OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT
Live Footprint Center Frame
📊 Live Footprint Center Frame
Live Footprint Center Frame is a footprint-style chart overlay designed to help traders study candle-by-candle volume behavior directly on the main chart. The script displays centered footprint frames around candles and breaks each candle into multiple price slots so volume structure can be viewed more clearly.
🔎 What It Does
The script visualizes estimated internal candle activity using lower-timeframe OHLCV data. It displays price-slot volume, delta behavior, POC, value area, imbalance markings, absorption-style highlights, delta bars, POC trail, and a compact HUD panel for quick market structure reading.
Key visual elements include:
• Footprint-style candle frames
• Price-slot volume ladder
• Estimated ask/bid style cell values
• Positive and negative delta coloring
• POC highlight
• Value Area highlight
• Imbalance arrows
• Absorption-style border highlights
• Small delta bar below candles
• POC trail between candles
• Compact HUD with ASK, BID, DEL, POC, VA, VOL, CVD, and bias information
🧠 General Logic
Live Footprint Center Frame uses lower-timeframe OHLCV data to approximate how volume is distributed inside each candle. The script divides the candle range into price slots, distributes lower-timeframe volume across those slots, and then calculates estimated delta, total volume, POC, value area, and balance information.
This is not true exchange-level bid/ask footprint data. It is an educational footprint-style approximation based on the data available through TradingView.
📌 Why It Is Useful
This tool can help traders study more than just candle open, high, low, and close. It gives a clearer visual view of where volume activity is concentrated inside the candle and how that activity changes from candle to candle.
It can be useful for observing:
• Where volume is concentrated
• How POC shifts between candles
• Whether delta supports or disagrees with price movement
• Where value area develops inside the candle
• Whether activity appears balanced or imbalanced
• Possible absorption-style areas
• Short-term volume structure around important price zones
🎨 Visual Reading Guide
Green-style cells show stronger positive delta behavior.
Red-style cells show stronger negative delta behavior.
Orange areas highlight the POC zone.
Blue-style areas highlight the value area.
Yellow borders can show absorption-style conditions.
Small delta bars below candles show candle delta direction and strength.
The HUD gives a quick summary of ASK, BID, DEL, POC, VA, VOL, CVD, and bias.
🧭 How To Use
1. Add the script to a clean chart.
2. Use intraday charts for clearer footprint-style reading.
3. Watch the POC area to see where the highest slot volume appears.
4. Compare candle delta with candle direction.
5. Use value area to understand where most candle activity is located.
6. Use imbalance and absorption highlights as context only.
7. Check the HUD for a quick summary of current candle conditions.
8. Combine this with market structure, support and resistance, liquidity zones, and proper risk management.
⚙️ Settings Overview
Lower timeframe precision controls the lower timeframe data used for the footprint approximation.
Closed bars to keep controls how many previous footprint candles remain visible.
Price slots per candle controls how many horizontal volume rows appear inside each candle.
Cell text controls whether cells show volume, delta, delta percentage, or estimated ask/bid style values.
Frame width adjusts the centered footprint frame width around each candle.
Live candle update allows the active candle footprint to update while the candle is forming.
POC trail connects POC movement between candles.
Value Area highlights the main volume zone.
Imbalance ratio controls imbalance sensitivity.
Absorption slot volume percentage controls absorption-style highlighting.
HUD settings control the compact panel position and visibility.
Color settings allow visual customization of bullish, bearish, neutral, POC, value area, frame, and delta elements.
⚠️ Limitations
This script uses TradingView-available OHLCV data and lower-timeframe calculations. It does not access true exchange order book data or true bid/ask footprint data on most symbols. Values can vary depending on symbol, timeframe, lower-timeframe availability, volume quality, and chart settings.
The live candle can update while it is still forming. Confirmed candles are more stable than the active candle.
✅ Educational Use Only
This script is provided for educational market analysis and visual order-flow style study. It does not provide financial advice, guaranteed results, or automatic trade decisions. Traders should use proper risk management and combine this information with their own analysis.
Live Footprint Center Frame is a footprint-style chart overlay designed to help traders study candle-by-candle volume behavior directly on the main chart. The script displays centered footprint frames around candles and breaks each candle into multiple price slots so volume structure can be viewed more clearly.
🔎 What It Does
The script visualizes estimated internal candle activity using lower-timeframe OHLCV data. It displays price-slot volume, delta behavior, POC, value area, imbalance markings, absorption-style highlights, delta bars, POC trail, and a compact HUD panel for quick market structure reading.
Key visual elements include:
• Footprint-style candle frames
• Price-slot volume ladder
• Estimated ask/bid style cell values
• Positive and negative delta coloring
• POC highlight
• Value Area highlight
• Imbalance arrows
• Absorption-style border highlights
• Small delta bar below candles
• POC trail between candles
• Compact HUD with ASK, BID, DEL, POC, VA, VOL, CVD, and bias information
🧠 General Logic
Live Footprint Center Frame uses lower-timeframe OHLCV data to approximate how volume is distributed inside each candle. The script divides the candle range into price slots, distributes lower-timeframe volume across those slots, and then calculates estimated delta, total volume, POC, value area, and balance information.
This is not true exchange-level bid/ask footprint data. It is an educational footprint-style approximation based on the data available through TradingView.
📌 Why It Is Useful
This tool can help traders study more than just candle open, high, low, and close. It gives a clearer visual view of where volume activity is concentrated inside the candle and how that activity changes from candle to candle.
It can be useful for observing:
• Where volume is concentrated
• How POC shifts between candles
• Whether delta supports or disagrees with price movement
• Where value area develops inside the candle
• Whether activity appears balanced or imbalanced
• Possible absorption-style areas
• Short-term volume structure around important price zones
🎨 Visual Reading Guide
Green-style cells show stronger positive delta behavior.
Red-style cells show stronger negative delta behavior.
Orange areas highlight the POC zone.
Blue-style areas highlight the value area.
Yellow borders can show absorption-style conditions.
Small delta bars below candles show candle delta direction and strength.
The HUD gives a quick summary of ASK, BID, DEL, POC, VA, VOL, CVD, and bias.
🧭 How To Use
1. Add the script to a clean chart.
2. Use intraday charts for clearer footprint-style reading.
3. Watch the POC area to see where the highest slot volume appears.
4. Compare candle delta with candle direction.
5. Use value area to understand where most candle activity is located.
6. Use imbalance and absorption highlights as context only.
7. Check the HUD for a quick summary of current candle conditions.
8. Combine this with market structure, support and resistance, liquidity zones, and proper risk management.
⚙️ Settings Overview
Lower timeframe precision controls the lower timeframe data used for the footprint approximation.
Closed bars to keep controls how many previous footprint candles remain visible.
Price slots per candle controls how many horizontal volume rows appear inside each candle.
Cell text controls whether cells show volume, delta, delta percentage, or estimated ask/bid style values.
Frame width adjusts the centered footprint frame width around each candle.
Live candle update allows the active candle footprint to update while the candle is forming.
POC trail connects POC movement between candles.
Value Area highlights the main volume zone.
Imbalance ratio controls imbalance sensitivity.
Absorption slot volume percentage controls absorption-style highlighting.
HUD settings control the compact panel position and visibility.
Color settings allow visual customization of bullish, bearish, neutral, POC, value area, frame, and delta elements.
⚠️ Limitations
This script uses TradingView-available OHLCV data and lower-timeframe calculations. It does not access true exchange order book data or true bid/ask footprint data on most symbols. Values can vary depending on symbol, timeframe, lower-timeframe availability, volume quality, and chart settings.
The live candle can update while it is still forming. Confirmed candles are more stable than the active candle.
✅ Educational Use Only
This script is provided for educational market analysis and visual order-flow style study. It does not provide financial advice, guaranteed results, or automatic trade decisions. Traders should use proper risk management and combine this information with their own analysis.
Open-source Skript
Ganz im Sinne von TradingView hat dieser Autor sein/ihr Script als Open-Source veröffentlicht. Auf diese Weise können nun auch andere Trader das Script rezensieren und die Funktionalität überprüfen. Vielen Dank an den Autor! Sie können das Script kostenlos verwenden, aber eine Wiederveröffentlichung des Codes unterliegt unseren Hausregeln.
Haftungsausschluss
Die Informationen und Veröffentlichungen sind nicht als Finanz-, Anlage-, Handels- oder andere Arten von Ratschlägen oder Empfehlungen gedacht, die von TradingView bereitgestellt oder gebilligt werden, und stellen diese nicht dar. Lesen Sie mehr in den Nutzungsbedingungen.
Open-source Skript
Ganz im Sinne von TradingView hat dieser Autor sein/ihr Script als Open-Source veröffentlicht. Auf diese Weise können nun auch andere Trader das Script rezensieren und die Funktionalität überprüfen. Vielen Dank an den Autor! Sie können das Script kostenlos verwenden, aber eine Wiederveröffentlichung des Codes unterliegt unseren Hausregeln.
Haftungsausschluss
Die Informationen und Veröffentlichungen sind nicht als Finanz-, Anlage-, Handels- oder andere Arten von Ratschlägen oder Empfehlungen gedacht, die von TradingView bereitgestellt oder gebilligt werden, und stellen diese nicht dar. Lesen Sie mehr in den Nutzungsbedingungen.