Trend Line Methods (TLM)Trend Line Methods (TLM)
Overview
Trend Line Methods (TLM) is a visual study designed to help traders explore trend structure using two complementary, auto-drawn trend channels. The script focuses on how price interacts with rising or falling boundaries over time. It does not generate trade signals or manage risk; its purpose is to support discretionary chart analysis.
Method 1 – Pivot Span Trendline
The Pivot Span Trendline method builds a dynamic channel from major swing points detected by pivot highs and pivot lows.
• The script tracks a configurable number of recent pivot highs and lows.
• From the oldest and most recent stored pivot highs, it draws an upper trend line.
• From the oldest and most recent stored pivot lows, it draws a lower trend line.
• An optional filled area can be drawn between the two lines to highlight the active trend span.
As new pivots form, the lines are recalculated so that the channel evolves with market structure. This method is useful for visualising how price respects a trend corridor defined directly by swing points.
Method 2 – 5-Point Straight Channel
The 5-Point Straight Channel method approximates a straight trend channel using five key points extracted from a fixed lookback window.
Within the selected window:
• The window is divided into five segments of similar length.
• In each segment, the highest high is used as a representative high point.
• In each segment, the lowest low is used as a representative low point.
• A straight regression-style line is fitted through the five high points to form the upper boundary.
• A second straight line is fitted through the five low points to form the lower boundary.
The result is a pair of straight lines that describe the overall directional channel of price over the chosen window. Compared to Method 1, this approach is less focused on the very latest swings and more on the broader slope of the market.
Inputs & Menus
Pivot Span Trendline group (Method 1)
• Enable Pivot Span Trendline – Turns Method 1 on or off.
• High trend line color / Low trend line color – Colors of the upper and lower trend lines.
• Fill color between trend lines – Base color used to shade the area between the two lines. Transparency is controlled internally.
• Trend line thickness – Line width for both high and low trend lines.
• Trend line style – Line style (solid, dashed, or dotted).
• Pivot Left / Pivot Right – Number of bars to the left and right used to confirm pivot highs and lows. Larger values produce fewer but more significant swing points.
• Pivot Count – How many historical pivot points are kept for constructing the trend lines.
• Lookback Length – Number of bars used to keep pivots in range and to extend the trend lines across the chart.
5-Point Straight Channel group (Method 2)
• Enable 5-Point Straight Channel – Turns Method 2 on or off.
• High channel line color / Low channel line color – Colors of the upper and lower channel lines.
• Channel line thickness – Line width for both channel lines.
• Channel line style – Line style (solid, dashed, or dotted).
• Channel Length (bars) – Lookback window used to divide price into five segments and build the straight high/low channel.
Using Both Methods Together
Both methods are designed to visualise the same underlying idea: price tends to move inside rising or falling channels. Method 1 emphasises the most recent swing structure via pivot points, while Method 2 summarises the broader channel over a fixed window.
When the Pivot Span Trendline corridor and the 5-Point Straight Channel boundaries align or intersect, they can highlight zones where multiple ways of drawing trend lines point to similar support or resistance areas. Traders can use these confluence zones as a visual reference when planning their own entries, exits, or risk levels, according to their personal trading plan.
Notes
• This script is meant as an educational and analytical tool for studying trend lines and channels.
• It does not generate trading signals and does not replace independent analysis or risk management.
• The behaviour of both methods is timeframe- and symbol-agnostic; they will adapt to whichever chart you apply them to.
Analisis Trend
Trend Following Volatility Trail*Script was previously removed by Moderators at 1.8k boosts* - This was out of my control. This script was very popular and seemed to help a lot of traders. I am re uploading to help the community!
Trend Following Volatility Trail
The Trend Following Volatility Trail is a dynamic trend-following tool that adapts its stop, bias, and zones to real-time volatility and trend strength. Instead of using static ATR multiples like a normal Supertrend or Chandelier Stop, it continuously adjusts itself based on how stretched the market is and how persistent the trend has been. This indicator is based on volatility weighted EMAC
This makes the system far more reactive during momentum phases and more conservative during consolidation, helping avoid fake flips and late entries.
How It Works
The indicator builds an adaptive trail around a smoothed price basis:
– It starts with a short EMA as the “core trend line.”
– It measures volatility expansion versus normal volatility.
– It measures trend persistence by reading whether price has been rising or falling consistently.
– These two components combine to adjust the ATR multiplier dynamically.
As volatility expands or the trend becomes more persistent, the bands widen.
When volatility compresses or the trend weakens, the bands tighten.
These adaptive bands form the foundation of the trailing system.
Bull & Bear State Logic
The tool constantly tracks whether price is above or below the adaptive trail:
Price above the upper trail → Bullish regime
Price below the lower trail → Bearish regime
But instead of flipping immediately, it waits for confirmation bars to avoid noise.
This greatly reduces whipsaws and keeps the focus on sustained moves.
Once a new regime is confirmed:
– A coloured cloud appears (bull or bear)
– A label marks the flip point
– Alerts can be triggered automatically
Best Uses
Identifying regime shifts early
Riding sustained trends with confidence
Avoiding choppy markets by requiring confirmation
Using the adaptive cloud as a directional bias layer
Percentage Distance from 200-Week SMA200-Week SMA % Distance Oscillator (Clean & Simple)
This lightweight, no-nonsense indicator shows how far the current price is from the classic 200-week Simple Moving Average, expressed as a percentage.
Key features:
• True percentage distance: (Price − 200w SMA) / 200w SMA × 100
• Auto-scaling oscillator (no forced ±100% range → the line actually moves and looks alive)
• Clean zero line
• +10% overbought and −10% oversold levels with subtle background shading
• Real-time table showing the exact current percentage
• Small label on the last bar for instant reading
• Alert conditions when price moves >10% above or below the 200-week SMA
Why 200-week SMA?
Many legendary investors and hedge funds (Stan Druckenmiller, Paul Tudor Jones, etc.) use the 200-week SMA as their ultimate long-term trend anchor. Being +10% or more above it has historically signaled extreme optimism, while −10% or lower has marked deep pessimism and generational buying opportunities.
Perfect for Bitcoin, SPX, gold, individual stocks – works on any timeframe (looks especially good on daily and weekly charts).
Open-source • No repainting • Minimalist & fast
Enjoy and trade well!
Distribution Day Grading [Blk0ut]Distribution Day Grading
This script is designed to give traders and investors a fast, objective, and modern read on market health by analyzing distribution days, and stall days, two forms of institutional selling that often begin to appear before trend weakness, failed breakouts, and sharp corrections.
The goal of this script isn’t to predict tops or bottoms, but instead, it measures the character of the tape in a way that’s simple, visual, and immediately actionable.
While distribution analysis has existed for decades, my implementation is, I think, a little more adaptive. Traditional rules for identifying distribution days, coming from CANSLIM methodology, were built for markets which had lower volatility, different liquidity profiles, and slower institutional rotation. This script updates the traditional method with modernized thresholds, recency-weighted decay, stall-day logic, and dynamic presets tuned uniquely for the personality of each major U.S. index (you can change the values yourself as well).
The results are displayed as a compact letter-grade that quantitatively reflects a measure of how much institutional supply has been hitting the market, as well as how recently. This helps determine whether conditions are supportive of breakouts, mean reversion trades, aggressive trend trades, or whether caution and lighter sizing are warranted.
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How It Works
The script evaluates each bar for two conditions:
1. Distribution Day
A bar qualifies as distribution when:
- Price closes down beyond a threshold (default 0.30%, adjustable)
- Volume is higher than the prior session (optional toggle)
Distribution days typically represent active institutional selling .
2. Stall Day
A softer form of supply:
-Price remains flat to slightly negative within a small threshold
-Close < open
-Volume higher than prior day
Stall days represent a passive distribution or hidden supply .
Each distribution day is counted as 1 unit by the script, each stall day as 0.5 units.
Recency Weighting
The script applies an optional half-life decay so that fresh distribution matters more than old distribution. This mimics the “aging out” effect that professional traders use, but does it in a smoother, more mathematically consistent way.
The script then produces:
A weighted distribution score
A raw distribution + stall count
A letter grade from A → F
Let's talk about the letters...
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Letter Grade Meaning
A — Very Healthy Tape
Minimal institutional selling.
Breakouts behave better, momentum holds, pullbacks are shallow, upside targets are hit more consistently.
B — Healthy / Slight Caution
Some isolated supply but nothing structural.
Conditions remain favorable for trend trades, pullbacks, and breakout continuation.
C — Mixed / Caution Warranted
Distribution is building.
Breakouts begin to fail faster, candles widen, rotation becomes unstable, and risk/reward compresses.
D — Weak / Risk Elevated
Institutional selling is becoming persistent.
Failed breakouts, sharp reversals, and failed rallies become more common. Position sizing should tighten.
F — Clear Deterioration
Broad, repeated institutional distribution.
This is where major tops, deeper pullbacks, and corrections often begin to form underneath the surface.
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Index-Tuned Presets (Auto Mode)
Market structure varies dramatically across indices.
To address this, the script includes auto-detect presets for:
SPY / SPX equivalents
QQQ / NASDAQ-100 equivalents
IWM / Russell 2000 equivalents
DIA / Dow 30 equivalents
Each preset contains optimized values based on volatility, liquidity, noise, and institutional behavior:
SPY / SPX
Low noise, deep liquidity → classic thresholds work well.
Distribution thresholds remain conservative.
QQQ
Higher volatility → requires a slightly larger down-percentage filter to avoid false signals.
IWM
Noisiest of the major indices → requires much stricter thresholds to filter out junk signals.
DIA
Slowest-moving index → tighter conditions catch real distribution earlier.
The script automatically detects which symbol family you’re viewing and loads the appropriate preset unless manual overrides are enabled.
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How to Interpret This Indicator
Grade A–B:
Breakouts have higher odds of clean continuation
Mean reversion is smoother
Position sizing can be more assertive
Grade C:
Start tightening risk
Focus on A- setups, not B- or C- risk ideas
Grade D–F:
Expect lower win rates
Expect breakout failures
Favor countertrend plays or reduced exposure
Take faster profits
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This indicator should help traders prevent themselves from fighting the tape or sizing aggressively when the underlying environment is deteriorating through:
- Modernized distribution logic, not the 1990s thresholds
- Recency-weighted decay instead of the old 5-week “aging out”
- Stall-day detection for subtle institutional supply
- Auto-presets tuned per index, adjusting thresholds to match volatility and liquidity
- Unified letter-grade scoring for visual clarity
- Independent application for any trading style, it helps with trend, momentum, mean reversion, and options
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Keep in mind: This script is provided strictly for educational and informational purposes.
Nothing in this indicator constitutes financial advice, trading advice, investment guidance, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security, option, cryptocurrency, or financial instrument.
No indicator should ever be used as the sole basis for a trading or investment decision.
Markets carry risk. Past performance does not predict future results.
Always perform your own analysis, use proper risk management, and consult a licensed professional if you need advice specific to your financial situation.
Happy Trading!
Blk0uts
Relative Performance Areas [LuxAlgo]The Relative Performance Areas tool enables traders to analyze the relative performance of any asset against a user-selected benchmark directly on the chart, session by session.
The tool features three display modes for rescaled benchmark prices, as well as a statistics panel providing relevant information about overperforming and underperforming streaks.
🔶 USAGE
Usage is straightforward. Each session is highlighted with an area displaying the asset price range. By default, a green background is displayed when the asset outperforms the benchmark for the session. A red background is displayed if the asset underperforms the benchmark.
The benchmark is displayed as a green or red line. An extended price area is displayed when the benchmark exceeds the asset price and is set to SPX by default, but traders can choose any ticker from the settings panel.
Using benchmarks to compare performance is a common practice in trading and investing. Using indexes such as the S&P 500 (SPX) or the NASDAQ 100 (NDX) to measure our portfolio's performance provides a clear indication of whether our returns are above or below the broad market.
As the previous chart shows, if we have a long position in the NASDAQ 100 and buy an ETF like QQQ, we can clearly see how this position performs against BTSUSD and GOLD in each session.
Over the last 15 sessions, the NASDAQ 100 outperformed the BTSUSD in eight sessions and the GOLD in six sessions. Conversely, it underperformed the BTCUSD in seven sessions and the GOLD in nine sessions.
🔹 Display Mode
The display mode options in the Settings panel determine how benchmark performance is calculated. There are three display modes for the benchmark:
Net Returns: Uses the raw net returns of the benchmark from the start of the session.
Rescaled Returns: Uses the benchmark net returns multiplied by the ratio of the benchmark net returns standard deviation to the asset net returns standard deviation.
Standardized Returns: Uses the z-score of the benchmark returns multiplied by the standard deviation of the asset returns.
Comparing net returns between an asset and a benchmark provides traders with a broad view of relative performance and is straightforward.
When traders want a better comparison, they can use rescaled returns. This option scales the benchmark performance using the asset's volatility, providing a fairer comparison.
Standardized returns are the most sophisticated approach. They calculate the z-score of the benchmark returns to determine how many standard deviations they are from the mean. Then, they scale that number using the asset volatility, which is measured by the asset returns standard deviation.
As the chart above shows, different display modes produce different results. All of these methods are useful for making comparisons and accounting for different factors.
🔹 Dashboard
The statistics dashboard is a great addition that allows traders to gain a deep understanding of the relationship between assets and benchmarks.
First, we have raw data on overperforming and underperforming sessions. This shows how many sessions the asset performance at the end of the session was above or below the benchmark.
Next, we have the streaks statistics. We define a streak as two or more consecutive sessions where the asset overperformed or underperformed the benchmark.
Here, we have the number of winning and losing streaks (winning means overperforming and losing means underperforming), the median duration of each streak in sessions, the mode (the number of sessions that occurs most frequently), and the percentages of streaks with durations equal to or greater than three, four, five, and six sessions.
As the image shows, these statistics are useful for traders to better understand the relative behavior of different assets.
🔶 SETTINGS
Benchmark: Benchmark for comparison
Display Mode: Choose how to display the benchmark; Net Returns: Uses the raw net returns of the benchmark. Rescaled Returns: Uses the benchmark net returns multiplied by the ratio of the benchmark and asset standard deviations. Standardized Returns: Uses the benchmark z-score multiplied by the asset standard deviation.
🔹 Dashboard
Dashboard: Enable or disable the dashboard.
Position: Select the location of the dashboard.
Size: Select the dashboard size.
🔹 Style
Overperforming: Enable or disable displaying overperforming sessions and choose a color.
Underperforming: Enable or disable displaying underperforming sessions and choose a color.
Benchmark: Enable or disable displaying the benchmark and choose colors.
Dresteghamat-Multi timeframe Regime & Exhaustion**Dresteghamat-Multi timeframe Regime & Exhaustion**
This script is a custom decision-support dashboard that aggregates volatility, momentum, and structural data across multiple timeframes to filter market noise. It addresses the problem of "Analysis Paralysis" by automating the correlation between lower timeframe momentum and higher timeframe structure using a weighted scoring algorithm.
### 🔧 Methodology & Calculation Logic
The core engine does not simply overlay indicators; it normalizes their outputs into a unified score (-100 to +100). The logic is hidden (Protected) to preserve the proprietary weighting algorithm, but the underlying concepts are as follows:
**1. Adaptive Timeframe Selection (Context Engine)**
Instead of static monitoring, the script detects the user's current chart timeframe (`timeframe.multiplier`) and dynamically assigns two relevant Higher Timeframes (HTF) as anchors.
* *Logic:* If Current TF < 5min, the script analyzes 15m and 1H data. If Current TF < 1H, it shifts to 4H and Daily data. This ensures the analysis is contextually relevant.
**2. Regime & Volatility Filter (ATR Based)**
We use the Average True Range (ATR) to determine the market regime (Trend vs. Range).
* **Calculation:** We compare the current Swing Range (High-Low lookback) against a smoothed ATR. A high Ratio (> 2.0) indicates a Trend Regime, activating Trend-Following logic. A low ratio dampens the signals.
**3. Directional Bias (Structure + Flow)**
Direction is not determined by a single crossover. It is a fusion of:
* **Swing Structure:** Using `ta.pivothigh/low` to identify Higher Highs/Lower Lows.
* **Volume Flow:** Calculating the cumulative delta of candle bodies over a lookback period.
* **Micro-Bias:** A short-term (default 5-bar) momentum filter to detect immediate order flow changes.
**4. Exhaustion Logic (Mean Reversion Warning)**
To prevent buying at tops, the script calculates an "Exhaustion Score" based on:
* **RSI Divergence:** Detecting discrepancies between price peaks and momentum.
* **Volatility Extension:** Identifying when price has deviated significantly from its volatility mean (VRSD logic).
* **Volume Anomalies:** Detecting low volume on new highs (Supply absorption).
### 📊 How to Read the Dashboard
The table displays the raw status of each timeframe. The **"MODE"** row is the output of the algorithmic decision tree:
* **BUY/SELL ONLY:** Generated when the Current TF momentum aligns with the dynamically selected HTF structure AND the Exhaustion Score is below the threshold (default 70).
* **PULLBACK:** Triggered when the HTF Structure is bullish, but Current Momentum is bearish (indicating a corrective phase).
* **HTF EXHAUST:** A safety warning triggered when the HTF Volatility or RSI metrics hit extreme levels, overriding any entry signals.
* **WAIT:** Default state when volatility is low (Range Regime) or signals conflict.
### ⚠️ Disclaimer
This tool provides algorithmic analysis based on historical price action and volatility metrics. It does not guarantee future results.
Bearish Engulfing Automatic Finding Script This is a bearish pattern formed by three candlesticks.
The pattern is based on the fact that the last candlestick must
completely engulf the previous two and be downward. The two preceding
candlesticks must also be upward. Candlestick wicks are not taken
into account.
Swing Traces [BigBeluga]🔵 OVERVIEW
The Swing Traces indicator identifies significant swing points in the market and extends them forward as fading traces. These traces represent the memory of recent highs and lows, showing how price interacts with past turning points over time. Traders can use the fading intensity and breakout signals to gauge when a swing has lost influence or when price reacts to it again.
🔵 CONCEPTS
Swing Detection – Detects recent upper and lower swing points using sensitivity-based highs and lows.
Trace Longevity – Each swing projects a “trace” forward in time, gradually fading with age until it expires.
Trace Size – Each trace is drawn with both a main level and a size extension (half of the bar range) to highlight swing influence.
Longevity Counters – Swings remain active for a customizable number of bars before fading out or being crossed by price.
Swing Retest – Labels appear when price retest above/below an active trace extension levels, confirming potential reversal.
🔵 FEATURES
Adjustable sensitivity length for swing detection.
Separate longevity controls for upper and lower swing traces.
Fading gradient coloring for visualizing how long a trace has been active.
Double-trace plotting: one at the swing level and one offset by trace size.
Clear BUY/SELL signals when price crosses a swing trace after it has matured.
🔵 HOW TO USE
Use blue (upper) traces as resistance zones; lime (lower) traces as support zones.
Watch for fading traces: the longer they persist, the weaker their influence becomes.
Retest dots (●) confirm when price retest a trace, signaling a potential reversal.
Shorter sensitivity values detect faster, smaller swings; longer values capture major swing structures.
Combine with trend indicators or volume to filter false breakout signals.
🔵 CONCLUSION
The Swing Traces indicator is a powerful tool for mapping price memory. By projecting recent swing highs and lows forward and fading them over time, it helps traders see where price may react, consolidate, or break through with strength. Its dynamic traces and breakout labels make it especially useful for swing traders, breakout traders, and liquidity hunters.
ITM EMA Scalper (9/15) + Dual Index ConfirmationITM EMA Scalper (9/15) + Dual Index Confirmation is a precision scalping tool designed for traders who want high-probability entries, tight risk, and clean momentum trades using ITM options on NIFTY & BANKNIFTY.
This indicator combines price action, EMA trend filters, momentum candle logic, and a dual-index confirmation system to eliminate fake signals and catch only high-quality moves.
🔥 Core Logic
This indicator uses:
9 EMA & 15 EMA for trend direction
EMA angle filter (≥30°) to ensure strong directional momentum
Momentum candle detection (Pin Bar, Big Body, Rejection Candle)
EMA touch/rejection logic for precision entries
Dual index alignment (NIFTY + BANKNIFTY) for institutional-level confirmation
Trades occur only when both indices agree, dramatically reducing false setups.
🎯 Entry Conditions
A BUY signal appears when:
9 EMA > 15 EMA
Both EMAs have strong upward slope
Momentum candle forms while touching/near EMAs
Candle closes bullish
Confirmation index (e.g., BankNifty) also bullish
A SELL signal is the exact opposite.
🛡 Risk Management Built-In
For every valid setup, the indicator automatically plots:
Entry level (break of candle high/low)
Stop-loss level (low/high of signal candle)
1:2 Risk–Reward Target
These lines extend until target or SL is hit (or are cleared automatically after N bars).
🧠 Why ITM Options?
Using ITM options gives:
Higher delta
Faster momentum capture
Lower time decay impact
Cleaner correlation with spot movement
Perfect for scalping.
📈 Ideal Timeframe
Designed for 5-minute charts
Works for both NIFTY and BANKNIFTY
⚡ Alerts Included
BUY Alert
SELL Alert
These alerts trigger exactly when the strategy identifies a high-probability setup.
🚫 Avoid False Signals
This indicator prevents trades if:
Trend is flat
EMAs lose angle
Opposite index contradicts the setup
Candle lacks momentum
Market is choppy or sideways
💡 Perfect For
Scalpers
Index option traders
ITM directional traders
Algo traders needing clean signal logic
Momentum strategy users
Reversal Correlation Pressure [OmegaTools]Reversal Correlation Pressure is a quantitative regime-detection and signal-filtering framework designed to enhance both reversal timing and breakout validation across intraday and multi-session markets.
It is built for discretionary and systematic traders who require a statistically grounded filter capable of adapting to changing market conditions in real time.
1. Purpose and Overview
Market conditions constantly rotate through phases of expansion, contraction, trend persistence, and noise-driven mean reversion. Many strategies break down not because the signal is wrong, but because the regime is unsuitable.
This indicator solves that structural problem.
The tool measures the evolving correlation relationship between highs and lows — a robust proxy for how “organized” or “fragmented” price discovery currently is — and transforms it into a regime pressure reading. This reading is then used as the core variable to validate or filter reversal and breakout opportunities.
Combined with an internal performance-based filter that learns from its past signals, the indicator becomes a dynamic decision engine: it highlights only the signals that statistically perform best under the current market regime.
2. Core Components
2.1 Correlation-Based Regime Mapping
The relationship between highs and lows contains valuable information about market structure:
High correlation generally corresponds to coherent, directional markets where momentum and breakouts tend to prevail.
Low or unstable correlation often appears in overlapping, rotational phases where price oscillates and mean-reversion behavior dominates.
The indicator continuously evaluates this correlation, normalizes it statistically, and displays it as a pressure histogram:
Higher values indicate regimes favorable to trend continuation or momentum breakouts.
Lower values indicate regimes where reversals, pullbacks, and fade setups historically perform better.
This regime mapping is the foundation upon which the adaptive filter operates.
2.2 Reversal Stress & Breakout Stress Signaling
Raw directional opportunities are identified using statistically significant deviations from short-term equilibrium (overbought/oversold dynamics).
However, unlike traditional mean-reversion or breakout tools, signals here are not automatically taken. They must first be validated by the regime framework and then compared against the performance of similar past setups.
This dual evaluation sharply reduces the noise associated with reversal attempts during strong trends, while also preventing breakout attempts during choppy, anti-directional conditions.
2.3 Adaptive Regime-Selection Backtester
A key innovation of this indicator is its embedded micro-backtester, which continuously tracks how reversal or breakout signals have performed under each correlation regime.
The system evaluates two competing hypotheses:
Signals perform better during high-correlation regimes.
Signals perform better during low-correlation or neutral regimes.
For each new trigger, the indicator looks back at a rolling sample of past setups and measures short-term performance under both regimes. It then automatically selects the regime that currently demonstrates the superior historical edge.
In other words, the indicator:
Learns from recent market behavior
Determines which regime supports reversals
Determines which regime supports breakouts
Applies the optimal filter in real time
Highlights only the signals that historically outperformed under similar conditions
This creates a dynamic, statistically supervised approach to signal filtering — a substantial improvement over static or fixed-threshold systems.
2.4 Visual Components
To support rapid decision-making:
Correlation Pressure Histogram:
Encodes regime strength through a gradient-based color system, transitioning from neutral contexts into strong structural phases.
Directional Markers:
Visual arrows appear when a signal passes all filters and conditions.
Bar Coloring:
Bars can optionally be recolored to reflect active bullish or bearish bias after the adaptive filter approves a signal.
These components integrate seamlessly to give the trader a concise but complete view of the underlying conditions.
3. How to Use This Indicator
3.1 Identifying Regimes
The histogram is the anchor:
High, brightly colored columns suggest trend-friendly behavior where breakout alignment and directional follow-through have historically been stronger.
Low or muted columns suggest mean-reversion contexts where counter-trend opportunities and reversal setups gain reliability.
3.2 Filtering Signals
The indicator automatically decides whether a reversal or breakout trigger should be respected based on:
the current correlation regime,
the learned performance of recent signals under similar conditions, and
the directional stress detected in price.
The user does not need to adjust anything manually.
3.3 Integration with Other Tools
This indicator works best when combined with:
VWAP or session levels
Market internals and breadth metrics
Volume, order flow, or delta-based tools
Local structural frameworks (support/resistance, liquidity highs and lows)
Its strength is in telling you when your other signals matter and when they should be ignored.
4. Strengths of the Framework
Automatically adapts to changing micro-regimes
Reduces false reversals during strong trends
Avoids false breakouts in overlapping, rotational markets
Learns from recent historical performance
Provides a statistically driven confirmation layer
Works on all liquid assets and timeframes
Suitable for both discretionary and automated environments
5. Disclaimer
This indicator is provided strictly for educational and analytical purposes.
It does not constitute trading advice, investment guidance, or a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument.
Past performance of any statistical filter or adaptive method does not guarantee future results.
All trading involves significant risk, and users are responsible for their own decisions and risk management.
By using this indicator, you acknowledge that you are fully responsible for your trading activity.
Advanced Linear Regression Pro [PointAlgo]Advanced Linear Regression Pro is an open-source tool designed to visualize market structure using linear regression, volatility bands, and optional volume-weighted calculations.
The indicator expands the concept of regression channels by adding higher-timeframe confluence, slope analysis, imbalance detection, and breakout highlighting.
Key Features
• Volume-Weighted Regression
Weights the regression curve based on volume to highlight periods of strong participation.
• Dynamic Standard-Deviation Bands
Upper and lower bands are derived from volatility to help visualize potential expansion or contraction zones.
• Multi-Timeframe (MTF) Regression
Plots higher-timeframe regression lines and bands for additional trend context.
• Slope Strength Analysis
Helps identify whether the current regression slope is trending upward, downward, or in a neutral range.
• Order Flow Imbalance Detection
Highlights bars where price and volume move unusually fast, which may indicate liquidity voids or imbalance zones.
• Breakout Markers
Shows simple visual markers when the price closes beyond volatility bands with volume confirmation.
These are visual signals only, not trading signals.
How to Use
This indicator is meant for visual market analysis, such as:
Observing trend direction through regression slope
Spotting volatility expansions
Comparing price against higher-timeframe regression structure
Identifying areas where price moves rapidly with volume
It can be used on any market or timeframe.
No part of this script is intended as financial advice or a complete trading system.
Sector Performance (2x12 Grid, labeled)Sector Performance Dashboard that tracks short-term and multi-interval returns for 24 major U.S. market ETFs. It renders a clean, color-coded performance grid directly on the chart, making sector rotation and broad-market strength/weakness easy to read at a glance.
The dashboard covers t wo full rows of liquid U.S. sector and thematic ETFs, including:
Row 1 (Core Market + GICS sectors)
SPY, QQQ, IWM, XLF, XLE, XLRE, XLY, XLU, XLP, XLI, XLV, XLB
Row 2 (Extended industries / themes)
XLF, XBI, XHB, CLOU, XOP, IGV, XME, SOXX, DIA, KRE, XLK, VIX (VX1!)
Key features include:
Time-interval selector (1–60 min, 1D, 1W, 1M, 3M, 12M)
Automatic rate-of-return calculation with inside/outside-bar detection
Two-row, twelve-column grid with dynamic layout anchoring (top/middle/bottom + left/center/right)
Uniform white text for clarity, while inside/outside candles retain custom colors
Adaptive transparency rules (heavy/avg/light) based on magnitude of % change
Ticker label normalization (cleans up prefixes like “CBOE_DLY:”)
Forex Session TrackerForex Session Tracker - Professional Trading Session Indicator
The Forex Session Tracker is a comprehensive and visually intuitive indicator designed specifically for forex traders who need precise tracking of major global trading sessions. This powerful tool helps traders identify active market sessions, monitor session-specific price ranges, and capitalize on volatility patterns unique to each trading period.
Understanding when major financial centers are active is crucial for forex trading success. This indicator provides real-time visualization of the Tokyo, London, New York, and Sydney trading sessions, allowing traders to align their strategies with peak liquidity periods and avoid low-volatility trading windows.
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Key Features
📊 Four Major Global Trading Sessions
The indicator tracks all four primary forex trading sessions with precision:
- Tokyo Session (Asian Market) - Captures the Asian trading hours, ideal for JPY, AUD, and NZD pairs
- London Session (European Market) - Monitors the most liquid trading period, perfect for EUR, GBP pairs
- New York Session (American Market) - Tracks US market hours, essential for USD-based currency pairs
- Sydney Session (Pacific Market) - Identifies the opening of the trading week and AUD/NZD activity
Each session is fully customizable with individual color schemes, making it easy to distinguish between different market periods at a glance.
🎯 Session Range Visualization
For each active trading session, the indicator automatically:
- Draws rectangular boxes that highlight the session's time period
- Tracks and displays session HIGH and LOW price levels in real-time
- Creates horizontal lines at session extremes for easy reference
- Positions session labels at the center of each trading period
- Updates dynamically as new highs or lows are formed within the session
This visual approach helps traders quickly identify:
- Session breakout opportunities
- Support and resistance zones formed during specific sessions
- Range-bound vs. trending session behavior
- Key price levels that institutional traders are watching
📱 Live Information Dashboard
A sleek, professional information panel displays:
- Real-time session status - Instantly see which sessions are currently active
- Color-coded indicators - Green dots for active sessions, gray for closed sessions
- Timezone information - Confirms your current timezone settings
- Customizable positioning - Place the dashboard anywhere on your chart (Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right)
- Adjustable size - Choose from Tiny, Small, Normal, or Large text sizes for optimal visibility
The dashboard provides at-a-glance awareness of market conditions without cluttering your chart analysis.
⚙️ Extensive Customization Options
Every aspect of the indicator can be tailored to your trading preferences:
Session-Specific Controls:
- Enable/disable individual sessions
- Customize colors for each trading period
- Adjust session times to match your broker's server time
- Toggle background highlighting on/off
- Show/hide session high/low lines independently
General Settings:
- UTC Offset Control - Adjust timezone from UTC-12 to UTC+14
- Exchange Timezone Option - Automatically use your chart's exchange timezone
- Background Transparency - Fine-tune the opacity of session highlighting (0-100%)
- Session Labels - Show or hide session name labels
- Information Panel - Toggle the live status dashboard on/off
Style Settings:
- Turn session backgrounds ON/OFF directly from the Style tab
- Maintain clean charts while keeping all analytical features active
🔔 Built-in Alert System
Stay informed about session openings with customizable alerts:
- Tokyo Session Started
- London Session Started
- New York Session Started
- Sydney Session Started
Set up notifications to never miss important market opening periods, even when you're away from your charts.
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How to Use This Indicator
For Day Traders:
1. Identify High-Volatility Periods - Focus your trading during London and New York session overlaps for maximum liquidity
2. Monitor Session Breakouts - Watch for price breaks above/below session highs and lows
3. Avoid Low-Volume Periods - Recognize when major sessions are closed to avoid false signals
For Swing Traders:
1. Mark Key Levels - Use session highs and lows as support/resistance zones
2. Track Multi-Session Patterns - Observe how price behaves across different trading sessions
3. Plan Entry/Exit Points - Time your trades around session openings for better execution
For Currency-Specific Traders:
1. JPY Pairs - Focus on Tokyo session movements
2. EUR/GBP Pairs - Monitor London session activity
3. USD Pairs - Track New York session volatility
4. AUD/NZD Pairs - Watch Sydney and Tokyo sessions
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Technical Specifications
- Pine Script Version: 5
- Overlay Indicator: Yes (displays directly on price chart)
- Maximum Bars Back: 500
- Drawing Objects: Up to 500 lines, boxes, and labels
- Performance: Optimized for real-time data processing
- Compatibility: Works on all timeframes (recommended: 5m to 1H for session tracking)
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Installation & Setup
1. Add to Chart - Click "Add to Chart" after copying the script to Pine Editor
2. Configure Timezone - Set your UTC offset or enable "Use Exchange Timezone"
3. Customize Colors - Choose your preferred color scheme for each session
4. Adjust Display - Enable/disable features based on your trading style
5. Set Alerts - Create alert notifications for session starts
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Best Practices
✅ Combine with Price Action - Use session ranges alongside candlestick patterns for confirmation
✅ Watch Session Overlaps - The London-New York overlap (1300-1600 UTC) typically shows highest volatility
✅ Respect Session Highs/Lows - These levels often act as intraday support and resistance
✅ Adjust for Your Broker - Verify session times match your broker's server clock
✅ Use Multiple Timeframes - View sessions on both lower (15m) and higher (1H) timeframes for context
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Why Choose Forex Session Tracker Pro?
✨ Professional Grade Tool - Built with clean, efficient code following TradingView best practices
✨ Beginner Friendly - Intuitive design with clear visual cues
✨ Highly Customizable - Adapt every feature to match your trading style
✨ Performance Optimized - Lightweight code that won't slow down your charts
✨ Actively Maintained - Regular updates and improvements
✨ No Repainting - All visual elements are fixed once the session completes
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Support & Updates
This indicator is designed to provide reliable, accurate session tracking for forex traders of all experience levels. Whether you're a scalper looking for high-volatility windows or a position trader marking key institutional levels, the Forex Session Tracker Pro delivers the insights you need to make informed trading decisions.
Happy Trading! 📈
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Disclaimer
This indicator is a tool for technical analysis and should be used as part of a comprehensive trading strategy. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always practice proper risk management and never risk more than you can afford to lose. Trading forex carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors.
Liquidity Void Zone Detector [PhenLabs]📊 Liquidity Void Zone Detector
Version: PineScript™v6
📌 Description
The Liquidity Void Zone Detector is a sophisticated technical indicator designed to identify and visualize areas where price moved with abnormally low volume or rapid momentum, creating "voids" in market liquidity. These zones represent areas where insufficient trading activity occurred during price movement, often acting as magnets for future price action as the market seeks to fill these gaps.
Built on PineScript v6, this indicator employs a dual-detection methodology that analyzes both volume depletion patterns and price movement intensity relative to ATR. The revolutionary 3D visualization system uses three-layer polyline rendering with adaptive transparency and vertical offsets, creating genuine depth perception where low liquidity zones visually recede and high liquidity zones protrude forward. This makes critical market structure immediately apparent without cluttering your chart.
🚀 Points of Innovation
Dual detection algorithm combining volume threshold analysis and ATR-normalized price movement sensitivity for comprehensive void identification
Three-layer 3D visualization system with progressive transparency gradients (85%, 78%, 70%) and calculated vertical offsets for authentic depth perception
Intelligent state machine logic that tracks consecutive void bars and only renders zones meeting minimum qualification requirements
Dynamic strength scoring system (0-100 scale) that combines inverted volume ratios with movement intensity for accurate void characterization
Adaptive ATR-based spacing calculation that automatically adjusts 3D layering depth to match instrument volatility
Efficient memory management system supporting up to 100 simultaneous void visualizations with automatic array-based cleanup
🔧 Core Components
Volume Analysis Engine: Calculates rolling volume averages and compares current bar volume against dynamic thresholds to detect abnormally thin trading conditions
Price Movement Analyzer: Normalizes bar range against ATR to identify rapid price movements that indicate liquidity exhaustion regardless of instrument or timeframe
Void Tracking State Machine: Maintains persistent tracking of void start bars, price boundaries, consecutive bar counts, and cumulative strength across multiple bars
3D Polyline Renderer: Generates three-layer rectangular polylines with precise timestamp-to-bar index conversion and progressive offset calculations
Strength Calculation System: Combines volume component (inverted ratio capped at 100) with movement component (ATR intensity × 30) for comprehensive void scoring
🔥 Key Features
Automatic Void Detection: Continuously scans price action for low volume conditions or rapid movements, triggering void tracking when thresholds are exceeded
Real-Time Visualization: Creates 3D rectangular zones spanning from void initiation to termination, with color-coded depth indicating liquidity type
Adjustable Sensitivity: Configure volume threshold multiplier (0.1-2.0x), price movement sensitivity (0.5-5.0x), and minimum qualifying bars (1-10) for customized detection
Dual Color Coding: Separate visual treatment for low liquidity voids (receding red) and high liquidity zones (protruding green) based on 50-point strength threshold
Optional Compact Labels: Toggle LV (Low Volume) or HV (High Volume) circular labels at void centers for quick identification without visual clutter
Lookback Period Control: Adjust analysis window from 5 to 100 bars to match your trading timeframe and market volatility characteristics
Memory-Efficient Design: Automatically manages polyline and label arrays, deleting oldest elements when user-defined maximum is reached
Data Window Integration: Plots void detection binary, current strength score, and average volume for detailed analysis in TradingView's data window
🎨 Visualization
Three-Layer Depth System: Each void is rendered as three stacked polylines with progressive transparency (85%, 78%, 70%) and calculated vertical offsets creating authentic 3D appearance
Directional Depth Perception: Low liquidity zones recede with back layer most transparent; high liquidity zones protrude with front layer most transparent for instant visual differentiation
Adaptive Offset Spacing: Vertical separation between layers calculated as ATR(14) × 0.001, ensuring consistent 3D effect across different instruments and volatility regimes
Color Customization: Fully configurable base colors for both low liquidity zones (default: red with 80 transparency) and high liquidity zones (default: green with 80 transparency)
Minimal Chart Clutter: Closed polylines with matching line and fill colors create clean rectangular zones without unnecessary borders or visual noise
Background Highlight: Subtle yellow background (96% transparency) marks bars where void conditions are actively detected in real-time
Compact Labeling: Optional tiny circular labels with 60% transparent backgrounds positioned at void center points for quick reference
📖 Usage Guidelines
Detection Settings
Lookback Period: Default: 10 | Range: 5-100 | Number of bars analyzed for volume averaging and void detection. Lower values increase sensitivity to recent changes; higher values smooth detection across longer timeframes. Adjust based on your trading timeframe: short-term traders use 5-15, swing traders use 20-50, position traders use 50-100.
Volume Threshold: Default: 1.0 | Range: 0.1-2.0 (step 0.1) | Multiplier applied to average volume. Bars with volume below (average × threshold) trigger void conditions. Lower values detect only extreme volume depletion; higher values capture more moderate low-volume situations. Start with 1.0 and decrease to 0.5-0.7 for stricter detection.
Price Movement Sensitivity: Default: 1.5 | Range: 0.5-5.0 (step 0.1) | Multiplier for ATR-normalized price movement detection. Values above this threshold indicate rapid price changes suggesting liquidity voids. Increase to 2.0-3.0 for volatile instruments; decrease to 0.8-1.2 for ranging or low-volatility conditions.
Minimum Void Bars: Default: 10 | Range: 1-10 | Minimum consecutive bars exhibiting void conditions required before visualization is created. Filters out brief anomalies and ensures only sustained voids are displayed. Use 1-3 for scalping, 5-10 for intraday trading, 10+ for swing trading to match your time horizon.
Visual Settings
Low Liquidity Color: Default: Red (80% transparent) | Base color for zones where volume depletion or rapid movement indicates thin liquidity. These zones recede visually (back layer most transparent). Choose colors that contrast with your chart theme for optimal visibility.
High Liquidity Color: Default: Green (80% transparent) | Base color for zones with relatively higher liquidity compared to void threshold. These zones protrude visually (front layer most transparent). Ensure clear differentiation from low liquidity color.
Show Void Labels: Default: True | Toggle display of compact LV/HV labels at void centers. Disable for cleaner charts when trading; enable for analysis and review to quickly identify void types across your chart.
Max Visible Voids: Default: 50 | Range: 10-100 | Maximum number of void visualizations kept on chart. Each void uses 3 polylines, so setting of 50 maintains 150 total polylines. Higher values preserve more history but may impact performance on lower-end systems.
✅ Best Use Cases
Gap Fill Trading: Identify unfilled liquidity voids that price frequently returns to, providing high-probability retest and reversal opportunities when price approaches these zones
Breakout Validation: Distinguish genuine breakouts through established liquidity from false breaks into void zones that lack sustainable volume support
Support/Resistance Confluence: Layer void detection over key horizontal levels to validate structural integrity—levels within high liquidity zones are stronger than those in voids
Trend Continuation: Monitor for new void formation in trend direction as potential continuation zones where price may accelerate due to reduced resistance
Range Trading: Identify void zones within consolidation ranges that price tends to traverse quickly, helping to avoid getting caught in rapid moves through thin areas
Entry Timing: Wait for price to reach void boundaries rather than entering mid-void, as voids tend to be traversed quickly with limited profit-taking opportunities
⚠️ Limitations
Historical Pattern Indicator: Identifies past liquidity voids but cannot predict whether price will return to fill them or when filling might occur
No Volume on Forex: Indicator uses tick volume for forex pairs, which approximates but doesn't represent true trading volume, potentially affecting detection accuracy
Lagging Confirmation: Requires minimum consecutive bars (default 10) before void is visualized, meaning detection occurs after void formation begins
Trending Market Behavior: Strong trends driven by fundamental catalysts may create voids that remain unfilled for extended periods or permanently
Timeframe Dependency: Detection sensitivity varies significantly across timeframes; settings optimized for one timeframe may not perform well on others
No Directional Bias: Indicator identifies liquidity characteristics but provides no predictive signal for price direction after void detection
Performance Considerations: Higher max visible void settings combined with small minimum void bars can generate numerous visualizations impacting chart rendering speed
💡 What Makes This Unique
Industry-First 3D Visualization: Unlike flat volume or liquidity indicators, the three-layer rendering with directional depth perception provides instant visual hierarchy of liquidity quality
Dual-Mode Detection: Combines both volume-based and movement-based detection methodologies, capturing voids that single-approach indicators miss
Intelligent Qualification System: State machine logic prevents premature visualization by requiring sustained void conditions, reducing false signals and chart clutter
ATR-Normalized Analysis: All detection thresholds adapt to instrument volatility, ensuring consistent performance across stocks, forex, crypto, and futures without constant recalibration
Transparency-Based Depth: Uses progressive transparency gradients rather than colors or patterns to create depth, maintaining visual clarity while conveying information hierarchy
Comprehensive Strength Metrics: 0-100 void strength calculation considers both the degree of volume depletion and the magnitude of price movement for nuanced zone characterization
🔬 How It Works
Phase 1: Real-Time Detection
On each bar close, the indicator calculates average volume over the lookback period and compares current bar volume against the volume threshold multiplier
Simultaneously measures current bar's high-low range and normalizes it against ATR, comparing the result to price movement sensitivity parameter
If either volume falls below threshold OR movement exceeds sensitivity threshold, the bar is flagged as exhibiting void characteristics
Phase 2: Void Tracking & Qualification
When void conditions first appear, state machine initializes tracking variables: start bar index, initial top/bottom prices, consecutive bar counter, and cumulative strength accumulator
Each subsequent bar with void conditions extends the tracking, updating price boundaries to envelope all bars and accumulating strength scores
When void conditions cease, system checks if consecutive bar count meets minimum threshold; if yes, proceeds to visualization; if no, discards the tracking and resets
Phase 3: 3D Visualization Construction
Calculates average void strength by dividing cumulative strength by number of bars, then determines if void is low liquidity (>50 strength) or high liquidity (≤50 strength)
Generates three polyline layers spanning from start bar to end bar and from top price to bottom price, each with calculated vertical offset based on ATR
Applies progressive transparency (85%, 78%, 70%) with layer ordering creating recession effect for low liquidity zones and protrusion effect for high liquidity zones
Creates optional center label and pushes all visual elements into arrays for memory management
Phase 4: Memory Management & Display
Continuously monitors polyline array size (each void creates 3 polylines); when total exceeds max visible voids × 3, deletes oldest polylines via array.shift()
Similarly manages label array, removing oldest labels when count exceeds maximum to prevent memory accumulation over extended chart history
Plots diagnostic data to TradingView’s data window (void detection binary, current strength, average volume) for detailed analysis without cluttering main chart
💡 Note:
This indicator is designed to enhance your market structure analysis by revealing liquidity characteristics that aren’t visible through standard price and volume displays. For best results, combine void detection with your existing support/resistance analysis, trend identification, and risk management framework. Liquidity voids are descriptive of past market behavior and should inform positioning decisions rather than serve as standalone entry/exit signals. Experiment with detection parameters across different timeframes to find settings that align with your trading style and instrument characteristics.
ZigZagZigZag Indicator – Overview
This ZigZag indicator highlights the most important swing highs and swing lows on the chart, helping traders see market structure more clearly by filtering out minor price movements. It connects significant turning points with straight lines, creating a clean visual representation of trend direction and major reversals.
How It Works
Price constantly moves up and down, but not every movement is meaningful. The ZigZag indicator waits for price to make a move large enough to be considered a true swing point. Once such a movement occurs, the indicator identifies it as either a swing high or a swing low and draws a line connecting it to the previous swing.
This produces a simplified outline of market structure, making it easier to recognize trends, corrections, and major turning points.
Settings
ZigZag Length
Controls the sensitivity of the indicator.
Lower values produce more frequent swing points.
Higher values show only major swings and reduce noise.
Show ZigZag
Enables or disables the visual lines. When disabled, the indicator continues tracking swing points internally.
What You See on the Chart
Every time the market creates a confirmed swing high or swing low, the indicator draws a line to the previous swing in the opposite direction.
After a major low is confirmed, a line is drawn to the most recent high.
After a major high is confirmed, a line is drawn to the most recent low.
This creates a clear, continuous zigzag that outlines the dominant movements of the market without reacting to every small fluctuation.
Why This ZigZag Is Useful
It does not repaint once a swing is confirmed.
It provides a clean and simplified view of price structure.
It helps identify trend direction, structure breaks, impulses, and corrections.
It is useful for traders who follow price action, smart money concepts, and swing-based strategies.
Recommended Use Cases
This ZigZag indicator is suited for traders who rely on market structure analysis, including:
Swing trading
Smart Money Concepts (BOS/CHOCH detection)
Identifying impulses and pullbacks
Finding strong highs and lows
Studying overall trend direction
Daily Candle by NatantiaIntroduction to the Daily Candle Indicator
The Daily Candle Indicator is a powerful and customizable tool designed for traders to visualize daily price action on any chart timeframe.
This Pine Script (version 5) indicator, built for platforms like TradingView, overlays a single candle representing the day's open, high, low, and close prices, with options to adjust its appearance and session focus.
Key Features:
Customizable Appearance: Users can set the colors for bullish (default green) and bearish (default white) candles, as well as the wick color (default white). The horizontal offset and candle thickness can also be adjusted to fit the chart layout.
Dynamic Updates: The candle updates on the last bar, with wicks drawn to reflect the daily high and low, providing a clear snapshot of the day's price movement.
This is the same version as before, but we had to republish it because the chart contained other indicators, which violated the publication rules. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Have a nice trades!
-Natantia
Swing Point PnL PressureThis indicator visualizes the cumulative profit potential of bulls and bears based on recent swing highs and lows — offering a unique lens into trend maturity, sentiment imbalance, and exhaustion risk.
🟢 Bull PnL rises as price moves above prior swing lows — reflecting unrealized gains for long positions
🔴 Bear PnL rises as price drops below prior swing highs — capturing short-side profitability
Over time, these curves diverge during strong trends, revealing which side is in control. But when they converge, it often signals that the dominant side is losing steam — a potential turning point where profit-taking, traps, or reversals may emerge.
This tool doesn’t predict tops or bottoms — it tracks the emotional and financial pressure building on each side of the market. Use it to:
Spot trend exhaustion before price confirms it
Identify profit parity zones where sentiment may flip
Time accumulation or distribution phases with greater confidence
Whether you’re swing trading or analyzing macro structure, this indicator helps you see what price alone can’t: who’s winning, who’s trapped, and who’s about to give up.
Rasta Long/Short — StrategyThe Rasta Long/Short Strategy is a visual and educational framework designed to help traders study momentum shifts that appear when a fast EMA interacts with a slower smoothed baseline.
It is not a signal service. Instead, it is a research tool that helps you observe transitions, structure, and behavior across different market conditions and smoothing contexts.
The script plots:
A primary EMA line (fast reaction wave).
A Smoothed line (your chosen smoothing method).
Color-coded fog regions showing directional bias.
Optional DNA rung connections between the two lines for structural comparison.
Together, these allow a deeper study of how momentum pushes, volatility compression, expansions, and drift emerge around fast/slow EMA interactions.
✦ Core Idea
The Rasta Long/Short mechanism studies how price behaves when the fast EMA crosses above or below a smoothed anchor.
Rather than predicting price, it reveals where transitions occur across different structures, timeframes, and smoothing techniques.
The Long/Short logic simply highlights flips in directional structure.
It is not intended for real-time signals or automated execution; it is intended for understanding market movement.
✦ Smoothing Types (Explained)
The strategy allows experimenting with several smoothing families to observe how they transform the fast EMA:
SMA (Simple Moving Average)
Averaged, slower response. Good for stability comparisons.
EMA (Exponential)
Faster reaction, more responsive, smoother behavior during momentum.
RMA (Wilder’s)
Used in RSI calculations; steady, well-balanced response.
WMA (Weighted)
More weight to recent bars; bridges SMA and EMA dynamics.
None
Raw EMA vs EMA interaction with no secondary smoothing.
Each smoothing type provides unique structural information and can lead to different interpretations.
✦ Modes of Study
Designed for multi-timeframe research:
1H / 4H — Momentum flow mapping and structural identification.
Daily / Weekly — Higher-timeframe rotations, macro structure transitions.
1–15m — Microstructure studies, noise vs trend emergence.
Use the built-in Strategy Tester to explore entry/exit context, but treat results as research, not predictive performance.
✦ Components (Visual Study Tools)
EMA Line (Fast)
Primary reactive wave. Shows fast directional shifts.
Smoothed Line (Slow)
Trend baseline / reference structure.
Fog Region
Highlights fast-vs-smoothed directional alignment.
DNA Rungs (Optional)
Structural “bridges” showing the exact relationship between waves on each bar.
Useful for studying separation, compression, and expansions.
✦ Educational Insights
This strategy helps illuminate:
How fast and slow EMAs interact dynamically.
How structure changes precede trend emergence.
Where volatility compresses before expansion.
How noise, drift, and clean reversals differ.
How different smoothers alter the interpretation of the same price data.
The goal is clarity — not prediction.
✦ How to Use
Apply to any timeframe or instrument.
Enable or disable fog depending on preferred visibility.
Use DNA rungs for close structural comparison.
Observe long/short flips as educational reference points — not signals.
Study transitions visually, then backtest using the Strategy Tester for pattern research.
✦ Disclaimer
This script is provided for educational and research purposes only.
It does not provide trading signals, financial advice, or recommendations.
Past behavior does not indicate future performance.
Always practice risk-aware study and consult qualified financial professionals when needed.
✦ Author
Michael Culpepper (mikeyc747)
Creator of the Rasta framework and related market structure studies.
Elder Force Index Alexander Elder's volume indicator. Stay in long as long as the background is green and there are no green crosses. The same applies for short.
VWAP TrendSignalVWAP TrendSignal
VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price) is the market’s true fair value — the benchmark institutions use to see when price is balanced, extended, or trending with real intent.
Price often snaps back when it moves too far (mean reversion), and only shows genuine strength when it holds above or below VWAP.
VWAP TrendSignal makes this insight effortless by color-coding VWAP direction:
Yellow = VWAP rising → bullish pressure
Red = VWAP falling → bearish pressure
No bands. No noise. Just pure directional clarity.
Anchor VWAP to the Session, Week, Month, Quarter, or Year, and tailor the Slope Smoothing Filter to your timeframe:
1–2 smoothing → fast & reactive (1–5m scalping)
3–5 smoothing → clean & stable (5–15m intraday)
6–10 smoothing → slow flips (1H–4H swings)
10–15 smoothing → macro bias only (Daily/Weekly)
The line adapts to how you trade.
How to Use It
Mean Reversion
When price stretches far from VWAP, expect pullbacks or snapbacks.
Trend Direction
Yellow supports long bias, red supports short bias.
Simple, reliable, instantly visible.
Balance Zones
Price sitting near VWAP = compression, buildup, or chop.
A perfect signal to wait or prepare for a breakout.
Why It Works
VWAP TrendSignal distills institutional logic into a clean, single-line tool.
It shows fair value, trend slope, and balance all at once — making your chart clearer and your decisions faster.
Once you get used to reading it, trading without it feels blind.
Relative Strength TableRelative Strength Table
1. Overview and Key Features
The Relative Strength Table is an indicator that compares multiple tickers against a benchmark (default: SPY) and displays their relative strength.
It is designed to help analyze stock leadership, sector trends, and portfolio performance in one consolidated table.
You can freely input up to 20 tickers from the Inputs panel, allowing flexible comparisons.
(If 20 tickers feel too limited, let me know in the comments — I’ll expand it.)
2. How the RS Percentile Is Calculated and What It Means
The RS Percentile shows how strong the current price ratio is compared to past data, expressed as a percentile rank.
First, the indicator calculates the price ratio by dividing the ticker’s close by the benchmark’s close.
Then, it compares the latest ratio with historical ratio data and determines its percentile value.
Examples:
・80% or higher → relatively strong
・Around 50% → neutral
・40% or below → relatively weak
3. Indicator Features and Customization
3-1. RS Lookback Settings
You can set up to four lookback periods for RS calculation and customize the bar count for each.
Default values are 5, 21, 63, and 126 bars.
You can choose which column to sort by, and the selected column is marked with an asterisk.
Each RS column can be shown or hidden individually via checkboxes.
3-2. Visual Highlight Settings
Relative strength can be color-coded for clarity.
You can freely customize:
・Highlight colors
・Threshold values
・On/off toggles for each highlight layer
3-3. Default Tickers and Reset Function
These 16 sector ETFs are included as the default ticker set:
QQQ, QQQE, RSP, DIA, IWM, XLV, XLE, XLF, XLRE, XLB, XLP, XLU, XLY, XLK, XLC, XLI
You can return to the default list anytime by pressing the refresh button next to the ticker fields.
4. Use Cases and Analysis Examples
4-1. Sector Rotation Analysis
By comparing RS across multiple periods, you can easily identify:
・Sectors gaining short-term strength
・Sectors with steady long-term inflows
A sharp rise in short-term RS may signal the early stages of a rotation.
4-2. Identifying Leaders Within a Sector
You can compare up to 20 tickers at once, making it easy to spot true sector leaders.
4-3. Objective Evaluation of Portfolio Holdings
By entering your portfolio tickers, you can instantly see:
・Whether each name is outperforming or underperforming
・Which timeframes show strength
・How each ticker compares to the benchmark
Faraz Perfect Structure XL / XS (Trend-Filtered)Faraz’s Perfect Structure XL/XS identifies premium trend continuation and reversal setups using a three-filter system:
structural breakouts using dynamic swing-based support/resistance,
trend confirmation via 200-EMA slope,
momentum validation through RSI and MACD.
Signals only trigger when all factors align, eliminating noise, chop, and false signals.
Designed for traders who want clean, high-probability long (XL) and short (XS) entries.
EMA 50/200 Pullback + RSI (BTC/USDT 15m - 2 Bar Logic)I recognize that combining indicators requires clear justification on how the components interact Therefore the new scripts description will explicitly detail the strategys operational logic
Objective The strategy is a Trend Following Pullback System designed for high frequency time frames 15m
Synergy The EMA50 EMA200 defines the primary Trend Direction Trend Filter It then utilizes a 2 Bar Pullback Logic to find an entry point where the price has momentarily reversed against the trendline and the RSI 14 serves as a Momentum Filter RSI greater than 50 for Long RSI less than 50 for Short to minimize false signals
