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Breakout Trend Bar Alerts

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Every trend has a starting point. It's rarely a gradual drift — it's one massive, decisive candle that breaks the market out of consolidation and kicks off a sustained move. Breakout Bar Alerts is built to catch that exact moment.

The indicator monitors price action in real time and identifies when a bar forms that dwarfs everything around it — the largest high-to-low range of any candle in the last 250 bars. These are the bars where conviction enters the market, weak hands get flushed, and a new trend begins. When one appears, you get an instant alert so you're never late to the move.

Why these bars matter:

Big range bars represent a sudden surge of momentum and volume-backed commitment from one side of the market. Bulls or bears have taken control decisively. What follows is often the beginning of a trend leg — not a random spike.

Built to filter out the noise:

The opening bar of every session is excluded entirely. That first chaotic candle never skews your data or triggers a false signal.

Only bars within your active session window are counted. Off-hours price action is completely ignored, so your benchmark is always built from real, tradeable market conditions.

Three alert conditions — Bull Breakout Bar, Bear Breakout Bar, or Both — so you only get notified for the setups you actually trade.

Inputs:

  • Lookback Period — how many bars back to measure the largest range (default: 250)
  • Enable Time Filter — restricts detection and calculations to your active trading session
  • Active Session — define your session window in exchange time
  • Bull / Bear colors — fully customizable


Best used on intraday timeframes (1m – 15m) on futures, forex, or high-volume equities. When this fires, pay attention — the trend may already be starting.

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