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Delta MTF v3
BTC Delta MTF v3 — Enhanced
A multi-timeframe delta volume dashboard that measures buying and selling pressure behind every candle using volume delta, intrabar CVD, DV flow, and volume structure analysis. Works on any timeframe combination — set your main TF, sub TF, and trend TF freely to match your trading style.
Most indicators react to price after it moves. BTC Delta MTF v3 reads what is happening inside the candle in real time — tracking who controls the volume before the candle closes. Built specifically for BTC scalping and Polymarket UP/DOWN trading.
The Problem With Price-Based Indicators
RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and most popular indicators are all derived from price. Price is the result of the battle between buyers and sellers — it tells you what already happened. By the time a price-based indicator fires, the move has started, the spread has widened, and you are entering late.
Volume tells a different story. Every transaction has two sides. When someone buys, someone else sells. The question is not whether volume is high or low — it is who initiated the transaction. A buyer who crosses the ask is aggressive. A seller who crosses the bid is aggressive. The delta is the net of those two forces: aggressive buying minus aggressive selling. This is the actual engine of price movement, not price itself.
elta Volume — The Core Engine
In a perfect world, delta would be calculated from tick data: every single transaction tagged as buyer-initiated or seller-initiated at the tape level. TradingView does not provide this for most traders. The indicator approximates it using the High-Low-Close formula:
Buy volume = Total Volume × (Close - Low) / (High - Low)
Sell volume = Total Volume × (High - Close) / (High - Low)
Delta = Buy volume - Sell volume
DV Ratio = Buy volume / Total volume → expressed as 0.0 to 1.0
A DV Ratio of 0.70 means 70% of the candle's volume was buyer-initiated. A ratio of 0.30 means sellers dominated. Near 0.50 means balance — a contested candle.
The power is not in the absolute number but in the conflict between the ratio and the candle color. A green candle with DV Ratio 0.35 is fundamentally weak — price moved up but sellers were in control of the volume. That candle is a lie. The market will correct it.
Hidden Signal — Detecting Institutional Activity
Large institutions cannot buy or sell a significant position in a single aggressive order. If they did, they would move the market against themselves. Instead they work orders slowly — buying into selling pressure, selling into buying pressure — deliberately keeping price from moving in their direction while they fill.
This creates a specific fingerprint: a candle that moves in one direction while volume flows in the opposite direction.
Red candle + DV Ratio > 0.55 → price fell, but buyers controlled volume → Hidden Buy
Green candle + DV Ratio < 0.45 → price rose, but sellers controlled volume → Hidden Sell
This is not a random noise event. It requires sustained effort over the entire candle duration for a large participant to push price down while quietly absorbing everything the market offers. When this appears in the last minute of a candle at 65%+ buy volume on a red candle, the probability of reversal on the next candle is very high — not because of magic, but because the entity doing this has already positioned itself for exactly that reversal.
Absorption — The Volume Trap
Absorption is a specific subset of the hidden signal concept but looks at the size of the effort rather than just the direction.
The indicator calculates two ratios in real time:
Volume spike ratio = Current candle volume / 20-bar SMA of volume
Delta flatness = |Net delta| / Total volume (inverted: 1 - this = absorption %)
A volume spike of 1.4x with 85% absorption means: volume is 40% above average, and nearly all of it is being absorbed — buyers and sellers are meeting in unusually large size, but neither side is winning. This is the market equivalent of two large forces in equilibrium. When that equilibrium breaks at candle close, the direction of the break is telegraphed by the DV Ratio and the CVD.
On 5-minute BTC candles this pattern appears most clearly at support and resistance levels, VWAP touches, and at the end of extended directional moves. It is the institutional footprint of someone defending a position or building one.
CVD — Cumulative Volume Delta
The Cumulative Volume Delta tracks the running sum of delta across sub-candles within the current bar. It answers: over the entire life of this candle so far, which side has been net aggressive?
A candle that opens and immediately shows CVD running positive while price drifts sideways or down is telling you that buyers have been persistently aggressive but have not been rewarded with price — someone is selling into every bid. This is distribution. Conversely, negative CVD with flat or rising price is accumulation.
The CVD conflict signal fires when the CVD direction opposes the candle's price movement. The severity is weighted:
Strong conflict (CVD fully reversed vs price) → +20 points toward reversal
Mild conflict (CVD partially opposing) → +12 points
This is distinct from the Hidden Signal because CVD measures the trajectory of delta across time within the candle, while DV Ratio measures the final balance. Together they catch both sudden late-candle institutional activity and sustained multi-minute pressure.
Exhaustion — When a Move Runs Out of Fuel
Every directional move requires continued aggressive participation to sustain itself. If buyers push price up for 3 minutes but each successive sub-candle shows smaller and smaller net buying delta, the move is decelerating even if price has not yet reflected it. This is delta exhaustion.
The indicator tracks sub-candle delta flips — moments when delta switches from positive to negative or vice versa within the candle. A healthy trend has few flips and growing magnitude. An exhausted trend has many flips and shrinking magnitude. When flip count exceeds the threshold (default 3) with declining magnitude, the candle is tagged as exhausted.
The theory is grounded in order flow: the buyers who wanted to buy have bought. The remaining participants are not adding to the move — they are waiting. Without new aggressive participation, the next candle will either stall or reverse as the other side sees the weakness and acts.
VWAP — The Institutional Anchor
VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) is not a retail indicator. It is the benchmark that institutional execution desks use to measure trade quality. A fund buying 10,000 BTC wants to execute at or below the daily VWAP — beating VWAP is how they prove their execution was good. This creates a self-fulfilling gravitational pull.
Price above VWAP means the average participant who traded today is profitable — there is latent selling pressure from those looking to exit at a gain. Price below VWAP means the average participant is underwater — there is support from those averaging down or defending positions.
The stretch signal fires when price is significantly away from VWAP against the candle direction. This combination — price already extended, candle moving further away, volume opposing — is one of the highest probability reversal setups available on a 5-minute chart.
The Next Candle Prediction — Putting It Together
The prediction score combines all seven factors into a single 0–100% probability. The phase multiplier is critical: early in the candle, the score is deliberately pulled toward 50% because there is insufficient evidence. As the candle matures and more sub-candle data accumulates, the multiplier increases toward 1.0 and the score reflects the full weight of all factors.
Phase multiplier = max(0.4, candle_phase_pct / 100)
Scaled score = 50 + (raw_score × 0.5 × phase_multiplier)
At 40% through the candle, even a perfect signal is suppressed toward 50%. At 80%+, the full score is expressed. This is intentional — it mirrors how a skilled order flow trader thinks. You do not commit to a directional bias in the first minute of a 5-minute candle. You wait for evidence to accumulate. The last minute is when the picture is clearest and the entry timing for the next candle is most actionable.
A multi-timeframe delta volume dashboard that measures buying and selling pressure behind every candle using volume delta, intrabar CVD, DV flow, and volume structure analysis. Works on any timeframe combination — set your main TF, sub TF, and trend TF freely to match your trading style.
Most indicators react to price after it moves. BTC Delta MTF v3 reads what is happening inside the candle in real time — tracking who controls the volume before the candle closes. Built specifically for BTC scalping and Polymarket UP/DOWN trading.
The Problem With Price-Based Indicators
RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and most popular indicators are all derived from price. Price is the result of the battle between buyers and sellers — it tells you what already happened. By the time a price-based indicator fires, the move has started, the spread has widened, and you are entering late.
Volume tells a different story. Every transaction has two sides. When someone buys, someone else sells. The question is not whether volume is high or low — it is who initiated the transaction. A buyer who crosses the ask is aggressive. A seller who crosses the bid is aggressive. The delta is the net of those two forces: aggressive buying minus aggressive selling. This is the actual engine of price movement, not price itself.
elta Volume — The Core Engine
In a perfect world, delta would be calculated from tick data: every single transaction tagged as buyer-initiated or seller-initiated at the tape level. TradingView does not provide this for most traders. The indicator approximates it using the High-Low-Close formula:
Buy volume = Total Volume × (Close - Low) / (High - Low)
Sell volume = Total Volume × (High - Close) / (High - Low)
Delta = Buy volume - Sell volume
DV Ratio = Buy volume / Total volume → expressed as 0.0 to 1.0
A DV Ratio of 0.70 means 70% of the candle's volume was buyer-initiated. A ratio of 0.30 means sellers dominated. Near 0.50 means balance — a contested candle.
The power is not in the absolute number but in the conflict between the ratio and the candle color. A green candle with DV Ratio 0.35 is fundamentally weak — price moved up but sellers were in control of the volume. That candle is a lie. The market will correct it.
Hidden Signal — Detecting Institutional Activity
Large institutions cannot buy or sell a significant position in a single aggressive order. If they did, they would move the market against themselves. Instead they work orders slowly — buying into selling pressure, selling into buying pressure — deliberately keeping price from moving in their direction while they fill.
This creates a specific fingerprint: a candle that moves in one direction while volume flows in the opposite direction.
Red candle + DV Ratio > 0.55 → price fell, but buyers controlled volume → Hidden Buy
Green candle + DV Ratio < 0.45 → price rose, but sellers controlled volume → Hidden Sell
This is not a random noise event. It requires sustained effort over the entire candle duration for a large participant to push price down while quietly absorbing everything the market offers. When this appears in the last minute of a candle at 65%+ buy volume on a red candle, the probability of reversal on the next candle is very high — not because of magic, but because the entity doing this has already positioned itself for exactly that reversal.
Absorption — The Volume Trap
Absorption is a specific subset of the hidden signal concept but looks at the size of the effort rather than just the direction.
The indicator calculates two ratios in real time:
Volume spike ratio = Current candle volume / 20-bar SMA of volume
Delta flatness = |Net delta| / Total volume (inverted: 1 - this = absorption %)
A volume spike of 1.4x with 85% absorption means: volume is 40% above average, and nearly all of it is being absorbed — buyers and sellers are meeting in unusually large size, but neither side is winning. This is the market equivalent of two large forces in equilibrium. When that equilibrium breaks at candle close, the direction of the break is telegraphed by the DV Ratio and the CVD.
On 5-minute BTC candles this pattern appears most clearly at support and resistance levels, VWAP touches, and at the end of extended directional moves. It is the institutional footprint of someone defending a position or building one.
CVD — Cumulative Volume Delta
The Cumulative Volume Delta tracks the running sum of delta across sub-candles within the current bar. It answers: over the entire life of this candle so far, which side has been net aggressive?
A candle that opens and immediately shows CVD running positive while price drifts sideways or down is telling you that buyers have been persistently aggressive but have not been rewarded with price — someone is selling into every bid. This is distribution. Conversely, negative CVD with flat or rising price is accumulation.
The CVD conflict signal fires when the CVD direction opposes the candle's price movement. The severity is weighted:
Strong conflict (CVD fully reversed vs price) → +20 points toward reversal
Mild conflict (CVD partially opposing) → +12 points
This is distinct from the Hidden Signal because CVD measures the trajectory of delta across time within the candle, while DV Ratio measures the final balance. Together they catch both sudden late-candle institutional activity and sustained multi-minute pressure.
Exhaustion — When a Move Runs Out of Fuel
Every directional move requires continued aggressive participation to sustain itself. If buyers push price up for 3 minutes but each successive sub-candle shows smaller and smaller net buying delta, the move is decelerating even if price has not yet reflected it. This is delta exhaustion.
The indicator tracks sub-candle delta flips — moments when delta switches from positive to negative or vice versa within the candle. A healthy trend has few flips and growing magnitude. An exhausted trend has many flips and shrinking magnitude. When flip count exceeds the threshold (default 3) with declining magnitude, the candle is tagged as exhausted.
The theory is grounded in order flow: the buyers who wanted to buy have bought. The remaining participants are not adding to the move — they are waiting. Without new aggressive participation, the next candle will either stall or reverse as the other side sees the weakness and acts.
VWAP — The Institutional Anchor
VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) is not a retail indicator. It is the benchmark that institutional execution desks use to measure trade quality. A fund buying 10,000 BTC wants to execute at or below the daily VWAP — beating VWAP is how they prove their execution was good. This creates a self-fulfilling gravitational pull.
Price above VWAP means the average participant who traded today is profitable — there is latent selling pressure from those looking to exit at a gain. Price below VWAP means the average participant is underwater — there is support from those averaging down or defending positions.
The stretch signal fires when price is significantly away from VWAP against the candle direction. This combination — price already extended, candle moving further away, volume opposing — is one of the highest probability reversal setups available on a 5-minute chart.
The Next Candle Prediction — Putting It Together
The prediction score combines all seven factors into a single 0–100% probability. The phase multiplier is critical: early in the candle, the score is deliberately pulled toward 50% because there is insufficient evidence. As the candle matures and more sub-candle data accumulates, the multiplier increases toward 1.0 and the score reflects the full weight of all factors.
Phase multiplier = max(0.4, candle_phase_pct / 100)
Scaled score = 50 + (raw_score × 0.5 × phase_multiplier)
At 40% through the candle, even a perfect signal is suppressed toward 50%. At 80%+, the full score is expressed. This is intentional — it mirrors how a skilled order flow trader thinks. You do not commit to a directional bias in the first minute of a 5-minute candle. You wait for evidence to accumulate. The last minute is when the picture is clearest and the entry timing for the next candle is most actionable.
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Theo đúng tinh thần TradingView, tác giả của tập lệnh này đã công bố nó dưới dạng mã nguồn mở, để các nhà giao dịch có thể xem xét và xác minh chức năng. Chúc mừng tác giả! Mặc dù bạn có thể sử dụng miễn phí, hãy nhớ rằng việc công bố lại mã phải tuân theo Nội quy.
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