Bull & Bear Volume Profile Pro [MarkitTick]

• • Dynamic Monitoring
  It automatically monitors support and resistance levels to detect subtle shifts in liquidity and zone strength over time without requiring manual adjustments.
• • Market Mechanics
  Gap Eroding: By identifying "Support/Resistance Gap Eroding," the system alerts traders to Zone Weakening. This signals that the opposing pressure (Supply at bottoms or Demand at peaks) is exhausting, making a trend reversal or a structural breakthrough highly imminent.
  Gap Expanding: Conversely, the algorithm detects "Support/Resistance Gap Expanding" when market participants are Zone Reinforcing aggressively. This suggests that the level is becoming a fortified barrier, increasing the likelihood of a strong price rejection or bounce.
• • Visual Intelligence
  These strategic insights are now translated into intuitive, real-time visual alerts on the chart, providing actionable intelligence to enhance trade timing and decision-making.

1. 🪫 Resistance Gap Expanding (Zone Reinforcing ▼)
   
   This signal appears when sell-side liquidity is increasing at the peak. It indicates that sellers are reinforcing their positions, making the resistance zone stronger and more likely to reject higher prices.
2. 🔋Support Gap Eroding (Zone Weakening ▲)
   
   This signal appears when selling pressure at the bottom is dissipating. It indicates that "Supply" is exhausted, weakening the bearish barrier and clearing the path for a powerful bullish reversal.

Note: The indicator includes additional specialized signals—not covered in this explanation—that will appear dynamically on the chart to provide further market intelligence.

• POC (Point of Control): Identifies the price level with the highest traded volume within the current wave, acting as the "gravitational center" for price action.
• HVN (High Volume Node): Marks significant liquidity clusters within the Value Area, representing established institutional support and resistance levels.
• IMB (Imbalance): Flags significant volume groups residing outside the primary Value Area, signaling a supply/demand imbalance often preceding rapid price expansion.

• EXH (Exhaustion High): Located within upper liquidity gaps (Resistance), this label indicates "Buying Exhaustion" where demand fails to penetrate the zone.
• EXL (Exhaustion Low): Located within lower liquidity gaps (Support), this label signifies "Selling Exhaustion," marking the depletion of selling pressure at discounted levels.

• A compact on-chart panel that summarizes the current volume profile at a glance, so you no longer need to read individual price levels off the chart to understand where the market stands.
• Consolidates trend direction, Point of Control (POC) price and strength, total volume, Value Area boundaries, Value Area width, profile shape, rotation factor, and excess/single-print status into one panel.
• New elements: a header row identifying the tool, a Trend cell (Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral), a POC Price cell, a POC Volume strength bar, a Total Volume cell, a Value Area Low/High cell, a Value Area Width strength bar, a Shape cell, a Rotation Factor strength bar, and an Excess cell. Position on the chart is user-selectable.

• The Trend cell tells you the prevailing directional bias at a glance — treat Bullish/Bearish as the current auction's control, and Neutral as an undecided market.
• Strength bars (POC Volume, VA Width, Rotation Factor) fill from empty to full and shift color from red through yellow to green as the reading rises — a fuller, greener bar signals a stronger or more developed condition, while a mostly empty, red bar signals a weak or undeveloped one.
• The Shape cell describes how volume is distributed across the profile: a "Normal" reading reflects a balanced, single-center distribution; "P-Shape" and "b-Shape" indicate the volume is skewed toward one side, hinting at directional conviction; "Double-Distribution" indicates two separate concentrations of volume, often associated with a strong trending move that paused mid-way.
• The Excess cell flags whether a thin, low-volume tail formed at the top, bottom, both, or neither edge of the profile — excess at an edge suggests that price was rejected quickly at that extreme rather than being accepted there.
• The VA Low/High cell shows the current Value Area boundaries, giving you the range the market has spent the majority of its activity in.

• An optional on-chart label that surfaces a deeper read of auction behavior directly next to each profile, for traders who want context without opening the dashboard.
• Summarizes profile shape, how the current Value Area relates to the prior one, excess/single-print conditions, a rotation reading, and Value Area width — all in one compact annotation anchored to the profile.
• New on-chart element: a label positioned above each profile showing shape classification, Value Area relationship versus the prior profile, excess status, rotation factor, and Value Area width percentage.

• The shape line reads the same way as the dashboard's Shape cell — Normal reflects balance, P-Shape/b-Shape reflect directional skew, and Double-Distribution reflects a paused trend day.
• The Value Area relationship line compares the current profile's accepted range to the prior one: readings like "Higher" or "Lower" suggest the market is migrating to new value, "Overlap" readings suggest partial agreement between the two auctions, "Inside Prior" or "Containing Prior" describe one Value Area nested within the other, and "Identical" suggests the market is repeating the same value zone.
• The Excess line calls out rejection at the top, bottom, both, or neither edge of the profile — a strong signal of failed attempts to extend price beyond that level.
• The Rotation line reflects how symmetrically volume built around the POC versus how one-sided the activity was — higher readings suggest two-sided, rotational trade, while lower readings suggest one-directional, trending activity.
• The VA Width line shows what share of the full profile range the Value Area occupies — a narrow Value Area points to a tightly agreed-upon price, while a wide one points to broad disagreement across a larger range.

• An optional smoothing pass that reduces jagged, single-row noise in the volume profile, particularly useful at higher row-count settings.
• Produces a cleaner, more readable profile shape so that the Point of Control, high-volume nodes, and low-volume nodes are easier to identify visually without being distorted by isolated spikes or dips in a single row.

• The "Show % Values" option is now enabled by default, so profile labels show relative volume percentages out of the box instead of raw volume figures.

• Row (slot) count now automatically adjusts based on how many profiles and label modes are active at once, preventing on-chart element limits from being reached and ensuring profiles continue to render reliably even in busy, multi-profile scenarios.

• Settings have been regrouped into clearer categories (Volume Profile Settings, Profile Smoothing, Auction Theory, Confluence Zones, Dashboard, Alerts, and dedicated color groups for Confluence, Erosion/Absorption, and Dashboard) so related options are easier to locate.

• Trend-flip alerts now include additional context in the payload — current POC price and Value Area boundaries alongside the trade direction and price — giving downstream automations more market context per signal without extra configuration.

• Each profile now plots its Point of Control directly on the chart as a horizontal level spanning that profile's time range, colored from the bullish, bearish, or merged palette already available in settings.
• How to Use: the POC line marks the single price at which the most volume changed hands inside that leg. Price returning to it and stalling signals the market still values that level; price passing cleanly through it signals the auction has moved on and value is relocating.

• Automatic intrabar resolution selection now extends into sub-minute resolutions, so profiles build correctly on second-based charts instead of defaulting to a resolution the chart cannot supply.
• Intrabar data coverage per profile has been widened, so long trend legs retain more of their underlying detail before hitting platform limits.

• Non-standard chart types (Heikin Ashi, Renko, Kagi, Point and Figure, Range, Line Break) are now blocked with a clear on-screen explanation. These chart types report synthetic prices that would silently corrupt every profile level and alert price.
• Selecting a custom timeframe that is not lower than the chart timeframe now returns a clear message instead of producing an empty or misleading profile.
• Leaving the custom timeframe field blank now falls back to automatic resolution selection rather than breaking the profile build.
• Charts below the minimum usable resolution are now flagged explicitly instead of silently rendering nothing.

• Double-distribution detection has been rebuilt to recognize two genuinely separate volume clusters divided by a real low-activity trough, rather than reacting to a single quiet row near the middle. Trend-day profiles are now identified far more reliably.
• Excess detection has been rebuilt to read thin tails at both extremes of the profile, so single-print rejection at highs and lows is flagged consistently instead of only in narrow cases.
• Merged mode now compares its value area against the prior completed profile. Previously it compared against itself and reported no meaningful relationship.
• The reported POC price now sits at the center of its row rather than its lower edge, aligning the printed level with the drawn line and with confluence detection.
• Value Area width is now measured from the true edges of the outermost value rows.

• Intrabar prints that occur at a single price are now counted into the profile instead of being discarded. Totals and percentages are more accurate on thin, illiquid, or fast-moving instruments.
• Profile smoothing now preserves total traded volume, so displayed percentages remain correct whether smoothing is on or off.
• Profile bar lengths now scale along the time axis, keeping row widths proportional across weekend gaps, session breaks, and holidays. Every row carrying volume is guaranteed a visible minimum length.

• Erosion and absorption counters now advance once per completed bar instead of on every incoming tick, eliminating premature, flickering, and duplicated labels during live bars.
• Counters now reset on both split and merged profiles at every trend flip, so a new leg always starts from a clean state.

• Swing detection now evaluates the complete confirmation window and waits until sufficient history exists, removing false swings that previously appeared at the start of a chart.
• On load, the first profile now anchors to the most recent genuine structural swing instead of the bar the indicator happened to start on, so the very first profile is meaningful immediately.
• An anchor guard prevents a new profile from ever anchoring backwards into an already-archived leg.
• Swing Length now has a defined upper bound to prevent unusable settings.

• The POC confluence band is now centered symmetrically on each Point of Control, so overlap between the current and prior profile is detected accurately in both directions rather than being biased upward.

• Custom action text is now sanitized before being placed into the alert payload, ensuring webhook messages always remain valid and parseable regardless of what is typed into the action fields.

• The dashboard now shows a neutral placeholder for POC and Value Area while a profile has no data yet, instead of displaying misleading zero values.
• The Rotation Factor metric is now labeled POC Balance on both the dashboard and the auction metrics label, making its meaning immediately clear.
• Group labels now respect the dedicated Groups text color setting, which previously had no effect.
• Heavy drawing work is now performed only on the most recent bar, and the merged profile updates incrementally rather than being rebuilt from scratch. Loading is faster and chart scrolling is noticeably smoother.
• The internal drawing budget has been recalculated so the requested Row Size is honored more often before platform drawing limits force a reduction.

• Expanded Dashboard — The dashboard grows from a compact summary into a full profile readout: swing levels, the prior profile's POC and value area, how the current value area sits against the prior one, the profile's price range and start time, both volume gaps with their live state, the largest consolidation zone, and the status of the data behind the profile.
• Erosion and Absorption Alerts — Four new alerts fire when resistance or support erosion or absorption is confirmed, so you no longer have to watch the chart for these shifts. Each is available as a standard alert and as a webhook message with its own customizable action value.
• Richer Webhook Messages — Every webhook message now carries the bar time and the profile's auction context — shape, value area relationship, excess and POC balance — alongside price, POC and value area, giving automation far more to work with. The direction value in trend-flip messages now reads bull or bear instead of long or short — update any automation that relies on it.
• No More Stopping on a Mismatched Timeframe — A custom intrabar timeframe set higher than the chart no longer halts the indicator. It is skipped, the automatic timeframe takes over, and the dashboard tells you it was skipped. One-second charts are now supported as well.

• Partial Data Warning — When the available intrabar history does not reach back to the start of the profile, the indicator now says so, on the dashboard or, with the dashboard hidden, as a note on the chart.
• Adjustable Gap Fill Colors — Resistance and support gap zones now have their own fill color settings.
• Tooltips on Every Setting — Each setting now explains what it does directly in the settings panel.
• Header with Symbol and Timeframe — The dashboard header now shows the symbol and chart timeframe at a glance.

• More Accurate Zones on Thin Profiles — Consolidation zones, volume gaps and excess detection now ignore empty price rows, so profiles with sparse trading are read correctly.
• Stable Profile in Real Time — The intrabar data source no longer switches while the market is live, keeping the profile consistent from bar to bar.
• Clean Reset on New Trends — A profile that has no data yet no longer shows leftover POC or value area readings from the previous trend.
• Merged Mode Consistency — With Bull and Bear profiles merged, comparisons against a prior profile are clearly marked as skipped instead of showing misleading values, and the prior profile's readings stay current.
• Precise Profile Edges — The top row now ends exactly at the profile's high, and value area comparisons are no longer thrown off by tiny price differences.
• Cleaner Chart Text — Volume figures now display in compact form (K, M, B), and labels and row text are sized for a less crowded chart.
• Better Label Placement — Group and gap labels now stay centred on their zones across all chart conditions.
• Simpler Gap Coloring — Gaps are now shown only as resistance or support, each in its own color.
• Redesigned Dashboard Colors — The dashboard uses a single text color plus dedicated bullish and bearish value colors, with alternating row shading for easier reading.
• Dashboard Placement — The dashboard now sits in one of the four chart corners.
• Auction Label — The auction metrics label is hidden while a profile has no volume to describe.

• The profile now processes only newly arrived data on each update instead of rebuilding from scratch, making the indicator noticeably lighter, especially on long profiles.

• VA vs Prior — Shows whether the current value area moved higher, lower, overlapped, sits inside or contains the prior profile's value area. Bullish shifts are shown in the bullish color, bearish shifts in the bearish color.
• Prior POC / Prior VA Low / High — The key levels of the previous profile, for comparison with the current one.
• Resistance Gap / Support Gap — The volume in each gap and its state: Eroding (thinning out), Expanding (building up) or Steady.
• Largest Group — The price range and volume of the strongest consolidation zone in the profile.
• Intrabar TF and Rows — The data timeframe in use, and the number of price rows, including a note when rows were reduced automatically.
• Data — Complete means the profile is built from its full history; Partial means older intrabar data was not available and the profile covers only part of its span.
• Confluence — Which confluence zones are currently active.

• Volume Profile Settings — all settings in this section.
• Dashboard — Position.
• Alerts — Resistance Erosion Action, Resistance Absorption Action, Support Erosion Action, Support Absorption Action (new).
• Volume Profile Colors — all settings in this section.
• Micro-Box Style — Gaps: Resistance Fill, Gaps: Support Fill (new).
• Confluence Colors — Price Confluence Color, POC Confluence Color.
• Erosion/Absorption Colors — all settings in this section.
• Dashboard Colors — Background, Header Background, Text, Bullish Value, Bearish Value, Progress: High, Progress: Mid, Progress: Low.