Smoothed Heiken Ashi - Thrust Body Highlight

Smoothed Heiken Ashi – Thrust Body Highlight is a price–action visualization tool designed to make strong directional “thrust” candles stand out and filter out noisy, wick-heavy bars.

Instead of using raw OHLC data, this script first applies an EMA smoothing (user-defined length) to open, high, low, and close, then builds a smoothed Heiken Ashi candle from those values. It then measures the total range of each HA candle and compares the wick size to that range. When the lower wick is small and the candle closes above its open, the bar is highlighted as a bull thrust (green). When the upper wick is small and the candle closes below its open, the bar is highlighted as a bear thrust (red). All other candles are shown as neutral (gray), helping you visually focus only on strong, decisive moves.

Use this indicator to:

Quickly spot momentum thrusts in the current trend

Filter out choppy, indecisive price action

Refine entries/exits when combined with your existing strategy (structure, EMAs, volume, etc.)

Inputs

Smoothing Length: EMA length used to smooth price before building Heiken Ashi candles.

Max Lower Wick % for Bull Thrust: Maximum lower wick as a percentage of total range for a candle to qualify as a bullish thrust.

Max Upper Wick % for Bear Thrust: Maximum upper wick as a percentage of total range for a candle to qualify as a bearish thrust.

This tool is intended as an aid to visual analysis, not as a standalone buy/sell signal.