CandelaCharts - Imbalance Concepts 📝 Overview
Imbalance Concepts is an advanced toolkit rooted in ICT (Inner Circle Trader) principles, specifically designed to identify and highlight critical areas of support and resistance within financial markets. This toolkit focuses on detecting market imbalances that can indicate potential turning points or high-probability zones for price action.
The key components of the toolkit include:
Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
Inversion Fair Value Gaps (IFVG)
Balanced Price Range (BPR)
Volume Imbalances (VI)
Opening Gaps (OG)
The toolkit automatically detects these imbalances and visually marks them on charts, allowing traders to quickly identify key zones for analysis. This enables more informed decision-making, as these imbalances often signal the potential for major market shifts, reversals, or continuation patterns.
By integrating Imbalance Concepts, traders can focus on critical price areas that have a high likelihood of influencing future price action.
📦 Features
The Imbalance Concepts toolkit provides a robust set of features aimed at improving trading accuracy and decision-making. Key features include:
MTF
Mitigation
Consequent Encroachment
Threshold
Hide Overlap
Advanced Styling
⚙️ Settings
Show: Controls whether Imbalances are displayed on the chart.
Show Last: Sets the number of Imbalances you want to display.
Length: Determines the length of each Imbalance.
Mitigation: Highlights when an Imbalance has been touched, using a different color without marking it as invalid.
Timeframe: Specifies the timeframe used to detect Imbalances.
Threshold: Sets the minimum gap size required for Imbalance detection on the chart.
Show Mid-Line: Configures the midpoint line's width and style within the Imbalance. (Consequent Encroachment - CE)
Show Border: Defines the border width and line style of the Imbalance.
Hide Overlap: Removes overlapping Imbalances from view.
Extend: Extends the Imbalance length to the current candle.
Elongate: Fully extend the Imbalance length to the right side of the chart.
⚡️ Showcase
Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
Inversion Fair Value Gaps (IFVG)
Balanced Price Range (BPR)
Volume Imbalances (VI)
Opening Gaps (OG)
📒 Usage
The key components of trading imbalances include:
Step 1 – Identify Market Trend: Begin by determining the market trend for the asset, whether it is bullish or bearish.
Step 2 – Locate Premium and Discount Zones: In a bearish market, focus on identifying the premium Imbalance, while in a bullish market, look for the discount Imbalance.
Step 3 – Detect Liquidity Sweep: After identifying the trend, the next step is to spot a liquidity sweep, which often indicates a potential price reversal or continuation.
Step 4 – Detect Change In State of Delivery: Following the liquidity sweep, the next step is to recognize a CISD, which frequently serves as a confirmation of a potential price reversal.
Step 5 – Execute the Trade: In a bullish market, wait for the price to retrace and test the discount imbalance, aiming to balance the price movement before entering the trade.
NOTES:
You always short only on Premium, and long on Discount.
Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
Inversion Fair Value Gaps
Balanced Price Range
🚨 Alerts
The indicator provides the ability to set alerts for various significant market events related to its core features.
You can configure alerts for the following key events:
Fair Value Gaps Formation (+B/-B)
Inversion Fair Value Gaps Formation (+B/-B)
Balanced Price Range Formation (+B/-B)
Volume Imbalances Formation (+B/-B)
Opening Gaps Formation (+B/-B)
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ICT 9:30am First FVGThis indicator is designed based on ICT (Inner Circle Trader)'s algorithmic price action theory, specifically targeting the first fair value gap (FVG) that forms immediately after the New York Stock Exchange opens at 9:30am. The FVG represents an imbalance in the price delivery where a significant price action gap occurs, which can play a crucial role in future price movements.
Features:
Identification of First FVG: Automatically identifies and plots the first fair value gap that forms post the 9:30am NY open.
Customizable Visualization: Choose between block or line styles for visual representation, with customizable colors and border styles.
Date Labeling: Optionally displays date labels for each identified gap to track patterns over time.
Imbalance Extension: Options to extend the imbalances to the current bar, helping to visualize their influence on ongoing price action.
Purpose:
The first fair value gap formed after the market opens is an important algorithmic price range in ICT's price action theory. This indicator simplifies the identification of these critical gaps and helps in understanding their impact on future price action.
SMC Community [algoat] — Smart Money ConceptsEmpower your trading with the core principles of the Smart Money Concepts through interactive features and highly customizable settings.
The indicator's strength lies in the unique SMC Core algorithm, a calculation based on real price action data, capturing every tick from small intraday fluctuations to significant high timeframe movements.
algoat SMC Core is our continually evolving, specialized structure mapping algorithm, serving as the backbone of our price action related publications.
⭐ Key Features
Swing Market Structure: Change of Character, Break of Structure
Recognize and visualize real-time market structures with swing elements. Identify and mark key structural changes in the market to visually highlight shifts in market trends and patterns. This feature is designed to alert you to significant changes in the market's behavior, signaling a potential shift from accumulation to distribution phases, or vice versa. It helps traders adapt their strategies based on evolving market dynamics.
Order Flow: Structure Fractal
Connect the successive structural high and low levels, visualizing the intricate flow of market movements. This feature highlights fractal structures within the market, enabling traders to detect significant price action patterns.
Structure Range: Determine Discount, Premium, and Equilibrium Zones
This feature provides a unique way of visualizing price areas where a security could be overbought or oversold (premium or discount zones) and where the price is expected to be fair and balanced (equilibrium zone). Distance from the current price is displayed in percentage terms, which can assist traders with crucial data for risk management and strategic planning. The Range function helps you identify the most favorable price zones for entries and set your stop-loss and take-profit levels more accurately.
Liquidity Grabs: Reveal Hidden Manipulation Attempts
Identify uncovered market areas where high liquidity trading may take place. Liquidity Grabs help track "smart money" footprints by identifying levels where large institutional traders may have induced liquidity traps. Understanding these traps can aid in avoiding false market moves and optimizing trade entries.
Institutional Interest Zones: Order Blocks and Fair Value Gaps
Uncover areas where bigger orders may be lined up. Reveal zones of interest ordered by volume strength. Receive warnings about market price imbalances.
▸ Order Blocks pinpoint crucial zones where large institutional investors ("smart money") have shown strong buying or selling interest recently. These blocks can serve as a tool for identifying key areas for potential trade entries or exits.
▸ Fair Value Gaps detect discrepancies between the perceived market value and the actual market price, revealing potential areas for price correction. With its mitigation settings, you can fine-tune the FVG detection according to the magnitude of value misalignment you consider significant.
Mitigation types dictate how price interacts with a zone, with order blocks requiring a close through (indicating stronger price movement) and fair value gaps requiring a wick through (hinting at weak rejection).
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⭐ Why SMC?
In the ever-evolving trading landscape, mainstream methods and strategies can quickly become outdated as they are widely adopted. Liquidity is constantly sought after, and the best source for this is exploring and exploiting trading strategies that are widely accepted and applied. Currently, one of these strategies is the SMC (Supply, Demand, and Price Action).
It's no coincidence that our educational materials incorporate concepts such as liquidity grabs (LG) and Smart Money Traps (SMT). As the application of SMC gains popularity among retail traders, trading with this approach becomes more challenging. Therefore, the recent focus has been on reforming the SMC methodology, as it is the only method that relies on real price movements and will always work when applied correctly.
The indicator reflects our personal use and deep comprehension of Smart Money Concepts. It provides streamlined tools for tracking algorithmic trends with modern visualizations, without unnecessary clutter.
▸ What does the proper application of SMC entail?
Many SMC traders associate their key areas of interest with the market structure, which is generally considered acceptable. However, depending solely on a single foundation can lead to significant deviations, which may cause notable impacts on trading results. Moreover, if the basis for the market structure calculation is inaccurate, the consequences can be even more severe. It's akin to risking money on a lottery ticket, believing it will be a winner.
Our methodology is different, and it may ensure longevity in the financial markets. The structure remains crucial, but it is not the sole foundation of everything; instead, it serves as a validation tool. Each calculation, such as order blocks (OB), Fair Value Gaps (FVG), liquidity grabs (LG), range analysis, and more, is independent and unique, separate from the structure. However, validation must ultimately come from the structure itself.
We employ individual and high-quality filters: before a function calculation is validated by the structure, it must undergo rigorous testing based on its own set of validation conditions. This approach aims to enhance robustness and accuracy, providing traders with a reliable framework for making informed trading decisions.
▸ An example of structure validation: Order Block with "Swing Sensitivity"
These order blocks will only be displayed and utilized by the script if there is a swing structure validation with a valid break. In other words, the presence of a confirmed swing Change of Character (ChoCh) or Break of Structure (BoS) is essential for the Order Block to be considered valid and relevant.
This approach ensures that the order blocks are aligned with the overall market structure and are not based on isolated or unreliable price movements. Whether it's Fair Value Gaps (FVG), Liquidity Grabs (LG), Range calculations, or other functionalities, the same underlying principle holds true. The background structure calculation serves as a validation mechanism for the data and insights generated by these functions, ensuring they adhere to the specific criteria and rules established within our methodology. By incorporating this robust validation process, traders can have confidence in the reliability and accuracy of the information provided by the indicator, allowing them to make informed trading decisions based on validated data and analysis.
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👉 Usage - the general approach
Determine your trading style and build your basic strategy:
The indicator helps you understand your trading style, whether it's swing trading, scalping or another approach. By analyzing the SMC indicator, you gain valuable information about potential market trends, entry and exit points, and overall market sentiment.
Steps:
Identify Trading Style: Determine whether you are a swing trader, scalper, or long-term investor. This will influence how you use the indicator.
Analyze Market Trends: Use the SMC indicator to observe market trends and identify potential entry and exit points.
Adapt Strategies: Adjust your strategies based on the market dynamics revealed by the SMC indicator, such as changes in order flow or market structure.
👉 Example of usage
In the following chart, you'll notice how we've utilized the indicator to formulate a strategic trading approach. We've employed Order Blocks equipped with volume parameters to identify crucial market zones. Simultaneously, we've leveraged swing/internal market structures to gain insights into potential long- and short-term market turnarounds. Lastly, we've examined trend line liquidity zones to pinpoint probable impulses and breakouts within ongoing trends.
Now we can see how the price descended to the order block with the highest volume, which we had previously marked as our point of interest for an entry. As the price closed below the median Order Block, we noted its mitigation. After an internal CHoCH, it's directing us towards the main Order Block as a target.
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🧠 General advice
Trading effectively requires a range of techniques, experience, and expertise. From technical analysis to market fundamentals, traders must navigate multiple factors, including market sentiment and economic conditions. However, traders often find themselves overwhelmed by market noise, making it challenging to filter out distractions and make informed decisions. By integrating multiple analytical approaches, traders can tailor their strategies to fit their unique trading styles and objectives.
Confirming signals with other indicators
As with all technical indicators, it is important to confirm potential signals with other analytical tools, such as support and resistance levels, as well as indicators like RSI, MACD, and volume. This helps increase the probability of a successful trade.
Use proper risk management
When using this or any other indicator, it is crucial to have proper risk management in place. Consider implementing stop-loss levels and thoughtful position sizing.
Combining with other technical indicators
Integrate this indicator with other technical indicators to develop a comprehensive trading strategy and provide additional confirmation.
Conduct Thorough Research and Backtesting
Ensure a solid understanding of the indicator and its behavior through thorough research and backtesting before making trading decisions. Consider incorporating fundamental analysis and market sentiment into your trading approach.
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⭐ Conclusion
We hold the view that the true path to success is the synergy between the trader and the tool, contrary to the common belief that the tool itself is the sole determinant of profitability. The actual scenario is more nuanced than such an oversimplification. A word to the wise is enough: developed by traders, for traders — pioneering innovations for the modern era.
Risk Notice
Everything provided by algoat — from scripts, tools, and articles to educational materials — is intended solely for educational and informational purposes. Past performance does not assure future returns.
Fair Value Gap Absorption Indicator [LuxAlgo]The Fair Value Gap Absorption Indicator aims to detect fair value gap imbalances and tracks the mitigation status of the detected fair value gap by highlighting the mitigation level till a new fair value gap is detected.
The Fair Value Gap (FVG) is a widely utilized tool among price action traders to detect market inefficiencies or imbalances. These imbalances arise when buying or selling pressure is significant, resulting in a large upward or downward move, leaving behind an imbalance in the market.
🔶 USAGE
A fair value gap appears in a triple-candle pattern when there is a large candle whose previous candle’s high and subsequent candle’s low do not fully overlap the large candle. The space between these wicks is known as the fair value gap.
Price can come back to these imbalance areas and mitigate them, however, this is sometimes a process involving multiple bars, the displayed imbalances by the indicator allow tracking the current mitigation level of a displayed imbalance.
Fair value gaps can become a magnet for the price before continuing in the same direction. Traders commonly wait for the price to revert toward the fair value gap to clear out the imbalance before continuing to move toward the prevailing trend.
🔶 SETTINGS
🔹Fair Value Gaps
Fair Value Gap Width Filter: defines the filtering multiplier, please refer to the tooltip of the input option for further details.
Bullish, Imbalance and Mitigation: color customization option.
Bearish, Imbalance and Mitigation: color customization option.
Display Percentage of Mitigation: Display the percentage of the mitigation areas.
Historical Fair Value Gaps: toggles the visibility of the historical fair value gaps.
🔶 LIMITATIONS
Please note that filtering cannot be applied for the first 144 (atr fixed-length) candles since the atr value won't be present that is used for filtering.
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Fair-Value-Gap
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IMGBasic - HTF Structure / Order Blocks / Breakers - V1.0IMG Indicators Overview
The IMG Indicators are crafted as comprehensive educational tools for price action traders. They incorporate a variety of concepts including:
1. Multiple Timeframe Analysis
2. Order Blocks (OB)
3. Breakers (BRKR)
4. Fair Value Gaps (FVGs)
5. Overlaps of OB and FVG
6. Overlaps of BRKR and FVG
7. Analysis of Internal and External Liquidity
8. Strategies for Identifying Potential Entries, Stop-loss, and Target Levels
9. Risk Management and Position Sizing
These Price Action concepts can be applied to any market (Stocks / Options / Forex / Futures / Crypto ) and any timeframe.
Introduction to the IMG Basic Indicator
The IMG Basic Indicator serves as the foundational level within the IMG suite of indicators. Its core function is to acquaint traders with elementary price action concepts such as:
1. Higher Timeframe Market Structures through Multiple Timeframe Analysis
2. Higher Timeframe Order Blocks
3. Higher Timeframe Breakers
4. Breaks in Higher Timeframe Market Structure
Higher Timeframe Market Structure:
Market Structure can be defined using several techniques. The IMG indicators employ the Close through High/Low technique, which necessitates a candle close through a structural level to validate a structural break and designate a new range.
Example: H12 Market Structure visualisation on a H12 Chart with annotations:
By selecting a particular Market Structure timeframe in the settings, the indicator immediately illustrates both current and historical market structures for the chosen timeframe across all subordinate timeframes, subject to the limitations of your Tradingview subscription.
Example: H12 Market Structure visualisation on a H1 Chart with annotations:
Higher Timeframe Order Blocks (OB)
An Order Block represents the last candle of the opposite direction preceding a Market Structure Break. For instance, a bullish Order Block is identified as the final bearish candle leading to a bullish market structure break, and vice versa for bearish Order Blocks.
Example: H12 OB visualisation on a H12 Chart with annotations:
When activated, the indicator will highlight the Higher Timeframe Order Blocks responsible for a Market Structure Break on all subordinate timeframes relative to the chosen Market Structure Timeframe.
Note: if multiple OBs exist, the indicator will display the OB closest to the new range extreme
Example: H12 OB visualisation on a H1 Chart with annotations:
Higher Timeframe Breaker Blocks (BRKR)
A Breaker Block is identified as the most recent Order Block that has been breached by price, followed by an opposite Market Structure Break. For example, a bullish Breaker Block is the last bearish Order Block that price has passed through, followed by a bullish structural break, and the inverse is true for bearish Breakers.
Example: H12 Breaker visualisation on a H12 Chart with annotations:
Once enabled, the system will display Higher Timeframe Breaker Blocks after an opposite Market Structure Break is confirmed on all subordinate timeframes.
Example: H12 Breaker visualisation on a H1 Chart with annotations:
ALERTS: Higher Timeframe Market Structure Breaks (HTF MSBs)
The system provides notifications of confirmed Market Structure Breaks based on the selected Higher Timeframe Market Structure Timeframe. For instance, selecting a weekly structure will trigger an alert when price closes through a weekly structural level, and the same logic applies to other timeframes like D, H12, H4, H1 etc.
To enable alerts, right-click on the indicator and select “Add Alert on IMG ...”. You may customise the alert name as desired and then click 'Create' to finalise the alert setup.
General Note:
There is no system, indicator, algorithm, or strategy that can provide absolute certainty in predicting market movements. Use trading indicators as a tool to assist with trading decisions and manage your risk wisely.
For a complete user manual / knowledge base on the IMG Indicators, click on the User Manual link in the signature below
Stay safe and Happy Trading!
ICT Institutional Order Flow (fadi)ICT Institutional Order Flow indicator is intended to provide wholistic view to better analyze order flow and where price may go to next. The concept follows ICT principles.
ICT Market Structure
ICT breaks down Pivot points into three categories:
Short Term High/Low (STH/STL) is a 3 candle pattern with a low with higher low on each side (STL), or a high with lower high on each side (STH)
Intermediate Term High/Low (ITH/ITL) uses the calculated STH/STL and marks any STH that has lower or STH on each side, and STL that has higher STL on each side
Long Term High/Low (LTH/LTL) uses the calculated ITH/ITL and marks any ITH that has lower or ITH on each side, and ITL that has higher ITL on each side
Note: ICT also states that if a STH wicks into and closes (almost?) a FVG, he marks it as ITH even if it does not have STH on reach side. This scenario is not covered by this indicator
Liquidity
liquidity is usually present under pivot points. The more prominent the pivot point, the more likely higher values liquidity pools reside under/above it. Liquidity under ITL and LTL as an example, will have better indication of which liquidity the price may seek next.
Displacement
Displacement registers above average move in the price resulting in strong visible move. If requiring a FVG is enabled (in settings), then the displacement could possibly (but never guaranteed) be used to visually recognize a move as it develops.
Full Credit: The calculation for Displacement is derived from TFO's Visualizing Displacement
Imbalances
Imbalances can come in different forms. This indicator identifies three type of imbalances:
1. FVG
2. Volume Imbalance
3. Open Gaps
Imbalances completes the picture by help visualize strong moves, where possible pivot points may develop, and how to enter or manage a trade.
Fair Value Gap█ OVERVIEW
This indicator displays the Fair Value Gap of the current timeframe and an additional higher timeframe. For each FVG the gaps act as targets creating bullish and bearish gaps that are often filled.
█ FEATURES
MTF Options
MidPoint FIll
Delete Old On Fill
Label FVG Timeframe
MTF Options
Enabling the MTF Options will allow the user to use the "MTF Timeframe" setting to choose what HTF Fair Value Gap to display
MidPoint FIll
A line plot at the Half way point will be included in the Fair Value Gap, this will be used to delete the gap when reached instead of a full fill.
Delete Old On Fill
Deletes historical Fair Value Gaps when filled.
Label FVG Timeframe
Labels Every Fair Value gap with there relevant timeframe to make it easier to determine which gap is being filled.
█ HOW TO USE IT
The indicator is quite straight forward in its application, providing users with targets that are often filled as they are seen as market imbalance.
Just applying it to your chart will provide the existing Fair Value Gaps. MTF Confluence is helpful in seeing what is happening on the macro perspective.
█ SUGGESTION
My suggestion for clarity is to use a different color to some degree between the MTF and Current TF as Opposed to text, keeps the chart clear.
█ LIMITATIONS OF PINE (Please read)
I see many users going on different indicators with MTF in mind and trying to use it for LTF data e.g. 1hour chart, and selecting 5min in chart settings.
This is not recommended by the team themselves and should be noted for use always use HTF: www.tradingview.com
To understand how to use fair value gaps I recommend learning about the subject some more, searching online will provide you resources. The internet is your friend when learning. All the best.
UT Bot + Cooldown + Visual FVGSynopsis – UT Bot + Cooldown + Visual FVG
This TradingView script combines:
✅ UT Bot Reversal Signals
Based on ATR and volatility logic
BUY when trend flips from bearish to bullish
SELL when trend flips from bullish to bearish
✅ Cooldown Filter
Limits signals to 1 per X bars (default 30)
Prevents overtrading during choppy price action
✅ Optional FVG Markers (Fair Value Gaps)
Visually shows bullish or bearish imbalances (3-bar gaps)
Does not affect signal generation — only for confluence
🔍 Ideal for traders who want clean, time-filtered signals with visual price-action context. Suitable for futures, crypto, or forex on intraday charts.
Fair Value Gap (FVG) Detector Fair Value Gap (FVG) is an imbalance in price action that occurs when there is a strong displacement (big movement) in the market, leaving a gap between wicks. This gap represents an area where price moved too quickly, and liquidity was not fully filled.
Traders use FVGs as potential areas where price might retrace and react before continuing in the original direction.
ICT Candle Block (fadi)ICT Candle Block
When trading using ICT concepts, it is often beneficial to treat consecutive candles of the same color as a single entity. This approach helps traders identify Order Blocks, liquidity voids, and other key trading signals more effectively.
However, in situations where the market becomes choppy or moves slowly, recognizing continuous price movement can be challenging.
The ICT Candle Block indicator addresses these challenges by combining consecutive candles of the same color into a single entity. It redraws the resulting candles, making price visualization much easier and helping traders quickly identify key trading signals.
FVGs and Blocks
In the above snapshot, FVGs/Liquidity Voids, Order Blocks, and Breaker Blocks are easily identified. By analyzing the combined candles, traders can quickly determine the draw on liquidity and potential price targets using ICT concepts.
Unlike traditional higher timeframes that rigidly combine lower timeframe candles based on specific start and stop times, this indicator operates as a "mixed timeframe." It combines all buying and all selling activities into a single candle, regardless of when the transactions started and ended.
Limitations
There are currently TradingView limitations that affect the functionality of this indicator:
TradingView does not have a Candle object; therefore, this indicator relies on using boxes and lines to mimic the candles. This results in wider candles than expected, leading to misalignment with the time axis below (plotcandle is not the answer).
There is a limit on the number of objects that can be drawn on a chart. A maximum of 500 candles has been set.
A rendering issue may cause a sideways box to appear across the chart. This is a display bug in TradingView; scroll to the left until it clears.
Imbalance FVG SIBI BISIImbalance Detection Script
Author: © teshmi9z
Script Name: Imbalance FVG
Version: Pine Script® v5
Description:
This script detects and highlights imbalances on the chart, areas where price movement has created a gap without immediate return, signaling potential zones of future support or resistance.
The script identifies two types of imbalances:
Bullish Imbalance: Occurs when the low of two bars ago is less than or equal to the previous bar's open, and the current bar's high is greater than or equal to the previous bar's close.
Bearish Imbalance: Occurs when the high of two bars ago is greater than or equal to the previous bar's open, and the current bar's low is less than or equal to the previous bar's close.
These imbalances are visualized as semi-transparent yellow boxes on the chart, which can be adjusted for transparency.
Parameters:
Transparency (FVG): Adjust the transparency of the yellow boxes, from 0 (opaque) to 100 (fully transparent).
Usage:
This script helps traders quickly identify and visualize potential reversal zones or areas of interest on the chart. It’s a useful tool for pinpointing where significant price reactions may occur.
Volumetric Fair Value Gaps [AlgoAlpha]🎯 Introducing the Volumetric Fair Value Gaps by AlgoAlpha 🎯
Embrace the power of volume and price action with the Volumetric Fair Value Gaps (VFVG) indicator, designed meticulously by AlgoAlpha. This innovative tool enhances your charting capabilities by highlighting fair value gaps in real-time, facilitating superior market entry and exit decisions. 🚀📈
🔍 Key Features:
🔹 Fair Value Gap Detection: Utilizes price action and volume to identify significant fair value gaps, offering potential high-probability trading opportunities.
🔹 Adjustability: Customize the sensitivity with 'FVG Noise Reduction Length' and 'Noise Reduction Factor' to match the volatility and characteristics of the asset being traded.
🔹 Visual Appeal: Displays bullish gaps in a soothing Bullish Color and bearish gaps in a striking Bearish Color, making it easy to spot and analyze trends on the fly.
🔹 Overlay Feature: Plots directly on the price chart for seamless integration and analysis.
🌟 Quick Guide to Using the Volumetric Fair Value Gaps Indicator:
🛠 Add the Indicator: Add the indicator to favourites and set it up with your desired settings.
📊 Market Analysis: Watch for the appearance of colored boxes (blue for bearish, gray for bullish) which represent the fair value gaps. These are high-probability areas for reversals or continuations. FVGs with higher volume are implied to induce a stronger reaction on price.
🔔 Alerts: Set up alerts to notify you when new gaps are detected, ensuring you never miss out on potential trades!
🛠 How It Works:
The Volumetric Fair Value Gaps (VFVG) indicator identifies significant price gaps that are not just based on price action but are also substantiated by volume, which are often overlooked in typical analyses. It operates by comparing the current candle’s price range against historical averages and is calculated over a user-defined period, displayed with volume for further insights. For a gap to be recognized as significant (either bullish or bearish), it must exceed a certain size relative to these averages, which can be adjusted for sensitivity using the provided settings. Bullish gaps are identified when the current low is higher than the second previous high after surpassing the threshold, and bearish gaps are marked when the current high is below the second previous low, similarly surpassing the threshold. This dual-confirmation (volume and price deviation) approach minimizes false signals and enhances the reliability of identified gaps.
Maximize your trading strategy with the VFVG Indicator by AlgoAlpha and turn those gaps into opportunities! 🌈✨
Order-Block Detector ICT/SMT + FVG + SignalsOrderBlock-Finder
This script shows order-blocks (OB) and fair-value-gaps (FVG). Additionaly there are entry signals for OB and FVG. The Dist-Parameter tell how many candles should exist between the beginning of the OB or FVG and the pullback.
Order-Blocks
An order block in trading typically refers to a significant grouping of buy or sell orders at a particular price level within a financial market. These blocks of orders can influence price movement when they are executed. Here's a breakdown:
Buy Order Block: This occurs when there's a large concentration of buy orders at a specific price level. It indicates a significant interest among traders to purchase the asset if the price reaches that level.
Sell Order Block: Conversely, a sell order block happens when there's a notable accumulation of sell orders at a particular price level. This suggests that many traders are willing to sell the asset if the price reaches that level.
Impact on Price: Order blocks can influence price movement because when the market approaches these levels, the orders within the block may be triggered, leading to increased buying or selling pressure, depending on the type of block. This surge in trading activity can cause the price to either bounce off the level or break through it.
Support and Resistance: Order blocks are often associated with support and resistance levels. A buy order block may act as support, preventing the price from falling further, while a sell order block may serve as resistance, hindering upward price movement.
Fair-Value-Gap
The fair value gap in trading refers to the difference between the current market price of an asset and its calculated fair value. This concept is often used in financial markets, especially in the context of stocks and other securities. Here's a breakdown:
Market Price: The market price is the price at which an asset is currently trading in the market. It is determined by the interaction of supply and demand forces, as well as various other factors such as news, sentiment, and economic conditions.
Fair Value: Fair value represents the estimated intrinsic value of an asset based on fundamental analysis, which includes factors such as earnings, dividends, cash flow, growth prospects, and prevailing interest rates. It's essentially what an asset should be worth based on its fundamentals.
Fair Value Calculation: Analysts and investors use various methods to calculate the fair value of an asset. Common approaches include discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, comparable company analysis (CCA), and dividend discount models (DDM), among others.
Fair Value Gap: The fair value gap is the numerical difference between the calculated fair value of an asset and its current market price. If the market price is higher than the fair value, it suggests that the asset may be overvalued. Conversely, if the market price is lower than the fair value, it indicates that the asset may be undervalued.
Trading Implications: Traders and investors often pay attention to the fair value gap to identify potential trading opportunities. If the market price deviates significantly from the fair value, it may present opportunities to buy or sell the asset with the expectation that the market price will eventually converge towards its fair value.
Smart Orderblocks / Supply and Demand (@JP7FX)
"Smart" Order Block Supply and Demand Indicator – a tool inspired by Smart Money Concepts and designed to complement your trading style.
It's not about perfection, but rather about enhancing your trading insights and catching things you might have missed.
Keep in mind that the structural representation here is subjective, just like many other indicators. It's more of a guide to help you navigate the market.
While it doesn't explicitly include Imbalance / FVG, you have the flexibility to use additional Imbalance /FVG indicators, including my own, to complement the insights drawn from Supply and Demand zones.
This indicator offers customisation options like trading ranges, allowing you to mark Killzones and tailor it to your preferences. Explore liquidity levels, 50% retracement lines, and personalize the colors and lines to match your unique chart setup.
Guide below on how the "Hidden" Zones are created!
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Daily Gaps & Trapped PositionsThis script builds substantially upon the default Gaps script provided by Tradingview. Functionality was added to allow users to decide what price from the previous session is used to determine a daily gap, added support for showing gaps across all timeframes up to the daily time frame, and also allow gaps to be shown even with ETH enabled on the chart. This script provides support across normal securities, futures, and also crypto.
Users can decide between the following selections to determine if a daily gap has formed:
- Previous Session Close
- Previous Session High/Low
- Last RTH Candle High/Low
The other larger piece that was added is something called trapped positions or what some folks familiar with Market Profile would call "single prints". They could also be considered FVGs but they are a specific subset of FVGs as these must from above or below the current session's high/low.
Single prints form above or below a current session's high/low and can be considered an area where price has moved too fast in that area and price will most likely return to these areas at a later point in time. In some teachings, these are also looked at as "trapped shorts" (lighter blue box color) or "trapped supply" (yellow orange box color) which creates an area where there will be potential support (trapped shorts) or resistance (trapped supply) when this area is revisited in the future. Adding these to your chart will simply provide additional areas of interest where you may see buying or selling.
Both gaps and trapped positions have the following options:
- Show only active gaps/trapped positions. Selecting this will only show areas where price has not completely traded through the box.
- Close gaps/trapped positions partially. If this is selected, it will reduce the box size as price is traded through the area. If it is not selected, the box will only disappear once price has traded through the entire box completely.
There are some additional settings that allow you to tailor how many boxes show up on the chart. These settings are as follows:
- Max number of boxes. This setting will only plot up to this number of gaps/trapped positions.
- Minimum Deviation. This will prevent gaps/trapped positions from showing if they are too small relative to average across that last 14 periods.
- Limit Max Box Trail Length (bars). If checkbox is selected, the box will stop being extended after X number of bars given in this input.
ICT HTF Candles (fadi)Plotting a configurable higher timeframe on current chart's timeframe helps visualize price movement without changing timeframes. It also plots FVG and Volume Imbalance on the higher timeframe for easier visualization.
With ICT concepts, we usually wait for HTF break of structure and then find an entry on a lower timeframe. With this indicator, we can set it to the HTF and watch the develop of price action until the break of structure happens. We can then take an entry on the current timeframe.
Settings
HTF Higher timeframe to plot
Number of candles to display The number of higher timeframe candles to display to the right of current price action
Body/Border/Wick The candle colors for the body, border, and wick
Padding from current candles The distance from current timeframe's candles
Space between candles Increase / decrease the candle spacing
Candle width The size of the candles
Imbalance
Fair Value Gap Show / Hide FVG on the higher timeframe
Volume Imbalance Show / Hide Volume Imbalance on the higher timeframe
Trace
Trace lines Extend the OHLC lines of the higher timeframe and the source of each
Label Show/Hide the price levels of the OHLC
ICT Imbalances (fadi)ICT Imbalances focuses on highlighting the imbalances described by ICT Se imbalances usually act as a price magnet where price tend to revisit to mitigate the imbalance and can act as support and resistance.
It is important to understand that, while they do act as price magnet, they are not all places for entries. What they do provide, is a price understanding and possible areas of reversal based on the bigger picture and trading strategy.
There are four types of imbalances covered by this indicator:
Fair Value Gap (FVG)
Fair value is when, at any given price, both buy and sell sides are offered. For every up move, there is a down move. Fair value Gap is an imbalance where price moved too quickly before offering both buy side and sell side at a given price.
Implied Fair Value Gap (IFVG)
Implied Fair Value Gap is when the first and third candle have overlapping large wicks. The IFVG is the area between the half point of first and third candles.
Volume Imbalance (V.I.)
Volume imbalance is when the price creates a gap between the close of one candle and the open of the following candle with overlapping wicks.
Gap
An area where price gaps up or down leaving a void where price did not trade in. This is most common on higher timeframes and when one day ends and the next day begins.
Settings
ICT Imbalances provides the following options
- Show or hide specific imbalance to keep the chart clean
- Background color of the box highlighting the imbalance
- Box width in the form of how many candles the box extends to
- Show or Hide the Half Mark of the box, only applies to FVG and IFVG
- Show or hide a Legend that explains which colors represents which imbalance
Balanced Price Range (BPR)This script finds BPR's, which some simply refer to as a "double Fair Value Gap" (FVG). In a BPR, there is an overlapping vertical area between a recent bullish and bearish FVG. You may tune the parameters to filter out smaller FVG's or BPR's, as well as how far back the indicator must look to find a matching pair.
[_ParkF]MDRPThis indicator indicates that 'Momentum Discrepancy Reversal Point' = 'MDRP'.
Mixing and modifying several general indicators to find support and resistance
It is created to predict the change point of the trend by overlaying it on the chart.
The 4 support and resistance lines are drawn live, and the changed support and resistance lines are
It erases the line and overlays it again with a new line.
For each support and resistance, you can modify the color or line thickness, number of expressions, etc. in the input menu.
1. _____RSI-SR
Based on Wilder's RSI formula, overbought and oversold
Changes are detected and overlaid on the chart in the form of 2 resistances and 2 supports.
2. _____STOCHRSI-SR
Using the general stochastic and Wilder's RSI calculations,
Detect changes in overbought and oversold areas
It overlays the chart in the form of 1 resistance and 1 support.
3. _____PV-SR
Pivot-based support and resistance will be overlaid on the chart,
By default, 10 pivot lines are drawn, but by modifying the count in the input menu,
You can modify the number of overlays.
4. _____FVG
'Fair value gaps' refers to gaps within consecutive candles.
This section is overlaid in the form of a box,
The default is to draw 10 FVG boxes, but set count in the input menu.
You can modify the number of overlays by editing.
5. _____ZIGZAG
This is to find MDRP by overlaying the low and high prices of the current trend on the chart.
ZIGZAG labels near supports and resistances of 1, 2, 3 and 4 can increase the reliability of the MDRP.
The default value of live in the input menu is true, but if it is false, the closing price is checked and drawn.
Reduce false signals.
6. _____ICHIMOKU
The 5 lines of ICHIMOKU were overlaid with the default values of 9, 26, 52, 26,
Lines other than LeadLine A and B that are overlaid on the chart are overlaid on the chart only as much as the period value of each line.
* The _____FVG indicator cited the source of 'makuchaku'.
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이 지표는 'Momentum Discrepancy Reversal Point' = 'MDRP'를
찾기 위해 여러개의 일반적 지표들을 혼합, 수정하여 지지와 저항의 형태로
차트에 overlay 시켜 트렌드의 변화 지점을 예측 하기 위해 만들어졌습니다.
4개의 지지와 저항선은 실시간으로 그려지게 되며, 변화된 지지와 저항은 기존의
선을 지우고 새로운 선으로 다시 표시 됩니다.
각 지지와 저항은 input 메뉴에서 색 또는 선의 두께, 표현할 개수 등을 수정할 수 있습니다.
1. _____RSI-SR
Wilder's RSI 계산식을 기반으로 과매수, 과매도 영역에서의
변화를 감지하여 2개의 저항과 2개의 지지의 형태로 차트에 표시 됩니다.
2. _____STOCHRSI-SR
일반적 스토캐스틱과 Wilder's RSI의 계산식을 이용하여
과매수, 과매도 영역에서의 변화를 감지하여
1개의 저항과 1개의 지지의 형태로 차트에 표시됩니다.
3. _____PV-SR
Pivot을 기반으로 한 지지와 저항을 차트에 표시 하게 되며,
기본값은 10개의 Pivot선이 그려지게 되지만 input 메뉴에서 count를 수정하여
표시할 개수를 수정할 수 있습니다.
4. _____FVG
'Fair value gaps'는 연속된 캔들 안에서의 갭 구간을 말합니다.
이 구간을 박스의 형태로 표시한 것이며,
기본값은 10개의 FVG 박스가 그려지게 되지만 input 메뉴에서 count를
수정하여 표시할 개수를 수정할 수 있습니다.
5. _____ZIGZAG
현재 트렌드의 저가와 고가를 차트에 표시하여 MDRP를 찾기 위한 것으로
1, 2, 3, 4의 지지와 저항 부근에서의 ZIGZAG 라벨은 MDRP의 신뢰도를 높혀줄 수 있습니다.
input 메뉴에서의 live 기본값은 체크되어 있지만 체크를 해제하면 종가를 확인하고 그려지기에
거짓 신호를 줄일 수 있습니다.
6. _____ICHIMOKU
ICHIMOKU의 5개의 선은 기본값인 9, 26, 52, 26으로 표시하였으며,
차트에 표시되는 선행스팬 1과 2를 제외한 전환선, 기준선, 후행스팬은 각 선의 기간값만큼만 차트에 표시 되게 하였습니다.
FairValueGap FVGWhat is a Fair Value Gap or a Gap?
There may be different explanation or reasons of gaps In Forex, my knowledge says that gaps are not very common and they are filled when ever market gets an opportunity to fill. I am trying to figure out the fair Value gap through this indicator.
Gaps are sharp breaks in price with no trading occurring in between. Gaps can happen moving up or moving down. In the forex
market, gaps primarily occur over the weekend because it is the only time the forex market closes. Gaps may also occur on very
short timeframes such as a one-minute chart or immediately following a major news announcement.
How I calculated the gaps Value?
Calculation Method of Gap used is when (low_bar(current bar)-high_bar(two bars back))>0 and (low_bar(two bars back)-high_bar(current bar))>0
The gaps are represented by the Orange and Lime color Bar height.
Do the gaps need to be filtered?
This is the most important part according to me.
Yes, the gaps need to be filtered, Since there are may gaps one after another ,In This Indicator i have used a logic to filter out unnecessary Gaps.
you will be seeing only major Important gaps which you need to focus on.
How gaps Helps?
Gaps sometimes result in corrective price action. In other words, after the gap occurs prices have a tendency to reverse and “fill” the gap.
This is what is look for.
How to use the setting of the indicator and what do they represent?
This indicator setting has 4 options
1.plot major Filtered FVG of Bullish Candles
When you check this option all major FGV will be filtered based on my logic of filtering the gaps
2.plot major Filtered FVG of Bearish Candles
When you check this option all major FGV will be filtered based on my logic of filtering the gaps
3.Plot Bar size representing the GAPS
The bars(lime and orange color) in front of candle bars are the size of the gap.
4.Plot Lines representing the GAPS
You can also visualize the recent gaps through lines , you will be able to see only 3 to 5 recent gaps through line.(not able to plot
all gaps through line because of the limit, so gaps are represented by the orange and lime color bars)
You can also change the resolution in setting of the indicator to get different time frame FGV.
Thanks to mickey1984 for guiding and helping for this concept idea.
Have any question Feel free to ask?
iFVG Pro ToolkitThe iFVG Pro Toolkit is a collaboration with @TIMELESS1_ to bring you a one stop indicator giving you the ability to filter iFVGs with things like:
- The number of max number of candles allowed before an inversion is considered invalid.
- ATR filter to filter out smaller FVGs.
- Session Filter to show only iFVGs in your trading window.
- Historical iFVGs allowed to plot.
- iFVG Entry type.
- Complete color customization
- Automated Customizable MTF Liquidity Levels.
- Liquidity Timeframe Info Table
- Toggles to enable and disable Lines, FVGs, and Entries
- SMT Divergences with a validation filter
- Alerts for iFVGs and SMTs
A little bit about iFVGs:
Inversion Fair Value Gaps occur when a previous bullish or bearish Fair Value Gap is closed through hence the 'Inversion' aspect.
This can be a very strong sign that price may reverse and sweep the opposing liquidity.
Its a great visual way to see order flow when you inverse the opposite bias momentum within just a few candles.
Waiting for a sweep of BSL or SSL and an iFVG to occur after the fact can be a strong sign that we will reverse and sweep opposing liquidity before pushing higher or lower.
A little bit about Liquidity Levels:
Liquidity levels also know as Buyside Liquidity (BSL) and Sellside Liquidity (SSL) is commonly used as targets to take profit or to look for entries due to most traders and institutions having large blocks of orders sitting in those areas which can act as a magnet for price.
A little bit about SMT Divergence:
SMT Divergences occur daily in the market.
This is when a ticker like SEED_ALEXDRAYM_SHORTINTEREST2:NQ and NYSE:ES are doing the opposite of each other.
Making the opposite highs and/or lows.
When SMTs are forming on the lows it is considered Bullish SMT Divergence which can be strong confluence to enter a long trade when an iFVG is formed before or after a sweep of liquidity or FVG.
When SMTs are forming on the highs it is considered Bearish SMT Divergence which can be strong confluence to enter a short trade when an iFVG is formed before or after a sweep of liquidity of FVG.
Sesiones, FVG + Alertas [terrylag]Indicate the highs and lows of the most important sessions and alert when there is manipulation in the new session by marking the FVG imbalances to make an optimal entry.
Smart Voids(fvg)🧠 Smart Voids (fvg) by DuncanX 🔥 🔥
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It spots the real voids the market leaves behind.
Inspired by SMC and ICT’s Fair Value Gap logic —
but cleaner, faster, and smarter.
It only marks true displacement gaps where liquidity was taken.
One color. No noise. Just pure intent.
No clutter — just high-probability zones.
If a box appears,
someone’s likely to react there.
See it early.
Own the move.🔥 🔥 🔥
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