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Monotonic Trend Consensus [QuantAlgo]🟢 Overview
Monotonic Trend Consensus is a trend-following oscillator built on rank correlation between price and time rather than moving averages or crossovers. It scores how consistently price is ordered across multiple lookback windows and combines them into a single bounded reading on a -1 to +1 scale, holding the same meaning on any symbol or timeframe so traders can separate a broadly aligned trend from directionless noise and read when a move has stretched to saturation.
🟢 How It Works
The foundation is Spearman rank correlation between price and time, computed over each active window. Closes inside the window are ranked against one another, time forms its own rising sequence of ranks, and the difference between the two collapses to a single coefficient (rho):
float price_rank = less + (eq + 1.0) / 2.0
float time_rank = float(len - i)
float rho = 1.0 - 6.0 * sumd2 / denom
The coefficient reads +1 when each bar closes above the last in unbroken order, 0 when there is no consistent order, and -1 when each bar steps lower. Because it scores ordering rather than smoothing price into a line, it reflects the current window directly rather than trailing behind it, though it still needs a full window of bars to form. Ranking also limits the pull of any single outlier bar, and the bounded output is what lets one threshold hold across markets without rescaling.
A single window describes direction; the tool runs several and averages them into a consensus spanning fast, medium, and slow horizons:
consensus := array.avg(rhos)
Agreement is then measured as the share of windows leaning the same way as the consensus, and this conviction figure must clear a floor before a direction prints, working alongside the strength threshold:
conviction := 100.0 * agree / active
raw_bull = consensus > threshold and conviction >= min_conviction
raw_bear = consensus < -threshold and conviction >= min_conviction
A reading registers only when both clear at once: consensus past the threshold and windows aligned enough to meet the conviction floor. Fail either and the line stays flat. With Show Neutral on, those flat stretches reset to neutral; with it off, the line holds its last direction until the next qualifying move.
🟢 Signal Interpretation
▶ Bullish Consensus (Green): Consensus sits above the upper threshold with enough windows aligned, meaning recent bars are ordered upward across horizons. Trend traders read the turn into green as a possible long or continuation as the score presses toward +1. Mean-reversion traders treat a reading pinned near +1 as a stretched, broadly-agreed advance rather than a buy, and look to fade only once the line rolls back off the extreme, since the score can hold high through a sustained trend.
▶ Bearish Consensus (Red): Consensus sits below the lower threshold with conviction met, with bars ordered downward across horizons. Trend traders read the turn into red as a possible short or continuation as the score presses toward -1. Mean-reversion traders treat a reading pinned near -1 as a saturated decline where a bounce becomes more plausible, and look to fade on the turn back up rather than at the low itself.
▶ Neutral (Gray): With Show Neutral on, the line goes gray whenever no direction qualifies, either because consensus sits inside the threshold or conviction falls short. The zero line acts as the balance point and behaves like support or resistance for the reading itself: a score rejected at zero from above points to bullish order reasserting, a score capped at zero from below points to bearish order holding, and a clean break through leans toward a regime change. Reading this midline behavior against price is where market structure tools pair well, separating a base building above a structural level from a coil forming under overhead supply. Trend traders stand aside until the line commits; mean-reversion traders find less to work with here than at the edges.
▶ Reading the Extremes: The axis caps at +1 and -1, marking maximum agreement across every active window. Trend traders take an extreme as a sign a move is still in force; mean-reversion traders take it as a stretched zone and watch for the score to turn back toward zero as agreement breaks. An extreme that aligns with a known structural level gives a fade a cleaner reference than one in open space, and neither read holds on the extreme alone, since a strong trend can stay saturated before it cools.
🟢 Features
▶ Preconfigured Presets: Three setups map to different holding styles. "Default" suits swing work on 4-hour and daily charts, pairing a mid-range window spread of 8, 13, 21, and 34 with a 0.35 threshold and a 60% conviction floor, so a direction needs both strength and agreement before it flags. "Fast Response" pulls the windows in to 5, 8, 13, and 21 and eases the threshold and conviction floor so the reading keeps pace with quicker intraday swings. "Smooth Trend" stretches the windows out to 21, 34, 55, and 89 and raises both gates for daily and weekly position trading, where a premature flip costs more than a late one. Choosing a preset takes over the manual window, threshold, and conviction fields.
▶ Built-in Alerts: Four conditions track every change in state. "Bullish Trend Signal" triggers when the consensus confirms to the upside. "Bearish Trend Signal" triggers when it confirms to the downside. "Trend Lost / Neutral" triggers when an active direction fades back to flat, which is also the event a mean-reversion trader watches for after an extreme. "Any Trend Change" rolls the two directional events into a single notification for anyone who wants one alert covering both ways.
▶ Visual Customization: Six color schemes (Classic, Aqua, Cosmic, Cyber, Neon, and Custom) carry a matched pair of bullish and bearish colors through the consensus line, its tiered gradient fill down to the zero baseline, and the optional bar and background tints. Marker lines sit at the positive and negative trigger levels to show the zone the consensus has to cross, and each window's own score can be switched on as a faint backing line so you can see which horizons are driving or dragging the combined figure. Bar coloring paints the price candles in the active trend color at an adjustable transparency, while background coloring spreads that tint across the pane.
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Adaptive Consensus Trail Structure, Regime & SelfAdaptive Consensus Trail — Structure, Regime & Self-Test
A trailing stop that sits on the agreement of several structural references, adapts to the market regime, and forward-tests its own signals so the numbers it shows are measured, not asserted.
What it is
Most trailing stops follow one idea — an ATR band, a SuperTrend, a moving average. This one places the stop where a small committee of independent structural references agree, reads how confident that agreement is, widens or tightens itself according to the market regime, and then continuously audits its own flips and reports the edge it actually produced on your data.
The committee has five members, each locating support/resistance from a different lens:
Anchored VWAP band — fair value for the session/week/month
Session / naked volume Point-of-Control — the price the most volume traded at, carried forward until revisited
Fair-Value-Gap midpoint — unfilled imbalance
Swing pivot — structural memory
Order-flow absorption — where aggressive buying/selling was absorbed (via Bulk Volume Classification)
Why these parts belong in one script (mashup justification)
Each reference alone whipsaws on an index, and each is right in different conditions. They are combined because they correct one another, and the entire value of the script is in that interaction — not in any single line:
A reliability layer scores every reference's historical respect rate with a Wilson lower bound, so a reference that keeps getting ignored loses its vote instead of dragging the stop around.
A consensus layer keeps only the densest agreeing cluster of references, so the stop sits on genuine agreement rather than on an average nobody respects, and far-apart references never force a permanent "no signal."
A regime layer (efficiency ratio + ADX + band-width + a volatility-cluster read + a Hurst persistence estimate) widens the band and tightens the flip confirmation in chop — this is what removes the whipsaw.
A self-test layer forward-scores every flip and recalibrates the confidence number so it means what it says.
Split apart, these are five overlays that each mislead in a range. Wired together, they are one self-correcting, self-auditing trail. That is the reason for combining them.
How it works (six layers)
References are computed on the bar close.
Reliability — rolling-capped respect counts per reference give a Wilson lower-bound "trust." POC is a magnet, so it is judged by forward reaction (did price reject away before breaking through?), not a same-bar close, which keeps its trust honest.
Consensus — the densest agreeing cluster within an ATR band becomes the trail's target; the envelope and confidence are measured on that cluster only.
Adaptive backbone — an efficiency-ratio / regime-adaptive band (Adaptive, Chandelier, or Blend) that widens in chop.
The trail — high confidence pulls the stop toward structure (floored a minimum ATR off price); low confidence rides the wide band, so it flips less in noise.
Self-test — every flip is forward-resolved by triple-barrier first-touch against an unconditional base rate, split by strength tier and by regime, with a walk-forward in-sample→out-of-sample check, a runs test of independence, a Brier score, and a confidence recalibration.
How to use it
Read the top banner for the one-line bias — BULLISH / BEARISH / WAIT — and the READ legend for what to do. The coloured line is your stop: support in an uptrend, resistance in a downtrend. BUY / SELL labels print only on confirmed, sufficiently-confident, higher-timeframe-aligned flips.
The dashboard gives detail top-down: each reference's level and trust, the consensus, raw → calibrated confidence, regime (with Hurst and ADX), the higher-timeframe invalidation stop, and a FULL / HALF / STAND-ASIDE suggestion.
Before sizing, open the Self-Test panel and read the Edge column (hit% − base%), not the raw hit-rate. A ★ means the edge's confidence interval clears the base rate. Prefer signals where the walk-forward change isn't badly negative and the runs test isn't "streaky." Being honest about it: on many indices this tool shows real edge in range and volatile regimes on higher timeframes and little-to-none on very low timeframes or once a trend is already confirmed — the panel makes that transparent so you can pick your spots.
Works on any market
Set the Price source, and for symbols with no native volume set a Borrow-volume proxy (e.g. a futures contract). The panel theme adapts to your chart background automatically. Backbone: Adaptive / Chandelier / Blend. Absorption: order-flow (BVC) or simple. An optional intrabar resolution builds a finer volume profile where available.
Originality
The committee-of-references design, the cluster-not-average consensus, the reliability weighting that lets references lose their vote, the forward-reaction POC respect test, and the confidence self-calibration are the author's own work. The underlying techniques are standard and fully credited below.
Non-repaint
References, regime, consensus and the trail all evaluate on the close of the bar; the live bar is provisional and settles on close. Self-test events are logged and resolved only on confirmed bars and resolve on bars after their trigger at fixed barriers, so hit / base / edge use no look-ahead. The higher-timeframe stop uses a lookahead-off request.
Concept credits
Wilson score interval (E. B. Wilson); efficiency ratio (P. Kaufman); ADX / DMI / ATR / volatility-stop lineage (J. W. Wilder); anchored VWAP (industry standard); volume profile / value area / point-of-control — Market Profile (J. P. Steidlmayer, developed by J. F. Dalton); triple-barrier first-touch labelling (M. López de Prado); runs test of randomness (A. Wald & J. Wolfowitz); rescaled-range / Hurst exponent (H. E. Hurst); Brier score (G. W. Brier); Bulk Volume Classification / VPIN (D. Easley, M. López de Prado & M. O'Hara); reliability-bin (isotonic-style) calibration is standard forecasting practice.
Limitations & disclaimer
"Absorption" is a volume proxy — base data has no true tick order flow, so the buy/sell split is estimated from bar moves, not measured. Confidence is context, not a promise of profit. The self-test is descriptive of past behaviour on the loaded symbol (fixed barriers, no costs or slippage) — a study aid, not a backtest and not a guarantee. A measured edge is what flips did historically here, not a forecast.
This script is for research and education only. It is not financial advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell, and not a guarantee of any outcome. Trading carries risk of loss; your decisions are your own. Test on your own data and use independent risk management before relying on it. Gösterge
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Adaptive Structural Trail Order Flow, Imbalance & RegimeAdaptive Structural Trail — Order Flow, Imbalance & Regime
What it is
Adaptive Structural Trail is a single, self-contained market-structure framework that re-clocks the chart by participation instead of time, marks the imbalances that real activity leaves behind, lets order flow decide which of those levels still matter, asks a regime filter whether trending behaviour can be trusted right now, and trails the strongest surviving level as an adaptive stop — all summarised in a plain-language dashboard that tells you, at a glance, whether the picture says ride, wait, or stand aside.
It is designed to be market-agnostic: every raw input (price, volume, and the volatility-index reference) is user-selectable, so the same logic runs on index futures, equities, FX, crypto or commodities without touching the code. Defaults are set for NIFTY index futures; change the volatility symbol and (if needed) the volume source for other instruments.
Why the components are combined (this is one tool, not a bundle)
Each layer measures a different facet of one process — activity creating structure, structure decaying or being defended, and a regime deciding whether to act. They are not independent indicators stacked for visual effect; remove any one and the others lose their meaning:
Delta clock (the substrate). A virtual bar closes only when cumulative signed volume becomes statistically significant (σ × a multiplier). Every downstream reading is therefore spaced by participation, not by the clock — a quiet 10 minutes and a violent 10 seconds are treated differently, which is the whole point.
Imbalance / fair-value-gap detection runs on those virtual bars, so a level is recorded only where genuine activity gapped price, not on arbitrary time bars.
Order-flow lifecycle (charge → decay → breaker/dead). When price returns to a level, delta adjudicates the outcome: absorbed-and-defended levels are reborn as breakers; levels that are surged through are killed. Flow decides what structure survives.
Regime gate (efficiency ratio + volatility burst). This routes everything. The trail is shown and signals arm only where trend behaviour is statistically credible; in range/transition/high-volatility states the tool deliberately stands aside.
Confidence fusion. Structure strength, cumulative-delta slope and flow toxicity (VPIN) are blended into one confidence number, which the dashboard converts into a plain instruction.
That coupling — a volume-significance clock feeding imbalance detection whose survival is adjudicated by order flow and gated by regime, fused into a single trailing level and a decision read-out — is the original contribution here.
How to use it
Add it to any liquid instrument. It is built for intraday timeframes (1–15 min is the sweet spot on index futures).
Read the dashboard top-down: the ACTION banner is the headline (e.g. LONG · ride the trail, RANGE · stand aside). Below it: bias + confidence, market state, the actual trail-stop price, order flow, flow toxicity, volatility context, and a plain "what to do" line.
Treat the coloured trail as a structure-based stop while the market state is a trend; when the state leaves trend, the trail disappears by design.
The imbalance zones show where unfilled activity sits; fresh, tapped and breaker levels are colour-coded (see the on-chart legend).
Edge-calibration panel (bottom-right): for transparency it scores past signals against a regime-matched base rate and reports EDGE = Hit − Base with a 95% confidence interval. Read the Edge column, not the raw hit-rate. This is descriptive of the past on your symbol — not a backtest and not a forward guarantee.
Key-info panel (top-left): instrument, timeframe, the live data source (see honesty note), threshold, ATR and level counts.
Honest note on data (please read)
TradingView exposes no true tick-by-tick aggressor delta and cannot build custom bars, so delta here is a proxy: signed intrabar volume taken from the finest lower timeframe your data plan returns — 1-second where available, otherwise 1-minute — falling back to bar-shape when no lower-timeframe data exists. The live source is shown as "Delta source" in the Key-info panel, so you always know which mode is active. Non-repaint: the delta clock advances and structure/regime/signals resolve only on confirmed bars; the trail line itself updates within the forming bar as a current estimate.
Originality
The novelty is the synthesis and coupling, not any single classical block. A participation clock is used to gate imbalance detection; order flow is used to adjudicate level survival; regime is used to route the entire read; and the whole thing collapses into one trailing level plus a decision dashboard and a self-calibration panel. Every raw input is user-selectable so the framework generalises across markets.
Concept credits
This tool synthesises well-established, publicly documented ideas; credit to their originators:
Information / volume-driven bars & VPIN flow toxicity — Marcos López de Prado; Easley, López de Prado & O'Hara.
Efficiency Ratio (trend vs. noise) — Perry J. Kaufman.
Trade-side classification (tick rule) — Lee & Ready.
Market impact & absorption (square-root law) — Almgren; Tóth & Bouchaud.
Wilson score interval (small-sample proportion CI) — E. B. Wilson.
Imbalance / fair-value-gap and trailing-stop concepts are long-standing, widely used market-structure ideas. The synthesis and the Pine implementation are the author's own.
Exported outputs (for use in other scripts)
Available via input.source() in any other indicator, with clean generic names: Bias Score (signed conviction, ±10), Trail Stop, Trail Direction, Regime State, Confidence, Leading Strength, CVD Slope, Flow Toxicity, Cumulative Delta, Volatility ROC, Volatility Bias.
Disclaimer
For research and education only. This is an analytical tool — not financial advice, not a signal service, and not a guarantee of future results. No indicator has an inherent edge; validate with your own testing, apply realistic costs, and manage risk. You are solely responsible for your trading decisions. Gösterge
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Dual EMA SpreadIntroduction
Dual EMA Spread is a trend analysis indicator that measures the percentage difference between a fast Exponential Moving Average (EMA) and a slow Exponential Moving Average.
While moving average crossovers are commonly used to identify potential trend changes, they do not reveal how far apart the two averages are. Dual EMA Spread addresses this by quantifying the separation between the fast and slow EMAs, helping traders evaluate whether trend momentum is strengthening, weakening, or transitioning.
The indicator is displayed as a histogram centered around a zero line, providing a simple visual representation of the relationship between the two moving averages.
How It Works
The indicator calculates two Exponential Moving Averages using user-defined periods.
It then measures the percentage difference between the fast EMA and the slow EMA using the following formula:
Dual EMA Spread = ((Fast EMA − Slow EMA) / Slow EMA) × Scale Factor
Positive values indicate that the fast EMA is trading above the slow EMA.
Negative values indicate that the fast EMA is trading below the slow EMA.
As the spread widens, the indicator suggests that the distance between the two averages is increasing, reflecting stronger directional momentum.
Key Features
Percentage-Based Spread
The difference between the two EMAs is expressed as a percentage rather than an absolute price value, making the indicator more consistent across instruments with different price ranges.
Trend Bias at a Glance
The zero line clearly shows whether the fast EMA is positioned above or below the slow EMA, providing an immediate view of the prevailing market bias.
Trend Strength Visualization
Changes in the histogram help visualize whether the separation between the two moving averages is expanding or contracting.
Lightweight and Efficient
The indicator performs a straightforward calculation, making it suitable for all markets and timeframes without adding unnecessary complexity.
Interpretation
Above Zero
Positive values indicate that the fast EMA is above the slow EMA, suggesting bullish market conditions.
An expanding positive histogram often reflects increasing bullish momentum.
Below Zero
Negative values indicate that the fast EMA is below the slow EMA, suggesting bearish market conditions.
An expanding negative histogram indicates strengthening bearish momentum.
Near Zero
Values close to zero indicate that the two EMAs are converging.
This frequently occurs during consolidation, trend transitions, or periods of reduced momentum.
Expanding Spread
When the histogram moves further away from zero, the distance between the fast and slow EMAs is increasing.
This generally reflects strengthening trend momentum.
Contracting Spread
When the histogram moves back toward zero, the two EMAs are converging.
This often indicates slowing momentum or the early stages of market consolidation.
Alert Conditions
The indicator includes two built-in alert conditions:
Bullish EMA Spread
- Triggered when the fast EMA crosses above the slow EMA, causing the spread to cross above zero.
Bearish EMA Spread
- Triggered when the fast EMA crosses below the slow EMA, causing the spread to cross below zero.
These alerts help traders monitor potential changes in market direction without continuously watching the chart.
Example Applications
- Identifying bullish and bearish market bias.
- Confirming moving average crossovers.
- Measuring trend strength through EMA separation.
- Monitoring momentum expansion and contraction.
- Comparing trend conditions across multiple instruments and timeframes.
Notes
Dual EMA Spread is designed as a trend analysis tool rather than a standalone trading system.
Although an expanding spread often reflects strengthening momentum, it should not be interpreted as a guarantee that the trend will continue. Likewise, a contracting spread does not necessarily indicate an immediate reversal.
For best results, use Dual EMA Spread together with price action, market structure, and support and resistance analysis to build a more complete understanding of market conditions.
Dual EMA Spread provides a simple and intuitive way to measure the relationship between fast and slow moving averages, helping traders visualize trend strength, momentum expansion, and potential market transitions. Gösterge
Citadel Microstructure Edge [JOAT]CITADEL MICROSTRUCTURE EDGE
A tribute to the high-frequency / market-making style of microstructure-edge extraction. Builds three orthogonal microstructure signals — tick imbalance (which side is aggressively crossing the tape), spread tightness (how thin the bid-ask is relative to its baseline), and micro momentum (the EMA-pair spread on the fastest timeframe) — then composes them into a single decaying edge value with an exponential half-life. When the edge crosses a configurable threshold and has sustained for N bars same-sign, a directional signal fires. Cooldown plus asymmetric lockout keep the signal stream institutional.
Three orthogonal components
Each component is computed independently and Z-normalised (optional for tick imbalance) for stationarity:
Tick Imbalance — LTF-reconstructed buy/sell tick classification. Output is the rolling imbalance bounded in ; optionally Z-normalised over a configurable window (default 60 bars) for cross-asset stationarity. The dominant input for fast / scalping reads.
Spread Tightness — (H − L) / C against its own EMA-smoothed baseline, Z-scored. Tight spread (low relative range) is constructive for whichever side momentum favours. The sign is borrowed from the micro-momentum factor.
Micro Momentum — EMA-fast minus EMA-slow on the tick-reconstructed flow, Z-scored. The directional engine.
Default weights (0.45 / 0.25 / 0.45) bias the read toward the two most-actionable components (tick imbalance + momentum), with spread tightness as confirmation. Optional auto-normalisation to sum=1.
Decaying edge with half-life ~ 3 bars
Microstructure edges decay quickly. The script does not just sum the three components per bar — it accumulates with decay :
edge_t = decay × edge_{t−1} + contribution_t
The default decay (0.78) gives the edge a half-life of approximately 3 bars — the standard market-making decay window. Older contributions fade out automatically; new contributions get incorporated immediately. This is the institutional way to track a fast signal without re-introducing flicker.
Sustained-edge signal logic
Edge Threshold (default 0.75) — minimum |edge| magnitude required to fire.
Sustained Edge (default 5 bars same sign) — the edge must have held its sign for N consecutive bars before a signal fires. This is the script's most important false-positive filter.
Cooldown (default 7 bars) — minimum bars between signals.
Asymmetric lockout (default ON) — an opposite-side signal CAN fire during cooldown. This means a quick flip from buy to sell remains responsive while consecutive same-side signals are suppressed.
Visual system
Edge histogram — projected at the top of the chart at a configurable percent of price (default 2% of price, 1.2% top padding). Histogram columns are coloured by edge sign with magnitude-proportional intensity. At a glance you see the edge's recent trajectory.
Buy / Sell labels with optional Unicode lightning glyph (toggleable to plain ">").
Slope-tinted micro ribbon — the micro fast / slow EMAs plotted with a translucent fill coloured by spread sign. Toggleable.
Subtle background shade by edge sign (off by default).
A locked Crimson Pulse palette: electric blue buy edge / lime-yellow sell edge / muted neutral on a deep crimson-black ground — the institutional HFT aesthetic.
Dashboard
9-row monospaced table positionable to any of nine corners. Surfaces:
Edge value with status (BUY / SELL / FLAT).
Tick imbalance value.
Spread tightness Z.
Micro momentum Z.
Sustained-edge counter (how many consecutive same-sign bars).
Last signal direction with bars-ago.
Decay setting and effective half-life.
Cooldown remaining.
Configuration: LTF, weights, threshold.
Alerts
Three alert conditions, each independently controllable:
Edge Buy
Edge Sell
Sustained Edge (N bars same sign) — the script's headline alert; fires before the signal does, useful as an early-warning notification.
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How to read it
Three reads, in order of conviction:
Sustained edge into a structural level — the highest-conviction read. The microstructure has been one-sided for N+ bars AND price is at a known S/R; the next move into the level usually breaks it.
Edge buy / sell with all three components agreeing — fast directional commitment. The dashboard's per-component rows tell you whether the read is dominated by tick imbalance (aggressive tape) or by micro momentum (sustained direction) or by spread tightness (regime-aware confirmation).
Edge above threshold but not sustained — early-warning state. Edge has crossed threshold but the sustained counter has not yet reached N. Watch the counter — if it ticks up bar-by-bar, the signal is forming; if it drops, the edge is decaying.
Suggested settings
Defaults (1m LTF, spread EMA 14 / Z 60, micro EMA 3/8 / Z 60, weights 0.45/0.25/0.45, edge threshold 0.75, sustain 5 bars, decay 0.78, cooldown 7 bars) are tuned for 5m–15m charts on liquid futures and crypto where microstructure has meaningful presence. For 1m scalping drop LTF to 15s (Premium required) and sustain to 3 bars. For HTF the script is not the right tool — microstructure edges decay too quickly to be meaningful on 1H+ timeframes.
Originality
The implementation — the three-component microstructure pipeline (tick imbalance + spread tightness + micro momentum), the LTF tick-rule reconstruction with optional Z-normalisation, the weighted-sum composition with auto-normalisation, the exponential-decay edge accumulator with configurable half-life, the sustained-edge counter and asymmetric-lockout signal logic, the price-anchored histogram render at the top of the chart, the slope-tinted micro ribbon, and the Crimson Pulse palette — is JOAT-original. No third-party code reused. The script is a tribute to Citadel-style market-making microstructure-edge extraction, not a direct replication of any proprietary Citadel code.
Limitations
Reconstructed tick direction is an inference — the tick rule is the accepted public-market proxy but is not a direct read of bid/ask. Sub-minute LTFs require a TradingView Premium or Ultimate plan. Microstructure edges decay fast by design; on 1H+ timeframes the engine produces few signals — that is correct behaviour, not a bug.
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-made with passion by jackofalltrades
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RichmondHillCM - Liquidity Stress Index V 1.2RichmondHillCM - Liquidity Stress Index V 1.2
The LSI tracks the spread between SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate — the cost of borrowing cash overnight against Treasuries in the repo market) and IORB (Interest on Reserve Balances — the risk-free rate the Fed pays banks on reserves held at the Fed), expressed in basis points.
Why it matters
IORB acts as a soft floor for money-market rates: a bank has little incentive to lend cash below what it can earn risk-free at the Fed. So the position of SOFR relative to IORB is a direct read on how scarce cash is in the funding system.
LSI below 0 (aqua): SOFR trades under the IORB floor. Reserves are abundant, repo plumbing is easy, funding conditions are comfortable.
LSI above 0 (red): SOFR is bid above the floor. Cash is getting scarce, balance-sheet and repo capacity are starting to bind, and reserves are sliding from "abundant" toward "scarce."
Sustained positive prints are a classic early-warning signal of funding stress — the September 2019 repo blow-up being the textbook example. Watching this spread helps anticipate when the Fed's reserve backdrop is tightening enough to force a policy response (standing repo facility usage, balance-sheet adjustments, or an end to QT).
How to read it
Zero line = the IORB floor.
Dashed line = a configurable stress threshold (default 5 bps). When LSI breaks above it, the background shades red to flag an elevated-stress regime.
The further and longer LSI stays positive, the more acute the funding pressure.
Inputs
Smoothing (SMA length): 1 = raw daily spread; raise to filter day-to-day noise.
Stress threshold (bps): the level above which funding stress is flagged.
Notes
SOFR and IORB are sourced from FRED and published daily, with IORB stepping only on FOMC decisions — so on intraday charts the daily values hold flat. The daily timeframe is the honest resolution for this gauge. Each leg is requested separately and differenced in-script for robust alignment rather than relying on a spread symbol.
Original concept credit: @gstoyanov. Released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Gösterge
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RichmondHillCM - Log-Price Regression Channel V1.2RichmondHillCM - Log-Price Regression Channel V1.2
An OLS linear regression fitted to the logarithm of price, with standard-deviation bands (±1σ / ±2σ / ±3σ) projected around the fitted mean. Because the fit is done in log-space, the channel is geometric — it scales proportionally across very different price levels, which makes it well suited to long-trending instruments like SPY where a raw-price channel would distort.
⚠️ Designed for the WEEKLY (1W) timeframe. The default 252-bar lookback (~5 years of weekly data) and the band logic are tuned for weekly candles. A live banner at the top of the stats table turns red whenever the chart is not on a weekly timeframe.
Features
Log-space regression mean + ±1σ/±2σ/±3σ bands with optional fills
BUY / SELL labels on ±2σ crosses, optional STRONG BUY / SELL on ±3σ
Stats table: each band's price, % distance from current price, and Z-score
Background shading when price is stretched beyond ±2σ / ±3σ
Built-in alert conditions for every band cross and the mean
How to use
Best suited to long-term growth compounders like Google (GOOGL, SPY, NDX). Use it on the weekly (1W) timeframe and set your price axis to logarithmic scale for the bands to line up correctly.
Instrument: growth compounders / steady long-term trenders (e.g. GOOGL, MSFT, SPY)
Timeframe: weekly (1W)
Price axis: log scale (right-click the axis → "Logarithmic")
How to read it: price drifting toward ±2σ/±3σ is unusually far from its own trend; the bands act like a statistical rubber band. Use band touches as context, not standalone entries.
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Auto Fib + EMA200 MTF [SamoAlgo] - FIXED# Auto Fib + EMA200 MTF
**A multi-timeframe trend-confirmation strategy combining automatic Fibonacci retracement detection with EMA200 alignment across four timeframes.**
## Overview
This strategy automatically detects swing structures (pivot highs/lows) and looks for high-probability retracement entries at a configurable Fibonacci level (default 61.8%), but only when the broader trend is confirmed across multiple timeframes simultaneously.
Unlike simple Fib tools that fire on every retracement, this script requires trend agreement across 1m, 5m, 15m, and 60m EMA200 readings before considering an entry valid — reducing false signals during choppy, directionless conditions.
## How it works
**1. Swing & Fibonacci detection**
The script identifies confirmed pivot highs and lows (adjustable strength), measures the swing size against current ATR to filter out insignificant moves, and calculates an entry zone at your chosen Fibonacci retracement level. Setups expire automatically after a configurable number of bars if price never reaches the entry zone.
**2. Multi-timeframe trend filter**
Before any entry, the script checks EMA200 position across four timeframes (1m/5m/15m/60m). You control how many of the four must agree (1–4) — requiring all four is strictest; lowering the threshold allows more signals during transitional market conditions.
**3. Risk management**
- Position sizing is equity-based (% risk per trade)
- Stop and target can be ATR-based or Fibonacci-extension based (your choice)
- Optional minimum Risk:Reward filter — trades below your threshold are skipped
- Optional ADX-based trend-strength filter to avoid ranging markets
- Optional max-trades-per-day cap
- Optional cooldown period between trades to avoid clustering on the same swing
**4. Visual feedback**
Confirmed trades (not just signals — actual filled positions) draw persistent entry/stop/target lines and a labeled marker directly on the chart, so every alert you receive corresponds to a real, verified trade in the strategy's backtest.
## Inputs (fully customizable)
- Pivot strength, Fib entry level, Fib target extension, minimum swing size
- ATR-based or Fib-based stop/target
- Risk % per trade
- EMA200 length and timeframe-agreement threshold
- Volatility filter, session filter, ADX filter, R:R filter, daily trade cap, cooldown
- Independent long/short enable toggles
## Important notes
- This is a **strategy** script (uses `strategy()`), meaning results shown are backtested performance, not a guarantee of future results. Always forward-test on a demo account before risking real capital.
- The multi-timeframe EMA filter is inherently asymmetric to current market regime: in a sustained downtrend it will naturally favor short setups (and vice versa in an uptrend). This is expected behavior of trend-following logic, not a bug — adjust the timeframe-agreement threshold if you want more balanced signal frequency across both directions.
- `request.security()` calls use `barmerge.lookahead_off` — no repainting from future data.
- Past performance, including any results shown on the published chart, does not guarantee future performance. Trade at your own risk and use proper position sizing.
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Kalman + CUSUM SegmentationThis indicator segments price with a model-based online change detector. A Kalman local-level filter estimates a drifting mean, shown as the orange line, and each bar it produces the one-step innovation, the gap between price and what the filter expected. That innovation is standardized by its own recursively estimated variance, and two CUSUM detectors watch it: one for a shift in the mean, one for a shift in dispersion, meaning volatility. When either crosses the threshold h the mean has structurally changed, so a new segment is cut and the accumulators reset. After a cut the Kalman covariance is briefly inflated so the mean re-adapts faster to the new level. The shaded background alternates per segment so boundaries are easy to read.
Around the mean is a Bollinger-style channel, except the center is the adaptive Kalman mean rather than a moving average, so it tracks trends with less lag. The z value in the panel is simply how many standard deviations price sits from that mean. The panel also shows both CUSUM values against their threshold and the length of the current segment in bars.
Inputs. Smoothness Q/R sets how tightly the Kalman mean follows price; only the ratio matters, so it behaves the same across instruments and price scales, and it is the knob for mean responsiveness. CUSUM threshold h is the main sensitivity knob and behaves like the penalty in change-point methods: raise it for fewer, larger cuts, lower it for more frequent cuts. CUSUM slack k is the standard allowance value, set to target a one-sigma shift. The dispersion CUSUM can be switched off for mean-only segmentation. The EWMA decay lambda controls the variance memory, with 0.94 being the RiskMetrics daily standard.
Scope. This is an online, causal detector: it only sees the past. It is a distinct model-based detector, not a substitute for globally optimal offline methods such as PELT run in Python or R, which place breakpoints more accurately in hindsight. Treat the segments and the z value as context, not as trade signals.
The method follows standard Kalman-residual CUSUM change detection (Kalman 1960; Page 1954; Mehra and Peschon 1971; Severo and Gama 2010; RiskMetrics 1996). Gösterge
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Supply and Demand Zones | Flux ChartsGENERAL OVERVIEW
Supply and Demand Zones indicator uses a simple but effective mechanism to find the most useful supply and demand zones on any chart. Most tools draw every zone they can find and leave the trader to sort through the clutter. This indicator does the opposite: it watches how price actually behaves at each zone and keeps only the levels that have earned attention.
The mechanism is straightforward. Each zone is built from a confirmed price swing, and from that moment it is tracked as a living object. Every time price returns, the indicator records what happened — a clean rejection (retest), a failed push-through that snaps back (also a retest), or a decisive break. From that record it computes one honest number, Held: the share of retests where the zone successfully pushed price away. A zone that has held four of five tests is immediately separated from one that keeps breaking.
That same track record then drives what you see. Instead of showing every zone, the indicator surfaces a small set of the most useful ones — ranked by how reliably they have held, how often they have been tested, and how close they are to current price. The result is a clean chart focused on the zones that have actually proven themselves, rather than a wall of boxes you have to filter by eye.
WHAT IS THE THEORY BEHIND THE INDICATOR?
Supply and demand trading is built on a simple idea: where price reversed sharply once, it often reacts again, because unfilled orders and trapped traders remain at that level. The problem is that not every zone is equal. Some levels are respected again and again; others break the first time they are tested. Most supply and demand tools draw every zone the same way and leave the trader to guess which ones still matter.
This indicator takes the position that a zone's history is more informative than its existence. A level that has been tested five times and held four of them is telling you something a fresh, untested level cannot. So instead of treating zones as static boxes, the indicator watches every interaction — bounces, failed breakouts, and clean breaks — and turns that record into a measurable hold rate. A zone earns its place on your chart by performing, not just by existing.
FEATURES
Finds the most useful zones — instead of drawing every zone, it tracks how each one behaves and surfaces only the levels that have proven themselves
Automatic zone detection — supply and demand zones are built from confirmed price swings, with boundaries sized by the average wick so each box covers the real reaction area
Per-zone track record — every zone carries its own data: how many times it has been retested, how many times it has broken, and how reliably it has held
Held statistic — each zone shows the share of its retests that successfully held, turning its history into one honest reliability number you can read at a glance
Retest tracking — every test of a zone is recorded and marked on the chart, including failed breakouts that snap back into the zone
Breakout & flip tracking — clean breaks are recorded, and the zone flips from supply to demand (or vice-versa) while keeping its full history
Strongest / Nearest ranking — shows the most useful zones, ranked by how reliably they have held, how often they have been tested, and how close they are to price
Clear, data-rich visuals — gradient zone fills, glowing retest markers, colour-coded flip segments, and a per-zone stats label that displays its retests, breakouts, and Held % right beside it
Clean-chart controls — minimum spacing hides near-duplicate zones, and a smooth fade-out dims zones as they drop off the list
Four alerts — retests and breakouts, on both supply and demand
ZONE DETECTION AND BOUNDARIES
What is a zone?
A zone is a price area drawn around a recent swing high or swing low. A swing high becomes a supply zone (an area sellers defended); a swing low becomes a demand zone (an area buyers defended). New zones are only created when they don't overlap an existing one, so the chart never stacks duplicate boxes on the same level.
Why does it matter?
Swings are where the market actually changed its mind, which makes them the most natural place to expect a future reaction. Building zones only from confirmed swings — and skipping overlaps — keeps the set of zones meaningful instead of cluttered. Clean, non-overlapping detection is the foundation everything else builds on: the track record and ranking are only as useful as the zones they start from.
How is it detected and calculated?
The indicator waits for a swing to confirm using the Swing Period: a high or low only counts once that many bars have printed on both sides of it. The zone's outer edge sits at the swing's extreme (the high for supply, the low for demand). The inner edge is set using the average wick of the candles around the swing, so the zone covers the real reaction area rather than a single thin line. Because a swing needs bars on both sides to confirm, each zone appears a fixed number of bars after the swing itself — a normal, non-repainting delay rather than a level that appears and disappears.
Settings
Swing Period — how many bars must confirm a swing on each side before it forms a zone. Higher = fewer, more significant zones; lower = more zones that react faster to price. Default 30.
Lookback — how far back the indicator looks for zones, in bars. Higher keeps older zones on the chart; lower focuses on recent price action. Default 2000.
RETESTS AND FAILED BREAKOUTS
What is a retest?
A retest is when price returns to a zone, touches it, and is rejected — closing back out on the same side it came from. This is the classic supply/demand reaction: price revisits the area and the zone pushes it away. A failed breakout — price pushing through the zone but then closing back inside it — is also counted as a retest, because the zone ultimately won.
Why does it matter?
Retests are the evidence that a zone is still active. A level that keeps rejecting price is one the market is clearly watching. Counting failed breakouts as retests is important too: a level that traps breakout traders and reclaims is often the strongest kind of level, and ignoring those events would understate a zone's true strength.
How is it detected and calculated?
On each closed bar, a zone is checked for a reaction: for a supply zone, price reaching into the zone but closing back below it counts as a retest; for a demand zone, reaching in but closing back above. To avoid over-counting when price lingers at a level, a Retest Cooldown requires a minimum number of bars between two counted retests on the same zone. Separately, if price closes clean through a zone and then closes back inside it on the next resolution, that failed breakout is recorded as a retest as well. All events are evaluated only on confirmed (closed) bars, so nothing is counted on an unfinished candle.
Settings
Retest Cooldown — waits this many bars before counting another test of the same zone, so price lingering at a level isn't counted as many separate retests. Default 3.
Retests (toggle + marker) — show or hide retest markers and choose their shape (Circle, Triangle, Cross, Diamond).
BREAKOUTS AND ZONE FLIPS
What is a breakout?
A breakout is when price closes decisively through a zone and keeps going, rather than being rejected. When a zone breaks, it flips: a broken supply zone becomes a demand zone, and a broken demand zone becomes a supply zone — the same idea as old resistance becoming new support. Crucially, the zone keeps its history through the flip; it doesn't start over.
Why does it matter?
A clean break is the opposite of a hold, and tracking it is what makes the Held statistic meaningful. The flip behaviour also reflects how these levels really work in practice — a level that breaks rarely disappears; it changes role. Keeping each zone's full history across flips means a level that has been a battleground through several cycles is shown as exactly that.
How is it detected and calculated?
When price first closes through a zone, the zone enters a pending state. The very next resolution decides what happened: if price closes through again, it is confirmed as a breakout and the zone flips its side; if price instead closes back inside, it is recorded as a failed breakout (a retest). This two-step confirmation avoids calling a breakout on a single bar that immediately reverses. Each flip also starts a new coloured time segment, so the zone's box visually records when it was supply and when it was demand across its life.
Settings
Breakouts (toggle + marker) — show or hide breakout markers and choose their shape. Off by default to keep the chart clean.
THE HELD STATISTIC
What is Held?
Held is the heart of the indicator. It answers a simple question: when price comes back to this zone, how often does the zone actually hold? It is shown on each zone's stats label as a count and a percentage, for example "Held: 4 (80%)" — meaning four of the zone's five retests successfully held.
Why does it matter?
This is the number that separates a level worth trading from one that just happens to be on the chart. A high Held % means the zone has repeatedly done its job; a low one warns you the level is leaky. Because it is measured from the zone's own history rather than assumed, it gives you an honest, at-a-glance read on reliability.
How is it detected and calculated?
After each retest, the indicator looks forward over the Hold Window — a set number of candles — and checks whether the zone was broken during that window. If the zone survived the window without a breakout, that retest counts as a hold. Only retests old enough to have a full window behind them are judged, so a very recent retest doesn't distort the number before its outcome is known. Held is then the count of successful holds, shown alongside its percentage of all retests.
Settings
Hold Window — after a retest, the zone must avoid a breakout for this many candles to count as a successful hold. Drives the Held stat and the Strongest ranking. Default 10.
STRONGEST AND NEAREST RANKING
What is the ranking?
Rather than crowd the chart with every zone it finds, the indicator shows a limited number per side and chooses which ones using one of two modes. Nearest simply shows the zones closest to current price. Strongest shows the zones that have most reliably held, weighted by how often they've been tested and how close they are to price.
Why does it matter?
Most charts have far more historical zones than are useful at once. Nearest is best when you care about the levels price is about to interact with regardless of their record. Strongest is best when you want the chart to surface proven levels — the ones that have repeatedly held — so your attention goes to the areas with the best track record.
How is it detected and calculated?
The Strongest score combines three things. Reliability is the zone's hold rate, but smoothed so a zone tested only once can't look perfect — its record is trusted more as it accumulates more tests. Evidence rewards zones that have been tested more often, with diminishing returns so one ancient zone doesn't dominate forever. Proximity favours zones closer to price. A small bonus is given to zones already on screen so the displayed list stays steady instead of swapping every bar. Nearest mode, by contrast, simply ranks by distance to price.
Settings
Rank By — Strongest (most reliable, weighted by tests and proximity) or Nearest (closest to price). Default Strongest.
Show — how many supply and how many demand zones to show at once; each side is counted separately. Default 5.
ZONE SPACING AND FADE-OUT
What are spacing and fade-out?
Two features keep the chart readable. Minimum spacing hides a zone that sits too close to one already shown, so you don't get several near-identical boxes stacked together. Fade-out smoothly dims a zone as it drops off the visible list, instead of having it vanish abruptly.
Why does it matter?
A clean chart is easier to act on. Spacing prevents visual clutter at congested levels, and the fade-out makes it obvious when a zone is no longer among the top picks without the chart jumping around distractingly.
How is it detected and calculated?
When selecting which zones to show, the indicator skips any candidate sitting within the Min Zone Spacing distance (a percentage of price) of a zone already chosen. When a previously shown zone is no longer selected, it is moved to a fade list and dimmed over a fixed number of bars before being removed. Drawing is also budgeted internally so the gradient zone fills always stay within the platform's object limits.
Settings
Min Zone Spacing (%) — hides zones sitting too close to one already shown, to keep the chart clean. Set to 0 to show every zone. Default 0.1%.
Supply / Demand colours — the colours used for supply and demand zones, their gradient fills, and their markers.
ALERTS
What alerts are available?
Bullish Retest — price bounced from a demand zone.
Bearish Retest — price rejected from a supply zone.
Bullish Breakout — price broke above a supply zone.
Bearish Breakout — price broke below a demand zone.
When do they fire?
Each alert fires on a confirmed bar at the moment the matching event is recorded, so you are notified of bounces and breaks as they are confirmed rather than on an unfinished candle.
IMPORTANT NOTES
All retests, breakouts and flips are evaluated only on closed (confirmed) bars, so events are not counted on an in-progress candle.
A breakout requires price to close through a zone and then confirm on the next resolution. A single bar that closes through and immediately closes back in is recorded as a retest (failed breakout), not a breakout.
Held only judges retests that have a full Hold Window of bars behind them, so the most recent retest may not yet be reflected in the Held count until its outcome is known.
When a zone breaks it flips side and keeps its full history, so a single long-lived zone can show interactions from several supply/demand cycles.
The number of zones shown is limited per side by the Show setting; other valid zones continue to be tracked in the background and can appear later as conditions change.
UNIQUENESS
Most supply and demand indicators draw zones and stop there, leaving the trader to guess which levels still matter. Supply and Demand Zones treats each zone as a tracked object with a measurable record. Every retest, failed breakout and clean break is recorded over the zone's life, and the Held statistic turns that record into a single, honest reliability number shown right on the zone — a level that has held four of five tests is immediately distinguishable from one that keeps breaking. Failed breakouts are folded into retests rather than ignored, capturing the trap-and-reclaim behaviour that often marks the strongest levels, and broken zones flip side while keeping their entire history instead of resetting. The Strongest ranking is driven by that same measured record — reliability, number of tests, and proximity — with smoothing so a single lucky test can't masquerade as a perfect level, meaning the chart automatically surfaces the zones that have actually proven themselves. The result is a supply and demand tool that doesn't just show you where zones are, but how much each one has earned your trust.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is an analytical and educational tool. It does not predict future price movement and does not provide financial advice. A zone's past hold rate describes what has already happened and does not guarantee future behaviour. Always use proper risk management and combine this tool with your own analysis. Gösterge
AQR Momentum Factor [JOAT]AQR MOMENTUM FACTOR
A tribute to AQR Capital Management's seminal momentum-factor research — including Asness's classic "Value and Momentum Everywhere" framework. The script estimates cross-horizon momentum by ranking returns across five independent look-back horizons (default 1, 5, 20, 60, 120 bars — including the AQR-canonical 12-1 month equivalent), volatility-adjusting the result, and producing a composite momentum score in that fires Buy / Sell labels when the score crosses configurable thresholds.
Why cross-horizon ranking
A single momentum lookback is fragile. AQR's published research (Asness, Moskowitz, Pedersen, and others) shows that momentum is best estimated by agreement across horizons — when short-, medium-, and long-term momentum all point the same way, the signal is much more reliable than any single horizon alone. The script encodes that directly:
Five horizons — 1 / 5 / 20 / 60 / 120 bars by default (configurable independently).
At each horizon the return is percentile-ranked against its own trailing 252-bar (trading year) distribution.
The five percentile ranks are mapped from to (50% → 0; 100% → +1; 0% → −1).
The composite is the average of the five mapped ranks.
The output is bounded in and represents how unusual current momentum is relative to its own recent history, averaged across timeframes .
Volatility adjustment (optional but on by default)
The composite is divided by a volatility Z-score over a configurable window (default 60 bars), clamped at a Z cap (default 2.5) to avoid division-by-zero blow-ups. This dampens signals during high-volatility regimes — which is what AQR's "low-vol momentum" research finds is the genuinely tradeable component of the factor.
When vol-adjustment is off, the score is raw cross-horizon momentum. When it is on, the score is risk-adjusted momentum, which is the institutional read.
Signal engine
BUY — composite > buy threshold (default +0.70 → top ~15% across horizons).
SELL — composite < sell threshold (default −0.70).
Extreme High / Low alerts — composite > +0.90 / < −0.90. The script's strongest reads.
A configurable Min Bars Between Same-Side Signals (default 5) prevents clustering. A confirm-on-close toggle (default ON) ensures non-repaint signals.
Bar colouring — strict 2-hue discipline
The chart bars are coloured by the sign of the composite, with saturation proportional to magnitude. The "Bar Color Saturation Floor" input controls how aggressively the colour fades when momentum is weak — at 0 the bars are always full colour; at 1 they fade toward background when momentum is weak. The defaults (0.65) produce a clean institutional read where strong-momentum bars stand out and weak-momentum bars merge into the background.
A hidden composite-line plot (toggleable) opens a pane below the chart for users who want to see the score itself, or feed it to Data Window / webhook automation.
Visual system
Buy / Sell labels on threshold crosses (configurable size).
Bar colouring by signed momentum with saturation floor.
Hidden composite line (toggleable, pane).
Light regime background (off by default) — very subtle bgcolor sampled from bull/bear.
A locked Golden Blaze palette: gold bull / oxblood bear / off-white neutral on a dark-slate ground — the classic AQR institutional aesthetic. Strict 3-hue discipline + bg.
Dashboard
Monospaced table positionable to any of nine corners. Surfaces:
Composite score with signed value.
Per-horizon percentile ranks (h1 / h2 / h3 / h4 / h5).
Horizon agreement count (how many horizons agree with the composite sign).
Volatility Z value and adjustment factor in use.
Last signal direction with bars-ago.
Configuration: rank window, vol window, thresholds.
Alerts
Four alert conditions, each independently controllable:
BUY (composite crosses above buy threshold)
SELL (composite crosses below sell threshold)
Extreme Score (|composite| crosses extreme high or low)
Horizon Disagreement (off by default) — fires when horizons split (~half above 50%, half below). Useful as a "no edge" warning.
How to read it
Three reads, in order of conviction:
Extreme score with full horizon agreement — the highest-conviction read. All five horizons agree, the score is in the top 10% / bottom 10% of its own distribution, and vol-adjustment has not damped it. This is the institutional setup.
Buy / Sell with vol-adjustment active in a low-vol regime — the "low-vol momentum" setup AQR's research identifies as the strongest factor exposure. Pair with a directional execution tool.
Horizon disagreement alert — stand-aside signal. Some horizons say bull, some say bear; there is no momentum factor exposure available. Wait for agreement to return.
Suggested settings
Defaults (horizons 1/5/20/60/120, rank window 252, vol window 60, vol Z cap 2.5, ±0.70 thresholds, ±0.90 extreme) are tuned for daily charts on broad indices — the timeframes where momentum factor exposures are statistically most meaningful. For lower timeframes drop all horizons proportionally (1/5/15/30/60) and the rank window to 200. For weekly+ keep defaults; momentum on weekly is the canonical factor.
Originality / what's reused
The momentum factor is published academic finance — Jegadeesh & Titman 1993, Asness 1994, AQR's "Value and Momentum Everywhere" 2013. The 252-bar / one-year ranking window is the classical institutional convention. The implementation here — the five-horizon configurable engine, the ta.percentrank -based ranking pipeline, the linear remap, the volatility-Z adjustment with clamp, the saturation-floored bar-colouring with strict 2-hue discipline, the horizon-disagreement alert logic, and the AQR Golden Blaze palette — is JOAT-original. No third-party code reused. The script is a tribute to AQR's published methodology, not a direct replication of any proprietary AQR model.
Open source
Published open-source under the default Mozilla Public License 2.0. The horizon pipeline, the ranking engine, the vol-adjustment routine, the signal engine, and the dashboard are isolated modules. Forks welcome with credit.
Limitations
The 252-bar ranking window assumes a daily chart for the "trading year" interpretation; on lower timeframes the window represents a different real-world horizon. The momentum factor is well-documented historically but, like all factor exposures, it can underperform for extended periods — the dashboard's horizon-agreement count is the script's own early warning when the factor is breaking down. Vol-adjustment is on by default because it is statistically supported; turn it off only for research.
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Adaptive Supertrend [ForexCracked]🔷 OVERVIEW
Adaptive Supertrend is a trend-following tool that automatically adjusts its sensitivity to current market volatility. A classic Supertrend uses one fixed factor, which whipsaws in choppy conditions and lags in calm ones. This version measures the live volatility regime and scales the ATR factor between a low and a high setting, so the trail tightens when volatility is low and widens when volatility is high.
🔷 CONCEPTS
Supertrend trails price using an ATR band whose width is set by a "factor." Instead of one fixed factor, this script ranks the current ATR against its own recent range (a 0–100 volatility percentile) and maps that rank onto a factor between your Min and Max settings:
• Low volatility → smaller factor → tighter trail, earlier signals. • High volatility → larger factor → wider trail, fewer false flips.
🔷 HOW TO USE
• Stay with the trend while the line sits below price (up) or above price (down). • A flip of the line marks a potential trend change, shown with a Buy or Sell label. • Read the Info panel for the live trend and the current volatility regime (Low / Medium / High). • Combine it with structure or support and resistance for confirmation, and always use a stop. No single indicator is a complete system.
🔷 SETTINGS
• ATR Length — lookback for the ATR band. • Min Factor / Max Factor — the range the factor adapts between. • Volatility Lookback — bars used to rank the current volatility. • Style — Buy/Sell labels, gradient fill, info panel, bar coloring, and colors.
🔷 ALERTS
• Buy (flip up) and Sell (flip down).
Free and open-source. Educational tool, not financial advice. Gösterge
Position Size Calculator - Risk Manager, Risk/Reward & L[LunqFX]Risk Manager is an on-chart position size and risk/reward calculator for TradingView that turns proper risk management into one click. Set your account size and risk per trade %, and it instantly gives you the exact position size (units / lots / contracts / shares), your risk and reward in dollars, the risk/reward ratio, and the breakeven win rate you need to be profitable — all visualized as clean risk and reward zones right on the chart. It works out of the box with an auto ATR setup (Entry / Stop Loss / Take Profit placed for you), or type your own levels. Built in Pine Script v6, it works on forex, crypto, stocks, indices, futures, gold (XAUUSD) and Bitcoin (BTCUSD), on any timeframe — because it sizes risk, not signals. Keywords: position size, position sizing, risk management, risk reward, risk/reward ratio, lot size calculator, money management, stop loss, take profit, R multiple, risk per trade, breakeven win rate, Kelly criterion, day trading, swing trading, scalping.
◆ WHY THIS MATTERS
Most traders blow accounts not because of bad entries, but because of bad position sizing and inconsistent risk. Professionals risk a fixed small % per trade (commonly 0.5–2%) and know their risk/reward before they click buy. This tool enforces that discipline on every trade — no spreadsheets, no external calculators.
◆ WHAT IT DOES
Exact position size from your account balance and risk %, in units, lots, contracts, shares or coins.
Risk and reward in account currency and as a % of account.
Risk/reward ratio with a clean visual meter.
Breakeven win rate — the minimum win rate needed to be profitable at your current R:R (a metric most calculators skip).
Visual risk zone (red) and reward zone (green) drawn between Entry, Stop and Target.
Optional fractional Kelly suggested risk %.
A modern, colour-coded dashboard.
◆ HOW IT WORKS
Auto mode (default): Entry is set at price, Stop at a chosen ATR distance, and Target at your chosen R multiple — a valid setup appears instantly on any instrument.
Manual mode: turn Auto off and enter your own exact Entry / Stop / Target prices in the settings.
Position size = (account balance × risk %) ÷ (distance from entry to stop). This guarantees that if the stop is hit, you lose exactly your chosen risk %.
Reward = position size × distance to target; R:R = reward ÷ risk.
Breakeven win rate = 100 ÷ (1 + R:R) — e.g., at 2R you only need to win >33% of trades to break even.
Lots/contracts = units ÷ your contract size (100000 for a forex standard lot, 1 for stocks/crypto, your multiplier for futures).
◆ HOW TO USE IT
Set Account balance and Risk per trade % once (e.g., 1%).
Pick Auto direction (Long/Short) or switch to manual and place your real Entry/Stop/Target.
Read the Position size — that is exactly how much to trade so your loss at stop = your set risk.
Check the R:R meter and Breakeven — only take trades whose math fits your strategy’s win rate.
Use the red/green zones to see risk and reward visually before entering.
Adjust Contract size to match your instrument (forex lots, futures multiplier, etc.).
◆ SETTINGS
Trade Setup (auto ATR or manual prices, direction, ATR stop, target R), Account & Risk (balance, risk %, contract size, size label), Kelly (optional), Visuals (box length, neon candles), Panel (text size, position, colours).
◆ ALERTS
Price hit Entry · Price hit Stop · Price hit Target.
◆ ORIGINALITY
This is original work. The auto-ATR setup engine, the account-aware sizing, the visual risk/reward zones, the colour-coded dashboard with the R:R meter and the breakeven-win-rate readout are all my own implementation. No third-party code is used.
◆ LIMITATIONS
This is a planning and sizing tool, not a signal generator — it does not tell you when to buy or sell.
Position size assumes your account currency matches the quote currency; for cross-currency pairs or unusual contracts, set Contract size to match your broker’s lot/units.
The auto ATR setup is a starting template — always adjust Stop and Target to real structure.
Results depend on the inputs you provide (balance, risk %, contract size); double-check them for your broker.
◆ NON-REPAINTING
This is a calculator: it draws from your inputs and the current price and never alters historical bars.
Risk Manager is an educational tool, not financial advice. Trading involves risk of loss. Always do your own research and manage risk responsibly. © LunqFX. Gösterge
True Time Price Profile - Hybrid Dynamic Bins[ALT_analyst]True Time Price Profile - Hybrid Dynamic Bins
◆ NOTICE / DISCLAIMER
This architecture is NOT a standard Volume Profile (VP) or a conventional Time Price Opportunity (TPO) indicator.
It is a highly advanced, multi-variable structural density engine.
It was specifically designed to mathematically extract institutional defense lines and localized price absorption in environments lacking reliable tick volume (e.g., Forex, CFD, Indices),
functioning as a rigorous technical benchmark for supply/demand extraction.
◆ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This script is deployed as a Proof of Concept (PoC) to demonstrate the integration of price absorption, time-based variance,
and strict pro-rata energy distribution within a localized UI rendering environment.
By discarding standard aggregation methods, this open-source architecture isolates the true "quality" of price stagnation,
exposing anomalous market states where large capital defends specific price buckets.
◆ ARCHITECTURE & QUANTITATIVE LOGIC
Standard profiles often struggle because they cannot distinguish between a "rapid vacuum passing" and a "defended consolidation."
This engine utilizes three proprietary layers to resolve this logic gap:
Pro-Rata Energy Distribution Engine
To prevent large-range bars (e.g., sudden momentum spikes) from artificially inflating the profile score across empty price vacuums, this script enforces a strict pro-rata allocation matrix.
Let N_bins be the total number of price bins a single bar intersects.
The assigned value for each specific bin is calculated as:
Apportioned Value = Base Value / N_bins
This completely neutralizes vacuum zones, correctly assigning mass only to true areas of conflict.
Velocity & Acceleration (Absorption) Evaluator
Instead of counting volume, the script measures the deceleration of price action.
It compares the high-low range of the current bar (v_curr) against the previous bar (v_prev). A negative acceleration (accel < 0) indicates kinetic energy is being absorbed by limit orders.
This absolute delta is extracted as the base absorption value (|a|).
Time Variance Logic (Market Memory)
A price level tested multiple times over a prolonged period holds significantly more structural integrity than a level tested only once.
The engine applies the statistical variance of the normalized time index (t) to scale the localized importance of a bin:
Variance (σ²) = (Sum of t² / n) - (Average t)²
The final Hybrid Score is the integration of absorbed energy scaled by the logarithmic variance:
Score = Sum( |a| * ln(1 + σ²) )
◆ PRACTICAL APPLICATION: HOW TO TRADE WITH THIS ENGINE
Instead of blindly treating every high-volume node as support/resistance, utilize this engine to identify Structural Friction:
Locating Hidden Institutional Limits:
Bins with exceptionally high Hybrid Scores often act as heavy liquidity pools.
Price action will typically stall or reverse sharply upon re-entering these zones.
Breakout Validation:
If price breaks out of a Value Area (VA) without generating new high-score bins, it indicates a lack of limit-order resistance (a vacuum).
These moves are prone to rapid continuation or swift mean-reversion sweeps.
Cross-Session Node Alignment (Breakout Threshold):
By anchoring the profile to short, sequential sessions, observe if high-scoring nodes (POCs) align horizontally at the same price level across multiple independent profiles.
This structural anomaly signifies a massive, sustained accumulation of limit orders.
A decisive price breach of this specific alignment typically triggers a high-probability volatility breakout, as the defended liquidity pool is rapidly consumed.
◆ SYSTEM CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS
Visual Synthesis of Invisible Nodes:
Resolves precise support/resistance vectors purely from price action kinetics, independent of broker volume feeds.
Dynamic Resolution Scaling:
The bin size is strictly tethered to the Average True Range (ATR), ensuring the profile grid automatically calibrates to the underlying asset's volatility regime.
Limitations & Warnings:
TradingView enforces a strict cap of 500 max boxes/lines per indicator. To prevent script execution limits or array errors, the maximum lookback and bin count are dynamically capped.
Furthermore, if the scaled ATR drops to absolute zero, the geometric grid cannot initialize.
◆ INPUT PARAMETERS REFERENCE
Live Update Frequency:
Toggle between 'Update on Every Tick' and 'Update on Bar Close'.
CRITICAL WARNING: Using tick updates combined with multiple MTF arrays on a fast timeframe will cause localized UI lag. Use 'Bar Close' as a CPU saver.
Profile Calculation Mode:
Select 'Classic' for standard aggregation, or 'Hybrid' to engage the Absorption + Variance matrix (The core edge of this tool).
Grid Step Multiplier:
Lower values increase vertical resolution.
Warning: Values below 0.05 on high-volatility assets may trigger the 500-box rendering limit.
Show Debug Data Table:
Projects a live array matrix on the bottom right, displaying precise Price, Count, Absorption, Variance, and Hybrid Scores for absolute algorithmic transparency.
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