Session Volume Profile - Open Source (DeadCat) Decided to make this Open Source so everyone can make edits.
Volume Profile is a charting study that displays trading activity over specific time periods at various price levels. It appears as a horizontal histogram on the chart, revealing where traders have shown the most interest based on volume concentration.
This Volume Profile automatically anchors to user-selected timeframes, creating fresh volume analysis for each new period while maintaining clean, systematic visualization of price-volume relationships.
Core Components:
Point of Control (POC): The price level with the highest volume activity during the selected period, marked with a yellow line and left-side label.
Value Area High/Low (VAH/VAL): Price boundaries that contain a specified percentage of the total volume (default 40%), helping identify the main trading range where most activity occurred.
Volume Histogram: Left-aligned bars showing volume distribution across price levels, with value area highlighting for enhanced visual clarity.
Key Features:
- Automatic Period Detection: Supports hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly timeframe anchoring
- Customizable Granularity: Adjustable rows (10-500) for different price resolution needs
- Labels: Clear POC, VAH, and VAL identification positioned at profile start
- Toggle Controls**: Optional display for volume rows, key levels, and background fills
- Clean Visualization: Profiles reset automatically at each new period for current market focus
Display Options:
- Profile Rows: Show/hide the volume histogram bars
- Key Level Lines: Individual controls for POC, VAH, and VAL display
- Value Area Background: Optional shading between VAH and VAL levels
- Color Customization: Separate color controls for all visual elements
The indicator provides systematic volume analysis by creating fresh profiles at regular intervals, helping traders identify significant price levels and volume patterns within their preferred timeframe structure.
Disclaimer: This indicator is for educational and informational purposes only. Trading decisions should be based on comprehensive analysis and proper risk management. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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MM Day Trader LevelsAs an intraday trader, there are certain key levels that I care about for short-term price action on every single chart. When I first began day trading, each morning I would painstakingly mark those key levels off on the charts I planned to trade each day. Depending on the number of charts I was watching, this would take up quite a bit of my time that I felt would have been much better spent doing other things. It also meant that those levels would often be left behind, and on later days I might be trading a symbol and get confused when a line appeared and I'd be paying attention to it only to later discover that it wasn't from prior day, but from some other day in the past when I had marked it off.
I looked all over TradingView to find indicators that did this automatically for me, and I found a lot of them. One by one I tried them, and inevitably I would always find that something was wrong with them. Often they didn't have all of the levels I wanted (so I would have to combine multiple indicators), but more often I found that the levels would be incorrect, or they would be buggy and not appear consistently, or they would not appear at the right time, or they would not work on futures! The list of problems went on and on. And the biggest issue I found was that nobody knew how to get session volume profile in an indicator.
So, over the course of a few years I figured out how to solve all of those problems and now I'm thrilled to present this free indicator for everyone like me who trades intraday and wants a clean consistent way to see the prior day levels that they care about automatically on every single chart (even futures). The levels the indicator provides are:
Yesterday High & Low
Value Area High & Low & Point of Control
Today's Open
Yesterday's Close (aka "Settlement" on futures)
Premarket High & Low (non-futures only)
Overnight High & Low (futures only)
These levels are extremely important, and I expect price to be reactive to them, so each level has a shaded background behind it so that the levels stand out against other lines you may have on your chart. I try to keep configuration as simple as possible, but there are configuration options that allow you to:
Hide any of the levels
Change the color for the levels
Shade the value area (or not)
Change the label text, size, type (basic label or plain text) and location (how far to the right of last candle to place the label
Adjust session volume profile value area volume & number of rows
The biggest advantage to this indicator over others on TradingView is how it handles session volume profile. When it comes to futures, TradingView does differentiate between regular trading hours and "electronic" trading hours on the charts, but their timeframes for those sessions are unusual, and they do not provide any programmatic way to differentiate between them. So, I created a whole new library for dealing with futures sessions that is fully integrated into both my Session Volume Profile library and this indicator, allowing me to bring you the best and only custom indicator available on TradingView that provides you with true regular session volume profile information across every type of symbol, including futures.
I'm incredibly proud of everything I've been able to provide with this indicator, and even more thrilled to say that I'm proud of how the indicator has been implemented. Once again releasing this indicator and all associated code for free and open source. I encourage you to take a look at the source code to see how it all works, take advantage of the free underlying libraries I created to make all of this possible: Session Library and Session Volume Profile Library.
