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Market Structure Trend [QuantAlgo]
🟢 Overview
The Market Structure Trend tracks the dominant directional bias of price by detecting confirmed swing highs and lows and maintaining an active structure level that only flips on a genuine break of that level. Rather than reacting to every minor high or low, it waits for a pivot to lock in after a defined number of bars on either side, then holds the resulting structure until price closes beyond it by an optional confirmation buffer. The result is a clean, non-repainting structure line that stays aligned with the prevailing market structure while filtering out stop hunts and marginal pokes through key levels. This makes the prevailing bias readable at a glance across any instrument or timeframe.
🟢 How It Works
The indicator begins by identifying pivot highs and pivot lows using the selected left and right structure bars. These pivots become the swing points that define market structure:
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When a new pivot is confirmed, the corresponding swing high or swing low is updated. The active structure range is calculated as the absolute distance between the current swing high and swing low, and a confirmation buffer is derived as a percentage of that range:
Pine Script®
Break levels are then offset by this buffer so that a downside break sits below the swing low and an upside break sits above the swing high. On every confirmed bar the script checks whether the chosen source (or the high or low when Break On Wick is enabled) has crossed the relevant break level. A successful cross reverses structure direction and reassigns the structure level to the opposite swing. If no break occurs, the structure level simply continues to track the swing consistent with the current direction.
Structure direction is seeded on the first ready bar by comparing price to the midpoint of the swing range, establishing an initial bias. From that point forward flips are gated strictly by confirmed breaks, so the state never repaints or changes mid-bar.
The structure level is drawn as a continuous line with a soft glow underneath. When radial layering is enabled, four concentric fills are drawn between the structure level and the bar midpoint, with transparency increasing outward. This produces a stepped radial field that visually maps distance from the active structure boundary rather than a single flat zone.
🟢 Signal Interpretation
▶ Bullish Structure (Structure Line at Swing Low with Bullish Color): When structure direction is bullish the line sits at the most recent confirmed swing low. Price is considered to remain in an uptrend structure as long as it stays above the buffered downside break level. The bullish state holds until a confirmed downside break occurs, at which point the line moves to the swing high and the color transitions.
▶ Bearish Structure (Structure Line at Swing High with Bearish Color): When structure direction is bearish the line sits at the most recent confirmed swing high. Price remains in a downtrend structure until a confirmed upside break flips the state. The bearish state persists through subsequent bars until an upside break is registered.
🟢 Features
▶ Preconfigured Presets: Three parameter sets cover a range of trading styles and timeframes. Default uses the manual Left Structure Bars, Right Structure Bars, and Confirmation Buffer values and is balanced for swing trading on 1-hour and daily charts. Fast Response shortens the structure legs for scalping and intraday use on 1-minute to 1-hour charts, registering minor swings so the structure trend flips earlier. Smooth Trend lengthens the legs for position trading on daily and weekly charts, tracking only major swings and holding through pullbacks with the confirmation buffer.
▶ Built-in Alerts: Three alert conditions support automated monitoring of structure flips. Bullish Structure Shift fires on the first bar that structure direction changes from bearish to bullish. Bearish Structure Shift fires on the opposite transition. Any Structure Shift triggers on either flip for traders who prefer a single unified alert. All messages include the exchange, ticker, and timeframe for immediate context.
▶ Visual Customization: Six color presets (Classic, Aqua, Cosmic, Cyber, Neon, and Custom) supply coordinated bullish and bearish color pairings suited to different chart themes. Selecting Custom unlocks independent color pickers for full manual control. Optional bar coloring tints each candle with the active structure color at a configurable transparency, and optional background coloring extends the same tint across the full chart pane. Radial layering, structure shift markers, and the structure line itself all inherit the active color pair so the entire visual system remains consistent.
The Market Structure Trend tracks the dominant directional bias of price by detecting confirmed swing highs and lows and maintaining an active structure level that only flips on a genuine break of that level. Rather than reacting to every minor high or low, it waits for a pivot to lock in after a defined number of bars on either side, then holds the resulting structure until price closes beyond it by an optional confirmation buffer. The result is a clean, non-repainting structure line that stays aligned with the prevailing market structure while filtering out stop hunts and marginal pokes through key levels. This makes the prevailing bias readable at a glance across any instrument or timeframe.
🟢 How It Works
The indicator begins by identifying pivot highs and pivot lows using the selected left and right structure bars. These pivots become the swing points that define market structure:
When a new pivot is confirmed, the corresponding swing high or swing low is updated. The active structure range is calculated as the absolute distance between the current swing high and swing low, and a confirmation buffer is derived as a percentage of that range:
Break levels are then offset by this buffer so that a downside break sits below the swing low and an upside break sits above the swing high. On every confirmed bar the script checks whether the chosen source (or the high or low when Break On Wick is enabled) has crossed the relevant break level. A successful cross reverses structure direction and reassigns the structure level to the opposite swing. If no break occurs, the structure level simply continues to track the swing consistent with the current direction.
Structure direction is seeded on the first ready bar by comparing price to the midpoint of the swing range, establishing an initial bias. From that point forward flips are gated strictly by confirmed breaks, so the state never repaints or changes mid-bar.
The structure level is drawn as a continuous line with a soft glow underneath. When radial layering is enabled, four concentric fills are drawn between the structure level and the bar midpoint, with transparency increasing outward. This produces a stepped radial field that visually maps distance from the active structure boundary rather than a single flat zone.
🟢 Signal Interpretation
▶ Bullish Structure (Structure Line at Swing Low with Bullish Color): When structure direction is bullish the line sits at the most recent confirmed swing low. Price is considered to remain in an uptrend structure as long as it stays above the buffered downside break level. The bullish state holds until a confirmed downside break occurs, at which point the line moves to the swing high and the color transitions.
▶ Bearish Structure (Structure Line at Swing High with Bearish Color): When structure direction is bearish the line sits at the most recent confirmed swing high. Price remains in a downtrend structure until a confirmed upside break flips the state. The bearish state persists through subsequent bars until an upside break is registered.
🟢 Features
▶ Preconfigured Presets: Three parameter sets cover a range of trading styles and timeframes. Default uses the manual Left Structure Bars, Right Structure Bars, and Confirmation Buffer values and is balanced for swing trading on 1-hour and daily charts. Fast Response shortens the structure legs for scalping and intraday use on 1-minute to 1-hour charts, registering minor swings so the structure trend flips earlier. Smooth Trend lengthens the legs for position trading on daily and weekly charts, tracking only major swings and holding through pullbacks with the confirmation buffer.
▶ Built-in Alerts: Three alert conditions support automated monitoring of structure flips. Bullish Structure Shift fires on the first bar that structure direction changes from bearish to bullish. Bearish Structure Shift fires on the opposite transition. Any Structure Shift triggers on either flip for traders who prefer a single unified alert. All messages include the exchange, ticker, and timeframe for immediate context.
▶ Visual Customization: Six color presets (Classic, Aqua, Cosmic, Cyber, Neon, and Custom) supply coordinated bullish and bearish color pairings suited to different chart themes. Selecting Custom unlocks independent color pickers for full manual control. Optional bar coloring tints each candle with the active structure color at a configurable transparency, and optional background coloring extends the same tint across the full chart pane. Radial layering, structure shift markers, and the structure line itself all inherit the active color pair so the entire visual system remains consistent.
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Penafian
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Skrip sumber terbuka
Dalam semangat TradingView sebenar, pencipta skrip ini telah menjadikannya sumber terbuka, jadi pedagang boleh menilai dan mengesahkan kefungsiannya. Terima kasih kepada penulis! Walaupuan anda boleh menggunakan secara percuma, ingat bahawa penerbitan semula kod ini tertakluk kepada Peraturan Dalaman.
🟢 Access our best trading & investing tools: joinquantalgo.com/plans
🟢 Free Special Edition indicators: joinquantalgo.com/special-editions
🟢 Discord: discord.gg/hJaFyGEAyX
🟢 Free Special Edition indicators: joinquantalgo.com/special-editions
🟢 Discord: discord.gg/hJaFyGEAyX
Penafian
Maklumat dan penerbitan adalah tidak bertujuan, dan tidak membentuk, nasihat atau cadangan kewangan, pelaburan, dagangan atau jenis lain yang diberikan atau disahkan oleh TradingView. Baca lebih dalam Terma Penggunaan.