Sweep IFVG (M1D)Sweep IFVG
Marks one sequence and refuses to mark anything else.
Liquidity is taken, a fair value gap opens away from it, and that gap then fails and inverts.
Each stage has to happen in order and inside a window you set, or the zone is never drawn.
Most gap indicators draw every imbalance on the chart and let you sort out which ones matter. This one starts from the liquidity event and works forward, so a gap that opened without a raid in front of it is not a candidate and never appears. What survives to the chart is a small number of zones with a reason behind each one.
The sweep
A swing is the three-candle structure; one candle each side of the middle one, the middle holding the high or the low. That is the default, and it can be widened when you want only larger structure tracked. A sweep is that level being wicked through and rejected on the same candle: price trades beyond the swing extreme and the candle closes back inside it. A raided high is a buyside sweep, a raided low is a sellside sweep.
Each sweep is marked with a small arrow set clear of the bar — above a swept high, below a swept low — and the level that was taken is drawn as a solid line back to the candle that formed it, so the origin of the raid stays visible rather than being implied.
Sweeps are capped at a number you choose. Past it, the oldest arrow and its level line are removed together, so a sweep never half-disappears.
The candidate gap
A sweep stays live for a set number of bars afterwards. Only inside that window can a fair value gap be adopted as its displacement, which is what stops an unrelated gap forty bars later being attributed to a raid it had nothing to do with.
The displacement itself is read over three candles and has to clear a minimum size in ticks to count. It must also run the same way as the reaction the sweep implies: a raided low can only qualify a bullish leg, a raided high only a bearish one. Two things qualify — a fair value gap, and a suspension block — and the section below covers how they differ.
A qualifying gap is drawn as a dashed box named BISI or SIBI. That is a candidate — a gap on watch, nothing more.
Volume imbalance and suspension blocks
A fair value gap is measured wick to wick, and on a fast leg that understates the region. Where the candle bodies also gap but the wicks still bridge the space, there is a volume imbalance sitting on the seam, and it is part of the same imbalance rather than a separate object. The zone absorbs it: the edge extends from the wick out to the body it should have reached. Each gap has two seams, one either side of the displacement candle, and each is tested on its own.
A suspension block is what happens when both joins gap at once. Three candles run the same way and each one opens beyond the previous one's close, so the bodies never trade back through the leg at any point in it. The zone is then the whole suspended span, from the first candle's close to the last candle's open, and it is named SB+ or SB- rather than BISI or SIBI.
It qualifies on its own terms and does not need a fair value gap to be present. A leg can be stacked tightly enough that every wick overlaps the one before it — no wick gap anywhere — while the bodies still never trade back. That is the case a wick-measured gap cannot see at all. Where a wick gap is present as well, the block's span is drawn instead, and it always contains the gap it replaces: the first candle's close sits at or below that gap's high, and the last candle's open at or above its low.
A block goes on to fail and invert on exactly the same terms as any other candidate. The resolved edges — absorbed or suspended — are what the midpoint line, the overlap rule and the failure test are all measured against.
One exclusion is built in. A body gap across a session or weekend break is a calendar artefact rather than displacement, so a join spanning more than one bar's worth of time is rejected. Without it a daily session break would manufacture a block every day. The rule applies to blocks, which is where that would happen.
Absorption and block detection each have their own switch. With both off, every zone is the plain wick-to-wick gap.
The inversion
A candidate has a limited number of bars to fail. Failure means a candle body closing clean through the gap, not a wick into it: a wick is a probe, and probes are not delivery.
When that close happens the box turns solid, changes colour, and is renamed IFVG+ or IFVG-. The names describe how the gap was built and which way it now trades — a bullish gap that gets closed through becomes a bearish inversion. Both directions share one confirmed colour, because at that point the useful distinction is confirmed against candidate, and direction is already stated in the name.
A candidate that never fails inside its window is deleted rather than left on the chart. Nothing that did not complete the sequence stays drawn.
Consequent encroachment
Each zone can carry its midpoint — the consequent encroachment of that gap, which is a different object from the equilibrium of a range. It is off by default and has its own colour, width and line style.
Zone names sit beside the box, on its centre line, just past the right edge. The midpoint line stops at that edge and the text starts there, so neither ever crosses the other, and a name stays readable when the zone it belongs to is only a few pixels tall.
Keeping the chart readable
Four limits, all yours to set. Candidates are capped per side and confirmed inversions are capped per side, oldest dropped first. A new zone can optionally be refused when it overlaps one already on the chart, which is what stops a run of gaps stacking into a single unreadable block on a fast leg.
The fourth is distance. A zone left hanging far from the candles forces the price scale to keep reaching for it, so the candles end up squashed into part of the pane and the whole thing rescales every time you touch the chart. Confirmed zones past a set distance are dropped, measured from the nearer edge of the zone to the current close and expressed in chart-timeframe ATR so it carries across instruments and timeframes. A zone price is trading inside reads as near zero and can never be dropped from under the candles.
Candidates are never dropped this way — one has to stay in play to be able to invert at all — and they expire on their own grace window regardless.
Colours, border width, label text, label size and every name string are settings, including the words BISI, SIBI, SB+, SB-, IFVG+ and IFVG- themselves.
Alerts
Four. Buyside sweep, sellside sweep, bullish IFVG confirmed, bearish IFVG confirmed. The two sweep alerts fire on the raid itself; the two inversion alerts fire on the close that completes the failure.
Method & repainting
Everything is read from the chart timeframe. There are no higher-timeframe requests anywhere in the script, so there is no lookahead to get wrong and no future data to leak.
Every detection is gated to a confirmed bar close. A sweep, a gap and an inversion are all judged on closed candles, so nothing appears mid-bar and then withdraws.
One characteristic is worth stating plainly, because it is inherent to pivots rather than a fault: a swing is only confirmed once the bars to its right have printed. On the three-candle default that is one bar, and a sweep can only be measured against a swing that has been confirmed. Widening the swing setting widens that delay by the same amount. It is lag, not repainting — the marks do not move once drawn.
Zones and midpoint lines extend rightward to the current bar while they are live. That is the boxes tracking the present, not their history changing.
What it will not do
It places no entries, exits, stops or targets, and it does not size a position. It draws no trend, no bias and no target projection.
It does not read structure beyond the pivots it uses to find swings, and it does not label market phases. Whether a completed inversion is worth trading is a judgement about context this script does not have — session, higher-timeframe draw, and what the day has already done.
A sweep alone draws nothing but its arrow and its level. Displacement alone, with no raid in front of it, draws nothing at all. Only the finished sequence produces a zone, so an empty chart in a range is the tool working, not failing.
Settings
Swing lookback, sweep validity window, sweep markers and their size, the swept-level line and its width, and the cap on sweeps shown; minimum gap size, volume imbalance absorption, suspension block detection, inversion grace window, the per-side caps on candidates and confirmed inversions, the overlap rule and the distance gate with its ATR multiple; candidate and confirmed colours, sweep colour and zone border width; the midpoint line with its colour, width and style; and zone labels with their six name strings, size and text colour.
Disclaimer
This is a decision-support tool for discretionary ICT trading. It is not financial advice, and no market's past behaviour is indicative of future results. It draws where a level failed, a candidate imbalance and leaves the decision to you. Indicator
Inversion FVG (iFVG) by EonMetricsInversion FVG (iFVG) by EonMetrics
🔶 WHAT IT DOES
A "fair value gap" (FVG) is a three-candle pattern where price moved so fast that the wicks of the first and third candle never overlapped — leaving a void on the chart that the market skipped over. While an FVG is fresh, traders typically expect a bullish gap to act as support and a bearish gap as resistance.
This indicator focuses on the moment that expectation FAILS — and on how it fails. An inversion FVG (iFVG) happens when price displaces through an existing gap with enough force to print a NEW fair value gap in the opposite direction, overlapping the old one. The inversion zone drawn by this script is the COMMON GROUND of those two opposing gaps — the price area where both imbalances intersect. That is where one side got trapped: broken demand turns into supply, broken supply turns into demand, and the market tends to defend that exact area when price returns to it.
It is a structure-annotation tool: it shows you where these events happen and how significant they were. It deliberately does not give buy/sell signals, entries, targets, stops, or win-rate statistics.
🔶 HOW THIS SCRIPT IS DIFFERENT
Most inversion-FVG tools use a simple rule: when a candle closes through a gap, the whole gap is recolored and called inverted. This script uses a stricter, structural definition, and adds level-management logic around it:
1. Two gaps required, intersection drawn. A slow drift through an FVG does not create an inversion here. The traversal must be violent enough to leave a fresh FVG in the opposite direction, and the zone drawn is only the overlap of the two gaps — the exact prices where the old imbalance and the new one coincide — not the whole original gap.
2. Spent levels never invert. The first candle close through the far side of a gap opens a short pairing window. If no opposing gap confirms within it, the level is considered spent and permanently dropped. Levels that price has already chopped through several times can never produce a late, meaningless inversion zone.
3. Levels are remembered independently of what you see. A gap's box may be mitigated and removed from the chart, yet its price range keeps working invisibly as a candidate level for a configurable number of bars. The displacement that flips a level often arrives well after the gap was first touched — display and detection are deliberately separated.
4. Partial consumption. When an opposing gap overlaps only part of a remembered level, only that part is consumed; the remainder stays available. A small opposing gap therefore cannot "steal" a large level from a later, proper displacement. One inverting gap can flip several remembered levels at once, and the resulting zones never overlap each other.
5. Two-condition strength grading. An inversion is tagged STRONG only when the inverting gap is both large relative to volatility AND backed by elevated volume on its displacement candle — size or volume alone is not enough.
🔶 HOW IT DETECTS EACH EVENT (THE EXACT METHOD)
1. Regular FVG: on every closed bar the script checks the classic three-candle condition — for a bullish gap, the current bar's low must be above the high from two bars ago (mirrored for bearish). Gaps smaller than a chosen multiple of ATR (a standard volatility unit, measured at the moment the gap forms) are ignored. By default these regular gaps stay INVISIBLE — they are tracked in the background purely as raw material for inversions, so the chart shows only what the tool is about: the inversion zones. One switch reveals them as a quiet context layer if you want to see what may flip next.
2. Regular FVG expiry (display): each displayed gap lives until price mitigates it, by your rules — at its 50% midpoint or only on a full fill, touched by any wick or requiring a candle close. Mitigated gaps disappear, or stay frozen as reference if you prefer. This controls only what you SEE.
3. Level memory (detection): independently of the display, every detected gap's price range is remembered for a set number of bars from its creation (Inversion Memory). A remembered level dies early if price closes through its far side and no opposing gap confirms within the pairing window (Pairing Window After Break) — that level is spent.
4. Inversion (iFVG): when a fresh gap forms in the OPPOSITE direction of a remembered level and their price ranges overlap, the inversion fires:
- The drawn zone is the intersection of the two full gaps: its top is the lower of the two gap tops, its bottom is the higher of the two gap bottoms.
- An overlap thinner than the Min FVG Size threshold neither draws a zone nor consumes the level.
- The zone is colored by its new role: support (a bearish gap was displaced upward through) or resistance (a bullish gap was displaced downward through).
- The zone is drawn starting from the ORIGINAL gap's origin, so you see the full history of the level — from the moment the imbalance first appeared, through the displacement that flipped it.
- The zone's age counter, retest and expiry logic are anchored at the inversion moment, not at the original gap.
5. Strong grading: the NEW (inverting) gap is measured. If its height is at least a chosen multiple of ATR AND the volume of its displacement candle exceeds the 20-bar volume average by a chosen multiplier, the inversion is tagged STRONG — the old gap was taken out with conviction on real participation, not by low-volume drift.
6. Inversion zone life: each iFVG shows its 50% equilibrium line (the consequent encroachment level), an age counter in bars, fires an alert on the first retest from outside, and expires by the same mitigation rules as regular gaps (50% or full, wick or close) once price trades through it against its new role.
Everything is evaluated on closed bars only, so zones, colors and labels do not repaint.
🔶 HOW TO ACTUALLY USE IT (STEP BY STEP)
1. Out of the box you see only inversion zones — that is the point of the tool. If you also want the raw material (regular gaps that may flip later), enable "Show Regular FVGs" and they appear as quiet green/red context boxes.
2. When a colored inversion zone appears, read its meaning: orange resistance = former demand that got displaced through downward; cyan support = former supply that got displaced through upward.
3. Give more weight to zones tagged STRONG — the inverting gap was large and backed by elevated volume, which traders treat as a more meaningful role-flip than a quiet leak.
4. The first return of price into the zone is the moment most iFVG traders wait for (there is a dedicated retest alert). Watch how price reacts there — rejection confirms the new role, a pass-through negates it.
5. The gray line inside each zone is its 50% midpoint (EQ) — many traders use it as the precise reaction level rather than the zone edges.
6. The age counter (e.g. "34b") tells you how long a zone has existed since its inversion — fresh zones are generally considered more reliable than stale ones, and you can enable fading to de-emphasize old zones automatically.
7. Combine with your own analysis of trend and higher-timeframe levels. The indicator describes structure; it does not predict.
If you want the full life cycle of REGULAR fair value gaps (creation, strength grading and retest alerts while they still act in their original direction), that is what our free Smart FVG indicator does — this tool picks up where it ends, at the moment a gap fails and flips. Both use the same visual language, so they pair naturally.
🔶 EVERY SETTING EXPLAINED
🔵Visualization group
- Bullish FVG / Bearish FVG — colors of the quiet regular-gap context layer.
- iFVG Support / iFVG Resistance — colors of the inversion zones.
- Show Regular FVGs — off by default: only inversion zones are displayed. Turn on to also see the not-yet-inverted gaps as context (hidden gaps are still tracked, so inversions keep firing either way).
- Show 50% Line (EQ) / EQ Line Color — the midpoint line inside each zone.
- Width Mode — how zones extend to the right: Dynamic (to the current bar), Fixed (a set number of bars), or Extended (infinitely).
- Fixed Width (bars) — zone width when Fixed mode is selected.
- Min FVG Size (x ATR) — the smallest height that registers, applied twice: to every new gap AND to the common ground of the two gaps (an overlap thinner than this neither draws a zone nor consumes the level); 0 disables both checks.
BEFORE ATR
AFTER ATR
🔵Mitigation group
- Delete Mitigated Zones — remove finished zones, or freeze them on the chart as reference.
- Mitigation Level — a zone is finished when price reaches its 50% midpoint, or only on a full fill.
- Mitigation Confirmation — what must reach that level: any wick, or a candle close.
- Inversion Memory (bars) — how long each detected gap's range stays eligible to form inversions, counted from the gap's creation and independent of when its box disappears from the chart. Larger = more inversions detected, including from older levels.
- Pairing Window After Break (bars) — once price CLOSES through the far side of a remembered gap, the opposing gap must confirm within this many bars for the inversion to count. If it does not, the level is treated as spent and dropped.
🔵Imbalance Age group
- Show Age Label — the bar counter inside each zone.
- Fade Old Zones / Max Age for Full Fade — gradually de-emphasize stale zones.
🔵Strong Inversion group
- Mark Strong Inversions — enables the two-condition strength check.
- Min Inverting Gap Size (x ATR) — condition 1: how large the inverting gap must be relative to volatility. Note this grades the STRONG tag only; it does not filter which zones appear (that is Min FVG Size).
- Min Volume (x SMA 20) — condition 2: how elevated the displacement candle volume must be versus its 20-bar average.
- Show 'STRONG' Tag — the text tag on qualifying zones.
🔵Labels group
- Show Labels / Label Text Color — master switch and color for all in-zone text.
- Label Offset (bars left of price) — keeps each zone's label trailing near the current bar so it stays readable, instead of sitting far back at the zone's left edge; 0 pins it on the current bar.
🔶 ALERTS
New iFVG Support / New iFVG Resistance / New STRONG iFVG / iFVG Retest / iFVG Mitigated — standard TradingView alert conditions. Select "Once Per Bar Close" when creating alerts for non-repainting behavior.
🔶 WHAT THIS TOOL DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO
No buy or sell signals, no take-profit or stop-loss levels, no win-rate dashboard. Detecting a structural pattern is not the same as having a tradable edge, and presenting pattern marks as trade signals would overstate what any indicator of this kind can honestly claim. Use it as a lens for reading market structure, together with your own judgment.
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Meridian Imbalance Ledger [JOAT]Meridian Imbalance Ledger
Introduction
Meridian Imbalance Ledger is an open-source imbalance mapping tool that tracks confirmed chart-timeframe, higher-timeframe, and micro-structure fair value gaps inside one coordinated framework. The script is designed to answer three practical questions: where imbalance was created, whether that imbalance is still active, and how price is behaving when it returns to those zones.
The indicator solves a context problem. Many imbalance tools only mark a gap once and leave the trader to manually judge whether it remains relevant. Meridian instead maintains a living ledger of active zones, inversion status, fill progress, age, and structural pressure so the chart shows which imbalances still matter and which ones have been consumed.
Core Concepts
1. Multi-source imbalance detection
Meridian separates imbalance generation into three sources:
Chart timeframe imbalances
Higher-timeframe imbalances requested with non-repainting offset logic
Optional micro-structure imbalance scans from lower-timeframe data
This allows a trader to see whether current price is interacting with local inefficiency, inherited higher-timeframe inefficiency, or smaller sub-bar displacement inside the current bar structure.
2. Fill progress and retirement logic
Each zone remains active until its fill rule is satisfied. The script supports configurable retirement behavior so zones can be treated as mitigated on a simple touch, midpoint interaction, or deeper body-based invalidation depending on the chosen rule set.
3. Inversion tracking
If price meaningfully breaches an imbalance, the zone can be treated as structurally altered rather than simply forgotten. Meridian keeps inversion state so prior bullish inefficiency can become resistance context and prior bearish inefficiency can become support context.
4. Age and pressure weighting
Not all zones deserve equal weight. Meridian tracks zone age and active count to create a pressure ratio that helps communicate whether bullish or bearish imbalance structure is dominating the chart right now.
Features
Chart, HTF, and micro imbalance layers: Multiple imbalance sources displayed in one coordinated ledger
Non-repainting HTF requests: Higher-timeframe data requested using historical offsets for safer confirmed context
Fill-progress tracking: Zones remain active until their configured retirement condition is met
Inversion state handling: Breached imbalances can remain visible as flipped structural context
Age-aware zone fading: Older zones visually decay to reduce clutter while retaining context
Pressure ratio and active counts: Quick read on whether bullish or bearish imbalance pressure is leading
Compact top-right dashboard: Displays counts, inversion totals, micro scan status, and bias ratio
Confirmed-bar alerts: New imbalance, inversion, and state transitions only trigger on confirmed bars
How to Use This Indicator
Step 1: Identify whether current price is trading inside fresh chart-timeframe imbalance or approaching older inherited imbalance from a higher timeframe.
Step 2: Use the dashboard counts and bias ratio to judge whether current imbalance structure is skewed toward support or resistance.
Step 3: Monitor inversion states. A previously bullish zone that has failed cleanly may become useful resistance context on retests.
Step 4: Treat micro imbalance scans as execution detail, not a standalone trend signal. The broader chart and HTF layers should carry more decision weight.
Limitations
Micro-structure scans depend on lower-timeframe availability and plan limits
HTF imbalances are intentionally delayed by one completed HTF bar to reduce repaint risk
An imbalance zone is contextual, not a guarantee of reversal or continuation
Originality Statement
Meridian Imbalance Ledger is original in the way it combines confirmed chart imbalances, non-repainting higher-timeframe imbalance inheritance, optional micro scans, and zone lifecycle management into one stateful framework. The script is intended as a structured market context layer, not a one-click entry signal.
Disclaimer
This indicator is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It does not provide financial advice or trade recommendations. Imbalance reactions can fail, invert, or be ignored entirely by the market. Always use independent confirmation and risk management.
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Time-Based Fair Value Gaps (FVG) with Inversions (iFVG)Overview
The Time-Based Fair Value Gaps (FVG) with Inversions (iFVG) (ICT/SMT) indicator is a specialized tool designed for traders using Inner Circle Trader (ICT) methodologies. Inspired by LuxAlgo's Fair Value Gap indicator, this script introduces significant enhancements by integrating ICT principles, focusing on precise time-based FVG detection, inversion tracking, and retest signals tailored for institutional trading strategies. Unlike LuxAlgo’s general FVG approach, this indicator filters FVGs within customizable 10-minute windows aligned with ICT’s macro timeframes and incorporates ICT-specific concepts like mitigation, liquidity grabs, and session-based gap prioritization.
This tool is optimized for 1–5 minute charts, though probably best for 1 minute charts, identifying bullish and bearish FVGs, tracking their mitigation into inverted FVGs (iFVGs) as key support/resistance zones, and generating retest signals with customizable “Close” or “Wick” confirmation. Features like ATR-based filtering, optional FVG labels, mitigation removal, and session-specific FVG detection (e.g., first FVG in AM/PM sessions) make it a powerful tool for ICT traders.
Originality and Improvements
While inspired by LuxAlgo’s FVG indicator (credit to LuxAlgo for their foundational work), this script significantly extends the original concept by:
1. Time-Based FVG Detection: Unlike LuxAlgo’s continuous FVG identification, this script filters FVGs within user-defined 10-minute windows each hour (:00–:10, :10–:20, etc.), aligning with ICT’s emphasis on specific periods of institutional activity, such as hourly opens/closes or kill zones (e.g., New York 7:00–11:00 AM EST). This ensures FVGs are relevant to high-probability ICT setups.
2. Session-Specific First FVG Option: A unique feature allows traders to display only the first FVG in ICT-defined AM (9:30–10:00 AM EST) or PM (1:30–2:00 PM EST) sessions, reflecting ICT’s focus on initial market imbalances during key liquidity events.
3. ICT-Driven Mitigation and Inversion Logic: The script tracks FVG mitigation (when price closes through a gap) and converts mitigated FVGs into iFVGs, which serve as ICT-style support/resistance zones. This aligns with ICT’s view that mitigated gaps become critical reversal points, unlike LuxAlgo’s simpler gap display.
4. Customizable Retest Signals: Retest signals for iFVGs are configurable for “Close” (conservative, requiring candle body confirmation) or “Wick” (faster, using highs/lows), catering to ICT traders’ need for precise entry timing during liquidity grabs or Judas swings.
5. ATR Filtering and Mitigation Removal: An optional ATR filter ensures only significant FVGs are displayed, reducing noise, while mitigation removal declutters the chart by removing filled gaps, aligning with ICT’s principle that mitigated gaps lose relevance unless inverted.
6. Timezone and Timeframe Safeguards: A timezone offset setting aligns FVG detection with EST for ICT’s New York-centric strategies, and a timeframe warning alerts users to avoid ≥1-hour charts, ensuring accuracy in time-based filtering.
These enhancements make the script a distinct tool that builds on LuxAlgo’s foundation while offering ICT traders a tailored, high-precision solution.
How It Works
FVG Detection
FVGs are identified when a candle’s low is higher than the high of two candles prior (bullish FVG) or a candle’s high is lower than the low of two candles prior (bearish FVG). Detection is restricted to:
• User-selected 10-minute windows (e.g., :00–:10, :50–:60) to capture ICT-relevant periods like hourly transitions.
• AM/PM session first FVGs (if enabled), focusing on 9:30–10:00 AM or 1:30–2:00 PM EST for key market opens.
An optional ATR filter (default: 0.25× ATR) ensures only gaps larger than the threshold are displayed, prioritizing significant imbalances.
Mitigation and Inversion
When price closes through an FVG (e.g., below a bullish FVG’s bottom), the FVG is mitigated and becomes an iFVG, plotted as a support/resistance zone. iFVGs are critical in ICT for identifying reversal points where institutional orders accumulate.
Retest Signals
The script generates signals when price retests an iFVG:
• Close: Triggers when the candle body confirms the retest (conservative, lower noise).
• Wick: Triggers when the candle’s high/low touches the iFVG (faster, higher sensitivity). Signals are visualized with triangular markers (▲ for bullish, ▼ for bearish) and can trigger alerts.
Visualization
• FVGs: Displayed as colored boxes (green for bullish, red for bearish) with optional “Bull FVG”/“Bear FVG” labels.
• iFVGs: Shown as extended boxes with dashed midlines, limited to the user-defined number of recent zones (default: 5).
• Mitigation Removal: Mitigated FVGs/iFVGs are removed (if enabled) to keep the chart clean.
How to Use
Recommended Settings
• Timeframe: Use 1–5 minute charts for precision, avoiding ≥1-hour timeframes (a warning label appears if misconfigured).
• Time Windows: Enable :00–:10 and :50–:60 for hourly open/close FVGs, or use the “Show only 1st presented FVG” option for AM/PM session focus.
• ATR Filter: Keep enabled (multiplier 0.25–0.5) for significant gaps; disable on 1-minute charts for more FVGs during volatility.
• Signal Preference: Use “Close” for conservative entries, “Wick” for aggressive setups.
• Timezone Offset: Set to -5 for EST (or -4 for EDT) to align with ICT’s New York session.
Trading Strategy
1. Macro Timeframes: Focus on New York (7:00–11:00 AM EST) or London (2:00–5:00 AM EST) kill zones for high institutional activity.
2. FVG Entries: Trade bullish FVGs as support in uptrends or bearish FVGs as resistance in downtrends, especially in :00–:10 or :50–:60 windows.
3. iFVG Retests: Enter on retest signals (▲/▼) during liquidity grabs or Judas swings, using “Close” for confirmation or “Wick” for speed.
4. Session FVGs: Use the “Show only 1st presented FVG” option to target the first gap in AM/PM sessions, often tied to ICT’s market maker algorithms.
5. Risk Management: Combine with ICT concepts like order blocks or breaker blocks for confluence, and set stops beyond FVG/iFVG boundaries.
Alerts
Set alerts for:
• “Bullish FVG Detected”/“Bearish FVG Detected”: New FVGs in selected windows.
• “Bullish Signal”/“Bearish Signal”: iFVG retest confirmations.
Settings Description
• Show Last (1–100, default: 5): Number of recent iFVGs to display. Lower values reduce clutter.
• Show only 1st presented FVG : Limits FVGs to the first in 9:30–10:00 AM or 1:30–2:00 PM EST sessions (overrides time window checkboxes).
• Time Window Checkboxes: Enable/disable FVG detection in 10-minute windows (:00–:10, :10–:20, etc.). All enabled by default.
• Signal Preference: “Close” (default) or “Wick” for iFVG retest signals.
• Use ATR Filter: Enables ATR-based size filtering (default: true).
• ATR Multiplier (0–∞, default: 0.25): Sets FVG size threshold (higher values = larger gaps).
• Remove Mitigated FVGs: Removes filled FVGs/iFVGs (default: true).
• Show FVG Labels: Displays “Bull FVG”/“Bear FVG” labels (default: true).
• Timezone Offset (-12 to 12, default: -5): Aligns time windows with EST.
• Colors: Customize bullish (green), bearish (red), and midline (gray) colors.
Why Use This Indicator?
This indicator empowers ICT traders with a tool that goes beyond generic FVG detection, offering precise, time-filtered gaps and inversion tracking aligned with institutional trading principles. By focusing on ICT’s macro timeframes, session-specific imbalances, and customizable signal logic, it provides a clear edge for scalping, swing trading, or reversal setups in high-liquidity markets.
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