Higher Time Frame Strat [QuantVue]The Higher Time Frame Strat Indicator is a tool that helps traders visualize and analyze price action from a higher timeframe (HTF) on their current chart. It applies the Strat method, a trading strategy focused on identifying key price action setups by observing how current price bars relate to previous ones. This helps in understanding the market's structure and determining potential trading opportunities based on higher timeframe data.
Key Concepts:
Strat Basics:
Type 1 Bar (Inside Bar): The current bar's high is lower than the previous bar's high, and its low is higher than the previous bar's low. This signifies a consolidation, or indecision, as the price is contained within the previous bar's range.
Type 2 Bar (Directional Bar): The current bar either breaks above the previous bar's high (bullish) or stays above the previous bar's low (bearish), indicating a continuation in the price direction.
Type 3 Bar (Outside Bar): The current bar breaks both above the previous bar's high and below the previous bar's low, showing volatility and a potential reversal.
Higher Timeframe Visualization:
The indicator uses a user-defined higher timeframe (default: 1 hour) and plots the last three higher timeframe candles on the current chart.
Strat Classification:
When a new higher timeframe candle forms, the indicator draws a semi-transparent box around the candle's range (high to low), along with the Strat type label. This provides a visual cue to the trader about the structure of the newly formed candle and how it fits into the overall market movement.
The script classifies each higher timeframe candle as one of the Strat types (1, 2, or 3). Based on the relationship between the current candle and the previous candle's high/low, it assigns a label ("1", "2", or "3"), helping traders quickly identify the price action setup on the higher timeframe.
How to Use the Indicator:
Trend Continuation: Look for Type 2 bars, which indicate a continuation in the current trend. For example, a Type 2 up suggests the price is breaking above the previous high, potentially signaling further upward movement.
Reversals: Type 3 bars show increased volatility, where the price breaks both above and below the previous bar's range. This could indicate a reversal, so be prepared for a potential change in direction.
Consolidation: Inside bars (Type 1) signify a tightening range and can signal the beginning of a breakout once the price moves outside of the previous bar's high or low.
By combining these price action concepts with the visualization of higher timeframe data, traders can potentially get earlier entry and exits as a higher timeframe set up forms.
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Hourly Trading System (Zeiierman)█ Overview
The Hourly Trading System (Zeiierman) is designed to enhance your trading by highlighting critical price levels and trends on an hourly basis. This indicator plots the open prices of hourly and 4-hour candles, visualizes retests, displays average price lines, and overlays higher timeframe candlesticks. It is particularly beneficial for intraday traders seeking to capitalize on short-term price movements and volume patterns.
█ How It Works
This indicator works by plotting significant price levels and zones based on hourly and 4-hour candle opens. It also includes functionalities for identifying retests of these levels, calculating and displaying average prices, and showing high and low labels for each hour.
█ Timeframe
The Hourly Trading System is designed to be used on the 1-minute or 5-minute timeframe. This system is tailored for intraday trading, allowing traders to find optimal entries around hourly opening levels and providing an easy method to identify the hourly trend. It works effectively on any market.
█ How to Use
Trend Analysis
Quickly gauge where the current price stands relative to key hourly and 4-hour levels. The plotted lines and zones serve as potential support and resistance areas, helping traders identify crucial points for entry or exit.
Utilize the 1-hour average and higher timeframe candles to understand the overall market trend. Aligning intraday strategies with larger trends can enhance trading decisions.
Use the bar coloring to quickly gauge the 1-hour trend on a lower timeframe. The bar colors indicate whether the hourly trend is bullish (green) or bearish (red), helping traders make quicker decisions in alignment with the overall trend.
Retest Identification
Enable retest signals to see where the price retested the hourly open levels. These retest points often signal strong price reactions, offering opportunities for trades based on support/resistance flips.
One effective strategy to incorporate is looking for price flips when a new hour starts. This approach involves monitoring price action at the beginning of each hour. If the price breaks and retests the hourly open level with strong momentum, it could indicate a potential trend reversal or continuation. This strategy is effective in volatile markets where price movements are significant at the start of each new hour.
Liquidity Sweep Strategy
Another common and effective strategy is the liquidity sweep. This involves identifying key levels where liquidity is likely to accumulate, such as previous hour highs and lows, and observing how the price interacts with these price levels. When the price sweeps through these levels, triggering stop-loss orders or pending orders, it often results in a sharp price movement followed by a reversal. Traders can capitalize on these movements by entering trades in the direction of the reversal once the liquidity sweep has occurred.
Equal Highs and Lows Strategy
The Equal Highs and Lows strategy leverages the concept of identifying levels where the price forms multiple highs or lows at the same level over different hourly periods. These equal highs and lows often indicate strong support or resistance levels where liquidity is accumulated. When the price approaches these levels, it is likely to trigger stop-loss orders and lead to significant price movements. Traders can look for breakouts or reversals around these levels to enter trades with higher probability setups.
█ Settings
Zone Width: Specifies the width of the zone around the 1-Hour Open as a percentage. Adjust this to widen or narrow the zone.
Show Retests: Enables or disables the display of retest markers. Retest markers show where the price has retested the 1-Hour Open line.
Number of Retests: Sets the number of retests to display. Adjust this to see more or fewer retest markers.
Volume Filter: Enables or disables the volume filter for retests. Use this to highlight retests with significant volume.
Volume Filter Length: Sets the length of the volume filter, smoothing the volume data to reduce noise.
1-Hour Average Line: Enables or disables the 1-hour average price line. This line shows the average price over the past hour.
Hourly High & Low Labels: Enables or disables the display of hourly high and low labels, marking the highest and lowest prices within each hour.
Candlesticks: Enables or disables the display of candlesticks on the chart, providing a detailed view of price action.
Bar Color: Enables or disables bar coloring based on price direction, with up bars in green and down bars in red.
Timeframe: Sets the timeframe for higher timeframe candles. Adjust this to match the period you want to analyze.
Number of Candles: Sets the number of higher timeframe candles to display. Increase this to see more candles on the chart.
Location: Sets the location for higher timeframe candles, allowing you to position them left or right on the chart.
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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.
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HTF Candle Insights (Expo)█ Overview
The HTF Candle Insights indicator helps traders see what's happening in larger time frames (HTF) while they're looking at smaller ones. This tool lets traders get a complete picture of market trends and price movements, helping them make smarter trading choices. It's really useful for traders who want to understand the main market trends without constantly switching between different chart timeframes.
In simpler terms , this indicator brings the big picture into the smaller frame, so traders don't miss out on what's important while focusing on the details.
█ How It Works
The indicator plots HTF candles on the existing chart, allowing users to view them concurrently with the candles of the current timeframe. This dual visual representation helps in discerning the prevalent market trends and significant price levels from both the current and higher timeframes.
█ How to Use
Trend Analysis
Traders can leverage this indicator to analyze overall market trends by observing HTF candles alongside the current timeframe candles. Recognizing HTF trends aids in aligning trades with the dominant market movement, potentially increasing the probability of successful trades.
Support and Resistance Identification
By viewing the high, low, and mid-levels of HTF candles, traders can identify potential support and resistance zones, enabling them to establish strategic entry and exit points, place stop-losses effectively, and manage risk proficiently.
█ Settings
Timeframe and Candle Amount:
Users can specify the higher timeframe and the number of HTF candles they wish to visualize on their current chart.
Visual Adjustments:
Traders can customize the color schemes for upward and downward candles and their wicks, and adjust the visibility and colors of the range lines, allowing for a tailored visual experience.
Range Lines:
Users have the option to display the high/low range of the displayed candles, and, if preferred, the mid-range line, enabling them to gain insights into significant price levels and ranges.
Table Display:
The indicator offers the ability to display a table, which provides an overview of the current chart's timeframe and the specified HTF.
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Disclaimer
The information contained in my Scripts/Indicators/Ideas/Algos/Systems does not constitute financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities of any type. 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.
My Scripts/Indicators/Ideas/Algos/Systems are only for educational purposes!
Higher Time Frame {HTF} Candles [QuantVue]Introducing the Higher Time Frame {HTF} Candles from QuantVue!
This script was developed to help you visually emphasize higher time frame (HTF) candles.
Higher time frames reduce the 'noise' inherent in lower time frames, providing a clearer, more accurate picture of the market's movements.
By examining higher time frames, you can better identify trends, reversals, and key areas of support and resistance.
The Higher Time Frame Candles indicator overlays higher time frame data directly onto your current chart.
You can easily specify the higher time frame candles you'd like to view, and the indicator will overlay the higher time frame candles directly over the corresponding current time frame bars.
This indicator by default will display the most current higher time frame candle plus the previous 5 candles.
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TWA - HTF Candle ColorOverview:
This indicator is designed to assist trend traders by confirming the market's direction on a higher timeframe and providing overlays to determine the strength and longevity of the current trend. Its goal is to help traders develop a probability-based mindset, enabling them to remain in profitable trades for longer periods and to identify when the trend might be shifting.
Main features and how to use:
The main feature of the indicator is the green and red coloring of the candles. The candles can be used to determine market direction and use that bias to pick a trading direction. The contrarian candle overlay is another useful feature that helps trend traders identify potential trend reversals. To use this feature, traders should wait until the overlay candle coloring "clicks off" to determine the probability that the current move has reached its peak or bottom and to look for a larger retracement. The unique flexibility of this feature allows trend traders to see both sides of the story.
Calculations and what makes this original:
- It finds breaks of common fibonacci retracement and extension values on a higher time frame using my proprietary williams % R indicator to find
trend direction
- To help add more confirmation to trend direction the proprietary algorithm combines the above fibonacci breaks with confirmation from price
breaking beyond multiple deviations measured from bollinger bands.
- From your current charts timeframe it automatically calculates which higher timeframe to analyze.
- The above algorithm from the higher timeframe is distilled down to a green or red candle color on the chart to show market direction.
- It uses a blend of rsi and CCI to calculate contrarian candle coloring to show trend exhaustion.
Additional features
Contrarian candle coloring:
The contrarian candle coloring feature is designed to help trend traders see possible reversals. It overlays a different candle color on top of the HTF candles at certain periods. The unique feature of this addition is its ability to transform a trend-following indicator into a tops and bottom reversion indicator all in one. This flexibility allows traders to see both the contrarian and trend-following perspectives.
Enhanced probability:
This feature helps traders determine the probability of their potential trades long-running potential by changing the background color to green or red. Traders can use this information to help define their risk per trade. For example, if the candle coloring matches the background color, they might choose a long-running move, whereas if the candle coloring does not match the background color, they might opt for a scalping trade. The unique feature of this addition is how it gives traders the ability to view the market from different perspectives all on one screen.
Use Alternate Symbol:
Allows for the candle color to be derived from a separate symbol than the current chart .
Candle Color as Line:
Plots a line across the top or bottom of the chart showing the current color which allows users the ability to use an additional indicator that colors candles.
Contrarian Color as Line:
Plots a line across the top or bottom of the chart showing the current candle color which allows users the ability to use an additional indicator that colors candles.
Candle Color as Background:
Colors the chart background the color of the current HTF candle color which allows users the ability to use an additional indicator that colors candles.
Increase Market Sensitivity:
Quickens the response time for candles to change color which can be helpful for scalping on 1 minute charts.
ALERTS
- Get an alert when the candle color changes to green or red
-Get an alert when the enhanced probability color changes to green or red
-Get an alert when the candle color and enhanced probability color align green or red
Higher Timeframe Trend Indicator V3.0What is it?
An indicator that depicts the trend of up to 5 higher timeframes on the same chart without needing to context-switch between charts.
Features
- Supports up to 5 timeframes
- Trends indicated by 5 colored buttons: one for each timeframe
- Varying shades of green: uptrend
- Varying shades of red: downtrend
- White/silver: sideways/neutral
- Configurable length (time period) for each timeframe
- Increase length to capture long term trends; decrease it to capture only short term ones
- Configurable sensitivity for each timeframe
- Sensitivity determines what angle is considered trending and what is not
- Increase sensitivity to capture weak trends
- Decrease sensitivity to filter out weak trends and capture only strong/steep ones
- Sensitivity ranges from 1 (least sensitive) to 3 (most sensitive)
- Move the labels around vertically for better visibility by changing the "Location" and "Offset" parameters
How should one use it?
Use it to quickly browse through charts to understand the context across timeframes, and zero in on only those that have trends aligning on the higher and lower timeframes as per your strategy. For e.g., a chart that is trending up strongly on the 15min and 60min (indicated by dark green colored buttons), and trending down on the 1 and/or 5 min (indicated by red-colored buttons), can be shortlisted for a potential pullback trade. Use your favorite pullback strategy (Supply/Demand, Support/Resistance, Moving Averages, etc.) to hop in on the trend.
How are trends determined?
The indicator uses normalized %change in price of the linear regression line segment of the chosen price sources (close, high, low, MA, etc.) over a specified length to determine trend direction and intensity
Known Issues
Will indicate the trend correctly only for timeframes *higher* than the current (visible) resolution/timeframe of the chart. Might not indicate it correctly for lower timeframes ( i.e., lower than the current (visible) resolution/timeframe of the chart). For this reason, all timeframes lower than the current resolution will be hidden in the present release.
Future releases
- I am still experimenting with various sensitivity levels and the corresponding trend shades to make the tool as accurate and intuitive as possible. These modifications might come in
- Sensitivity levels might be increased.
- Bug fixes, if any
