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This indicator is designed for intraday, scalping, providing automated detection of price pivots, liquidity traps, and breakout confirmations, along with a context dashboard featuring volatility, trend, and volume.
## Summary Description
### Menu Settings & Their Roles
- **Swing Pivot Strength**: Controls the sensitivity for detecting High/Low pivots.
- **Show Pivot Points**: Toggles the display of HH/LL markers on the chart.
- **VWMA Length for Trap Volume** & **Volume Spike Multiplier**: Identify concentrated volume spikes for liquidity traps.
- **Wick Ratio Threshold** & **Max Body Size Ratio**: Detect candles with disproportionate wicks and small bodies (doji-ish) for traps.
- **ATR Length for Trap**: Measures volatility specific to trap detection.
- **VWMA Length for Breakout Volume**, **ATR Multiplier for Breakout**, **ATR Length for Breakout**, **Min Body/Range Ratio**: Set adaptive breakout thresholds based on volatility and volume.
- **OBV Smooth Length**: Smooths OBV momentum for breakout confirmation.
- **Enable VWAP Filter for Confirmations**: Optionally validate breakouts against the VWAP.
- **Enable Higher-TF Trend Filter** & **Trend Filter Timeframe**: Align breakout signals with the 1h/4h/Daily trend.
- **ADX Length**, **EMA Fast/Slow Length for Context**: Parameters for the context dashboard (Volatility, Trend, Volume).
- **Show Intraday VWAP Line**, **VWAP Line Color/Width**: Display the intraday VWAP line with custom style.
### Signal Interpretation Map
| Signal | Description | Recommended Action |
|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| 📌 **HH / LL (pivot)** | Market structure (support/resistance) | Note key levels |
| **Bull Trap(green diamond)** | Sweep down + volume spike + wick + rejection | Go long with trend filter
| **Bear Trap(red diamond)** | Sweep up + volume spike + wick + rejection | Go short with trend filter
| 🔵⬆️ **Breakout Confirmed Up** | Close > ATR‑scaled high + volume + OBV↑ | Go long with trend filter |
| 🔵⬇️ **Breakout Confirmed Down** | Close < ATR‑scaled low + volume + OBV↓ | Go short with trend filter |
| 📊 **VWAP Line** | Intraday reference to guide price | Use as dynamic support/resistance |
| ⚡ **Volatility** | ATR ratio High/Med/Low | Adjust position size |
| 📈 **Trend Context** | ADX+EMA Strong/Moderate/Weak | Confirm trend direction |
| 🔍 **Volume Context** | Breakout / Rising / Falling / Calm | Check volume momentum |
*This summary gives you a quick overview of the key settings and how to interpret signals for efficient intraday scalping.*
### Suggested Settings
- **Intraday Scalping (5m–15m)**
- `Swing Pivot Strength = 5`
- `VWMA Length for Trap Volume = 10`, `Volume Spike Multiplier = 1.6`
- `ATR Length for Trap = 7`
- `VWMA Length for Breakout Volume = 12`, `ATR Length for Breakout = 9`, `ATR Multiplier for Breakout = 0.5`
- `Min Body/Range Ratio for Breakout = 0.5`, `OBV Smooth Length = 7`
- `Enable Higher-TF Trend Filter = true` (TF = 60)
- `Show Intraday VWAP Line = true` (Color = orange, Width = 2)
- **Swing Trading (4h–Daily)**
- `Swing Pivot Strength = 10`
- `VWMA Length for Trap Volume = 20`, `Volume Spike Multiplier = 2.0`
- `ATR Length for Trap = 14`
- `VWMA Length for Breakout Volume = 30`, `ATR Length for Breakout = 14`, `ATR Multiplier for Breakout = 0.8`
- `Min Body/Range Ratio for Breakout = 0.7`, `OBV Smooth Length = 14`
- `Enable Higher-TF Trend Filter = true` (TF = D)
- `Show Intraday VWAP Line = false`
*Adjust these values based on the symbol and market volatility for optimal performance.*
Traps
Are stop orders making money? [yohtza]Who is this indicator for and what does it do?
This is an indicator that helps price action traders in determining the strength of the trend and potential counter trend traps that present themselves during the move. It highlights the background of the bar at which counter trend traders that trade with stop orders (breakout entries) were able to achieve the same amount of reward as was their risk for that trade.
What is it based on?
When there is a strong trend in effect, the counter trend traders are unable to buy above(in bear trend) or sell below (in bull trend) a bar with a stop order and get an equal reward for the risk they are taking.
The first time counter trend traders are able to buy and make money in bear or sell and make money in bull it is a warning sign that market is likely transitioning into trading range phase of the market cycle.
Another application of the indicator is for discovering potential traps. If market comes very close to the take profit level of counter trend traders and reverses, they will usually try to get out with as much profit or as small of a loss as possible and that will often create a fast move (also called giving up) and a good with trend entry.
How does it work?
The indicator is using exponential moving average as a filter for when the market is trending and then scans for signals where counter trend traders enter. Next it looks if the stoploss or profit target was hit for that trade. If the profit target was hit it draws a box around the bar on which the traders entered, the box height is based on stoploss and profit target price levels.
Indicator inputs
- Scan for doji signal bars
When this option is selected, bars that have small bodies (less than 50% of their height) are also included as bars on which counter traders enter. If the option is not selected it only looks for bull trend bars (bodies are greater than 50% of their height) below the moving average and bear trend bars above the moving average.
- Border and background colors and border style
It is possible to select different colors and chose between solid, dashed and dotted borders
- Ema period
Default setting is 20 bar exponential moving average but feel free to use which you prefer
- Tick value
This is the value of the minimal movement of the chart you are trading on. For example for S&P 500 E-mini futures the value is 0.25 and that is the default setting.
