ICT NY Opening Price Lines (12AM/8:30AM/9:30AM) ICT NY Opens (12AM / 8:30AM / 9:30AM)
This indicator plots three key New York session reference levels used by ICT traders and intraday scalpers: the Midnight Open (12:00 AM EST), the 8:30 AM EST level , and the 9:30 AM EST RTH open. Each line is drawn at that day’s opening price for the specified time and extends horizontally to 4:15 PM true daily close so you always have clean, fixed anchors for the entire trading day.
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Liquidity Sweep Scanner [TradingFinder]🔵 Introduction
Recognizing how liquidity develops and how price reacts at key structural levels is critical for spotting precise, low-risk trade entries. The Liquidity Sweep Scanner is an advanced tool built to track market activity in real time, pinpoint liquidity sweeps, define reaction zones, and identify confirmation candles across multiple instruments and timeframes.
Key Advantages :
Detects high-probability reversal points with precision.
Combines liquidity analysis, market structure, and candle confirmation.
Works seamlessly across multiple symbols and timeframes.
This screener can scan a broad watchlist or analyze every timeframe of a single asset to find optimal reversal zones. It starts by identifying a clear swing point either a swing high or swing low and marking a reaction zone between that point and the candle’s highest or lowest open/close value.
If price revisits the zone, performs a liquidity grab, and forms an indecision candle such as a doji or narrow-bodied bar that closes inside the zone, this may indicate rejection of the level and a failed breakout attempt. Based on the surrounding market context, the screener then flags a potential bullish or bearish reversal and generates the appropriate Long or Short signal.
By focusing on precise entry timing, institutional order flow alignment, and filtering out false breakouts, the Liquidity Sweep Scanner zeroes in on the market areas where liquidity engineering, reversal potential, and inefficiency overlap. This makes it an indispensable tool for price action traders who rely on clear, high-quality setups without the distraction of market noise.
🔵 How to Use
The Liquidity Sweep Scanner continuously evaluates market structure, issuing alerts when a potential reversal setup emerges. It merges liquidity behavior, swing point analysis, and candle confirmation within predefined reaction zones.
To illustrate, imagine price forms a swing high or low, then later returns to that level. If it sweeps the prior extreme and produces a qualifying candle inside the reaction zone, the tool signals a possible reversal.
🟣 Long Setup
For a bullish scenario, the screener first spots a valid swing low a level often packed with sell-side liquidity. From there, it defines a reaction zone stretching from the swing low to the candle’s lowest open/close point.
If price retests this area with a wick dipping below the swing low but then closes back inside the zone, it signals absorption of selling pressure and rejection of further downside. The screener then awaits a confirmation candle commonly a doji or small-bodied bar closing inside the zone. Once these conditions align, a Long signal is logged and, if alerts are active, the trader receives a notification.
🟣 Short Setup
For bearish opportunities, the process begins by locating a valid swing high typically an area dense with buy-side liquidity. The reaction zone is drawn from the swing high to the candle’s highest open/close value.
When price retests this zone, sweeps above the swing high, and fails to close higher, it suggests a bull trap and waning upward momentum. The screener then requires a confirmation candle often a doji or rejection bar that closes back within the zone before confirming a Short signal.
These bearish setups help traders pinpoint likely institutional sell zones, offering a clear view of where price may reverse following a liquidity event.
🔵 Settings
🟣 Logical settings
Liquidity Swing period : You can set the swing detection period.
Market Structure Period :You can set the Pivot Period to determine the detection direction.
Max Swing Back Method : It is in two modes "All" and "Custom". If it is in "All" mode, it will check all swings, and if it is in "Custom" mode, it will check the swings to the extent you determine.
Max Swing Back : You can set the number of swings that will go back for checking.
Maximum Distance Between Swing and Signal : The maximum number of candles allowed between the swing point and the potential signal. The default value is 50, ensuring that only recent and relevant price reactions are considered valid.
🟣 Display Settings
Table on Chart : Allows users to choose the position of the signal dashboard either directly on the chart or below it, depending on their layout preference.
Number of Symbols : Enables users to control how many symbols are displayed in the screener table, from 10 to 20, adjustable in increments of 2 symbols for flexible screening depth.
Table Mode : This setting offers two layout styles for the signal table :
Basic : Mode displays symbols in a single column, using more vertical space.
Extended : Mode arranges symbols in pairs side-by-side, optimizing screen space with a more compact view.
Table Size : Lets you adjust the table’s visual size with options such as: auto, tiny, small, normal, large, huge.
Table Position : Sets the screen location of the table. Choose from 9 possible positions, combining vertical (top, middle, bottom) and horizontal (left, center, right) alignments.
🟣 Symbol Settings
Each of the 10 symbol slots comes with a full set of customizable parameters :
Symbol : Define or select the asset (e.g., XAUUSD, BTCUSD, EURUSD, etc.).
Timeframe : Set your desired timeframe for each symbol (e.g., 15, 60, 240, 1D).
🟣 Alert Settings
Alert : Enables alerts for LSS.
Message Frequency : Determines the frequency of alerts. Options include 'All' (every function call), 'Once Per Bar' (first call within the bar), and 'Once Per Bar Close' (final script execution of the real-time bar). Default is 'Once per Bar'.
Show Alert Time by Time Zone : Configures the time zone for alert messages. Default is 'UTC'.
🔵 Conclusion
The Liquidity Sweep Scanner equips traders with a precise, structured method for spotting high-probability reversals by merging liquidity sweeps, reaction zone mapping, and candle confirmation.
It not only filters out market noise but also highlights price areas where inefficiency and reversal potential align. Beyond identifying clean entry points, the tool includes a market direction detection feature allowing traders to quickly determine the prevailing trend and align their trades accordingly.
With adjustable settings such as the Pivot Period for fine-tuning detection direction, it adapts to various trading styles and timeframes, making it a powerful and versatile addition to any trader’s strategy.
ICT Setup 04 [TradingFinder] SFP Sweep Liquidity Fake CHoCH/BOS🔵 Introduction
In smart money and ICT based trading, liquidity is never random. Some of the most meaningful market moves begin with a liquidity sweep where price intentionally hunts a previous swing high or swing low to trigger stop loss orders and absorb volume.
This manipulation is often followed by a sharp reversal from a reaction zone, creating ideal conditions for a high probability entry. This indicator is built to detect exactly that. It identifies a valid swing point and defines a reaction zone where price is likely to react.
For short setups, the zone lies between the swing high and the maximum of the candle’s open or close. For long setups, it’s drawn from the swing low to the minimum of the open or close.
When price returns to this zone and forms a qualified confirmation candle typically a doji or a small bodied candle that closes inside the zone while sweeping the liquidity this is a potential sign of reversal.
The candle must show both the sweep and the inability to hold above or below the key level, signaling a fake breakout or failed move. By combining elements of liquidity hunt, reaction zone rejection, and candle based entry confirmation, this tool highlights sniper entry points used by smart money to trap retail traders and reverse the trend. It helps filter out noise and enhances timing, making it ideal for trading in alignment with institutional order flow.
Long Position :
Short Position :
🔵 How to Use
This indicator is designed to highlight precise moments where price sweeps liquidity and reacts within a high probability reversal zone. By identifying clean swing highs and lows and defining a smart reaction zone around them, it filters out weak fakeouts and focuses only on setups with strong institutional footprints.
The tool works best when combined with market structure analysis and is suitable for both scalping and intraday trading. Below is a breakdown of how to interpret the signals for long and short positions based on the visual setups provided.
🟣 Long Setup
In a long setup, the indicator first detects a valid swing low where liquidity has likely accumulated below. A reaction zone is then drawn between the swing low and the minimum of the open or close of the swing candle.
When price returns to this zone, it must sweep the previous low and form a precise confirmation candle, such as a doji or a small bodied candle, that closes inside the zone. This candle must also reject the lower level, showing failure to continue downward.
As shown in the chart, once the liquidity grab is complete and the confirmation candle forms, a clean long signal is issued, indicating a potential bullish reversal backed by smart money behavior.
🟣 Short Setup
In a short setup, the indicator identifies a swing high where buy-side liquidity is resting. It then constructs a reaction zone between the high and the maximum of the open or close of the swing candle. Price must return to this zone, sweep the swing high, and form a bearish confirmation candle inside the zone.
A classic example is a doji or rejection candle that traps breakout buyers and fails to hold above the previous high. In the provided chart, the price aggressively hunts the liquidity above the swing high, but the close within the reaction zone signals exhaustion, prompting a short signal with high reversal probability.
These setups represent moments where price action, liquidity behavior, and candle structure align to offer strong entries. By focusing on clean sweeps and reactive confirmations, the indicator helps traders stay on the side of smart money and avoid common breakout traps.
🔵 Settings
🟣 Logical settings
Swing period : You can set the swing detection period.
Max Swing Back Method : It is in two modes "All" and "Custom". If it is in "All" mode, it will check all swings, and if it is in "Custom" mode, it will check the swings to the extent you determine.
Max Swing Back : You can set the number of swings that will go back for checking.
Maximum Distance Between Swing and Signal :The maximum number of candles allowed between the swing point and the potential signal. The default value is 50, ensuring that only recent and relevant price reactions are considered valid.
🟣 Display settings
Displaying or not displaying swings and setting the color of labels and lines.
🟣 Alert Settings
Alert SFP : Enables alerts for Swing Failure Pattern.
Message Frequency : Determines the frequency of alerts. Options include 'All' (every function call), 'Once Per Bar' (first call within the bar), and 'Once Per Bar Close' (final script execution of the real-time bar). Default is 'Once per Bar'.
Show Alert Time by Time Zone : Configures the time zone for alert messages. Default is 'UTC'.
🔵 Conclusion
This indicator is built for traders who rely on liquidity driven setups and smart money principles. By combining swing structure analysis with precision reaction zones and strict entry confirmation, it isolates the exact moments where price sweeps liquidity and fails to continue. These are high value points where institutional activity often reveals itself, and retail traps unfold.
Unlike generic breakout tools, this script focuses on quality over quantity by requiring both a sweep of a swing high or low and a confirmed rejection candle that closes inside a predefined zone. With customizable swing depth, proximity filters, visual highlights, and alert functions, it offers a complete framework for identifying and acting on fake breakouts with confidence. Whether you trade forex, crypto, or indices, this tool enhances your ability to align with true order flow and take entries where liquidity is most likely to shift.
ICT NY Opens (12AM/8:30/9:30)This indicator plots three key New York session reference levels used by ICT traders and intraday scalpers: the Midnight Open (12:00 AM EST), the 8:30 AM EST level (common macro print window), and the 9:30 AM EST RTH open. Each line is drawn at that day’s opening price for the specified time and extends horizontally to 4:15 PM TDC so you always have clean, fixed anchors for the entire trading day.
Session Liquidity [TakingProphets]Session Liquidity
Session Liquidity maps the intraday landscape that ICT/SMC traders care about: each session’s high/low prints, key opens (Midnight, True Day/6PM, 8:30), and prior period reference levels (Previous Week/Day and optional Mon/Tue/Wed). It auto-draws and extends clean horizontal levels, updates them live, and optionally preserves “mitigated” tags so you can review what price consumed. To keep charts readable, overlapping labels at the same price are merged into a single combined label (e.g., LON.H + PDH + PWH) with smart anti-overlap placement.
What it does (at a glance)
– Tracks Asia, London, NY AM, NY Lunch, and NY PM session highs/lows in your chosen timezone (default America/New_York).
– Draws key opens: Midnight Open, True Day Open (6 PM), and 8:30 Open.
– Plots Previous Week High/Low (PWH/PWL) and Previous Day High/Low (PDH/PDL) with optional Mon/Tue/Wed references.
– Live extension: lines extend to the current bar; when a level is traded through you can either remove it or keep a left-anchored “mitigated” label.
– Combined labels: when multiple levels share the same price, the script shows one label listing all tokens (e.g., LON.L + PWL).
– Timeframe governor: a Timeframe Limit hides drawings on higher resolutions to avoid clutter (e.g., show on ≤ 30 min only).
– Styling controls: per-feature colors, dotted/dashed/solid styles, and label size/position (session labels left/center/right logic handled via label types and offsets).
How it works:
– Sessions are defined with TradingView’s session input strings. While you are “in session,” the script updates running highs/lows and stores their bar indices. When the session closes, it freezes the prints and draws two horizontal lines: one at the session high (token “ASIA.H”, “LON.H”, “NYAM.H”, “NYLU.H”, “NYPM.H”) and one at the session low (“…L”).
– Prior period levels come from higher-timeframe requests: Previous Week’s High/Low from W, Previous Day from D (plus Mon/Tue/Wed using simple daily offsets). New periods wipe and redraw lines/labels cleanly.
– Key opens are stamped exactly when they occur (00:00 for Midnight, 18:00 for True Day, 08:30 for the print), then extended forward.
– Mitigation logic: if price trades beyond a level, either remove it entirely (Show Mitigated Levels = off) or stop extending the line and drop a small, persistent left-justified label where mitigation occurred (Show Mitigated Levels = on).
– Label combining: on each update, per-level labels are optionally cleared and replaced with one combined label per price level. The script groups by tick index, merges tokens (e.g., LON.H + PDH), and uses a small vertical offset loop to avoid label collisions at the same x-position.
Inputs you control
– Timeframe Limit: drawings will not appear on charts greater than or equal to this resolution.
– Timezone: default America/New_York.
– Label Settings
– Show Labels / Show Session High/Low Levels.
– Show Mitigated Levels: keep a small label where a level was traded through.
– Combine overlapping level labels: merge tokens into one label if prices match.
– Label sizes for levels and for session start/end text (sizes: Tiny/Small/Normal/Large).
– Visual Settings
– Colors for level lines and label text.
– Styles (Solid/Dashed/Dotted) for Previous Week and Previous Day blocks.
– Custom Labels
– Rename tokens for each session print (e.g., ASIA.H, LON.L, NYAM.H, etc.) to match your playbook.
– Key Opens
– Toggle Midnight Open, True Day Open (6 PM), and 8:30 Open lines; customize colors.
– Previous Week / Previous Day
– Toggle PWH/PWL and PDH/PDL; optionally plot Mon/Tue/Wed reference prints.
– Macro Sessions (toodegrees-style bracket)
– Toggle two macro windows (9:45–10:15 and 10:45–11:15).
– Choose bracket height in ticks, line style, label size/text, and optional price projection.
– The bracket is dynamic during its window (extends across the window; top adapts to new highs + chosen height; label centers on completion).
How to use it:
Pick your Timeframe Limit (e.g., 30) so the map only shows where you execute.
Enable the sessions you trade and keep the timezone aligned to your venue.
Turn on the prior period levels you care about (PWH/PWL, PDH/PDL, Mon/Tue/Wed).
Choose whether to preserve mitigated levels. If you journal, keeping mitigated tags helps with post-session review.
Enable combined labels to reduce clutter and spotlight confluence (e.g., LON.H aligning with PDH).
Use Macro windows for playbook timing (9:45–10:15, 10:45–11:15) to visualize typical volatility brackets.
Practical notes
– The indicator is a context and mapping tool; it does not produce signals. Use with your own bias, PD arrays, and execution model.
– Very long lookbacks or many toggles can push object limits on lower-powered machines. Use Timeframe Limit and feature toggles to keep things light.
– If you use custom sessions, ensure they do not overlap unexpectedly in your timezone.
– “Combine labels” intentionally removes per-level labels in favor of one merged label per price level; mitigated labels are preserved by design.
What’s unique here
– A full intraday “session print” system (Asia/London/NY AM/NY Lunch/NY PM) with clean freezing at session close and live line extension.
– True Day/Midnight/8:30 opens integrated into the same framework for a single, coherent liquidity map.
– Prior period structure (week/day + optional Mon/Tue/Wed) and toodegrees-style macro windows in one tool.
– Robust label merging by tick level with anti-overlap logic so multi-signal confluence is readable at a glance.
Unmitigated Imbalances [TakingProphets] (High Timeframe)Unmitigated Imbalances
Unmitigated Imbalance is designed to automatically detect and display active Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) across multiple higher timeframes and your current chart. It only keeps the ones that remain unmitigated, helping you clearly see where price has “unfinished business” and potential liquidity draw areas. The tool extends these levels forward until they are tagged according to your chosen mitigation criteria, then removes them automatically.
The indicator uses the classic 3-bar FVG structure:
– Bearish FVG forms when the low of the third candle back is above the high of the first candle.
– Bullish FVG forms when the high of the third candle back is below the low of the first candle.
– Each detected gap must meet a minimum size threshold, which is determined automatically from the Sensitivity setting and adjusted for the symbol type.
Higher timeframes (up to 4) can be plotted simultaneously with your current chart’s gaps. The script merges overlapping levels from different timeframes into one clean label, showing all the contributing timeframes together (for example: M15 + H1 + H4). This makes it easy to spot high-confluence levels without cluttering your chart.
Key features
– Multi-timeframe detection: up to 4 custom HTFs plus your current chart.
– Automatic gap size filtering based on chosen Sensitivity (High, Medium, Low).
– Choice of Wick or Close-based mitigation logic.
– Lookback control: 1 Day, 1 Week, 1 Month, or Max.
– Combined labels for overlapping gaps with clear timeframe tags.
– Separate color and style settings for each timeframe’s bullish and bearish gaps.
– Labels can be positioned Left, Right, or Center Above for maximum clarity.
– Automatic line extension until mitigation or until they exceed the lookback period.
How to use
Select your desired higher timeframes in the HTF1–HTF4 settings.
Choose the Sensitivity level to control the minimum gap size detected.
Decide on Wick or Close mitigation according to your trading rules.
Use the Lookback setting to limit how far back the script checks for gaps.
Watch for levels where multiple timeframe labels are stacked — these can carry greater significance.
Incorporate the levels into your existing strategy, using them as context rather than entry signals.
Practical notes
– Current timeframe gaps reset each trading day to keep the chart relevant to intraday bias.
– Higher timeframe gaps remain until mitigated or until the lookback period expires.
– Large lookback periods with multiple HTFs can increase chart load — adjust settings as needed.
– This indicator is a mapping and context tool, not a signal generator. Always apply it alongside your own analysis.
Watermark [TakingProphets] Watermark
A fully customizable watermark & chart info panel to keep your charts branded, organized, and informative — without clutter.
Special thanks to for inspiring the original concept that led to this expanded version.
📌 Overview
Perfect for:
Traders who stream, record, or share charts
Keeping essential info (symbol, TF, date, price) visible
Intraday traders who want day-of-week labels without messy vertical lines
✨ Key Features
1. Personal Watermark
Custom text, colors, size, opacity
Position anywhere: Top, Middle, Bottom × Left, Center, Right
Alignment options: left, center, right
Optional border with adjustable color or hide completely
2. Chart Info Panel
Show any combination of:
Custom text
Symbol
Timeframe (auto-formatted)
Date (MM-DD-YYYY)
Last price
Day of the week
Position independently from watermark
Adjustable background opacity
3. Day-of-Week Labels
Labels Sunday → Saturday at session start or midday
Works on intraday ≤ 15m timeframes
Option to hide weekends
Place labels Top or Bottom
⚙️ How to Use
Enable Watermark → Personal Watermark Settings → Toggle Show Watermark, enter your text, style it.
Set Up Info Panel → Chart Information Panel → Select details, choose position, adjust style.
Add Day Labels → Day of Week Labels Settings → Turn on for intraday charts.
💡 Tips
Lower background opacity for a subtle look.
Use bright colors for streaming so your brand stands out.
Hide unused features to keep charts clean & fast.
🙏 Acknowledgments
This script’s concept was inspired by toodegrees.
Developed by TakingProphets — tools for traders who value clarity, precision, and style.
⚠️ Disclaimer:
This script is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice. Always trade responsibly and manage your risk.
Thiru Zeussy TimeCycles IndicesThiru Zeussy TimeCycles Indices
Overview:
This indicator is designed for indices traders, highlighting key trading sessions (killzones) and granular Zeussy Time Cycles to identify high-probability price action periods. It plots session boxes, pivots, and ranges, with customizable settings for flexibility across various timeframes and markets.
Features:
- Displays six major killzone sessions with customizable colors and transparency.
- Includes eight Zeussy Time Cycles for finer intraday analysis within killzones.
- Tracks high/low pivots for each session with optional labels and alerts.
- Shows day, week, and month open/high/low lines with separators.
- Provides a range table to display current and average session ranges.
- Supports customizable time zones and drawing limits to optimize performance.
Time Cycles (All times in GMT-4, adjustable via Timezone setting):
Killzones:
// - Asia: 20:00–00:05 – Captures Asian session volatility.
// - London: 02:00–05:05 – Highlights London market open and early moves.
// - NY AM: 08:30–11:05 – Covers New York morning session, key for indices.
// - NY Lunch: 12:00–13:05 – Identifies quieter midday consolidation.
// - NY PM: 13:30–16:05 – Tracks New York afternoon volatility.
// - Power Hour: 15:00–16:05 – Focuses on high-activity period before market close.
Zeussy Time Cycles (Sub-sessions within killzones):
// - London AMD: 02:30–04:05 – Early London momentum phase.
// - London M2: 04:03–04:30 – Late London consolidation window.
// - NY A: 07:00–08:35 – Pre-NY open volatility for indices.
// - NY M: 08:30–10:05 – Early NY momentum phase.
// - NY D: 10:00–11:35 – Mid-morning NY directional moves.
// - Lunch A: 11:30–13:05 – Extended lunch consolidation period.
// - PM M: 13:00–14:35 – Early afternoon momentum.
// - PM D: 14:30–16:05 – Late afternoon directional phase.
Settings:
// - Session Drawing Limit: Controls how many sessions are drawn (default: 1 day) to manage chart clutter.
// - Timeframe Limit: Restricts drawings on timeframes ≥ 240 minutes (4 hours).
// - Timezone: Set to GMT-4 by default; adjust to match your broker’s server time.
// - Killzone Settings: Enable/disable individual killzones, customize colors, and adjust transparency (default: 95 for boxes, 75 for text).
// - Zeussy Time Cycles: Enable/disable sub-sessions, set box color, and adjust transparency (default: 95 for boxes, 75 for text).
// - Killzone Pivots: Show high/low lines, midpoints, and labels; configure alerts for pivot breaks.
// - Day-Week-Month: Display daily, weekly, or monthly open/high/low lines and separators.
// - Range Table: Shows current and average ranges for enabled sessions; position and size customizable.
Usage Notes:
// - Best suited for indices (e.g., S&P 500, NASDAQ) on intraday timeframes (1–60 minutes).
// - Adjust Timezone setting if your broker’s server time differs from GMT-4.
// - Enable only necessary killzones/Zeussy cycles to avoid chart clutter, especially on lower timeframes.
// - Test alerts for pivot breaks to ensure they align with your trading strategy.
// - For performance, limit drawings (max_days) or disable unlimited lines if lag occurs.
SMC Pro - Smart Money Concepts🎯 SMC Pro - Complete Smart Money Concepts Trading System with Trade Alerts
The Most Comprehensive SMC/ICT Indicator Built for Real Traders
After extensive research into what retail and prop firm traders actually need, I've created SMC Pro - a complete Smart Money Concepts indicator that solves the biggest problems with existing SMC tools.
🚀 What Makes This Different:
✅ COMPLETE TRADE SETUP ALERTS - Not just structure breaks! Get full trade setups with:
* Entry, Stop Loss & Target Prices
* Risk/Reward Calculations
* 5-Point Confluence Scoring
* Visual Trade Labels on Chart
✅ INTELLIGENT FILTERING - No more chart spam:
* Minimum structure size filter (ATR-based)
* Minimum bars between signals
* Volume confirmation for order blocks
* Clean, actionable signals only
📊 Core Features:
1. Market Structure Analysis
* Break of Structure (BOS) with smart filtering
* Change of Character (CHoCH) detection
* Clear directional bias identification
* Prevents excessive signal clustering
2. Order Blocks
* Volume-confirmed institutional zones
* Automatic mitigation tracking
* Entry points for trade setups
3. Fair Value Gaps
* ATR-based size filtering
* Automatic fill detection
* Confluence factor for trades
4. Liquidity Zones
* Buy-side & Sell-side liquidity mapping
* Sweep detection with alerts
* Target zones for trades
5. Risk Management Integration
* Automatic R:R calculation
* Position sizing guidance
* Minimum R:R filtering (default 2:1)
🎯 5-Point Trade Confluence System:
1. Market structure alignment
2. Recent structure break (BOS/CHoCH)
3. Order block at current price
4. Fair value gap support
5. Liquidity target available
Minimum score of 3/5 required for trade alerts (adjustable)
⚙️ Smart Settings:
* Swing Length: 10 (default) - adjust for sensitivity
* Min Bars Between Signals: 20 - prevents clustering
* Min Structure Size: 1.0 ATR - filters noise
* Min Confluence Score: 3/5 - quality control
* Target R:R: 2:1 minimum - proper risk management
📱 Alert Types:
* 🎯 Trade Setup Alerts - Complete entry/exit plans
* ✅ Structure Breaks - BOS & CHoCH notifications
* 📊 Order Block Touch - Price at key zones
* 💧 Liquidity Sweeps - Stop hunts detected
💡 Pro Tips:
* Start with default settings
* Use on 15m+ timeframes for cleaner signals
* Increase confluence requirement for prop firm trading
* Enable volume confirmation for higher quality OBs
* Dashboard shows real-time setup status
🔧 If You Get Too Many Signals:
* Increase Swing Length to 15-20
* Increase Min Bars Between to 30-50
* Increase Min Structure Size to 1.5 ATR
* Raise Min Confluence Score to 4 or 5
This indicator is the result of solving real problems traders face with SMC/ICT concepts. It's designed to give you clean, actionable trade setups - not just mark up your chart with zones.
Built with Pine Script v6 for maximum performance and reliability.
Trade with confluence. Trade with confidence. Trade smart. 🎯
ICT Order Blocks HTFICT Order Blocks HTF (with Parent Swing Confirmation)
This indicator is a powerful tool designed to identify high-probability Higher-Timeframe (HTF) Order Blocks by confirming them with significant liquidity sweeps on your trading chart. It combines two core ICT (Inner Circle Trader) concepts to filter out noise and highlight only the most sensitive areas.
The Core Concept: A High-Probability Model
The most powerful trading setups often occur when a significant event on a lower timeframe happens at a key area on a higher timeframe. This indicator automates that analysis by looking for a specific confluence:
A Liquidity Sweep (LTF): First, it identifies a "Parent Swing" on your current chart. This is a significant swing high (BSL - Buy Side Liquidity) or swing low (SSL - Sell Side Liquidity) that has been validated by a market structure shift. These are the key liquidity pools the market targets.
An Order Block (HTF): Separately, it looks at a higher timeframe of your choice (e.g., 15m, 1H) to find institutional order blocks—the last up or down candle before a strong move.
The Confluence: The magic happens here. The indicator will only draw an HTF order block on your chart if it forms at the exact moment the price is interacting with one of the BSL or SSL liquidity pools from your current chart.
This dual confirmation provides a refined, high-probability signal, indicating that a major liquidity event is fueling a reaction from a significant HTF level.
What the Indicator Does
Identifies Parent Swings: In the background, it constantly tracks and identifies BSL (red lines) and SSL (green lines) on your chart.
Finds HTF Order Blocks: It looks for bullish (last down-candle) and bearish (last up-candle) order blocks on the higher timeframe you select.
Draws Confirmed Zones: It draws a Bullish OB (Blue Box) only when an HTF bullish order block forms at an SSL level. It draws a Bearish OB (Orange Box) only when an HTF bearish order block forms at a BSL level.
Marks Key Levels: Each order block is automatically drawn with dashed lines marking its high, low, and midpoint (50% level) for precise entry and risk management.
Real-Time Invalidation: The order blocks extend into the future and are tracked in real-time. If price closes through a block a specified number of times, the zone is considered invalid and will be dimmed, keeping your chart clean.
How to Use This Indicator
The primary use for this indicator is to identify high-probability entry zones.
When a Bullish Order Block (Blue) appears, it signals a potential area of demand where you might look for long entries.
When a Bearish Order Block (Orange) appears, it signals a potential area of supply where you might look for short entries.
The internal lines (high, low, midpoint) can be used for more precise entries or for setting stop-loss levels.
Settings
Higher Timeframe for Order Blocks: Choose the HTF you want the indicator to analyze for order blocks (e.g., 15m, 1H, 4H).
OB Invalidation Threshold: Set how many times price must close fully through an order block before it is considered invalid.
Parent Swing Settings: You can adjust the lookback periods and invalidation threshold for the BSL/SSL detection to match your trading style. A larger lookback will find more significant liquidity pools.
Disclaimer: This indicator is a tool to assist in technical analysis. It is not a standalone trading system and does not provide financial advice. Always use proper risk management and combine this tool with your own analysis and trading strategy.
AMD [TakingProphets]Accumulation Manipulation Distribution – Real-Time HTF Candle Projection for ICT/SMC Traders
Accumulation Manipulation Distribution (AMD) is a premium, real-time indicator designed for traders who use ICT and Smart Money Concepts (SMC). It projects higher timeframe (HTF) candles directly onto your lower timeframe chart, allowing you to monitor institutional price behavior without switching timeframes.
By continuously tracking the open, high, low, and close (OHLC) of active HTF candles, AMD helps traders interpret whether the market is in a phase of accumulation, manipulation, or distribution—a key concept for understanding institutional order flow.
Core Features and How It Works
1. Live HTF Candle Visualization
Displays complete HTF candles — including body and wicks — in real time.
Provides immediate higher timeframe context for lower timeframe execution.
Supports any timeframe from 1 minute to monthly.
2. Real-Time OHLC Projections
Projects the open, high, low, and current close of the active HTF candle as it develops.
Acts as evolving reference points for support, resistance, and directional bias.
Fully customizable with adjustable colors, line styles, and labels.
3. Session Timing and Labeling
Optional time labels mark candle openings and help anticipate session closes.
Supports 12-hour and 24-hour formatting for flexibility across markets.
4. Complete Visual Customization
Configure candle width, wick transparency, border color, and projection lines.
Maintain a clean, professional overlay that aligns with your preferred charting style.
How to Use AMD
Determine HTF Bias: Identify whether the active candle is expanding in your trade direction or showing signs of rejection.
Track Price Reaction: Monitor how price interacts with projected HTF highs, lows, and midpoints—especially during ICT killzones or after liquidity events.
Anchor Lower Timeframe Entries: Combine AMD with tools like Order Blocks, Liquidity Levels, or Rejection Blocks to confirm high-probability Smart Money setups.
This approach allows traders to synchronize LTF executions with HTF market structure, enhancing clarity and confidence in trade selection.
CRT [TakingProphets]Candle Range Theory (CRT) is an exclusive, closed-source indicator designed for traders who use ICT and Smart Money Concepts (SMC). It combines higher timeframe (HTF) visualization, Candle Range Transition (CRT) detection, and Smart Money Divergence (SMT) into one cohesive tool, giving traders a structured way to monitor institutional price behavior without switching timeframes.
Unlike generic market structure tools, CRT was built from the ground up to help traders:
Keep higher timeframe context visible directly on lower timeframe charts
Identify potential transition or rejection points in real time
Visualize correlated market divergences that are often invisible to the naked eye
This original approach is what makes CRT a premium, invite-only indicator. It is not a repackaged combination of common moving averages, oscillators, or support/resistance tools. It’s a specialized model designed to consolidate multiple ICT/SMC concepts into one workflow-friendly system.
How CRT Works
1. Higher Timeframe Candle Overlay
Projects up to three higher timeframe candles (1-minute to monthly) onto your active chart.
Displays open, high, low, and close with wick and body precision.
Lets you trade the lower timeframe with higher timeframe bias always visible.
2. Candle Range Transition (CRT) Detection
A Bearish CRT is detected when the current candle forms a higher high but closes lower than the previous candle.
A Bullish CRT occurs when the current candle forms a lower low but closes higher than the previous candle.
These transitions often highlight areas where price fails to continue its prior move, signaling a potential shift in delivery.
3. Smart Money Divergence (SMT)
Monitors correlated instruments (e.g., ES vs NQ, EURUSD vs GBPUSD).
Flags divergence when one instrument confirms a move while the other hesitates or rejects it.
SMT signals appear in real time, helping traders filter potential liquidity traps or engineered moves.
4. Real-Time HTF Candle Projections
Continuously plots the projected open, high, low, and close of the current HTF candle.
Acts as evolving reference points for support/resistance or decision-making zones.
5. Custom Display and Info Box
Fully configurable candle width, wick colors, label sizes, and transparency.
Built-in info box shows symbol, selected HTF timeframe, and session date for chart clarity.
6. Integrated Alert System
Four alert types:
• Bullish CRT
• Bearish CRT
• Bullish SMT Divergence
• Bearish SMT Divergence
Alerts help you track multiple instruments without staring at the screen all day.
Why CRT is Exclusive and Worth It
Most market structure indicators either plot generic support/resistance or recycle concepts already available in open-source scripts. CRT is original because:
It consolidates multiple ICT/SMC concepts (HTF bias, CRT transitions, SMT divergence) into one cohesive model.
It uses a proprietary visualization and detection method designed specifically for real-time application.
It provides clarity without chart clutter, allowing traders to make faster, more structured decisions.
While CRT does not execute trades or guarantee profits, it gives serious traders a unique analytical edge by revealing subtle higher timeframe and intermarket dynamics in real time.
If you understand ICT principles and Smart Money Concepts, CRT provides a workflow upgrade that simply isn’t available in free or generic scripts.
Prophet Model [TakingProphets]Indicator Description
The Prophet Model is a structured, logic-driven indicator designed specifically for traders familiar with ICT (Inner Circle Trader) methodologies. Built to streamline the analytical workflow, this tool integrates multiple Smart Money Concepts into a clear and actionable trading framework, simplifying the identification of high-probability setups without chart clutter.
What Does This Indicator Do?
The Prophet Model guides traders by dynamically identifying and visually aligning key components of ICT methodology:
Higher Time Frame (HTF) PD Array Identification:
Automatically locates and maps critical Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) from higher timeframes onto your lower timeframe charts, clearly highlighting institutional areas of interest.
Candle Range Theory (CRT) Validation:
Monitors higher timeframe candles to detect shifts in market delivery, confirming directional bias according to ICT Candle Range Theory.
Liquidity Sweep Detection:
Precisely identifies buy-side and sell-side liquidity sweeps within marked HTF zones, clearly highlighting areas where price is likely to reverse or continue.
Change in State of Delivery (CISD):
Pinpoints the exact moment when market structure shifts via significant displacement, providing a clear reference point for trade entries.
Overlapping Fair Value Gap (FVG) Refinement:
Enhances entry precision by automatically adjusting entry points (EPE) when internal gaps overlap the CISD candle.
Risk Management Levels:
Dynamically calculates and plots your Stop Loss (SL), Break-Even (BE), and Take Profit (TP) levels based on actual structural movements (2.25x CISD range for TP, recent highs/lows for SL).
Real-Time Setup Checklist:
Provides a dynamic visual checklist confirming when all entry criteria (HTF PDA, CRT, Liquidity Sweep, CISD) are met.
Optimal Entry Tracking:
Marks refined entry points after CISD confirmation, automatically adjusting when internal imbalances (FVGs) are detected, ensuring accurate and efficient entries.
Chart Info Box:
Optionally displays complete symbol, timeframe, and indicator name for transparent chart annotations and efficient trade journaling.
How Does It Work?
Identify HTF Institutional Interest:
The indicator scans higher timeframes for unmitigated FVGs, displaying these critical zones automatically on your trading timeframe.
Confirm Market Delivery Shift (CRT):
Confirms directional conviction by comparing the range and behavior of recent higher timeframe candles.
Detect Liquidity Sweeps:
Clearly marks liquidity levels that have been swept, signaling potential price reversals or continuations.
Spot Displacement & Structure Shifts (CISD):
Highlights decisive movements indicating a significant change in market direction, crucial for entry timing.
Precision Entry Adjustments (EPE):
Refines entry positions by identifying overlapping FVGs within the displacement candle structure.
Manage Risk Clearly:
Calculates realistic SL, BE, and TP levels based on structural price action, removing guesswork and improving consistency.
Why Is It Worth Paying For?
Simplified Confluence-Building:
Removes ambiguity by automatically aligning multiple ICT criteria into a single, easy-to-follow visual workflow.
Precision & Efficiency:
Improves execution timing by dynamically updating entry and risk management levels based on actual market structure rather than arbitrary measures.
Real-Time Adaptation:
Continuously updates as market conditions evolve, providing confidence and clarity in dynamic trading environments.
Focused Trading Decisions:
Keeps traders disciplined by visually confirming setups step-by-step, aligning trades only with strong institutional-backed movements.
Important Considerations
This indicator is intended for traders with foundational knowledge of ICT methodologies.
It is not a standalone buy/sell signal provider; it must be combined with proper risk management and market narrative analysis.
Always use discretion and confirm the context of each trade within your overall trading strategy.
By providing traders with actionable insights and clear visual confirmations aligned strictly with professional ICT concepts, the Prophet Model significantly enhances trading decisions and execution precision.
NativeLenSA CISD w/1st 5m FVG5m CISD + FVG Indicator which works best on 5m TimeFrame, with the concept of 5m Liquidity sweeps of the previous highs/lows and the next candle closing below/above the opening price of candle that swept the highs/lows.
A line marking +CISD or -CISD will show as soon as the CISD is created, and a first 5m Fair Value Gap will also be displayed. This is advantageous for an extra confluence and re-entry.
The indicator also provides the trader with:
i. The flexibility of allowing to only show Bearish, Bullish or both Bearish and Bullish CISD + FVG,
ii. Showing only London Session, New York Session, or both London and New York Sessions' CISD & FVG,
iii. Option of hiding/showing 5m CISD+FVG on time frames greater than 5m,
iv. Adjustable:
(a) Look back bars (max=300),
(b) CISD line length,
(c) FVG line length,
v. Customizable Bearish and Bullish CISD line colors.
I hope you find value in this indicator, and convenient for time when trading, no CISD markups needed
Advanced ICT Theory - A-ICT📊 Advanced ICT Theory (A-ICT): The Institutional Manipulation Detector
Are you tired of being the liquidity? Stop chasing shadows and start tracking the architects of price movement.
This is not another lagging indicator. This is a complete framework for viewing the market through the lens of institutional traders. Advanced ICT Theory (A-ICT) is an all-in-one, military-grade analysis engine designed to decode the complex language of "Smart Money." It automates the core tenets of Inner Circle Trader (ICT) methodology, moving beyond simple patterns to build a dynamic, real-time narrative of market manipulation, liquidity engineering, and institutional order flow.
AIT provides a living blueprint of the market, identifying high-probability zones, tracking structural shifts, and scoring the quality of setups with a sophisticated, multi-factor algorithm. This is your X-ray into the market's true intentions.
🔬 THE CORE ENGINE: DECODING THE THEORY & FORMULAS
A-ICT is built upon a sophisticated, multi-layered logic system that interprets price action as a story of cause and effect. It does not guess; it confirms. Here is the foundational theory that drives the engine:
1. Market Structure: The Blueprint of Trend
The script first establishes a deep understanding of the market's skeleton through multi-level pivot analysis. It uses ta.pivothigh and ta.pivotlow to identify significant swing points.
Internal Structure (iBOS): Minor swings that show the short-term order flow. A break of internal structure is the first whisper of a potential shift.
External Structure (eBOS): Major swing points that define the primary trend. A confirmed break of external structure is a powerful statement of trend continuation. AIT validates this with optional Volume Confirmation (volume > volumeSMA * 1.2) and Candle Confirmation to ensure the break is driven by institutional force, not just a random spike.
Change of Character (CHoCH): This is the earthquake. A CHoCH occurs when a confirmed eBOS happens against the prevailing trend (e.g., a bearish eBOS in a clear uptrend). A-ICT flags this immediately, as it is the strongest signal that the primary trend is under threat of reversal.
2. Liquidity Engineering: The Fuel of the Market
Institutions don't buy into strength; they buy into weakness. They need liquidity. A-ICT maps these liquidity pools with forensic precision:
Buyside & Sellside Liquidity (BSL/SSL): Using ta.highest and ta.lowest, AIT identifies recent highs and lows where clusters of stop-loss orders (liquidity) are resting. These are institutional targets.
Liquidity Sweeps: This is the "manipulation" part of the detector. AIT has a specific formula to detect a sweep: high > bsl and close < bsl . This signifies that institutions pushed price just high enough to trigger buy-stops before aggressively selling—a classic "stop hunt." This event dramatically increases the quality score of subsequent patterns.
3. The Element Lifecycle: From Potential to Power
This is the revolutionary heart of A-ICT. Zones are not static; they have a lifecycle. AIT tracks this with its dynamic classification engine.
Phase 1: PENDING (Yellow): The script identifies a potential zone of interest based on a specific candle formation (a "displacement"). It is marked as "Pending" because its true nature is unknown. It is a question.
Phase 2: CLASSIFICATION: After the zone is created, AIT watches what happens next. The zone's identity is defined by its actions:
ORDER BLOCK (Blue): The highest-grade element. A zone is classified as an Order Block if it directly causes a Break of Structure (BOS) . This is the footprint of institutions entering the market with enough force to validate the new trend direction.
TRAP ZONE (Orange): A zone is classified as a Trap Zone if it is directly involved in a Liquidity Sweep . This indicates the zone was used to engineer liquidity, setting a "trap" for retail traders before a reversal.
REVERSAL / S&R ZONE (Green): If a zone is not powerful enough to cause a BOS or a major sweep, but still serves as a pivot point, it's classified as a general support/resistance or reversal zone.
4. Market Inefficiencies: Gaps in the Matrix
Fair Value Gaps (FVG): AIT detects FVGs—a 3-bar pattern indicating an imbalance—with a strict formula: low > high (for a bullish FVG) and gapSize > atr14 * 0.5. This ensures only significant, volatile gaps are shown. An FVG co-located with an Order Block is a high-confluence setup.
5. Premium & Discount: The Law of Value
Institutions buy at wholesale (Discount) and sell at retail (Premium). AIT uses a pdLookback to define the current dealing range and divides it into three zones: Premium (sell zone), Discount (buy zone), and Equilibrium. An element's quality score is massively boosted if it aligns with this principle (e.g., a bullish Order Block in a Discount zone).
⚙️ THE CONTROL PANEL: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE INPUTS MENU
Every setting is a lever, allowing you to tune the AIT engine to your exact specifications. Master these to unlock the script's full potential.
🎯 A-ICT Detection Engine
Min Displacement Candles: Controls the sensitivity of element detection. How it works: It defines the number of subsequent candles that must be "inside" a large parent candle. Best practice: Use 2-3 for a balanced view on most timeframes. A higher number (4-5) will find only major, more significant zones, ideal for swing trading. A lower number (1) is highly sensitive, suitable for scalping.
Mitigation Method: Defines when a zone is considered "used up" or mitigated. How it works: Cross triggers as soon as price touches the zone's boundary. Close requires a candle to fully close beyond it. Best practice: Cross is more responsive for fast-moving markets. Close is more conservative and helps filter out fake-outs caused by wicks, making it safer for confirmations.
Min Element Size (ATR): A crucial noise filter. How it works: It requires a detected zone to be at least this multiple of the Average True Range (ATR). Best practice: Keep this around 0.5. If you see too many tiny, irrelevant zones, increase this value to 0.8 or 1.0. If you feel the script is missing smaller but valid zones, decrease it to 0.3.
Age Threshold & Pending Timeout: These manage visual clutter. How they work: Age Threshold removes old, mitigated elements after a set number of bars. Pending Timeout removes a "Pending" element if it isn't classified within a certain window. Best practice: The default settings are optimized. If your chart feels cluttered, reduce the Age Threshold. If pending zones disappear too quickly, increase the Pending Timeout.
Min Quality Threshold: Your primary visual filter. How it works: It hides all elements (boxes, lines, labels) that do not meet this minimum quality score (0-100). Best practice: Start with the default 30. To see only A- or B-grade setups, increase this to 60 or 70 for an exceptionally clean, high-probability view.
🏗️ Market Structure
Lookbacks (Internal, External, Major): These define the sensitivity of the trend analysis. How they work: They set the number of bars to the left and right for pivot detection. Best practice: Use smaller values for Internal (e.g., 3) to see minor structure and larger values for External (e.g., 10-15) to map the main trend. For a macro, long-term view, increase the Major Swing Lookback.
Require Volume/Candle Confirmation: Toggles for quality control on BOS/CHoCH signals. Best practice: It is highly recommended to keep these enabled. Disabling them will result in more structure signals, but many will be false alarms. They are your filter against market noise.
... (Continue this detailed breakdown for every single input group: Display Configuration, Zones Style, Levels Appearance, Colors, Dashboards, MTF, Liquidity, Premium/Discount, Sessions, and IPDA).
📊 THE INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARDS: YOUR COMMAND CENTER
The dashboards synthesize all the complex analysis into a simple, actionable intelligence briefing.
Main Dashboard (Bottom Right)
ICT Metrics & Breakdown: This is your statistical overview. Total Elements shows how much structure the script is tracking. High Quality instantly tells you if there are any A/B grade setups nearby. Unmitigated vs. Mitigated shows the balance of fresh opportunities versus resolved price action. The breakdown by Order Blocks, Trap Zones, etc., gives you a quick read on the market's recent character.
Structure & Market Context: This is your core bias. Order Flow tells you the current script-determined trend. Last BOS shows you the most recent structural event. CHoCH Active is a critical warning. HTF Bias shows if you are aligned with the higher timeframe—the checkmark (✓) for alignment is one of the most important confluence factors.
Smart Money Flow: A volume-based sentiment gauge. Net Flow shows the raw buying vs. selling pressure, while the Bias provides an interpretation (e.g., "STRONG BULLISH FLOW").
Key Guide (Large Dashboard only): A built-in legend so you never have to guess. It defines every pattern, structure type, and special level visually.
📖 Narrative Dashboard (Bottom Left)
This is the "story" of the market, updated in real-time. It's designed to build your trading thesis.
Recent Elements Table: A live list of the most recent, high-quality setups. It displays the Type , its Narrative Role (e.g., "Bullish OB caused BOS"), its raw Quality percentage, and its final Trade Score grade. This is your at-a-glance opportunity scanner.
Market Narrative Section: This is the soul of A-ICT. It combines all data points into a human-readable story:
📍 Current Phase: Tells you if you are in a high-volatility Killzone or a consolidation phase like the Asian Range.
🎯 Bias & Alignment: Your primary direction, with a clear indicator of HTF alignment or conflict.
🔗 Events: A causal sequence of recent events, like "💧 Sell-side liquidity swept →
📊 Bullish BOS → 🎯 Active Order Block".
🎯 Next Expectation: The script's logical conclusion. It provides a specific, forward-looking hypothesis, such as "📉 Pullback expected to bullish OB at 1.2345 before continuation up."
🎨 READING THE BATTLEFIELD: A VISUAL INTERPRETATION GUIDE
Every color and line is a piece of information. Learn to read them together to see the full picture.
The Core Zones (Boxes):
Blue Box (Order Block): Highest probability zone for trend continuation. Look for entries here.
Orange Box (Trap Zone): A manipulation footprint. Expect a potential reversal after price interacts with this zone.
Green Box (Reversal/S&R): A standard pivot area. A good reference point but requires more confluence.
Purple Box (FVG): A market imbalance. Acts as a magnet for price. An FVG inside an Order Block is an A+ confluence.
The Structural Lines:
Green/Red Line (eBOS): Confirms the trend direction. A break above the green line is bullish; a break below the red line is bearish.
Thick Orange Line (CHoCH): WARNING. The previous trend is now in question. The market character has changed.
Blue/Red Lines (BSL/SSL): Liquidity targets. Expect price to gravitate towards these lines. A dotted line with a checkmark (✓) means the liquidity has been "swept" or "purged."
How to Synthesize: The magic is in the confluence. A perfect setup might look like this: Price sweeps below a red SSL line , enters a green Discount Zone during the NY Killzone , and forms a blue Order Block which then causes a green eBOS . This sequence, visible at a glance, is the story of a high-probability long setup.
🔧 THE ARCHITECT'S VISION: THE DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY
A-ICT was forged from the frustration of using lagging indicators in a market that is forward-looking. Traditional tools are reactive; they tell you what happened. The vision for A-ICT was to create a proactive engine that could anticipate institutional behavior by understanding their objectives: liquidity and efficiency. The development process was centered on creating a "lifecycle" for price patterns—the idea that a zone's true meaning is only revealed by its consequence. This led to the post-breakout classification system and the narrative-building engine. It's designed not just to show you patterns, but to tell you their story.
⚠️ RISK DISCLAIMER & BEST PRACTICES
Advanced ICT Theory (A-ICT) is a professional-grade analytical tool and does not provide financial advice or direct buy/sell signals. Its analysis is based on historical price action and probabilities. All forms of trading involve substantial risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Always use this tool as part of a comprehensive trading plan that includes your own analysis and a robust risk management strategy. Do not trade based on this indicator alone.
観の目つよく、見の目よわく
"Kan no me tsuyoku, ken no me yowaku"
— Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
English: "Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
— Dskyz, Trade with insight. Trade with anticipation.
Time Range Marker By BCB ElevateThe Time Range Marker is a simple yet powerful visual tool for traders who want to focus on specific time intervals within the trading day. This indicator highlights a custom time range on your chart using a background color, helping you visually isolate key trading sessions or event windows such as:
Market open/close hours
News release periods
High-volatility trading zones
Personal strategy testing windows
⚙️ Key Features:
Customizable start and end time (hour & minute)
Works across all intraday timeframes
Adjustable highlight color to match your chart theme
Built using Pine Script v5 for speed and flexibility
🔧 Settings:
Start Hour / Minute – Set the beginning of the time range (in 24-hour format)
End Hour / Minute – Define when the range ends
Highlight Color – Choose the background color for better visibility
🕒 Timezone Note:
The indicator uses UTC time by default to ensure accuracy across markets. If your broker uses a different timezone (like EST, IST, etc.), the script can be adjusted to reflect your local market hours.
✅ How to Use the Time Range Marker Indicator
This indicator is used to visually highlight a specific time window each trading day, such as:
Market open or close sessions (e.g., NYSE, London, Tokyo)
High-impact news release periods
Custom time slots for strategy testing or scalping
🛠️ Installation Steps
Open TradingView and go to any chart.
Click on Pine Editor at the bottom of the screen.
Copy and paste the full Pine Script (shared above) into the editor.
Click the “Add to Chart” ▶️ button.
The indicator will appear on the chart with a highlighted background during the time range you set.
⚙️ How to Customize the Time Range
After adding the indicator:
Click the gear icon ⚙️ next to the indicator’s name on the chart.
Adjust the following settings:
Start Hour / Start Minute: The beginning of your time range (in 24-hour format).
End Hour / End Minute: When the highlight should stop.
Highlight Color: Pick a color and transparency for visual clarity.
Click OK to apply changes.
🕒 Timezone Consideration
By default, the indicator uses UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
To match your broker’s timezone (e.g., EST, IST, etc.), you'll need to adjust the script by changing:
sessStart = timestamp("Etc/UTC", ...)
sessEnd = timestamp("Etc/UTC", ...)
to your correct timezone, like "Asia/Kolkata" for IST or "America/New_York" for EST.
Let me know your broker or local timezone, and I’ll update it for you.
📈 Tips for Traders
Combine this with volume, price action, or breakout indicators to focus your strategy on high-probability time windows.
Use multiple versions of this script if you want to highlight more than one time range in a day.
SMT Divergences V2 [OutOfOptions]Smart Money Technique (SMT) Divergence is designed to identify discrepancies between correlated assets within the same timeframe. It occurs when two related assets exhibit opposing signals, such as one forming a higher low while the other forms a lower low. This technique is particularly useful for anticipating market shifts or reversals before they become evident through other Premium Discount (PD) Arrays.
This indicator works by identifying the highs and lows that have formed for an asset on the current chart and the correlated symbol defined in the settings. Once a pivot on either asset is formed, it checks if the pivot has taken liquidity as identified by the previous pivot in the same direction (i.e., a new high taking out a previous high). If this is the case and the corresponding asset has not taken a similar pivot, the condition is determined to be a potential valid divergence. The indicator will then filter out SMTs formed by adjacent candles, requiring at least one candle difference between the candles forming the SMT.
If the “Candle Direction Validation” setting is enabled, the indicator will further check both assets to ensure that for bullish SMTs, the last high on both assets was formed by down candle, and for bearish SMTs, the low was formed by an up candle. This check can often eliminate low-probability SMTs that are frequently broken.
The referenced chart shows divergence between Nasdaq (NQ) and S&P 500 (ES) futures, which are normally closely correlated assets that move in the same direction. The lines shown represent bullish and bearish divergences between the two when they are formed. As you can see from the chart, SMT Divergences may not always indicate a reversal, or a reversal might be just a short-term retrace. Therefore, SMT Divergences should not be used independently. However, in conjunction with other PD arrays, they can provide strong confirmation of a change in market direction.
Configurability:
Pivot strength - Indicates how many bars to the left/right of a high for pivot to be considered, recommended to keep at 1 for maximum detection speed
Candle Direction Validation - Additional SMT validation to filter out weak/low-probability SMTs be examining candle direction
Remove Broken SMTs - Keeps the chart clean by removing broken (invalidate) SMTs from the chart, once price moves beyond the outmost edge of the SMT
Work in Realtime - Enabled real-time mode for even faster detection of SMTs
Line Styling for Bullish/Bearish SMTs - Ability to customize line style, color & width for bullish/bearish SMTs
Label Control - Whether or not to show SMT label and if shown what font size & color should be used and if labels should include a tooltip containing information about the SMT
What makes this indicator different:
When used on NQ/ES it will automatically detect the matching the corresponding ticker, i.e. if you have chart on NQU2025 it'll automatically match to ESU2025 and vice-versa. Works for mini/micro/continuous contract
Unlike other SMT indicators, this indicator has an option to remove broken (no longer valid SMTs)
Allows real-time detection of SMTs prior to the pivot being fully formed
Allows validation of SMTs to only display high-probability SMTs, that are more likely to signal a possible reversal
Includes alerting capability for both SMT creation and when the SMT is broken (invalidated)
HADES Time Cycle SMT
Overview
The **HADES Time Cycle SMT** indicator is a sophisticated and enhanced version of the original HADES SMT framework, designed for advanced traders seeking to identify high-probability Smart Money Time (SMT) divergences across multiple symbols and timeframes. This private script integrates time cycle analysis, multi-symbol SMT detection, and confluence signals to provide actionable insights for trading major indices like the S&P 500 (ES), Nasdaq (NQ), and Dow Jones (YM). With a customizable dashboard, session anchors, and advanced filtering, this tool is tailored for precision and clarity in fast-moving markets.
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### Key Features
1. **Multi-Symbol SMT Divergence Detection**
- Compares price action across up to three user-defined symbols (default: ES1!, NQ1!, YM1!) to detect bullish and bearish SMT divergences.
- Enhanced divergence strength calculation ensures only significant divergences are highlighted, with a customizable minimum strength filter (0–10%).
- Supports up to 50 visible SMT lines with customizable styles (solid, dashed, dotted) and widths for clear visualization.
2. **Time Cycle Analysis**
- Automatically detects cycle periods (5min, 10min, 30min, 90min, 4H, Daily, Weekly) based on the chart’s timeframe or allows manual cycle selection.
- Tracks cycle highs and lows to provide context for SMT signals, with optional visualization of cycle boxes and previous cycle high/low lines.
3. **Confluence Detection**
- Highlights when multiple symbols exhibit SMT divergences simultaneously, increasing the reliability of signals.
- Confluence labels are displayed on the chart with customizable colors and styles for quick identification.
4. **Enhanced Dashboard**
- Displays real-time data on SMT divergences, pivot counts, and current prices for all tracked symbols.
- Customizable location (Top Right, Bottom Right, etc.), text size, and color scheme for a personalized trading experience.
- Shows percentage of pivots with SMT divergences for each symbol, aiding in signal prioritization.
5. **Advanced Filtering and Customization**
- Minimum divergence strength filter to reduce noise and focus on high-impact signals.
- Optional liquidity interaction requirement to ensure SMT signals occur near significant price levels.
- Extensive style options for SMT lines, confluence labels, and dashboard aesthetics.
6. **Alert System**
- Configurable alerts for:
- SMT divergence detection (single symbol).
- Confluence events (multiple symbols).
- New time cycle starts.
- Alerts are designed to integrate seamlessly with TradingView’s notification system for timely trade execution.
### How It Works
1. **SMT Divergence Detection**
The script identifies divergences by comparing pivot highs and lows between the chart’s price action and up to three user-selected symbols. A divergence occurs when the chart’s price movement opposes the comparison symbol’s movement (e.g., chart makes a higher high while the symbol makes a lower high). Only divergences meeting the minimum strength threshold and optional liquidity interaction criteria are displayed.
2. **Time Cycle Framework**
The indicator tracks price action within defined time cycles (e.g., 30min, 4H, Daily), updating cycle highs and lows dynamically. This contextualizes SMT signals within market moves, improving trade timing.
3. **Confluence and Visualization**
When multiple symbols show SMT divergences at the same pivot, a confluence label highlights the event, signaling higher-probability setups. The dashboard provides a snapshot of SMT activity, pivot counts, and price data across all symbols.
### Ideal Use Cases
- **Day Trading:** Use on lower timeframes (1min–30min) to capture intraday SMT setups during major sessions (London, NY).
- **Swing Trading:** Apply on higher timeframes (4H–Weekly) to identify longer-term reversal points with confluence.
- **Index Trading:** Optimized for major indices (ES, NQ, YM) but adaptable to other correlated assets.
- **Risk Management:** Combine with session anchors and confluence signals to filter high-probability entries.
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### Settings Overview
- **Pivot Settings:** Adjust pivot lookback (default: 3) and max SMT lines (default: 5).
- **Symbol Selection:** Enable/disable up to three comparison symbols (default: ES1!, NQ1!, YM1!).
- **Time Cycles:** Toggle auto-cycle detection or manually select cycle periods (5min–Weekly).
- **Display Options:** Show/hide SMT lines, confluence labels, cycle boxes, session anchors, and dashboard.
- **Filters:** Set minimum divergence strength and enable liquidity interaction requirements.
- **Style:** Customize colors, line styles, and dashboard appearance for optimal clarity.
FVG 9:31–10:00 AM ETFVG 9:31–10:00 AM ET - Script Description
What This Script Does
This indicator finds **Fair Value Gaps (FVGs)** that form during the first 29 minutes of the U.S. stock market (9:31 AM to 10:00 AM Eastern Time). A Fair Value Gap is a price imbalance where there's a gap between candles that often becomes an important support or resistance level.
Key Features:
- **Time Window**: Only looks for FVGs between 9:31-10:00 AM ET (most important opening period)
- **One Per Day**: Finds only the first FVG that forms in this time window each day
- **Visual Display**: Draws a purple box around the gap with a clear "FVG" label
- **Price Tracking**: Monitors when price comes back to test the gap level
- **Alert System**: Sends notifications when price returns to the FVG zone
How FVGs Are Detected:
- **Bullish FVG**: When there's a gap up (low of middle candle is above high of 3rd candle back)
- **Bearish FVG**: When there's a gap down (high of middle candle is below low of 3rd candle back)
The 9:31-10:00 AM window is chosen because this is when institutions and algorithms create their biggest price moves right after market open, making these gaps very reliable.
Customization Options
User Settings
Extend FVG Box (Bars)
- **What it does**: Makes the purple box longer to the right
- **Default**: 0 (box ends right after the gap forms)
- **Options**: Any number from 0 to 100+
- **When to use**:
- Keep at 0 for clean historical view
- Set to 10-20 to track the gap during the current session
- Set higher for longer reference
Code Settings (Can Be Changed)
Time Window
- **Start**: 9:31 AM Eastern Time
- **End**: 10:00 AM Eastern Time
- **Can modify**: Change the hour/minute numbers in the code
Visual Style
- **Color**: Purple with see-through background
- **Label**: Shows "FVG" text in white
- **Can modify**: Change colors and transparency in the code
How to Use:
Setup
Chart Settings
1. Use 1-minute, 5-minute, or 15-minute charts (works best on these timeframes)
2. Apply to liquid markets like ES, NQ, major stocks, or forex pairs
3. Set the "Extend FVG Box" to your preference (start with 0 or 10)
What You'll See
- A purple box appears when an FVG forms during 9:31-10:00 AM
- Box shows the exact price levels of the gap
- "FVG" label appears on the box
- Only one FVG per day will be marked
Trading Strategies
Basic FVG Trading
1. **Wait for Formation**: Let the purple box appear during 9:31-10:00 AM
2. **Watch Price Movement**: See if price moves away from the gap
3. **Enter on Retest**: When price comes back to the purple box area, consider entering
4. **Trade Direction**:
- Bullish FVG = look for long opportunities when price retests
- Bearish FVG = look for short opportunities when price retests
Entry Methods
- **Bounce Play**: Enter when price touches the FVG box and bounces away
- **Break Play**: Enter if price strongly breaks through the FVG box
- **Rejection Play**: Enter opposite direction if price gets rejected at the FVG
Risk Management
Stop Losses
- Place stops just outside the FVG box (a few ticks beyond the gap)
- If trading a bounce, stop goes on opposite side of the gap
- If trading a break, stop goes back inside the gap
Position Sizing
- Start small until you understand how FVGs work in your market
- Bigger gaps = smaller position size (more risk)
- Smaller gaps = can use larger position size
Profit Targets
- Take profits at obvious levels like round numbers, previous highs/lows
- Consider taking half profits at 1:1 risk/reward ratio
- Let some position run if the move is strong
Best Practices
When It Works Best
- High-volume stocks and futures (ES, NQ work great)
- Normal market days without major news during the 9:31-10:00 window
- When there's clear institutional activity in the opening period
When to Be Careful
- Low-volume stocks or markets
- Major economic news releases during the time window
- Market holidays when volume is low
- Very choppy or sideways days
Alert Usage
- The script will alert you when price comes back to test the FVG
- Don't trade the alert blindly - always check the current market situation
- Use the alert as a heads-up to start watching the setup more closely
Tips for Success
- The earlier the FVG forms in the 9:31-10:00 window, often the more significant it is
- FVGs that form with high volume are usually more reliable
- Always consider the overall market direction - don't fight the main trend
- Practice on paper first to understand how FVGs behave in your chosen market
🔗 Works Best With:
✅ Liquidity Levels — Smart Swing Lows: Spot key structural lows that can fuel stop hunts and reversals.
✅ ICT Turtle Soup — Liquidity Reversal: Add a classic reversal pattern to your toolkit to catch fakeouts cleanly.
✅ ICT SMC Liquidity Grabs and OBs- Liquidity Grabs, Order Block Zones, and Fibonacci OTE Levels, allowing traders to identify institutional entry models with clean, rule-based visual signals.
This script is most valuable for day traders who want to catch institutional moves right after market open, but it can also help swing traders identify important intraday levels.
✅ ICT Macro Zones (Grey Box Version)- It tracks real-time highs and lows for each Silver Bullet session.
✅ Weekly Opening Gap (cryptonnnite)
Midnight 30min High/LowMidnight 30min High/Low — Overnight Liquidity Range Tracker
Capture the Overnight Session: A Strategic Level Identification Tool from Professional Trading Methodology
This indicator captures the high and low prices during the critical 30-minute midnight session (12:00-12:30 AM EST) and projects these levels forward as key support and resistance zones. These overnight ranges often contain significant liquidity and serve as crucial reference points for intraday price action, representing areas where institutional activity may have established important levels.
🔍 What This Script Does:
Identifies Critical Overnight Session Levels
- Automatically detects the 12:00-12:30 AM EST session window
- Captures the highest and lowest prices during this 30-minute period
- Projects these levels forward for multiple trading days
Creates Dynamic Support/Resistance Zones
- Extends midnight high/low levels as horizontal lines with customizable projection periods
- Fills the area between high and low to create a visual trading range
- Updates automatically each trading day with new overnight levels
Provides Clear Visual Reference Points
- Optional session start markers (●) highlight when the midnight session begins
- Color-coded lines distinguish between high and low levels
- Transparent fill area creates an easy-to-identify trading zone
Real-Time Level Tracking
- Updates levels in real-time during the active midnight session
- Maintains historical levels for reference and backtesting
- Compatible with data window for precise level values
⚙️ Customization Options:
Extend Days (1-30):** Control how many days forward the levels are projected (default: 5 days)
High Line Color:** Customize the midnight high line color (default: blue)
Low Line Color:** Customize the midnight low line color (default: orange)
Fill Color:** Adjust the transparency and color of the range area (default: light aqua, 80% transparency)
Show Session Markers:** Toggle yellow session start indicators on/off (default: enabled)
💡 How to Use:
Deploy on lower timeframes (1m-15m) for precise level identification and reaction monitoring**
Watch for key price interactions:
- Rejection at midnight high levels (potential resistance)
- Bounce from midnight low levels (potential support)
- Range-bound trading between the high and low levels
Combine with liquidity concepts:
- Monitor for stop hunts above/below these levels
- Look for false breakouts that snap back into the range
- Use as confluence with other ICT concepts like FVGs and Order Blocks
Strategic Applications:
- Range trading between midnight levels
- Breakout confirmation when price closes decisively outside the range
- Support/resistance validation for entry and exit planning
🔗 Combine With These Tools for Complete Market Structure Analysis:
✅ First FVG — Opening Range Fair Value Gap Detector.
✅ ICT Turtle Soup (Liquidity Reversal)— Spot stop hunts and false breakout scenarios
✅ ICT Macro Zones (Grey Box Version)- It tracks real-time highs and lows for each Silver Bullet session
✅ ICT SMC Liquidity Grabs and OBs- Liquidity Grabs, Order Block Zones, and Fibonacci OTE Levels, allowing traders to identify institutional entry models with clean, rule-based visual signals.
Together, these tools create a comprehensive Smart Money Concepts (SMC) framework — helping traders identify, anticipate, and capitalize on institutional-level price movements with precision and confidence during critical overnight sessions.
Sweep Swing Screener [TradingFinder]🔵 Introduction
Understanding how liquidity forms and how price reacts around key structural levels is essential for identifying precise, low-risk entry points. The Sweep Swing Screener is a specialized tool developed to continuously monitor market activity and detect liquidity sweeps, reaction zones, and valid confirmation candles across various trading instruments and timeframes.
This tool can be applied both to scan multiple symbols at once and to analyze all timeframes of a specific asset for potential reversal points. It begins by identifying a clear swing point, whether a swing high or a swing low, and then outlines a reaction zone between that level and either the highest or lowest value of the swing candle's open or close.
If the price revisits this zone, performs a liquidity grab, and prints an indecision candle like a doji or a narrow-bodied bar that closes within the zone, this may indicate a rejection of the level and the failure of a breakout attempt. At that moment, depending on the context, the screener may identify a bullish or bearish reversal and generate a corresponding Long or Short signal.
By emphasizing accurate entry timing, alignment with institutional order flow, and avoidance of common traps, this approach highlights market areas where liquidity engineering, reversal probability, and price inefficiency come together. As a result, the Sweep Swing Screener becomes a valuable part of any trader’s toolkit, particularly for those who rely on price action and liquidity logic to drive their decisions. It allows traders to focus on clean, actionable setups without getting lost in noise or misleading breakouts.
🔵 How to Use
The Sweep Swing Screener is designed to track market structure in real time and alert users when conditions for a potential reversal are present. Its methodology combines liquidity behavior with swing analysis and candle confirmation, all within predefined reaction zones.
To better understand this logic, consider a basic market flow where a swing high or low forms, followed by a return to that level. If the price sweeps the previous extreme and forms a confirming candle within the reaction zone, a signal is issued.
🟣 Long Signal
To identify a long setup, the screener looks for a valid swing low, often a level below which sell-side liquidity is likely to be clustered. Once found, it defines a reaction zone from the swing low to the lowest point between the candle’s open and close.
If the price returns to this area and creates a lower wick that extends beneath the swing low, the tool checks whether the price manages to close back inside the range, rejecting the breakdown. This indicates absorption of selling pressure and failure to sustain the move lower.
The screener then waits for a confirmation candle to appear. Typically, this is a doji or other small-bodied candle that closes inside the zone. If these conditions are met, the screener records a Long signal for that asset and, if enabled, sends a notification to alert the user.
🟣 Short Signal
For bearish setups, the screener begins by identifying a valid swing high, which usually marks a level where buy-side liquidity is concentrated. It then creates a reaction zone from the swing high to the highest point between the candle’s open and close.
When price returns to this level, sweeps above the swing high, and then fails to close higher, it may signal the presence of a bull trap and early exhaustion in the upward move.
A confirmation candle, usually a doji or a rejection bar that closes back within the zone, is then required. Once that occurs, the screener marks the asset with a Short signal and optionally sends a real-time alert to the user.
This type of setup helps highlight potential institutional sell zones, offering insight into where price is likely to reverse following a liquidity event.
🔵 Settings
🟣 Logical settings
Swing period : You can set the swing detection period.
Max Swing Back Method : It is in two modes "All" and "Custom". If it is in "All" mode, it will check all swings, and if it is in "Custom" mode, it will check the swings to the extent you determine.
Max Swing Back : You can set the number of swings that will go back for checking.
Maximum Distance Between Swing and Signal : The maximum number of candles allowed between the swing point and the potential signal. The default value is 50, ensuring that only recent and relevant price reactions are considered valid.
🟣 Display Settings
Table Size : Lets you adjust the table’s visual size with options such as: auto, tiny, small, normal, large, huge.
Table Position : Sets the screen location of the table. Choose from 9 possible positions, combining vertical (top, middle, bottom) and horizontal (left, center, right) alignments.
🟣 Symbol Settings
Each of the 10 symbol slots comes with a full set of customizable parameters :
Symbol : Define or select the asset (e.g., XAUUSD, BTCUSD, EURUSD, etc.).
Timeframe : Set your desired timeframe for each symbol (e.g., 15, 60, 240, 1D).
🟣 Alert Settings
Alert : Enables alerts for SSS.
Message Frequency : Determines the frequency of alerts. Options include 'All' (every function call), 'Once Per Bar' (first call within the bar), and 'Once Per Bar Close' (final script execution of the real-time bar). Default is 'Once per Bar'.
Show Alert Time by Time Zone : Configures the time zone for alert messages. Default is 'UTC'.
🔵 Conclusion
The Sweep Swing Screener provides a systematic method for identifying potential reversal zones by combining price structure, liquidity behavior, and candle-based confirmation. In markets that are often noisy and full of failed breakouts, focusing on these three elements helps clarify directional bias and supports more confident decision-making.
With the ability to scan multiple symbols and timeframes efficiently, this tool allows traders to stay focused on high-quality setups without the need to manually sift through dozens of charts. The inclusion of optional alerts further enhances its utility by offering timely updates when criteria are met.
By moving away from reactive strategies and toward structural anticipation, this screener supports traders who align their methods with institutional logic and the mechanics of smart money.
Premium/Discount with Candle Open stats [Herman]Premium/Discount with Stats
This indicator is designed to help traders identify and analyze premium/discount zones on any timeframe while automatically tracking statistics on price behavior relative to these zones. It is especially valuable for traders looking to structure entries, manage targets, and quantify market reactions to prior session ranges.
What it draws on the chart
✅ Range High and Low Lines
For each selected timeframe period (15min, 30min 1H, 4H, Daily), the indicator plots the high and low of the completed previous period.
These lines are color-coded dynamically based on sweep detection:
If the high was swept (price broke the previous high), the high line is marked as Premium.
If the low was swept, the low line is marked as Discount.
If both were swept or neither, it uses the default color settings.
✅ Midline
An optional midline at the 50% level of the previous period’s high-low range.
Helpful for mean-reversion traders or anyone watching for retests of equilibrium.
✅ Quartile Lines (25%–75%)
Optional additional lines at 25% and 75% of the previous range, helping traders visualize inner range subdivisions.
✅ Open Price Line
Marks the open price of the previous period as a horizontal reference.
✅ Background Fills
The region between low and midline is shaded with the Discount color.
The region between high and midline is shaded with the Premium color.
These optional fills help highlight the premium and discount zones visually.
✅ Current Incomplete Period Lines (optional)
You can choose to display provisional high, low, midline, quartiles, and open for the current forming period.
These update in real-time until the period closes.
Sweep Detection Logic
The indicator automatically tracks if the current period price sweeps above the previous period’s high or below the low.
A "sweep" is simply defined as price exceeding the previous high/low while tracking is active.
The sweep status affects the colors of the premium/discount lines, helping traders see potential liquidity grabs or stop hunts.
What it counts and tracks (Statistics)
The script automatically compiles statistics over time:
✅ Total Touches
Counts how many times the price in a new period touches either the previous period’s high or low.
A “touch” is registered once per side per period.
✅ Midline Returns
Counts how often, after touching the previous high/low, price returns to the previous period’s midline.
Gives you a measure of mean-reversion success.
✅ Open Returns
Similarly, tracks how often price returns to the previous period’s open after touching the previous high/low.
✅ Return Percentages
Displays the percentage of touches that result in a return to midline or open.
These percentages are calculated live on your chart and updated after each period closes.
✅ Stats Table
A customizable on-chart table summarizing all of these stats in real-time.
Helps traders evaluate the effectiveness of range-based trading setups over time.
How it Works (Technical details)
On each new bar, the script checks if a new period (as defined by your timeframe selection) has begun.
When a new period starts, the previous period’s high, low, open, midline, quartiles are recorded and drawn on the chart.
The script then “watches” the current period:
Updates provisional high and low.
Detects sweeps of previous highs/lows.
Tracks if price returns to the previous period’s midline or open after those sweeps.
Increments statistical counters if conditions are met.
Background fills and lines update dynamically based on real-time data.
Intended Use Cases
This indicator is ideal for:
✅ Identifying premium/discount zones for swing or intraday trades.
✅ Spotting liquidity sweeps and possible manipulation zones.
✅ Structuring trades with logical, data-driven target zones (midline, open).
✅ Quantifying the probability of mean-reversion moves after liquidity events.
✅ Developing and backtesting range-based trading models with live stats.
Highly Customizable
Choose any timeframe for defining the premium/discount range.
Toggle visibility of midline, quartiles, open line, current period preview.
Full control over colors, line styles, line widths, and background shading.
Optional real-time statistical table with total counts and return percentages.
Contrarian Market Structure BreakMarket Structure Break application was inspired and adapted from Market Structure Oscillator indicator developed by Lux Algo. So much credit to their work.
This indicator pairs nicely with the Contrarian 100 MA and can be located here:
Indicator Description: Contrarian Market Structure BreakOverview
The "Contrarian Market Structure Break" indicator is a versatile tool tailored for traders seeking to identify potential reversal opportunities by analyzing market structure across multiple timeframes. Built on Institutional Concepts of Structure (ICT), this indicator detects Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHoCH) patterns across short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term swings, plotting them with customizable lines and labels. It generates contrarian buy and sell signals when price breaks key swing levels, with a unique "Blue Dot Tracker" to monitor consecutive buy signals for trend confirmation. Optimized for the daily timeframe, this indicator is adaptable to other timeframes with proper testing, making it ideal for traders of forex, stocks, or cryptocurrencies.
How It Works
The indicator combines three key components to provide a comprehensive view of market dynamics: Multi-Timeframe Market Structure Analysis: It identifies swing highs and lows across short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term periods, plotting BOS (continuation) and CHoCH (reversal) events with customizable line styles and labels.
Contrarian Signal Generation: Buy and sell signals are triggered when the price crosses below swing lows (buy) or above swing highs (sell), indicating potential reversals in overextended markets.
Blue Dot Tracker: A unique feature that counts consecutive buy signals ("blue dots") and highlights a "Hold Investment" state with a yellow background when three or more buy signals occur, suggesting a potential trend continuation.
Signals are visualized as small circles below (buy) or above (sell) price bars, and a table in the bottom-right corner displays the blue dot count and recommended action (Hold or Flip Investment), enhancing decision-making clarity.
Mathematical Concepts Swing Detection: The indicator identifies swing highs and lows by comparing price patterns over three bars, ensuring robust detection of pivot points. A swing high occurs when the middle bar’s high is higher than the surrounding bars, and a swing low occurs when the middle bar’s low is lower.
Market Structure Logic: BOS is detected when the price breaks a prior swing high (bullish) or low (bearish) in the direction of the current trend, while CHoCH signals a potential reversal when the price breaks a swing level against the trend. These are calculated across three timeframes for a multi-dimensional perspective.
Blue Dot Tracker: This feature counts consecutive buy signals and tracks the entry price. If three or more buy signals occur without a sell signal, the indicator enters a "Hold Investment" state, marked by a yellow background, until the price exceeds the entry price or a sell signal occurs.
Entry and Exit Rules Buy Signal (Blue Dot Below Bar): Triggered when the closing price crosses below a swing low on either the intermediate-term or long-term timeframe, suggesting an oversold condition and potential reversal upward. Short-term signals can be enabled but are disabled by default to reduce noise.
Sell Signal (White Dot Above Bar): Triggered when the closing price crosses above a swing high on either the intermediate-term or long-term timeframe, indicating an overbought condition and potential reversal downward.
Blue Dot Tracker Logic: After a buy signal, the indicator increments a blue dot counter and records the entry price. If three or more consecutive buy signals occur (blueDotCount ≥ 3), the indicator enters a "Hold Investment" state, highlighted with a yellow background, suggesting a potential trend continuation. The "Hold Investment" state ends when the price exceeds the entry price or a sell signal occurs, resetting the counter.
Exit Rules: Traders can exit buy positions when a sell signal appears, the price exceeds the entry price during a "Hold Investment" state, or based on additional confirmation from BOS/CHoCH patterns or other technical analysis tools. Always use proper risk management.
Recommended Usage
The indicator is optimized for the daily timeframe, where it effectively captures significant reversal and continuation patterns in trending or ranging markets. It can be adapted to other timeframes (e.g., 1H, 4H, 15M) with careful testing of settings, particularly enabling/disabling short-term structure analysis to suit market conditions. Backtesting is recommended to optimize performance for your chosen asset and timeframe.
Customization Options Market Structure Display: Toggle short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term structures on or off, with customizable line styles (solid, dashed, dotted) and colors for bullish and bearish breaks.
Labels: Enable or disable BOS/CHoCH labels for each timeframe to reduce chart clutter.
Signal Visibility: Hide buy/sell signals if desired for a cleaner chart.
Blue Dot Tracker: Monitor the blue dot count and action (Hold or Flip Investment) via the table display, which is fully customizable in terms of position and appearance.
Why Use This Indicator?
The "Contrarian Market Structure Break" indicator offers a robust framework for identifying high-probability reversal and continuation setups using ICT principles. Its multi-timeframe analysis, clear signal visualization, and innovative Blue Dot Tracker provide traders with actionable insights into market dynamics. Whether you're a swing trader or a day trader, this indicator’s flexibility and intuitive design make it a valuable addition to your trading arsenal.
Note for TradingView Moderators
This script complies with TradingView's House Rules by providing an educational and transparent description without performance claims or guarantees. It is designed to assist traders in technical analysis and should be used alongside proper risk management and personal research. The code is original, well-documented, and includes customizable inputs and clear visual outputs to enhance the user experience.
Tips for Users:
Backtest thoroughly on your chosen asset and timeframe to validate signal reliability. Combine with other indicators or price action analysis for confirmation of entries and exits. Adjust timeframe settings and enable/disable short-term structures to match market volatility and your trading style.
Hope the "Contrarian Market Structure Break" indicator enhances your trading strategy and helps you navigate the markets with confidence! Happy trading!
OPR Asia-New-York [Elykia]This Pine Script indicator, called "OPR Asia-New-York ", displays time-based boxes corresponding to two specific trading periods known as OPR (Opening Price Range):
🎯 Purpose of the Indicator:
To visualize two key market time windows (morning and afternoon) as extended boxes, helping with technical analysis around opening ranges.
🕒 Two sessions displayed as boxes:
🔹 Morning OPR:
Default: from 09:00 to 09:15 (configurable)
The box extends until 10:30.
It captures the highest and lowest candle within this interval.
🔸 Afternoon OPR:
Default: from 15:30 to 15:45
The box extends until 17:30.
Follows the same logic as the morning session.
⚙️ Dashboard Options:
Enable or disable the morning or afternoon box individually
Select the timezone (e.g., GMT+2)
Customize all colors (morning/afternoon boxes, median line)
Set your own start/end/extension times for each session
📦 Each box includes:
A colored rectangle showing the price range (high/low)
A dotted median line between the high and low
The box and line extend until the end time defined
🧠 Usefulness for Traders:
Identify liquidity zones or consolidation areas
Trade setups like liquidity grabs, breakouts, or fakeouts around the OPR
Align with ICT methods or scalping strategies based on session behavior
