FCPO KDJ Tower HA EMA StrategyFCPO 5-Min Strategy Backtest v1 — A day-trading strategy for FCPO (Malaysia Crude Palm Oil Futures, BMD:FCPO1!) built on a 5-layer confluence system: KDJ + Tower (Baota) + Heikin Ashi + EMA20 + MACD. It uses the exact same entry logic as the companion "FCPO 5min Signal System v2" indicator, converted to the Strategy Tester to validate signal quality.
Entry Conditions (all 5 layers must align) :
- Layer 1 — Trend filter: price above EMA20 = long only; below EMA20 = short only
- Layer 2 — Momentum: MACD histogram direction (5,20,5)
- Layer 3 — Extreme signal: KDJ J value < 20 (oversold) or > 80 (overbought)
- Layer 4 — Candle confirmation: Heikin Ashi direction matches raw candle close direction
- Layer 5 — Final filter: Tower (Baota) line flips red (bullish) / green (bearish)
- Entries only when flat; each signal fires once, on the first bar all conditions align
Exit Rules (intraday discipline) :
- Fixed stop-loss / take-profit: 8 points each by default (1 lot = RM25 per point, i.e. RM200 / RM200)
- Max holding time: 60 bars by default (can be disabled)
- End-of-day liquidation at 17:45 — no overnight positions
- No new entries after 17:15 (MYT)
Backtest Settings : commission RM12.5/lot and 1-tick slippage included; initial capital 10,000, fixed 1 lot.
How to Use : Open FCPO1! (or BMD:FCPO1!) on a 5-minute chart — keep regular candlesticks (do NOT enable Heikin Ashi candles, as fill prices would be distorted) — add the strategy, then open the Strategy Tester. All parameters (EMA / KDJ / MACD / stop-take points / time windows) are adjustable in the settings panel.
Disclaimer: This script is a technical-analysis tool for validation only. Backtest results do not guarantee future performance, and this is not financial advice. Futures trading involves high risk; always use proper risk management and stop-loss discipline.
FCPO 5分钟 策略回测 v1 —— 基于 KDJ + 宝塔线 + Heikin Ashi + EMA20 + MACD 五层共振入场系统的 FCPO（马来西亚棕榈油期货，BMD:FCPO1!）日内交易策略，与「FCPO 系统警报 v2」指标使用同一套入场逻辑，用于在策略回测器中验证信号质量。
入场条件（五层全部满足才开仓） ：
- 第1层 大方向：价格在 EMA20 上方只做多，下方只做空
- 第2层 动量背景：MACD 柱状线方向（5,20,5）
- 第3层 极端信号：KDJ J 值 < 20（KDJL）或 > 80（KDJH）
- 第4层 K线确认：Heikin Ashi 同向 + 普通K线收盘同向
- 第5层 最终过滤：宝塔线翻红 / 翻绿
- 只在空仓时进场，信号首次满足时只触发一次
出场规则（按日内交易纪律） ：
- 固定止损 / 止盈：默认各 8 点（1手合约每点 = RM25，即 RM200 / RM200）
- 最长持仓超时：默认 60 根K线（可关闭）
- 日内强平：17:45 触发清仓，不留隔夜仓
- 17:15 后不开新仓
回测设置 ：已含手续费（RM12.5/手）与滑点（1 tick）；初始资金 10,000，固定 1 手。
使用方法 ：FCPO1!（或 BMD:FCPO1!）5 分钟图 → 保持普通K线蜡烛模式（不要开 Heikin Ashi 蜡烛，否则成交价失真）→ 添加策略 → 打开策略回测器查看结果。EMA / KDJ / MACD / 止损止盈点数 / 时间窗口等参数均可在设置面板调整。
提醒：本策略仅为技术分析验证工具，回测结果不代表未来表现，不构成任何投资建议。期货交易风险高，请务必配合资金管理与止损纪律。 전략
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Alpha S/R Channel StrategyAlpha S/R Channel Strategy (ASRC)
Mean-reversion strategy trading pullbacks to a dynamic Higher Timeframe EMA channel. Confirms exhaustion via Engulfing & Pin Bar patterns, with Pin+Engulf combo overriding trend filters to capture institutional liquidity grabs. Features optional RSI, BB width, and inverted Squeeze Momentum filters. Includes adaptive position sizing, partial TP, breakeven stops, session trade limits, no-trade windows, day/weekend close, and Friday trading control.
📌 Strategy Overview
Alpha S/R Channel Strategy is a dual‑timeframe mean‑reversion strategy that identifies high‑probability reversal setups by combining a dynamic channel derived from a Higher Timeframe EMA with high‑conviction candlestick patterns (Engulfing and Pin Bar).
The strategy waits for price to retrace to a dynamic value area (the channel) and confirms exhaustion through candlestick patterns before entering—capturing pullbacks within the prevailing trend while avoiding counter‑trend trades.
🧠 Unique Edge – Why This Mashup Works
Most trend‑following strategies chase breakouts and get caught in false moves. Most engulfing strategies ignore the bigger picture and enter too early. This strategy solves both problems by combining these components in a specific sequence:
1. Dynamic EMA Channel (The Value Area)
Instead of using static support/resistance, the strategy constructs a dynamic channel around a Higher Timeframe EMA. The channel width adapts to volatility using three modes:
- Percentage – width as % of current price.(price * (channelWidthPct / 100) )
- ATR Multiplier – width based on ATR from the Higher Timeframe.
- Fixed – static price distance.
Why this matters: The HTF EMA represents the "fair value" or equilibrium price. When price pulls back to this zone, it's statistically more likely to resume the trend rather than reverse.
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2. Channel Break + Candlestick Confirmation (The Trigger)
The strategy enters only when price returns to the channel AND shows exhaustion:
- Bullish Engulfing – Current green candle engulfs previous red/small green candle
- Bearish Engulfing – Current red candle engulfs previous green/small red candle
- Pin Bar + Engulfing Combo – Pin bar sweeps recent high/low and is followed by an engulfing pattern
Why this matters: The channel provides the context (where price should reverse). The candlestick patterns provide the confirmation (that reversal is actually happening). Using both drastically reduces false signals.
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3. Optional Multi‑Layer Filters (The Quality Control)
The strategy includes configurable filters that can be enabled/disabled:
1- EMA Lower TF – Ensures micro‑trend alignment (longs above EMA, shorts below)
However, there is a critical override:
🔄 Pin Bar + Engulfing Combo OVERRIDES the EMA Confirmation
When a Pin Bar sweeps the N‑bar high/low (proving a breakout attempt failed) and is immediately followed by an Engulfing pattern on the next candle, this combo represents a "double confirmation" of exhaustion that bypasses the EMA filter.
Why this is a breakthrough:
Strong institutional reversals (liquidity grabs) often happen against the short‑term EMA trend. A pure trend‑following strategy with a strict EMA filter would miss these reversals because price is moving against the EMA.
2- Higher Timeframe EMA – Ensures long‑term trend alignment
This acts as a "trend filter on top of the trend filter" – preventing entries that go against the even larger market structure. Users can select a separate timeframe (e.g., 1H) with its own EMA length for additional confirmation.
3- RSI – Prevents buying above 70 and selling below 30
4- Bollinger Bands – Blocks entries during low volatility (sideways markets)
5- Squeeze Momentum – This strategy uses an inverted Squeeze Momentum logic:
"val < 0 → Longs allowed, Shorts blocked"
"val > 0 → Shorts allowed, Longs blocked"
"val == 0 → Both allowed"
This inversion is intentional. The strategy is mean‑reversion based—it waits for momentum to become overextended and then trades against that momentum
These filters are optional because different assets and market conditions require different levels of confirmation. The user has full control.
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4. Comprehensive Risk Management
The strategy includes:
- Position Sizing – Fixed percentage of equity per trade (separate for first and second entry)
- Pyramiding – Allows up to 2 positions in the same direction (second trade uses lower risk)
- Multiple SL Options – Low-High, Swing high/low, Channel, Fixed distance
- Trade Counter Reset – Resets at session starts for scalping timeframes, daily for swing
- No‑Trade Windows – Blocks entries during end‑of‑day volatility (active only for TF ≤ 15m)
- Day/Week End Closing – Closes positions before gaps (configurable by timeframe)
- Partial Take Profit – Closes a configurable percentage (default: 50%) at a specified R:R ratio (default: 1:2), allowing the remainder to run to the full target (default: 1:3)
- Breakeven Stop – Optionally moves the stop loss to breakeven when the first TP level is reached, protecting the remaining position from turning into a loss
Why this matters: The risk controls ensure survivability across different market conditions. Also Breakeven protection reduces the risk of winning trades turning into losers.
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📊 How It Works
1. Dynamic Channel Calculation
The strategy constructs a channel around an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) from a selected Higher Timeframe:
- EMA – Calculated on the Higher Timeframe
- Channel Width – Adaptive based on volatility (Percentage, ATR, or Fixed)
- Upper Band = EMA + (Width / 2)
- Lower Band = EMA - (Width / 2)
Channel Width Modes:
- Percentage – Width = Price × (User‑defined %)
- ATR Multiplier – Width = ATR(14) × Multiplier
- Fixed – Width = Static distance
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2. Entry Signal Detection
Trades are executed on the Lower Timeframe (default: 5m) when all conditions are met:
Pattern Requirements (One of the following):
- Bullish Engulfing: Current green candle completely engulfs previous bearish or small green candle
- Bearish Engulfing: Current red candle completely engulfs previous bullish or small red candle
- Pin Bar + Engulfing Combo: Pin bar sweeps recent high/low AND is followed by engulfing pattern (Overrides LTF EMA)
# Engulfing Filters:
Body Only – Only bodies must engulf (not full range)
Min/Max Range – Configurable via Percentage, ATR, or Fixed
Gap Allowance – Controls how much gap is allowed in the wrong direction
Previous Range % – Limits the size of the prior candle when it's in the same color
# Pin Bar Detection:
- Wick/Body Ratio (default: 3.0) – Wick must be 3× larger than body
- Max Body/Range (default: 0.20) – Body must be ≤20% of total range
- Min Wick/Range (default: 0.70) – Wick must be ≥70% of total range
- Sweep Lookback (default: 10 bars) – Pin bar must sweep a recent high/low
Min Pin Bar Range % – Pin bar must meet a minimum size threshold
# Channel Proximity:
Price must be within the channel boundaries (open inside)
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3. Confirmation Filters (All Optional)
- Lower Timeframe EMA : Longs require price > EMA; Shorts require price < EMA (overridden by Pin+Engulf combo)
- Higher Timeframe EMA : Ensures long‑term trend alignment (longs above HTF EMA, shorts below)
- RSI : Prevents longs above 70; Prevents shorts below 30
- Bollinger Bands : Blocks entries when BB width < threshold (low volatility)
- Squeeze Momentum : Ensures momentum matches trade direction (inverted logic)
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4. Risk & Position Management
# Position Sizing:
- First Trade – Fixed % of equity (default: 2%)
- Second Trade – Separate % of equity (default: 1%)
- Position size = (Account Risk) / (Entry – SL Distance)
# Friday Trading:
- Allow Friday Trading (default: Disabled) – When disabled, no new trades will be opened on Fridays. Existing positions are not affected. This helps avoid weekend gap risk as markets close for the week.
# Stop‑Loss Options:
1- Low-High : Entry bar low/high ± buffer
2- Swing high/low : N-bar low/high ± buffer
3- Channel : Channel band ± buffer
4- Fixed distance : Fixed price distance from entry
# Take Profit:
- Main R:R ratio (default: 1:3)
- Separate R:R for second trade (default: 1:3)
# Trade Counter Reset:
TF ≤ 15m – Resets at Asia (20:00 NY), London (03:30 NY), New York (09:30 NY)
TF > 15m – Resets once per day at session start
# No‑Trade Window:
- Active only for TF ≤ 15m (16:45–19:05 NY time)
- Protects against end‑of‑day volatility spikes
# Close All Positions:
- TF ≤ 15m – Can close at day end and/or week end (configurable)
- 15m < TF ≤ 240m – Week end only
- TF > 240m – Feature disabled
# Entry Spacing:
- Minimum Bars Between Entries (default: 4) – Prevents multiple entries on the same bar or too close together, reducing the impact of whipsaw on tightly clustered signals
⚙️ Default Settings – Optimized for XAUUSD (Gold)
All default values have been specifically calibrated for Gold's typical volatility and intraday structure.
Setting \ Default \ Why This Works for Gold
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Higher Timeframe \ 15m \ Gold's intraday rhythm operates on 15‑minute cycles. This timeframe captures the balance between institutional order flow and retail noise.
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EMA Length \ 36 \ approximately one full trading session. This captures the dominant intraday trend without excessive lag.
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Channel Width Mode \ Percentage \ Gold's price levels change over time. Percentage mode ensures the channel scales with price, maintaining consistent relative width regardless of Gold's price level.
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Channel Width \ 0.35% \ Gold's daily range averages $30–$100. At current prices, 0.35% = approximately $113–$16. This width captures ~70% of Gold's daily volatility, creating a meaningful "value zone" that filters noise while remaining relevant.
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Lower Timeframe \ 5m \ Fast enough to capture entry signals within the same session, slow enough to filter out micro‑noise. 5m is Gold's "sweet spot" for intraday entries.
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Engulfing Mode \ Percentage \ Adapts to Gold's volatility. As Gold's price moves, the required engulfing range scales proportionally—ensuring consistent pattern quality.
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Engulfing Min Range \ 0.098% \ At Gold's current price3000-5000, this ≈ $3.0–$5.0. Anything smaller is just market noise, not a meaningful reversal signal.
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Engulfing Max Range \ 0.550% \ At Gold's current price, this ≈ $20–$25. Larger candles are often blow‑off spikes driven by news —they tend to reverse violently, making them poor entry points.
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Previous Range % \ 0.60 \ Allows the prior candle to be up to 60% of the engulfing candle's range. This is Gold's "consolidation before reversal" pattern—a small same‑color candle before a large reversal candle.
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Gap Allowance \ 250 ticks \ Gold's typical spread and gap behavior. (250 ticks = $0.250 However, tick values vary between brokers), which accommodates normal gaps without allowing extreme invalid gaps.
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Pin Bar Sweep \ 10 bars \ On a 5m chart, 10 bars = 50 minutes. Gold's liquidity grabs often occur within a 30–60 minute window. 10 bars captures these recent liquidity zones without looking too far back.
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Pin Bar Range % \ 0.70 \ Requires the pin bar(high-low) to be at least 70% of the minimum engulfing range. This ensures the pin bar has enough size to be meaningful—rejecting tiny pin bars that lack conviction.
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Risk per Trade (1st) \ 2% \ Gold experiences 3–5 trade losing streaks regularly. 2% risk ensures that a typical losing streak results in only 6–10% drawdown—recoverable with a few winning trades.
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Risk per Trade (2nd) \ 1% \ When pyramiding, total exposure increases. 1% on the second trade limits worst‑case loss to -3% total (2% + 1%), protecting the account during false reversals.
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Risk:Reward \ 1:3 \ Gold routinely moves 1.5–2× its ATR in a single directional push. A 1:3 target (e.g., $15 on a $5 stop) is well within Gold's typical daily range—achievable without being overly ambitious.
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Stop‑Loss Reference \ Channel \ Aligns the stop with the value area. If price breaks beyond the channel, the mean‑reversion thesis is invalidated. This is the most logical stop placement for this strategy.
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Stop‑Loss Buffer \ 500 ticks \ 500 ticks = ($0.50 ) on Gold. However, tick values vary between brokers so The table on chart will display and show the calculated dollar value. This provides a safety buffer against spread, slippage, and normal wicks—preventing premature stops while keeping the stop within the value area.
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Partial TP & Breakeven \ Disabled (50%, 1:2) \ Optional features that allow locking in partial profits and protecting positions once they move in your favor. Recommended to enable after forward testing.
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No‑Trade Window \ Enabled \ 16:45–19:05 NY time captures the end‑of‑day volatility spike. Gold often experiences erratic moves during this period as institutional traders close positions.
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Day End Close \ Enabled \ Gold gaps frequently at the daily open (5:00 PM NY). Closing before day end avoids these gaps, which can easily stop out tight positions.
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Week End Close \ Enabled \ Gold is highly sensitive to weekend news (geopolitics, central banks). Gaps of $20–$50+ are common at Sunday open. Closing before Friday close is essential.
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EMA Lower TF \ Enabled \ Ensures entries align with the 5m micro‑trend. However, the Pin+Engulf combo overrides this filter to capture institutional reversals against the trend.
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Higher TF EMA \ Enabled (1H, 55) \ Provides an additional layer of trend confirmation at the macro level. The 1H 55‑EMA acts as a reliable gauge of the broader intraday trend, preventing entries against strong momentum.
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RSI \ Enabled length(14) \ Prevents buying when Gold is overbought (RSI > 70) and selling when oversold (RSI < 30). Gold's sharp spikes often create extreme RSI readings—this filter avoids chasing exhausted moves.
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Bollinger Bands \ Enabled \ locks entries during low volatility (BB width < 0.002). Gold sometimes enters tight consolidation ranges (BB width < 0.002) where engulfing patterns fail. This filter avoids trading in these conditions.
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Squeeze Momentum \ Enabled \ This is inverted from standard SQZMOM. Gold's momentum often overshoots before reversing. By fading the extreme (longs when val < 0, shorts when val > 0), the strategy captures the reversal rather than chasing the continuation.
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# Important Notes on Backtest Realism
- Commission – Most ECN/raw-spread brokers charge $3.00–$3.50 per side (round-turn commission of $6.00- $7.00) for 1 standard lot (100 oz) of XAUUSD. Standard accounts usually build the fee into a wider spread instead of charging a separate cash. This strategy deducts $3.50 per entry and $3.50 per exit ($0.035 × 100 oz)round-turn commission of $7.00. Adjust this to match your broker's exact fees.
- 4 ticks Slippage – For XAUUSD on OANDA, 1 tick = $0.001** per ounce (3 decimal places). 4 ticks = **$0.004 per ounce. Adjust this value if your broker quotes XAUUSD with different decimal precision (e.g., 2 decimal = $0.01 per tick).
Always adjust the commission value to your broker's exact fee structure before relying on the results.
"A backtest without realistic commission and slippage is a fantasy. A backtest with realistic commission and slippage is a truthful reflection of what you can expect when trading live."
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📊 Chart Display
Channel – Upper/Lower bands with a semi‑transparent fill (red zone), representing the value area
EMA Lower TF – Green EMA on the lower timeframe for confirmation
HTF EMA Filter – Red EMA line showing the additional trend filter (plotted on all timeframes ≤ its TF)
Info Table – Shows Market Status, EMA confirmations, Channel Width, Engulfing ranges, SL settings,
Filters, No‑Trade Window status, Session Close status
Signal Arrows – Green arrow pointing up (below bar) for Long entries, Red arrow pointing down (above bar) for Short entries
Historical Trades – Configurable number of past trades to display on the chart (default: 111, max: 125). Adjust this to optimize chart performance while keeping sufficient trade history for visual analysis.
Reset Signal – Arrow marker (grey) indicating when the trade counter resets at session starts (Asia, London, New York for TF ≤ 15m, or daily for larger TFs)
Background Colors – red for No‑Trade Window, Gray/White for Session Close
UI Note
# When you adjust any setting in the Inputs tab (Channel Width, Engulfing Min/Max, Previous Range, SL Buffer, etc.), the values displayed in the info table update automatically in real‑time.
This allows you to:
- See the impact of your changes immediately
- Verify the actual dollar values of your settings at current price levels
- Fine‑tune parameters without switching between tabs
Example: If you change the Channel Width from 0.35% to 0.50%, the info table will instantly show the new width in dollars (e.g., $8.50 → $12.00).
# Inputs are hidden from the status line to keep the chart clean. All settings (zones, EMAs, risk, patterns) remain fully adjustable in Settings → Inputs tab.
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📌 In Summary:
This is not a random collection of indicators.
- The HTF EMA Channel provides the structural context – a dynamic value area that adapts to volatility.
- The Engulfing/Pin Bar patterns provide the high‑conviction trigger – exhaustion confirmation.
- The EMA Override provides the institutional edge – capturing liquidity grabs that standard EMA‑based strategies miss.
- The Optional Filters provide the quality control – reducing false signals.
- The Risk Management provides the survivability – realistic position sizing and stops.
Each component exists specifically to compensate for a flaw in the others. This interdependency is what makes the strategy original, robust,
Author: Awab_Hassan
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ORB Detector DynamicORB Detector Dynamic
OVERVIEW
ORB Detector Dynamic is an Opening Range Breakout (ORB) visualization tool for Asia, London, and New York sessions.
It builds and locks the opening-range high and low for a selected session window, keeps session labels on history, and marks breakouts only after the range is locked — not while the range is still forming.
Built by the Xcelerate Trade team.
CONCEPT
An Opening Range Breakout uses the high and low of a defined window after a session open (for example the first 5, 15, or 30 minutes).
Once that window closes, the range is treated as locked. Breaks of the locked high or low can then be used as timing context together with broader session and structure tools.
HOW IT WORKS
1) Choose one session: Asia, London, or New York
2) Set the ORB window times in Inputs (Eastern Time — America/New_York; editable)
3) During the window, the script updates ORB High and ORB Low
4) When the window closes, the range locks and the label stops showing “forming”
5) Breakout conditions are evaluated only after lock, until the next ORB window starts
6) One breakout flag per direction per session (no repeated spam)
Default ORB windows (EST / America/New_York):
• Asia — 19:00–19:15
• London — 03:00–03:15
• New York — 09:30–09:45
Change start and end times in Inputs to match your ORB length (5 / 15 / 30 minutes). If you change ORB Timeframe, also adjust the session end time.
FEATURES
• ORB High / ORB Low levels (Style colors editable; defaults blue)
• Session labels on history (example: “NY ORB 15m”, “Asia ORB 15m”)
• “forming” label text while the window is still open
• Breakout flash (background highlight on first break — on by default)
• Optional breakout arrows in Style (off by default)
• Alerts:
– ORB Session Start
– ORB Range Locked
– ORB High Breakout (after range)
– ORB Low Breakdown (after range)
HOW TO USE
1) Add the indicator and select the session you trade
2) Confirm ORB Timeframe and session start/end match your playbook
3) Wait until the label no longer says “forming” (range locked)
4) Use a clean break of ORB High as long bias context, or ORB Low as short bias context
5) Prefer confluence with session boxes and higher-timeframe structure before acting
6) Recommended chart timeframe: same as the ORB window or lower (example: 1m–15m for a 15m ORB)
Works well together with:
• Xcelerate - Best Sessions - New York, London & Asia
• Fluid Liquidity Zones - CHoCH + Mitigation + HTF | Xcelerate Trade
SKIP / AVOID
• Trading breaks while the ORB window is still forming
• Chop or news spikes that pierce both sides of the range
• Entries with no session context and no higher-timeframe bias
LIMITATIONS
• This script is a visualization and alert tool. It does not place trades and does not guarantee results.
• Session times use America/New_York so DST is handled by TradingView’s timezone engine; verify times for your market and broker.
• On very low timeframes, noise and gaps can produce false or early breaks relative to your rules.
• Always confirm with your own risk management and market context.
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Educational - Candlesticks, Structure and SMC WHAT THIS IS
An educational tool for reading candlestick and market structure patterns. It identifies what has just formed on the chart and explains it in full sentences: what it is, what to watch for, what can happen next, and the exact condition that invalidates it. A second table continuously shows the Smart Money Concepts picture.
There are no entry signals, no alerts, no webhooks and no score meant for trading decisions in this script. If you are looking for a signal system, this is not it.
WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
Most pattern detectors print a name above the candle and stop there. That is not enough to learn from, because the same hammer is not the same event at the previous day low inside a downtrend as it is in the middle of the Asian range.
Two things address this:
Trend-context sensitivity. The same shape carries the opposite meaning at the top and bottom of a trend, and the script resolves this rather than flattening it. A long lower wick with a small upper body is a hammer in a downtrend, but at the top of an uptrend it is a hanging man - a bearish warning. A long upper wick at the bottom of a downtrend is an inverted hammer, not a shooting star. Most detectors conflate these two pairs.
A grade that names what is missing. Every recognised pattern is scored on six factors: proximity to a level, alignment with structure, kill zone timing, candle quality, volatility, and higher timeframe agreement. The grade itself is secondary. The useful part is the line listing which factors failed, so the lesson is not "a hammer is bullish" but what makes a hammer valuable or worthless.
WHAT IT RECOGNISES
Structural: break of structure up and down, change of character up and down, liquidity sweeps above and below, double top and double bottom on the neckline break, ascending and descending triangles, ranges.
Candlesticks: bullish and bearish engulfing, piercing line, dark cloud cover, bullish and bearish harami, belt hold, marubozu, tweezer top and bottom, hammer, hanging man, shooting star, inverted hammer, three white soldiers, three black crows, morning star, evening star, outside bar, inside bar, spinning top, doji.
THE SMC TABLE
Updates on every bar, not only when a new pattern appears:
Premium / discount position relative to the equilibrium of the last swing range
Bullish and bearish order block with price levels and state: fresh, tested, or broken into a breaker block
The nearest unfilled fair value gap with its boundaries
Liquidity pools: equal highs or equal lows where stops accumulate
Session and kill zone
Each item comes with an explanation of the concept itself, so no external reference is needed.
LANGUAGE
All table content is available in English and Hungarian. Use the "Language / Nyelv" setting in the first input group. English is the default. Input labels are bilingual, English first, because input labels cannot be switched at runtime in Pine.
SETTINGS
Deliberately minimal. Only what affects recognition is exposed: swing sensitivity (pivot length), the ATR penetration required for a structure break, the five timeframes used for agreement, and the position and text size of the two tables. Purely cosmetic options are fixed at sensible defaults in the code.
HOW TO USE IT
Put it on a clean chart, leave the educational table on, and read it when something forms. Do not trade the pattern name. Read the grade line: if it says a level is missing, or that the higher timeframes disagree, that is the actual lesson of the bar.
LIMITATIONS - please read
Patterns are evaluated on CLOSED bars. The live bar can still change.
Only ONE pattern is explained at a time, the most significant one by the internal ordering. Several patterns can be true on the same bar.
Piercing line and dark cloud cover are simplified, gap-free variants. Forex and crypto rarely produce true opening gaps, so an open beyond the previous CLOSE is accepted instead of beyond the previous high or low. This is stated in the table itself.
Double tops, double bottoms and triangles are derived from the last two swing points only. They are hints, not fully drawn patterns.
The kill zone is the traditional 07:00-10:00 local time window in London and New York. The London window starts one hour before the London session as defined in this script; that is intentional and matches common usage.
Candlestick patterns are not predictive on their own. Without context, levels and risk management they are not usable.
This is an educational and analytical tool. It is not financial advice and it does not guarantee any result.
MI EZ (magyar)
Oktatóeszköz a gyertyaalakzatok és a piaci szerkezet olvasásához. Felismeri, mi alakult ki éppen a charton, és teljes mondatokban elmagyarázza: mi ez, mire figyelj, mi történhet ezután, és pontosan mi teszi érvénytelenné. Egy második tábla folyamatosan mutatja a Smart Money Concepts helyzetképet.
Nincs benne belépő-jelzés, riasztás, webhook vagy kereskedési döntéshez szánt pontszám. Aki jelzőrendszert keres, ne ezt töltse le.
Miben más. A legtöbb alakzat-felismerő kiír egy nevet a gyertya fölé, és ennyi. Tanuláshoz ez kevés, mert ugyanaz a kalapács a napi támaszon, csökkenő trendben nem ugyanaz az esemény, mint az ázsiai sáv közepén.
Ezt két dolog kezeli. Egyrészt a trendkontextus: ugyanaz a forma ellentétes jelentésű a trend tetején és alján, és a szkript ezt feloldja. A hosszú alsó kanócos gyertya csökkenő trendben kalapács, emelkedő trend tetején viszont akasztott ember, vagyis bearish figyelmeztetés. Csökkenő trend alján a hosszú felső kanócos gyertya fordított kalapács, nem hullócsillag. Ezt a két párost a legtöbb felismerő összemossa.
Másrészt az osztályzat, ami megnevezi, mi hiányzik. Hat tényező: szint közelsége, szerkezeti irány, kill zone, gyertyaminőség, volatilitás, magasabb idősíkok egyetértése. Nem a jegy a lényeg, hanem a sor, ami felsorolja, melyik tényező bukott meg — így nem azt tanulod meg, hogy „a kalapács bullish", hanem azt, mitől lesz egy kalapács értékes vagy értéktelen.
Felismert alakzatok. Szerkezeti: BOS fel és le, CHoCH fel és le, likviditás-lehalászás mindkét irányban, dupla csúcs és dupla alj a nyakvonal törésekor, emelkedő és csökkenő háromszög, oldalazó sáv. Gyertyaminták: vevői és eladói elnyelő, átszúró vonal, sötét felhő takaró, bikás és medve harami, övfogás, marubozu, csipesz tető és alj, kalapács, akasztott ember, hullócsillag, fordított kalapács, három katona, három varjú, hajnalcsillag, esti csillag, külső és belső gyertya, pörgettyű, doji.
SMC tábla. Prémium/diszkont helyzet, bikás és medve order block az árszintekkel és állapottal (friss, tesztelve, törött breaker), a legközelebbi kitöltetlen fair value gap, likviditási poolok, szekció és kill zone — mindegyik mellé a fogalom magyarázatával.
Nyelv. A táblák tartalma angolul és magyarul is elérhető, az első beállítás-csoportban váltható. Alapértelmezés az angol.
Korlátok. Az alakzatok záró gyertyából számolódnak. Egyszerre egy alakzatot magyaráz el, pedig több is teljesülhet ugyanazon a gyertyán. Az átszúró vonal és a sötét felhő takaró egyszerűsített, rés nélküli változat. A dupla csúcs, dupla alj és a háromszögek csak az utolsó két lengőpontból származnak. A gyertyaalakzatok önmagukban nem prediktívek.
Ez oktatási és elemzési eszköz. Nem befektetési tanács, és nem garantál eredményt. 지표
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ATK/DEF HTF Analysis Combo# ATK/DEF HTF Analysis Combo
ATK/DEF HTF Analysis Combo is a Higher Timeframe market environment analysis framework designed to observe the broader market structure from a use-selected timeframe.
Instead of focusing only on the active chart, this indicator uses a selected Higher Timeframe as the primary reference environment and organizes several independent market measurements into one structured dashboard.
The objective is to provide a clearer view of the **broader market direction, trend condition, momentum condition, and volatility environment** through a Higher Timeframe perspective.
The indicator is designed as an analytical observation framework rather than a conventional single-condition indicator.
## 📊 Higher Timeframe Market Environment
The core of this indicator is the use of a use-selected Higher Timeframe.
The selected timeframe becomes the reference environment for the dashboard.
For example, the user may select:
* 4 Hour
* Daily
* Weekly
* Other supported timeframes
The indicator retrieves market data from the selected timeframe and evaluates the corresponding market conditions.
This allows the active chart to be viewed in the contet of a broader market environment.
A smaller chart can contain many local price movements while the selected Higher Timeframe may still maintin a different overall structure.
The purpose of this framework is to make that broader structure visible in a compact analytical format.
# 🧭 Four-Dimensional HTF Observation
ATK/DEF HTF Analysis Combo separates the Higher Timeframe environment into four primary dimensions:
**Direction**
**Trend**
**Momentum**
**Volatility**
These dimensions are intentionally treated as independent analytical modules.
They do not represent the same characteristic of the market.
A market can have a clear directional position while momentum is neutral.
A market can have strong trend strength while volatility is relatively low.
A market can experience elevated volatility while directional structure remains mixed.
By keeping these measurements separated, the dashboard preserves more information about the current Higher Timeframe environment.
# 🎯 1. HTF Direction
The HTF Direction module evaluates the directional position of the selected Higher Timeframe.
The calculation examines the relationship between:
* HTF closing price
* EMA 8
* EMA 21
* EMA 50
* +DI
* -DI
The relationship between price and multiple EMA levels provides the primary structural classification.
The +DI and -DI relationship is then used as an additional directional component.
The module classifies the environment into several states:
* 📈 Strong Bull
* 📈 Bullish
* ↗️ Mixed Bull
* ➡️ Neutral
* ↘️ Mixed Bear
* 📉 Bearish
* 📉 Strong Bear
A Direction Score ranging from **-100 to +100** is also displayed.
The score provides a normalized representation of the directional classification used by the module.
The Direction module is not intended to represent the entire market by itself.
It describes the directional position of the selected Higher Timeframe environment.
# 📈 2. HTF Trend
The HTF Trend module examines the strength and orientation of the broader trend structure.
It uses:
* ADX
* +DI
* -DI
ADX is used to describe the strength of the prevailing directional structure, while +DI and -DI provide the directional component.
The module produces several classifications:
* 🔥 Strong Bull
* 🔥 Strong Bear
* ⚡ Bull Trend
* ⚡ Bear Trend
* 🌊 Weak Trend
* 🌀 Range
This creates a distinction between **directional position** and **trend strength**.
The Direction module asks where the market is positioned.
The Trend module asks how strongly the directional structure is expressed.
These two measurements can therefore display different conditions at the same time.
# ⚡ 3. HTF Momentum
The HTF Momentum module uses RSI to describe the current momentum condition of the selected Higher Timeframe.
The RSI range is divided into multiple states:
* 🚀 Strong Up
* ⬆️ Accelerating
* ↗️ Bullish
* ➡️ Neutral
* ↘️ Bearish
* ⬇️ Declining
* 💀 Strong Down
The purpose of this classification is to provide a more detailed view of momentum rather than reducing the entire momentum condition to a simple positive or negative value.
The module also generates a normalized Momentum Score between **-100 and +100**.
Momentum is kept independent from Direction and Trend because these characteristics can behave differently within the same market environment.
# 📊 4. HTF Volatility
The HTF Volatility module measures the relative movement environment of the selected Higher Timeframe using ATR.
The current ATR is compared with its 50-period average:
**ATR Ratio = Current ATR / Average ATR**
The result is classified into:
* 🔥 Extreme
* ⚠️ High
* 📊 Elevated
* 📊 Normal
* 😴 Low
Volatility is treated as a **non-directional measurement**.
A high volatility condition does not represent an upward or downward direction.
It describes the relative magnitude of market movement compared with its reference volatility.
This distinction allows the dashboard to separate market activity from market direction.
# 🏆 5. HTF Composite Environment
The final HTF score combines the independent Direction, Trend and Momentum scores.
The three directional components are averaged into a normalized composite value.
The Volatility condition can then modify the composite value when volatility reaches elevated levels.
The resulting score is constrained to a range between:
**-100 and +100**
The composite value is intended to provide a compact representation of the broader Higher Timeframe environment.
It does not replace the individual modules.
Instead, it provides another layer of information that can be compared with the separate Direction, Trend, Momentum and Volatility readings.
# 🔬 Independent Module Architecture
One of the main characteristics of ATK/DEF HTF Analysis Combo is its independent-module architecture.
Rather than forcing all market conditions into one calculation from the beginning, each component is evaluated separately.
### Direction
Describes the broader directional position.
### Trend
Describes the strength and orientation of the trend structure.
### Momentum
Describes the current momentum condition.
### Volatility
Describes the relative magnitude of market movement.
### Composite Environment
Provides a consolidated numerical representation of the directional modules.
This architecture allows different market characteristics to remain visible instead of hing them inside one simplified reading.
# 🌐 Broader Market Observation
The indicator is designed specifically around the idea of observing the market from a broader timeframe perspective.
The active chart represents the immediate chart environment.
The selected Higher Timeframe represents the broader reference environment.
The dashboard connects these two perspectives by displaying the selected HTF conditions directly on the active chart.
This makes it possible to examine how the current chart exists within a larger market structure.
The indicator therefore focuses on **environmental context rather than individual candle interpretation**.
# 📐 Why Higher Timeframe Data Is Used
Higher Timeframe data can provide a different structural perspective from the active chart.
For example, price movement that appears highly directional on a smaller chart may exist inside a much broader range when viewed from a larger timeframe.
Likewise, a period of relatively quiet movement on the ative chart may occur while the broader timeframe maintns a clearly defined directional structure.
The purpose of the HTF framework is to expose this broader context through a consistent set of measurements.
# 🧩 Multiple Conditions Can Coexist
The dashboard does not require every module to produce the same classification.
Different combinations are possible.
For example:
**Bullish Direction + Weak Trend + Neutral Momentum + Low Volatility**
or:
**Mixed Direction + Strong Trend + Strong Momentum + High Volatility**
or:
**Neutral Direction + Range + Neutral Momentum + Normal Volatility**
These combinations represent different market environments.
The dashboard preserves these differences instead of reducing every situation to one basic directional label.
# 📊 Scoring System
Direction, Trend and Momentum use normalized scores to represent their respective classifications.
Directional scores use a range from **-100 to +100**.
The Volatility module uses a separate non-directional scale because volatility does not inherently describe upward or downward movement.
The Composite HTF Score is normalized to remain within **-100 to +100**.
The scores are mathematical representations of the conditions defined in the script.
They should be interpreted as descriptive measurements of the selected Higher Timeframe environment.
# ⚙️ User-Defined Timeframe Configuration
The Higher Timeframe reference is **user-configurable**.
Users are expected to select and configure the timeframe that they want the dashboard to analyze.
The indicator does not assume that one particular timeframe is appropriate for every chart or every market.
Changing the HTF Resolution changes the reference environment used by the dashboard.
This is an important part of the design because the indicator is intended to allow the user to determine which broader market context should be observed.
The selected timeframe should therefore be considered part of the user's analytical configuration.
# 🖥️ Dashboard
The dashboard provides a compact display of the five main analytical sections:
### 🎯 HTF Direction
Directional classification and normalized Direction Score.
### 📈 HTF Trend
Trend classification and ADX measurement.
### ⚡ HTF Momentum
Momentum classification and RSI measurement.
### 📊 HTF Volatility
Volatility classification and ATR Ratio.
### 🏆 HTF Final Environment
Composite Higher Timeframe score and overall environmental classification.
The selected HTF resolution is also displayed in the dashboard header.
The table can be positioned on either side of the chart according to the user's preference.
# 📏 Technical Components
The indicator uses established market-data calculations including:
* EMA 8
* EMA 21
* EMA 50
* RSI 14
* ADX 14
* +DI
* -DI
* ATR 14
* 50-period average ATR
These components are processed independently before being combined into the Higher Timeframe dashboard.
The purpose of the framework is not to introduce a single new mathematical measurement, but to organize several market characteristics into a unified Higher Timeframe observation structure.
# 🧠 Analytical Concept
ATK/DEF HTF Analysis Combo approaches market observation from a broader environmental perspective.
Instead of asking only whether price is moving upward or downward, the framework separates the market into several observable characteristics:
**Where is the market positioned?**
**How strong is the directional structure?**
**What is the current momentum condition?**
**How active is the market environment?**
**How do these independent conditions relate to one another?**
This creates a multi-dimensional representation of the selected Higher Timeframe environment.
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# ⚠️ Important Information
ATK/DEF HTF Analysis Combo is an analytical and visualization tool based on market data and mattical calculations.
The classifications and scores are generated from the relationships defined in the scrt between price, EMA, DMI, ADX, RSI and ATR.
The displayed values represent the calculated state of the selected Higher Timeframe environment at the time of observation.
They are not intended to represent certainty, probability, guarantees, or future market outcomes.
The indicator does not provide finl advice, tre instructions, or recommendations, or capital-management guidance.
The purpose of this script is to provide a structured framework for observing the broader market environment through use-selected Higher Timeframe data.
User are responsible for selecting and configuring the timeframe parameters appropriate to their own analytical requirements.
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TRADLEWARE-Gaussian Channel + StochRSI BTC
TRADLEWARE - Gaussian Channel + Stochastic RSI
This strategy combines a Gaussian Channel with a Stochastic RSI filter to capture momentum continuation in trending markets on the daily timeframe.
How it works
The Gaussian Channel is a smoothed price envelope built with an IIR (infinite impulse response) filter — a mathematically elegant alternative to a simple moving average. Instead of weighting recent bars linearly, the Gaussian filter applies a bell-curve weighting that produces very smooth, low-lag output. The channel is formed by adding and subtracting a filtered measure of true range (volatility) around the central filter line.
The channel turns green when the filter is rising (uptrend) and red when it is falling (downtrend).
Entry
A long position is opened when all three conditions are true simultaneously:
The channel is green (filter rising — uptrend confirmed)
Price closes above the upper band (breakout above the channel)
Stochastic RSI %K is either above 80 (strong momentum confirming the breakout) or below 15 (oversold dip within the uptrend)
The dual Stochastic RSI threshold captures two different entry scenarios: a momentum breakout and a pullback-and-recover within an ongoing trend.
Exit
The position is closed when either:
Price closes back below the upper band (breakout has failed or the trend is cooling), or
The channel reverses from green to red (trend direction has flipped)
An optional stop-loss (on by default) is placed at the lower band and trails as the channel moves, providing a floor on losses if price drops sharply through both the upper and lower bands in the same move.
Parameters
Poles: 4 (filter smoothness — higher = smoother but more lag)
Sampling Period: 144 (slow channel, suited to daily trends)
True Range Multiplier: 1.414 (controls channel width)
Stochastic RSI overbought threshold: 80
Stochastic RSI oversold threshold: 15
Stop-loss at lower band: on by default, can be disabled
Start/End date range inputs let you restrict the backtest window without editing code
Costs modelled
0.1% commission per side, 3 ticks slippage, fills at next bar's open.
Intended assets and timeframe
Daily bars. Designed and validated on BTC/USDT. Likely applicable to other trending crypto assets; not validated on equities .
Known limitations
Underperforms in choppy or ranging markets — the upper band breakout condition generates whipsaws when price oscillates without directional conviction. The filter requires several hundred bars of history to fully converge; results on very short histories may differ from the validated backtest. The strategy trades infrequently (around 30 trades from 2018 to present on BTC/USDT), so treat any single backtest run as a small sample rather than a statistically strong result.
Credit
The Gaussian Channel filter is from the open-source "Gaussian Channel (DW)" indicator by DonovanWall. This script reuses that filter and adds the Stochastic RSI entry filter, exit rules, stop-loss, and full strategy order management on top of it.
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One Time FramingOTF Trend
One Time Framing is a simple idea from auction market theory (the AMD / Market Profile world) that gets overcomplicated more often than it needs to be.
A market is one time framing up when each bar makes a higher low than the one before it. That's the whole test — the highs aren't part of it. Sellers might still be winning the fight for the high, but as long as they can't push price below the previous bar's low, they're not getting control of the auction. Buyers are setting the floor, one bar at a time, and one timeframe of participant is running the show. One time framing down is the mirror image: each bar makes a lower high, and buyers can't lift price above the previous high.
What the indicator draws
A green triangle below the bar when a new upward run begins, a red triangle above the bar when a new downward run begins. Faded dots mark each bar the run continues. A small × marks the bar where the run ends.
You choose how many consecutive bars are required before it counts. The default is 2 — one higher low is enough to call it. Push it to 3 or 4 and you'll get far fewer signals, but the ones you get will have more behind them. I'd suggest 3 on daily and weekly charts, 2 on intraday.
Inside bars
An inside bar has a higher low and a lower high. On the letter of the definition, it technically qualifies as one time framing in both directions at once. So this indicator treats inside bars as neutral. They don't extend a run and they don't break one — the count simply pauses. Price is coiling, nobody is in control, and the trend picks up where it left off on the next real bar. Inside bars get their own colour so you can see them at a glance.
There's a second job inside bars do here though. Because they represent a genuine pause, a break of an inside bar's range is often the moment the trend actually turns. So when an inside bar prints, the indicator remembers its high and low. If price then breaks out of that range in the opposite direction to the current trend, that counts as a reversal and flips the trend immediately — you don't have to wait for a fresh run to build up from scratch. This tends to get you in a bar or two earlier at turning points.
That pending setup expires if nothing happens within a set number of bars (default 8), so a stale inside bar from thirty bars back can't fire off a signal that has nothing to do with current price action.
What actually triggers a new trend
In priority order, each bar:
No trend running and a fresh run qualifies → new trend, triangle prints
An inside bar range break against the existing trend → reversal, triangle prints
The current run is broken → trend ends, × prints
A trend ending and a new one starting in the other direction are deliberately kept on separate bars. You could argue for collapsing them into one, but I'd rather see the exit clearly than save a bar on the entry.
Settings
Optional bar colouring for up runs, down runs and inside bars, all colours adjustable
Optional moving average with a choice of types (EMA 21 by default) purely for context — it plays no part in the signal logic
Alerts for new bullish and bearish runs, for inside bar reversals specifically, and for a trend ending
The run depth counters are exposed in the Data Window if you want to see how deep the current run is
Things to consider
Set your alerts to Once Per Bar Close. The state of the current bar can change as its high and low extend, so anything read intrabar isn't final.
Also be aware that a large gap can satisfy "higher low" on its own without any real structure behind it. Worth knowing if you're running this over earnings on equities or any asset that gaps over a weekend or overnight.
This isn't a standalone system. One time framing tells you who's in control right now, not whether you should be in the trade. Use it for confirmation and for timing entries within a bias you've already formed elsewhere.
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Strong EngulfingThis indicator marks outside bars that both swept the previous
bar's extreme and closed away from it, near their own end.
How it works
A bar qualifies on the long side when all four conditions hold:
1. Its low trades below the previous bar's low.
2. It closes above the previous bar's body top.
3. Its high trades above the previous bar's high.
4. Its close lands in the top third of its own range,
measured as (high - close) / (high - low).
The short side applies the mirror of each condition.
Conditions 1 and 3 together mean the previous bar sits entirely
inside the marked bar. Condition 4 is expressed as a ratio of
the bar's own range rather than in points, so the threshold
carries the same meaning across symbols and timeframes.
What separates this from a plain engulfing
A standard engulfing pattern only compares bodies, so a bar can
qualify without ever trading below the previous low. Requiring
that sweep in condition 1 excludes bars that expanded upward
without first reaching below the previous bar's extreme. The
close-position filter in condition 4 further excludes outside
bars that gave most of their range back before the close.
Evaluation timing
All conditions are checked with barstate.isconfirmed, so marks
are placed on closed bars only and never appear intrabar and
then disappear.
Settings
- Long side / Short side: enable each direction independently.
- Arrows: show or hide the triangle markers, with a color for
each side.
- Paint the signal candle: recolors the body of the qualifying
bar. Border and wick keep the colors from the chart's own
candle settings, which Pine cannot override on the main
series.
The close-position threshold is fixed at one third and is not
exposed as an input, since it forms part of the pattern
definition rather than a tuning parameter.
Alerts
Two conditions are available, one per side, each firing on the
close of a qualifying bar.
This script is for chart analysis only and is not investment
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LDO-Magnet [1.1]LDO-Magnet — Naked POCs, Value Areas & Vector Candle Zones
WHAT IT DOES
Plots the two kinds of unfinished business that pull price back like a magnet, and tells you when they stack on top of each other.
NAKED POINTS OF CONTROL (NPOCs). Each UTC day, week and month gets a volume profile built from lower-timeframe data. The price with the most traded volume is that period's POC. Once the period closes, an untouched POC is "naked" — a magnet that price tends to return to. Levels are removed the moment price finally trades through them. Previous Value Areas (VAH/VAL — the range holding 70% of the period's volume) are also drawn.
VECTOR CANDLE ZONES. Candles with unusually high volume — 200%+ of the recent average (red/green vectors) or 150%+ (violet/blue vectors) — mark where market makers left a footprint. The candle body becomes a zone that stays on the chart until price trades fully back through it.
CONFLUENCE ★. When a Naked POC sits inside an active vector zone, two independent reasons for price to react coincide at one level. The NPOC's label gains a star and its line brightens: ★ — the NPOC is anywhere inside the zone ★★ — the NPOC is near the zone's 50% midpoint (strong confluence) Stars appear and disappear live as zones are created and cleared.
READING THE CHART
Levels are labelled on the right edge: dNPOC / wNPOC / mNPOC are daily, weekly and monthly Naked POCs (dotted, dashed and solid lines); pdVAH, pwVAL etc. are the previous period's Value Area edges. A star in front of any NPOC means it currently sits inside a vector zone. When two NPOCs from different timeframes nearly overlap, only the higher-timeframe one is drawn — the hidden one is still tracked and still fires alerts.
SETTINGS
Timeframes — which profile periods to plot. Daily and weekly are on by default; monthly suits higher-timeframe charts.
Levels — toggle Naked POCs, previous Value Areas and developing (live, still-forming) profiles, and cap how many levels of each timeframe stay on the chart. "Keep Touched Levels" leaves a faded line where a level was hit instead of deleting it.
Vector Zones — toggle the zones, colour them with one colour or by vector type, and set their transparency. "Highlight NPOC + zone confluence" controls the stars; the "Strong confluence band" sets how close to the zone's 50% level an NPOC must be to earn ★★ (default 15% of the zone's height).
Display — labels, prices, text size, and the overlap distance below which lower-timeframe levels are hidden.
Alerts — enables the dynamic alerts and sets the approach distance.
Appearance — colours and transparency per level family. Transparency runs 0–100: LOWER is brighter, higher is fainter. If a label seems hard to read, check you are adjusting the slider for that family (Naked POC, Value Area or developing profile) — each has its own.
ALERTS
Add an alert on the indicator and choose a condition: approach/touch per NPOC timeframe, previous VAH/VAL crosses, Value Area entries, vector zone approach/entry, and Approaching/Touching Confluence. Or select "Any alert() function call" to receive everything as detailed messages, e.g.:
ZECUSDT.P | STRONG CONFLUENCE touch | Daily NPOC 466.60 inside vector zone | current 466.85
HOW TO USE THE CONFLUENCE
The stars mark where a reaction is likely — they do not predict its direction. In practice:
Treat ★★ levels as the highest-priority magnets on the chart. Price reaching one usually does something: a rejection back the way it came, or a decisive push straight through.
Read direction from the approach. Into confluence against the prevailing trend, favour the reversal; with the trend and on strong volume, a clean break often accelerates.
First touches are the most reliable. Once a level has been tested the magnet is spent — the script removes filled NPOCs automatically.
Higher timeframe beats lower: a starred wNPOC or mNPOC outranks a starred dNPOC.
Set the Approaching Confluence alert and let the chart come to you.
NOTES
Levels are computed from lower-timeframe volume distributed across price, with UTC period boundaries, so they will not exactly match profiles drawn in your chart's local timezone. Use standard candles. Works on any symbol and timeframe with volume data.
Vector zone logic is adapted from the open-source Vector Candle Zones code by infernix and peshocore (MPL 2.0) via the public Traders_Reality_Lib library — credit to them for the PVSRA methodology. The volume-profile engine, UTC framework, overlap suppression, confluence detection and alert system are original to this script.
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Advanced Bar Counter with HTF HighlightsAdvanced Bar Counter with HTF Highlights is a session-aware bar-counting indicator purpose-built for futures traders, particularly ES and NQ scalpers working on the 1-minute and 5-minute charts. It helps traders monitor higher-timeframe candle closures, developing market structure, and their position within the current session without repeatedly switching away from the lower timeframe.
The indicator places numbered labels beneath selected bars, with counting anchored to a user-defined regular trading hours (RTH) open. Electronic trading hours (ETH) can also be counted as a separate session when enabled.
Default behavior
In Auto counting mode:
• On a 5-minute chart, the first bar and every third bar are labeled. Each third bar represents the closing bar of a 15-minute interval.
• On a 1-minute chart, the first bar and every fifth bar are labeled. Each fifth bar represents the closing bar of a 5-minute interval.
This alignment makes it easier to identify when an important higher-timeframe interval is completing while continuing to analyze price action on the lower timeframe.
By default, the indicator displays only on the 1-minute and 5-minute timeframes. An optional setting allows it to appear on other timeframes.
Higher-timeframe highlights
A defining feature of this indicator is its ability to display session-aligned 15-minute, 30-minute, and 1-hour closing bars in separate, customizable colors.
These highlights are calculated from the number of minutes elapsed since the configured session open. This keeps the corresponding closing bars synchronized when switching between the 1-minute and 5-minute charts. When multiple intervals end on the same bar, the enabled higher-timeframe highlight takes priority.
For example:
• On a 1-minute chart, a trader can recognize when the current bar will also complete a 5-minute, 15-minute, 30-minute, or 1-hour interval.
• On a 5-minute chart, a trader can recognize when the current bar will also complete a 15-minute, 30-minute, or 1-hour interval.
The 15-minute highlight is automatically suppressed when every displayed label already represents a 15-minute boundary, as occurs with the default counting mode on a 5-minute chart. This prevents every label from receiving the same highlight and preserves the usefulness of the color hierarchy.
How it can be used
The bar counts and higher-timeframe highlights provide timing and structural context; they do not generate trade signals.
A lower-timeframe trader can use this information to observe how a higher-timeframe candle is completing. For example, a 1-minute trader may notice that the final bar of a 5-minute interval is closing near its high, while a 5-minute trader may observe the same behavior as a 15-minute interval completes. The same principle can be applied to the highlighted 30-minute and 1-hour boundaries.
This workflow is inspired by price-action concepts popularized by Al Brooks, including attention to candle closes, momentum, and alignment across timeframes. The information is intended to support discretionary entry refinement by helping traders evaluate whether lower-timeframe price action agrees with the developing higher-timeframe structure and momentum regime.
Settings
Users can customize:
• Automatic, odd-bar, every-third-bar, or every-fifth-bar counting
• RTH and ETH opening times
• Chart timezone
• Whether ETH bars are counted
• Visibility on timeframes other than 1 minute and 5 minutes
• 15-minute, 30-minute, and 1-hour highlights
• Highlight and default label colors
• Label size
• ATR-based or tick-based label spacing
The chart timezone setting should match the timezone selected on the TradingView chart. The configured RTH and ETH opening times must also correspond to the intended futures session. Incorrect session or timezone settings will cause the counts and interval highlights to be misaligned.
Important notes
This indicator is a visual timing and session-orientation tool. It does not predict price direction, assess trade quality, place orders, or provide buy and sell signals. Higher-timeframe highlighting identifies interval boundaries only; traders must interpret the associated price action in the context of their own methodology and risk-management rules. 지표
Engulfing Overlap Zone [8 Types]Engulfing Overlap Zone
This script looks for the moment control changes hands.
An engulfing pattern forms and commits one side of the market. Later that pattern breaks. On or
around the same candle, an engulfing pattern in the OPPOSITE direction confirms. When the two
structures occupy the same price area, that shared area is where one side was trapped and the
other took over. This script finds those moments and draws only that area.
Nothing else is plotted. Ordinary engulfing patterns, and engulfing patterns that simply failed,
are used internally but never drawn, because on their own they are not what this tool is about.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
1. It reports a transfer of control, not a pattern.
Most pattern tools mark every occurrence they find. This one requires a three step sequence to
complete before anything appears: a pattern forms, that pattern breaks, and an opposing pattern
confirms in the same price area. Any of the three missing means nothing is drawn.
2. The zone is measured, not just marked.
Two zones can touch by a hair or sit almost perfectly on top of each other. Those are very
different situations, so the script measures how much of the zone is actually shared and states
it as a percentage. You can then hide everything below a threshold you choose.
3. Everything is sorted into eight types.
The zone carries the identity of the engulfing pattern that took over, including whether that
pattern grabbed liquidity before it confirmed. Each of the eight can be shown or hidden
independently and has its own alert.
4. The hard part is the pairing.
When a pattern breaks there is often more than one opposing pattern nearby that could be its
counterpart. Picking the right one, and rejecting the ones that only look related, is what this
script is really about. The rule used is simple to state and is described below, but it is the
piece that decides whether the output is meaningful or noise.
THE PATTERNS INVOLVED
A candle is Green when close is greater than open, Red when close is less than open, and a Doji
when close equals open. A Doji is neither. Only fully closed candles are read, and the running
candle is never used.
Regular engulfing, two candles
R Buy EG: Red Base candle, and the very next candle is Green and closes above the Base High.
R Sell EG: Green Base candle, and the very next candle is Red and closes below the Base Low.
E-Regular engulfing, three or more candles
ER Buy EG: Red Base candle followed by a run of consecutive Green candles. The run must contain
at least 2 Green candles, and confirmation happens when one of them closes above the Base High.
A single Red candle before confirmation cancels the run. Doji candles are skipped: they neither
count toward the run nor break it.
ER Sell EG: the mirror image, with a Green Base and a run of at least 2 Red candles, one of
which closes below the Base Low.
If the very first candle after the Base already closes through it, that is by definition a
Regular pattern, so E-Regular requires the second candle or later to break the level. One Base
candle can never produce both.
Type 1, the same four patterns plus a liquidity sweep
Type 1 adds one requirement: before the close breaks through one side of the Base candle, price
must have traded through the opposite side.
T1 R Buy EG: the Confirm candle's Low reaches at or below the Base Low.
T1 R Sell EG: the Confirm candle's High reaches at or above the Base High.
T1 ER Buy EG: at least one Green candle of the run reaches at or below the Base Low.
T1 ER Sell EG: at least one Red candle of the run reaches at or above the Base High.
Any candle of the run can satisfy the sweep, including the Confirm candle itself. The sweep is
always measured against the Base candle, never against another candle in the run.
HOW AN OVERLAP ZONE IS BUILT
Step 1. A pattern confirms and is tracked from then on.
Step 2. The pattern breaks. A Buy Engulfing breaks when a Red candle CLOSES below its Base Low.
A Sell Engulfing breaks when a Green candle CLOSES above its Base High. A wick through the level
is not enough; the close has to settle beyond it.
Step 3. The script looks for an engulfing pattern in the opposite direction whose confirmation
lands on the breaking candle, or as close before it as possible, and whose zone shares both time
and price with the broken one. Where several candidates exist, the one closest to the break is
taken, because that is the one that actually represents the handover.
When all three steps line up, one zone is drawn: the price range of the Base candle of the
pattern that took over, running from that Base candle to its Confirm candle.
The eight resulting types are R Buy EG Overlap, R Sell EG Overlap, ER Buy EG Overlap, ER Sell EG
Overlap and the four Type 1 versions of the same. The type always describes the pattern that
took over, because that is the zone on your chart.
OVERLAP STRENGTH
Strength is the share of the drawn zone that sits inside the price range of the broken zone.
100 percent means the whole zone is shared, which is the tightest possible confluence. A small
number means the two structures barely reach each other. The figure is appended to each label,
and Minimum Overlap Strength lets you discard anything below a level you set. That threshold
applies to the chart, the summary table and the alerts together, so what you see and what you
are notified about never disagree.
READING THE CHART
Each zone is filled in two tones, and the split is the whole point:
- The part that shares price with the broken zone is drawn in the direction colour, green for a
Buy Overlap and red for a Sell Overlap, with a solid border. This is the confluence.
- Whatever is left over is drawn in neutral yellow with no border.
So the colour split you see is the strength figure, shown rather than stated. A zone that is
almost entirely green is strong. A zone with a thin green sliver and a large yellow body is
weak, and the percentage will say so.
Each zone carries a label with its type and strength, placed below a Buy Overlap and above a
Sell Overlap so it points at its own zone.
A summary table in the corner counts what was found in the current scan window, split by Buy and
Sell. Types you have switched off are still counted, so the table always reflects what the market
printed rather than what is currently on screen. Zones rejected by the strength threshold are not
counted, because that threshold decides what qualifies as a zone at all.
SETTINGS
Scan
- Scan Length: how many closed candles are scanned backwards. The running candle is always
excluded.
- Minimum Overlap Strength: the percentage a zone must reach to qualify.
Pattern Types
- An individual switch for each of the eight types.
Zone Style
- Separate colours for the shared area and the remaining area, on both the Buy and Sell side.
Labels
- Show Labels, Show Strength in Label, Label Size, and Label Distance from Zone as a percentage
of the zone height. Increase the distance on noisy charts so labels clear the candles.
Summary Table
- Show, position and size of the corner table.
ALERTS
Eight alert conditions are available, one per type:
R Buy EG Overlap, R Sell EG Overlap, T1 R Buy EG Overlap, T1 R Sell EG Overlap, ER Buy EG
Overlap, ER Sell EG Overlap, T1 ER Buy EG Overlap, T1 ER Sell EG Overlap.
An alert fires on the candle that completes the handover. Each message carries the type, the
symbol, the timeframe and the closing price. The same messages are also sent through the alert
function, so the "Any alert() function call" alert type can deliver every zone through a single
alert.
All alerts are evaluated only after a candle has fully closed.
If you read the source, note that the chart and the alerts are two separate paths. The chart is
rebuilt by scanning history backwards on the last bar, while the alerts keep a running list of
confirmed patterns and test each closed candle against it. Two paths are used because rescanning
the whole history on every bar would be far too slow, and a running list cannot redraw the past.
Both apply exactly the same rules and the same strength threshold, so they always agree.
REPAINTING
This script does not repaint.
- Detection reads confirmed candles only. The scan starts one bar behind the latest bar, so the
candle that is still forming is never part of any calculation.
- Every alert signal is written so that it can only become true once a candle has finished. Price
moving inside an open candle cannot make a signal appear and then disappear.
- Zones are rebuilt on the last bar from confirmed history. A drawn zone does not move, change
colour, change type or change its strength figure afterwards. It only leaves the chart when it
falls outside the Scan Length window.
When you create an alert, TradingView may show a caution banner saying the indicator can repaint.
That banner appears automatically for any script that uses the built in bar state variables, no
matter how they are used, because the platform cannot check the intent behind them. This script
uses them for the opposite purpose: one of them is what restricts every signal to bar close, and
the other is what redraws the zones efficiently on the final bar. Choosing "Once Per Bar Close"
when creating the alert is still recommended.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
- These zones are rare by design. Three separate conditions have to line up, so long stretches
with nothing on the chart are normal and expected. If you want to see more, lower the strength
threshold before raising the scan length.
- Scan Length is capped lower than in a plain pattern scanner. Every candidate pattern has to be
followed forward for a break and then matched against opposing patterns, which is far heavier
than simply detecting a pattern. The cap keeps the script responsive on slower machines.
- A zone whose Base candle falls outside the scan window will not appear even if the handover
itself was recent. If zones seem to be missing, raise the Scan Length before changing anything
else.
- For alerts the number of patterns tracked at once is capped and the oldest are released first.
In practice patterns break or age out long before this matters.
- Detection is purely structural. It reports where control changed hands and how much the two
structures shared. It does not rank zones beyond that, measure what happened afterwards, or
produce entries, targets or stops.
- Doji candles are treated as neutral by design. They never act as a Base candle and never break
an E-Regular run. On symbols and timeframes that print many Doji candles this makes runs
slightly more tolerant than a strict same colour rule would be.
HOW TO USE IT
A zone marks an area where one side committed, was proven wrong, and was immediately replaced by
the other side. Traders commonly watch these areas for reactions when price returns to them,
particularly the shared portion, since that is the part both structures agreed on.
The strength figure is there to let you be selective. Starting at zero shows everything so you
can see how the tool behaves on your symbol and timeframe, and raising it narrows the output to
the tighter confluences.
Type 1 zones are worth separating out. There the pattern that took over first grabbed liquidity
and only then confirmed, which is a different sequence from a clean takeover.
These are reference areas, not entry signals. Use them alongside higher timeframe structure, your
own support and resistance mapping, and proper risk management.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is a pattern detection tool. It is not financial advice and it makes no claim
about profitability. Trading involves risk. Always apply your own analysis and risk management. 지표
TJR Swing High/Low + BOSTJR Swing High/Low + BOS
Version 1.0.0
Marks swing highs, swing lows and Breaks of Structure using TJR's 2-candle method, so you can see how market structure is forming and where the trend shifts.
WHAT IT DRAWS
• Swing highs and lows: read from the stream of real candles. A colour flip from bull to bear marks a swing high at the higher of the two paired candle highs; a colour flip from bear to bull marks a swing low at the lower of the two paired candle lows. Each line sits on whichever paired candle holds the extreme, one candle wide.
• Historical swings: the current swing plus up to two previous swings per type are kept, so up to three swing high lines and three swing low lines can show at once. Older lines hold their price and restyle to a shared historical look. Two depth dropdowns, one for highs and one for lows, choose how many are shown: current only, current plus one, or current plus two.
• Break of Structure: one horizontal line at the broken swing's price, from that swing's origin to one bar past the break. Only the most recent break is shown. It is drawn solid on the break, then once the break candle plus one further candle have closed it restyles to the chosen historical style, which defaults to dotted.
HOW IT WORKS
• Doji handling: a doji, defined as a candle whose close equals its open, is ignored entirely and the real candles on either side of it are compared directly.
• Break of Structure logic: a trend state machine is driven by the current swing high and low. From a cold start a close beyond either current swing sets the trend. Once a trend is set, only the opposite swing is watched, so in a bullish trend a close below the current swing low is a bearish break, and in a bearish trend a close above the current swing high is a bullish break.
• Repaint-safe: the indicator acts only on confirmed, closed bars, so lines do not flicker or repaint on the live forming bar. It uses no external data requests, no alerts and no tables.
WHAT IT RUNS ON
Standard Japanese candlestick charts only. Heikin Ashi, Renko, Kagi, Point and Figure and Range charts are refused, because on those chart types the candle open, high, low and close are synthetic and the structure they imply would be misleading. On any of those the indicator stops with a message and draws nothing.
INPUTS
• Swing High: history depth, colour, opacity, line style and thickness.
• Swing Low: history depth, colour, opacity, line style and thickness.
• Historical Swings: colour, opacity, line style and thickness, shared by all aged tiers.
• Break of Structure: thickness and the historical style applied once the break has aged.
HOW TO USE
Add it to any standard candlestick chart. Use the swing highs and lows to see where structure is forming, and the Break of Structure line to see when a swing has been broken and the trend has shifted.
FEEDBACK
Please let me know if you experience any issues, or have feedback for improvements or additions in the comments below. Thank you, Tom 지표
MA Retest StrategyMA Retest Strategy
Overview
MA Retest Strategy is a trend-following system built around a simple but powerful idea: price rarely moves in a straight line — it pulls back to test a moving average before continuing in the direction of the trend. Instead of just plotting two moving averages and leaving you to guess, this indicator turns that pullback-and-continuation behavior into a complete, rule-based trade framework: it detects the retest, marks the exact entry, calculates a volatility-aware stop-loss and take-profit, tracks the outcome of every signal, and even scans four other symbols of your choice for the same setup in real time.
The trend direction is defined by two Exponential Moving Averages (EMA) — a fast one (default length 50) and a slow one (default length 200). Their relationship (fast above slow = uptrend, fast below slow = downtrend) is combined with a retest of the fast EMA: price must pierce through the fast EMA against the trend and then close back on the trend side. That close is the signal.
Trading Logic
Long entry conditions:
1. The fast EMA is above the slow EMA (uptrend).
2. Within the last few bars, price has pierced below the fast EMA (a genuine pullback, not just noise).
3. The current candle closes back above the fast EMA, confirming the retest is over and the trend is resuming.
When all three conditions align, the indicator plots a BUY label, and immediately draws four price levels: Entry, Stop-Loss, Take-Profit, and Breakeven, each as a line with a live price tag on the right edge for easy order placement.
Short entry conditions are the mirror image: fast EMA below slow EMA, a pierce above the fast EMA, and a close back below it.
If price is currently trading between the two moving averages (neither clearly above nor below), no new signal is evaluated — this "no man's land" filter avoids chasing signals in a choppy, undecided market.
Once a setup is triggered, it stays open (as a pending order, then as an active trade once price reaches the entry) until it's resolved by hitting the stop, hitting the target, timing out, or being invalidated by an opposite signal — only one setup per direction is ever open at a time, and an opposite signal automatically cancels whatever is currently active.
Risk Management
The stop-loss is never left to guesswork. You can choose between three calculation methods:
• Swing (High/Low): stop placed at the nearest swing low/high within a lookback window.
• ATR: stop placed at a multiple of the Average True Range from the entry price — automatically adapts to the current volatility of the instrument.
• Percent of Price: a fixed percentage distance from the entry price.
Regardless of the method chosen, a hard risk ceiling (expressed as % of price) prevents the stop from ever being placed unreasonably far away — for example because of a single abnormal wick or a bad tick in the data feed. Swing mode additionally has its own volatility-aware clamp (a maximum deviation expressed in ATR multiples), since raw swing highs/lows are the most exposed to being skewed by one outlier candle.
The take-profit is calculated as a multiple of the initial risk (an "R-multiple"), and a separate breakeven marker line shows where price would need to reach for you to consider moving your stop to entry — because in a mean-reversion-to-trend system like this, once price reaches roughly 1R in your favor, the probability of it snapping back toward the moving average (rather than continuing cleanly to the full target) increases, so protecting the trade at breakeven is a sound practice.
Dual Dashboard System
Statistics Panel — tracks every signal the indicator has generated on the current chart and breaks the results down into Take-Profit, Stop-Loss, and Breakeven outcomes (a stop hit after price already touched the breakeven level is counted separately from a "clean" stop-loss, since in practice you'd have moved your stop by then). You can filter the statistics to the full history, the last N days, or from a fixed date — ideal for quickly gauging how well the current settings are performing on a specific symbol before you commit to trading it.
Symbol Scanner — lets you monitor up to five other symbols for the exact same setup, in real time, without leaving your current chart. For each symbol it shows whether a signal is currently pending or already active, in which direction, and its entry/stop/target levels. Note: the scanner applies the same strategy settings (moving average lengths, stop method, R-multiple, etc.) that are set for the main chart — it is not independently configurable per symbol.
How to Use
1. Open the symbol and timeframe you're interested in, and check the Statistics panel — a strong win rate and consistent R:R suggest the market is currently trending cleanly enough for mean-reversion entries to work.
2. If the recent win rate is high, the market is respecting the moving average structure and the setup is worth trading. If it's dropping, the market may be entering consolidation — better to wait for a cleaner trend to re-establish.
3. Use the plotted Entry/Stop/Take-Profit/Breakeven lines and their price tags to place your actual order.
4. Once price reaches the breakeven marker, consider moving your live stop-loss to entry — this is a discretionary decision the indicator flags for you but does not automate.
5. Use the Symbol Scanner to keep an eye on other assets in your watchlist without switching charts constantly.
Settings Reference
General
• Source — the price series used to calculate both moving averages (default: Close).
Moving Average
• MA fast — length of the fast EMA (default 50).
• MA fast line width — plot thickness of the fast EMA.
• MA slow — length of the slow EMA (default 200).
• MA slow line width — plot thickness of the slow EMA.
• Bull color / Bear color — color of each MA line and of the shaded fill between them (tinted according to current trend direction).
Strategy
• MA Pierce Check Window (bars) — how many recent bars are checked to confirm price genuinely pierced the fast EMA before the retest close (default 3).
• Swing Point Lookback (bars) — lookback window used to find the nearest swing high/low for Swing-mode stops, and also used as part of the warm-up gate before the indicator starts evaluating signals (default 10).
• Take Profit, R (risk multiple) — target distance expressed as a multiple of the initial risk (default 3 = 3R).
• Max Bars in Open Setup (timeout) — if a signal doesn't resolve (neither stop nor target hit) within this many bars, it's force-closed and logged separately as a timeout rather than left open indefinitely (default 300).
• Stop Loss Calculation Method — choose between Swing (High/Low), ATR, or Percent of Price.
• ATR Length — averaging period for the ATR calculation (default 14).
• ATR Multiplier for Stop — multiplier applied to ATR when the Stop mode is set to ATR (default 1.5).
• Stop, % of Entry Price — fixed stop distance used only when the Stop mode is set to Percent of Price (default 1%).
• Max Allowed Risk, % of Price — hard ceiling on stop distance, applied regardless of the selected mode, to protect against abnormal candles or bad data ticks (default 5%).
• Also Cap Swing Stop by ATR (recommended) — an additional, volatility-adaptive safety clamp that applies only in Swing mode, tighter and more responsive than the flat percentage cap.
• Max Swing Stop Deviation, x ATR — multiplier for the clamp above (default 3).
• Move to Breakeven, R (risk multiple) — the R-distance at which the breakeven marker line is drawn (default 1 = 1R).
Visualization
• Show BUY/SELL Labels — toggle the signal labels on the chart.
• Show SL/TP/BE Price Tags on Lines — toggle the live price tags at the right edge of each level line.
• Fill Risk/Reward Zones — toggle the shaded risk/reward boxes.
• BUY Label Color / SELL Label Color — colors of the signal labels.
• Entry Line Color / Stop Loss Line Color / Take Profit Line Color / Breakeven Line Color — colors of the four level lines.
• Reward Zone Color / Risk Zone Color — colors of the shaded zones.
• Entry/SL/TP Line Width — thickness of the level lines.
Statistics
• Show Statistics Panel — toggle the on-chart stats table.
• Panel Position — corner of the chart where the table is drawn.
• Text Size — table font size.
• Statistics Period — All History, Last N Days, or From Fixed Date.
• N Days Back — used when Statistics Period is set to "Last N Days".
• Start Date — used when Statistics Period is set to "From Fixed Date".
Symbol Scanner
• Show Scanner for Other Symbols — toggle the scanner table.
• Symbol 1–5 — the five symbols to monitor.
• Scanner Timeframe — timeframe used for the scan; leave blank to match the current chart's timeframe.
• Scanner Panel Position — corner of the chart where the scanner table is drawn.
• Scanner Panel Text Size — scanner table font size.
Alerts
The indicator includes two ready-to-use alert conditions — Buy signal and Sell signal — that fire once per bar close and include the entry price, stop-loss, take-profit, and their distance in ticks directly in the alert message, so you can act on them without needing to open the chart.
Disclaimer
This indicator is a tool to assist with technical analysis and trade planning — it does not constitute financial advice, and past signal performance shown in the Statistics panel is not a guarantee of future results. Always combine it with your own risk management and market context.
Обзор
MA Retest Strategy — это трендовая система, построенная вокруг простой, но рабочей идеи: цена редко движется по прямой — она откатывается к скользящей средней для ретеста, прежде чем продолжить движение по тренду. Вместо того чтобы просто отрисовать две скользящие средние и оставить трейдера гадать, этот индикатор превращает такое поведение "откат-продолжение" в полноценную систему с чёткими правилами: он находит ретест, отмечает точный вход, рассчитывает стоп-лосс и тейк-профит с учётом волатильности, отслеживает исход каждого сигнала и даже сканирует ещё четыре выбранных вами актива на предмет такой же ситуации в реальном времени.
Направление тренда определяется двумя экспоненциальными скользящими средними (EMA) — быстрой (по умолчанию период 50) и медленной (по умолчанию период 200). Их взаимное расположение (быстрая выше медленной — восходящий тренд, быстрая ниже — нисходящий) сочетается с ретестом быстрой EMA: цена должна проколоть быструю EMA против тренда, а затем закрыться обратно на стороне тренда. Это закрытие и есть сигнал.
Логика торговли
Условия входа в лонг:
1. Быстрая EMA выше медленной EMA (восходящий тренд).
2. За последние несколько баров цена проколола быструю EMA вниз (настоящий откат, а не рыночный шум).
3. Текущая свеча закрывается обратно выше быстрой EMA, подтверждая, что ретест завершён и тренд возобновляется.
Когда все три условия совпадают, индикатор рисует ярлык BUY и сразу же размечает четыре ценовых уровня: вход, стоп-лосс, тейк-профит и безубыток — каждый в виде линии с "живым" ценником у правого края для удобной постановки ордера.
Условия входа в шорт зеркальны: быстрая EMA ниже медленной, прокол быстрой EMA вверх, и закрытие обратно ниже неё.
Если цена в данный момент находится между двумя скользящими средними (не выше и не ниже отчётливо), новый сигнал не рассматривается — этот фильтр "нейтральной зоны" не даёт индикатору гнаться за сигналами на "рваном", неопределившемся рынке.
После срабатывания сетап остаётся открытым (сначала как отложенный ордер, затем как активная сделка после достижения цены входа), пока не будет закрыт по стопу, по тейку, по тайм-ауту или отменён встречным сигналом — в каждый момент времени открыт только один сетап на направление, и встречный сигнал автоматически отменяет текущий активный.
Управление риском
Стоп-лосс никогда не рассчитывается "на глаз". Доступны три метода расчёта:
• Свинг (high/low): стоп ставится на ближайший минимум/максимум в пределах окна поиска.
• ATR: стоп ставится на расстоянии, кратном среднему истинному диапазону (ATR) от цены входа — автоматически подстраивается под текущую волатильность инструмента.
• Процент от цены: фиксированное процентное расстояние от цены входа.
Независимо от выбранного метода, жёсткий лимит риска (в % от цены) не позволяет стопу оказаться неоправданно далеко — например, из-за одиночного аномального фитиля или сбойного тика в данных биржи. У режима "Свинг" есть дополнительный, чувствительный к волатильности предохранитель (максимальное отклонение в множителях ATR), поскольку "сырые" свинг-хаи/лоу сильнее всего подвержены искажению одной нетипичной свечой.
Тейк-профит рассчитывается как кратное исходному риску значение ("R-множитель"), а отдельная линия безубытка показывает, на каком уровне цены имеет смысл задуматься о переводе стопа в точку входа — потому что в системе возврата-к-тренду вроде этой, как только цена проходит примерно 1R в вашу пользу, вероятность отката обратно к скользящей средней (вместо чистого продолжения до полного тейка) возрастает, поэтому защита сделки на безубытке — разумная практика.
Двойная система панелей
Панель статистики — отслеживает каждый сигнал, сгенерированный индикатором на текущем графике, и разбивает результаты на исходы "тейк-профит", "стоп-лосс" и "безубыток" (стоп, сработавший после того как цена уже коснулась уровня безубытка, считается отдельно от "чистого" стоп-лосса, поскольку на практике к этому моменту вы, скорее всего, уже перевели бы стоп). Статистику можно фильтровать по всей истории, последним N дням или с конкретной даты — удобно для быстрой оценки того, насколько хорошо текущие настройки работают на конкретном инструменте, прежде чем начинать торговать по нему.
Сканер монет — позволяет отслеживать до пяти других выбранных активов на предмет точно такой же ситуации в реальном времени, не покидая текущий график. По каждому активу показывается, есть ли сейчас отложенный или уже активный сигнал, в каком направлении, а также его уровни входа/стопа/тейка. Важно: сканер использует те же настройки стратегии (периоды скользящих средних, метод расчёта стопа, R-множитель и т.д.), что заданы для основного графика — отдельной настройки под каждый актив в сканере нет.
Применение
1. Откройте нужный актив и таймфрейм и посмотрите на панель статистики — высокий процент выигрышных сделок и стабильное R:R говорят о том, что рынок сейчас достаточно чисто трендовый для входов по возврату к средней.
2. Если недавний винрейт высокий, рынок соблюдает структуру скользящих средних, и сетап стоит торговать. Если он снижается, рынок может входить в фазу консолидации — лучше дождаться, пока тренд снова выровняется.
3. Используйте отрисованные линии входа/стопа/тейка/безубытка и их ценники для постановки реального ордера.
4. Когда цена достигает отметки безубытка, стоит рассмотреть перевод реального стоп-лосса в точку входа — это решение, на которое индикатор указывает, но не выполняет автоматически.
5. Используйте сканер монет, чтобы следить за другими активами из вашего вотчлиста, не переключаясь постоянно между графиками.
Описание настроек
General (Общие настройки)
• Source — ценовой ряд, по которому рассчитываются обе скользящие средние (по умолчанию — цена закрытия).
Moving Average
• MA fast — период быстрой EMA (по умолчанию 50).
• MA fast line width — толщина линии быстрой EMA.
• MA slow — период медленной EMA (по умолчанию 200).
• MA slow line width — толщина линии медленной EMA.
• Bull color / Bear color — цвет каждой линии MA и заливки между ними (окрашивается в зависимости от текущего направления тренда).
Strategy
• MA Pierce Check Window (bars) — сколько последних баров проверяется на предмет реального прокола быстрой EMA перед закрытием-ретестом (по умолчанию 3).
• Swing Point Lookback (bars) — окно поиска ближайшего свинг-хая/лоу для режима стопа "Свинг", а также используется как часть "прогрева" перед тем, как индикатор начнёт оценивать сигналы (по умолчанию 10).
• Take Profit, R (risk multiple) — целевое расстояние тейк-профита, выраженное как множитель исходного риска (по умолчанию 3 = 3R).
• Max Bars in Open Setup (timeout) — если сигнал не резолвится (не задет ни стоп, ни тейк) за это количество баров, он принудительно закрывается и учитывается отдельно как тайм-аут, а не остаётся открытым бесконечно (по умолчанию 300).
• Stop Loss Calculation Method — выбор между Свинг (high/low), ATR или Процент от цены.
• ATR Length — период усреднения для расчёта ATR (по умолчанию 14).
• ATR Multiplier for Stop — множитель ATR, применяемый, когда метод стопа — ATR (по умолчанию 1.5).
• Stop, % of Entry Price — фиксированное расстояние стопа, используется только в режиме "Процент от цены" (по умолчанию 1%).
• Max Allowed Risk, % of Price — жёсткий лимит расстояния стопа, применяется независимо от выбранного режима, для защиты от аномальных свечей или сбойных тиков в данных (по умолчанию 5%).
• Also Cap Swing Stop by ATR (recommended) — дополнительный, чувствительный к волатильности предохранитель, работающий только в режиме "Свинг", теснее и отзывчивее плоского процентного лимита.
• Max Swing Stop Deviation, x ATR — множитель для указанного выше лимита (по умолчанию 3).
• Move to Breakeven, R (risk multiple) — расстояние в R, на котором рисуется линия отметки безубытка (по умолчанию 1 = 1R).
Visualization
• Show BUY/SELL Labels — вкл/выкл ярлыков сигналов на графике.
• Show SL/TP/BE Price Tags on Lines — вкл/выкл "живых" ценников у правого края каждой линии уровня.
• Fill Risk/Reward Zones — вкл/выкл закрашенных зон риска/прибыли.
• BUY Label Color / SELL Label Color — цвета ярлыков сигналов.
• Entry Line Color / Stop Loss Line Color / Take Profit Line Color / Breakeven Line Color — цвета четырёх линий уровней.
• Reward Zone Color / Risk Zone Color — цвета закрашенных зон.
• Entry/SL/TP Line Width — толщина линий уровней.
Statistics
• Show Statistics Panel — вкл/выкл таблицы статистики на графике.
• Panel Position — угол графика, в котором рисуется таблица.
• Text Size — размер шрифта таблицы.
• Statistics Period — вся история, последние N дней или с фиксированной даты.
• N Days Back — используется, если период статистики — "последние N дней".
• Start Date — используется, если период статистики — "с фиксированной даты".
Symbol Scanner
• Show Scanner for Other Symbols — вкл/выкл таблицы сканера.
• Symbol 1–5 — пять отслеживаемых активов.
• Scanner Timeframe — таймфрейм для сканирования; оставьте пустым, чтобы использовать таймфрейм текущего графика.
• Scanner Panel Position — угол графика, в котором рисуется таблица сканера.
• Scanner Panel Text Size — размер шрифта таблицы сканера.
Алерты
Индикатор включает два готовых условия для алертов — Buy signal и Sell signal — которые срабатывают один раз на закрытии бара и содержат в тексте сообщения цену входа, стоп-лосс, тейк-профит и расстояние до них в тиках, так что действовать по ним можно, не открывая график.
Отказ от ответственности
Этот индикатор — инструмент для технического анализа и планирования сделок, он не является финансовой рекомендацией, а прошлая эффективность сигналов, показанная на панели статистики, не гарантирует результатов в будущем. Всегда сочетайте его использование с собственным управлением риском и оценкой рыночного контекста.
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Engulfing Failed Zone [8 Types]Engulfing Failed Zone
Most engulfing tools show you where a pattern formed. This one shows you where it broke.
The script finds confirmed engulfing patterns and then keeps watching them. When price later
closes back through the far side of the pattern's Base candle, the pattern is invalidated and
the area it occupied is drawn as a failed zone, from the Base candle to the exact candle that
broke it.
A failed pattern is not noise. It marks a level where one side committed, was proven wrong,
and left an area behind that price often reacts to again.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
1. It tracks invalidation, not formation.
A normal engulfing indicator stops working the moment the pattern prints. This script treats
the pattern as an open structure and follows it forward until something breaks it. Only the
broken ones are drawn, so the chart shows failures rather than signals.
2. Failure is defined by the close, not by a wick.
A candle may spike through the Base candle and recover. That is not a failure here. The
breaking candle has to CLOSE beyond the level, and it has to be the correct color: a Red
candle closing below the Base Low breaks a Buy Engulfing, a Green candle closing above the
Base High breaks a Sell Engulfing.
3. Failed zones are sorted into eight types, not two.
The failure inherits the identity of the pattern that failed. A liquidity sweep engulfing that
fails is a different event from a plain two candle engulfing that fails, and the script keeps
them separate so you can study or filter them independently.
4. Only the first failure is drawn.
Once a pattern breaks, it is done. Later candles closing through the same level are not drawn
again, which keeps the chart readable instead of stacking boxes on one level.
THE PATTERNS BEING TRACKED
A candle is Green when close is greater than open, Red when close is less than open, and a
Doji when close equals open. A Doji is neither. Only fully closed candles are read, and the
running candle is never used.
Regular engulfing (2 candles)
R Buy EG
Red Base candle, and the very next candle is Green and closes above the Base candle's High.
R Sell EG
Green Base candle, and the very next candle is Red and closes below the Base candle's Low.
E-Regular engulfing (3 or more candles)
ER Buy EG
Red Base candle followed by a run of consecutive Green candles. The run must contain at least
2 Green candles, and confirmation happens when one of them closes above the Base candle's
High. A single Red candle appearing before confirmation cancels the run. Doji candles are
skipped: they neither count toward the run nor break it.
ER Sell EG
Green Base candle followed by a run of at least 2 consecutive Red candles, one of which closes
below the Base candle's Low. A single Green candle cancels the run. Doji candles are skipped.
If the very first candle after the Base already closes through it, that is by definition a
Regular pattern, so E-Regular requires the second candle or later to break the level. One Base
candle can therefore never produce both a Regular and an E-Regular pattern.
Type 1: the same four patterns plus a liquidity sweep
Type 1 adds one requirement. Before the close breaks through one side of the Base candle,
price must have traded through the opposite side.
T1 R Buy EG
An R Buy EG where the Confirm candle's Low is at or below the Base candle's Low.
T1 R Sell EG
An R Sell EG where the Confirm candle's High is at or above the Base candle's High.
T1 ER Buy EG
An ER Buy EG where at least one Green candle in the run has a Low at or below the Base
candle's Low. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
T1 ER Sell EG
An ER Sell EG where at least one Red candle in the run has a High at or above the Base
candle's High. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
The sweep is always measured against the Base candle, never against another candle in the run.
WHAT COUNTS AS A FAILURE
After a pattern confirms, the script scans forward one candle at a time.
A Buy Engulfing fails when a Red candle closes strictly below the Base candle's Low.
A Sell Engulfing fails when a Green candle closes strictly above the Base candle's High.
The scan begins on the candle after the Confirm candle, so a pattern is never judged by its
own confirmation. The first candle that meets the condition becomes the Failure candle, and
the zone is drawn from the Base candle across to it. Nothing is drawn for patterns that are
still intact.
That gives eight failed zone types in total: R Buy EG Failed, R Sell EG Failed, ER Buy EG
Failed, ER Sell EG Failed, and the four Type 1 versions of the same.
READING THE CHART
Each failed pattern draws a rectangle covering the Base candle's full High to Low range,
stretched horizontally from the Base candle to the candle that broke it.
Colors follow the OUTCOME, not the original direction. This is worth reading twice:
- A Buy Engulfing that failed is drawn in the bearish color. The buyers committed and lost, so
the area above is now resistance, and its label sits above the zone.
- A Sell Engulfing that failed is drawn in the bullish color. The sellers committed and lost,
so the area is now support, and its label sits below the zone.
In other words the zone is colored by who is in control after the failure, which is the
information you actually trade from.
The border tells you which pattern failed:
Solid border: a Regular pattern, confirmed by the very next candle
Dashed border: an E-Regular pattern, confirmation was delayed over several candles
Thin, softened border: a plain pattern, no sweep
Thick, crisp border: Type 1, a liquidity sweep occurred before confirmation
Type 1 zones are also filled more solidly, so the stronger patterns stand out when several
zones sit close together.
A separate line marks the broken edge of the Base candle: the Low for a failed Buy Engulfing,
the High for a failed Sell Engulfing. This shows at a glance which side of the pattern gave
way, and it is the level price most often returns to.
Each zone carries a label with its pattern tag, pointing at its own zone, so it is always
clear which label belongs to which rectangle.
A summary table in the corner counts how many of each type were found in the current scan
window, split into Buy EG and Sell EG columns. The counts include types that are currently
hidden, so the table always reflects what the market actually printed rather than what is
switched on.
SETTINGS
Scan
- Scan Length: how many closed candles are scanned backwards from the latest bar. The running
candle is always excluded.
Pattern Types
- An individual on and off switch for each of the eight failed zone types.
Zone Style
- Buy EG Failed Zone and Sell EG Failed Zone: the two zone colors. Defaults follow the outcome
logic described above.
- Zone Transparency: fill transparency of a plain Regular or E-Regular failed zone.
- Type 1 Extra Opacity: how much more solid Type 1 zones are filled compared to the value
above.
- Highlight Broken Edge, and its color: marks the side of the Base candle price closed
through.
Labels
- Show Labels, Label Size, and Label Distance from Zone as a percentage of the Base candle
height. Increase the distance on noisy charts so labels clear the candles.
Summary Table
- Show, position, and size of the corner table.
ALERTS
Eight alert conditions are available, one per failed zone type:
R Buy EG Failed, R Sell EG Failed, T1 R Buy EG Failed, T1 R Sell EG Failed, ER Buy EG Failed,
ER Sell EG Failed, T1 ER Buy EG Failed, T1 ER Sell EG Failed.
An alert fires on the candle that completes the failure. Each message carries the pattern tag,
the symbol, the timeframe and the closing price. The script also sends the same messages
through the alert function, so the "Any alert() function call" alert type can deliver every
failure through a single alert.
All alerts are evaluated only after a candle has fully closed.
Internally, every confirmed engulfing is held in a list and each closed candle is checked
against that list. This is what allows a failure to be reported the moment it happens, without
rescanning the whole history on every bar.
REPAINTING
This script does not repaint.
- Detection reads confirmed candles only. The scan starts one bar behind the latest bar, so
the candle that is still forming is never part of any calculation.
- Every alert signal is written so that it can only become true once a candle has finished.
Price moving inside an open candle cannot make a signal appear and then disappear.
- Zones are rebuilt on the last bar using confirmed history. A drawn zone does not move,
change color or change type afterwards. It only leaves the chart when it falls outside the
Scan Length window.
When you create an alert, TradingView may show a caution banner saying the indicator can
repaint. That banner appears automatically for any script that uses the built in bar state
variables, no matter how they are used, because the platform cannot check the intent behind
them. This script uses them for the opposite purpose: one of them is what restricts every
signal to bar close, and the other is what redraws the zones efficiently on the final bar.
Choosing "Once Per Bar Close" when creating the alert is still recommended.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
- Nothing is drawn for a pattern that has not failed. An empty chart means the engulfing
patterns in that window are all still intact, which is information in itself.
- Increasing Scan Length raises the number of drawing objects. TradingView caps these at 500
boxes, 500 labels and 500 lines, and the oldest objects are dropped once a cap is reached.
The default value is chosen to stay well inside those limits on normal charts.
- A very short Scan Length can hide zones whose Base candle sits outside the window even
though the failure is recent. If failures seem to be missing, raise the Scan Length.
- For alerts, the number of patterns tracked at once is capped, and the oldest are released
first. In practice patterns fail or age out long before this matters.
- Detection is purely structural. It reports where a pattern broke and nothing more. It does
not rank failures by quality, measure what happened afterwards, or produce entries, targets
or stops.
- Doji candles are treated as neutral by design. They never act as a Base candle and never
break an E-Regular run. On symbols and timeframes that print many Doji candles this makes
runs slightly more tolerant than a strict same color rule would be.
HOW TO USE IT
A failed engulfing zone marks a level where one side of the market committed and was proven
wrong. Traders commonly watch these areas for:
- Broken supply and demand zones that price returns to and respects from the other side
- Areas where a reversal attempt was flushed out before the move continued
- Momentum shifts, since a failed reversal often precedes a strong continuation
Type 1 failed zones are worth separating out. There the pattern first grabbed liquidity, then
confirmed, and then still failed, which is a different story from a clean pattern simply being
overrun.
These zones are reference areas, not entry signals on their own. Use them alongside higher
timeframe structure, your own support and resistance mapping, and proper risk management.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is a pattern detection tool. It is not financial advice and it makes no claim
about profitability. Trading involves risk. Always apply your own analysis and risk management. 지표
Engulfing Zone [8 Types]Engulfing Zone
A price action tool that scans closed candles for engulfing behavior and draws the exact zone
each pattern creates, from the candle that sets the level to the candle that breaks it.
Instead of treating "engulfing" as one generic signal, this script separates it into eight
distinct types and reports every pattern under exactly one of them, so what you see on the
chart is never double counted.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT FROM A STANDARD ENGULFING INDICATOR
1. Engulfing is measured by the CLOSE, not by body overlap.
Most engulfing scripts check whether one candle's body covers the previous candle's body.
This script requires the Confirm candle to CLOSE beyond the Base candle's High or Low, wick
included. A candle that merely covers the body but closes back inside the Base range is not
accepted. This is a stricter definition and it filters out a large number of weak signals that
body based detection would report.
2. Confirmation is allowed to be delayed.
A classic engulfing pattern is strictly two candles. In real markets the reaction is often
spread over several candles: a base forms, price pushes in the opposite direction for a few
bars, and only then does a close break the base level. This script detects those extended
setups as their own category rather than ignoring them.
3. Liquidity sweeps are identified as a separate class.
Sometimes the candles that produce the engulf first trade through the far side of the Base
candle, taking out the stop orders resting there, and only then close through the opposite
side. That behavior is meaningfully different from a clean engulf, so it is detected and
labelled separately as Type 1.
THE EIGHT PATTERNS
Throughout, a candle is Green when close is greater than open, Red when close is less than
open, and a Doji when close equals open. A Doji is neither Green nor Red, and is handled
explicitly. Only fully closed candles are read. The running candle is never used.
Regular (2 candles)
R Buy EG
Base candle is Red
The very next candle is Green
That Green candle closes above the Base candle's High
R Sell EG
Base candle is Green
The very next candle is Red
That Red candle closes below the Base candle's Low
E-Regular (3 or more candles)
ER Buy EG
Base candle is Red
It is followed by a run of consecutive Green candles
The run must contain at least 2 Green candles
Confirmation happens when one of those Green candles closes above the Base candle's High
A single Red candle appearing before confirmation cancels the run entirely
Doji candles are skipped: they neither count toward the run nor break it
ER Sell EG
Base candle is Green
It is followed by a run of consecutive Red candles
The run must contain at least 2 Red candles
Confirmation happens when one of those Red candles closes below the Base candle's Low
A single Green candle appearing before confirmation cancels the run entirely
Doji candles are skipped
If the very first candle after the Base already closes through it, that is by definition a
Regular pattern, so E-Regular requires the second candle or later to be the one that breaks
the level. Regular and E-Regular can therefore never both fire from the same Base candle.
Type 1: the same four patterns plus a liquidity sweep
Type 1 adds one requirement on top of the rules above. Before the close breaks through one
side of the Base candle, price must have traded through the opposite side.
T1 R Buy EG
An R Buy EG where the Confirm candle's Low is at or below the Base candle's Low.
T1 R Sell EG
An R Sell EG where the Confirm candle's High is at or above the Base candle's High.
T1 ER Buy EG
An ER Buy EG where at least one Green candle in the run has a Low at or below the Base
candle's Low. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
T1 ER Sell EG
An ER Sell EG where at least one Red candle in the run has a High at or above the Base
candle's High. Any candle of the run qualifies, including the Confirm candle itself.
The sweep is always measured against the Base candle, never against another candle in the run.
HOW A PATTERN IS CLASSIFIED
Every detected pattern is reported once, under its strongest matching type.
A Regular pattern that also swept is reported as T1 R and is not additionally reported as R.
An E-Regular pattern that also swept is reported as T1 ER and is not additionally reported as
ER. This means:
One pattern produces exactly one zone on the chart, never two stacked on top of each other
The summary table counts each pattern once
Turning off a type hides only that type and never silently hides another
Because Type 1 is a stricter version of its plain counterpart, hiding the plain types and
keeping the Type 1 types visible is a straightforward way to see only the sweep driven setups.
READING THE CHART
Each detected pattern draws a rectangle covering the Base candle's full High to Low range,
stretched horizontally from the Base candle to the Confirm candle. The rectangle is styled so
that its type can be read without looking at the label:
Solid border: Regular, confirmed by the very next candle
Dashed border: E-Regular, confirmation was delayed over several candles
Thin, softened border: a plain pattern, no sweep
Thick, crisp border: Type 1, a liquidity sweep occurred
Type 1 zones are also filled more solidly than plain zones, so stronger patterns stand out
when several zones sit close together.
On a Type 1 zone, a dotted line marks the exact Base level that was raided before the break:
the Base Low on the Buy side, the Base High on the Sell side. This makes the liquidity grab
visible instead of leaving it implied.
Each zone carries a label showing its pattern tag. Labels point at their own zone, below and
pointing up for Buy patterns, above and pointing down for Sell patterns, so it is always clear
which label belongs to which rectangle.
A summary table in the corner shows how many of each type were found inside the current scan
window, split into Buy and Sell columns. The table counts every detected pattern, including
types that are currently hidden, so it always reflects what the market actually printed rather
than what is currently switched on.
SETTINGS
Scan
Scan Length: how many closed candles are scanned backwards from the latest bar.
The running candle is always excluded.
Pattern Types
An individual on and off switch for each of the eight types.
Zone Style
- Bullish Zone and Bearish Zone: the two base colors used for all Buy and all Sell zones.
- Zone Transparency: fill transparency of a plain Regular or E-Regular zone.
- Type 1 Extra Opacity: how much more solid Type 1 zones are filled compared to the value
above.
- Mark Swept Level: draw the dotted line on the raided Base level of Type 1 zones.
- Swept Level Color: color of that line.
Labels
- Show Labels, Label Size, and Label Distance from Zone as a percentage of the Base candle
height. Increase the distance on noisy charts so labels clear the candles.
Summary Table
- Show, position, and size of the corner table.
ALERTS
Eight alert conditions are available, one per pattern type:
R Buy EG, R Sell EG, T1 R Buy EG, T1 R Sell EG, ER Buy EG, ER Sell EG, T1 ER Buy EG,
T1 ER Sell EG.
Each message carries the pattern tag, the symbol, the timeframe and the closing price. The
script also sends the same messages through the alert function, so the "Any alert() function
call" alert type can be used to receive every pattern through a single alert.
All alerts are evaluated only after a candle has fully closed.
REPAINTING
This script does not repaint.
- Detection reads confirmed candles only. The zone scan starts one bar behind the latest bar,
so the candle that is still forming is never part of any calculation.
- Every alert signal is written so that it can only become true once a candle has finished.
Price moving inside an open candle cannot make a signal appear and then disappear.
- Zones are rebuilt on the last bar using confirmed history. A zone that has been drawn does
not move or change type afterwards. It only leaves the chart when it falls outside the Scan
Length window.
When you create an alert, TradingView may show a caution banner saying the indicator can
repaint. That banner appears automatically for any script that uses the built in bar state
variables, no matter how they are used, because the platform cannot check the intent behind
them. This script uses them for the opposite purpose: one of them is what restricts every
signal to bar close, and the other is what redraws the zones efficiently on the final bar.
Choosing "Once Per Bar Close" when creating the alert is still recommended.
NOTES AND LIMITATIONS
- The script draws on the last bar only. Increasing Scan Length raises the number of drawing
objects. TradingView caps these at 500 boxes, 500 labels and 500 lines, and the oldest
objects are dropped once a cap is reached. The default value is chosen to stay well inside
those limits on normal charts.
- Detection is purely structural. It reports where a pattern occurred and nothing more. It
does not rank patterns by quality, measure follow through, or produce entries, targets or
stops.
- Doji candles are treated as neutral by design. They never act as a Base candle and never
break an E-Regular run. On symbols and timeframes that print many Doji candles this makes
runs slightly more tolerant than a strict same color rule would be.
HOW TO USE IT
The zones mark where one side of the market decisively lost control of a level. They are
reference areas, not entry signals on their own. Common approaches are to watch how price
behaves when it returns to a zone, or to use zone direction as context alongside higher
timeframe structure, support and resistance levels, or trend direction.
Type 1 zones deserve particular attention, because the sweep tells you the move happened after
liquidity was taken rather than before.
DISCLAIMER
This indicator is a pattern detection tool. It is not financial advice and it makes no claim
about profitability. Trading involves risk. Always apply your own analysis and risk management. 지표
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