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HEK Auction Response Field [ARF]
HEK Auction Response Field [ARF]
Auction Response Field (ARF) is a stateful market-structure indicator designed to describe how price is responding to market effort, rather than predict the next candle.
ARF combines three ideas into one coherent framework:
Response Field — a continuous directional measure of realized price response relative to normalized market effort.
Persistent auction regimes — a confirmed-bar state engine classifying the market as Balance, Bull Drive, Bear Drive, Bull Absorption, Bear Absorption, Churn or Transition.
Orthogonal modifiers — contextual labels such as Vacuum-like displacement, Effort-Supported behavior and Low Efficiency. Modifiers add context without replacing the primary regime.
What makes ARF different?
Many indicators classify price using a single threshold or a collection of independent signals. ARF instead treats market behavior as a state-ownership problem.
A new active regime must earn ownership through evidence and separation. Existing regimes use asymmetric persistence rules to avoid one-bar state flicker. Balance has its own entry, hold and escape behavior. Bull and Bear Drive states also use a two-confirmed-bar Semantic Field Guard: if realized Response Field becomes directionally incompatible with the current Drive state for two confirmed bars, Drive ownership is released.
This architecture is intended to separate:
direction from effort,
state from modifier,
live response from confirmed regime ownership,
visual presentation from the validated state engine.
Primary regimes
Bull Drive
Directional upside response is efficiently controlling the auction.
Bear Drive
Directional downside response is efficiently controlling the auction.
Bull Absorption
Selling pressure is present, but the auction is responding with relative bullish resilience.
Bear Absorption
Buying effort is present, but upside response is being absorbed.
Balance
No active directional regime has sufficient evidence to own the auction and balanced behavior is persistent.
Churn
Effort is elevated relative to realized directional progress, indicating contested or inefficient auction behavior.
Transition
No primary state currently has enough ownership evidence. Transition is intentionally valid information, not a missing signal.
Response Field
The center panel is the continuous Response Field.
Positive values indicate bullish realized response.
Negative values indicate bearish realized response.
Values near equilibrium indicate limited directional response.
The displayed Field is visually compressed for readability across different instruments. Display smoothing and compression are presentation-only controls and do not alter the regime engine.
Regime timeline
The lower ribbon provides a compact visual history of confirmed auction regimes. Its debounce is presentation-only. It does not delay state transitions or alerts.
Semantic dashboard
The dashboard translates internal evidence into a compact interpretation:
Response Field — Bullish / Neutral / Bearish
Market Effort — High / Normal / Low
Price Response — High / Normal / Low
Path Quality — Orderly / Mixed / Low
Modifier — current orthogonal context, when present
Raw diagnostic values can be enabled from Advanced display.
Signal detail
ARF offers three visual signal levels:
Essential — Drive regime entries only. Recommended default.
Selective — Drive entries plus high-significance Absorption and Vacuum-like events.
Research — broader event visibility for analysis.
These settings change presentation only. They do not alter primary regime ownership.
Confirmed-bar behavior and repainting
The continuous Response Field can move on the live bar because current OHLCV values are still changing.
Primary regime transitions, regime counters and state alerts are committed only when the bar is confirmed. ARF does not use future-looking data or lookahead logic.
A live-bar Field movement should therefore not be confused with a confirmed regime transition.
How to use ARF
ARF is best used as a market-context layer rather than as an isolated entry system.
Examples:
distinguish directional Drive from Balance before evaluating a setup,
identify when directional effort is being absorbed,
recognize contested Churn conditions,
use Vacuum-like or Low-Efficiency modifiers to qualify the primary regime,
track whether a directional regime persists or loses semantic ownership.
ARF does not provide profit guarantees, price targets or certainty about future price movement. A regime describes the current auction structure; it is not a forecast that price must continue in the same direction.
Suggested chart setup
For the cleanest view:
use standard candles,
keep Signal detail = Essential initially,
keep the semantic dashboard and regime timeline enabled,
leave research evidence plots disabled unless inspecting the model,
evaluate multiple instruments and timeframes rather than optimizing visual settings for one chart.
Auction Response Field (ARF) is a stateful market-structure indicator designed to describe how price is responding to market effort, rather than predict the next candle.
ARF combines three ideas into one coherent framework:
Response Field — a continuous directional measure of realized price response relative to normalized market effort.
Persistent auction regimes — a confirmed-bar state engine classifying the market as Balance, Bull Drive, Bear Drive, Bull Absorption, Bear Absorption, Churn or Transition.
Orthogonal modifiers — contextual labels such as Vacuum-like displacement, Effort-Supported behavior and Low Efficiency. Modifiers add context without replacing the primary regime.
What makes ARF different?
Many indicators classify price using a single threshold or a collection of independent signals. ARF instead treats market behavior as a state-ownership problem.
A new active regime must earn ownership through evidence and separation. Existing regimes use asymmetric persistence rules to avoid one-bar state flicker. Balance has its own entry, hold and escape behavior. Bull and Bear Drive states also use a two-confirmed-bar Semantic Field Guard: if realized Response Field becomes directionally incompatible with the current Drive state for two confirmed bars, Drive ownership is released.
This architecture is intended to separate:
direction from effort,
state from modifier,
live response from confirmed regime ownership,
visual presentation from the validated state engine.
Primary regimes
Bull Drive
Directional upside response is efficiently controlling the auction.
Bear Drive
Directional downside response is efficiently controlling the auction.
Bull Absorption
Selling pressure is present, but the auction is responding with relative bullish resilience.
Bear Absorption
Buying effort is present, but upside response is being absorbed.
Balance
No active directional regime has sufficient evidence to own the auction and balanced behavior is persistent.
Churn
Effort is elevated relative to realized directional progress, indicating contested or inefficient auction behavior.
Transition
No primary state currently has enough ownership evidence. Transition is intentionally valid information, not a missing signal.
Response Field
The center panel is the continuous Response Field.
Positive values indicate bullish realized response.
Negative values indicate bearish realized response.
Values near equilibrium indicate limited directional response.
The displayed Field is visually compressed for readability across different instruments. Display smoothing and compression are presentation-only controls and do not alter the regime engine.
Regime timeline
The lower ribbon provides a compact visual history of confirmed auction regimes. Its debounce is presentation-only. It does not delay state transitions or alerts.
Semantic dashboard
The dashboard translates internal evidence into a compact interpretation:
Response Field — Bullish / Neutral / Bearish
Market Effort — High / Normal / Low
Price Response — High / Normal / Low
Path Quality — Orderly / Mixed / Low
Modifier — current orthogonal context, when present
Raw diagnostic values can be enabled from Advanced display.
Signal detail
ARF offers three visual signal levels:
Essential — Drive regime entries only. Recommended default.
Selective — Drive entries plus high-significance Absorption and Vacuum-like events.
Research — broader event visibility for analysis.
These settings change presentation only. They do not alter primary regime ownership.
Confirmed-bar behavior and repainting
The continuous Response Field can move on the live bar because current OHLCV values are still changing.
Primary regime transitions, regime counters and state alerts are committed only when the bar is confirmed. ARF does not use future-looking data or lookahead logic.
A live-bar Field movement should therefore not be confused with a confirmed regime transition.
How to use ARF
ARF is best used as a market-context layer rather than as an isolated entry system.
Examples:
distinguish directional Drive from Balance before evaluating a setup,
identify when directional effort is being absorbed,
recognize contested Churn conditions,
use Vacuum-like or Low-Efficiency modifiers to qualify the primary regime,
track whether a directional regime persists or loses semantic ownership.
ARF does not provide profit guarantees, price targets or certainty about future price movement. A regime describes the current auction structure; it is not a forecast that price must continue in the same direction.
Suggested chart setup
For the cleanest view:
use standard candles,
keep Signal detail = Essential initially,
keep the semantic dashboard and regime timeline enabled,
leave research evidence plots disabled unless inspecting the model,
evaluate multiple instruments and timeframes rather than optimizing visual settings for one chart.
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Skrip open-source
Dengan semangat TradingView yang sesungguhnya, pembuat skrip ini telah menjadikannya sebagai sumber terbuka, sehingga para trader dapat meninjau dan memverifikasi fungsinya. Salut untuk penulisnya! Meskipun Anda dapat menggunakannya secara gratis, perlu diingat bahwa penerbitan ulang kode ini tunduk pada Tata Tertib kami.
Pernyataan Penyangkalan
Informasi dan publikasi ini tidak dimaksudkan, dan bukan merupakan, saran atau rekomendasi keuangan, investasi, trading, atau jenis lainnya yang diberikan atau didukung oleh TradingView. Baca selengkapnya di Ketentuan Penggunaan.