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Heikin Ashi RSI OscillatorIntroducing HARSI - the RSI based Heikin Ashi candle oscillator. ...that's right, you read it correctly. This is Heikin Ashi candles in an oscillator format derived from RSI calculations, aimed at smoothing out some of the inherent noise seen with standard RSI indicators. Science! We likes it we does. Included plot options for standard RSI plot overlay, and a smoothed variant with it's own seperate length from the candles, oh and histogram option, for reasons. Articles and further reading: investopedia.com - RSI investopedia.com - Heikin Ashi This is a REALTIME indicator, so any values used for conditions should use history 1, or alternatively, alerts should be called using once-per-bar-close.
Pine Script™ indicator
by JayRogers
167
Blended CandlesHave been looking at YouTube and found a few videos about Blended Candles. Couldn't find a script here so I decided to script something myself. I have also added a couple of EMA's, saves having to put them in individually. You can Look Back as far back as you want but I find that each time frame looks better if you keep it to multiple of the next IE : 1 min - look back 5 (5 min) up to 15 (15 min) 5 min - look back 3 (15 min) up to 12 (1 hour) 15 min - look back 4 (1 hour) up to 16 ( 4 hours) 1 hour - look back 4 (4 hours) up to 8 (8 hours - 1 trading session) 4 hour - look back 2 (8 hours - 1 trading session) up to 6 ( 1 Day) 1 day - look back 5 ( 1 week) Shooting stars, Hammers and Doji's are very easy to recognize Long wicks on top - Bearish Long wick on bottom - Bullish Support and Resistance is easier to spot as well :-) Hope this helps someone - defiantly helps me time entries Comments welcome and Happy Trading
Pine Script™ indicator
by rmireland63
11
PRIME - ShadoW ZoneZ with RSI LevelsIn This experimental study, we've taken RSI data, Volume Profile, and Trend analysis, combining them into one unique package that will allow a trader to analyze market trend lines and their proposed channels, trend momentum through candle color augmentation similar to "Pulse", and Visible Volume index price levels on chart for the current sequence. Below are explanations of each function within the system. The Semafor is used to spot future multi-level Supports and Resistance zones. It is also useful to spot HL or LL or HH or LH zones at different Depth settings. The red zones are the extreme places where the market has a higher chance of reversing while the green zones have the lowest setting with lower chances of the market reversal Automatic Trend Lines The indicator takes in 2 timeframes to detect High and Low values from which to draw the trend lines of each timeframe. As the values change with price movement, the lines are updated. They are color coded for uptrend and downtrend based on the direction of each individual line. Trend lines can be set up to color with only the default value on the configurations panel. - Toggle on/off Color Coded - Change Default, Uptrend, Downtrend color - Change Line Width - Change Line Style - Toggle on/off Line Extensions - Change Extended Line Width - Change Extended Line Style - Toggle On/Off labels for 7 data points of each timeframe Automatic Trend Sights This is a neat feature that may help you get a better feel for the direction the current movement is heading towards in correlation with the short or medium length timeframe trends. The sight draws a line from the middle vertical point of the trend coordinates towards the current price. They are toggled off by default but can be enabled in the configurations panel. - Toggle on/off sight on each timeframe - Change Width - Change Line Style Support & Resistance Levels, the main aim of the study. Level calculations are based on Relative Strength Index ( RSI ) threshold levels of oversold/overbought and bull/bear zones, where all threshold values are customizable through the user dialog box. Background of the levels can be colored optionally. RSI Weighted Colored Bars and/or Mark Overbought/Oversold Bars , Bar colors can be painted to better emphasis RSI values. Darker colors when the oscillator is in oversold/overbought zones, light colors when oscillator readings are below/above the bull/bear zone respectively, and remain unchanged otherwise. Besides the colors, with “Display RSI Overbought/Oversold Price Bars” option little triangle shapes can be plotted on top or bottom of the bars when RSI is in oversold/overbought zones . Disclaimer: Trading success is all about following your trading strategy and the indicators should fit within your trading strategy, and not to be traded upon solely The script is for informational and educational purposes only. Use of the script does not constitute professional and/or financial advice. You alone have the sole responsibility of evaluating the script output and risks associated with the use of the script. In exchange for using the script, you agree not to hold dgtrd TradingView user liable for any possible claim for damages arising from any decision you make based on use of the script
Pine Script™ indicator
by prim3associat3s
21
Renko + CandlesThis indicator has been designed to show you both candle chart and Renko chart in one place. I think most of you are familiar with candle chart which is working with the time and price movements but Renko chart is based on price differences and is not related to the "time" parameter. so if you see a Renko brick is appear up(or down) to the previous brick it means that a certain and fixed price movement has been occurred (which mostly calculate by ATR). and also this indicator works in any time frame. Remember because we want both charts we have time parameter in this indicator, and if the price doesn't move up or down a certain percentage from previous bars, it will plot a renko bar beside the previous one. you can use this indicator to see if the price moves up or down. Or you can determine the important support and resistances with much less noises. it can be used as a confirmation for you to keep your positions or exit. go ahead and discover it... If you have any questions, don't hesitate! ask in the comments section below.
Pine Script™ indicator
by salarkamjoo
15
Finnie's RSI Waves + Volume Colored CandlesUsing RSI and 4 exponential moving averages, I created this indicator so that you can spot inconsistencies between price action and RSI. There's a lot of misunderstanding surrounding RSI, most people think if something's 'oversold' buying is a guarantee win. This definitely isn't the case as there's many more variable to consider. In addition, with this indicator, candles are colored based off of volume. INDICATOR USE: 1. Determine trend 2. Find relative support/resistance 3. Once at support/resistance look for entries: -RSI crossing over the Short EMA (CYAN) is your fist buy/sell signal -Short EMA (CYAN) crossing Medium EMA (YELLOW) is your second -RSI crossing Long EMA (PINK) is your final and most accurate signal 4. Once you've made an entry, you can follow step 3. in reverse for an exit COLORED CANDLES: Dark Green candles = Strong Bullish volume Light Green = Average Bullish volume Dark Red candles = Strong Bearish volume Light Red = Average Bearish Volume Orange/blue means volume is conflicting with price action I plan to add a Colored DOT over each crossover as a visual buy/sell signal if anyone has any suggestions that'd be great :)
Pine Script™ indicator
by WookieWonders
15
Candlestick Pattern IdentifierMy script builds upon another user-submitted script by rebuilding the logic used to identify candlestick patterns. The logic in my script is a mix of strict and lax guidelines to mitigate false flags and present valid buy and sell signals. -To use this indicator, simply add it to any chart. It will identify trends on any time frame although the lower you go, the more signals you'll see and the higher probability of those signals being false flags. You can also disable any candlestick patterns that you feel are not as useful. - This indicator works best with Stocks and also with Forex markets to a lesser extent. - This indicator works the best on the Daily chart and also works (with varying degrees of success) on any timeframe at or above 1 hour. I've found that this indicator works the best when used in tandem with the Daily and Hourly charts with the Hourly chart being used to determine an entry point while the Daily chart is used for long term trend analysis.
Pine Script™ indicator
by Depsi
9
Up or Down?I read somewhere that candles can easily confuse the eye, making it easy to lose focus. We get distracted by the size of the candle body and the candle's color without paying attention to its true range and how it compares to that of the previous candle. With Up or Down? you get two signals. The blue arrow below lets you know that the candle's current low and high price are both higher than that of the previous candle -- the range is trending up. Conversely, the red arrow lets you know the low and high are both lower -- the range is trending down. I designed it with pullbacks in mind. Determine the trend with your favorite indicator. Or use Up or Down? to give you an impression of it. A lot of blue arrows consistently rising broken up by only a few red arrows would indicate an uptrend. Then, wait for signals that don't fit the trend (ie, red arrows in an uptrend). Buy in at the first candle that confirms a return to the trend. (Your mileage may vary.)
Pine Script™ indicator
by stvch
3
Candle Color GeneratorCandle Color Generator: This indicator is designed to highlight the candle colors based on the combinations of Parabolic SAR (PSAR) and 2 Hull Moving Averages (HMA). Colors: Yellow, Red, and Green colors are used to describe the candle colors depends on its position to PSAR and 2 HMAs. PSAR: PSAR position above or below candle position is differentiated by Red and Green colors HMAs: As default settings 20 HMA is considered as lower period and 50 HMA is considered period for the calculation Trade What You See: This indicator will help to see how the setup of particular instrument coming up. Users/Traders can use and trade based on what they see and interpret from it. Disclaimer: Idea of publishing this script is to identify the strength of the instrument using multiple confirmation. Using this indicator, changing inputs (show/hide/change period), and trading decisions are up to the users/traders. Courtesy: Thanks to inventors of HMA (Alan Hull), PSAR(Welles Wilder) as these inputs are used to make some calculations
Pine Script™ indicator
by pckalai
Hide Active BarWe are not supposed to make trading decisions based on active bars (bars that have not closed), right? Well sometimes my trigger finger gets a little twitchy when I'm awaiting an entry and an active candle starts to pull away or I'm in a trade and an active candle pushes against me. Therefore, I made a VERY simple indicator that ghosts the active bar. You can see the outline but the body is transparent to emphasize that you should await its close before deciding what to do... Very simple script but hopefully it will help me (and others) to remain a little calmer in the moment. In case the bar recolour does not show in the main image - here it is below.
Pine Script™ indicator
by john_everist
8
Delta Volume Candles [LucF]█  OVERVIEW This indicator plots on-chart volume delta information using candles that can replace your normal candles, tops and bottoms appended to normal candles, optional MAs of those tops and bottoms levels, a divergence channel and a chart background. The indicator calculates volume delta using intrabar analysis, meaning that it uses the lower timeframe bars constituting each chart bar. █  CONCEPTS Volume Delta ​The ​volume delta concept divides a bar's ​volume in "up" and "down" ​volumes. The delta is calculated by subtracting down ​volume from up ​volume. Many calculation techniques exist to isolate up and down ​volume within a bar. The simplest use the polarity of interbar price changes to assign their ​volume to up or down slots, e.g., On Balance Volume or the Klinger Oscillator . Others such as Chaikin Money Flow use assumptions based on a bar's OHLC values. The most precise calculation method uses tick data and assigns the ​volume of each tick to the up or down slot depending on whether the transaction occurs at the bid or ask price. While this technique is ideal, it requires huge amounts of data on historical bars, which considerably limits the historical depth of charts and the number of symbols for which tick data is available. Furthermore, historical tick data is not yet available on TradingView. This indicator uses intrabar analysis to achieve a compromise between the simplest and most precise methods of calculating ​volume delta. It is currently the most precise method usable on TradingView charts. TradingView's Volume Profile built-in indicators use it, as do the CVD - Cumulative ​Volume Delta Candles and CVD - Cumulative Volume Delta (Chart) indicators published from the TradingView account . My Delta Volume Channels and Volume Delta Columns Pro indicators also use intrabar analysis. Other ​volume delta indicators such as my Realtime 5D Profile use realtime chart updates to calculate volume delta without intrabar analysis, but that type of indicator only works in real time; they cannot calculate on historical bars. This is the logic I use to determine the polarity of intrabars, which determines the up or down slot where its ​volume is added:  • If the intrabar's open and close values are different, their relative position is used.  • If the intrabar's open and close values are the same, the difference between the intrabar's close and the previous intrabar's close is used.  • As a last resort, when there is no movement during an intrabar, and it closes at the same price as the previous intrabar, the last known polarity is used. Once all intrabars making up a chart bar have been analyzed and the up or down property of each intrabar's ​volume determined, the up volumes are added, and the down volumes subtracted. The resulting value is ​volume delta for that chart bar, which can be used as an estimate of the buying/selling pressure on an instrument. Not all markets have volume information. Without it, this indicator is useless. Intrabar analysis Intrabars are chart bars at a lower timeframe than the chart's. The timeframe used to access intrabars determines the number of intrabars accessible for each chart bar. On a 1H chart, each chart bar of an active market will, for example, usually contain 60 bars at the lower timeframe of 1min, provided there was market activity during each minute of the hour. This indicator automatically calculates an appropriate lower timeframe using the chart's timeframe and the settings you use in the script's "Intrabars" section of the inputs. As it can access lower timeframes as small as seconds when available, the indicator can be used on charts at relatively small timeframes such as 1min, provided the market is active enough to produce bars at second timeframes. The quantity of intrabars analyzed in each chart bar determines:  • The precision of calculations (more intrabars yield more precise results).  • The chart coverage of calculations (there is a 100K limit to the quantity of intrabars that can be analyzed on any chart,   so the more intrabars you analyze per chart bar, the less chart bars can be calculated by the indicator). The information box displayed at the bottom right of the chart shows the lower timeframe used for intrabars, as well as the average number of intrabars detected for chart bars and statistics on chart coverage. Balances This indicator calculates five balances from volume delta values. The balances are oscillators with a zero centerline; positive values are bullish, and negative values are bearish. It is important to understand the balances as they can be used to:  • Color candle bodies.  • Calculate body and top and bottom divergences.  • Color an EMA channel.  • Color the chart's background.  • Configure markers and alerts. The five balances are: 1 — Bar Balance : This is the only balance using instant values; it is simply the subtraction of the down volume​ from the up volume​ on the bar, so the instant volume delta for that bar. 2 — Average Balance : Calculates a distinct EMA for both the up and down volumes, and subtracts the down EMA from the up EMA.   The result is akin to MACD's histogram because it is the subtraction of two moving averages. 3 — Momentum Balance : Starts by calculating, separately for both up and down volumes, the difference between the same EMAs used in "Average Balance" and   an SMA of twice the period used for the "Average Balance" EMAs. The difference for the up side is subtracted from the difference for the down side,   and an RSI of that value is calculated and brought over the −50/+50 scale. 4 — Relative Balance : The reference values used in the calculation are the up and down EMAs used in the "Average Balance".   From those, we calculate two intermediate values using how much the instant up and down volumes on the bar exceed their respective EMA — but with a twist.   If the bar's up volume​ does not exceed the EMA of up volume​, a zero value is used. The same goes for the down volume​ with the EMA of down volume​.   Once we have our two intermediate values for the up and down volumes exceeding their respective MA, we subtract them. The final value is an ALMA of that subtraction.   The rationale behind using zero values when the bar's up/down volume​ does not exceed its EMA is to only take into account the more significant volume​.   If both instant volume​ values exceed their MA, then the difference between the two is the signal's value.   The signal is called "relative" because the intermediate values are the difference between the instant up/down volumes and their respective MA.   This balance flatlines when the bar's up/down volumes do not exceed their EMAs, which makes it useful to spot areas where trader interest dwindles, such as consolidations.   The smaller the period of the final value's ALMA, the more easily it will flatline. These flat zones should be considered no-trade zones. 5 — Percent Balance : This balance is the ALMA of the ratio of the "Bar Balance" over the total volume for that bar. From the balances and marker conditions, two more values are calculated: 1 — Marker Bias : This sums the up/down (+1/‒1) occurrences of the markers 1 to 4 over a period you define, so it ranges from −4 to +4, times the period.   Its calculation will depend on the modes used to calculate markers 3 and 4. 2 — Combined Balances : This is the sum of the bull/bear (+1/−1) states of each of the five balances, so it ranges from −5 to +5. The periods for all of these balances can be configured in the "Periods" section at the bottom of the script's inputs. As you cannot see the balances on the chart, you can use my Volume Delta Columns Pro indicator in a pane; it can plot the same balances, so you will be able to analyze them. Divergences In the context of this indicator, a divergence is any bar where the bear/bull state of a balance (above/below its zero centerline) diverges from the polarity of a chart bar. No directional bias is assigned to divergences when they occur. Candle bodies and tops/bottoms can each be colored differently on divergences detected from distinct balances. Divergence Channel The divergence channel is the space between two levels (by default, the bar's open and close ) saved when divergences occur. When price (by default the close ) has breached a channel and a new divergence occurs, a new channel is created. Until that new channel is breached, bars where additional divergences occur will expand the channel's levels if the bar's price points are outside the channel. Prices breaches of the divergence channel will change its state. Divergence channels can be in one of three different states:  • Bull (green): Price has breached the channel to the upside.  • Bear (red): Price has breached the channel to the downside.  • Neutral (gray): The channel has not yet been breached. █  HOW TO USE THE INDICATOR I do not make videos to explain how to use my indicators. I do, however, try hard to include in their description everything one needs to understand what they do. From there, it's up to you to explore and figure out if they can be useful in your trading practice. Communicating in videos what this description and the script's tooltips contain would make for very long videos that would likely exceed the attention span of most people who find this description too long. There is no quick way to understand an indicator such as this one because it uses many different concepts and has quite a bit of settings one can use to modify its visuals and behavior — thus how one uses it. I will happily answer questions on the inner workings of the indicator, but I do not answer questions like "How do I trade using this indicator?" A useful answer to that question would require an in-depth analysis of who you are, your trading methodology and objectives, which I do not have time for. I do not teach trading. Start by loading the indicator on an active chart containing volume information. See here if you need help. The default configuration displays:  • Normal candles where the bodies are only colored if the bar's volume has increased since the last bar.   If you want to use this indicator's candles, you may want to disable your chart's candles by clicking the eye icon to the right of the symbol's name in the top left of the chart.  • A top or bottom appended to the normal candles. It represents the difference between up and down volume for that bar   and is positioned at the top or bottom, depending on its polarity. If up volume is greater than down volume, a top is displayed. If down volume is greater, a bottom is plotted.   The size of tops and bottoms is determined by calculating a factor which is the proportion of volume delta over the bar's total volume.   That factor is then used to calculate the top or bottom size relative to a baseline of the average candle body size of the last 100 bars.  • An information box in the bottom right displaying intrabar and chart coverage information.  • A light red background when the intrabar volume differs from the chart's volume by more than 1%. The script's inputs contain tooltips explaining most of the fields. I will not repeat them here. Following is a brief description of each section of the indicator's inputs which will give you an idea of what the indicator can do: Normal Candles is where you configure the replacement candles plotted by the script. You can choose from different coloring schemes for their bodies and specify a unique color for bodies where a divergence calculated using the method you choose occurs. Volume Tops & Botttoms is where you configure the display of tops and bottoms, and their EMAs. The EMAs are calculated from the high point of tops and the low point of bottoms. They can act as a channel to evaluate price, and you can choose to color the channel using a gradient reflecting the advances/declines in the balance of your choice. Divergence Channel is where you set up the appearance and behavior of the divergence channel. These areas represent levels where price and volume delta information do not converge. They can be interpreted as regions with no clear direction from where one will look for breaches. You can configure the channel to take into account one or both types of divergences you have configured for candle bodies and tops/bottoms. Background allows you to configure a gradient background color that reflects the advances/declines in the balance of your choice. You can use this to provide context to the volume delta values from bars. You can also control the background color displayed on volume discrepancies between the intrabar and the chart's timeframe. Intrabars is where you choose the calculation mode determining the lower timeframe used to access intrabars. The indicator uses the chart's timeframe and the type of market you are on to calculate the lower timeframe. Your setting there should reflect which compromise you prefer between the precision of calculations and chart coverage. This is also where you control the display of the information box in the lower right corner of the chart. Markers allows you to control the plotting of chart markers on different conditions. Their configuration determines when alerts generated from the indicator will fire. Note that in order to generate alerts from this script, they must be created from your chart. See this Help Center page to learn how. Only the last 500 markers will be visible on the chart, but this will not affect the generation of alerts. Periods is where you configure the periods for the balances and the EMAs used in the indicator. The raw values calculated by this script can be inspected using the Data Window. █  INTERPRETATION Rightly or wrongly, volume delta is considered by many a useful complement to the interpretation of price action. I use it extensively in an attempt to find convergence between my read of volume delta and price movement — not so much as a predictor of future price movement. No system or person can predict the future. Accordingly, I consider people who speak or act as if they know the future with certainty to be dangerous to themselves and others; they are charlatans, imprudent or blissfully ignorant. I try to avoid elaborate volume delta interpretation schemes involving too many variables and prefer to keep things simple:  • Trends that have more chances of continuing should be accompanied by VD of the same polarity.   In trends, I am looking for "slow and steady". I work from the assumption that traders and systems often overreact, which translates into unproductive volatility.   Wild trends are more susceptible to overreactions.  • I prefer steady VD values over wildly increasing ones, as large VD increases often come with increased price volatility, which can backfire.   Large VD values caused by stopping volume will also often occur on trend reversals with abnormally high candles.  • Prices escaping divergence channels may be leading a trend in that direction, although there is no telling how long that trend will last; could be just a few bars or hundreds.   When price is in a channel, shifts in VD balances can sometimes give us an idea of the direction where price has the most chance of breaking.  • Dwindling VD will often indicate trend exhaustion and predate reversals by many bars, but the problem is that mere pauses in a trend will often produce the same behavior in VD.   I think it is too perilous to infer rigidly from VD decreases. Divergence Channel Here I have configured the divergence channels to be visible. First, I set the bodies to display divergences on the default Bar Balance. They are indicated by yellow bodies. Then I activated the divergence channels by choosing to draw levels on body divergences and checked the "Fill" checkbox to fill the channel with the same color as the levels. The divergence channel is best understood as a direction-less area from where a breach can be acted on if other variables converge with the breach's direction: Tops and Bottoms EMAs I find these EMAs rather interesting. They have no equivalent elsewhere, as they are calculated from the top and bottom values this indicator plots. The only similarity they have with volume-weighted MAs, including VWAP, is that they use price and volume. This indicator's Tops and Bottoms EMAs, however, use the price and volume delta. While the channel differs from other channels in how it is calculated, it can be used like others, as a baseline from which to evaluate price movement or, alternatively, as stop levels. Remember that you can change the period used for the EMAs in the "Periods" section of the inputs. This chart shows the EMAs in action, filled with a gradient representing the advances/decline from the Momentum balance. Notice the anomaly in the chart's latest bars where the Momentum balance gradient has been indicating a bullish bias for some time, during which price was mostly below the EMAs. Price has just broken above the channel on positive VD. My interpretation of this situation would be that it is a risky opportunity for a long trade in the larger context where the market has been in a downtrend since the 5th. Intrepid traders choosing to enter here could do so with a "make or break" tight stop that will minimize their losses should the market continue its downtrend while hopefully preserving the potential upside of price continuing on the longer-term uptrend prevalent since the 28th: █  NOTES Volume If you use indicators such as this one which depends on volume information, it is important to realize that the volume data they consume comes from data feeds, and that all data feeds are NOT created equally. Those who create the data feeds we use must make decisions concerning the nature of the transactions they tally and the way they are tallied in each feed, and these decisions affect the nature of our volume data. My Volume X-ray publication discusses some of the reasons why volume information from different timeframes, brokers/exchanges or sectors may vary considerably. I encourage you to read it. This indicator's display of a warning through a background color on volume discrepancies between the timeframe used to access intrabars and the chart's timeframe is an attempt to help you realize these variations in feeds. Don't take things for granted, and understand that the quality of a given feed's volume information affects the quality of the results this indicator calculates. Markets as ecosystems I believe it is perilous to think that behavioral patterns you discover in one market through the lens of this or any other indicator will necessarily port to other markets. While this may sometimes be the case, it will often not. Why is that? Because each market is its own ecosystem. As cities do, all markets share some common characteristics, but they also all have their idiosyncrasies. A proportion of a city's inhabitants is always composed of outsiders who come and go, but a core population of regulars and systems is usually the force that actually defines most of the city's observable characteristics. I believe markets work somewhat the same way; they may look the same, but if you live there for a while and pay attention, you will notice the idiosyncrasies. Some things that work in some markets will, accordingly, not work in others. Please keep that in mind when you draw conclusions. On Up/Down or Buy/Sell Volume Buying or selling volume are misnomers, as every unit of volume transacted is both bought and sold by two different traders. While this does not keep me from using the terms, there is no such thing as “buy only” or “sell only” volume. Trader lingo is riddled with peculiarities. Without access to order book information, traders work with the assumption that when price moves up during a bar, there was more buying pressure than selling pressure, just as when buy market orders take out limit ask orders in the order book at successively higher levels. The built-in volume indicator available on TradingView uses this logic to color the volume columns green or red. While this script’s calculations are more precise because it analyses intrabars to calculate its information, it uses pretty much the same imperfect logic. Until Pine scripts can have access to how much volume was transacted at the bid/ask prices, our volume delta calculations will remain a mere proxy. Repainting  • The values calculated on the realtime bar will update as new information comes from the feed.  • Historical values may recalculate if the historical feed is updated or when calculations start from a new point in history.  • Markers and alerts will not repaint as they only occur on a bar's close. Keep this in mind when viewing markers on historical bars,   where one could understandably and incorrectly assume they appear at the bar's open. To learn more about repainting, see the Pine Script™ User Manual's page on the subject . Superfluity In "The Bed of Procrustes", Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes: To bankrupt a fool, give him information . This indicator can display a lot of information. The inevitable adaptation period you will need to figure out how to use it should help you eliminate all the visuals you do not need. The more you eliminate, the easier it will be to focus on those that are the most useful to your trading practice. Don't be a fool. █  THANKS Thanks to alexgrover for his Dekidaka-Ashi indicator. His volume plots on candles were the inspiration for my top/bottom plots. Kudos to PineCoders for their libraries. I use two of them in this script: Time and lower_tf . The first versions of this script used functionality that I would not have known about were it not for these two guys: — A guy called Kuan who commented on a Backtest Rookies presentation of their Volume Profile indicator. — theheirophant , my partner in the exploration of the sometimes weird abysses of request.security() ’s behavior at lower timeframes.
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Pine Script™ indicator
by LucF
115
Dekidaka-Ashi - Candles And Volume Teaming Up (Again)The introduction of candlestick methods for market price data visualization might be one of the most important events in the history of technical analysis, as it totally changed the way to see a trading chart. Candlestick charts are extremely efficient, as they allow the trader to visualize the opening, high, low and closing price (OHLC) each at the same time, something impossible with a traditional line chart. Candlesticks are also cleaner than bars charts and make a more efficient use of space. Japanese peoples are always better than everyone at an incredible amount of stuff, look at what they made, the candlesticks/renko/kagi/heikin-ashi charts, the Ichimoku, manga, ecchi... However classical candlesticks only include historical market price data, and won't include other type of data such as volume, which is considered by many investors a key information toward effective financial forecasting as volume is an indicator of trading activity. In order to tackle to this problem solutions where proposed, the most common one being to adapt the width of the candle based on the amount of volume, this method is the most commonly accepted one when it comes to visualizing both volume and OHLC data using candlesticks. Now why proposing an additional tool for volume data visualization ? Because the classical width approach don't provide usable data regarding volume (as the width is directly related to the volume data). Therefore a new trading tool based on candlesticks that allow the trader to gain access to information about the volume is proposed. The approach is based on rescaling the volume directly to the price without the direct use of user settings. We will also see that this tool allow to create support and resistances as well as providing signals based on a breakout methodology. Dekidaka-Ashi - Kakatte Koi Yo! "Dekidaka" (出来高) mean "Volume" in a financial context, while "Ashi" (足) mean "leg" or "bar". In general methods based on candlesticks will have "Ashi" in their name. Now that the name of the indicator has been explained lets see how it works, the indicator should be overlayed directly to a candlestick chart. The proposed method don't alter the shape of the candlesticks and allow to visualize any information given by the candles. As you can see on the figure below the candle body of the proposed tool only return the border of the candle, this allow to show the high/low wick of the candle. The body size of the candle is based on two things : the absolute close/open difference, and the volume, if the absolute close/open difference is high and the volume is high then the body of the candle will be clearly visible, if the volume is high but the absolute close/open difference is low, then the body will be less visible. This approach is used because of the rescaling method used, the volume is divided by the sum between the current volume value and the precedent volume value, this rescale the volume in a (0,1) range, this result is multiplied by the absolute close/open difference and added/subtracted to the high/low price. The original approach was based on normalization using the rolling maximum, but this approach would have led to repainting. You have access to certain settings that can help you obtain a better visualization, the first one being the body size setting, with higher values increasing the body amplitude. In green body with size 2, in red with size 1. The smooth parameter will smooth the volume data before being used, this allow to create more visible bodies. Here smooth = 100. Making Bands From The Dekidaka-Ashi This tool is made so it output two rescaled volume values, with the highest value being denoted as "Dekidaka-high" and the lowest one as "Dekidaka-low". In order to get bands we must use two moving averages, one using the Dekidaka-high as input and the other one using Dekidaka-low, the body size parameter should be fairly high, therefore i will hide the tool as it could cause trouble visualizing the bands. Bands with both MA's of period 20 and the body size equal to 20. Larger periods of the MA's will require a larger amount of body size. Breakout Signals There is a wide variety of signals that can be made from candles, ones i personally like comes from the HA candles. The proposed tool is no exception and can produce a wide variety of signals. The signals generated are basic ones based on a breakout methodology, here is each signal with their associated label : Strong Bullish signal "⇈" : The high price cross the Dekidaka-high and the closing price is greater than the opening price Strong Bearish signal "⇊" : The low price cross the Dekidaka-low and the closing price is lower than the opening price Weak Bullish signal "↑" : The high price cross the Dekidaka-high and the closing price is lower than the opening price Weak Bearish signal "↓" : The low price cross the Dekidaka-low and the closing price is greater than the opening price Uncertain "↕" : The high price cross the Dekidaka-high and the low price cross the the Dekidaka-low In order to see the signals on the chart check the "Show signals" option. Note that such signals are not based on an advanced study, and even if they are based on a breakout methodology we can see that volatile movement rarely produce signals, therefore signals mostly occur during low volume/volatility periods, which isn't necessarily a great thing. Conclusion A trading tool based on candlesticks that aim to include volume information has been presented and a brief methodology has been introduced. A study of the signals generated is required, however i'am not confident at all on their accuracy, i could work on that in the future. We have also seen how to make bands from the tool. Candlesticks remain a beautiful charting technique that can provide an enormous amount of information to the trader, and even if the accuracy of patterns based on candlesticks is subject to debates, we can all agree that candlesticks will remain the most widely used type of financial chart. On a side note i mostly use a dark color for a bullish candle, and a light gray for a bearish candle, with the border color being of the same color as the bullish candle. This is in my opinion the best setup for a candlestick chart, as candles using the traditional green/red can kill the eyes and because this setup allow to apply a wide variety of colors to the plot of overlayed indicators without the fear of causing conflict with the candles color. Thanks for reading ! :3 Nya A Word This morning i received some hateful messages on twitter, the users behind them certainly coming from tradingview, so lets be clear, i know i'am not the most liked person in this community, i know that perfectly, but no one merit to be receive hateful messages. I'am not responsible for the losses of peoples using my indicators, nor is tradingview, using technical indicators does not guarantee long term returns, your ability to be profitable will mostly be based on the quality and quantity of knowledge you have.
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