NX - PD ArraysThis Pine Script indicator identifies and visualizes Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) and Order Blocks (OBs) based on refined price action logic.
FVGs are highlighted when price leaves an imbalance between candles, while Order Blocks are detected using ICT methodology—marking the last opposing candle before a displacement move.
The script dynamically tracks and updates these zones, halting box extension once price interacts with them. Customizable colors and lookback settings allow traders to tailor the display to their strategy.
Orderblock
ICT Trading by JaeheeSUMMARY
• This script consolidates widely used ICT concepts into a single, coherent toolkit that emphasizes structural clarity over chart clutter.
• It renders Market Structure (BOS/CHoCH), significant Order Blocks (OB), Fair Value Gaps (FVG) with size filtering, BSL/SSL liquidity lines with optional sweep pruning, and Killzone session start markers.
• For analysis/education only. It does not provide investment advice or imply performance/returns.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
• Integrated coverage of core ICT elements in one script (Structure, OB, FVG, BSL/SSL, Killzone).
• Quality gating so only “meaningful” zones/gaps remain (ATR/percent/tick thresholds, leg displacement, optional volume filter).
• Liquidity line maintenance: BSL/SSL can be automatically pruned after a defined sweep so attention stays on current liquidity.
• Visual minimalism: compact labels inside boxes; no background shading by default, keeping the chart readable.
• One-click contrast: a “Force Black” toggle switches all labels/lines to black for maximum legibility.
• Component-level ON/OFF controls (FVG / OB / BSL-SSL / Killzone) to tailor visibility to your workflow.
• OB de-duplication policy prevents overlapping clutter (keep-older-and-extend-right / keep-older / replace-with-new).
COMPONENTS & LOGIC (CONCISE)
• Market Structure (BOS/CHoCH)
◦ External swings via fractal pivots.
◦ BOS confirmation = close beyond the recent swing by k·ATR + a minimum real-body (first bar).
◦ Regime-aware labeling distinguishes BOS vs CHoCH.
• Order Blocks (strict ICT with significance)
◦ Demand OB: last down candle before a qualifying upside break; Supply OB: last up candle before a qualifying downside break.
◦ Filters enforce candle body, zone thickness, leg displacement (ATR-based), optional volume.
◦ Mitigation handling: Keep / Delete / Shrink (partial fills shrink the zone until invalidation).
• Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
◦ Standard 3-candle definition.
◦ Valid only when gap height ≥ max(percent threshold, ATR-based threshold, tick threshold) → trivial gaps intentionally removed.
◦ Minimal “FVG” text is centered inside the box.
• BSL / SSL & Sweep Management
◦ Equal highs/lows detected using dual tolerances (ticks + ATR) and a bar-spacing cap.
◦ Optional auto-removal after a sweep (Wick / Close / AnyTouch) so only actionable liquidity remains.
• Killzone Session Starts
◦ Compact vertical tick + label at the first bar of Asia / Europe / New York (no background fill).
INPUTS (MINIMIZED BY DESIGN)
• Visibility toggles: Show FVG / Show Order Blocks / Show BSL-SSL / Show Killzone session starts.
• Contrast toggle: Make all texts & lines BLACK (ON/OFF).
• Most numeric thresholds are internally fixed to discourage over-optimization and preserve consistent behavior.
HOW TO USE — PRACTICAL WORKFLOW
• Frame selection
◦ HTF (bias frame): choose 1H/4H/1D to read structure and map major OB/FVG.
◦ LTF (execution frame): 1–15 minute range; prefer trades aligned with the HTF bias.
• Long scenario (checklist)
◦ Bias: HTF shows a recent upside BOS or down→up CHoCH; price approaches a credible demand OB/FVG.
◦ Liquidity: recent SSL sweep (downside liquidity taken). Swept SSLs may auto-remove if that option is enabled.
◦ Triggers (one or more):
·· Fading back into a demand OB with support (close holds above the OB top).
·· Reclaim of a bullish FVG (close back above lower/mid line).
·· LTF structural shift (mini CHoCH → BOS).
◦ Invalidation/Risk: stop below OB bottom or sweep low, with an ATR buffer.
◦ Management: scale out near local LTF highs or nearest BSL; secondary targets at opposing FVG/supply OB; trail under LTF swing lows or FVG lower boundary.
• Short scenario (checklist)
◦ Bias: HTF shows a downside BOS or up→down CHoCH.
◦ Liquidity: recent BSL sweep (upside liquidity taken).
◦ Triggers (one or more):
·· Rejection from a supply OB after re-entry.
·· Failure/reject at a bearish FVG (upper/mid line).
·· LTF structural shift (mini CHoCH → downside BOS).
◦ Invalidation/Risk: stop above OB top or sweep high, with an ATR buffer.
◦ Management: scale out near local LTF lows or nearest SSL; secondary targets at opposing FVG/demand OB; trail above LTF swing highs or FVG upper boundary.
BSL/SSL TIPS
• Generation uses recent fractal highs/lows with tick/ATR tolerance and a spacing cap to avoid spurious “equal” prints.
• If auto-removal is enabled, swept lines vanish, keeping the view focused on what matters now.
• Confluence after a sweep (e.g., reversal close + OB/FVG nearby) can increase conviction.
ORDER BLOCK TIPS
• Significance filters (body/thickness/leg displacement/optional volume) suppress weak OBs by design.
• De-duplication keeps one meaningful zone when two boxes fully overlap (or extends the older zone to the right, depending on policy).
• Mitigation modes:
◦ Keep — retain the zone for reference even after touch.
◦ Delete — remove on mitigation to keep only fresh levels.
◦ Shrink — reduce boundary toward the fill to reflect partial consumption.
FVG TIPS
• Three-way minimum size (percent / ATR / ticks) must be met; this intentionally removes micro-gaps (e.g., ~0.12%).
• Bullish FVG: reclaim of the lower/mid line with a close may serve as a long trigger in a bullish context.
• Bearish FVG: rejection at the upper/mid line may serve as a short trigger in a bearish context.
• On mitigation (close through), boxes are removed to keep the chart clean.
KILLZONE (SESSION START MARKERS)
• Asia / Europe / New York: a short vertical tick and label at the session’s first bar—no background shading.
• Focus on signals forming soon after the session opens; overlap (e.g., Europe→New York) can increase volatility.
RISK & REAL-TIME CONSIDERATIONS
• Fractal swings confirm after L/R bars, so structure labeling is delayed by definition (and then fixed).
• BOS/CHoCH is validated only on the confirming close (k·ATR beyond the swing with a minimum real-body).
• OB/FVG/BSL-SSL state can change quickly on mitigation/sweep; account for slippage and define re-entry rules ahead of time.
• Always apply independent risk management (position sizing, stops). This is a study/analysis tool only.
READABILITY TIPS
• Use the Force-Black toggle when you want maximum contrast against candles.
• Keep only what you need (e.g., FVG+OB) to avoid visual overload.
• Always re-anchor LTF decisions to HTF zones and structure.
LIMITATIONS & NOTES
• No forward-looking guarantees; filters reduce noise but cannot eliminate false signals.
• Visualizations and thresholds are for study/analysis; not financial advice.
• Invite-Only distribution; access is managed via TradingView’s invitation system. No external links or promotions are included.
دستیار ترید(By Vahid.Jafarzadeh) 🇮🇷🎉 The first Persian indicator on TradingView, released for free to celebrate my daughter's birthday. 🎉
Trading Assistant (By Vahid.Jz) is an all-in-one tool designed to simplify analysis and improve accuracy. It acts as an intelligent trading partner.
Features:
- Market Structure detection
- Multi-Timeframe "Third Eye" analysis
- Professional Order Blocks recognition
- Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) detection
- Customizable alerts
- Fully Persian interface
Free to use. Contact on Telegram: @vahidjz
“Trading is not a destination; it’s the journey — a path of learning, growth, and experience.”
Multi TF - HTF→LTF OrderblocksMulti TF — HTF→LTF Orderblocks
Identify higher-timeframe (HTF) order blocks and project them onto your lower-timeframe (LTF) chart—clean, fast, and publication-ready.
The script automatically detects swing breaks on your chosen HTF, builds the originating order block, and renders that zone on your current chart so you can execute on lower timeframes with higher-timeframe context.
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How it works
HTF swing structure is tracked via pivot highs/lows and a user-selected break confirmation (Close or Wick).
On a valid break, the script backtracks to the last opposite candle and creates the HTF order block (wick-to-wick or body-only depending on your setting).
The OB is projected to the LTF and extended bar-by-bar until:
Mitigation: price penetrates at least 50% of the zone → the box is marked “old” (dimmed) or optionally auto-deleted.
Close-break: price closes beyond the far edge → zone is optionally removed immediately.
Each zone includes a centerline and an inside label showing the original HTF (e.g., “M15”, “H1”).
Key features
True HTF→LTF overlay: trade M1/M5 with M15/H1/H4 context.
Mitigation logic (≥50%): first meaningful touch turns the zone “old” or deletes it (your choice).
Close-break handling: auto-remove zones broken by close, to keep charts clean.
Overlap control: choose how to handle overlapping zones on the same side:
Keep Latest, Union (merge), or Intersection (refine).
Wicks vs. Bodies: build zones from full candle range or just the body.
Lightweight UI: only the relevant inputs in the panel; sensible defaults.
Alert included: fires on the first 50% mitigation of any fresh zone.
Performance-friendly limits: cap the number of active zones to fit Pine limits.
Inputs (quick overview)
HTF for Order Blocks: timeframe to scan (e.g., 15, 60, 240, D).
Swing Length (Pivot L/R): pivot sensitivity for structure.
Break Confirmation: Close (recommended) or Wick.
Zones use Wicks: on/off for wick-to-wick zones.
OB Lookback before Break: how far to search for the opposite candle.
Max Active Zones: hard cap for chart cleanliness & performance.
Delete on Close-Break: remove zones that are invalidated by a close.
Delete after Mitigation: remove once a 50% touch occurs.
Handle Overlap: None, Keep Latest, Union (merge), Intersection (refine).
Colors & Border: fresh/old zone colors (default ~35% opacity) and optional borders.
Default profile (as shipped):
Break by Close, zones use wicks, Union overlap handling, 250 lookback, 250 max zones, borders off, and HTF label printed inside each zone.
How to use (suggested workflow)
Pick an HTF (e.g., H1 for intraday) and drop to your execution TF (e.g., M5/M1).
Wait for price to tap ≥50% of a fresh OB → look for your LTF trigger (CHOCH, iFVG, PA).
Place SL beyond the zone (or beyond the LTF swing) and manage to your targets (e.g., 2R–3R or to the next HTF OB).
Keep charts clean by enabling Delete on Close-Break and (optionally) Delete after Mitigation.
Alerts
“OB: Zone berührt (Erstkontakt)” — triggers on the first ≥50% mitigation of any fresh zone.
Create additional TradingView alerts with this condition to get notified in real time.
Notes & limitations
Built with request.security(..., lookahead_off) to avoid future-bar peeking; zones only form after a confirmed HTF break.
As with all pattern-based tools, use alongside your risk management and a defined entry model.
Pine has strict limits on drawings; use Max Active Zones to balance coverage and performance.
Credits
Designed for traders who want HTF precision with LTF execution—a clean, opinionated OB overlay that focuses on what matters: fresh zones, first touch, and invalidation.
Order Blocks & FVG (Kostya)the indicator is the attempt to visualize the trading opportunities - price magnets and potential reversal zones for intraday and swing trading.
SMC ToolBox [WinWorld]👋 INTRODUCTION
SMC ToolBox indicator is not just a simple indicator, but rather a collection of SMC-related algorithms, that our teams has found to make the most profound impact on determination process of the most high-quality liquidity zones and points of interests ( further – POIs ), hence the name of the indicator – Tool Box (and it also sounds cool :) .
From candle patterns to complex orderflow detection algorithm, ToolBox indicator will help any trader with search for useful tools, solving the needs from confirming position entry levels to trend-following and mean reversion opportunities.
❓ WHY DID WE BUILD THIS?
This indicator was initially built for our team's internal use for the sole purpose of gathering all actively used non-structure-related algorithms* in one place, so we could have only the tools that are truly needed at hand at any point of time. After we showed this tool to our trading partners, they were surprised about how light, fast and useful ToolBox was and they advised us on sharing this with our community and, after giving it a proper thought, we decided to follow their advice.
Funnily enough , after researching TradingView's open-source script library, we haven't found even one instance of even remotely alike indicators, so it fair to say that we are one of the first people to release this kind of SMC-related indicator bundles on the market and we strongly that TradingView's community will find this tool of use.
🤷♂️ WHY SHOULD YOU CARE AT ALL?
Frankly speaking, we are not the first people to build our own algorithms of such popular indicators like Equal Highs and Lows (EQHL), Previous Day High Low (PDHL), Orderflow (OF) and etc., but we are definitely one of the first teams to implement these indicators with the help of algorithms, that are actually used by the most professional traders on YouTube and other social media trading influencers. Simply taking trades from our SCOBs, OFs, EQHLs and etc. won't print you millions overnight, but what these algos will do is help you with being aware of is potentially laying ahead of you with a very clean probability.
Why does it matter? It simple: better market awareness gives you an edge over other trades, which use old algorithms, which are clearly outdated, so beating such traders in the long run is just a game of time for you, so good algorithms do matter. Each indicator inside ToolBox is there to help you develop this market awareness and forge your edge bit by bit.
Now let's talk about what is inside the ToolBox.
🔍 OVERVIEW
At the moment of publishing ToolBox contains 8 indicators, so say "Hello" to:
Price Border Bands (further – PBB) ;
Ordeflow (further – OF) ;
Equal Highs & Lows (further – EQHL) ;
Previous Day High & Low ( further – PDHL) ;
Single Candle Order Block (further – SCOB) ;
Institutional Funding Candle (further – IFC) ;
Engulfing Candle (further – EC) ;
Inside Bars (further – IB) .
Some of them you may know, some of them you may not, so let's review each of them one by one.
📍 INDICATOR: Price Border Bands (PBB)
Price Border Bands indicator is a simple yet useful algorithm, based on Triangular Moving Average (TMA), which helps determine extreme price spikes, which on average act as meaningful mean reversion opportunities. It also is a good an effective "verifier" of POIs and zones of interest (further – ZOI) .
We advise on using this indicator this way:
Look for price going beyond upper or lower band of PBB;
Look for price reaching POI or ZOI;
Start searching for your entry point.
The most common sign of potential price reversal, which PBB searches for, is intense price spike, which signals about "liquidity clearing" or, in simple terms, manipulation .
Manipulation of the price inside the POI or price being "stopped" by POI is a screaming sign of the potentional following reversal. See the example of such situation on the screenshot below:
Additionally we need to talk about trend filter inside PBB, which colours the bars on the chart under certain conditions. If bars on the chart are being coloured in gray – this is your sign to stop trading on this asset? because there is risk to catch an uncomfortably big price spike, which might turn the '+' of your position's PnL in to '-'. See the example of PBB highlighting bar's of risky price zone in gray colour on the screenshot below:
In order to continue trading you need to wait for bars to stop being coloured in gray OR confirm the fact that price made Change of Character (ChoCh) in reverse to the previous direction of price, which was marked as risky by PBB.
And last but not least: if you see POI being reach by price inside the bands of PBB, then consider this POI weak and avoid trading it. See the example of weak POI inside PBB bands on the screenshot below:
📍 INDICATOR: Orderflow (OF)
Orderflow indicator is an algorithm, which detects Sell-to-Buy (furthert – STB) or Buy-to-Sell (further – BTS) manipulations, using the algorithm of impulse & correction price movement detection, taken from one of our previously built indicators – Impulse Correction SCOB Mapper (ICSM) .
Let's explain the terms from above:
Impulse – series of bars, each bar of which consecutively updated previous bar's high and then last candle broke previous bar's low ;
Correction – series of bars, each bar of which consecutively updated previous bar's low and then last candle broke previous bar's high ;
STB – a type of price manipulation, which can be described as a correction of price inside global upward movemnt;
BTS – a type of price manipulation, which can be describd as a impulse of price inside global downward movement.
Unlike traditional order blocks, which are often narrower and more selective, Orderflow zones cover a wider price range and present a higher probability of mitigation. This makes them more reliable for entries in ovaerage in comparison to classic orderblocks.
Let's review examples of bullish and bearish orderflows on the screenshots below:
Bullish orderflows (STBs) (blue boxes with "OF" text inside)
Bearish orderflows (BTSs) (orange boxes with "OF" text inside)
The usage of ZOIs, detected by OF algorithm, is pretty straightforward: take trades against the ordeflow block, that price has reached. Even though we don't recommend relying on Orderflow blocks as sole producers of signals, you can use them as such in way, that can be described like this:
Place stop-loss (SL) beyond the furthest border of OF block (bottom of the bullish OF or top of the bearish OF), that price has reached;
Aim for >2:1 RR ratio and place your take-profit (TP) accordingly.
You can see the example setups of OF blocks as signal producers on the screenshots below:
Examples of LONG trades, taken from price reaching bullish OF block.
Examples of SHORT trades, taken from price reaching bearish OF block.
Summarising, Orderflow can be described as a tool that helps determine the STB and BTS price manipulations, which are great price ZOIs and can be used both as confirmation tools for your exisiting signals and sole signal producers, in which case such they needed to be handled extra mindfully and preferrably bonded with other tools for additional confirmation. We personally recommend using Ordeflow as confirmation tool, because ZOIs, detected by Orderflow, are usually the price ranges, around which traders tend to place their stop-losses, which only gives more strength to these zones for supporting the price and helps traders with "trading from support/resistance" strategies gain additional edge.
📍 INDICATOR: Equal Highs & Lows (EQHL)
EQHL indicator is an algorithm, which scans the extremums of impulse and correction movements, detected by our ICSM indicator , and marks ones which are roughly or equaly placed on the same price levels. Equal highs (further – EQH) and equal lows (further – EQL) are local liquidity pools, where stop orders and resting orders cluster; price often gravitates to these zones for liquidity “top-ups,” after which a reaction or continuation to the next liquidity source may occur. Basically, EQHL algorithm highlights clusters of equal extremes as navigational anchors for “collect → react → confirm” scenarios.
Talking about usage, we advise to not take swept or reached EQHLs as entries by themselves. Evaluate them alongside HTF structure, Inducement (IDM), orderblocks (OB), orderflow (OF), candle pattern context (e.g., IFC/EC) on the LTF and etc. Intended usage scenario of this algorithm is something like this:
Price reaches EQH/EQL;
Price hangs around the reached EQH/EQL;
Another tool (for example, OF or OB) signals about price reversals from the level of reached EQH/EQL;
Trader starts looking for an entry.
See the examples of EQHLs, which algorithms maps on the chart, on the screenshots below:
Equal Lows (EQLs)
Equal Highs (EQHs)
📍 INDICATOR: Previous Day High & Low (PDHL)
PDHL indicator is an algorithm, princples of work of which can be derived from its name: algorithm tracks previous day's high and low and displays it on the chart.
Previous day's high and low are fundamental POIs in any financial market, which are traded not only by SMC traders, but by many other traders, especially by traders, which consider these POIs are one of the most crucial, because they usually highly liquidity-rich and can signal about wondeful reversal opportunities.
We expect traders to use PDHL algorithm as confirmation tool when trading by mean reversion strategies. Usage of PDHL as signal source is advised against, but traders are free to experiment nevertheless.
PDHL algorithm shows two types of PDHLs on the chart: active PDHL (solid line) and swept PDHL (dashed line) . You can the examples of PDHLs, detected by our algorithm, on the screenshot below:
📍 INDICATOR: Single Candle Order Block (SCOB)
SCOB indicator is an algorithm, which marks a very specific POIS, which are based on of the most simple yet highly profound SMC and candle pattern principles and are usually a good alternative for classic orderblocks.
Principles of SCOB detection are very simple:
Price sweeps previous candle's extremum (high/low). So called "liquidity sweep" ;
Immediately after step 1 price forms a fair value gap (FVG).
You can see basic examples of bearish and bullish SCOBs on the screenshot below:
As a matter of fact, SCOB can be used both as a confirmation tool and source of signals. However! To be a source of signals, SCOB is most suitable to be used while trading on lower timeframe (LTF), while trading on a higher timeframe (HTF) on average requires to look at SCOB as a POI rather than as independent source of signals. That being said, we would like additionally to point out, that due to the nature of SCOB being an orderblock, this tool by its nature is best suitable as confirmation tool and we expect traders to use it as such, but either way this indicator is quite multifunctional and can be used by each trader for a more specific purposes.
SCOBs, which are detected by our algorithm, are painted on the chart either as coloured candles (SCOBs without inside bars) or coloured boxes (SCOBs with inside bars) . You can see examples of SCOBs, which were detected by our SCOB algorithm, on the screenshot below:
📍 INDICATOR: Institutional Funding Candle (IFC)
IFC is a candle, which is a more strict version of SCOB. Our algorithms detects an IFC, if SCOB satisfies these conditions:
SCOB candle has large shadow (more than 50% of candle's body);
SCOB candle has large range ( | high - low | is more than a certain value, which is base on ATR).
That's basically it! Being simple as that, IFC represents itself as a high-trust SCOB, which on average has larger chance of reversing price when IFC candle is reached by it and our practice shows that it is indeed the case. IFC candles are usually go hand in hand with large price and volume spikes, which are believed to be caused by large institutional players, who trading eager to catch retail trader's stop orders, which they usually place around POIs like IFC and SCOB.
We expect traders to use IFC as a tool for entry confirmation bias, especially when considering IFC from HTF.
You can see IFC, which our algoritms detects on the chart, on the screenshot below:
📍 INDICATOR: Engulfing Candle (EC)
An Engulfing Candle is a candle, which occurs when the current candle’s body engulfs the prior candle’s body, showing a short-term shift in demand/supply balance. In SMC context, it is most useful around POIs/liquidity as a contextual confirmation element. The indicator marks bullish and bearish EC without implying a “must reverse” outcome – it’s a focus cue, not a promise.
As with any other alike tool, this algorithm should not be used as sole source of signals, but rather as a confirmation tool. ECs near support/resistance zones or POIs are typically more impactufl than those inside choppy consolidations. Structural and LTF price impulse confirmation usually enhances existing position bias in a positive way.
You can see examples of engulfing candles on the screenshots below:
Bullish engulfing candles
Bearish engulfing candles
📍 INDICATOR: Inside Bars (IB)
Inside Bars are bars, which are contained inside the range of high and low prices of the bars preceding them. This algorithm was designed to showcase periods of potential price consolidation/volatylity compression and quite often precedes price movement towards closest liquidity POIs and ZOIs. When price finally breaks out of its previous range, it usually provides good opportunities for entering trades using breakout strategies (especially ones, that are based on SMC principles) .
You can see examples of IBs, which are detected by our algorithm on the chart, on the screenshot below:
That was a long list of features, now let's talk about settings now.
🔔 WHAT ABOUT ALERTS?
At the moment of publishing this indicator includes alerts for all algorithms, which are included inside, except for Inside Bars (IB) algorithm .
⚙️ SETTINGS
At the moment of publishing most of the settings in this indicator are about styling for indicator's visuals, because by design most of the included algorithms (excluding PBB) don't rely on inputs of any technical kind. Let's review them.
ToolBox | General Styling
Text Size – (Tiny, Small, Normal, Large) – defines text size of indicator's visuals, which use text-based visuals.
Price Border Bands | Main Settings
Show Price Border Bands – toggles on/off the display of PBB;
Half Length – defines amount of bars, used for calculation of the PBB's TMA;
Price Source – defines price source for PBB's TMA;
ATR Multiplier – affects the width of PBB's bands;
ATR Period – affects the amount of bars for ATR calculation.
Orderflow (OF) | Settings
Bullish OF – toggles on/off the display & colour of bullish OF;
Bearish OF – toggles on/off the display & colour of bearish OF;
Show border – toggles on/off the display of OF blocks' border.
Single Candle Order Block (SCOB) | Settings
Show SCOB – toggles on/off the display of SCOB;
Bullish – toggles on/off the colour of bullish SCOB;
Bearish – toggles on/off the colour of bearish SCOB.
Equal High/Lows (EQHL) | Settings
Show EQH/EQL – toggles on/off the display of PDH/PDL;
EQH – toggles on/off the colour of EQH;
EQL – toggles on/off the colour of EQL.
Institutional Funding Candle (IFC) | Settings
Show IFC – toggles on/off the display of IFC;
Bullish – toggles on/off the colour of bullish IFC;
Bearish – toggles on/off the colour of bearish IFC.
Previous Day High & Low (PDHL) | Settings
Show PDH/PDL – toggles on/off the display of PDH/PDL;
Show PDH/PDL – toggles on/off the display of the past history of swept PDH/PDL;
Show previous day divider – toggles on/off the display of dashed gray line, which separates new day from previous one;
Bullish – toggles on/off the colour of bullish IFC;
Bearish – toggles on/off the colour of bearish IFC.
Engulfing Candle (EC) | Settings
Show engulfing candles – toggles on/off the display of EC;
Bullish – toggles on/off the colour of bullish EC;
Bearish – toggles on/off the colour of bearish EC.
Inside Bars (IB) | Settings
Show inside bars – toggles on/off the display of IB;
Bullish – toggles on/off the colour of bullish IB;
Bearish – toggles on/off the colour of bearish IB.
Alerts | POI
Alert Frequency – (Once Per Bar, Once Per Bar Close) – defines alert frequency of the indicator's alert for all POIs;
* all other buttons from this group of settings toggle alerts on/off.
PBB;
OF;
SCOB;
EQH;
EQL;
IFC;
PDH;
PDL;
EC.
🏁 AFTERWORD
SMC ToolBox indicator is designed to be the ultimate swiss knife, which might bring you quantifiable results when trying to crack the market's secret of where the liquidity is placed. This indicator doesn't produce any particular signals not it gives any financial advice, but it helps you deepen understanding about potential existing liquidity zones and price points by employing principles of SMC algorithms, which are most commonly used by retail traders on a daily basis.
You can view this indicator as a Christmas candy box: you pick only the candles (indicators) you need and want. We expect any trader to use this indicator by exactly same way: you should take onlt the things you need to enhance your strategy, not worrying about what to do with other indicators, fi they don't suit you.
Lastly, we would like to share our team's recommendations (they are optional, of course) on how to use certain POIs from ToolBox:
Use PBB as a filter for validating POis. Pay close attention to the rule "don't trade POIs, which are located inside the bands of PBB" (described above in "INDICATOR: PBB") ;
Use Orderflow to find short-term and mid-term trading opportunitions for trend-following strategies, using OF blocks as resistance in bearish trend and support in bullish trend;
Use EQHL and PDHL indicators when trading by mean-reversion strategies on intraday timeframes. These indicators will be especially of use to forex, stock and crypto traders;
Use SCOB and IFC indicators when trading by mean-reversion strategy to find short-term reversal opportunities;
Use ECs and IBs as confirmation/denial tools for your entry ideas. We recommend avoiding trading If price is currently going inside HTF's IB range.
We have no doubts that SMC ToolBox indicator will be of use to any trader, who employs and desire to employ SMC principles in his strategy. We will be waiting for your feedback, meanwhile you can ask your questions in the comments :)
Sincerely,
WinWorld team.
True Order Block (OB) True Order Block (OB)
This script automatically detects and plots Order Blocks (OBs) based on the presence of Fair Value Gaps (FVGs).
Only Order Blocks are displayed on the chart.
🔎 How it works
The script looks for Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) according to a relaxed 3-candle definition.
Once an FVG is detected:
For a Bullish FVG → the last bearish candle before the gap is marked as the Bullish Order Block.
For a Bearish FVG → the last bullish candle before the gap is marked as the Bearish Order Block.
OBs are extended into the future until price either:
mitigates the zone (optional auto-removal), or
the number of live OBs exceeds the user’s maximum (FIFO cleanup).
⚙️ User settings
Draw Order Blocks (enable/disable plotting)
Minimum OB length (how far each zone extends initially)
Remove OB after violation (auto delete invalidated zones)
Max active OBs (limit on displayed zones for clarity)
Bullish/Bearish OB colors
✅ Key features
Fully automated OB detection
No clutter – only OBs are plotted (FVG logic hidden in the background)
Smart cleanup: mitigated zones are removed automatically
Customizable colors & limits
⚠️ Notes
This tool is designed for educational and analytical purposes only.
It does not generate trade signals.
Always combine with your own strategy, market context, and risk management.
Svl - Trading SystemPrice can tell lies but volume cannot, so keeping this in mind I have created this indicator in which you see sell order block and buy order block on the basis of price action + volume through which we execute our trade
First of all, let us know its core concepts and logic, which will help you in taking the right decisions in it.
core concept of the " Svl - Trading System " TradingView indicator is based on professional price action, volume, and swing structure. This indicator smartly gives real-time insights of important price turning points, reversal zones, and trend continuation. Its deep explanation is given below.
Edit - default swing length -5 , change according your nature , tested With 7 For 5 minute timeframe
Core Concept:
1. Swing Structure Detection
The indicator automatically detects swing highs (HH/LH) and swing lows (HL/LL) on the chart.
HH: Higher High
HL: Higher Low
LH: Lower High
LL: Lower Low
These swings are the backbone of price action – signaling a change in trend, a bounce, reversal or trend continuation.
2. Order Block (OB) Mapping
Buy Order Block (Buy OB): When the indicator detects the HL/LL swing, we declare Buy OB, the lowest point of the swing.
Sell Order Block (Sell OB): On HH/LH swing, the highest point of our swing is called Sell OB.
Order Blocks are those important zones of price where historically price has reacted strongly – where major clusters of buyers/sellers are located in the market.
3. Volume Analysis (Optional Dashboard/Barcolor)
The candle color depends on the volume ranking on the chart (most high/low, normal, pressure blue shade).
Highest/lowest volume candles are a special highlight, which helps to spot liquidity spikes, exhaustion, or big orders.
4. Live Dashboard
There is an automated dashboard in the top-right of the chart, which shows this in real-time:
Last swing type (HH/HL/LH/LL)
Reversal price (last swing level)
Swing direction (Bull/Bear/Neutral)
Volume, Buy OB, Sell OB, etc.
This helps the trader understand the market situation at a glance.
5. Smart Plotting/Labels
Buy/Sell are plotted as distinct lines on the OB chart.
The Labels option gives clear visual swing points.
All calculations are fast and automated – the user does not need to mark manually.
This indicator is an advanced, fully-automated price action tool that combines
trend, reversal, volume, liquidity and zone detection in one smart system,
makes entry/exit decisions objective and error-free,
and provides complete trading confidence with a live monitor/dashboard.
All of its functions/properties such as: swing detect, OB plot, volume color, dashboard follow best practice for professional chart analysis!
Apex Edge – Liquidity RaiderApex Edge – Liquidity Raider
The Predator That Hunts Where Retail Never Looks
The Liquidity Raider is not your average liquidity line plotter.
This is an institutional-grade hunting system that tracks the pools of liquidity Smart Money algos stalk — and tells you exactly when price is circling in for the strike.
Where most retail tools simply mark lines, this one acts like a predator:
Scans the chart dynamically to detect clustered highs & lows (pivot-based liquidity zones).
Filters noise with sensitivity & price rounding so you only get real liquidity levels — not every random swing.
Plots live BSL (Buy-Side Liquidity) & SSL (Sell-Side Liquidity) lines in clean dotted format.
Auto-deletes levels when swept, so your chart stays clean and focused.
Triggers directional arrows when price comes within your specified % distance to the target liquidity pool — before the market moves.
EMA confluence layer lets you align with institutional flow (customizable Fast & Slow EMAs).
Core Power
Cluster Logic – Finds high-probability liquidity zones using repeated pivot levels.
Sweep Awareness – Lines vanish the moment liquidity is taken, keeping focus on the next pool.
Proximity Strike Detection – Arrow signals only when price is within striking range.
Directional Clarity – Red arrows = targeting BSL, Green arrows = targeting SSL.
Scalable Across Timeframes – Adapts to your chart’s timeframe with dynamic lookback scaling.
Institutional Flow Filter – Optional EMA confirmation keeps you aligned with the real trend.
How to Use
Identify liquidity pools – Dotted green = buy-side, dotted red = sell-side.
Watch proximity arrows – These mean price is in range and hunting that pool.
Align with EMA bias – Enter only in the direction of institutional momentum.
Target the sweep – Your take profit is where the liquidity is resting.
Why Liquidity Raider Wins
This is not a lagging signal system.
It’s a real-time, clean, predictive tool designed to mimic the targeting logic of high-frequency algos.
By removing swept levels and focusing only on the next available pools, Liquidity Raider keeps you one step ahead of the crowd — and perfectly positioned for the kill shot.
Leola Lens Pro📌 Leola Lens Pro — Expansion, Trap & Structure Map (Invite-Only)
This invite-only overlay is designed to give traders enhanced clarity around liquidity shifts, trap zones, and expansion/reversion mechanics — across all timeframes and market types.
Built as an evolution of Leola Lens Standard, the Pro version integrates a more refined structural engine to highlight real-time reaction zones with greater context sensitivity.
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🔍 What It Displays
• Dynamic support/resistance zones that evolve with price
• Expansion & reversion levels — visualize where moves may exhaust or reverse
• Liquidity sweep detection to catch trap-based market setups
• Cluster zones that signal areas prone to breakouts or failed entries
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🟡 Visual Markers
• 🟡 Yellow Line → Psychological pivot zone
• 🩷 Pink Lines → Pullback or reversal zones (support/resistance traps)
• Adaptive zone shading and slope-based logic enhances readability
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📊 Best Suited For:
• Traders identifying value breaks, imbalance zones, or liquidity voids
• Scalpers catching early trap setups before momentum expands
• Swing traders aiming to enter mean reversion trades post-expansion
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🔧 Technical Approach & Originality
Leola Lens Pro is powered by original proprietary logic — it does not rely on public Pine scripts, built-in indicators, or volume-based techniques.
• No use of RSI, MACD, MAs, Bollinger Bands, or volatility indicators
• Not a predictive tool — it responds to confirmed structure, slope, and price reaction
• Designed for clarity in both trending and ranging conditions
• Visual performance optimized for 15-minute charts but remains timeframe-agnostic
This implementation provides a novel overlay experience focused on structural adaptability and trap awareness, not traditional indicator signals.
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⚠️ Disclaimer
This script is provided for educational and analytical purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice or trade recommendations. Always validate tools through personal testing and risk frameworks.
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Breakout Indicator + OB & FVG📈 Breakout Indicator + OB & FVG
This script is designed to assist with identifying potential breakout zones following periods of low volatility or price consolidation. It integrates price structure analysis with optional lunar phase filtering for enhanced visual insights.
🔍 Key Features
Consolidation Detection: Automatically identifies price ranges with low volatility over a user-defined lookback period.
Breakout Signals: Highlights potential breakout zones when price moves beyond consolidation range highs or lows.
Take-Profit & Stop-Loss Levels: Automatically calculates three TP levels and one SL level based on user-defined multipliers.
Lunar Filter (Optional): Applies a visual overlay during full moon phases as a unique experimental timing filter.
Visual Elements:
Entry/TP/SL levels shown on chart with colored lines and labels.
Consolidation zones shaded with customizable colors.
Dynamic panel with volatility metrics and last signal info.
⚙️ Inputs & Customization
Adjustable lookback period, volatility threshold, and risk multipliers.
Optional lunar phase aggression multiplier.
Full customization of zone colors, label visibility, and transparency.
📌 Disclaimer
This indicator is a visual tool for analysis and does not provide financial advice or guaranteed outcomes. Its purpose is to support discretionary decision-making, not replace it. Past signals do not guarantee future performance. Always test tools thoroughly and use appropriate risk management.
🧠 Developer Notes
Based on simple volatility and price action mechanics.
The lunar filter is symbolic and not based on real astronomical data.
No repainting or future leaks; signals are generated based on confirmed candle closes.
ICT HTF Candles [Pro] (fadi)The ICT HTF Candles shows you multi-timeframe price action by plotting up to six higher timeframe candles on your chart, scaled to real price levels. Set candle counts per timeframe or toggle them off for a clean view, saving you time switching between charts. This helps you spot trends and reversals quickly, align trades with the market’s direction, and time setups like sweeps or bounces better. From scalping on the 1m to swinging on the 4H, it simplifies ICT and Smart Money Concepts (SMC), revealing trend shifts and institutional moves clearly. Once you use it, trading without this clarity just won’t feel right.
Key Features:
In-Depth Price Action Levels
These levels track ICT PD arrays and confluences across timeframes, making it easy to see how price action flows from higher timeframes and what your setup faces. Is your 5m trade about to run into a 1H bearish order block? Did it bounce off a higher timeframe FVG and create an SMT with a correlated asset? They make your chart a clear roadmap to market structure, helping you find strong setups, save time, and align with institutional moves:
Change in State of Delivery (CISD): In ICT trading, CISD marks potential reversal levels on each timeframe by showing the open of the highest series of up (green) candles for a bullish shift or the open of the lowest series of down (red) candles for a bearish shift. These levels are set at the opening price of the first candle in those runs, highlighting where the market turns. The indicator makes these levels easy to spot across timeframes, so you can track reversal points clearly. You can set your own confirmation criteria—a close or wick above/below the CISD line (bearish/bullish) or a close or wick above/below the high/low—to verify the CISD level cross. When confirmed, there is a high probability that we have a change in trend, and a reversal order block forms. CISD helps you track these reversal levels and confirm market shifts, making multi-timeframe analysis straightforward.
Order Blocks: When a CISD level cross is confirmed, the price is now below a series of up (green) candles or above a series of down (red) candles, marking these candles as order blocks that usually support the new trend direction. The indicator shows these levels clearly across timeframes, making it easy to spot high-probability reversal or consolidation areas. Keep in mind that price may sometimes move to mitigate an imbalance, so use your best judgment based on your multi-timeframe analysis to confirm they meet your trading criteria.
Trend Bias: Traders often struggle figuring out market bias—guessing the trend wrong, losing on trades against the flow, or missing how lower and higher timeframes line up. The Trend Bias feature tracks order blocks and change in state of delivery, displaying bullish or bearish trends for each timeframe to help you choose trades that go with the market’s direction. The indicator shows these trends clearly across timeframes, so you can quickly see if the 5m matches the 1H or if you’re going against the bigger trend. This makes it easier to avoid bad trades and make decisions faster, keeping you on track with setups that follow the main trend.
Immediate Rebalance: When looking at price action, you’ll see the market doesn’t usually leave behind many Fair Value Gaps (FVGs). That’s because the market is efficient and always rebalancing any inefficiencies. When the market starts a strong move, the last candle will usually close above the previous candle high (for up moves) or below the low (for down moves). At this point, the market will do one of two things: immediately rebalance by retracing first, or have a small retracement but leave behind an FVG. The Immediate Rebalance feature tracks rebalance levels across multiple timeframes, clearly showing where price rebalances. This helps traders have a better expectation of how the market may need to retrace and anticipate Power of Three (PO3) setups by being ready for a Judas swing to rebalance the imbalance.
Fair Value Gaps and Volume Imbalances: If the market fails to immediately rebalance, it will usually attempt to come back and rebalance it at a later time. FVGs and VIs give you a clear area where the price might be heading if it starts breaking structure on lower timeframes. These inefficiencies—price gaps (FVGs) or aggressive moves (VIs)—show where the market’s working to fix imbalances. The Fair Value Gaps and Volume Imbalances feature tracks these levels across timeframes.
Previous Candle Levels: The Previous Candle Levels feature marks the high, low, and middle of the prior candle on each timeframe, helping you identify key price levels for sweeps, bounces, or breakouts. It tracks the candle’s high and low as its extremes and the middle as the 50% mark, which you can set to calculate using the high-to-low range or the open-to-close range. These levels can provide tradable setups on lower timeframes.
Smart Money Techniques (SMT): What’s an ICT indicator without an SMT feature to track cracks in correlated assets? The ICT HTF Candles monitors your chosen correlated assets, like EUR/USD and GBP/USD or SQ and NQ, for signs of strength or weakness to use as confluence with other features and build the case for A+ setups. The SMT feature spots divergences when one asset makes a higher high or lower low while the other doesn’t follow, hinting at potential reversals or market shifts. It tests SMT using two immediate candles, since higher timeframes (HTFs) create larger gaps on lower timeframes. Traders can easily see these divergence levels, like a 15m SMT lining up with a 1H order block or CISD, helping you confirm high-probability setups and strengthen trade entries with multi-timeframe confluence.
Multitimeframe Order Block Finder (Zeiierman)█ Overview
The Multitimeframe Order Block Finder (Zeiierman) is a powerful tool designed to identify potential institutional zones of interest — Order Blocks — across any timeframe, regardless of what chart you're viewing.
Order Blocks are critical supply and demand zones formed by the last opposing candle before an impulsive move. These areas often act as magnets for price and serve as smart-money footprints — ideal for anticipating reversals, retests, or breakouts.
This indicator not only detects such zones in real-time, but also visualizes their mitigation, bull/bear volume pressure, and a smoothed directional trendline based on Order Block behavior.
█ How It Works
The script fetches OHLCV data from your chosen timeframe using request.security() and processes it using strict pattern logic and volume-derived strength conditions. It detects Order Blocks only when the structure aligns with dominant pressure and visually extends valid zones forward for as long as they remain unmitigated.
⚪ Bull/Bear Volume Power Visualization
Each OB includes proportional bars representing estimated buy/sell effort:
Buy Power: % of volume attributed to buyers
Sell Power: % of volume attributed to sellers
This adds a visual, intuitive layer of intent — showing who controlled the price before the OB formed.
⚪ Order Block Trendline (Butterworth Filtered)
A smoothed trendline is derived from the average OB value over time using a two-pole Butterworth low-pass filter. This helps you understand the broader directional pressure:
Trendline up → favor bullish OBs
Trendline down → favor bearish OBs
█ How to Use
⚪ Trade From Order Blocks Like Institutions
Use this tool to find institutional footprints and reaction zones:
Enter at unmitigated OBs
⚪ Volume Power
Volume Pressure Bars inside each OB help you:
Confirm strong buyer/seller dominance
Detect possible traps or exhaustion
Understand how each zone formed
⚪ Find Trend & Pullbacks
The trendline not only helps traders detect the current trend direction, but the built-in trend coloring also highlights potential pullback areas within these trends.
█ Settings
Timeframe – Selects which timeframe to scan for Order Blocks.
Lookback Period – Defines how many bars back are used to detect bullish or bearish momentum shifts.
Sensitivity – When enabled, the indicator uses smoothed price (RMA) with rising/falling logic instead of raw candle closes. This allows more flexible detection of trend shifts and results in more Order Blocks being identified.
Minimum Percent Move – Filters out weak moves. Higher = only strong price shifts.
Mitigated on Mid – OB is removed when price touches its midpoint.
Show OB Table – Displays a panel listing all active (unmitigated) Order Blocks.
Extend Boxes – Controls how far OB boxes stretch into the future.
Show OB Trend – Toggles the trendline derived from Order Block strength.
Passband Ripple (dB) – Controls trendline reactivity. Higher = more sensitive.
Cutoff Frequency – Controls smoothness of trendline (0–0.5). Lower = smoother.
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Disclaimer
The content provided in my scripts, indicators, ideas, algorithms, and systems is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice, investment recommendations, or a solicitation to buy or sell any financial instruments. I will not accept liability for any loss or damage, including without limitation any loss of profit, which may arise directly or indirectly from the use of or reliance on such information.
All investments involve risk, and the past performance of a security, industry, sector, market, financial product, trading strategy, backtest, or individual's trading does not guarantee future results or returns. Investors are fully responsible for any investment decisions they make. Such decisions should be based solely on an evaluation of their financial circumstances, investment objectives, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs.
Order Blocks [TakingProphets]The Order Blocks indicator automatically finds and highlights institutional Order Blocks (OBs) on your chart — powerful price zones where smart money has previously entered the market with large orders. These areas often act as strong support or resistance, and they’re key tools for traders using ICT (Inner Circle Trader) and Smart Money Concepts (SMC) strategies.
📘 What’s an Order Block?
An Order Block is usually the last bullish or bearish candle before a big move or shift in market structure. It represents where banks, funds, or institutions placed large buy or sell orders. Retail traders often miss these zones, but smart money traders use them to anticipate where price may return, stall, or even reverse.
This indicator identifies these zones for you — both bullish and bearish — so you don’t have to manually mark them.
🔍 How the Indicator Works
It waits for a market structure shift — when price breaks out of a recent high or low range.
Then it looks back to find the last opposite candle before that breakout — that candle becomes the OB.
It draws a box from the open of that candle to the high/low (depending on type) and keeps updating the box forward.
You can choose how strict the OBs need to be (Small, Medium, or Large) using ATR-based size filtering.
🔄 Breaker Blocks (Optional Feature)
If price closes through an Order Block in the opposite direction, that OB is considered invalid. But instead of deleting it, the indicator can automatically draw a Breaker Block. Breakers are important because they often become new support or resistance zones — a sign the market has flipped direction and is now respecting that level in a new way.
🎛 Custom Settings
Choose OB detection sensitivity: High (shows smaller moves), Medium, or Low (only the biggest institutional moves).
Customize colors and whether you want to show borders on each block.
Turn Breaker Blocks on or off based on your strategy.
Everything is dynamic and updates live as price evolves.
💡 Why Use It?
Knowing where smart money entered the market gives you a huge edge. Price often returns to these Order Blocks to "rebalance" or fill unfilled orders. With this indicator, you’ll:
Spend less time marking charts.
Spot high-probability entry zones faster.
Avoid common retail traps and trade with the algorithm.
Volume Order Blocks [BigBeluga]Volume Order Blocks is a powerful indicator that identifies significant order blocks based on price structure, helping traders spot key supply and demand zones. The tool leverages EMA crossovers to determine the formation of bullish and bearish order blocks while visualizing their associated volume and relative strength.
🔵 Key Features:
Order Block Detection via EMA Crossovers:
Plots bullish order blocks at recent lows when the short EMA crosses above the long EMA.
Plots bearish order blocks at recent highs when the short EMA crosses below the long EMA.
Uses customizable sensitivity through the “Sensitivity Detection” setting to fine-tune block formation.
Volume Collection and Visualization:
Calculates the total volume between the EMA crossover bar and the corresponding high (bearish OB) or low (bullish OB).
Displays the absolute volume amount next to each order block for clear volume insights.
Percentage Volume Distribution:
Shows the percentage distribution of volume among bullish or bearish order blocks.
100% represents the cumulative volume of all OBs in the same category (bullish or bearish).
Order Block Removal Conditions:
Bullish order blocks are removed when the price closes below the bottom of the block.
Bearish order blocks are removed when the price closes above the top of the block.
Helps maintain chart clarity by only displaying relevant and active levels.
Midline Feature:
Dashed midline inside each order block indicates the midpoint between the upper and lower boundaries.
Traders can toggle the midline on or off through the settings.
Shadow Trend:
Shadow Trend dynamically visualizes trend strength and direction by adapting its color intensity based on price movement.
🔵 Usage:
Supply & Demand Zones: Use bullish and bearish order blocks to identify key market reversal or continuation points.
Volume Strength Analysis: Compare volume percentages to gauge which order blocks hold stronger market significance.
Breakout Confirmation: Monitor block removal conditions for potential breakout signals beyond support or resistance zones.
Trend Reversals: Combine EMA crossovers with order block formation for early trend reversal detection.
Risk Management: Use OB boundaries as potential stop-loss or entry points.
Volume Order Blocks is an essential tool for traders seeking to incorporate volume-based supply and demand analysis into their trading strategy. By combining price action, volume data, and EMA crossovers, it offers a comprehensive view of market structure and potential turning points.
Advanced Market Structure & Order Blocks (fadi)Advanced Market Structure & Order Blocks indicator provides a new approach to understanding price action using ICT (Inner Circle Trader) concepts related to candle blocks to analyze the market behavior and eliminate much of the noise created by the price action.
This indicator is not intended to provide trade signals, it is designed to provide the traders with to support their trading strategies and add clarity where possible.
There are currently three main elements to this indicator:
Market Structure
Order Blocks
Liquidity Voids
Market Structure
In trading, market structure is often identified by observing higher highs and higher lows. An uptrend is characterized by a series of higher highs, where each peak surpasses the previous one, and higher lows, where each trough is higher than the preceding one. Conversely, a downtrend is marked by lower highs and lower lows.
Other indicators usually determine these peaks by calculating the highest or lowest levels within a predefined number of candles. For example, identifying the highest price level within the last 15 candles and marking it as a higher high or a lower high. While this approach offers some structure to price action, it can be arbitrary and random due to price fluctuations and the lack of proper structure analysis beyond finding the highest peaks and valleys within candle ranges.
In his 2022 mentorship, episode 12, ICT introduced an alternative approach focusing on three-candle pivots called Short Term High and Low (STH/STL), which are then used to calculate the Intermediate Term High and Low (ITH/ITL), and in turn, the Long Term High and Low (LTH/LTL). ICT’s approach provides better structure than the traditional method mentioned above. However, it can be confusing and difficult to track. There are great indicators that track and label ICT’s levels, but traders still find it challenging to follow and understand.
The Advanced Market Structure indicator takes a unique approach by analyzing candle formations, using ICT concepts, to identify possible turning points that mimic a real trader’s analysis of price action as closely as possible. However, it should be expected that Market Makers may use market manipulation to induce traders to make failed trades, and no tooling can eliminate these situations.
Advanced Market Structure tracks true Peaks and Valleys as they form, confirms them, and marks the chart with corresponding labels using traditional labeling methods (HH/HL/LH/LL), as such labeling makes it easier for traders to follow and understand. The indicator also draws levels to help identify possible liquidity areas and trade targets.
The indicator uses different calculation methods for the different type of market structure length, however all calculations are based on the same ICT candle blocks concepts.
Market Structure Settings
Other than the display settings, there are four (4) settings, mainly under the Level Settings section.
Allow Nested Candles
This option is only available on the Short Market Structure due to the methods used in calculating highs and lows. When used, the indicator will attempt to detect smaller fluctuations in price by tracking smaller candle moves, if any.
Level Settings
Level Settings allows the trader to decide two main calculations:
1. A new pivot point will form when a candle’s is crossed by the following candle’s
2. For a liquidity sweep and marking a level as mitigated, a candle’s must cross that level
Order Blocks
ICT (Inner Circle Trader) defines an Order Block as the last down-closing candle, or series of candles, before a significant upward price move or the last up-closing candle, or series of candles, before a significant downward price move. These key price levels, marked by substantial buy or sell orders from institutional traders or "smart money," create a block or zone on the price chart. When the price revisits these levels, it often leads to a strong market reaction. Order Blocks can consist of one or multiple consecutive candles of the same color, signaling areas of significant buying or selling interest. ICT's approach to Order Blocks provides traders with a structured method to identify potential areas of support or resistance, where price movements are more likely to change direction. Although ICT has shared some criteria for identifying Order Blocks publicly, the full details are reserved for his upcoming books. This indicator leverages the publicly available information to provide traders with valuable insights into these crucial price levels.
The Advanced Market Structure indicator is designed to be highly flexible, allowing traders to define their own combination of rules for identifying Order Blocks, thus customizing it to fit their unique trading strategies.
Order Block Configuration
Can be nested
An Order Block is defined as the last down candle or candles before a strong move higher, and vice versa for bearish Order Blocks. However, larger-than-usual candles resulting from news events or price action may not qualify as Order Blocks and can mute any Order Block within their range.
The "Can be nested" flag ensures that each Order Block is treated as an independent entity, even if it appears within the body of another Order Block.
Forms at swing point
Order Blocks formed at swing points typically have higher probabilities but are less frequent, assuming the same rules are applied. Additionally, Order Blocks at swing points may become Breaker and Mitigation blocks if they fail, providing more trading opportunities.
Forms a simple pivot point
A simple pivot point corresponds to ICT Short Term High and Low (STH/STL). Order Blocks using simple pivot points can occur in the middle of a move, not just at swing points. These are useful for identifying IOFED setups and supporting blocks that can bolster the price move.
Causes Market Structure Shift
Order Blocks that result in a break above or below a short swing point can help narrow down target order blocks, but they are less frequent. An Order Block causing a break above or below a pivot point does not necessarily indicate a strong Order Block. For example, an Order Block formed at a Lower Low is more likely to fail in a downtrend.
A clean close above order block
When the first candle breaks above an Order Block and closes above its high, this indicates a stronger Order Block. On the other hand, if a candle merely wicks through the Order Block without a solid close above it, it suggests a weaker Order Block. This may indicate hesitation or an impending reversal, as the wick represents a temporary and unsustained price movement.
Has displacement more than X the body
While some traders may capitalize on the initial break above an Order Block's CISD level, others prefer to focus on the return to an Order Block after displacement. Displacement is determined by the body size of the Order Block, and an Order Block cannot be tested until this level has been achieved.
Has a Fair Value Gap
When an Order Block is combined with a Fair Value Gap (FVG), it signifies a strong Order Block. The Fair Value Gap indicates a strong price movement away from the Order Block.
Has a liquidity void
A Liquidity Void occurs when two consecutive candles of the same color do not overlap, creating a gap similar to a Fair Value Gap, but involving one or more middle candles. Liquidity Voids can be utilized in combination with, or as an alternative to, the displacement setting.
Maximum number of OBs
The maximum number of Order Blocks to display.
Mitigated at block’s
An Order Block is considered mitigated when price reaches one of the main Order Block levels.
Liquidity Void
Liquidity Void refers to areas on a price chart where there is one-sided trading activity. This phenomenon occurs when the price of an asset moves sharply in one direction, leaving gaps where two consecutive candles of the same color do not overlap. These gaps can comprise one or more middle candles and indicates a pronounced lack of trading within that price range. Liquidity Voids are important because they highlight areas of minimal resistance, where price is more likely to return to fill the void and balance the market.
Liquidity Void vs Fair Value Gap
While both concepts are related to gaps in price action, they are distinct. A Fair Value Gap is a specific three-candle pattern where the middle candle creates a gap between the first and third candles. In contrast, a Liquidity Void represents a broader area on the chart where there is little to no trading activity, often encompassing multiple candles and indicating a more pronounced imbalance between buy and sell orders.
A FVG can be part of a Liquidity Void, a Liquidity Void can exist without necessarily including an FVG. Both concepts highlight areas of minimal resistance and potential price movement, but they differ in their formation and implications.
Advanced Market Structure and Order Blocks indicator focus on liquidity voids since a liquidity void can substitute for a FVG and it is usually less addressed by other indicators.
OrderBlocksLibrary "OrderBlocks"
This is a library I created that creates order blocks. It's originated from my indicator "Order blocks" (). It will return a Zone object that can be used to draw an order block. If you want to see how that is done you can check out my indicar that uses the same logic.
Create(settings)
Creates an order block if one is found according to the settings parameter.
Parameters:
settings (Settings) : set all values in this parameter to define the settings for the order block creation.
Returns: a Zone object if an order block is found, na otherwise
Zone
Fields:
Time (series int)
TimeClose (series int)
High (series float)
Low (series float)
ReactionLimit (series float)
TouchedZone (Zone type from mickes/Touched/14)
Type (series int)
Zones
Fields:
Index (series int)
Maximum (series int)
Zones (array)
Remove (Zone)
Settings
Fields:
TakeOut (series bool)
ReactionFactor (series float)
Type (series string)
ConsecutiveRisingOrFalling (series bool)
FairValueGap (series bool)
Order blocksHi all!
This indicator will show you found order blocks that can be used as supply or demand. It's my take on trying to create good order blocks and I hope it makes sense.
First off I suggest to verify the current trend before using an order block. This can be done in a variety of ways, one way could be to use my other script "Market structure" () which I use and suggest.
You can configure the indicator to behave differently depending on settings. These are the settings available:
• The order blocks created can be found in any higher timeframe defined in "Timeframe"
• The number of active order blocks are defined in "Count". If an order block is found the earliest order block will be replaced
• You can choose the type of order blocks that are found ("Bullish", "Bearish " or "Both") in "Type"
• The old order blocks can be kept if "Keep history" is checked
• Order blocks that are found are not removed when mitigated (entered) but when a new one appears. They can be removed when they are broken by price if "Remove broken zones" are checked
There is also a setting section called "Requirements" that defines what is required for an order block to be created. These are the settings:
• "Take out"
Check this if you want the base of the order block (the candle where the zone is drawn from (high and low)) to have to take out the previous candle (be higher or lower depending if the order block is bullish or bearish).
• "Consecutive rising/falling"
Each following candle in the reaction (the 3 reaction candles) needs to reach higher or lower (depending on bullish or bearish). Check this if you want that to be true.
• "Reaction"
Some sort of reaction is needed from the 3 candles creating the order block. This reaction is based on the value of the Average True Length (ATR) of length 14. You can here define a factor of the value from the ATR that these 3 candles needs to move in price. A higher need for a reaction (higher factor of the ATR) will create lesser zones. You can also choose to show this limit with the checkbox.
• "Fair Value Gap"
The reaction needs to create a gap (imbalance) in price. This gap is known as a "Fair Value Gap" and is created when the last candle's wick does not meet with the base candle's wick. Check this if you want this to be needed.
After these settings you can also choose the colors of the created zones. The ones that are active (called "Zones"), the ones that are replaced ("Replaced zones") and the ones that are broken ("Broken zones") (if this is enabled in "Remove broken zones").
I'm using my library "Touched" to be able to show you labels when the order blocks have a retest, false breakout and breakout. These labels can be hidden if you disable the labels under the style tab in the indicator settings.
The concept of order blocks is widely used among traders and can provide you with good supply or demand zones. I hope that this indicator makes sense.
My todo-list has a few things, but top of that list is adding alerts for zone interactions or creations. Please feel free to say what you want to be coded!
The order blocks in the publication chart are found in weekly timeframe but are shown on the daily timeframe. Other than that the image shows you zones from the default settings (which are based on the daily timeframe).
Best of luck trading!
3 CANDLE SUPPLY/DEMANDExplanation of the Code:
Demand Zone Logic: The script checks if the second candle closes below the low of the first candle and the third candle closes above both the highs of the first and second candles.
Zone Plotting: Once the pattern is identified, a demand zone is plotted from the low of the first candle to the high of the third candle, using a dashed green line for clarity.
Markers: A small triangle marker is added below the bars where a demand zone is detected for easy visualization.
Efficient Logic: The script checks the conditions for demand zone formation for every three consecutive candles on the chart.
This approach should be both accurate and efficient in plotting demand zones, making it easier to spot potential support levels on the chart.
Volumetric Rejection Blocks [UAlgo]The Volumetric Rejection Blocks is designed to help traders identify and visualize key price levels where volumetric rejections occur, which may indicate a shift in market sentiment. These rejections can signal potential trend reversals or areas where price action is likely to face support or resistance. By drawing rejection blocks based on volumetric strength, the indicator allows users to observe where significant buying or selling pressure has been exerted, which can be used as a reference point for future price action.
Also indicator dynamically calculates swing highs and lows, analyzes bullish and bearish strengths based on volume-weighted price movements, and displays rejection blocks on the chart. Each rejection block represents an area where the price attempted to move beyond a certain level but faced rejection, either on a close or wick basis. This can be particularly useful for traders who rely on market structure and order flow to make informed decisions about entering or exiting trades.
🔶 Key Features
Swing Length Customization: Allows users to define the swing length, helping tailor the sensitivity of the swing high and low detection to the specific market conditions.
Rejection Block Visualization: Displays up to the last 10 rejection blocks based on user settings, clearly marking areas of significant bullish or bearish rejections.
Volumetric Strength Analysis: The indicator calculates bullish and bearish strength for each rejection block, based on volume-weighted price movements over the last few bars, giving insight into the intensity of the rejection.
Violation Check Type: Offers two options for violation detection—"Close" and "Wick". This allows traders to specify whether a price level is considered broken only if it closes beyond the level or if any wick breaches it.
Bullish and Bearish Block Coloring: Rejection blocks are colored to represent bullish (green) and bearish (red) rejection areas. The color transparency can be adjusted for clear visibility overlaid on the price chart.
Market Structure Labels: Labels and lines marking "Market Structure Shift" (MSS) and "Break of Structure" (BOS) are displayed, giving traders context about significant market structure changes.
🔶 Interpreting the Indicator
Rejection Blocks: These colored blocks on the chart indicate areas where the price faced significant buying or selling pressure. A green block suggests a bullish rejection (support zone), where buyers absorbed the sell-off, potentially pushing the price upward. Conversely, a red block indicates a bearish rejection (resistance zone), where sellers overpowered buyers, potentially driving the price lower.
Strength Analysis: The width of the green and red sections within a rejection block represents the relative bullish and bearish strengths. A wider green section indicates stronger bullish support, while a wider red section suggests more robust bearish resistance. This helps traders gauge the likelihood of price holding or breaching these levels.
Market Structure Shift (MSS) and Break of Structure (BOS): The indicator automatically detects and labels significant changes in market structure. An "MSS" label indicates the first break, suggesting a potential shift in trend direction. A "BOS" label indicates a subsequent confirmation in trend direction, allowing traders to recognize potential trend continuations.
Violation Check: Traders can choose how to interpret breaks of these rejection blocks. Using the "Close" option provides a more conservative approach, requiring a close beyond the level for confirmation. The "Wick" option is more aggressive, treating any wick beyond the level as a break.
🔶 Disclaimer
Use with Caution: This indicator is provided for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. Users should exercise caution and perform their own analysis before making trading decisions based on the indicator's signals.
Not Financial Advice: The information provided by this indicator does not constitute financial advice, and the creator (UAlgo) shall not be held responsible for any trading losses incurred as a result of using this indicator.
Backtesting Recommended: Traders are encouraged to backtest the indicator thoroughly on historical data before using it in live trading to assess its performance and suitability for their trading strategies.
Risk Management: Trading involves inherent risks, and users should implement proper risk management strategies, including but not limited to stop-loss orders and position sizing, to mitigate potential losses.
No Guarantees: The accuracy and reliability of the indicator's signals cannot be guaranteed, as they are based on historical price data and past performance may not be indicative of future results.
Cumulative Volume Delta Strategy | Flux Charts💎 GENERAL OVERVIEW
Introducing the Cumulative Volume Delta Strategy (CVDS) Indicator, an advanced tool designed to enhance trading strategies by identifying potential trend reversals through volume dynamics. This script features integrated order block detection, Fair Value Gaps (FVGs), and a dynamic take-profit (TP) and stop-loss (SL) system. For an in-depth understanding of the strategy, refer to the "HOW DOES IT WORK?" section below.
Features of the new Cumulative Volume Delta Strategy (CVDS) Indicator :
Cumulative Volume Delta-based Strategy
Order Block and Fair Value Gap (FVG) Entry Methods
Dynamic TP/SL System
Customizable Risk Management Settings
Alerts for Buy, Sell, TP, and SL Signals
📌 HOW DOES IT WORK ?
The CVDS indicator operates by tracking the net volume difference between buyers and sellers to identify divergences that could indicate potential trend reversals. A cumulative volume delta (CVD) calculation is employed to measure the intensity of these divergences in relation to price movements. The net volume sum is reset every trading day (can be changed from the settings using the anchor period option), and divergences are detected when the cumulative volume crosses the 0-line over or under.
Once a significant divergence is detected, the indicator identifies breakout points, confirmed by either Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) or Order Blocks (OBs). Depending on your chosen entry mode, the indicator will trigger a buy or sell entry when the confirmation signal aligns with the breakout direction. Alerts for Buy, Sell, Take-Profit, and Stop-Loss are available.
Note that the indicator cannot run on 1-minute and 1-second charts, as it needs to get data from a lower timeframe. 1-minutes & 1-second timeframes are the minimum timeframes in their ranges respectively.
🚩 UNIQUENESS
What sets this indicator apart is the combination of volume divergence analysis with advanced price action tools like Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) and Order Blocks (OBs). The ability to choose between these methods, along with a dynamic TP/SL system that adapts based on volatility, provides flexibility for traders in any market condition. The backtesting dashboard provides metrics about the performance of the indicator. You can use it to tune the settings for best use in the current ticker. The CVD-based strategy ensures that trades are initiated only when meaningful divergences between volume and price occur, filtering out noise and increasing the likelihood of profitable trades.
⚙️ SETTINGS
1. General Configuration
Anchor Period: Time anchor period used in CVD calculation. This is essentially the period that the volume delta sum will be reset. Lower timeframes may result in more entries at the cost of less reliable results.
Entry Mode: Choose between FVGs or OBs to trigger your entries based on the confirmation signals.
Retracement Requirement: Enable to confirm the entry after a retracement toward the FVG or OB.
2. Fair Value Gaps
FVG Sensitivity: Modify the sensitivity of FVG detection, allowing for more or fewer gaps to be considered valid.
3. Order Blocks (OB)
Swing Length: Define the swing length to identify OB formations. Shorter lengths find smaller OBs, while longer lengths detect larger structures.
4. TP / SL
TP / SL Method:
a) Dynamic: The TP / SL zones will be auto-determined by the algorithm based on the Average True Range (ATR) of the current ticker.
b) Fixed : You can adjust the exact TP / SL ratios from the settings below.
Dynamic Risk: The risk you're willing to take if "Dynamic" TP / SL Method is selected. Higher risk usually means a better winrate at the cost of losing more if the strategy fails. This setting is has a crucial effect on the performance of the indicator, as different tickers may have different volatility so the indicator may have increased performance when this setting is correctly adjusted.
Institutional Demand Supply IndicatorINTRODUCTION
Institutional demand and supply zones are key areas on a price chart where large institutional traders, such as banks and hedge funds, place significant buy or sell orders. These zones often act as strong support or resistance levels due to the substantial volume of trades executed by institutions.
There are various ways to identify these areas of interest on the charts, but the main goal is to study the price movements, especially significant ones. Large financial entities tend to operate in the same price areas repeatedly. Instead of chasing price movements and risking counter moves, it's better to wait for the price to return to these areas, expecting that these entities will buy or sell there again.
INDICATOR SETTINGS:
1. High Probability Zones (HPZ) - High Probability Zones (HPZ) are demand and supply zones identified using advanced calculations to highlight the most relevant and significant areas. These zones have a higher probability of impacting price movements. Better to keep it turned On.
2. Zone Extension? - Extending zones can be useful for identifying areas that have already been retraced as these zones may continue to influence market dynamics despite the retracement.
3. Zone Type - This option lets you select the zone layout type. 4 options are given which are self explanatory.
4. Directional Candle Count - This option keeps a count of number of consecutive bullish / bearish candle that you would like to set as qualifying parameter for demand / supply zone. For Example - If you keep the number 1, the script will draw a demand or supply zone by just checking if 1 candle has met all the criteria's and calculations.
5. Zone Validity Percentage - You can set the percent change for the number of candles mentioned in point 4 above.
6. HPZ - Keep the number between 6 to 10. As you move the number up, less number of zones will be displayed.
7. Zone Count - You can adjust the number of visible demand and supply zones on the chart. Increase this number if you want to display more zones, or decrease it if the chart becomes too cluttered.
D I S P L A Y
1. Background Color Demand / Supply Zone - This is the background color of demand and supply zone.
2. Channel Color Demand / Supply Zone - This is the color of channel.
3. Channel Line Style - Choose between Solid, dotted or dashed.
4. Background Color Transparency - Choose the transparency of background color
5. Channel Line Width - Choose Channel line width between 1 to 4.
6. Channel Line Transparency - Choose Channel Line Transparency and keep it between 1 to 100.
Sometimes, a level may be breached on one timeframe, but that doesn’t mean the indicator is not working. To understand the price action better, switch to a different timeframe to check why that level was breached and why it found support at a different zone on another timeframe. Look at the 2 screenshots below.
SMC Orderblocks (MTF)The SMC Orderblocks Indicator is designed to detect institutional orderblocks by focusing on price action and pattern detection, with a strong emphasis on identifying liquidity grabs.
This tool helps traders pinpoint areas where significant institutional trades are likely to occur by assuming the presence of orderblocks based on observed market behavior.
Unlike other indicators that may rely heavily on volume, the SMC Orderblocks Indicator offers a fresh approach rooted in a deep study of price action and Smart Money Concepts (SMC).
🔍 Unique Approach
Unlike other orderblock indicators that typically depend on volume to detect orderblocks (a common and valid method), the SMC Orderblocks Indicator explores a new approach. After extensive study and understanding of price action and SMC principles, this indicator focuses on market behavior to assume where institutional orderblocks might be. This approach offers traders a unique perspective and valuable insights, allowing them to view the market through a different lens.
🧠 The Theory Behind It
In trading, liquidity is essential for institutions and large market participants to execute their substantial orders. Orders tend to cluster around predictable levels, such as recent highs or lows, creating pools of liquidity. To secure better entry points for their large trades, institutions and market makers may manipulate prices to sweep these liquidity levels. The SMC Orderblocks Indicator is designed to detect these market manipulations—when price moves to capture liquidity—and uses these events to assume the presence of orderblocks at key levels. By recognizing these manipulations, the indicator provides insights into potential areas of significant institutional activity.
⚙️ How It Works
In order to make it work, there are two big essentail parts for this indicator. The first one is being able to identify liquidity areas. The second one is to detect the liquidity grab pattern.
1. Identifying Liquidity
So, in order to find market manipulations, mainly "liquidity grabs", the first thing we need is to find where the liquidity is.
Here "liquidity", refers to "orders", and only the exchange actually knows at what price orders are placed. The limit orders are visible in the order book and most of the time the exchange let this information be publicly accessed. But not all orders are in the orderbook. The stop-limit orders like stop-loss orders are added in the orderbook only when the market price reaches a certain price (the stop price).
At present, when using a chart script like Pinescript, there is no known way to access this real information.
But fortunately, traders and institutional behavior stay the same. Traders tend to place their orders at predictable levels, like above highs or below lows. They can also be near inducement areas, specifically created by institutions to induce traders to place their orders at certain levels.
So, the job of the indicator is first to find these levels, regardless of the method used. In the previous version of this script, I used pivots to detect highs and lows, but this method was lacking when it came to finding inducement zones or stacks of liquidity.
Instead, the indicator now uses a new method to check whether there is a stack of non-liquidated candles. This method allows the detection of inducement zones with unliquidated candles. When the stack reaches a certain number (by default, three), the liquidity is marked as valid for sweep detection.
Note: When using the indicator, you can enable the display of liquidity (to see mitigated and unmitigated liquidity) and their stack number.
2. Detecting a Liquidity sweep
Once the first and key part is done, we need to detect the market manipulation: the liquidity grabs. Liquidity grab patterns are always the same. In the following example, let's assume the institutions want to fill sell orders in a bearish market. Here are the steps they will likely take:
- 1. The institutionals place their main orders (the orderblock) at a desired price.
- 2. They let the liquidity accumulate next to that desired price. They can even induce traders to place their own orders there. The will serve as liquidity.
- 3. Institutionals will manipulate the market price to move it towards their awaiting orders to fill them. Once that price is reach, and their orders are being filled, the market price will start moving in the opposite direction.
- 4. The grab is confirmed, when the liquidity in that oppsiite direction is grabed, or simply when the bearish market trend resumes by breaking the lows, along with additional confirmations
Sometimes, institutions will have two opposite positions in the same asset—one short and one long. This is called hedging. The goal here is to use the long orders to push the market price towards the main sell orders. Once the sell orders are filled and the market price starts falling, they may try to push it up again to close their long position with minimal loss and finally let the price fall for good.
It is at that moment that it is best to enter the market. This is why, by default, the indicator will display when the price starts moving upward towards the liquidity grab: because it's where the manipulation started and where the price is likely to reach again before resuming the main trend.
Real-Time Visualization:
As soon as an "orderblock" (or market manipulation) is detected, the indicator will display it on the chart in real time.
This immediate visualization helps traders stay ahead and catch the main market move.
💡 Usage Tips
Apply the script to your chart. This is a price-action based script so it will work on most markets. You do not need to edit settings but you can adjust them to match your trading style.
To get the most out of the SMC Orderblocks Indicator, it’s recommended to use it alongside other analysis tools, espacially market structure indicators. You can try the free-to-use SMC Market Structure (MTF) to filter the interesting orderblocks.
Additionnaly, if you search liquidity areas to set as your trade's target, you can enable their display to see mitigated and unmitigated liquidity lines. The display is disabled by default to keep charts clean.
While the indicator helps detect potential institutional orderblocks based on liquidity grabs, combining its insights with your trading knowledge and other tools will enhance decision-making.
⚠️ Disclaimer
While this method provides useful information, the orderblocks can only be assumed based on market behavior. Moreover, given how the indicator works, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. It's important to combine the indicator's information with your own experience and other confirmation methods.
Orderblocks are also time-sensitive. The fact that an orderblock was detected and displayed on the chart does not guarantee that orders will still be present when the price returns to that level. If too much time has elapsed since the orderblock was created, or if the market structure has changed, it may be wise to disregard it. Always seek additional confirmation before opening a position.
The theory presented here on how institutional orderblocks are made, and how the market may be manipulated to fill orders, is based on my own research, knowledge, and analysis. Since I have never worked within an institution, these are educated assumptions and could be incorrect. Please always do your own research.
🚀 Active Development
The SMC Orderblocks Indicator is continuously evolving, with updates aimed at improving the rules for detecting and confirming orderblocks. Future updates may include new features and bug fixes to enhance performance and adapt to different trading styles.
📬 Note: If you encounter a bug, please contact me directly via private message, as I do not want to pollute the comment section with screenshots.
If you have any questions or suggestions for new features, feel free to reach out. You can also add a comment to boost its visibility.
Additionally, it’s recommended to compare the results of this indicator with others to find what best suits your trading style.
Please note that while this indicator is a paid script, you do not need to pay to test it. Contact me directly on TradingView via private message or through my socials, or leave a comment, and I’ll provide you with a free trial.
