AR-Volume Profile

AR-Volume Profile plots two volume profiles on your chart at the same time:
• Daily Volume Profiles (multiple days back, always visible)
• Hourly Volume Profiles (last N hours, designed for ≤ 15m timeframes)
It’s built to stay clean, readable, and performance-safe, while still letting you see where volume built up across recent structure.
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What You See On Chart
- Daily Profiles (Multi-day) Increased using Polylines
• Shows Volume Profile histograms for the last X days back (you choose).
• Each day is drawn as a horizontal histogram inside that day’s session.
• Color logic:
o Base (all volume)
o Value Area (VA)
o POC (Point of Control)
- Daily Levels (POC / VAH / VAL)
• Adds optional horizontal levels:
o POC
o VAH
o VAL
• You can choose whether to draw these:
o Today only, or
o Past days too (if enabled in your version)
• Levels can optionally extend to the right to act like HTF references.
- Hourly Profiles (Intraday context)
• Shows profiles for the last N hours (you choose).
• Meant to be used on 15m and below for clean intraday mapping.
• Optional hourly level lines are available too.
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How It Calculates Volume
This is a bar-based approximation of a volume profile:
• Each candle’s volume is distributed across its price range based on overlap with bins.
• Flat candles (very small range) are placed into the nearest bin.
• This gives a reliable “where volume accumulated” view without needing exchange order-by-order data.
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Key Inputs Explained
Daily Profile (Always Visible)
• Days back to show (Daily)
How many previous daily profiles you want displayed.
• Daily bins
Higher bins = more detail (but higher object usage).
• Daily Value Area %
Default 70% like traditional VP.
• Daily profile width (% of day)
Controls how wide the histogram is inside the day.
• Daily profile side
Left or Right inside each day.
• Show Daily POC/VAH/VAL lines
Enable level lines.
• Extend Daily levels to the right
Makes daily levels act like forward HTF liquidity/targets.
Hourly Profile (15m and below)
• How many hours
Number of hourly profiles to display.
• Hourly bins
• Hourly profile width (% of hour)
• Hourly profile side
• Show Hourly POC/VAH/VAL lines
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Best Use Cases
- Intraday trading (scalping + day trading)
- Mapping premium/discount volume build-ups
- Pairing with:
• liquidity sweeps
• order blocks
• HTF levels
• session ranges
• breaker / mitigation concepts
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Recommended Settings (Practical)
If you want more daily history, you must balance line budget.
Example setups:
“Clean Daily Focus” (more days)
• Daily bins: 60–80
• Days back: 10–20
• Hours: 0–4 (or lower)
• Budget mode: Daily First
“Intraday Heavy” (more hourly detail)
• Hourly bins: 30–50
• Hours: 8–12
• Days back: 3–7
• Budget mode: Hourly First
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Notes / Limitations
• Hourly profiles are designed for ≤ 15m timeframes.
• This uses approximate volume distribution from candle ranges (not exchange tick VP).
• If volume data is missing on the symbol/broker, results will be less meaningful.
• Visual output depends on instrument liquidity + chart zoom.