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Volume Profile - AccurateCore Architecture
1. Lower-Timeframe Precision Engine Traditional volume profiles on TradingView can be inaccurate because they guess the volume distribution within a daily candle. This script actually pulls raw data from a lower Source TF (default 5-minute) using request.security_lower_tf and mathematically reconstructs the exact volume traded at every single price tick for the entire day.
2. The Histogram (The Profile itself) It divides the entire price range of the period into a set number of horizontal rows (default 24). It then sorts the lower timeframe volume into these rows, painting a histogram (horizontal bars) on the side of the chart.
Key Trading Features
1. Point of Control (POC) The script mathematically isolates the single row with the absolute highest traded volume for the period.
Action: It projects a solid red line across the chart at this exact price level. The POC acts as the ultimate "fair value" price where buyers and sellers agreed the most, making it a massive magnet for future price action and a strong support/resistance level.
2. Value Area (VA) It calculates the core range where the majority of the trading took place (default is 68% of all volume, representing one standard deviation).
Action: It plots the Value Area High (VAH) and Value Area Low (VAL) as blue lines, and dynamically fills the background between them. Trading outside the Value Area represents an imbalance, while trading inside it represents balance.
3. Advanced Node Detection (HVN & LVN) This is where the script shines. It doesn't just plot the profile; it uses an algorithm to scan the shape of the profile and identify specific structural anomalies:
HVN (High Volume Nodes): Peaks in the profile (other than the POC). The script automatically draws red dashed lines and boxes at these levels. They act as localized support/resistance ledges.
LVN (Low Volume Nodes): Valleys or "gaps" in the profile where price moved so fast that almost zero volume was traded.
LVN Areas: The script goes a step further and intelligently groups adjacent LVNs together to create an "LVN Area" box (default Lime Green). Because there is no historical volume here to stop the price, if price enters an LVN Area, it will usually slice right through it like a hot knife
through butter.
Visual Control
It uses Pine Script's array-based object management (array, array) to dynamically clean up and redraw the profile flawlessly on every tick. You have full control in the settings over where the profile draws (Left/Right), its width, the color of the Value area vs outside the Value area, and toggles for every single specific node. Индикатор
Volume Supply and Demand [TradingIQ]The Next Generation of Supply and Demand
You haven't seen a single good Supply and Demand indicator until today.
Let's be honest: almost every S/D indicator you've tried is either too late, constantly repaints, or simply flags every single random pivot on the chart as a "zone." That is not how institutional trading works. Traditional support and resistance might teach you to draw lines at every turning point, but if you've been trading for more than two weeks, you know that not every pivot holds weight in the future.
This tool was built to fix that. It is designed to filter out the low-quality noise, bypass the common structural flaws of basic chart metrics, and isolate nothing but genuine liquidity shock events where massive market orders actually took place.
Welcome to the Volume Supply and Demand engine.
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How the Algorithm Works (The "Why")
Easier said than done, right? Finding a level that actually has institutional defense behind it requires deep mathematical screening. Instead of just looking for simple highs and lows, this algorithm detects explosive price moves via an advanced multi-step screening system.
First, the script calculates the True Range of consecutive candles to establish a baseline of normal market volatility. Once that baseline is set, it actively scans for sudden, abnormal expansions in price. It analyzes the specific angle, slope, and velocity of the expansion to ensure the move is statistically anomalous.
Demand Zones: These are flagged when extreme buying pressure forces a rapid, high-velocity move upwards, leaving behind a massive footprint of unfilled passive limit orders.
Supply Zones: These are flagged when intense selling aggression ramps up instantly, completely rejecting higher prices and driving the market down with severe negative velocity.
We strictly filter out the low-quality, minor pivot points. Once the strict qualifications of velocity and range expansion are met, the zone is detected and locked in instantly.
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Structure vs. Normal Support & Resistance
To trade effectively, you must understand why these zones behave differently than standard horizontal support and resistance lines.
Traditional support and resistance lines can theoretically be drawn anywhere the market decides to turn around, regardless of the volume or speed behind the move. This creates messy charts cluttered with hundreds of psychological lines that offer no real edge.
This engine is different because it maps out an entire premium or discount zone based on the exact candle structural properties where the initial institutional imbalance occurred. It targets the literal origin of the reaction , creating a highly precise boundary where a major market participant stepped in aggressively to flip the auction control.
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Deep-Dive Order Flow Features
We didn't just build a box-drawing tool. We added an entirely new dimension of volume analysis to help you gauge the actual internal strength of these levels.
Origin Volume Profiles: This is the game-changer. For every valid Supply or Demand zone generated, the indicator dynamically projects a micro Volume Profile directly inside the specific structural move that created the zone . You get an immediate, visually clear picture of exactly where the heavy volume was transacted during that specific liquidity event.
Delta & POC Lines: The algorithm identifies the Point of Control (POC) for both the buy-volume side and the sell-volume side independently. By plotting these lines, you can see precisely where the buyers or sellers exhibited their maximum aggression right before the major expansion occurred.
Time-Based Profiles: Volume isn't the only metric that matters. You can change the profile type inside the settings to "Time" to generate a profile that maps out exactly where the price spent the most time consolidating before exploding out of the zone.
Auto Hit-Deletion: The more a level is traded into, the weaker it gets as the resting passive orders are continuously matched and filled. To prevent you from trading dead levels, the indicator includes an automated hit-deletion toggle. The moment the price decisively pierces through a zone, the script recognizes the liquidity exhaustion and wipes the zone from your chart.
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Settings & Optimization Guidelines
Because this script relies on heavy historical array calculations and complex request structures, proper optimization is essential for a smooth charting experience:
S/D Zone Style (Wick, Body, Candle): This dictates the strictness of your zone boundaries.
Wick (Default & Strongly Recommended): Draws the zone across the precise wick of the origin candle, capturing the maximum premium/discount extremity.
Body / Candle: Alternative constraints that alter the vertical width of the boxes based on the candle open and close values.
Max Zone Age (Bars): A zone created hundreds of bars ago losing its relevance because the participants holding those orders have likely closed their positions. This setting expires old zones to keep your chart fresh. If your chart experiences loading delays, lower this setting to roughly 200 bars.
Calculated Bars: To manage the calculation weight of the Epanechnikov kernel filtering and volume slice matrices, you can adjust the total calculation window. If your chart shows a red runtime error, lower this setting from 5000 down to 2000 bars.
Show Volume at Level: Turning this on overlays the raw numerical transaction data over each individual profile block, allowing for precise order flow calculation.
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The Core Trading Logic
When a zone is formed by a massive imbalance of aggressive market orders, institutional participants frequently leave resting passive limit orders behind because the market moved too quickly to fill their entire block. When price returns to this exact zone for the first time, those resting orders are triggered. This acts as a defense line, forcing an aggressive, fast reversal.
If price returns to a zone multiple times, or if it begins to grind and spend a long time consolidating inside a box, that is a major warning sign. It means liquidity is actively depleting, the passive orders are being entirely consumed, and a massive liquidity shock breakout is right around the corner.
Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. Always test the mechanics against your own personal edge, backtest thoroughly, and integrate it properly within your broader risk management plan. Индикатор
Session Volume Profile - Intraday [HexaTrades]Session Volume Profile Intraday is a comprehensive volume profile indicator designed specifically for intraday traders. It builds a separate volume profile for each session and automatically identifies the most important auction-market levels, including Point of Control (POC), Value Area High (VAH), Value Area Low (VAL), Previous Session Levels, VWAP, Previous Day High/Low, Initial Balance, and Naked POCs.
The goal of this indicator is to help traders understand where the market is accepting price, where major volume has traded, and where important support/resistance or liquidity zones may form during the trading session.
⭐️ How it works
-Binning: the session's price range (highest high to lowest low) is divided into Rows per Profile equal price bins.
-Volume distribution: each bar's volume is spread evenly across every bin its high–low range spans, and tagged buy or sell by candle direction.
-POC: the bin holding the most total volume.
- Value Area: starting from the POC, the algorithm expands outward always toward the heavier of the two neighbouring bins, until the accumulated volume reaches the chosen Value Area % (default 70%). The top and bottom edges of the included bins become VAH and VAL.
-Width: each row's bar length is scaled to its volume relative to the POC row, capped by the width settings.
⭐️What This Indicator Shows
🔷 Session Volume Profile: The indicator creates a horizontal volume profile for each trading session. Each profile shows how much volume traded at different price levels during that session.
The widest part of the profile represents the area with the highest traded volume. Thin areas show low-volume zones where price may move faster.
🔷 POC - Point of Control: POC is the price level with the highest traded volume during the session.
It is one of the most important levels on the chart because it represents the price where the market spent the most activity.
How to use POC:
- Price above POC can suggest buyers are in control.
- Price below POC can suggest sellers are in control.
- A retest of POC can act as support or resistance.
- A strong rejection from POC may create a trade setup.
- A clean reclaim of POC may show a change in intraday bias.
🔷 VAH and VAL - Value Area High / Low
The Value Area represents the price zone where most of the session’s volume traded, usually 70%.
VAH is the upper boundary of the value area.
VAL is the lower boundary of the value area.
How to use Value Area:
- Price inside value area = balanced market.
- Price above VAH = bullish acceptance/strength.
- Price below VAL = bearish acceptance/weakness.
- Rejection from VAH may create a short setup.
- Rejection from VAL may create a long setup.
- Breakout above VAH can indicate trend continuation.
- Breakdown below VAL can indicate downside continuation.
🔷 Previous Session POC / VAH / VAL
The indicator carries forward the previous session’s important profile levels into the current session.
These levels often act as strong support, resistance, or reaction zones.
How to use previous session levels:
- Previous POC can act as a major magnet level.
- Previous VAH/VAL can act as important breakout or rejection zones.
- If price opens above previous value, the market may be bullish.
- If price opens below the previous value, the market may be bearish.
- If price opens inside the previous value, the market may be balanced or rotational.
🔷 PDH and PDL - Previous Day High / Low
PDH means Previous Day High.
PDL means Previous Day Low.
These are important liquidity levels watched by many intraday traders.
How to use PDH/PDL:
- Break above PDH may show bullish momentum.
- Break below PDL may show bearish momentum.
- A fake breakout above PDH followed by rejection can indicate a liquidity sweep.
- A fake breakdown below PDL followed by recovery can indicate a downside liquidity sweep.
🔷 VWAP - Session VWAP
VWAP shows the average traded price of the session based on volume.
How to use VWAP:
- Price above VWAP = bullish intraday bias.
- Price below VWAP = bearish intraday bias.
- VWAP can act as dynamic support or resistance.
- POC + VWAP confluence can create a stronger reaction zone.
🔷 Initial Balance — IBH / IBL
Initial Balance is the high and low of the first part of the trading session. By default, it uses the first 60 minutes.
IBH = Initial Balance High
IBL = Initial Balance Low
How to use Initial Balance:
- Break above IBH may indicate a bullish trend day.
- Break below IBL may indicate a bearish trend day.
- Rejection from IBH/IBL may indicate range continuation.
- IB range helps define early-session structure.
🔷 Naked POCs
A Naked POC is a previous session POC that has not yet been retested by price.
How to use Naked POCs:
- They can act as future price magnets.
- Price often reacts when revisiting them.
- They can be used as target zones.
- Once price trades through a Naked POC, the level is considered tested.
⭐️ Dashboard
The dashboard provides a real-time summary of the current session and key reference levels, helping traders quickly assess market structure, auction location, and intraday bias.
- Price Location: Shows whether the current price is trading Above Value, Inside Value, or Below Value relative to the developing session Value Area.
- Session POC: Current session's Point of Control — the price level with the highest traded volume.
- Session VAH: Current session Value Area High.
- Session VAL: Current session Value Area Low.
- VWAP: Current session Volume Weighted Average Price.
- Prev POC: Previous session Point of Control, often acting as an important support, resistance, or mean-reversion level.
- Prev VAH: Previous session Value Area High, frequently used as a resistance level or bullish breakout trigger.
- Prev VAL: Previous session Value Area Low, frequently used as a support level or bearish breakdown trigger.
- PDH: Previous Day High, a key liquidity and breakout reference level.
- PDL: Previous Day Low, a key liquidity and breakdown reference level.
- IBH: Initial Balance High, representing the upper boundary of the opening range.
- IBL: Initial Balance Low, representing the lower boundary of the opening range.
- Naked POCs: Displays the number of active untested POCs from previous sessions that have not yet been revisited by price.
⭐️ How to Use This Indicator
🔷Step 1: Identify Market Bias
First, check where price is trading compared to VWAP, POC, and Value Area.
Bullish bias:
-Price above VWAP
-Price above session POC
-Price above VAH
-POC shifting higher
Bearish bias:
-Price below VWAP
-Price below session POC
-Price below VAL
-POC shifting lower
Neutral/balanced market:
-Price inside value area
-Price moving around POC
-VWAP is flat
-No clear acceptance above VAH or below VAL
🔷Step 2: Watch Key Reaction Levels
The most important reaction levels are:
- Current Session POC
-Previous Session POC
-VAH / VAL
-VWAP
-PDH / PDL
-IBH / IBL
-Naked POCs
When multiple levels are close together, that area becomes stronger confluence.
Example:
If VWAP, POC, and VAL are near the same price, that zone becomes an important support/resistance area.
🔷 Step 3: Look for Confirmation
Do not take trades only because price touches a level.
Wait for confirmation such as:
- Strong rejection candle
- Close above/below the level
- Retest and hold
- Volume expansion
- Failed breakout
- Market structure shift
- VWAP reclaim or rejection
Example Trade Setups
POC Rejection Setup
Bearish example:
- Price is below VWAP.
- Price rallies back to POC.
- Price rejects from POC.
- A bearish confirmation candle forms.
Possible entry: After rejection confirmation.
Possible stop: Above POC or above VAH.
Possible targets: VAL, PDL, or Naked POC.
POC Reclaim Setup
Bullish example:
- Price trades below POC.
- Price reclaims POC with a strong candle close.
- Price retests POC and holds.
- VWAP is also reclaimed.
- Possible entry: After retest and hold.
- Possible stop: Below POC or below VWAP.
- Possible targets: VAH, PDH, or previous value area.
Value Area Breakout
Bullish example:
- Price trades inside value area.
- Price breaks above VAH.
- Price holds above VAH.
- VWAP supports the move.
- Possible entry: Above VAH after confirmation.
-Possible stop:Back inside value area.
Possible targets: PDH, Naked POC, or next resistance zone.
Value Area Breakdown
Bearish example:
- Price trades inside value area.
- Price breaks below VAL.
- Price holds below VAL.
- Price remains below VWAP.
- Possible entry: Below VAL after confirmation.
- Possible stop: Back inside value area.
- Possible targets:PDL, Naked POC, or next support zone.
Previous Day High / Low Liquidity Sweep
Bullish PDL sweep example:
- Price breaks below PDL.
- Sellers get trapped.
- Price quickly reclaims PDL.
- Bullish candle closes back above PDL.
- Possible entry:After reclaim confirmation.
- Possible stop: Below sweep low.
- Possible targets: VWAP, POC, or VAH.
Bearish PDH sweep example:
-Price breaks above PDH.
- Buyers get trapped.
- Price quickly falls back below PDH.
- Bearish candle closes below PDH.
- Possible entry: After rejection confirmation.
- Possible stop: Above sweep high.
- Possible targets: VWAP, POC, or VAL.
Initial Balance Breakout
Bullish example:
- First 60-minute range forms.
- Price breaks above IBH.
- Price holds above IBH.
- VWAP and POC support the move.
-Possible entry: After the breakout and retest.
- Possible stop: Back inside IB range.
- Possible targets: VAH, PDH, or Naked POC.
Best Timeframes
- 5-minute chart
-15-minute chart
- Intraday futures
- Stocks
- Crypto
- Forex pairs
- For faster entries, the 5-minute can be used.
⭐️Alerts
All alerts are evaluated on confirmed bars only (no repaint):
- POC Cross Up / Down — price crosses the session POC.
- Value Area Breakout / Breakdown — price accepts above VAH or rejects below VAL.
- Prev POC Test — price tests the previous session's POC.
- PDH Break / PDL Break — price breaks the previous day's high or low.
- VWAP Cross — price crosses the session VWAP.
Session Volume Profile Intraday is designed to help traders visualise market-generated support and resistance using volume-based auction principles. By combining Session Volume Profiles, POC, Value Areas, VWAP, Previous Session Levels, PDH/PDL, Initial Balance, and Naked POCs, it provides a complete framework for intraday market analysis. Use it to identify key reaction zones, assess market bias, and improve trade planning. As always, combine it with sound risk management and your own trading strategy for the best results.
We would love to hear your suggestions. If you have ideas for new features, indicators, analytics, or improvements, please share your feedback. Your input helps guide future updates and improve the indicator for all traders.
This indicator is for educational and analytical purposes only. It should not be considered financial advice. Always use proper risk management and make trading decisions based on your own analysis
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Rolling Dual Value AreaRolling Dual Value Area (68.2% / 95.4%)
WHAT IT DOES
Builds a rolling volume profile over a trailing window of the last N bars and
draws two nested value areas around the Point of Control (POC):
- Inner area: 68.2% of the window's volume by default
- Outer area: 95.4% of the window's volume by default
The POC is plotted as a single line; the inner and outer Value Area High/Low
boundaries are drawn as two nested bands. Because the profile is recomputed on
every bar, the POC, VAH and VAL appear as continuous trajectories rather than a
single static profile.
WHY 68.2% AND 95.4%
The conventional Market Profile value area uses 70%, which is a rounding of
68.2% - the share of a normal distribution within +/-1 standard deviation.
95.4% is the +/-2 standard deviation share. These two thresholds give a "1
sigma" inner zone and a "2 sigma" outer zone expressed as volume coverage. Both
are inputs, so you can set them back to 70/95 or to any values you prefer.
Important: this is a coverage-threshold band, not a parametric standard-
deviation band. It is centered on the mode (the POC) and expands toward the
heavier side, so it is generally asymmetric and reflects the actual shape of the
distribution. This is a different object from a VWAP standard-deviation band,
which is centered on the volume-weighted mean and is symmetric. The two coincide
only when the distribution is close to normal.
HOW IT IS CALCULATED
1. The high-low range of the last N bars is divided into equal price bins.
2. Each bar's volume is spread evenly across the bins its high-low range covers.
3. The bin with the most volume is the POC.
4. Starting from the POC, the area expands one bin at a time toward the adjacent
side holding more volume (classic asymmetric, greedy Market Profile
expansion). A single continuous expansion records the inner boundaries when
cumulative volume first reaches the inner target, then continues to the outer
target, so the outer area always contains the inner area and both follow one
expansion path.
Note: expansion advances one bin per step. The original CBOT method compares
pairs of bins per step; results are nearly identical and may differ by a bin in
edge cases. Because volume is added in discrete bins, the captured coverage
lands at or slightly above the chosen percentage.
HOW TO USE
- The bands mark where trading has concentrated over the lookback. Inner-band
edges often act as nearer support/resistance; the outer band marks
statistically extended zones.
- The POC is the heaviest-traded price in the window and tends to act as a
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Channel Volume Profilwizard channel vp idm is a visual analysis tool built around a dynamic price channel, an anchored volume profile, value area levels, volume nodes, inducement zones, liquidity sweeps, and confluence labels.
the purpose of this indicator is to help traders read where price is positioned inside an active market structure. it combines channel direction, volume acceptance, value area behavior, and liquidity reactions into one clean visual layout.
this indicator does not predict the market. it is designed to organize technical analysis and highlight areas where price may react, slow down, reject, or continue.
main concept
the script builds a dynamic channel around price using a regression-based structure. inside this channel, it calculates an anchored volume profile that follows the slope of the market.
unlike a classic horizontal volume profile, this profile is projected inside the active channel. when the market is rising, the profile follows the upward slope. when the market is falling, the profile follows the downward slope.
this makes the profile easier to read in trending conditions, because the volume zones stay aligned with the current market path.
what the indicator displays
poc
poc stands for point of control. it marks the area with the highest volume inside the profile. this is often an area of acceptance where price may return, pause, or consolidate.
vah
vah stands for value area high. it is the upper boundary of the value area. if price rejects this level, a move back toward the poc may be watched. if price accepts above it, the market may be trying to expand higher.
val
val stands for value area low. it is the lower boundary of the value area. if price rejects this level, a move back toward the poc may be watched. if price accepts below it, the market may be trying to expand lower.
hvn
hvn stands for high volume node. it marks an area where volume concentration is high. these levels may act as areas of acceptance, reaction, or slowdown.
lvn
lvn stands for low volume node. it marks an area where volume concentration is low. these levels may act as fast movement zones, rejection zones, or imbalance areas.
idm
idm represents an internal inducement area. it helps identify internal liquidity zones that may be swept before a reaction or continuation.
drop marker
the drop marker highlights a possible liquidity sweep. it appears when price takes a level or zone and then moves back inside.
a label
the a label is a confluence marker. it combines several conditions such as sweep, rejection, value area interaction, volume behavior, poc reclaim, and structure context. it should not be used alone. it is a visual signal for deeper analysis.
how to use the indicator
start by looking at the channel direction.
if the channel is rising, the trader can focus more on reactions near the lower part of the channel, val, or bullish sweep zones.
if the channel is falling, the trader can focus more on reactions near the upper part of the channel, vah, or bearish sweep zones.
if price is near the middle of the channel, the market may be balanced. in that case, it is usually better to wait for a clear rejection, breakout, sweep, or acceptance shift.
how to use the poc
the poc is the main acceptance level of the current profile.
when price is above the poc, the market may be accepting higher prices.
when price is below the poc, the market may be accepting lower prices.
when price keeps returning to the poc, the market may be consolidating or building balance.
a clean break and hold above the poc can show stronger bullish acceptance.
a clean break and hold below the poc can show weaker structure or bearish acceptance.
how to use vah and val
vah and val define the value area.
a rejection from vah can show that price is failing to accept higher levels.
a rejection from val can show that price is failing to accept lower levels.
an acceptance above vah can suggest expansion to the upside.
an acceptance below val can suggest expansion to the downside.
beginners can use vah, poc, and val as a simple map:
vah = upper value zone
poc = balance zone
val = lower value zone
how to use hvn and lvn
hvn and lvn are displayed as small dotted levels with tiny labels.
hvn can act as a reaction or slowdown zone because price has previously accepted volume there.
lvn can act as a faster movement zone because there was less volume acceptance there.
these levels are not automatic buy or sell signals. they are reference points that should be combined with price action, structure, and risk management.
how to use idm
idm labels show internal inducement areas.
an idm can represent a zone where liquidity was built and later taken by the market. when price sweeps an idm and then reintegrates, it may help explain a reaction or shift in behavior.
an idm near val may support a bullish reaction if price sweeps and returns inside the channel.
an idm near vah may support a bearish reaction if price sweeps and returns inside the channel.
how to use the drop marker
the drop marker shows a potential liquidity sweep.
a drop below val or below the lower channel can suggest that price swept lower liquidity and then returned inside.
a drop above vah or above the upper channel can suggest that price swept upper liquidity and then returned inside.
it is usually better to wait for candle close before interpreting the marker.
how to use the a label
the a label represents a stronger confluence condition.
a bullish a near val or the lower channel can suggest possible absorption if price sweeps liquidity and closes back inside.
a bearish a near vah or the upper channel can suggest possible distribution if price sweeps liquidity and closes back inside.
the a label becomes more meaningful when it appears near poc, vah, val, hvn, lvn, or idm.
it should always be confirmed with market context, candle close, and risk management.
important settings
channel / vp lookback
controls how many bars are used for the channel and the volume profile. a higher value gives a broader view. a lower value gives a more reactive view.
regression length
controls the base of the channel. a higher value makes the channel smoother. a lower value makes it react faster to recent price movement.
vp rows
controls the number of rows in the volume profile. more rows create more detail, but too many rows can make the chart heavier.
value area %
controls the value area calculation. the common default is 70.
poc source
chooses how the poc is calculated. raw is stricter. smoothed is more stable visually.
vah / val source
chooses whether value area boundaries use raw volume or smoothed volume.
keep vp / levels inside rails
keeps the volume profile and main levels inside the channel so they do not overlap the outer rail visuals.
auto guard from neon rails
adds extra spacing from the visual rail bands to keep the profile and levels clean.
show inner lines
shows or hides decorative inner channel lines. when disabled, inner decorative lines are removed, while important levels such as poc, vah, val, hvn, and lvn remain visible.
show hvn / lvn small lines
shows small dotted high volume node and low volume node markers.
idm validation mode
controls how idm labels are displayed.
balanced sweep is more flexible.
strict bos is more selective.
early candidate displays potential idm areas earlier.
a minimum score
controls how selective the a label is. a higher value gives fewer signals. a lower value gives more signals.
beginner workflow
step 1
identify the channel direction.
if the channel is rising, focus on bullish reactions near the lower channel, val, or sweep zones.
if the channel is falling, focus on bearish reactions near the upper channel, vah, or sweep zones.
step 2
check where price is compared to the poc.
above poc can show stronger acceptance.
below poc can show weaker acceptance.
around poc can show balance or consolidation.
step 3
watch vah and val.
vah is the upper value boundary.
val is the lower value boundary.
look for rejection, acceptance, or sweep around these levels.
step 4
use hvn and lvn as reaction levels.
hvn may slow price down.
lvn may lead to faster movement or sharp rejection.
step 5
wait for confirmation.
a drop marker shows a sweep.
an a label shows confluence.
an idm label shows internal liquidity.
when several elements appear in the same area, that zone becomes more important for analysis.
example use case
price is rising inside the channel.
price pulls back toward val.
a drop marker appears below val.
price closes back inside the channel.
an a label appears near the lower channel.
in this case, the trader can study the area as a possible bullish reaction zone. this does not mean automatic entry. the trader should still check market structure, candle close, risk, and invalidation level.
another example
price reaches the upper channel and trades near vah.
a drop marker appears above vah.
price closes back below vah.
an a label appears near the top of the channel.
this can be studied as a possible rejection zone. the trader should still confirm with structure, risk management, and broader market direction.
usage tips
do not use the indicator alone.
always check the broader trend.
wait for candle close before making a decision.
avoid trading every label.
focus on zones where several elements align.
adjust settings depending on the asset and timeframe.
use proper risk management.
test the indicator before using it in live conditions.
risk notice
this indicator is an educational and technical analysis tool. it is not financial advice and does not guarantee any result. all signals and levels should be used as visual references inside a complete trading plan. every trader is responsible for their own decisions, risk management, and execution.
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Volume Profile Support & Resistance Matrix [HexaTrades]Most indicators tell you where the price went. This one shows you where the volume traded and then does the hard part for you: it reads that volume map and draws the support and resistance levels that genuinely matter right now.
VRVP Visible Range Support/Resistance Matrix is an all-in-one volume toolkit. It builds a buy/sell Volume Range Visible Profile over the last N candles (or the visible range), locates the heavy high-volume nodes, converts them into ranked support and resistance zones, and surrounds them with everything you need to act: Point of Control, Value Area, Low-Volume-Node levels, optional Fair Value Gaps, a corner dashboard, and breakout/touch/ approach alerts. Everything is configurable, and every level is explained
✨ features
✔️ Buy & Sell Volume Profile
- Volume-by-price histogram built from the chosen window, one row per price bin.
- Buy vs sell split: each candle’s volume is classified as buying (close ≥ open) or selling (close < open) and stacked per row, so you see the order-flow balance at every level.
- Radiant intensity coloring: heavy rows render bright/opaque, light rows fade out, so the significant nodes jump off the chart.
- Right-of-price placement: the profile sits in the gap to the right of the last candle (adjustable), so it never covers your price action, and it pans/zooms with the chart.
- Gap-free distribution: volume is spread across each candle’s full range, so the profile is solid rather than a sparse set of dots.
✔️ Automatic Support & Resistance Zones
- High-volume node detection: the script repeatedly finds the biggest volume peaks and turns them into zones.
- Strength % score: every zone is graded by its volume relative to the Point of Control (e.g. “Support 82%”), and the fill opacity scales with that strength.
- Retest count: counts how many times price has re-entered the zone (e.g. “x4”), so you can tell fresh levels from heavily-tested ones.
- Smart spacing: a minimum distance (in profile rows) and an anti-overlap floor keep zones cleanly separated, never stacked on top of each other.
- Per-side cap: limit how many support and resistance zones show, so the chart stays readable.
- Auto role flip: a level above the last confirmed close is Resistance, below it is Support; zones recolor only when a candle actually closes through them.
- Adjustable thickness: zone band height from ATR or bin size, fully tunable.
Anchor options extend zones from the window start or from the last price touch.
✔️ Point of Control & Value Area
- POC line: the single highest-volume price (the market’s fair-value magnet).
- Value Area (VAH / VAL) : the high/low boundaries that contain your chosen % of total traded volume (default 70%).
- Used both as optional on-chart lines and as the engine behind the dashboard’s trend bias.
✔️ Low Volume Nodes (LVNs)
- Imbalance detection: finds the thin “valleys” in the profile where little volume traded.
- Dashed level lines mark these air pockets: price tends to move quickly through them and react at the thick nodes around them.
✔️ Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
- 3-candle imbalance detection: bullish & bearish gaps where price moved so fast it left an unfilled inefficiency.
-Unfilled-only boxes: only gaps price hasn’t returned to are shown, as small yellow boxes labeled “FVG”. Capped to keep the chart clean. (Off by default.)
✔️ Stat Dashboard
- A compact corner panel showing 📊 POC, 🔼 VAH, 🔽 VAL, 🟥 Nearest Resistance, 🟩 Nearest Support, 🧭 Trend Bias (Bullish / Bearish / Balanced) and 📐 zone counts.
- Dark, high-contrast styling that stays readable on light and dark chart themes; placeable in any of the four corners.
✔️ Alerts
The tool features a comprehensive, built-in alert system that triggers notifications for a variety of critical price movements, such as breakouts above resistance, breakdowns below support, support touches, resistance rejections, and upcoming zone warnings. Traders can also enable an optional volume confirmation filter to help minimize false signals during low-liquidity periods.
✔️ Window & Customization
- Two modes: a fixed candle window (default 360) for consistency, or the visible range so the profile follows whatever you’re looking at.
- Adjustable resolution: set the number of profile rows for coarse or fine detail.
- Full color control: buy/sell profile, support/resistance fills, POC, value area, LVN and FVG colors are all editable.
Find all mentioned features in the chart below.
⚙️ How it works
- Range & rows. It takes the high/low of the last N candles (or the visible range) and slices that range into bins (rows).
- Volume mapping. Each candle spreads its volume across the rows its range covers, then splits it into buy vs sell, giving a solid, gap-free volume-by-price map.
- POC & Value Area. The busiest row is the Point of Control; the script expands outward until it captures your chosen % of total volume → VAH / VAL.
- Zone selection. It picks the biggest volume peaks, keeps them spaced apart so they never overlap, scores each by strength, and counts retests.
- Role & signals. Levels above the last confirmed close are Resistance; below are Support, and breakout/touch / reject / approach events fire from the nearest live zone.
🚀How to use it- step by step
Add the indicator to any symbol that has volume, on any timeframe. The defaults work out of the box. Two decisions set the context:
- Timeframe: use your trading timeframe. Higher timeframes (1H/4H/1D) give fewer, stronger zones; lower timeframes give more, faster-moving ones.
- Window: keep Use Fixed Candle Count on (default 360) for a stable, repeatable profile, or turn it off to let the profile follow the visible range as you scroll.
⭐️ Read the structure with the dashboard
- Trend Bias is your regime filter: Bullish when price is above the Value Area High (favour longs), Bearish below the Value Area Low (favour shorts), Balanced inside the value area (favour fading the edges / mean-reversion).
- 🎯 POC / 🔼 VAH / 🔽 VAL give you the fair-value zone where most business was done.
- 🟥 Nearest Resistance / 🟩 Nearest Support are your immediate targets and invalidation prices
⭐️ Find the zones that actually matter
Not all zones are equal — let the labels rank them for you:
- Strength % : higher = more volume traded there = a stronger level. A “Support 95%” is far more significant than a “Support 48%”. Prioritise the high-% zones.
- Retest count (x N): a low count means a fresh, untested level (often the cleanest reactions); a high count means it’s been hit many times and may be weakening toward a break.
- Profile shape: the long bars are High-Volume Nodes (acceptance/magnets); the thin LVN dashed lines are Low-Volume Nodes (rejection / fast-travel zones).
⭐️ Trade the three core plays
Almost every setup is one of these. Use the zone edges for entries and stops:
Bounce (long at support)
- Price drops into a strong green Support zone with the bias bullish or balanced.
- Wait for a reaction candle (rejection wick/engulfing) inside or at the zone.
- Entry on the reaction; stop just below the zone; first target = POC or the nearest resistance.
Reject (short at resistance)
- Price rallies into a strong red Resistance zone with the bias bearish or balanced.
- Look for a rejection / the “Resistance Reject” marker.
- Entry on the reaction; stop just above the zone; target = POC or nearest support.
Breakout / Breakdown (momentum)
-A decisive close through a zone (ideally with the BUY/SELL signal and volume confirmation on) flips it from resistance to support (or vice-versa).
-Enter on the break or the retest of the flipped zone; target the next zone up/down.
- Breaks through a thin LVN tend to run fast to the next High-Volume Node.
Stack confluence for the best setups
The highest-probability trades are where several things line up:
Zone + POC: a level sitting on the Point of Control is a heavy magnet.
Zone + Value Area edge: VAH/VAL rejections are classic mean-reversion spots.
Zone + Fair Value Gap turn on FVGs: a gap that overlaps a zone is a strong target.
Zone + LVN beyond it: if there’s an air pocket just past a zone, a break can accelerate quickly.
High Strength % + low retest count: fresh, heavy levels react best.
Feel free to explore, learn from, and build upon this indicator. Feedback, suggestions, and ideas for future improvements are always welcome and appreciated.
This indicator is provided for educational and analytical purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. All signals, levels, and zones are based on historical market data and should be used alongside your own analysis and risk management. Trading involves risk, and past performance or historical price reactions do not guarantee future results.
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Visible Range Volume NodesVisible Range Volume Nodes is a visible-range volume profile indicator that shows how traded volume is distributed across price levels inside the currently visible chart area.
The script builds a horizontal volume profile from the candles visible on the chart. It divides the visible price range into rows and distributes each candle's volume across the price rows touched by that candle's high-low range. Rows with more accumulated volume are displayed wider. Rows with less accumulated volume are displayed narrower.
How volume is calculated
Each candle's volume is distributed proportionally across the price rows covered by that candle's high-low range. If a candle covers several rows, its volume is split between those rows based on the amount of price overlap.
Bullish and bearish volume are separated using candle direction:
* Candles closing above their open are counted as bullish volume;
* Candles closing below their open are counted as bearish volume;
* Neutral candles are split evenly.
Key Volume Areas
POC - Point of Control
POC is the price row with the highest volume inside the visible range. It marks the largest volume concentration in the selected chart area.
VAH - Value Area High
VAH is the upper boundary of the value area.
VAL - Value Area Low
VAL is the lower boundary of the value area.
The value area starts from the POC and expands through the highest-volume neighboring rows until the selected percentage of total visible-range volume is included. By default, this is commonly used as a 70% value area, but the percentage can be changed in the settings.
HVN - High Volume Node
HVN zones are high-volume areas detected from local peaks in the smoothed volume profile. These zones show where volume was concentrated compared with nearby price levels.
LVN - Low Volume Node
LVN zones are low-volume areas detected from local valleys in the smoothed volume profile. These zones show where volume was thinner compared with nearby price levels.
How to use it
The profile can help users compare current price action with previously traded volume areas inside the selected visible range:
* POC shows the main high-volume reference area of the visible range;
* VAH and VAL show the upper and lower limits of the main value area;
* HVN zones show areas where price previously spent more volume;
* LVN zones show areas where volume was thinner relative to nearby price levels;
* The histogram shows the full volume distribution across the selected price range.
A trader can use these areas as context when analyzing price location. For example, price trading near POC is trading near the main volume concentration of the visible range. Price trading near VAH or VAL is trading near the edge of the calculated value area. HVN and LVN zones can be used to compare current price behavior with areas of stronger or weaker previous volume participation.
These levels should be treated as structural references only. They are not automatic entries, exits, support, resistance, targets, or invalidation levels.
Main settings
* Profile Rows controls how many price rows are used to build the volume profile. More rows create a more detailed profile. Fewer rows create a smoother, broader profile;
* Value Area % controls how much of the visible-range volume is included inside the value area;
* Histogram Direction controls whether the profile is displayed to the left or right side of the visible chart area;
* Profile Distance controls the spacing between the visible candles and the profile panel;
* The script also includes settings for showing or hiding POC, VAH/VAL, HVN, LVN, labels, prices in labels, line style, line width, label size, and colors.
Limitations
*This indicator does not generate buy or sell signals;
*It does not predict future price direction;
*It does not define guaranteed support or resistance;
*It does not use exact bid/ask volume;
*It does not use footprint, delta, or order book data.
The displayed structure depends on the selected visible range, symbol, exchange, timeframe, and available volume data.
Because the profile is based on the currently visible chart range, moving or zooming the chart can change the calculated POC, value area, HVN zones, and LVN zones.
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Volume Profile VIP⚡ VOLUME PROFILE VIP — Complete User Guide
Built for New & Experienced Traders
WHAT IS VOLUME PROFILE VIP?
Volume Profile VIP is a professional institutional-grade indicator that shows you where the most trading activity happened at every price level. Unlike regular volume bars at the bottom of your chart that only show HOW MUCH volume occurred per candle, Volume Profile VIP shows you WHERE that volume happened in terms of price.
This is the same tool used by banks, hedge funds, and professional traders to identify the most important price levels in the market. When you know where volume is concentrated, you know where the big players are positioned — and that tells you where price is likely to react.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
New traders who want to understand why price moves the way it does
Day traders who need to know the most important intraday levels
Swing traders who want to identify institutional price zones
Anyone who wants to trade with the smart money instead of against it
WHAT DOES IT DO?
Volume Profile VIP has 4 core engines working together:
1. 📊 VOLUME PROFILE — "Where did all the trading happen?"
The Volume Profile is drawn as horizontal bars on your chart. Each bar represents a price level, and the width of the bar shows how much volume traded at that price.
How to read it:
Wide bar = Lots of trading happened here — institutions were active at this price
Narrow bar = Very little trading happened here — price moved through quickly
🟢 Green portion of each bar = Bullish (buying) volume
🔴 Red portion of each bar = Bearish (selling) volume
The three most important levels:
◆ POC — Point of Control
The single most important level on the entire chart. It is the price where the MOST volume traded during the lookback period. Think of it as the center of gravity for price — the market always wants to return to this level.
Drawn as a solid gold line stretching across the chart
Labeled with the exact price and % distance from current price
If price is above POC → POC acts as support
If price is below POC → POC acts as resistance
When price returns to POC, expect a strong reaction
▲ VAH — Value Area High
The upper boundary of the Value Area — the price range where 70% of all volume traded. This is where the market considers "fair value" for this asset.
Drawn as a dashed cyan line
When price is ABOVE VAH → price is in premium territory, watch for rejection
When price BREAKS ABOVE VAH with volume → strong bullish signal
VAH often acts as resistance when approached from below
▼ VAL — Value Area Low
The lower boundary of the Value Area.
Drawn as a dashed red line
When price is BELOW VAL → price is in discount territory, watch for a bounce
When price BREAKS BELOW VAL with volume → strong bearish signal
VAL often acts as support when approached from above
The Value Area Rule (used by professional traders):
If price opens OUTSIDE the value area and returns back INTO it, there is an 80% chance it will travel all the way to the other side of the value area.
Example: Price opens below VAL, then pushes back above VAL → high probability it reaches VAH.
2. 🐂🐻 BULL / BEAR VOLUME SPLIT — "Who is in control at each level?"
Each profile bar is split into two colors:
🟢 Green (left side) = Buying volume — bulls were in control here
🔴 Red (right side) = Selling volume — bears were in control here
How to use this:
A level with mostly green = Bullish liquidity zone — buyers defended this price
A level with mostly red = Bearish liquidity zone — sellers dominated this price
POC row with mostly green = Institutional buying at the most important level = very bullish
POC row with mostly red = Institutional selling at the most important level = very bearish
3. ★ INSTITUTIONAL FIBONACCI — "Where do the big players enter?"
The Fibonacci retracement levels are automatically calculated from the highest high to the lowest low within your lookback window. These levels mark where professional and institutional traders are most likely to place orders.
All 8 levels explained:
Level Name What it means0.000Swing Boundary Start of the price swing — 0% retracement0.236Shallow Pullback Minor retracement — weak support/resistance0.382Key Level Strong institutional level — common entry/exit point0.500⚖ EQUILIBRIUM The exact midpoint — fair value decision zone0.618★ Golden Ratio THE most important Fibonacci level — institutional entry0.650★ Golden Pocket Works together with 0.618 to form the Golden Pocket0.786Deep Retracement Last major level before full reversal1.000Swing Boundary End of the price swing — 100% retracement
The Golden Pocket (0.618 — 0.650):
This zone between 0.618 and 0.650 is highlighted with a filled gold box. It is the single most watched level by institutional traders worldwide. When price retraces into this zone in an uptrend and shows bullish signals, it is often the best buying opportunity. In a downtrend, it is often the best selling opportunity.
The Equilibrium (0.500):
Highlighted with a light blue zone. This is the exact midpoint between the swing high and swing low.
Price ABOVE Equilibrium = Premium zone (price is expensive relative to the swing)
Price BELOW Equilibrium = Discount zone (price is cheap relative to the swing)
Smart money buys in discount, sells in premium
Every label shows:
Full name and description of the level
Exact price value
Percentage distance from current price (+ = above you, - = below you)
4. 📊 DASHBOARD — "What do the levels tell me right now?"
The dashboard in the top-right corner gives you a live snapshot of every key level.
Row What it shows◆ POC Point of Control price + % distance from current price▲ VAH Value Area High + % above current price▼ VAL Value Area Low + % below current price TOTAL VOL Total volume traded in the entire profile period SWING The price range used for Fibonacci (low → high)0.618 ★Golden Ratio price + % distance from current price
HOW TO USE VOLUME PROFILE VIP — STEP BY STEP
Step 1 — Find the POC
The POC is the gold line. This is your anchor for everything.
Is price above POC? The market is bullish overall
Is price below POC? The market is bearish overall
Is price at POC? Expect a strong move — this is a high probability reaction zone
Step 2 — Identify Where You Are in the Value Area
Above VAH = Price is expensive, potential short or take profit zone
Between VAL and VAH = Price is at fair value, use other signals to determine direction
Below VAL = Price is cheap, potential long or watch for bounce
Breaking VAH upward = Bullish momentum, price may continue higher
Breaking VAL downward = Bearish momentum, price may continue lower
Step 3 — Combine with Fibonacci
Look at where the current price is relative to the Fibonacci levels:
Price pulling back to 0.618 Golden Pocket in an uptrend + POC nearby = Extremely strong buy zone
Price at VAH AND 0.786 Fibonacci resistance = Extremely strong sell zone
When Fibonacci levels and Volume Profile levels overlap = highest probability trade
Step 4 — Use the Bull/Bear Split to Confirm
Look at the color split on the profile bar at your key level:
Green dominant at POC + price above POC = Institutional buyers defending this level
Red dominant at POC + price below POC = Institutional sellers pushing price down
Step 5 — Wait for Price Action
Never enter just because price is at a level. Wait for:
A rejection candle (long wick, strong close away from the level)
A breakout candle (strong close through the level with volume)
A signal from Prophecy Signals indicator confirming the move
UNDERSTANDING THE VOLUME PROFILE VISUALLY
HIGH ──────────────────────────────────────────
░░░░░░ (Low volume — price moved quickly here)
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▲ VAH ██████████████████████████ (High volume — fair value top)
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◆ POC ████████████████████████████████████████ ← WIDEST BAR = Most trading
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▼ VAL ██████████████████████████ (High volume — fair value bottom)
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░░░░░░ (Low volume — price moved quickly here)
LOW ──────────────────────────────────────────
The shape of the profile tells a story:
Bell curve shape (wide in middle, narrow at edges) = Balanced, fair market
Wide at top, narrow at bottom = Sellers in control, bearish
Wide at bottom, narrow at top = Buyers in control, bullish
Two wide areas (bimodal) = Market is divided, big move coming
COMBINING VOLUME PROFILE VIP WITH PROPHECY SIGNALS
This is where the real power comes in. Use both indicators together:
Scenario What to look for Action Price at VAL + PUMP signal Buying at discount + signal confirmation Strong BUY Price at VAH + DUMP signal Selling at premium + signal confirmation Strong SELL Price at POC + volume spike Market deciding direction at key level Wait for breakout Price at 0.618 Fib + near VAL Golden Pocket + discount zone overlap High probability BUY Price breaks above VAH Fair value area expanding upward BUY breakout Price breaks below VAL Fair value area expanding downward SELL breakout
BEST TIMEFRAMES
Timeframe Best Use Daily Find major institutional POC and Value Area for the week4HIdentify swing trading levels and key Fibonacci zones1HMost reliable for intraday volume profile analysis15mFine-tune entries at key profile levels
Pro Tip: Set the lookback to match your trading style:
Day trading → Lookback 50-100 bars (today's session)
Swing trading → Lookback 150-300 bars (last few weeks)
Position trading → Lookback 300-500 bars (last few months)
SETTINGS YOU CAN ADJUST
Setting What it does Recommended Profile Rows How many price levels the profile is divided into40-48Lookback (bars)How many candles to include in the profile200Max Bar Width How wide the profile bars are on screen35Value Area %What percentage of volume defines the value area70%Bull/Bear Split Show green/red volume split on bars ON POC Color of the Point of Control line Your preference Fibonacci Look back How far back to find the swing for Fibonacci100Extend Lines Right How far Fibonacci lines extend to the right60
ALERTS
Volume Profile VIP includes 4 built-in alerts:
At POC — Price is touching the Point of Control
Above VAH — Price broke above the Value Area High
Below VAL — Price broke below the Value Area Low
At Fib 0.618 — Price is at the Golden Ratio level
KEY TERMS GLOSSARY
Term Definition Volume Profile A chart showing how much volume traded at each price level POC Point of Control — the price with the highest volume VAH Value Area High — top of the fair value range VAL Value Area Low — bottom of the fair value range Value Area The price range containing 70% of all volume Fibonacci Mathematical ratios used to find key price levels Golden Pocket The 0.618–0.650 zone — most watched institutional level Equilibrium The 0.500 level — exact midpoint of the swing Premium Price above equilibrium — considered expensive Discount Price below equilibrium — considered cheap Lookback How many candles the indicator analyzes
COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID
❌ Do not treat the POC as an exact price — It is a zone, not a pin-point level
❌ Do not enter at a level without a signal — Wait for price action confirmation
❌ Do not ignore the bull/bear split — A POC dominated by sellers is NOT a support
❌ Do not use too short a lookback — Less data = less reliable profile
❌ Do not fight a breakout — When price breaks VAH or VAL with strong volume, go with it
QUICK REFERENCE CARD
◆ POC = Most traded price — Market magnet — High reaction zone
▲ VAH = Top of fair value — Resistance when approaching from below
▼ VAL = Bottom of fair value — Support when approaching from above
Above VAH = PREMIUM — Watch for rejection or breakout
Inside VA = FAIR VALUE — Market is balanced
Below VAL = DISCOUNT — Watch for bounce or breakdown
★ 0.618 Golden Ratio = Institutional entry zone
★ 0.650 Golden Pocket = Works with 0.618
⚖ 0.500 Equilibrium = Fair value midpoint
🟢 Green profile bars = Buyers in control at this level
🔴 Red profile bars = Sellers in control at this level
FINAL WORDS
Volume Profile VIP gives you X-ray vision into the market. While most traders only see price going up or down, you will see WHERE the money is, WHO is in control at each level, and WHY price reacts the way it does.
The POC, VAH, and VAL are not just lines on a chart. They represent millions of orders placed by real traders and institutions. When price approaches these levels, those orders become active again — creating the reactions you see.
Master reading the volume profile and you will stop guessing where price will go. You will start understanding why it goes there.
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Delta by Price (Delta Volume Profile)🔹 Introduction
This indicator, Delta by Price (Delta Volume Profile), takes the familiar concept of a volume profile and replaces raw traded volume with net directional volume (delta) at each price level. Instead of showing how much volume traded at a price, it shows which side was more aggressive at that price — buyers or sellers.
The idea is straightforward: if a price level absorbed significantly more aggressive buying than selling (or vice versa), that level likely represents a meaningful shift in who was in control of the auction at that point in the range.
One thing to be upfront about: true tick-by-tick delta isn't available to Pine scripts. This indicator approximates delta by pulling lower-timeframe bars within each higher-timeframe bar and classifying each LTF bar's volume as buy-side or sell-side based on whether it closed above or below its open. It's a proxy, not a recording of the actual order book — but it's the same proxy nearly all publicly available delta tools use, and it tends to track real aggressor flow reasonably well over meaningful sample sizes.
🔹 The Premise / Background Theory
🔸 Volume tells you "how much," delta tells you "who pushed"
A standard volume profile answers one question: how much volume traded at each price? It's useful for finding high-volume nodes (areas of acceptance) and low-volume nodes (areas of rejection), but it's directionally blind. A price level with 1,000 contracts could be 500 aggressive buys and 500 aggressive sells — pure equilibrium — or it could be 950 buys and 50 sells, meaning that level was overwhelmingly bought into.
Delta separates these two scenarios. A delta profile takes that same volume and splits it by aggressor side, then nets it. The result is a histogram that shows not just where volume concentrated, but which direction the pressure leaned at every price.
🔸 A concrete example
Assume price moves through a range from 5,000 to 5,010 over a session.
At the 5,002 level, three separate visits occur. On the first visit, an LTF bar closes higher than it opened with volume of 200 — classified as buy-side. On the second visit, another bar closes lower than it opened with volume of 150 — sell-side. On the third visit, a bar closes higher with volume of 300 — buy-side.
Net delta at 5,002 = +200 − 150 + 300 = +350.
Total volume at 5,002 = 200 + 150 + 300 = 650.
A standard volume profile would just show "650 contracts traded here." The delta profile shows +350 net buying — meaning roughly 54% more buy-side aggression than sell-side at that exact price. If you saw a level like this near the low of a range, it might suggest buyers stepped in there with conviction, not just that "a lot happened" there.
🔸 Why distribute delta across a bar's range instead of just its close
Each higher-timeframe bar has a high and a low, and the LTF bars that compose it trade across that entire range — not just at the close. This indicator takes each HTF bar's net delta and spreads it proportionally across every price bin the bar's high-to-low range touches.
This is an assumption, not a measurement. In reality, delta within a single bar isn't evenly distributed across its range — more of it likely occurred near where price spent the most time. But without LTF-by-LTF price-level tracking (which would be computationally heavy and hit Pine's lower-timeframe data limits quickly), even distribution across the bar's range is the most defensible simplification available. Wider bars contribute a thinner "smear" of delta per price bin; narrow bars concentrate their delta into fewer bins. Over a large enough sample, this tends to average out reasonably well.
🔹 How It Works
🔸 Profile Range: Session vs. Rolling Lookback
The indicator builds its profile from one of two data windows, selectable in settings.
Session mode mirrors how a session volume profile works — it resets at the start of each new session (defined by the session time input) and accumulates only the bars within that session. This is the natural choice if you want to see, for example, today's regular trading hours delta distribution reset cleanly each day, the same way you'd look at a daily session volume profile.
Rolling Lookback mode instead uses a fixed number of the most recent closed bars (configurable, default 200), regardless of session boundaries. This is useful for a continuously updating view of recent delta structure that isn't tied to calendar sessions — helpful for instruments or sessions that don't fit a clean daily reset (e.g. 24-hour futures markets).
There are limitations here worth noting. Session mode depends on the session time input matching how you actually think about your trading day. If you trade through multiple sessions (e.g. Asian, London, NY) and only select one as your "session," the profile will reset and rebuild only around that window — bars outside it are ignored entirely.
🔸 Number of Price Rows
This setting controls how finely the price range is divided into bins — effectively the "resolution" of the profile. A higher row count gives more granular price-level detail but spreads the available delta across more bins, making each individual bin's bar shorter and potentially noisier. A lower row count aggregates more price action into each bin, producing a smoother, more visually digestible profile but losing some precision about exactly where within a price cluster the delta concentrated.
This is a resolution-versus-noise tradeoff — there's no universally correct setting, and it's worth adjusting based on the instrument's typical range and tick size.
🔸 Extend Direction
The profile can be drawn extending to the right of the current bar (the default, useful when you want the profile visible without obscuring recent price action to the left) or to the left, anchored at the start of the lookback/session window — placing it where the data actually begins, similar to how some volume profile tools anchor to the left edge of the range being measured.
This is purely a visual/layout preference and doesn't change any underlying calculation — it only affects where the horizontal delta bars are drawn relative to price.
🔸 Point of Control (POC)
When enabled, a label marks the price bin with the highest total absolute volume (buy-side + sell-side combined, not net delta) — analogous to the POC on a standard volume profile. This identifies where the most total activity occurred, regardless of which direction it leaned. It's possible — and informative — for the POC bin to have a relatively small net delta despite high total volume, which would indicate that level saw heavy two-sided participation rather than one-sided conviction.
🔸 Custom Lower Timeframe
By default, the indicator automatically selects a lower timeframe for delta calculation based on your chart's timeframe (1-second charts use 1S, intraday charts use 1-minute, daily charts use 5-minute, and anything larger uses 60-minute). You can override this manually.
The tradeoff here is precision versus data availability. A finer LTF gives a more granular delta classification per HTF bar, but request.security_lower_tf() has practical limits on how many LTF bars it can return per HTF bar — on very large lookbacks with a very fine LTF relative to your chart timeframe, you may not get the full intrabar picture for older bars.
🔹 Closing Remarks
A delta-by-price profile doesn't tell you why buyers or sellers were more aggressive at a given level — only that they were, based on a reasonable proxy for aggressor classification. Large net-delta clusters don't guarantee future support or resistance. They're best treated as a layer of context: a way of seeing whether the volume that built a price level was directionally lopsided or balanced, which can complement (not replace) your read of structure, location, and broader order flow.
Used alongside the rest of your framework, it's another lens for asking the same underlying question every footprint-based approach asks: was this level built by conviction, or by indecision? Индикатор
Volume Profile AnalysisVolume Profile Analysis 📊
Advanced horizontal volume profile with order size analysis, buy/sell split, POC, and Value Area — all calculated from real tick-level volume delta.
Core Features:
🔹 Bidirectional Volume Profile Horizontal histogram showing volume distribution across price levels. Buy volume extends RIGHT, sell volume extends LEFT from candles. Delta is proportionally distributed across each bar's price range — no inflation.
🔹 Order Size Analysis Automatically categorizes volume into Large (>1.5× SMA) and Small orders using real volume data. Color-coded so you can see institutional vs retail activity at each price level.
🔹 Point of Control (POC) Yellow line marking the price level with the highest volume — the "fair value" where most trading occurred.
🔹 Value Area (VA) Gray zone containing 68% of total volume around the POC. Price tends to revert to this zone. Trading above/below VA indicates imbalance.
🔹 Buy/Sell Split Each profile level shows separate bars for buying and selling pressure. Labels display exact volumes (e.g., "4.5K | 3.2K").
🔹 Large Order Detection Highlights price levels where >75% of volume comes from large orders — potential institutional accumulation/distribution zones.
🔹 Real-Time Dashboard POC, VA High/Low, distance from POC in ATR units, position (Above/Inside/Below VA), current delta, and profile range.
How to Use:
Signal Meaning
Price at POC Fair value — range-bound market
Price above VA Bullish imbalance — may mean-revert down
Price below VA Bearish imbalance — may mean-revert up
High large order % Institutional activity — watch for reversals
Buy >> Sell at level Buyers absorbed selling at that price
Sell >> Buy at level Sellers absorbed buying at that price
Recommended Settings:
Timeframe: 1S (most precise delta)
Price Levels: 30 (good balance of detail)
Lookback: 100 bars (captures recent session)
Order Size: Enabled (see institutional activity)
Best For: Order flow traders, volume profile traders, identifying support/resistance, detecting institutional activity, understanding where value is established. Индикатор
Anchored Volume Profile Confluence ANCHORED VOLUME PROFILE CONFLUENCE — POC, Value Area, HVN/LVN & Value Migration
OVERVIEW
This is an anchored volume-at-price framework. From a chosen anchor — the session, a swing pivot, or a bar you click — it builds a volume profile and reads where trade actually happened: the POC (the most-traded price), the value area, and the high- and low-volume nodes. It overlays the anchored VWAP (the mean) on the same anchor, maintains a second time-decayed profile whose value migrates against the sticky POC, and calibrates its stretch signals against the symbol's own past. Everything is built from one idea — volume distributed across price — so the layers describe the same auction from different angles rather than competing for screen space.
WHY THESE COMPONENTS ARE COMBINED (and how they work together)
Price tells you where the market is; volume-at-price tells you where it agreed value was. A profile alone is a static picture, a VWAP alone is a single line, and neither tells you whether what you are seeing is reliable. Each layer here answers a different question, and they are meant to be read together as one object:
- VOLUME PROFILE (POC / VALUE AREA / HVN-LVN) is the distribution of volume across price since the anchor. The POC is the price with the most acceptance. The value area is the price range containing the chosen percentage of volume (default 70%). High-volume nodes (HVN) are acceptance shelves where price tends to stall and rotate; low-volume nodes (LVN) are rejection gaps price tends to move through quickly. This is the structural map.
- ANCHORED VWAP (MEAN) is the volume-weighted average price over the same anchor. The POC is the MODE of value (where most trade occurred) and the VWAP is the MEAN (the volume-weighted centre). Their relationship is information in itself: when VWAP sits above the POC the distribution is top-heavy, below it bottom-heavy. Showing both, anchored to the same event, is what turns a profile into a read on skew.
- VOLUME-WEIGHTED SIGMA measures dispersion around the mean, computed from the running second moment (sigma = square root of E - (E )^2), so "stretched" means the same thing on any instrument. This is what makes the stretch signal comparable across assets and calibratable.
- VALUE MIGRATION is the original layer. A second profile is maintained with an exponential half-life applied to its volume, so it weights recent trade more heavily. Its value (the decayed POC or value-area midpoint) reacts to what is happening now, while the anchored POC stays sticky. When the fast value crosses the anchored POC, acceptance is shifting — buyers or sellers are building value away from the established centre. Because both are derived from the same volume data, this is a coherent structural signal, not two unrelated indicators stacked together.
- REGIME and CALIBRATION are the quality layer. An efficiency-ratio and ADX read labels the market trending, mixed or choppy for context. Separately, the script tracks — past-only — how often a stretch beyond the bands actually reverted toward value, reported as a percentage with a confidence interval. This is what separates a measured framework from a drawing: the signal is scored against the instrument's own history.
Read together: the profile shows the structure (where value is, where the shelves and gaps are), the POC-versus-VWAP skew shows how that value is distributed, the sigma bands show how far price has stretched from it, the migration shows whether acceptance is moving, the regime tells you whether to trust a signal, and the calibration shows how the stretch has behaved here before.
HOW TO USE IT
1. Pick an anchor mode in settings — Session, Pivot High, Pivot Low, Pivot High/Low (auto), or Manual (click a bar). The profile and VWAP rebuild from that point.
2. Read the histogram for structure: trade toward HVN shelves (acceptance) and expect quick travel through LVN gaps (rejection). The POC is the gravity centre.
3. Use the value area (VAH/VAL) as the fair-value range; price outside it is out of value and either trending or stretched.
4. Watch the VWAP-versus-POC skew for whether value is top- or bottom-heavy, and the sigma stretch rails for extension.
5. Watch the fast value crossing the POC (triangles) as a sign acceptance is migrating; the table and exports quantify the migration.
6. Treat a stretch (circles) into an LVN as more reversion-prone and a stretch into an HVN as a potential trap; the table's verdict and past-only reversion rate summarise this.
WHAT MAKES IT ORIGINAL
It is not a static volume profile. It pairs an anchored profile with the anchored VWAP so you read the mode and the mean together; it adds a decayed-profile value-migration signal against the sticky POC; it uses robust percentile-based HVN/LVN thresholds that self-scale instead of a fixed percentage of the POC; it refines the profile with lower-timeframe intrabar data where available; and it calibrates its stretch signal per symbol. The migration read and the per-symbol calibration in particular are not part of a standard volume profile.
WORKS ON ANY ASSET (universal)
The price SOURCE for the mean is selectable in the settings, so the engine runs on any market — futures, indices, FX, crypto, or stocks. The profile is built from each bar's true high-low range (and from lower-timeframe bars where available, for accuracy). Volume-at-price requires volume; on symbols that report none, you can borrow volume from a reference symbol. All thresholds are ATR- and sigma-relative, so nothing is tied to one instrument's price scale. A data-health row tells you whether volume is native, borrowed, or refined by lower-timeframe data.
SETTINGS SUMMARY
- Data Source: price source (default HLC3) and an optional volume-borrow symbol for no-volume instruments.
- Anchor: anchor mode, pivot left/right lengths, and a manual anchor time.
- Profile: resolution (rows per ATR), value-area percentage, lower-timeframe refinement and its resolution, robust percentile node thresholds, HVN/LVN levels, histogram width, and what to draw.
- Value Migration: enable the decayed profile, its half-life, and the fast-line definition (value-area midpoint or raw POC).
- Signals & Regime: stretch threshold in sigma.
- Calibration: enable tracking, evaluation horizon, and minimum reversion in ATR.
- Visuals: Auto/Dark/Light theme, colours, line glow, on-chart labels, legend, table and their positions, and a data-health row.
The script also prints its name, the symbol and the timeframe on the chart, and an on-chart legend names every plotted level, so it is always clear what is being viewed.
LIMITATIONS (please read)
- Pivot anchors confirm only after the right-pivot length in bars; the profile is seeded back to the true pivot bar, but a new pivot anchor appears with that delay.
- Lower-timeframe refinement depends on available intrabar history and is disabled when volume is borrowed; older bars fall back to bar-range distribution.
- The decayed profile re-weights every bin each bar, so it is heavier than a static profile on long anchors.
- Calibration is descriptive of past behaviour only and is not a forecast.
- Everything here is probabilistic context, not a prediction or a guarantee.
DISCLAIMER
This is a study / indicator for chart analysis and education only. It is NOT a strategy, NOT a recommendation, and NOT financial advice. It places no orders and guarantees no outcome. Trading involves risk. Do your own research and manage your own risk.
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Time Acceptance Profile TPO LevelsTIME ACCEPTANCE PROFILE — TPO-STYLE LEVELS THAT WORK WITHOUT VOLUME
Volume profile tools fail on index spot charts — NIFTY, BANKNIFTY and SENSEX spot have no volume data at all. This indicator solves that by profiling TIME instead of volume: it counts how many bars touched each price bin during the session. Where price spent the most time is where the market found acceptance — and those levels act as the day's strongest reference points.
WHAT IT PLOTS
- Time POC — the price row with the highest time count today (gold line)
- Value Area (VAH / VAL) — the price band containing ~70% of today's time, expanded outward from the POC (teal box)
- Time Histogram — the full time-at-price distribution drawn to the right of price, POC row highlighted
- Prior-Day POC / VAH / VAL — yesterday's completed levels, frozen at the day close and extended across today (dashed)
HOW IT WORKS
1. The day's range is divided into N price bins (default 24)
2. Every bar adds one time-unit to each bin its high-low range touched
3. The bin with the maximum count = Time POC
4. The Value Area expands outward from the POC, adding the larger neighbouring bin until 70% of total time is covered
5. At the session change, the completed profile is frozen into prior-day levels — these never repaint
HOW TRADERS USE IT
- Prior-day POC acts as a magnet/pivot — rejections and reclaims there are high-information events
- Open outside yesterday's Value Area = imbalance day; watch for continuation away from value or a rotation back to Y-POC
- Open inside the Value Area = balance day; VAH/VAL rotation setups become relevant
- Thin rows in the histogram (low time) mark prices the market rejected — price tends to move quickly through them
NOTES
- Designed for intraday timeframes; shows a warning otherwise
- Today's POC and Value Area update as the session develops (by design); prior-day levels are fixed and never repaint
- Alerts are available on prior-day POC / VAH / VAL crosses — static levels only, alert-safe
- Price labels round to integers by default (toggle off for low-priced symbols)
- No volume data is used anywhere — works identically on spot indices, futures, stocks and crypto
This is an original implementation in Pine Script v6. The time-binning, POC selection and value-area expansion logic are fully described above.
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Combined Levels [VP + ORB + FVG + KZ + VWAP]# Combined Levels
A single-script bundle of the structural levels and intraday session tools I rely on day-to-day. Designed for futures (NQ / MNQ / ES / MES) but works on any symbol.
## What it draws
**1. Volume Profile levels (built from 1-minute intrabar data)**
Three concurrent profiles, each showing **VAH / POC / VAL**:
- **Prev Day RTH** (09:30–15:59 ET) — finalizes after the 16:59 post-market close so the lines don't shift during the trading day
- **Prev Overnight** (18:00–09:29 ET)
- **Prev Week** (Sunday 18:00 – Friday 16:59 ET)
Uses the same integer-ticks-per-row math as TradingView's native Fixed Range Volume Profile and distributes each bar's volume across the rows it overlaps. Set "Number of Rows" to match your FRVP setting (default 1000) and you'll get profiles that line up cleanly with TV's own.
**2. Opening Range (ORB)**
09:30–09:45 high / midpoint / low, with toggleable history of previous ORBs and customizable label text per line (high, mid, low can each be renamed or hidden).
**3. Previous Day & Previous Week High / Low / 50%**
Standard structural levels with adjustable how-many-periods-kept-on-chart, separate line styles for the H/L and the midpoint, and label-rename support.
**4. ICT Killzone Pivots**
Five sessions: **Asia, London, NY AM, NY Lunch, NY PM**. Each killzone draws its session high/low as pivots that extend until mitigated by future price, plus an optional midpoint that stops extending once mitigated. Up to 100 sessions kept per killzone (subject to Pine's 500-line drawing cap). Custom session times and labels per zone.
**5. Opening Prices**
8 configurable opening time slots (4 enabled by default: 9:30, 8:30, 10:00, Midnight; 4 more available: 6:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00). Each slot has its own enable toggle, label text, session window, and color.
**6. Fair Value Gaps**
3-bar FVGs detected on chart timeframe, confirmed at candle close.
- Option to delete boxes once filled (price closes through), or keep them visible
- Option to extend boxes to the right edge or use a fixed length
- **Opening-gap filter** (on by default): rejects "FVGs" caused by session boundaries — the overnight open, weekend gap, holiday breaks — by checking whether the 3-bar pattern crosses a non-continuous time interval. So you only see real intra-session FVGs, not artifacts of trading hour breaks.
- Configurable bull/bear colors, max gap count, minimum tick size
**7. Session VWAP with Bands**
Daily-anchored VWAP on hlc3, plus optional ±1σ and ±2σ standard-deviation bands with their own multipliers, colors, and toggle visibility.
## Data Source selector
The whole point of this design: if you trade **MNQ** but want **NQ's** volume profile and previous day/week levels (NQ has the real liquidity), set Source = NQ at the top. The VP and prev D/W H/L will pull from NQ futures while you keep MNQ visible on your chart. Presets cover NQ / MNQ / ES / MES, plus a "Chart" option (use whatever symbol you're viewing) and "Custom" (paste any ticker). The visual modules — ORB, killzones, FVG, VWAP, opening prices — stay tied to the chart symbol since NQ/MNQ price action is essentially identical at the tick level.
## Customization
Every module has its own group in settings. Inside each group you can independently control:
- Show / hide each component
- Line color, width, style (solid / dotted / dashed)
- Label text (rename any label, or set to empty to hide)
- Whether to show the price value next to the label
- Per-group horizontal label offset — useful when lines from different modules sit at the same price; offset each group differently and the labels fan out instead of stacking on top of each other
- Optional custom label color separate from the line color (so e.g., yellow lines can carry white labels for contrast against a busy chart)
## Notes
- Designed for **1m chart** for the best volume profile resolution, but works on any chart timeframe ≥ 1m
- All session times are **America/New_York**
- Settings panel groups things in the order they're drawn — Data Source first, then Global, then each module
- Once you have everything dialed in, use **Settings → Defaults → Save as Default** to lock in your configuration
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Volume Profile Composite, Naked POC & Value-AreaVolume Profile — Composite, Naked POC & Value-Area
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WHAT IT IS
A volume-at-price profile built for depth and decisions. It measures where trade
actually concentrated across the loaded history, distils that distribution into
the levels traders use — Point of Control (POC), Value Area (VAH/VAL), High and
Low Volume Nodes (HVN/LVN), and untested "naked" prior-session POCs — and then
converts those levels into a plain-language read of where price sits in the
auction (premium, discount, or inside value; balancing or migrating).
It is a study for chart analysis and education. It plots levels and context; it
does not place orders and does not output buy/sell signals.
HOW IT WORKS (ENGINE)
Volume is accumulated bar by bar into a price-keyed map on a fine grid (the
symbol's minimum tick multiplied by a user factor), then re-aggregated to the
chosen number of display rows. Because the engine uses a map rather than a fixed
lookback array, the profile can span every loaded bar instead of only a recent
window, and it is not limited by the historical bar-reference ceiling.
Each bar's volume is distributed across that bar's high-low range over a capped
number of samples, and tagged buy or sell by bar direction, producing a two-tone
histogram and a per-level delta. Where intrabar (lower-timeframe) data is
available, recent history can optionally be refined from it; older bars fall back
to the bar-range method. The Value Area is grown outward from the POC bin until
the chosen percentage of total volume is captured. Prior-day, prior-week and
full-history composite levels reuse the same value-area routine on their own maps.
The heavy redraw runs on bar open/close rather than on every realtime tick, to
keep live charts responsive.
WHY THESE COMPONENTS ARE COMBINED (MASHUP JUSTIFICATION)
This is one volume-profile engine, not a stack of independent indicators. Every
layer is computed FROM THE SAME accumulated volume map, and each one exists to
remove a specific blind spot of the raw histogram. A bare histogram only answers
"where did volume happen"; it cannot tell you whether price is rich or cheap,
which level matters next, or whether the market is balancing or trending. The
combined layers answer those questions, and they work together as follows:
- POC and Value Area transform the raw distribution into a fair-value frame, so
every other reading can be expressed as premium, discount, or inside value.
- HVN and LVN classify each price level produced by that same distribution as
acceptance (a volume shelf where reactions are more likely) or a thin gap
(where price tends to move quickly). This tells you how a level is likely to
behave, which the POC/Value Area alone do not.
- Naked prior-session POCs carry acceptance forward in time: they are POCs from
earlier sessions that price has not yet traded back through, derived from the
same per-session maps, and they act as revisit references.
- Value migration is simply the sequence of those session POCs read as a
direction, turning the profile history into a balancing-versus-trending read.
- The composite overlay keeps the full-history POC and Value Area in view while
you work a shorter, more legible recent window, so context is never lost.
- VWAP, Initial Balance, an expected-move band, and cumulative-volume-delta
divergence are confluence layers. They are optional and each degrades
gracefully if its data is absent. They are included because volume-profile
levels are used in context: VWAP gives the session's volume-weighted mean,
Initial Balance gives the opening reference, the expected-move band frames a
realistic day's range, and CVD-versus-price flags exhaustion. Each one answers
"does independent volume/price information agree with what the profile shows
here?", which is exactly how these levels are traded in practice.
- The Auto-Read is the synthesis step: it does not add new data, it ranks the
levels the engine already produced by distance to price and states the auction
context in words.
In short, the histogram is the raw material and every other element is a
transformation of that same data into a level, a classification, a confluence
check, or a written read. That shared derivation is the reason they belong in a
single script rather than as separate indicators.
WHAT IT PLOTS
- Buy/sell two-tone histogram, drawn in the clear space to the right of price so
candles stay visible.
- POC, Value Area (VAH/VAL, adjustable percentage), HVN/LVN nodes.
- Naked daily POCs, with a creation-time check that skips levels already traded
through and an optional age-out so the list stays meaningful.
- Polarity flip: a prior-day Value Area edge that price closes decisively beyond
and holds changes role (broken VAH becomes support; broken VAL becomes
resistance) and feeds the support/resistance read.
- Prior-day and prior-week POC/Value Area, full-history composite overlay,
developing POC.
- VWAP with standard-deviation bands, Initial Balance, expected-move band,
cumulative-volume-delta divergence, buy/sell imbalance shelves, poor highs/lows,
single-print gaps.
- Higher-timeframe POC bias (a light proxy — see Limitations).
- Auto-Read dashboard (full or compact), one-line headline, and an on-chart
identity strip showing the script name, symbol and timeframe.
HOW TO USE
1. Choose a scope: Rolling (default), Composite (all history), From date, or
Fixed range. The composite overlay keeps the big-picture levels visible.
2. Read location first from the headline or dashboard: inside value, premium, or
discount, and whether value is migrating up, down, or flat.
3. Treat the levels as a map, not a signal. POC acts as a mean-revert magnet;
Value Area edges are balance boundaries; HVN suggests stalls; LVN suggests
fast moves; a naked POC is a revisit reference.
4. Look for confluence with VWAP, Initial Balance, and prior-session levels, and
treat CVD divergence as a caution flag.
5. Detail presets (Simple / Standard / Pro) gate how much is shown. A compact
dashboard toggle trims the table to the key decision fields.
WHAT MAKES IT ORIGINAL
- Full-history depth via the price-keyed map, beyond a fixed lookback window.
- A built-in, past-only calibration of the profile's own claims: it logs
value-edge and POC-stretch reversion events against the prior-day Value Area
(which exists on every bar, so the measurement backfills over history), waits a
fixed horizon, and reports the realised hit-rate with a 95% confidence
interval. This is descriptive of past behaviour on the specific instrument; it
is explicitly not a backtest and not a forecast.
- A decision-ordered, plain-language Auto-Read derived entirely from the engine's
own levels.
DATA SOURCE AND ANY-MARKET USE
The volume source is user-selectable (Settings > Data source), so the profile can
be built from the symbol's own volume or from any other series your feed
provides. For symbols that report no native volume (some cash indices and FX
feeds), an optional "borrow volume" field lets you supply a volume-bearing proxy
for the same instrument; it only activates when the charted symbol genuinely has
no volume. The volatility-index symbol for the expected-move band is also
user-set and falls back to a daily-ATR band when left blank. An optional
asset-class auto-tune adapts the grid and node percentiles to the detected class.
All of these are blank or off by default, so nothing is tied to one market.
CALIBRATION NOTE
The calibration panel is descriptive only. It reports how often, in the past, on
the current symbol, price followed through after the logged events. Small samples
are flagged. It is not a probability of future results.
LIMITATIONS (HONEST)
- This uses a BAR-RANGE volume distribution (optionally refined by lower-timeframe
bars). It approximates where volume traded within each bar. It is NOT exchange
price-by-price volume, tick data, or order-flow/footprint, and it cannot see
bid/ask.
- It needs real volume. Cash indices often report none — use the matching future
or continuous contract, or the borrow-volume field.
- The higher-timeframe POC is a light single-bar proxy (the price of the
highest-volume higher-timeframe bar over a lookback), not a full higher-
timeframe profile.
- All readings are probabilistic context, not predictions.
DISCLAIMER
This script is a study/indicator for chart analysis and education only. It is NOT
a strategy, NOT a recommendation, and NOT financial advice. It places no orders
and guarantees no result. Trading involves substantial risk; a level's past
behaviour does not assure future behaviour. Do your own research and manage your
own risk.
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Trapped Trader LedgerThe primary purpose of the "Trapped Trader Ledger" is to provide a real-time, order-flow-based visualization of market liquidity and directional imbalance within a defined lookback window. By partitioning the price range into discrete volume bins, the indicator systematically categorizes buying and selling pressure, allowing you to instantly identify where significant volume has accumulated and where the market is currently experiencing "trapped" liquidity. It transforms raw volume data into a structured profile, effectively exposing the battle between supply and demand that often dictates future price action.
To use this tool effectively, monitor the dashboard on your desired timeframe while paying close attention to the Point of Control (POC), highlighted in yellow both on the chart and in the table. The table serves as your primary diagnostic tool: look for rows where the Ratio and Delta columns indicate high directional dominance, as these are the zones where trapped participants are most likely to react if price returns to their position. Use the widthScale input to adjust the visual histogram intensity to your preference, and ensure your lookback window is set to a length that captures the relevant market cycle you are currently trading.
The rationale behind this approach is rooted in the "Value Area" theory, which posits that price tends to gravitate toward areas of high volume accumulation. By calculating the Delta and Relative Volume for each specific price bin, the script filters out market noise and focuses on "high-conviction" levels—where the discrepancy between buyers and sellers is largest. This methodology assumes that when price leaves an area of high volume imbalance, the participants who were positioned on the losing side become "trapped," creating significant pressure for a potential reversal or liquidity-driven breakout when those levels are re-tested. Индикатор
HTF Candle Footprint [Cartel Console]# HTF Candle Footprint
HTF Candle Footprint is a higher-timeframe volume and delta visualization tool designed to help traders analyze the internal composition of a selected higher-timeframe candle directly on the chart.
The indicator reconstructs a footprint-style profile inside a dynamically generated higher-timeframe candle, allowing users to examine how volume and directional pressure were distributed throughout the candle's range. By combining volume distribution, delta estimation, Point of Control (POC), and higher-timeframe candle structure into a single visualization, traders can gain additional context about market participation and price acceptance within significant trading periods.
Unlike traditional volume profiles that focus on extended historical ranges, this indicator concentrates on the currently developing or recently completed higher-timeframe candle. This approach enables users to study how volume accumulates across price levels while simultaneously monitoring the relationship between bullish and bearish activity inside the candle body.
### Key Features
• Higher-Timeframe Candle Reconstruction
Displays a custom-rendered higher-timeframe candle directly on the chart, including body and wick structure.
• Integrated Footprint Visualization
Shows estimated buying and selling pressure across individual price levels within the selected higher-timeframe range.
• Volume Distribution Profile
Builds a horizontal volume profile that highlights where the greatest amount of trading activity occurred during the analyzed period.
• Delta-Based Pressure Analysis
Calculates directional volume estimates and displays positive and negative pressure zones using color-coded footprint cells.
• Point of Control (POC) Detection
Automatically identifies and plots the highest-volume price level within the profile.
• Dynamic High and Low Levels
Marks the extreme boundaries of the analyzed higher-timeframe candle for additional market structure reference.
• Real-Time Higher-Timeframe Bias Dashboard
Provides a compact dashboard showing the current directional bias of the selected higher-timeframe candle.
• Multi-Timeframe Support
Analyze volume and pressure behavior across Hourly, 4-Hour, Daily, Weekly, and Monthly structures.
### How Traders Use It
Many traders use higher-timeframe candles as key reference points for trend analysis, support and resistance identification, liquidity observations, and contextual decision-making. HTF Candle Footprint enhances this process by exposing the internal volume distribution of those candles.
Potential use cases include:
• Identifying high-participation price zones
• Observing areas of price acceptance and rejection
• Comparing volume concentration against candle structure
• Locating potential reaction levels around the Point of Control
• Studying directional pressure within higher-timeframe ranges
• Adding additional context to multi-timeframe analysis workflows
### Notes
This indicator uses volume-based calculations and visual approximations derived from chart data. The displayed footprint and delta values are analytical tools intended to provide additional market context and should not be interpreted as financial advice or guaranteed trading signals.
HTF Candle Footprint is designed as a visual analysis aid and can be used alongside existing price action, volume, market structure, and risk management methodologies.
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Fixed Range Volume Profile [ApexFlow]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📊 WHAT THIS INDICATOR DOES
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Fixed Range Volume Profile (FRVP) distributes traded volume across discrete price levels over a user-defined lookback window. It identifies the Point of Control (POC) , Value Area High (VAH) , and Value Area Low (VAL) — the three levels used by institutional order flow analysts to determine where the majority of market participation occurred within any given range.
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⚙️ METHODOLOGY
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📦 PRICE BINS
The high-to-low price range of the lookback window is divided into N equal-height rows (default: 24 ). Each row represents a discrete price bucket.
📐 VOLUME DISTRIBUTION — ACCURATE MODE
When "Accurate Distribution" is enabled, each bar's volume is spread proportionally across all rows whose price range overlaps with that bar's high-to-low span. The weight assigned to each row equals:
overlap / (bar_high − bar_low) × bar_volume
This mirrors how footprint charts distribute volume and produces a more precise profile than HLC3 bucket placement alone.
⚡ VOLUME DISTRIBUTION — FAST MODE
When Accurate mode is off, each bar's volume is allocated to a single row using the bar's typical price: (High + Low + Close) / 3 . Faster on large lookbacks.
🎯 POINT OF CONTROL (POC)
The row with the highest accumulated volume . Represents the price level with the greatest degree of two-sided market activity. POC acts as a magnetic reference for price — markets frequently return to test it during subsequent sessions.
📦 VALUE AREA (VA)
Starting from the POC row, adjacent rows are added in order of highest volume — expanding upward or downward, whichever row holds more volume at each step — until the cumulative volume of selected rows reaches the user-defined percentage of total volume (default: 70% ). This mirrors the CME Group standard for Market Profile value area construction.
VAH = top of the highest included row
VAL = bottom of the lowest included row
📏 RANGE HIGH / LOW
The absolute high and low of all bars in the lookback window. Displayed as dotted reference lines when enabled.
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🖥️ VISUAL COMPONENTS
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▶ Right Histogram — volume bars drawn to the right of current price, scaled to the highest-volume row. POC row highlighted in gold, value area rows in teal, non-value area rows in grey.
▶ Value Area Zone — a semi-transparent box spanning VAH to VAL across the entire range. Provides immediate visual context for the accepted range of market activity .
▶ POC Band — a narrow band centered on the POC line showing the exact price-row boundaries of the control point.
▶ Key Level Lines — POC (bold solid), VAH (dashed), VAL (dashed), Range H/L (dotted). All extend right by a configurable number of bars.
▶ Labels — live price values pinned to the right end of each line.
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🔧 SETTINGS
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PROFILE
• Lookback Bars — number of bars the profile covers (20–500, default 100)
• Rows — price bucket resolution (10–100, default 24)
• Value Area % — percentage of volume defining the accepted value area (default 70)
• Accurate Distribution — spread volume across bar range vs. HLC3 bucket placement
DISPLAY
• Right Histogram — toggle the volume bars
• Value Area Zone — toggle the VA fill box
• POC Band — toggle the POC price-row highlight band
• Range H/L — toggle the range extreme lines
• Histogram Width (bars) — horizontal size of the volume bars (5–150)
• Extend Right (bars) — how far key level lines project beyond current price (10–300)
COLORS
All elements are independently color-configurable including transparency.
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📈 HOW TO USE
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🧲 POC as a Magnet — price tends to revisit the POC after extended moves away from it. A failed auction above VAH or below VAL often results in a rotation back through the value area toward POC .
⚖️ Value Area as Acceptance / Rejection — price trading inside the value area signals balanced, two-sided activity (consolidation). Price trading outside and rejecting signals one-sided pressure (trend continuation). Price breaking outside and holding signals value migration.
🔑 VAH / VAL as Reaction Levels — institutional participants often defend VAH and VAL as reference points for entries, scaling, or stops. Watch for reaction candles at these levels.
🔭 Adjust Lookback to Context
• Intraday scalping: 30–60 bars on 1–5 min
• Swing setups: 50–200 bars on 1H–4H
• Directional bias: 100–500 bars on Daily
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📝 NOTES
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• Calculation runs on the last bar only — zero performance impact on historical bars.
• Profile updates on every tick of the current bar, keeping all levels live.
• Histogram draws into future bar space to avoid obscuring price candles .
• On instruments without reliable volume data (e.g. some forex pairs) , Fast Mode produces acceptable results as the distribution difference is minimal.
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Volume Delta ProfileVolume Delta Profile
The Volume Delta Profile is an overlay indicator that builds a horizontal volume delta distribution directly on the price chart, similar to a Market Profile or Volume Profile but using net delta (buying pressure minus selling pressure) as the core metric instead of raw traded volume.
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WHAT IS VOLUME DELTA?
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Volume delta measures the difference between aggressive buying volume (market buy orders hitting the ask) and aggressive selling volume (market sell orders hitting the bid) within a given candle. A positive delta means buyers were more aggressive during that candle. A negative delta means sellers were more aggressive.
This indicator uses TradingView's native ta.requestVolumeDelta() function, which reconstructs delta by scanning a lower timeframe (automatically selected or manually configured) to approximate the split between up-volume and down-volume for each candle.
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HOW IT WORKS
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The indicator scans a configurable number of historical bars (default: 500) and for each bar assigns its volume delta to a price level based on the closing price of that bar. Price levels are divided into equally spaced buckets across the high-to-low range of the lookback period.
Positive delta (net buying) accumulates in the bullish bucket of that price level.
Negative delta (net selling) accumulates in the bearish bucket of that price level.
The result is a horizontal bar chart displayed to the right of the last candle, where each row represents a price level and the width of the bar represents the total delta activity at that level. The color of each bar reflects which side dominated:
• Teal bars → net buying pressure dominated at that price level
• Pink/red bars → net selling pressure dominated at that price level
The Point of Control (POC) is marked as a solid horizontal line extending 50 bars to the left, highlighting the price level where the highest total delta activity occurred across the entire lookback period.
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COMPONENTS
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1. Delta Profile (horizontal bars)
A visual distribution of accumulated volume delta across price levels. Each bar's width is proportional to the total delta activity at that level relative to the most active level. Bars are color-coded by dominant side (buyers vs sellers).
2. Point of Control (POC)
The price level with the highest total delta activity in the lookback window. Displayed as a solid horizontal line extending 50 bars to the left of the current bar. This is the price where the most aggressive order flow occurred — institutional interest tends to concentrate here.
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SETTINGS
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• Lookback bars (default 500): Number of historical candles to include in the profile. More bars give a broader context; fewer bars focus on recent activity.
• Bar width (default 20): Visual width in pixels of the widest bar in the profile. Adjust for chart readability.
• Price levels (default 50): Number of horizontal buckets the price range is divided into. More levels give finer granularity; fewer levels give a smoother, broader view.
• Positive delta color (default teal): Color for price levels where buying pressure dominated.
• Negative delta color (default pink): Color for price levels where selling pressure dominated.
• POC color (default black): Color of the Point of Control line.
• Profile offset (default 10): Horizontal distance in bars between the last candle and the left edge of the profile. Increase to avoid overlap with live price action.
• Custom timeframe: Override the automatic lower timeframe used for delta reconstruction. Higher timeframes load more history but reduce precision.
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HOW TO INTERPRET IT
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DOMINANT COLOR ZONES
Large teal zones indicate price areas where institutional buyers were consistently aggressive. These levels tend to act as support — if price returns to them, buyers are likely to defend the level. Large pink zones indicate areas of consistent selling aggression, which tend to act as resistance or liquidity targets for short-side participants.
PROFILE SHAPE
A profile with a clear peak (narrow, tall distribution) suggests price spent most of its time and order flow at a specific level — strong agreement on value. A wide, flat profile suggests price moved across a broad range without clear absorption at any single level.
POINT OF CONTROL (POC)
The POC is the single most important level in the profile. It represents where the maximum institutional order flow occurred. Price has a strong tendency to gravitate back toward the POC after extended moves away from it, making it a high-probability mean-reversion target. It also acts as a decisive level: a clean break and hold above a teal POC confirms bullish institutional commitment; a rejection at a pink POC confirms continued distribution.
DIVERGENCE BETWEEN COLOR AND PRICE MOVEMENT
If price fell sharply through a level but the profile shows teal (net buying) at that level, it suggests absorption — institutions were buying the selling pressure. This is often a precursor to a reversal. Conversely, if price rose through a level but the profile shows pink, distribution was occurring into the rally.
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HOW TO USE IT
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1. IDENTIFY THE VALUE AREA
Look for the widest bars in the profile — these are the price levels with the most delta activity. The market considers these levels "fair value." Price tends to spend more time here and frequently returns to these zones after deviation.
2. USE THE POC AS A MAGNET
If price is trading significantly above or below the POC, there is a structural tendency to return to it. The POC acts as a mean-reversion target, especially in range-bound or post-impulse conditions.
3. READ THE COLOR FOR BIAS
Before entering a trade, check the delta color at the relevant support or resistance level. A teal zone below current price strengthens a long bias — institutions were buying there. A pink zone above current price strengthens a short bias — institutions were selling there.
4. SPOT ABSORPTION
Large teal bars at price lows or large pink bars at price highs are signs of institutional absorption. These are the exact footprints of Wyckoff accumulation and distribution phases — smart money absorbing retail order flow before the next directional move.
5. COMBINE WITH STRUCTURE
Use this indicator alongside your market structure analysis. A key structural level (support, resistance, order block) that coincides with a high-delta POC or dominant color zone has significantly higher probability of holding or acting as a reversal point.
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NOTES
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• Delta data requires a data provider that supplies volume. The indicator will throw a runtime error if volume data is unavailable for the selected symbol.
• The profile updates on bar close and on the last real-time bar to keep the display current without excessive recalculation.
• Works on any timeframe and any instrument with volume data: forex, indices, crypto, commodities, equities.
• For best results on higher timeframes (daily, weekly), enable the custom timeframe option and select a higher sub-timeframe (e.g., "60") to ensure sufficient historical delta data is available.
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Fixed Volume Range Profile - FVRPA Fixed Volume Range Profile (FVRP) is a powerful technical analysis tool that shows the trading activity (volume) over a specific, user-selected time period at specific price levels.
Unlike traditional volume indicators that show volume by time (at the bottom of your chart), a volume profile shows volume by price (on the side of your chart).
Here is a simple way to use it, breaking down what to look for and a practical step-by-step example of this hourly CHWY chart as of 6/6/2026.
Option 1: The Pullback Entry at the Value Area Low (Aggressive / Front-Running)
If you look at the bottom of your volume profile range, there is a clear boundary marked VAL 20.19 (Value Area Low).
The Entry: Right around $20.19 to $20.20.
Why: The stock is currently sliding down toward the bottom of its value range. Notice how the price just put in a small bottom wick right near that lower white line before a tiny bounce. Buying near the VAL gives you a highly defined, tight risk-to-reward ratio. Your stop-loss would go just below that lower white line (around $20.10), meaning if the trade fails, your loss is minimal.
Option 2: The Breakthrough Entry at the POC (Conservative / Momentum)
The most prominent feature on your profile is that bright red horizontal line with the pink label reading POC 21.37. This indicates that $21.37 is the absolute Point of Control—the heavy-weight zone where the most shares changed hands.
The Entry: Wait for price to reclaim and break above $21.37, then buy either the breakout or the immediate retest of it.
Why: Right now, CHWY is trading below the POC in this example. In volume profile trading, when price is underneath the POC, that massive volume shelf acts as a heavy ceiling of overhead resistance. Buyers who bought at $21.37 are currently losing money and might sell to break even if the price touches it. Waiting for the price to actively cross above $21.37 proves that the buyers have regained control of the asset.
Summary Recommendation
If you want to catch the absolute bottom of this current range with a very tight stop-loss, watch how price reacts to $20.19. If it holds there, that's your entry.
If you prefer confirmation that the downtrend is over before putting your money to work, keep your hands off it until it clears the $21.37 resistance level.
1. The Upside Potential (Your Take-Profit)
Because the POC at $21.37 is the highest volume node, it acts like a magnet. Once the price bounces off the bottom of the value area, it naturally wants to gravitate back to that high-density comfort zone. Riding it from ~$20.20 up to $21.37 gives you a solid move of roughly 5.8%.
2. The Clean Risk Management (Your Stop-Loss)
The beauty of this setup is that your risk is incredibly small. Because $20.19 is the floor of the value area, if the price drops and closes below that level (say, around $20.05), the trade is immediately invalidated. You can cut the loss quickly for a tiny 0.7% hit.
💡 One Important Caveat to Watch For
If you take this trade, treat $21.37 as a hard target to lock in profits, not a place to hold and hope for more.
Because it is the POC, price will almost certainly stall, chop sideways, or reject fiercely the first time it hits it from underneath. If you choose to ride it up there, a wise move is to sell most (or all) of your position at $21.37, or at least move your stop-loss up to your entry price to guarantee a risk-free trade. Индикатор
volume profil multitimeframe**Volume Profile D/W/M — Auction Map**
Volume Profile D/W/M is a visual auction-analysis indicator designed to display confirmed Daily, Weekly, or Monthly volume profiles on the chart. It focuses on value areas, volume concentration, auction structure, and important reaction zones. The script is intended for discretionary market analysis and does not generate automatic buy or sell signals.
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## Overview
This indicator builds a volume profile from a selected confirmed period:
* Daily
* Weekly
* Monthly
Only one mode is active at a time. The goal is to keep the chart readable while still showing the most important auction levels.
The profile highlights where volume was concentrated during the selected period and displays key levels such as POC, VAH, VAL, HVN, LVN, VWAP, Initial Balance, naked POC levels, imbalance zones, confluence zones, and auction-state information.
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## Main Features
### Confirmed Volume Profile
The script draws confirmed profiles from closed periods. This makes historical profiles stable and prevents them from constantly changing after the period has closed.
Available profile modes:
* Daily profile
* Weekly profile
* Monthly profile
The current developing profile can also be displayed with the dedicated option, but it should be understood as a live preview and not as a confirmed profile.
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### POC, VAH and VAL
The script displays the main volume profile levels:
* POC: the price row with the highest volume
* VAH: upper boundary of the value area
* VAL: lower boundary of the value area
These levels are used to read market acceptance, rejection, rotation, and possible return-to-value behavior.
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### HVN and LVN
The script can highlight:
* HVN: high-volume nodes, where the market accepted price
* LVN: low-volume nodes, where price often moved quickly or found less acceptance
HVN levels may act as areas of balance or reaction. LVN levels may act as rejection zones or acceleration zones depending on context.
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### Bull / Bear Split and Delta Imbalance Rows
Each profile row can be split into bullish and bearish volume estimates. This helps visualize whether a price area was dominated by bullish or bearish pressure.
The indicator also includes imbalance rows, which highlight areas where one side strongly dominated the row volume.
To avoid label clutter, imbalance labels can be displayed as:
* a single multiplier label
* one label per row
* no label
The multiplier mode is recommended for normal use.
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### Confluence Zones
The confluence module looks for clusters where several important levels are close to each other.
Examples of levels used in confluence:
* POC
* VAH / VAL
* HVN / LVN
* Period open / close
* Naked POC
* Profile high / low
* Poor high / poor low
* Composite levels
A confluence zone does not predict direction by itself. It simply marks an area where several auction references are grouped together.
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### Naked POC Tracking
The script can track previous POC levels that have not yet been revisited. These levels are often watched as potential return-to-value or magnet zones.
Naked POC levels include status logic such as:
* Fresh
* Tested
* Respected
* Broken
* Dead
The extension distance can be adjusted so naked POC levels do not appear too far away from the rest of the profile.
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### VWAP and Initial Balance
The indicator includes optional period VWAP and VWAP bands.
It can also display Initial Balance levels:
* IB High
* IB Low
* IB Mid
* 1x / 2x IB extensions
These tools are useful for reading whether price is rotating inside value, expanding away from balance, or failing an attempted breakout.
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### Auction Dashboard
The dashboard summarizes useful auction information such as:
* selected mode
* current price location
* auction state
* value relation
* POC migration
* profile shape
* nearest target
* risk zone
* dominant session
* confluence score
* POC, VAH, VAL, VWAP and IB information
The dashboard is only a reading aid. It should not be used as a standalone trading system.
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## Beginner Tutorial
### Step 1 — Choose the Profile Mode
Start with Daily mode.
Daily mode is usually the easiest to understand because each profile represents one completed trading day.
Once you are comfortable, you can test Weekly and Monthly modes to read the larger market structure.
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### Step 2 — Read the Main Levels
Start with three levels:
* POC
* VAH
* VAL
A simple way to read them:
* Price above VAH: market is trading above accepted value
* Price below VAL: market is trading below accepted value
* Price around POC: market is rotating near the main accepted price
* Price between VAH and VAL: market is inside value
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### Step 3 — Look for Reaction Areas
After the basic value area is understood, check:
* HVN zones
* LVN zones
* naked POC levels
* confluence zones
* VWAP
* Initial Balance
Do not use every line as a trade signal. The goal is to identify areas where price may react, pause, reject, or accelerate.
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### Step 4 — Use the Dashboard
The dashboard helps summarize the profile state.
For example:
* If price is above VAH and POC migration is rising, the market may be accepting higher prices.
* If price rejects above VAH and returns inside value, it may indicate a failed auction.
* If price is near a confluence zone, the area may deserve more attention.
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## Example Use Cases
### Example 1 — Return to Value
Price trades above VAH, fails to hold, and returns inside the value area.
A trader may watch for a rotation back toward POC.
This is not a direct entry signal. Confirmation should come from price action, market structure, or another method.
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### Example 2 — POC Magnet
Price moves away from the previous POC but later returns toward it.
A naked POC or composite POC may act as a reference level where traders expect a reaction or pause.
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### Example 3 — LVN Acceleration
Price approaches an LVN zone.
Because LVN zones represent low acceptance, price may either reject quickly or move through the area with speed.
The direction depends on context, not on the LVN alone.
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### Example 4 — Weekly Context, Daily Execution
A trader can use Weekly mode to identify larger auction levels, then switch back to a lower chart timeframe to observe how price reacts near those levels.
This helps separate macro context from execution timing.
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## Recommended Timeframes
The script is not designed for very low timeframes with heavy settings.
Recommended chart timeframes:
* 5 minutes and above for Daily mode
* 15 minutes and above for Weekly mode
* 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour for Monthly mode
Using the script on a 1-minute chart is not recommended, especially with Weekly or Monthly mode, developing profile enabled, high profile rows, many historical profiles, or multiple visual modules active.
Very low timeframes may require too many historical bars or too many drawing objects, which can cause TradingView limits to be reached.
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## Performance Recommendations
For stable use, start with these settings:
* Profiles History: 3
* Profile Rows: 48
* Current Developing Profile: Off
* Imbalance Labels: Multiplier
* Composite Display: Near Profile
* Naked POC extension: short distance
If the chart becomes heavy, reduce:
* profile rows
* history count
* developing profile
* imbalance zones
* VWAP bands
* Initial Balance extensions
* confluence labels
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## Important Notes
This indicator is an analytical tool, not a trading system.
It does not predict the market and does not provide guaranteed results. All levels should be interpreted with market context, price action, risk management, and the trader’s own strategy.
Volume profile analysis is most useful when combined with structure, trend, volatility, session behavior, and confirmation from price action.
Use the script to build a map of important auction areas, not as a standalone reason to enter or exit a trade.
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