smart money - main trend and counter trendIn today's dynamic financial markets, keeping ahead requires more than just technical analysis.
Introducing the Smart Money indicator – a Pine Script tool made to discover the activity of market maker.
Smart Money is a helpful method for traders seeking a deeper understanding of market dynamics. This method shows the actions of big investors and large financial firms.
Keen traders pay close attention to what market makers do to stay ahead.
Trading strategies based on the Smart Money aim to align with the actions of these informed players.
Similar to the price action method, Smart Money method involves using classic concepts like supply and demand, price patterns, and support and resistance.
This indicator not only identifies usual parameters like Break of Structure (BOS), Change of Character (CHOCH), Inducement (IDM), Engineering Liquidity (Eng), and Order Blocks (OB), but also excels at uncovering these market events within counter-trend (internal trend).
Break of Structure (BOS)
BOS is formed when the price breaks the market structure (reliable support or resistance level) in the direction of the trend.
Change of Character (CHOCH)
CHOCH is formed when the price breaks the market structure in the opposite direction of the trend. This indicates a change in the market behavior. When traders can see these changes, they can adjust their strategies early on.
Inducement (IDM)
Inducement is a concept based on liquidity principles and technically is the last price pullback in the market structure.
IDM is the extreme point of the last pullback in the structure when the price makes a BOS or CHOCH. It's like a trap that makes traders jump into the market too early.
Engineering Liquidity (Eng Liq)
Also known as trend line liquidity and technically is the first extreme point in that trend.
Order Blocks (OB)
Order blocks are strategic market areas that indicate the final bearish or bullish activity before a significant price shift.
An Order Block is a handy tool that helps us see where the big guys are likely to put their money (potential reversal zones).
OB is determined based on the extreme points by considering last opposite candle (before a significant price movement) and fair value gaps.
This indicator has the ability to identify the decisional order block (the closest OB) and the extremum order blocks (the farthest OB).
Counter Trend
The standout feature of this indicator lies in its ability to detect and display all above features within internal trends.
Internal trends or counter trend, where the market moves against the main trend, are often challenging to navigate.
This comprehensive feature enables traders to navigate market complexities with confidence, identifying potential trend reversals and strategic entry points even when the broader trend suggests otherwise.
Some features of this indicator:
- Ability to identify BOS, CHOCH, IDM, Eng Liq and OBs in both main trend and counter trend.
- The text, color and size of each characteristic of the main trend and the counter trend are optional and you can manage their display type on the chart
- Ability to display swings with HH, LH, LL and HL labels
- Sending alarms when the price hits any of the levels (alarm levels are optional for both the main trend and the counter trend)
- Sending sweep alarms of each level (optional)
- Ability to display main structures and internal structures with desired color and thickness
- The possibility of displaying live and real-time structures
- Ability to see decision boxes
- Showing the structure trend by changing the background color
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Money Flow IntensityThis indicator works very similarly to Elder's Force Index (EFI) and builds on top of what I have for the Money Flow Line (see my other scripts). It combines price movements with volume to create sort of "dollar flow" pressure up and down, looking for "smart money" ("big money") to make their move.
The indicator uses a lookback period to calculate a standard deviation of the movement intensity, then creates gradients to visualize how intense the movement is relative to other movements. This helps measure the pull away from the average more easily than with the Money Flow Line alone.
Much like with EFI, high intensity moves can indicate two things:
1. Strength and conviction in the current direction OR...
2. A reversal is coming soon
You can also watch for waning volume in the current direction, indicating that a trend is losing interest and may be due for a pullback.
There is no way to know, but combining this with price action and a trend indicator can help give you some good educated guesses about what could happen next. Combine with averaging in or out and managing risk appropriately. Good luck :)
Dollar Cost VolumeWhen asset prices rise or fall greatly it can be difficult to measure the interest levels across time periods. Think of assets like BBBY, GME, CVNA, BTCUSD, etc... :)
This simple visualization multiplies a pricing option by the volume to give a "dollar cost" volume over time. With this, you can more easily measure interest levels from "smart money" ("big money") and eliminate some of the noise from large volume moves when prices are very low (or small volume moves when prices are very high).
