IVX: Institutional Velocity X-Ray [Ash_TheTrader]The Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray: Seeing Institutional Speed Inside the Candle ⚡🐢
Stop getting trapped by standard candlesticks. It’s time to see how fast the money is actually moving.
A standard candlestick tells you four things: Open, High, Low, and Close. It’s the foundation of technical analysis.
But it hides the most important metric of all: Speed.
Two bullish 1-Hour candles can look identical on your chart. Both opened at $100 and closed at $105.
Candle A hit $105 in the first 5 minutes, then spent 55 minutes holding that level.
Candle B ground slowly upwards, finally hitting $105 in the 59th minute.
To a standard indicator, these candles are the same. To a professional trader, they are opposites. One shows aggressive, front-loaded institutional buying; the other shows weak, exhausted retail grinding.
As @Ash_TheTrader, I developed the Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray to solve this problem. It stops looking at the surface of the candle and looks inside it.
🧠 The Concept: Time-To-Form
This indicator uses advanced Pine Script technology to conduct an "X-Ray" scan of the bar you are looking at.
If you are on a 1-Hour chart, the script uses request.security_lower_tf to fetch the data of the 60 individual 1-minute bars hidden inside that single hour bar.
It then asks a critical question: How long did it take for this candle to achieve its ultimate High or Low?
In a Bullish candle, we measure the time it took to hit the specific minute of the bar's High.
In a Bearish candle, we measure the time it took to hit the specific minute of the bar's Low.
By measuring this "Time-To-Form," we can classify the intent behind the move.
⚡ The "Fast" Candle (Institutional Aggression)
When smart money wants to move an asset, they don't wait all day. They execute large block orders that move price rapidly to their desired level, and then they defend it.
The Signal: The indicator identifies a bar as "Fast" if it hits its High (for bulls) or Low (for bears) in the first 20% of the candle's duration.
The Visual: The bar turns Neon Cyan and is marked with a lightning bolt ⚡.
Interpretation by @Ash_TheTrader: This is urgent liquidity. Institutions are front-loading their orders. These levels are often strong zones of support or resistance on retests because the big players showed their hand early.
🐢 The "Slow" Candle (Retail Grind)
Conversely, when a move is driven by retail traders chasing price, or when a trend is exhausted, price struggles to make new extremes. It grinds slowly, taking the entire duration of the candle just to inch slightly higher or lower.
The Signal: The indicator identifies a bar as "Slow" if it takes more than 80% of the candle's duration to finally reach its High or Low.
The Visual: The bar turns Orange and is marked with a turtle 🐢 beneath it.
Interpretation by @Ash_TheTrader: This is "weak" movement. Even if the candle is green, if it took 58 minutes of a 60-minute bar just to make a new high, the buyers are exhausted. Be wary of reversals after seeing a cluster of 🐢 candles.
💻 Features and The Dashboard
To make this data actionable in real-time, I have engineered a clean Heads-Up Display (HUD) directly on the chart.
The On-Chart Dashboard: Located in the top right, the dashboard gives you the live stats of the current forming bar. It tells you exactly what percentage of the time has passed and whether the current structure is considered Institutional ⚡ or a Retail Grind 🐢.
Other Features:
Dual Polarity Logic: Works seamlessly for both bullish trends (tracking speed to Highs) and bearish trends (tracking speed to Lows).
Smart Volume Filtering: The indicator automatically ignores insignificant low-volume "noise" bars, only highlighting speed on candles with above-average volume.
Full Alert Capability: Set alerts for "Fast ⚡" detections to catch sudden institutional activity as it happens.
⚙️ Best Practices for Using This Tool
Because this tool looks inside a bar, it is designed to be used on Higher Timeframes.
Recommended Timeframes: 30-Minute, 1-Hour, 4-Hour, or Daily charts.
Do Not Use On: 1-Minute or 5-Minute charts. (You cannot effectively "X-Ray" a 1-minute bar using 1-minute data; the math doesn't work).
A Final Note from @Ash_TheTrader
Trading is about information asymmetry. The market hides the most valuable data beneath the surface of the Open and Close. Use the Intrabar Liquidity X-Ray to stop guessing the speed of the market and start seeing it.
Trade safe, trade smart.⚡
Tweet/X Post Timestamp - By LeviathanThis script allows you to generate visual timestamps of X/Twitter posts directly on your chart, highlighting the precise moment an X post/tweet was made. All you have to do is copy and paste the post URL.
◽️ Use Cases:
- News Trading: Traders can use this indicator to visually align market price actions with news or announcements made on X (formerly Twitter), aiding in the analysis of news impact on market volatility.
- Behavioral Analysis: Traders studying the influence of social media on price can use the timestamps to track correlations between specific posts and market reactions.
- Proof of Predictions: Traders can use this indicator to timestamp their market forecasts shared on X (formerly Twitter), providing a visual record of their predictions relative to actual market movements. This feature allows for transparent verification of the timing and accuracy of their analyses
◽️ Process of Timestamp Calculation
The calculation of the timestamp from a tweet ID involves the following steps:
Extracting the Post ID:
The script first parses the input URL provided by the user to extract the unique ID of the tweet or X post. This ID is embedded in the URL and is crucial for determining the exact posting time.
Calculating the Timestamp:
The post ID undergoes a mathematical transformation known as a right shift by 22 bits. This operation aligns the ID's timestamp to a base reference time used by the platform.
Adding Base Offset:
The result from the right shift is then added to a base offset timestamp (1288834974657 ms, the epoch used by Twitter/X). This converts the processed ID into a UNIX timestamp reflecting the exact moment the post was made.
Date-Time Conversion:
The UNIX timestamp is further broken down into conventional date and time components (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) using calculations that account for leap years and varying days per month.
Label Placement:
Based on user settings, labels displaying the timestamp, username, and other optional information such as price changes or pivot points are dynamically placed on the chart at the bar corresponding to the timestamp.
BTC Twitter SentimentBTC Twitter Sentiment - shows the total numbers of all negative, neutral and positive Bitcoin related tweets.
On default settings, the tweets are plotted in red (negative) white (neutral) as well as green (positive). The three charts are stacked so the total number of tweets is easily discernible.
Furthermore, there's an optional smoothing setting in the options.
The Twitter Sentiment data is provided daily by IntoTheBlock; Since data is only updated once a day the graph might look chunky on lower timeframes, even with smoothing.
Rational Root TimelineThis script is based on RationalRoot's spiral btc chart. Since I dont know how to make spirals in pinescript I just flattened it out into a readable chart. All this shows is the log price for btc over a 4 year timeframe. I found it interesting how well things line up with this idea. The white circle just shows the current day price location. You need to be on the Daily timeframe to view this correctly.
Kozlod - RSI Strategy - 1 minuteStarted to play with very simple strategies. Trying to find ones with optimal parameters which work well for certain symbols/timeframe.
Found that basic RSI strategy without any position management with high RSI length (65 in this script) works pretty good for 1m chart for few stocks.
It's also not bad for AAPL , SPY .
It might not work very good on it's not but can give you a pretty good base for more complicated indicators.
And remember:
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
