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Relative Volume Candles & Narrow Ranges
Relative Volume Candles & Narrow Ranges brings volume and price contraction directly onto the chart. Five candle color-levels reveal volume dry-ups, normal participation, and expanding activity, while selective dots identify unusually narrow ranges. Together, they help swing traders assess consolidations, pullbacks, and price moves at a glance.
Low-volume and narrow-range clusters can be valuable areas to monitor because a tightening consolidation or quiet pullback may precede a sharp price expansion.
HOW IT WORKS
Relative Volume Candles & Narrow Ranges makes it easy to see how much trading activity supports each price candle. Rather than requiring a separate volume pane, the script translates relative volume into five bullish and bearish color shades.
These five levels distinguish volume dry-up from normal volume and explosive volume. On a dark chart, low-volume candles use the lightest shades. On a light chart, they use the darkest shades (see below). This makes quiet, low-participation candles easier to find.
Dots above candles identify narrow ranges. Their frequency adapts to the symbol’s recent range behavior, and users can make these dots more or less selective or disable them entirely.
The script was designed primarily for equities on the daily timeframe, with swing traders, position traders, and active investors in mind. You may find the same volume and range relationships helpful on other markets and timeframes.
FEATURES
The indicator combines relative-volume candles with selective narrow-range markers in one chart-level view.
USE CASES
Finding quiet consolidations
Low-volume colors reveal where participation is drying up. Narrow-range dots help locate the tightest candles within the consolidation. Together, they can draw attention to areas where price and volume are becoming increasingly quiet. In our humble opinion, this is where our script shines.
Assessing pullbacks
A pullback occurring on declining relative volume can carry a different character from one accompanied by expanding participation. Narrow ranges can provide additional context when the pullback begins to stabilize or tighten.
Monitoring potential entries
Some of the strongest price expansions begin after a quiet cluster of low-volume, narrow-range candles. The indicator helps make those conditions visible, allowing traders to monitor them alongside price structure, support and resistance, and their own entry criteria.
Evaluating price moves
Expanded volume colors show when participation is increasing. This can help traders assess whether a breakout, rally, decline, or reversal attempt is attracting noticeably greater activity.
SETTINGS
Relative Volume
Volume between the Constructive Dry-Up and Expanded Volume thresholds is treated as normal.
Range Context
Main Color Settings
Relative Volume Colors (Light to Dark)
This section contains five editable bullish and bearish color pairs, ordered from lightest to darkest. The selected color scheme determines how these shades correspond to the five relative-volume levels.
Low-volume and narrow-range clusters can be valuable areas to monitor because a tightening consolidation or quiet pullback may precede a sharp price expansion.
HOW IT WORKS
Relative Volume Candles & Narrow Ranges makes it easy to see how much trading activity supports each price candle. Rather than requiring a separate volume pane, the script translates relative volume into five bullish and bearish color shades.
These five levels distinguish volume dry-up from normal volume and explosive volume. On a dark chart, low-volume candles use the lightest shades. On a light chart, they use the darkest shades (see below). This makes quiet, low-participation candles easier to find.
Dots above candles identify narrow ranges. Their frequency adapts to the symbol’s recent range behavior, and users can make these dots more or less selective or disable them entirely.
The script was designed primarily for equities on the daily timeframe, with swing traders, position traders, and active investors in mind. You may find the same volume and range relationships helpful on other markets and timeframes.
FEATURES
The indicator combines relative-volume candles with selective narrow-range markers in one chart-level view.
- Five relative-volume levels:Separates low volume from normal volume and more explosive volume.
- Bullish and bearish palettes: Our defaults retain normal price colors while showing relative-volume levels in different shades, but you can choose more distinctive coloring as well.
- Narrow-range dots: Highlights candles with particularly compressed price ranges.
- Adjustable dot frequency: Controls how selective the narrow-range markers are, from Very High to Very Low, with an option to disable them.
- Dark and Light color schemes: Reverses the shade order so volume dry-ups stand out against either background.
- Customizable appearance: Includes editable candle colors, dot color, dot size, and brightness adjustments.
USE CASES
Finding quiet consolidations
Low-volume colors reveal where participation is drying up. Narrow-range dots help locate the tightest candles within the consolidation. Together, they can draw attention to areas where price and volume are becoming increasingly quiet. In our humble opinion, this is where our script shines.
Assessing pullbacks
A pullback occurring on declining relative volume can carry a different character from one accompanied by expanding participation. Narrow ranges can provide additional context when the pullback begins to stabilize or tighten.
Monitoring potential entries
Some of the strongest price expansions begin after a quiet cluster of low-volume, narrow-range candles. The indicator helps make those conditions visible, allowing traders to monitor them alongside price structure, support and resistance, and their own entry criteria.
Evaluating price moves
Expanded volume colors show when participation is increasing. This can help traders assess whether a breakout, rally, decline, or reversal attempt is attracting noticeably greater activity.
SETTINGS
Relative Volume
- RVOL Lookback: Number of recent bars used to calculate average volume. The current bar is excluded.
- Profound Dry-Up Below: Sets the upper boundary for the lowest relative-volume level. These candles use the lightest color on dark charts and the darkest color on light charts.
- Constructive Dry-Up Below: Sets the upper boundary for the second-lowest relative-volume level. These candles use the second-lightest color on dark charts and the second-darkest color on light charts.
- Expanded Volume Above: Sets the point above which volume is treated as expanded. These candles use the second-darkest color on dark charts and the second-lightest color on light charts.
- Telling Volume Above: Sets the point above which volume is treated as telling. These candles use the darkest color on dark charts and the lightest color on light charts.
Volume between the Constructive Dry-Up and Expanded Volume thresholds is treated as normal.
Range Context
- ADR Length: Number of recent bars used to calculate the average price range. The current bar is excluded.
- Range Dot Frequency: Selects the narrowest ranges relative to the symbol’s recent history. Lower frequencies produce fewer, more exceptional dots.
- Range Dot Size: Sets the size of the narrow-range dots to Tiny, Small, or Normal.
- Range Dot Color: Sets the color of the narrow-range dots.
Main Color Settings
- Color Scheme: Selects the palette order designed for either a Dark or Light chart background.
- Dark Scheme Dimming (%): Makes the Dark scheme darker with positive values or lighter with negative values.
- Light Scheme Dimming (%): Makes the Light scheme darker with positive values or lighter with negative values.
Relative Volume Colors (Light to Dark)
This section contains five editable bullish and bearish color pairs, ordered from lightest to darkest. The selected color scheme determines how these shades correspond to the five relative-volume levels.
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Script de código aberto
Em verdadeiro espírito do TradingView, o criador deste script o tornou de código aberto, para que os traders possam revisar e verificar sua funcionalidade. Parabéns ao autor! Embora você possa usá-lo gratuitamente, lembre-se de que a republicação do código está sujeita às nossas Regras da Casa.
Aviso legal
As informações e publicações não se destinam a ser, e não constituem, conselhos ou recomendações financeiras, de investimento, comerciais ou de outro tipo fornecidos ou endossados pela TradingView. Leia mais nos Termos de Uso.