Weekly Initial BalanceWeekly Initial Balance Indicator
The Weekly Initial Balance (IB) indicator is a powerful tool designed for traders to identify key support and resistance levels based on the market's initial activity at the start of each week. By analyzing the first 30 hours of trading.
Key Features:
Customizable IB Period: Define the start hour and duration of the initial balance period to suit your trading schedule and the specific market you are analyzing, I have it set at 30 hours by default.
IB High, Low, and Midpoint Levels: Automatically plots the high, low, and midpoint of the IB period, providing immediate visual reference to critical price levels.
Extension Levels: Calculate and display extension levels based on customizable percentages (e.g., 50%, 100%, 150%), allowing you to project potential breakout targets and identify areas of interest beyond the initial balance range.
Dynamic Lines and Labels: The indicator updates in real-time, extending lines and repositioning labels as new bars form, ensuring you always have the most current information.
Customizable Appearance: Adjust line styles, widths, colors, and label positions to match your charting preferences and improve visual clarity.
How to Use:
Set the IB Parameters:
Week Start Hour (UTC): Specify the hour when the weekly IB period begins. I use 1800EST as that is when the futures market opens.
IB Duration in Hours: Define how many hours constitute the IB period.
Configure Extension Levels:
Input the desired extension percentages to calculate levels beyond the IB range.
Customize Visual Settings:
Adjust line colors, styles, widths, and label offsets to tailor the indicator's appearance.
Interpret the Levels:
Use the IB high and low as immediate support and resistance levels.
Monitor the midpoint for potential pivot areas.
Watch for price interactions with extension levels to anticipate breakouts or reversals.
Benefits:
Identify Key Weekly Levels: Understand the market's initial sentiment each week to gauge potential trends.
Enhance Trading Strategies: Incorporate the IB levels into your trading plan for better entry and exit points.
Adaptable to Various Markets: Suitable for Forex, commodities, indices, and other markets where weekly analysis is beneficial.
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GG - LevelsThe GG Levels indicator is a tool designed for day trading U.S. equity futures. It highlights key levels intraday, overnight, intermediate-swing levels that are relevant for intraday futures trading.
Terminology
RTH (Regular Trading Hours): Represents the New York session from 09:30 to 17:00 EST.
ON Session (Overnight Session): Represents the trading activity from 17:00 to 09:29 EST.
IB (Initial Balance): The first hour of the New York session, from 09:30 to 10:30 EST.
Open: The opening price of the RTH session.
YH (Yesterday's High): The highest price during the RTH session of the previous day.
YL (Yesterday's Low): The lowest price during the RTH session of the previous day.
YC (Yesterday's Close): The daily bar close which for futures gets updated to settlement.
IBH (Initial Balance High): The highest price during the IB session.
IBL (Initial Balance Low): The lowest price during the IB session.
ONH (Overnight High): The highest price during the ON session.
ONL (Overnight Low): The lowest price during the ON session.
VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price): The volume-weighted average price that resets each day.
Why is RTH Important?
Tracking the RTH session is important because often times the overnight session can be filled with "lies". It is thought that because the overnight session is lower volume price can be pushed or "manipulated" to extremes that would not happen during higher volume times.
Why is the ON Session Important Then?
Just because the ON session can be thought as a "lie" doesn't mean it is relevant to know. For example, if price is stuck inside the ON range then you can think of the market as rotational or range-bound. If price is above the ON range then it can be thought of as bullish. If price is below the ON range then it can be thought as bearish.
What is IB?
IB or initial balance is the first hour of the New York Session. Typically the market sets the tone for the day in the first hour. This tone is similarly a map like the ON session. If we are above the IBH then it is bullish and likely a trend day to the upside. If we are below the IBL then it is bearish and likely a trend day to the downside. If we are in IB then we want to avoid conducting business in the middle of IBH and IBL to avoid getting chopped up in a range bound market.
These levels are not a holy grail
You should use this indicator as guide or map for context about the instrument you are trading. You need to combine your own technical analysis with this indicator. You want as much context confirming your trade thesis in order to enter a trade. Simply buying or selling because we are above or below a level is not recommended in any circumstance. If it were that easy I would not publish this indicator.
Adjustments
In the indicator settings you can adjust the RTH, ON, and IB session-time settings. All of the times entered must be in EST (Eastern Standard Time). You may want to do this to apply the levels to a foreign market.
Examples
RD Opening Range/Initial BalanceIntroducing the RD Opening Range/Initial Balance indicator. The opening range is the first 60 minutes of trading action for a given day (High, Mid, and Low).
The market tends to put significance in these levels, that's why we use them in our trade system.
There is also a data panel:
Today - Today's opening range value
W-Avg - This weeks average
20D CA-OH - the total number of closes above the opening range over the last 20 days (above high)
20D CA-OL - the total number of closes below the opening range over the last 20 days (below low)
* We do plan to add additional data points.
* Only the last OR has labels, we will not be adding them or an option in the future.
* Full customization in setting panel. Color of lines, background, no display of data panel and more.
How to Use
These levels act as dual magnets. They both attract price and repel price.
You use price action and rules to decipher if price is being attracted or repelled.
You will notice as you use this indicator that price respects these levels. Often when answering the 3Qs one of these levels is in play.
During the cash market these levels play a significant role in price action. Even during the Globex/Overnight session these levels are a factor.
Circle areas are examples of price reactions at OR key levels:
If you trade with the RDTS you already know how to use these levels as reaction and target zones.
For clues on which level price is being repelled or attracted I'd suggest you utilize bias and momentum indicators like the RDA.
Initial Balance vs Opening Range
Before we move on and discuss how to use this indicator I want to mention what I consider the difference between the Opening Range and the Initial Balance.
I've adopted the Opening Range verbiage for the first 60 minutes of trading even though the Opening Range is often defined as the first 15m or first 30m.
The more accurate term for the first 60m should be Initial Balance. I'm not sure exactly where this originated but I learned this term when I was heavily trading TPO-- the IB is the first 2 30m blocks of trading.
Any questions or improvements just comment below.
This script was created in by both Bhangerang (an Alpha member of the RDTS) with help by @RexDogActual as well as permission to publish.
Initial Balance |ASE|Introduction
Initial Balance (IB) refers to the price data that is formed during the first hour of a trading session. It is an important concept in trading as it provides insights into the market's opening sentiment and potential trading opportunities or reversals for the day. There are multiple trading sessions throughout the day. The most popular, the NY Session, is open from 9:30 am to 4:00pm EST making the Initial Balance(IB) range the first hour (9:30-10:30) The other sessions include London, Tokyo, and Sydney.
IB Customization
The Initial Balance lines are fully customizable to fit the traders need.
Show Initial Balance
This setting will plot the Initial Balance
Fill/Extend IB Range
The Fill IB Range toggle fills the area in between the IB High and IB Low. Use the IB Fill Color option to change the fill color in the “Line Settings” group on the settings panel.
The Extend IB Range extends the IB lines until the market closes.
Show 1x/2x Extensions
The Show 1x Extension toggle displays 1 times the IB range line (IB High - IB Low) above IB High and 1 times the IB range line below IB Low.
The Show 2x Extension toggle displays the 2 times the IB range line (IB High - IB Low) above IB High and 2 times the IB range line below IB Low.
*Use the Extension Level Color in the “Line Settings” to change the color of the lines.
Show Middle Levels
The Show Middle Levels toggle shows all the 50% lines between the upper 2x and upper 1x line, upper 1x and IB high, IB high and IB low, IB low and lower 1x line, and the lower 1x and lower 2x line.
*Use the Mid Level Color in the “Line Settings” to change the color of the lines.
Delete Previous Day’s Levels
This setting will only show the current day's Initial Balance and delete all previous day levels to produce a clean chart.
How To Use:
The Initial Balance Range can support a bias as it shows the opening market sentiment. By watching price action interact with the Initial Balance Range we can watch for indications of trending or failing moves at the high or the low and overall a ranging or trending session.
The extension levels are projections as to where price could potentially reach in a trending market. If we are bullish and trending higher, we would want to see price reach the first extension, signs of strength at these levels can be used as confirmation to target other levels.
Overall, all these levels can and should be used as support and resistance levels, and as always, can not be used by themselves and require additional confirmation, whether that be an indicator or price action. Below you can see chart examples of these levels in action.
Opening Range, Initial Balance, Opening PriceThis script draws Opening Range, Initial Balance and Opening Price with options to show mid levels.
By default, lines changes color depending on whether closing price is above or below the lines. Red if price is below, green if price is above.
Colors and line styles are all configurable.
Options to change label positions.
Some definitions:
Opening Range - The opening range is high and low for a given period after the market opens. This period is generally the first 30 or 60 minutes of trading
Initial Balance - WRT to TPO profile chart, the Initial Balance is the price range resulting from the market’s trade during the first two 30 minute periods of the regular trading hours session.
Why is this useful?
The first hour of the trading day is the most active and dynamic period. The price range defined by this period of trading creates some key support / resistance levels for the rest of the day. Example below:
BTMM OFJ FOR BEST RESULTS PLEASE SWITCH TO LINE CHART OR DISABLE THE CHART CANDLES. BELOW IS A LINE WITH OPACITY TURNED DOWN TO 15%
ASIA, LONDON, AND NEW YORK SESSIONS CAN BE CUSTOMIZED (1ST 3 HRS DEFAULT)
VOLUME CANDLES CAN BE APPLIED WITH SUPPLY AND DEMAND OR MARKET MAKER METHOD. IN A STRONG TREND YOU WANT TO SEE REPEATED HIGH VOLUME CLUSTERS IN THE DIRECTION OFTHE TREND AND FADING LOW VOLUME ON THE RETRACE
BASICK KEY LEVELS WEEKLY INITIAL BALANCE (MONDAY+TUESDAY HIGHEST HIGH AND LOWEST LOW) YESTERDAY AND LASY WKHI/LO
QUICK APPLICATON
iBox, Initial Balance | IB High, Low, Midpoint | OpeningThis Indicator will print basically 4 lines.
You have to understand the importance of the "Initial Balance" the first trading hour of Cash session is very important in trading stocks and indizes.
So you will get 4 lines:
Opening
Initial Balance High
Initial Balance Low
Initial Balance Midpoint/Halfback
Most indicators for Range Box, Opening Trade, Opening Range, Initial Balance, iBOX and "Ultimate Lines" will only use the timezone of the exchange or your own timezone. I'm living in europe and we have this daylight saving time change in Summer/Winter - which will cause problems with most of the existing indicators or at least will push you to change the times regularly.
Another important point: I really like to switch the indizes when trading on my mobile. So what will happen when you set up opening range for DAX at 09:00 and then switch to S&P500? All indicators I tried failed here - they will just draw a wrong line for SPX, NDX, DJI, FTSE, ASX etc. I fixed that and hard coded stock exchanges and ticker symbols into 3 main groups Initial Balance EU/US/Asia
For example we take DAX - XETRA DAX is opening at 09:00 MEZ (Europe/Berlin)
The Initial Balance is set during the H1 Candle from 09:00 - 09:59
Please be aware, that some cash indizes only deliver data to TradingView after the "opening auction" - so for Xetra DAX you have to book live data and often you will only see data at 09:02/09:03 after the opening auction.
So you will get different opening lines compared from cash to future or your CFD provider. Future and CFD should fit for 99%
The Opening Line will be drawn at exactly 09:00
IB High on the highest price during the H1 candle
IB Low on the lowest price during the H1 candle
IB Halfback is simple: (IB High + IB Low) / 2
The lines will be drawn from cash start until next day and will end 2 minutes before the next cash session will start again. Please make your own experience! Activate the indicator for a CFD or Future switch to M15 and watch the wicks around the 4 lines. Even in the night or the next morning before the next Initial Balance will be set.
For me the lines are valid for around 24 hours and often longer. That's why it's good to have the old lines on the chart too.
To-do:
Yesterday high / low / close / halfback (also for last week and month)
Labels for the lines - sometimes only the colors will confuse you - a simple label should be a benefit (IB_h, IB_l, IB_1/2, 1D_o)
Range Lines for Asia Range and Premarket Range - additionaly a parameter to disable premarket lines when premarket is trading in asia range.
Add Alert condition to get alerts after IB is set
If you have and thoughts, ideas or improvements, please send me an message or leave an comment!
Like i said, the stock exchanges and ticker symbols are hard coded and can be extended for all relevant assets.
Have fun and i really hope this indicator will help improving your trading experience!
CPR_Previous Day Ranges_Initial BalanceHello Traders,
This script best works on Indian Index (Tested on BANKNIFTY & NIFTY)
This indicator can be used only for day trading (intraday: ex: 5min, 15min Timeframes) on indices.
This script helps to plot
1. Central Pivot Range(CPR)
2. Previous Day Ranges (PDH & PDL)
3. Initial Balance(IB)
brief description of indicators:
1. CPR: Central Pivot Range --> This indicator helps to identify key price points to set up trades. CPR is beneficial for intraday trading.
2.Previous Day Ranges: These ranges will help to understand the current day market.
PDH: Previous Day High value on current day
PDL: Previous Day Low value on current day
3.Initial Balance(IB):This indicator will help in day trading. IB will plot current day first 1hr high, low & mid values.
Disclaimer: This indicator can be used as refrence only. This has been tested on Banknifty and Nifty indices on day trading 5 minutes and 15 minutes timeframe. Understand yourself to knowledge of different trading methods.
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)
Day ClueDay Clue Indicator
live Market Information
Day Clue Indicator plots days information like " Initial Balance and Range ", " Day Range ", " Current Day Volume (for NIFTY and BANKNIFTY it takes the future volume) ", " ATR ", if the scrip is NIFTY or BANKNIFTY then it shows the difference between SPOT and Future price so that trader will come to know future is trading at premium or discount,it shows current day name at bottom right corner, and it plots the Ema-20 and Ema-200. These information will update during live market.
Information for Next Trading Session
Day Clue Indicator plots " Previous Day High" , " Previous Day Low ", " Central Pivot Range-CPR with S1 and R1 ","It indicate tomorrow is Trading Day or Trading Holiday(other than Weekend Holidays)" these are information used for next day that will be plot today itself once market closed
Limitations of Day Clue Indicator
Day Clue Indicator only work in Indian Market(NSE and BSE)
Day Clue Indicator only work in " 1-mins, 5-mins, 15-mins " Timeframes, if you switch to other timeframe like 30-mins,1-Hour, Daily then information will hide
Thank You
Koalafied Initial Balance Levels and ExtensionsShows the Initial Balance and range extensions for either the Daily session or individual market sessions (Asia, London, New York).
Initial Balance is the range represented by the first two segments (typically half-hour segments) of a trading session. Range extensions are a function of the longer-term trader participation, pushing price outside of the beginning 'fair' range established by the local traders. With the introduction of 24/7 markets the initial balance is often now regarded as less important than in the past, however re-calculating IB for multiple trading sessions may reinstitute insight to Market Direction and Confidence
Single Prints - Session Initial BalancesDisclaimer: Expose yourself to the knowledge of different trading methods. If you are unaware of what a Single Print is then do some research and broaden your knowledge.
This indicator has only been tested on BTCUSDT Binance pair. This indicator is meant to be used on the 30 minute timeframe to highlight Single Prints.
The calculations are base on 0000 UTC and what Single Prints are created during that day.
Single Prints
Single Prints are where prices moves to fast through an area (on a 30 minute timeframe), in the case of this indicator in $50 intervals, where the price has not yet cross back past, represented as orange lines. If you were viewing this on a Time Price Opportunity Chart (TPO) each $50 would be represented as a square with a letter in it. If price has only been through that area once, within that 24 hour period, then it is called a Single Print. If however the Single Print is on the lower wick of the candle it is called a Buying Tail and on the Upper Wick a Selling Tail.
Single Prints leave low volume nodes with liquidity gaps, these inefficient moves tend to get filled, and we can seek trading opportunities once they get filled, or we can also enter before they get filled and use these single prints as targets.
Single Prints are a sign of emotional buying or selling as very little time was spent at those levels and thus there is no value there.
The endpoints of single print sections are considered to be potential support or resistance points and or get filled (like a CME gap).
The above is only a very short summary, to understand Single Prints, Buying Tails and Selling Tails more please do your own research (DYOR).
References:
Trading Riot Volume Profile - Website
TOROS TPO Charts Explained - Youtube
Session Boxes
Session Boxes are the high and low of that markets session before the new market session opens. I used the data from the website Trading Hours for the time input.
White box – Start of day UTC 0000 to Market Close UTC 2000
Purple box – Asia Start UTC 0130 to London Start UTC 0700
Yellow box – London Start UTC 0700 to New York Start UTC 1330
Blue box – New York Start UTC 1330 to Market Close UTC 2000
Red box – Market Close UTC 2000 to End of day UTC 2359
References:
Trading Hours - Website
Initial Balance
The Initial Balance is the market range between the high and low of the first hour of trading for the market. In the case of crypto when is the Initial Balance if it is 24/7.
Context of Initial Balance:
The Initial Balance is traditionally the range of prices transacted in the first hour of trade. Many regard the Initial Balance as a significant range because, especially for the index futures which are tied to the underlying stocks, orders entered overnight or before the open are typically executed prior to the end of the first hour of trade. Some use it to understand how the rest of the day may develop, while others use it as a span of time to avoid trading altogether because of its potential volatility.
For this indicator I have coded the Initial Balance time as below:
White Box - To appear for the first hour of the day 0000 to 0100 UTC .
Purple Box - To appear for the first hour of the day 0130 to 0230 UTC .
Yellow Box - To appear for the first hour of the day 0700 to 0800 UTC .
Blue Box - To appear for the first hour of the day 1330 to 1430 UTC .
Red Box - To appear for the first hour of the day 2000 to 2100 UTC .
The diagram above shows some examples:
How price (white arrows) retraces the single prints.
How price (red arrows) uses the single prints as S/R.
References:
Not Hard Trading – Website
My Pivots Initial Balance - Website
Thanks go to:
StackOverFlow Bjorn Mistiaen
Trading View user mvs1231
Please message me if you have any feedback/questions.
I am looking at developing this indicator further in the future.
Key Levels by RifeMy take on Key Levels script that plots:
- Daily Open
- Weekly Open
- Monthly Open
- Day of Week Range (i.e. Monday Range)
- Initial Balance
Open levels are not visible on higher time frames, such as Daily Open is not visible on Weekly Open nor Monthly Open.
Initial Balance is not visible on the following timeframes: 2H, 4H, 6H, 8H, 1D, 1W and 1M. All other time frames will show it.
Chart Champions - Part 2 - CCV IBs POCsThank you for sparing you time to read my indicator.
This indicator has been created as a suite of 3. This was to ensure that those with only the Free Trading View account could benefit (with their restriction to 3 indicators). Please ensure you install each indicator and read each indicator write up to fully understand what has tried to achieved.
Chart Champions – Part 1 –Lvls nPOC VWAPS
This indicator is broken down into:
• Levels
• VWAPS
• Naked Point of Control
Levels
It displays the levels to the right of the price Axis to enable the user to have a cleaner chart.
The below levels will automatically appear:
dOpen – pdHigh – pdLow – pdEQ – pwEQ
Optional Levels include:
mOpen – pmOpen – pdOpen – dbyOpen – wOpen – pwOpen
VWAPs
Optional VWAPs
Daily (including pdVWAP close) – Weekly – Monthly
Naked Points of Control (nPOC)
To view the nPOC move the chart back in time to pick up the nPOCs.
Chart Champions – Part 2 – CCV IBs POC
This indicator is broken down into:
• Chart Champions Value
• Initial Balance
• Points of Control
Chart Champions Value (CCV)
CCV is based on the 80% rule of the dOpen opening outside of the pdVAH/pdVAL. Please do you own research to fully understand how this trading strategy works (readily avaliable online).
Initial Balance (IB)
IB is based on the first 60 minutes of the market opening. It captures the highest and lowest points within that 60 minutes. Please do you own research to fully understand how this trading strategy works (readily avaliable online).
Points of Control (POCs)
POC are the price levels where the most volume was traded.
Developing POC (dPOC) will constantly move with volume/price action through out the day.
Optional POCs
Previous Day POC (pdPOC) – Day Before Yesterday POC (dbyPOC)
Chart Champions – Part 3 – Sessions - Manual Input
This indicator is broken down into:
• Manual Inputs (daily, weekly, monthly)
• IGOR SessionsTtimes
• Pre + Market Openings
Manual Input
Daily x3
Weekly x 3
Monthly x 3
This allows the trader to put in specific levels.
IGOR Session Times
This is a user specific requirement to highlight cetain times during the day, displayed at the bottom of the chart in the colour strip.
Pre + Market Openings
This allows the user to see when pre market trading has started and with the live maket has started, displayed at the top of the chart in colours.
A huge thank you goes out to:
Stackoverflow users AnyDozer and Bjorn.
TV user ahancock for allow me use of this code.
Disclaimer the lower the timeframe the more information it processes.
Initial Balance Monitoring PanelInitial Balance Monitoring Panel
Allows you to have an instant view of 16 Crypto pairs within a monitoring panel, monitoring Initial Balance (Asia, London, New York Stock Exchanges).
The code can easily be changed to suit the crypto pairs you are trading.
The setup of my chart would also include this indicator and the " Initial Balance Markets Time Zones - Overall Highest and Lowest " (with all IBs enabled) as shown above.
Initial Balance is based on the highest and lowest price action within the first 60 minutes of trading. Reading online this can depict which way the market can trend for the session.
The indicator has been coded for Crypto (so other symbols may not work as expected).
Though Initial Balance is based off the first 60 minutes of the trading markets opening, but Crypto is 24/7, this indicator looks at how Asia, London and New York Stock Exchanges opening trading can affect Crypto price action.
As the current Market sentiment is bullish if the price action fell below all Initial balances I would be looking at completing Technical Analysis for a long trade and to see if price action can find support from the trading sessions Initial Balance:
Please see below an example of this....
IOTAUSDT signaled red (that it had dropped below all IBs) but then found support and moved on up.
Also a similar example as above for BTCUSDT....
If the signal is green do your technical analysis, but as shown below once the highest Initial Balance has been broken price can increase.
LINKLUSDT
I would like to say thanks to AnyDozer from StackOverFlow for helping me get my idea onto the charts and wugamlo for allowing me to use some of his panel code.
Initial Balance Markets Time Zones - Overall Highest and LowestInitial Balance Market Time Zones - Overall Highest and Lowest is an modified version of my previous script.
The aim was to show a cleaner screen by only displaying the highest and lowest Initial Balances from London, New York and Asia.
The below options are within the settings.
No.01
Price Action above all Initial Balances high = Green
Price Action below all Initial Balances low = Red
These are accompanied with alerts
No.02
Price Action above Midline = Green
Price Action below Midline = Red
These are accompanied with alerts
You also have the option to display all the Initial Balances within the settings.
Initial Balance Markets Time ZonesThe below script is based on Initial Balance.
Initial Balance is based on the highest and lowest points of Price Action (PA) within the first 60 minutes of trading. There is so much information available online, reference Initial Balance, that I have not provided a reference.
Most indicators I have seen have been solely based on UTC 0000 Initial Balance. My aim with this indicator was to be able to visualize how other time zones market openings Initial Balance affect PA.
The three market openings I chose to code in are:
London 0800 to 0900
New York 1430 to 1530
Asia 0000 to 0100
Within the script I have given the user the option to select to see with a green or red background when PA is above all zones Initial Balance high (green) or PA is below all zones Initial Balance low (red).
Alerts are also coded in, to prompt the user that PA has gone above or below as per above.
The Initial Balance high and lows also offer another form of areas of confluence.
Below are some examples of IB in action:
LTC
NULS
UNFI
DEXE
Trading Ideas - Chart Champions Value - Points of Interest Trading Ideas is based on having visual Points of Interest.
The indicator displays:
- dOpen : Daily Open
- dPOC: Developing Point of Control
- pdPOC : Previous Day Point of Control
- dbyPOC : Day Before Yesterday Point of Control
Initial Balance (High, low, mid points for the first hour (UTC 0000)
- IB High : Initial Balance High
- IB Mid : Initial Balance Middle
- IB Low : Initial Balance Low
Chart Champions Value ( CCV ) is based on Daniel - Chart Champions theory explained in his educational videos.
That if the previous day is a range day and price action (PA) closes:
Above the previous days Value Area High (pdVAH) then there is an 80% chance of it retracing back to previous days Value Area Low (pdVAL)
Below the previous days Value Area Low (pdVAL) then there is an 80% chance of it going back up to the previous days Value Area High (pdVAH)
The CCV check can be ticked on and off for a quick visual to see if the setup could potentially be in play (if green then CCV could be play for that day).
Settings/Configuration
The calculated Value Area (VA) can be amended.
It is recommend to change the resolution to that of your symbol. For example BTC resolution 1, XRP resolution 0.00001.
As seen below having key Points of Interest can make you think twice before going into a trade:
My thanks go to:
ahancock for allowing usage of his script.
AnyDozer and Bjorn Mistiaen on Stack Overflow for all their assistance.
Any feedback will be gratefully received.
Initial Balance & extensions Custom session time and IB durationThe indicator will plot Initial Balance levels and extensions. The session start and end times are configurable depending on instrument, as well as the Initial Balance end time. The session times must be entered in the underlying instrument's timezone, for example:
ES-futures (Chicago Timezone)
Session Start: 0830
Initial Balance End: 0930
Session End: 1515
US-Stocks (New York Timezone)
Session Start: 0930
Initial Balance End: 1030
Session End: 1600
Europe Futures (Madrid Timezone)
Session Start: 0800
Initial balance End: 0900
Session End: 2200
Colors and linewidths are also customisable.
User-Inputed Time Range & FibsGreetings Traders! I have decided to release a few scripts as open-source as I'm sure others can benefit from them and perhaps make them better.(Be sure to check my Profile for the other scripts as well: www.tradingview.com).
This one is called User-Inputed Time Range & Fibs.
The idea behind this script is to record the Range Highs and Lows of a User Defined Period, and plot potential Targets based on either Fibonacci Extensions or a Multiple of the Range Size. I created this originally for use with the US Session Initial Balance(From 9:30-10:30AM EST), however it can be set to any time period.
What is Initial Balance? In simple words, Initial Balance (IB) is the price data, which are formed during the first hour of a trading session. Activity of traders forms the so-called Initial Balance at this time. This concept was introduced for the first time by Peter Steidlmayer when he presented the market profile to traders(atas.net).
The IB is monitored as a break-out area for Range Extension traders. The IB High is also seen as an area of resistance and the IB Low as an area of support until it is broken(www.mypivots.com).
As a note, depending on the Time Zone you are in, you may need to manually add or subtract from the Timed Range to match the desired Time. For example in NY Eastern Time, I have to use 8:30-9:30AM to Capture the 9:30-10-30AM IB for ES and NQ. Similarly, I must use 14:30-15:30PM to Capture the 9:30-10-30AM IB for BTC. You will need to make adjustments based on the Time Zone you are located in.
I wanted to give a Special Thanks to @PineCoders for the Custom Rounding Function from Backtesting/Trading Engine--> (), Pinecoders.com for help with Tracking the Highs/Lows--> (www.pinecoders.com), and @TradeChartist for allowing me to use some of the code for the Fibonacci Extensions from his script here--> ().
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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.
Initial Balance and extensionsHello Traders,
This script displays the Initial Balance : High and Low values based on market opening between 00h-01h am UTC.
This location can be very useful for intraday traders.
The script can also display higher and lower extensions, that can be useful for entry point, stop loss or take profit.
Enjoy!
