Opening RangeThe opening range or first 30 minutes of trading during the day sets the tone and becomes an important reference through the rest of the day. Price will react as it reaches the high and low of the opening range.
Backtesting has shown that the strategies based on the opening range have merit and provide an edge in trading. By not being aware of these points of reference you put yourself at risk.
In addition to the opening range, the distance from the high or low of the opening range plus the width of the opening range forms another important reference point.
Opening Range Rules.
Price must break out of the opening range in order to have a trending day. As long as price is inside the opening range, expect the trade to be choppy.
Once price leaves the opening range the market can begin to trend. However, before it trends most times it will retest the boundary of the opening range. This is a critical point, and a better than average entry for a position to join the trend. However, if price closes back inside the opening range watch out. Re-entry to the opening range has a high probability of going to the middle of the opening range, and a better than average probability of crossing the entire opening range.
In the above chart we can see price broke below the opening range then returned to retest the opening range before beginning a downward trend that delivered 175 pts on NQ.
Upon re-entering the opening range price tried to break down again but ultimately traveled up until it hit the 50% mark of the opening range.
Once a trend has begun the first target is the green line which is 1 width of the opening range outside of the opening range.
Once price broke out of the opening range to the upside, it came back to retest the opening range high, before beginning an uptrend that delivered 120 pts on NQ.
Initial
IB + ExtensionsInitial Balance with Extensions.
Other traders have posted similar indicators. I wrote my own because I wanted additional features.
Features:
Supports up to 9 extensions. Default = 3.
Each extension is filled using an automatic gradient. Fill can be disabled if you like.
IB levels extend into the future to the end of the current session.
By default only the current IB levels are shown, but you can enable past IB's as well.
When showing past IB's, each session has a clean break - no awkward lines connecting one session to the other (this really annoyed me about other IB indicators!)
The IB midpoint is also supported. It is on by default, but can be disabled.
You may notice the midpoint of past IB's looks different than the current IB . There is a technical reason for this that I won't go into here. Ask if you want the full explanation.
NOTE: This indicator was designed for the crypto charts. It may have some rendering issues when used with other markets.
Initial BalanceThis script calculates and draws the initial balance price levels which can be really interesting for intraday activities.
Note: Obviously, you need to wait for the calculation period to finish in order to see your daily levels
The tool includes the following options
Customization of the session used to calculate the initial balance (default 0930-1030)
Show/Hide the calculation period (as a background color)
Show/Hide extra levels (report the IBH-IBL delta above and under the IB area)
Show/Hide intermediate levels (displays 50% price levels in the IB and extra areas)
Show labels (Display levels names as well as their price on corresponding lines)
Levels names:
- IBH (Initial Balance High)
- IBH (Initial Balance Low)
- IBM (Initial Balance Middle)
- IBH x2
- IBL x2
Default colors are green for high levels, red for low levels, and orange for intermediate levels
Extend levels (extends the current levels to left/right/both/none sides of the chart)
Initial Balance (IB) and Previous Day / Week High, Low & ClosePlots Historical key levels for volume profile idea.
Plots the following:
- Previous Day High
- Previous Day Low
- Previous Day Close
- Previous Day IB High
- Previous Day IB Low
- Current Days IB High
- Current Days IB Low
IB is based on first hour of trading.
Made specifically for ASX stocks, have not tested it on other exchanges or assets.
US Indices Cash Initial BalanceThis indicator plots the Cash Initial Balance for the ES, YM, NQ.
The Cash Initial Balance for US indices is the high & low from 9:30-10:30 ET, the first hour after the NYSE open.
ORB - Opening Range BreakoutThis script plots the high/low of any custom session and extends it until the daily close. It does not show on the timeframe higher than the length of custom opening session by default.
The time period of opening range & the max timeframe to display it on can be adjusted from the settings.
So for eg. if want to use 5m ORB to trade, then set "ORB total time" as 5min & "Session Time" as whatever is the opening 5mins time period of ticker that are trading.
Chonky Initial Balance (crypto)Plots the Initial Balance for crypto assets.
I use it for XBTUSD specifically.
The Initial Balance range is an area watched by Market/Volume Profile traders.
The idea behind it is that participants will start the day with a premeditated bias towards the market, and this is the first glimpse into how the rest of the day may unfold.
Access: DM me and I will consider granting access
