OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT
Prev Day Volume Profile
What the script does
Calculates yesterday’s Volume Profile from the bars on your chart (not tick data) and derives:
POC (Point of Control)
VAL (Value Area Low)
VAH (Value Area High)
Draws three horizontal lines for today:
POC in orange
VAL and VAH in purple
Adds labels on the right edge that show the level name and the exact price (e.g., POC 1.2345).
Why it’s bar-based (not tick-based)
Pine Script can’t fetch external tick/aggTrades data. The script approximates a volume profile by distributing each bar’s volume across the price bins that the bar’s high–low range covers. For “yesterday”, this produces a stable, TV-native approximation that’s usually sufficient for intraday trading.
Key inputs
Value Area %: Defaults to 0.70 (70%)—the typical value area range.
TZ Offset vs Exchange (hours): Shifts the day boundary to match your desired session (e.g., Europe/Berlin: +1 winter / +2 summer). This ensures “yesterday” means 00:00–24:00 in your target timezone.
Row Size: Manual? / Manual Row Size: If enabled, you can set the price bin size yourself. Otherwise, the script chooses a TV-like step from syminfo.mintick.
Colors & Line width: POC orange; VAL/VAH purple; configurable width.
Calculates yesterday’s Volume Profile from the bars on your chart (not tick data) and derives:
POC (Point of Control)
VAL (Value Area Low)
VAH (Value Area High)
Draws three horizontal lines for today:
POC in orange
VAL and VAH in purple
Adds labels on the right edge that show the level name and the exact price (e.g., POC 1.2345).
Why it’s bar-based (not tick-based)
Pine Script can’t fetch external tick/aggTrades data. The script approximates a volume profile by distributing each bar’s volume across the price bins that the bar’s high–low range covers. For “yesterday”, this produces a stable, TV-native approximation that’s usually sufficient for intraday trading.
Key inputs
Value Area %: Defaults to 0.70 (70%)—the typical value area range.
TZ Offset vs Exchange (hours): Shifts the day boundary to match your desired session (e.g., Europe/Berlin: +1 winter / +2 summer). This ensures “yesterday” means 00:00–24:00 in your target timezone.
Row Size: Manual? / Manual Row Size: If enabled, you can set the price bin size yourself. Otherwise, the script chooses a TV-like step from syminfo.mintick.
Colors & Line width: POC orange; VAL/VAH purple; configurable width.
Open-source script
In true TradingView spirit, the creator of this script has made it open-source, so that traders can review and verify its functionality. Kudos to the author! While you can use it for free, remember that republishing the code is subject to our House Rules.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by TradingView. Read more in the Terms of Use.
Open-source script
In true TradingView spirit, the creator of this script has made it open-source, so that traders can review and verify its functionality. Kudos to the author! While you can use it for free, remember that republishing the code is subject to our House Rules.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by TradingView. Read more in the Terms of Use.