
link
lit
lrc
ltc
mana
mask
matic
mkr
near
neo
ocean
omg
one
ont
op
people
qtum
reef
ren
rndr
rose
rlc
rsr
rune
rvn
sand
sfp
skl
snx
sol
stmx
storj
sui
sushi
sxp
theta
tomo
trb
trx
unfi
uni
vet
waves
xem
xlm
xmr
xrp
xtz
yfi
zec
zen
zil
zrx
How-To
The image above shows the indicator with default settings.
The image above shows the start point of our data!
Over 2-years of data, allowing for plentiful analysis!
The image above explains the primary plot.
Filled blue columns reflect liquidation delta exceeding the long side. When the liquidation delta plot is aqua and exceeds 0 to the upside, longs were liquidated more than shorts for the
day.
Filled red columns reflect liquidation delta exceeding the short side. When the liquidation delta plot is red and exceeds 0 to the downside, shorts were liquidated more than longs for the day.
The image above explains the solid line (polyline) plot and its intentions!
Filled, solid, blue line reflects the total number of long liquidation events for the period.
Filled, solid, red line reflects the total number of short liquidation events for the period.
Keep in mind that the total number of liquidation events is normalized to plot alongside the total liquidation delta for the day. So, there aren't "millions" of liquidation events taking place, the total liquidation count for the long and short side is simply normalized to fit atop total liquidation delta.
The image above explains the liquidation count meter the indicator provides!
The left (blue columns) reflect the intensity of long liquidation events for the day. The right (red columns) reflect the intensity of short liquidation events for the day.
The "Max" numbers at the top show the maximum number of long liquidation events, or short liquidation events, for their respective columns.
Therefore, if the number of long liquidation events were "1.241k", as stated for this cryptocurrency in the table, the blue meter would be full. Similar logic applies to the red meter.
Once more, THANK YOU @TradingView and @PineCoders for allowing us to upload custom data! This project wouldn't be possible without it!
Liquidity Finder🔵 Introduction
The concept of "liquidity pool" or simply "liquidity" in technical analysis price action refers to areas on the price chart where stop losses accumulate, and the market, by reaching those areas and collecting liquidity (Stop Hunt), provides the necessary energy to move the price. This concept is prominent in the "ICT" and "Smart Money" styles. Imagine, as depicted below, the price is at a support level. The general trader mentality is that there is "demand" for the asset at this price level, and this demand will outweigh "supply" as before. So, it is likely that the price will increase. As a result, they start buying and place their stop loss below the support area.
Stop Hunt areas are essentially traders' "stop loss" levels. These are the liquidity that institutional and large traders need to fill their orders. Consequently, they penetrate the price below support areas or above resistance areas to touch their stop loss and fill their orders, and then the price trend reverses.
Cash zones are generally located under "Swings Low" and above "Swings High." More specifically, they can be categorized as support levels or resistance levels, above Double Top and Triple Top patterns, below Double Bottom and Triple Bottom patterns, above Bearish Trend lines, and below Bullish Trend lines.
Double Top and Triple Top :
Double Bottom and Triple Bottom :
Bullish Trend line and Bearish Trend line :
🔵 How to Use
To optimally use this indicator, you can adjust the settings according to the symbol, time frame, and your needs. These settings include the "sensitivity" of the "liquidity finder" function and the swing periods related to static and dynamic liquidity lines.
"Statics Liquidity Line Sensitivity" is a number between 0 and 0.4. Increasing this number decreases the sensitivity of the "Statics Liquidity Line Detection" function and increases the number of lines identified. The default value is 0.3.
"Dynamics Liquidity Line Sensitivity" is a number between 0.4 and 1.95. Increasing this number increases the sensitivity of the "Dynamics Liquidity Line Detection" function and decreases the number of lines identified. The default value is 1.
"Statics Period Pivot" is set to 8 by default. By changing this number, you can specify the period for the static liquidity line pivots.
"Dynamics Period Pivot" is set to 3 by default. By changing this number, you can specify the period for the dynamic liquidity line pivots.
🔵 Settings
Access to adjust the inputs of Static Dynamic Liquidity Line Sensitivity, Dynamics Liquidity Line Sensitivity, Statics Period Pivot, and Dynamics Period Pivot is possible from this section.
Additionally, you can enable or disable liquidity lines as needed using the buttons for "Show Statics High Liquidity Line," "Show Statics Low Liquidity Line," "Show Dynamics High Liquidity Line," and "Show Dynamics Low Liquidity Line."
Liquidation Levels with Liquidity Sweeps/Breakouts [AlgoAlpha]🌊📈 Dive into the depths of market liquidity with "Liquidation Levels with Liquidity Sweeps/Breakouts" - your ultimate tool for navigating the turbulent waters of trading! 🧹💹 Crafted by the wizards at AlgoAlpha, this Pine Script™ masterpiece illuminates the unseen liquidity levels and sweeps, guiding you through the financial seas with insight. 🚀🔍
Key Features:
🕒 Timeframe Flexibility: Customize your analysis with a TimeFrame Multiplier, allowing the indicator to operate on higher timeframes for broader market insight.
💥 Dynamic Volume Threshold: Set your sensitivity to breakouts with the High Volume Threshold, ensuring you catch significant market movements while avoiding fakeouts.
👀 Visibility Controls: Toggle the display of swept liquidity and highlight liquidity breakouts with customizable background colors for clear, actionable insights.
🎨 Custom Appearance: Personalize your chart with bullish, bearish, and breakout colors to match your trading style.
How to Use the Liquidity Levels with Liquidation Sweeps Indicator:
Maximize your trading efficiency with the Liquidity Levels with Liquidation Sweeps Indicator by following these simple steps! 🚀🌟
⚙️ Customize Settings: Access the indicator settings to personalize the TimeFrame Multiplier, High Volume Threshold, and Relative Volume Period. Tailor these settings to match your trading strategy and chart preferences.
👁️ Analyze Liquidity Levels: Monitor the chart for liquidity levels and sweeps. Bullish sweeps are marked with green labels, bearish sweeps with red, and breakouts highlighted by the chart background.
🔔 Set Alerts: Enable alert conditions for liquidity breakouts and sweeps within the indicator's settings. This feature allows you to receive real-time notifications, helping you to act promptly on trading opportunities.
How It Works:
The heart of this indicator lies in its ability to track and highlight liquidity levels derived from swing pivots, and sweeps across multiple timeframes. By calculating relative volume against a user-defined threshold, it identifies strong volume movements indicative of liquidity breakouts, this helps filter out fake-outs. When a liquidity level is breached but not completely mitigated, it's either marked as a bullish or bearish sweep, which come with the option to show an estimate of the number of liquidations during the sweep.
if peakform and peakprinted != 1
aR.push(line.new(bar_index-mult, h.get(1), bar_index+1, h.get(1), color = red))
aRv.push(h.get(1))
peakprinted := 1
if valleyform and valleyprinted != 1
aS.push(line.new(bar_index-mult, l.get(1), bar_index+1, l.get(1), color = green))
aSv.push(l.get(1))
valleyprinted := 1
Liquidity Grabs | Flux Charts💎 GENERAL OVERVIEW
Introducing our new Liquidity Grabs indicator! This indicator can renders bubbles with different sizes at candles that have liquidity grabs, which happen when a liquidity areas (buyside / sellside liquidity) is swept. These candles often fill a lot of market orders that were sitting on the liquidity zone. You can check "How Does It Work" section for more information.
Features of the new Liquidity Grabs Indicator :
Renders Liquidity Grabs
Customizable Algorithm
Customizable Styles
Alerts
🚩UNIQUENESS
Liquidity grabs can be useful when determining candles that have executed a lot of market orders, and planning your trades accordingly. This indicator renders liquidity grabs in an unique bubble style, the size of the bubble is calculated by the size of the wick that caused the liquidity grab. The indicator also lets you customize the pivot length and the wick-body ratio for liquidity grabs.
📌 HOW DOES IT WORK ?
Liquidity grabs occur when one of the latest pivots has a false breakout. Then, if the wick to body ratio of the bar is higher than 0.5 (can be changed from the settings) a bubble is plotted. Using the wick length as a metric to measure liquidity is good because long wicks can translate to a large amount of buyers / sellers entering the market.
The bubble size is determined by the wick to body ratio of the candle.
⚙️SETTINGS
1. General Configuration
Pivot Length -> This setting determines the range of the pivots. This means a candle has to have the highest / lowest wick of the previous X bars and the next X bars to become a high / low pivot.
Wick-Body Ratio -> After a pivot has a false breakout, the wick-body ratio of the latest candle is tested. The resulting ratio must be higher than this setting for it to be considered as a liquidity grab.
Liquidation Longs/Shorts [UAlgo]🔶Description:
The "Liquidation Longs/Shorts " indicator is designed to identify potential liquidation levels for long and short positions. It calculates the distance of the selected price source (close, high, low, or open) from two moving averages (MA) and plots the resulting values on the chart. When the price is at an extreme distance from the moving averages, it suggests a potential liquidation point for either long or short positions.
🔶Key Features:
Liquidation Calculations: The indicator calculates the distance of the selected price source from two moving averages: a simple moving average (SMA) and an exponential moving average (EMA) with customizable lengths.
Color Customization: Users can customize the colors of the plotted columns representing the distance from the moving averages for long and short liquidation levels.
Liquidation Circles: The indicator marks potential liquidation levels with small circles on the chart, with customizable colors for long and short liquidations.
Orange Circles -> Identifies Potential Short Liquidations
Aqua Circles -> Identifies Potential Long Liquidations
Example:
Adaptive Source Selection: Traders can select the price source (close, high, low, or open) for liquidation calculations, allowing flexibility based on their trading strategies.
Dynamic Threshold Calculation: The indicator dynamically adjusts the liquidation threshold based on the selected moving average lengths, providing adaptability to changing market conditions.
Disclaimer:
Use with Caution: This indicator is provided for educational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. Users should exercise caution and perform their own analysis before making trading decisions based on the indicator's signals.
Not Financial Advice: The information provided by this indicator does not constitute financial advice, and the creator (UAlgo) shall not be held responsible for any trading losses incurred as a result of using this indicator.
Backtesting Recommended: Traders are encouraged to backtest the indicator thoroughly on historical data before using it in live trading to assess its performance and suitability for their trading strategies.
Risk Management: Trading involves inherent risks, and users should implement proper risk management strategies, including but not limited to stop-loss orders and position sizing, to mitigate potential losses.
No Guarantees: The accuracy and reliability of the indicator's signals cannot be guaranteed, as they are based on historical price data and past performance may not be indicative of future results.
This indicator serves as a tool to assist traders in identifying potential liquidation levels, but it should be used in conjunction with other technical analysis tools and risk management practices for effective trading decision-making.
AlgoRhythmica - Liquidity MapThe AlgoRhythmica - Liquidity Map is a complex and performance heavy indicator, attempting to visualize and highlight areas of liquidity on the chart. It paints lines above and below price with different color and opacity based on the volume, and then highlight the areas with the highest cumulative volume.
What is liquidity and a liquidity map?
Liquidity refers to how quickly and easily an asset can be bought or sold in the market without affecting its price. High liquidity means that there are many buyers and sellers, and transactions can happen rapidly and smoothly.
Liquidity analysis involves examining where and how liquidity is distributed across different price levels.
Price often moves from liquidity zone to liquidity zone, and therefore, having an idea of where those zones are can give traders an understanding of potential support and resistance levels and where significant trading activities might occur.
Those looking to fill large buy orders for example would want to do that in liquid sell areas and vice versa. This indicator attempts to estimate the price levels where traders using leverage get liquidated, and therefore creates liquid areas for buying and selling.
In contrast to Bookmaps which chart the orders in the order book where traders want to transact, a liquidity map is charting where traders are 'forced' to transact due to stop-losses or margin calls. To do that, liquidity maps are mostly based on estimations. It could be based on pivot points, common stop-loss amounts, common leverage amounts or a combination of multiple factors.
As of the current version on release, this indicator is only using the leverage input by the user to estimate the liquidity.
How does it work and what makes it unique?
The indicator takes the volume in a candle and saves that volume in a line. Based on the leverage settings it then offsets that line above and below price. Say, a trader using 20x leverage without a stop-loss gets liquidated if price goes roughly 5% in the wrong direction. Therefore, by assuming common leverage amounts or common risk amounts, we can estimate where traders get liquidated or have their stop-losses based on their leverage or amount they are willing to risk.
Now keep in mind, this liquidity map is just estimating based on general assumptions, it doesn't have access to actual liquidity data.
But at the same time, we're not trading single individual traders, but we're trading the market as a whole, and interestingly enough, some risk and leverage amounts are more common than others. People like using those even numbers like 10x, 20x, 1% risk etc. That's why price do often react on the liquidity in liquidity maps such as this one.
So, when a candle is printed, and you are on a smaller timeframe and decided this is just the kind of market for 100x scalpers. You set the leverage to 100x in the settings and the indicator will paint lines above and below price offset by 1%. There are settings for three leverage amounts at the same time, so you might also set it to paint lines at 5% and 10%, just to catch those traders on higher timeframes if price really takes off.
Now let's talk about what makes this indicator really shine and stand out!
Normally, if we just left the indicator doing as above, there would be lines all over the place and very difficult to interpret which areas matter, or we could limit the indicator to only print lines at high volume candles. Now, you do have that option, but that wouldn't pick up areas where low volume trading has cumulated in the same range, such as over a weekend or during market gaps. Where other liquidity indicators out there might miss that liquidity, this indicator has several solutions for it.
The first solution is stacking semi-transparent lines on top of each other. Normally, lines of the same color and transparency wouldn't add and blend together. But this script offers a seamless transition from one color the next, blending those low volume liquidity lines together.
The second solution, and this is what I believe is really unique and powerful, is that this indicator also has the ability highlight certain liquidity. When enabled, it scans through all the lines, cumulate the volume within a specified range around the lines and then compare the cumulated volume range with the ranges around the other lines. New lines created in the range with the highest cumulated volume gets highlighted.
Without this feature you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell which of two strong areas are more liquid. When price later enters that area and crosses those lines, the liquidity there is then considered consumed and lines created in a different range will now begin to highlight.
All of this is of course enhanced, as in the picture above, when multiple copies of the indicator is used together and assigned to only calculate specific parts of the liquidity map, such as longs, shorts or specific leverage amounts.
Oh, and there's also options for assigning which part of the candle should generate the liquidity. Close, Middle Body or Open. The indicator will then assume that the majority of traders are entering their position in that part of the candle.
The offset is calculated from that part of the candle. By using multiple copies of the indicator, you can assign one for each part and that will give you the whole range of the candle. And you might assume more traders go long from the top, so to emphasize that liquidity, you could increase the size or transparency slightly of the lines generated from that part.
How do I use it?
Well, this isn't gonna give you trading signals or anything, but it will visualize the market for you in a new perspective.
Typically, high liquidity areas are often good areas for entry and TP. But always watch how the price reacts in those areas before entering a position. And remember, the liquidity estimation might not always be accurate.
Particularly watch the highlighted areas for long wicks and high volume, indicating that the liquidity was enough to meet the orders and a retrace or reversal could be imminent.
Watch what happens during consolidation, market gaps and weekends. Notice the lack of liquidity and how the market maker creates liquidity by inducing traders to take positions with quick moves that instantly reverses. You might know how that works in theory, but watching it happen real-time with visualized liquidity is very interesting.
While not necessary, and as I've mentioned earlier, dividing the different functions of the indicator on multiple copies will substantially increase it's accuracy and performance!
For example, use one copy of the indicator per leverage level, or one for shorts, one for longs. One that generates from the close, one from the middle etc. creating a much clearer picture of the liquidity like the picture comparison above.
This is what the indicator offers:
When you're estimating liquidity, you want to be able to do it with accuracy and interpretability. That's why the customization options of this indicator has been really important in the development.
Timeframe Options:
It supports a wide range of time periods, from daily to yearly, enabling traders to apply it across various trading strategies, from short-term day trading to long-term investment analysis. Assuming traders are eventually taking their profits, liquidity after the set time period disappears.
Rich Visual Settings:
The indicator comes with multiple preset color themes and a completely customizable option as well. These visual settings are designed to enhance the interpretability of liquidity data, with adjustable transparency and contrast features.
Liquidity Highlighting Function:
This unique feature emphasizes areas with high liquidity concentration. It scans and highlights significant liquidity zones, aiding traders in identifying critical market levels.
Liquidity Profile:
The LQ-Profile extends liquidity lines based on their associated volume, giving traders another way of identifying high liquidity zones.
Adjustable Liquidity Estimation:
Select and adjust leverage amounts based on your particular chart and analysis. Choose what positions and leverage amounts to display liquidity for. You also have the option to determine if wicks consume liquidity or not.
Since wicks indicate that price was rejected from that area, it doesn't necessarily mean all the liquidity in that area was consumed. You could assign an additional copy of the indicator consuming with wicks and another that doesn't. That way, half the liquidity gets consumed and the other half remains until another candle closes in that area. They choices are endless and it's all about your understanding and analysis here.
Multiple Performance Options:
Depending on your particular chart and timeframe, this indicator can be very performance heavy to load. Luckily it has plenty of performance options for limiting the calculations of the indicator.
Tooltips:
As usual, this indicator comes with extensive tooltips for every function, making sure you understand every part of it.
Happy trading!
Liquidation Level ScreenerThe Liquidation Level Screener is an analytical tool designed for traders who seek a comprehensive view of potential liquidation zones in the market. This script, adaptable to almost any timeframe from 1 minute to 3 days, offers a unique perspective by mapping out key liquidation levels where significant market actions could occur.
Key Features:
Multi-Exchange Data Aggregation: Unlike many other indicators, the Liquidation Levels Indicator compiles data from multiple leading exchanges including Binance, Bitmex, Kraken, and Bitfinex. This approach ensures a more holistic and accurate representation of market sentiment, providing insights into potential liquidation points across various platforms.
Customizable Timeframes and Modes: The script is versatile, working effectively across various timeframes. It operates in two distinct modes:
Actual Levels Display: Visually represents potential liquidation levels.
Settings Mode: Showcases an open interest (OI) oscillator. When OI is exceptionally high, indicating a surge in opened positions at a specific candle, it signals traders to be vigilant about upcoming liquidation levels.
Three-Tier Liquidation System: The indicator categorizes liquidation levels into three distinct tiers based on open interest levels—1, 2, and 3—with Level 3 representing the highest concentration of open positions. This tiered approach allows traders to gauge the significance of each level and adjust their strategies accordingly.
Histogram Visualization: A novel feature of this script is the histogram on the chart's right side, representing the concentration of liquidation levels in specific market zones. This visual aid helps traders identify crucial areas that warrant close attention, enhancing decision-making.
Customizable Options:
Moving Averages: Choose from a wide range of moving average types, including VWMA, SMA, EMA, and more, to tailor the indicator to your analysis style.
Histogram Settings: Adjust the number of histograms, lookback bars, and their proximity to the latest candle, allowing for a personalized density and range of visualization.
Liquidation Level Sensitivity: Set thresholds for different liquidation levels, fine-tuning the indicator to detect varying degrees of market leverage.
Color Coding: Customize the color scheme for different leverage levels, enhancing visual clarity and ease of interpretation.
The Liquidation Level Screener offers a unique edge by highlighting potential zones where significant market movements can occur due to liquidations. By consolidating data from multiple exchanges, it provides a more rounded view of market behavior, which is essential in today’s interconnected trading environment. The tiered liquidation system and histogram feature equip traders with the ability to identify and focus on key market segments where high activity is expected. This tool is particularly valuable for traders who base their strategies on market liquidity and leverage dynamics.
Liquidation Volume (Zeiierman)█ Overview
The Liquidation Volume (Zeiierman) indicator highlights real-time long and short liquidations across all timeframes on TradingView. The indicator assists traders in identifying potential liquidation points in the market based on volume and price movements. Liquidation, in this context, refers to the forced closure of a trader's position due to insufficient margin in their account to support open positions, often occurring during significant price movements.
█ How It Works
The indicator operates primarily through the computation of a MomentumAdjustedPrice function, which is applied to volume-weighted prices (open, high, low, close) adjusted for volatility.
█ How to Use
Identifying Support and Resistance Levels: Liquidation data can provide valuable insights into key market levels where significant trading activities occur. These levels often act as support or resistance in the price chart. Support levels are typically where an asset's price finds a floor, as buying interest is significant enough to outweigh selling pressure. Conversely, resistance levels are where an asset's price may find a ceiling, with selling interest outweighing buying pressure. By analyzing liquidation data, traders can identify these critical points.
Start of a New Trend:
The initiation of a new trend can often be identified by a significant shift in liquidation volumes near breakout levels.
Trend Continuations:
Trend continuations are periods where the current trend is sustained and further confirmed by liquidation patterns. For example, in an uptrend, continuous short liquidations might occur, suggesting that the trend is strong and likely to persist as bearish traders keep getting squeezed out. In a downtrend, continuous long liquidations can serve as confirmation that the trend is still in place. Recognizing these patterns in liquidation data can help traders to stay aligned with the prevailing trend and avoid premature exits or entries against the trend.
Trend Reversals: Patterns in liquidations can be crucial in signaling potential trend reversals. A sudden and significant change in liquidation volumes—like a spike in long liquidations during a downtrend or short liquidations during an uptrend—can indicate that the current trend is losing steam and a reversal may be imminent. This information can be particularly useful for traders looking to anticipate market turns and adjust their strategies accordingly.
Spot Potential Liquidation Points: By observing the liquidation candles and their colors, traders can identify where large liquidations are likely occurring, signaling potential market turning points.
Understand Market Sentiment: Changes in liquidation volumes can provide insights into bullish or bearish sentiment, helping traders gauge the market mood. By observing liquidation patterns and clusters, traders can get insights into prevailing market sentiments and emerging trends.
█ Settings
Liquidation Source: Allows selection between 'Price' and 'Volume' for liquidation analysis.
Volume Period: Determines the period over which volume is averaged.
Volatility Period: Sets the length for calculating standard deviation, influencing the volatility measure.
Candle Display Toggle: Enables or disables the display of liquidation candles on the chart.
Threshold: Sets the level at which liquidation bars are triggered.
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Liquidations Meter [LuxAlgo]The Liquidation Meter aims to gauge the momentum of the bar, identify the strength of the bulls and bears, and more importantly identify probable exhaustion/reversals by measuring probable liquidations.
🔶 USAGE
This tool includes many features related to the concept of liquidation. The two core ones are the liquidation meter and liquidation price calculator, highlighted below.
🔹 Liquidation Meter
The liquidation meter presents liquidations on the price chart by measuring the highest leverage value of longs and shorts that have been potentially liquidated on the last chart bar, hence allowing traders to:
gauge the momentum of the bar.
identify the strength of the bulls and bears.
identify probable reversal/exhaustion points.
Liquidation of low-leveraged positions can be indicative of exhaustion.
🔹 Liquidation Price Calculator
A liquidation price calculator might come in handy when you need to calculate at what price level your leveraged position in Crypto, Forex, Stocks, or any other asset class gets liquidated to add a protective stop to mitigate risk. Monitoring an open position gets easier if the trader can calculate the total risk in order for them to choose the right amount of margin and leverage.
Liquidation price is the distance from the trader's entry price to the price where trader's leveraged position gets liquidated due to a loss. As the leverage is increased, the distance from trader's entry price to the liquidation price shrinks.
While you have one or several trades open you can quickly check their liquidation levels and determine which one of the trades is closest to their liquidation price.
If you are a day trader that uses leverage and you want to know which trade has the best outlook you can calculate the liquidation price to see which one of the trades looks best.
🔹 Dashboard
The bar statistics option enables measuring and presenting trading activity, volatility, and probable liquidations for the last chart bar.
🔶 DETAILS
It's important to note that liquidation price calculator tool uses a formula to calculate the liquidation price based on the entry price + leverage ratio.
Other factors such as leveraged fees, position size, and other interest payments have been excluded since they are variables that don’t directly affect the level of liquidation of a leveraged position.
The calculator also assumes that traders are using an isolated margin for one single position and does not take into consideration the additional margin they might have in their account.
🔹Liquidation price formula
the liquidation distance in percentage = 100 / leverage ratio
the liquidation distance in price = current asset price x the liquidation distance in percentage
the liquidation price (longs) = current asset price – the liquidation distance in price
the liquidation price (shorts) = current asset price + the liquidation distance in price
or simply
the liquidation price (longs) = entry price * (1 – 1 / leverage ratio)
the liquidation price (shorts) = entry price * (1 + 1 / leverage ratio)
Example:
Let’s say that you are trading a leverage ratio of 1:20. The first step is to calculate the distance to your liquidation point in percentage.
the liquidation distance in percentage = 100 / 20 = 5%
Now you know that your liquidation price is 5% away from your entry price. Let's calculate 5% below and above the entry price of the asset you are currently trading. As an example, we assume that you are trading bitcoin which is currently priced at $35000.
the liquidation distance in price = $35000 x 0.05 = $1750
Finally, calculate liquidation prices.
the liquidation price (longs) = $35000 – $1750 = $33250
the liquidation price (short) = $35000 + $1750 = $36750
In this example, short liquidation price is $36750 and long liquidation price is $33250.
🔹How leverage ratio affects the liquidation price
The entry price is the starting point of the calculation and it is from here that the liquidation price is calculated, where the leverage ratio has a direct impact on the liquidation price since the more you borrow the less “wiggle-room” your trade has.
An increase in leverage will subsequently reduce the distance to full liquidation. On the contrary, choosing a lower leverage ratio will give the position more room to move on.
🔶 SETTINGS
🔹Liquidations Meter
Base Price: The option where to set the reference/base price.
🔹Liquidation Price Calculator
Liquidation Price Calculator: Toggles the visibility of the calculator. Details and assumptions made during the calculations are stated in the tooltip of the option.
Entry Price: The option where to set the entry price, a value of 0 will use the current closing price. Details are given in the tooltip of the option.
Leverage: The option where to set the leverage value.
Show Calculated Liquidation Prices on the Chart: Toggles the visibility of the liquidation prices on the price chart.
🔹Dashboard
Show Bar Statistics: Toggles the visibility of the last bar statistics.
🔹Others
Liquidations Meter Text Size: Liquidations Meter text size.
Liquidations Meter Offset: Liquidations Meter offset.
Dashboard/Calculator Placement: Dashboard/calculator position on the chart.
Dashboard/Calculator Text Size: Dashboard text size.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Here are some of the scripts that are related to the liquidation and liquidity concept, for more and other conceptual scripts you are kindly invited to visit LuxAlgo-Scripts .
Liquidation-Levels
Liquidations-Real-Time
Buyside-Sellside-Liquidity
Liquidation Estimates (Real-Time) [LuxAlgo]The Liquidation Estimates (Real-Time) experimental indicator attempts to highlight real-time long and short liquidations on all timeframes. Here with liquidations, we refer to the process of forcibly closing a trader's position in the market.
By analyzing liquidation data, traders can gauge market sentiment, identify potential support and resistance levels, identify potential trend reversals, and make informed decisions about entry and exit points.
🔶 USAGE
Liquidation refers to the process of forcibly closing a trader's position. It occurs when a trader's margin account can no longer support their open positions due to significant losses or a lack of sufficient margin to meet the maintenance requirements.
Liquidations can be categorized as either a long liquidation or a short liquidation. A long liquidation is a situation where long positions are being liquidated, while short liquidation is a situation where short positions are being liquidated.
The green bars indicate long liquidations – meaning the number of long positions liquidated in the market. Typically, long liquidations occur when there is a sudden drop in the asset price that is being traded. This is because traders who were bullish on the asset and had opened long positions on the same will now face losses since the market has moved against them.
Similarly, the red bars indicate short liquidations – meaning the number of short positions liquidated in the futures market. Short liquidations occur when there is a sudden spike in the price of the asset that is being traded. This is because traders who were bearish on the asset and had opened short positions will now face losses since the market has moved against them.
Liquidation patterns or clusters of liquidations could indicate potential trend reversals.
🔹 Dominance
Liquidation dominance (Difference) displays the difference between long and short liquidations, aiming to help identify the dominant side.
🔹 Total Liquidations
Total liquidations display the sum of long and short liquidations.
🔹 Cumulative Liquidations
Cumulative liquidations are essentially the cumulative sum of the difference between short and long liquidations aiming to confirm the trend and the strength of the trend.
🔶 DETAILS
It's important to note that liquidation data is not provided on the Trading View's platform or can not be fetched from anywhere else.
Yet we know that the liquidation data is closely tied in with trading volumes in the market and the movement in the underlying asset’s price. As a result, this script analyzes available data sources extracts the required information, and presents an educated estimate of the liquidation data.
The data presented does not reflect the actual individual quantitative value of the liquidation data, traders and analysts shall look to the changes over time and the correlation between liquidation data and price movements.
The script's output with the default option values has been visually checked/compared with the liquidation chart presented on coinglass.com.
🔶 SETTINGS
🔹Liquidations Input
Mode: defines the presentation of the liquidations chart. Details are given in the tooltip of the option.
Longs Reference Price: defines the base price in calculating long liquidations.
Shorts Reference Price: defines the base price in calculating short liquidations.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Liquidation-Levels
Liquidity-Sentiment-Profile
Buyside-Sellside-Liquidity
Liquidation Levels [LuxAlgo]The Liquidation Levels indicator aims at detecting and estimating potential price levels where large liquidation events may occur.
By analyzing liquidation Levels, traders can identify potential support & resistance levels, identify stop-loss levels, and gauge market sentiment and potential areas of price volatility.
🔶 USAGE
Liquidation refers to the process of forcibly closing a trader's leveraged positions in the market. It occurs when a trader's margin account can no longer support their open positions due to significant losses or a lack of sufficient margin to meet the maintenance margin requirements.
Liquidation events happen at all times and the script focuses on detecting the most significant ones. Bubbles will appear on the relevant price bar when larger trading activity has been detected. Larger bubbles represent more significant potential liquidation levels. The lines attached to the bubbles represent the liquidation zones at that price.
These liquidation levels are based on clusters of price points where highly leveraged traders open long or short positions. High leverage is identified as 100x, 50x, and 25x leverages used for both long and short positions. The script allows users to either remove or customize leverage levels.
Price generally heads towards zones or clusters of liquidity.
🔶 SETTINGS
🔹Liquidation Levels
Reference Price: defines the base price in calculating liquidation levels.
Volume Threshold: The volume threshold is the primary factor in detecting the significant trading activities that could potentially lead to liquidating leveraged positions.
Volatility Threshold: The volatility threshold option is the secondary factor that aims at detecting significant movement in the underlying asset’s price with relatively lower trading activities that could potentially also lead to liquidating high-leveraged positions.
Leverage Options: The leverage options are where the trader will set the desired leverage value and customize the potential liquidation level colors.
Hide Liquidation Bubbles: Toggles the visibility of the bubbles.
Hide Liquidation Levels: Toggles the visibility of the lines.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Liquidity-Sentiment-Profile
Buyside-Sellside-Liquidity
Crypto Liquidation HeatmapThis indicator is designed to identify potential areas of liquidations, in most crypto assets.
How does it work?
At the core of this indicator, it utilizes Open Interest (a statistic measuring the sum of all open futures positions), which I will refer to as OI.
The script monitors changes in OI, and then correlates these changes to the price action trend to derive an estimation of whether an increase in OI relates to an increase in Shorts or in Longs.
The trend is currently identified by the candle closing direction, therefore a bullish candle with increasing OI, results in the script counting an increase in Long Positions. Whereas a bearish candle and increasing OI, results in an increase of Short Positions.
Following that, the script estimates where these new positions will be liquidated (set either as a manual percentage, or using one of the defined presets).
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What makes this indicator unique from "Liquidation Levels" scripts, is the the way it groups potential liquidation volumes in segments, creating a cumulative view of liquidity potential - a true heatmap, not simply levels. To further clarify, liquidity within a set range is added to the segment of that range. The settings allow you to set the resolution of the range, according to preference. There is also an Automatic mode (at this moment limited to Bitcoin).
Regular OI Liquidation levels do not combine their volumes when overlapped, nor do they adhere to any ranges - making them scattered and not representative of the true liquidity in that area. This Liquidation Heatmap fixes all of those limitations.
Another unique addition to this Liquidation Heatmap, is my custom three tier color gradients with alpha support (transparency). This function allows a seamless transition of the coloring in liquidation potential from purple (minimum), to blue (medium), to yellow (maximum). This allows a larger range of liquidity identification, along with further aesthetic bonuses.
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How to use this indicator?
In general, such a tool can be used in numerous ways. It is not a standalone signal, meaning you should always compliment this tool with your own TA and reasoning.
One way of using this tool, is to anticipate that the price will continue on its trend, when you see it moving towards a zone of high liquidity (expecting that liquidity to be taken out).
Another way of using this tool, would be to anticipate a kickback after a liquidation event has taken place, thus returning to the mean.
