Market Structure Inducements ICT [TradinFinder] CHoch BOS Sweeps🔵 Introduction
Market Structure is the foundation for identifying trends in the market, crucial in technical analysis and strategies like ICT and SMC. Understanding key concepts such as Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHOCH) helps traders recognize critical shifts in the market. BOS, referring to a Market Structure Change (BMS), and CHOCH or Market Structure Shift (MSS) signal trend reversals in the market.
Additionally, the concept of Inducement, a vital tool in Smart Money strategies, allows traders to avoid price traps. Identifying valid pullback, valid inducement, POI, and Liquidity Grab helps traders find optimal entry and exit points and leverage Smart Money movements effectively.
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🔵 How to Use
The Market Structure indicator is designed to help traders better understand market structure and detect price traps. By using this indicator, you can identify the right entry and exit points based on structural changes in the market and avoid unprofitable trades. Below, we explain the key concepts and how to apply them in trading.
🟣 Market Structure
Market Structure refers to the overall pattern of price movement in the market. Using this indicator, traders can identify uptrends and downtrends and make better trading decisions based on changes in market structure. The two key concepts here are Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHOCH).
Change of Character (CHOCH) : CHOCH occurs when the market shifts from an uptrend to a downtrend or vice versa. These changes typically indicate a broader trend reversal, and the indicator assists you in identifying them accurately.
Break of Structure (BOS) : When the market breaks a key support or resistance level, it signals a change in market structure. This indicator helps you identify these breakouts in time and take advantage of trading opportunities.
🟣 Inducement
Inducement refers to price traps set by Smart Money to trick retail traders into making the wrong trades. This indicator helps you recognize these traps and avoid unprofitable trades.
Valid Inducement : Valid Inducement refers to deliberately created price traps by major market players to gather liquidity from retail traders. Once the market has collected sufficient liquidity, it makes the real move, and professional traders use this moment to enter.
🟣 Valid Pullback
A Valid Pullback refers to a temporary market retracement, indicating a price correction within the main trend. This concept is crucial in technical analysis as it helps traders enter trades at the right time and profit from the continuation of the trend. The Market Structure indicator can identify these valid retracements, allowing traders to enter trades with greater confidence.
🟣 Point of Interest (POI)
Another important concept in market analysis is the Point of Interest (POI), referring to key price areas on the chart. POI includes zones where significant price movements are likely to occur. The Market Structure indicator helps you locate these key points and use them as entry signals for trades.
🟣 Liquidity Grab
Liquidity Grab refers to a scenario where the market intentionally moves to areas where retail traders' stop losses are placed. The goal is to gather liquidity, allowing major players to execute trades at better prices. By using this indicator, you can spot these liquidity grabs and avoid falling into price traps.
🔵 Setting
ChoCh Detector Period : The period of identifying the major market levels that occur when they break ChoCh.
BoS & Liquidity Detector Period : The period of identifying minor levels, which are used to identify BoS and Liquidity levels.
Inducement Detector Period : The period of identification of Inducement levels.
Fast Trend Detector : This feature will help you update the major market structure levels sooner.
Inducement Type Detector : Two modes "Sweeps" and "Total" can be used to identify the levels of Inducement. In "Sweeps" mode only Levels detected by touch shadow. In "Total" mode, all Levels are detected.
🔵 Conclusion
In financial market analysis and forex trading, identifying Market Structure and Inducement is crucial. Market Structure helps you detect uptrends and downtrends, and understand Break of Structure (BOS) and Change of Character (CHOCH). The concept of Inducement also enables traders to spot Smart Money price traps and avoid unprofitable trades.
The Market Structure indicator is a powerful tool that, by analyzing the market structure and concepts like valid pullback and valid inducement, helps you make more precise trade entries. Additionally, by identifying POI and Liquidity Grab, the indicator gives you the ability to spot key market zones and use them to your advantage in trading.
Inducement
LTF Inducement Levels [QuantVue]Inducement refers to a market manipulation tactic where large institutions or "smart money" create price movements that induce or lure retail traders into taking positions that are ultimately unfavorable. This concept is based on the idea that the market is moved by institutional traders who have the power and capital to manipulate prices to their advantage.
Within a dominant trend, there are frequently movements that go against the prevailing direction. These opposing moves are often driven by liquidity hunting on lower time frames. The price will experience a bounce or rejection, then aim for a previous short-term high or low before resuming its movement in alignment with the longer-term trend. Inducement involves specifically targeting these short-term highs or lows, which are potential zones where stop-loss orders may be located.
The LTF Inducement Levels indicator is designed to identify and display potential lower time frame (LTF) inducement levels on your chart. This indicator helps traders recognize price points where market manipulation might occur without needing multiple charts open.
Once a lower time frame pivot has been crossed, the level is removed from the current chart.
Multi-Timeframe Analysis:
The indicator uses a lower timeframe (LTF) to identify pivot highs and pivot lows, providing a granular view of potential inducement levels.
Configurable Parameters:
Lower Timeframe (LTF): The user can select the lower timeframe for analysis.
Pivot Length: The length used for identifying pivots.
Number of Pivots to Show: Limits the number of pivots displayed on the chart to avoid clutter.
Dynamic Pivot Management:
The indicator dynamically manages the pivots, adding new ones and removing old ones based on the configured maximum number of pivots to show.
It creates lines and labels for each pivot, which are updated as new pivots are formed or crossed.
Inducement Levels:
Pivot Highs: Marked with red lines and labeled with the price value.
Pivot Lows: Marked with green lines and labeled with the price value.
Cross Detection:
The indicator checks if the current price has crossed any of the identified pivots.
Once a pivot is crossed, the corresponding line and label are deleted.
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Structure_TradingHubThe smart money concept suggests that institutional traders have a greater understanding of the market and often have access to more information than retail traders. Therefore, by analyzing market structure, retail traders can align themselves with the actions of smart money and potentially profit from their moves.
This indicator considerably simplifies the process of identification of market structure for traders based on the TradingHUB-3 technical method. Therefore, it is quite different from the existing market structure or trend detection tools, even the other smart-money-based indicators.
How it works:
The indicator starts candlestick analysis from the given start point detecting followings items.
1) Identify valid pullbacks (minor Zigzag):
Uptrend: In the upward trend, each candle that hits a higher high (HH), acts as our checking candle, and if the next candle hits its low, a valid pullback is formed, and we marked the checking candle as the end of a minor leg. Note that we do not take inside bars into account. If the highest point of the leg hit, the lowest point is marked as the end of pullback leg. On the other hand, if the lowest point of the upward leg is hit, the pullback checking procedure is restarted as a downtrend. Note that the downward checking is restarted from the highest point (previous checking candle).
Downtrend: The pullback detection for downtrend follows the reverse procedure of uptrend.
2) Identify inducements (IDM)
The last pullback point (on the minor zigzag) considers as the inducement level. In the uptrend, if the price hit the IDM, the highest point on the major leg is accepted as a major higher high. Note, if the IDM point is equal to a major HL and hit by price, the highest point is accepted as a new HH and the previous HH and LL are deleted (i.e. the HH is transferred).
In the downtrend, it acts conversely.
3) Identify valid break of structures (BOS)
In the uptrend, if the price closed above the highest point between the previous accepted HH to the current candle, a BOS is accrued, and the lowest point in this time interval is accepted as a higher low (HL). In the downtrend, it acts contrariwise.
4) Identify valid change of characters (Choch)
In the uptrend, if the price closed below the lowest point between the previous accepted HL to the current candle, a Choch is accrued, and the major trend changes from uptrend to downtrend, and a new reverse IDM will be detected. In the downtrend, it acts inversely.
5) Identify major HH/HL/LL/LH points
By following the above steps, the major higher highs, higher lows, lower highs, and lower lows, as well as the major trend are detected. The major high and lows on the major trend can be displayed by zigzag style or bullet points with corresponding up/down color.
How to use it:
This indicator works in any chart timeframe, and it does not need much tunning for use. Although, two parameters can be modified:
1- Starting Point:
Mode 1: Go back a certain number of candles in the past to find the starting point.
Mode 2: Use the last major swing that is higher/lower point between X candles right and left.
2- Choch/BOS min ticks' confirmation: The user can set an extra pipettes value that price should close higher/lower than the major H/L for more confirmation.
A trader can use this indicator for trading through the following steps (Of course, the trader is not restricted in these steps and can act according to its trading strategy):
1- Recognize the trend direction by seeing the H/L or zigzag color.
2- Identify the unmitigated IDM, which is marked by "X". When the inducement hit, the level is marked by "IDM", and a major H/L is confirmed.
3- Identify an order block to trade on it. We recommend users to add "OrderBlock_TradingHub " indicator to identify valid order blocks easily according to this technical method.
4- Go to the lower timeframe to find a trigger.
Indicator Options:
1) Set the starting point based on a certain number of candles or a major swing.
2) Show/Hide Pullbacks zigzag
3) Show/Hide Inducements (IDM)
4) Show/Hide Change of Characters (CHoCHs)
5) Show/Hide Break of Structures (BOS)
6) Draw up/down Trend
7) Draw H/L Points (by major Zigzag or Bullets)
8) Set CHoCH/BOS min pipettes for confirmation
9) Change the color and style of elements on the chart
Buyside/Sellside Liquidity [Real-Time] (Expo)█ Overview
Buyside/Sellside Liquidity (Expo) is an indicator that identifies buy-side and sell-side liquidity in real time. Buy-side liquidity represents a level on the chart where short sellers will have their stops positioned. Sell-side liquidity represents a level on the chart where long-buyers will place their stops. These levels are found in areas where traders are "proven wrong" and, therefore, want to get out of their trades. Smart money will accumulate or distribute positions near these levels where many stops are placed and absorb all provided liquidity.
█ What is Buy-side and Sell-side liquidity?
Liquidity is the ability of a market to absorb large orders without significantly affecting the asset's price. Buy-side liquidity refers to the ability of buyers to buy large amounts of contracts without significantly affecting the price. Sell-side liquidity refers to the ability of sellers to sell large amounts of contracts without significantly affecting the price. This type of liquidity is important for large institutional investors, such as hedge funds and investment banks, who need to buy/sell large amounts of contracts without significantly affecting the price.
█ How to use
The price will always seek liquidity to either reverse or continue in the current move.
Reversals
Reversals are common around these levels since many traders are forced to close their positions, pushing the price in the other direction. Look for price actions that confirm a reversal around those levels.
Continuations
Liquidity is also a must for a trend to continue. If the price pushes through the liquidity levels and the current order flow structure is intact, traders should look for a continuation setup.
Inducement
Inducement is the act where smart money manipulates the price to access liquidity. Buy-side and Sell-side liquidity levels can be used to identify potential areas of inducement.
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TTrades Scalping Indicator [TFO]Specialized for the scalping strategy of TTrades, this indicator focuses on inducement / stop hunt setups, utilizing additional factors such as volume spikes and trend bias to filter out setups that don’t fit the user-defined criteria.
The idea is that price is always seeking liquidity by reaching for trivial pivots where traders may put their stop loss orders. When price seeks these levels and stops these traders out, we may observe an influx of volume due to the large number of shares/contracts being exchanged given the large number of traders that have similar orders.
If price quickly comes back into the original range, we may determine this to be a stop hunt or a fakeout, only for price to proceed in the opposing direction. If it continues running and creates a displacement leg, we look to capitalize on that movement by tracking the Optimal Trade Entry (62 - 79% retracement), anchored to the swing pivot created as a result of the stop hunt.
Aside from volume, we can also use existing technical indicators like VWAP and SMA’s to ensure we’re only taking trades with the current trend (or against it). Simple criteria like this can help keep us out of low probability market environments.
Inducement / Stop Hunt [TFO]This indicator shows inducement / stop hunts accompanied by volume spikes. The idea is inspired by ICT (Inner Circle Trader) concepts where price is always seeking "liquidity" by reaching for trivial pivots where the average retail trader would put their stop loss. When price seeks these levels and stops out these traders, you might expect an influx of volume due to the high number of shares/contracts being exchanged. And when there is an above-average spike in volume at these prices, it's possible to assume "smart money" may be buying retail's sell stops and vice versa. This is just my interpretation - I'm aware that ICT doesn't use volume as part of his analysis, and often advocates against using volume altogether, however I personally find it to be a great analytical tool in this context.
In my opinion this works best on 1m and smaller timeframes. Volume gets very diluted on timeframes greater than 1-3 minutes. It's easier to find volume spikes on very small timeframes like the 15s.
Liquidity Levels MTF - SonarlabThis indicator uses Pivot Points to identify Liquidity Levels in the market. Liquidity Levels are levels in the market where you would expect price to be pulled towards.
Liquidity Levels by Sonarlab also has an option to show Higher Timeframe Liquidity Levels.
Below are the indicators settings:
Liquidity Mitigation Options
The Indicator has options for you to choose what happens to the Liquidity line/boxes once it has been mitigated. Either Keep them on the chart, or remove them.
Display Styles
Choose how the levels are displayed, either with Lines or Boxes.
Set the your Extension options, by keeping the lines/boxes "short" or extend to current price, or maximum to the right
Colors and Styles
Set colors and styles for all lines and boxes
Volume SpikesShows volume spikes over a certain threshold, using a symbol's volume moving average as the baseline. Offers a few different filters regarding candle shapes and types, in an attempt to catch quick moves on extremely low timeframes (sub-1m).
Ultimately I would like to integrate this logic into an indicator that contains automated stop raid/inducement detection.
