Six PillarsGeneral Overview
The "Six Pillars" indicator is a comprehensive trading tool that combines six different technical analysis methods to provide a holistic view of market conditions.
These six pillars are:
Trend
Momentum
Directional Movement (DM)
Stochastic
Fractal
On-Balance Volume (OBV)
The indicator calculates the state of each pillar and presents them in an easy-to-read table format. It also compares the current timeframe with a user-defined comparison timeframe to offer a multi-timeframe analysis.
A key feature of this indicator is the Confluence Strength meter. This unique metric quantifies the overall agreement between the six pillars across both timeframes, providing a score out of 100. A higher score indicates stronger agreement among the pillars, suggesting a more reliable trading signal.
I also included a visual cue in the form of candle coloring. When all six pillars agree on a bullish or bearish direction, the candle is colored green or red, respectively. This feature allows traders to quickly identify potential high-probability trade setups.
The Six Pillars indicator is designed to work across multiple timeframes, offering a comparison between the current timeframe and a user-defined comparison timeframe. This multi-timeframe analysis provides traders with a more comprehensive understanding of market dynamics.
Origin and Inspiration
The Six Pillars indicator was inspired by the work of Dr. Barry Burns, author of "Trend Trading for Dummies" and his concept of "5 energies." (Trend, Momentum, Cycle, Support/Resistance, Scale) I was intrigued by Dr. Burns' approach to analyzing market dynamics and decided to put my own twist upon his ideas.
Comparing the Six Pillars to Dr. Burns' 5 energies, you'll notice I kept Trend and Momentum, but I swapped out Cycle, Support/Resistance, and Scale for Directional Movement, Stochastic, Fractal, and On-Balance Volume. These changes give you a more dynamic view of market strength, potential reversals, and volume confirmation all in one package.
What Makes This Indicator Unique
The standout feature of the Six Pillars indicator is its Confluence Strength meter. This feature calculates the overall agreement between the six pillars, providing traders with a clear, numerical representation of signal strength.
The strength is calculated by considering the state of each pillar in both the current and comparison timeframes, resulting in a score out of 100.
Here's how it calculates the strength:
It considers the state of each pillar in both the current timeframe and the comparison timeframe.
For each pillar, the absolute value of its state is taken. This means that both strongly bullish (2) and strongly bearish (-2) states contribute equally to the strength.
The absolute values for all six pillars are summed up for both timeframes, resulting in two sums: current_sum and alternate_sum.
These sums are then added together to get a total_sum.
The total_sum is divided by 24 (the maximum possible sum if all pillars were at their strongest states in both timeframes) and multiplied by 100 to get a percentage.
The result is rounded to the nearest integer and capped at a minimum of 1.
This calculation method ensures that the Confluence Strength meter takes into account not only the current timeframe but also the comparison timeframe, providing a more robust measure of overall market sentiment. The resulting score, ranging from 1 to 100, gives traders a clear and intuitive measure of how strongly the pillars agree, with higher scores indicating stronger potential signals.
This approach to measuring signal strength is unique in that it doesn't just rely on a single aspect of price action or volume. Instead, it takes into account multiple factors, providing a more robust and reliable indication of potential market moves. The higher the Confluence Strength score, the more confident traders can be in the signal.
The Confluence Strength meter helps traders in several ways:
It provides a quick and easy way to gauge the overall market sentiment.
It helps prioritize potential trades by identifying the strongest signals.
It can be used as a filter to avoid weaker setups and focus on high-probability trades.
It offers an additional layer of confirmation for other trading strategies or indicators.
By combining the Six Pillars analysis with the Confluence Strength meter, I've created a powerful tool that not only identifies potential trading opportunities but also quantifies their strength, giving traders a significant edge in their decision-making process.
How the Pillars Work (What Determines Bullish or Bearish)
While developing this indicator, I selected and configured six key components that work together to provide a comprehensive view of market conditions. Each pillar is set up to complement the others, creating a synergistic effect that offers traders a more nuanced understanding of price action and volume.
Trend Pillar: Based on two Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) - a fast EMA (8 period) and a slow EMA (21 period). It determines the trend by comparing these EMAs, with stronger trends indicated when the fast EMA is significantly above or below the slow EMA.
Directional Movement (DM) Pillar: Utilizes the Average Directional Index (ADX) with a default period of 14. It measures trend strength, with values above 25 indicating a strong trend. It also considers the Positive and Negative Directional Indicators (DI+ and DI-) to determine trend direction.
Momentum Pillar: Uses the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) with customizable fast (12), slow (26), and signal (9) lengths. It compares the MACD line to the signal line to determine momentum strength and direction.
Stochastic Pillar: Employs the Stochastic oscillator with a default period of 13. It identifies overbought conditions (above 80) and oversold conditions (below 20), with intermediate zones between 60-80 and 20-40.
Fractal Pillar: Uses Williams' Fractal indicator with a default period of 3. It identifies potential reversal points by looking for specific high and low patterns over the given period.
On-Balance Volume (OBV) Pillar: Incorporates On-Balance Volume with three EMAs - short (3), medium (13), and long (21) periods. It assesses volume trends by comparing these EMAs.
Each pillar outputs a state ranging from -2 (strongly bearish) to 2 (strongly bullish), with 0 indicating a neutral state. This standardized output allows for easy comparison and aggregation of signals across all pillars.
Users can customize various parameters for each pillar, allowing them to fine-tune the indicator to their specific trading style and market conditions. The multi-timeframe comparison feature also allows users to compare pillar states between the current timeframe and a user-defined comparison timeframe, providing additional context for decision-making.
Design
From a design standpoint, I've put considerable effort into making the Six Pillars indicator visually appealing and user-friendly. The clean and minimalistic design is a key feature that sets this indicator apart.
I've implemented a sleek table layout that displays all the essential information in a compact and organized manner. The use of a dark background (#030712) for the table creates a sleek look that's easy on the eyes, especially during extended trading sessions.
The overall design philosophy focuses on presenting complex information in a simple, intuitive format, allowing traders to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.
The color scheme is carefully chosen to provide clear visual cues:
White text for headers ensures readability
Green (#22C55E) for bullish signals
Blue (#3B82F6) for neutral states
Red (#EF4444) for bearish signals
This color coding extends to the candle coloring, making it easy to spot when all pillars agree on a bullish or bearish outlook.
I've also incorporated intuitive symbols (↑↑, ↑, →, ↓, ↓↓) to represent the different states of each pillar, allowing for quick interpretation at a glance.
The table layout is thoughtfully organized, with clear sections for the current and comparison timeframes. The Confluence Strength meter is prominently displayed, providing traders with an immediate sense of signal strength.
To enhance usability, I've added tooltips to various elements, offering additional information and explanations when users hover over different parts of the indicator.
How to Use This Indicator
The Six Pillars indicator is a versatile tool that can be used for various trading strategies. Here are some general usage guidelines and specific scenarios:
General Usage Guidelines:
Pay attention to the Confluence Strength meter. Higher values indicate stronger agreement among the pillars and potentially more reliable signals.
Use the multi-timeframe comparison to confirm signals across different time horizons.
Look for alignment between the current timeframe and comparison timeframe pillars for stronger signals.
One of the strengths of this indicator is it can let you know when markets are sideways – so in general you can know to avoid entering when the Confluence Strength is low, indicating disagreement among the pillars.
Customization Options
The Six Pillars indicator offers a wide range of customization options, allowing traders to tailor the tool to their specific needs and trading style. Here are the key customizable elements:
Comparison Timeframe:
Users can select any timeframe for comparison with the current timeframe, providing flexibility in multi-timeframe analysis.
Trend Pillar:
Fast EMA Period: Adjustable for quicker or slower trend identification
Slow EMA Period: Can be modified to capture longer-term trends
Momentum Pillar:
MACD Fast Length
MACD Slow Length
MACD Signal Length These can be adjusted to fine-tune momentum sensitivity
DM Pillar:
ADX Period: Customizable to change the lookback period for trend strength measurement
ADX Threshold: Adjustable to define what constitutes a strong trend
Stochastic Pillar:
Stochastic Period: Can be modified to change the sensitivity of overbought/oversold readings
Fractal Pillar:
Fractal Period: Adjustable to identify potential reversal points over different timeframes
OBV Pillar:
Short OBV EMA
Medium OBV EMA
Long OBV EMA These periods can be customized to analyze volume trends over different timeframes
These customization options allow traders to experiment with different settings to find the optimal configuration for their trading strategy and market conditions. The flexibility of the Six Pillars indicator makes it adaptable to various trading styles and market environments.
Movement
Extension %This is a tracking tool to measure two different kinds of distances:
- Gaps, from the open/close or the high/low value to the nearest open/close or high/low value.
- Price extensions of one or two candles from a preferred starting point (open, high, low or close) to a final point (open, high, low or close). The two-candles mode includes an optional rectangle to help you visualize the first and the last point of the measurement.
The script will plot a label with a percentage when the extension reaches the value you set. Unless you choose to track the one-candle price extension, the label will always be displayed on the high/low value of the second candle.
Moving Average Gradient (MAG) The Moving Average Gradient Indicator uses multiple Moving Averages to create a gradient. It creates continually more faint MAs, filled upwards or downwards to the price at a certain opacity. It can be used efficiently for stocks, forex, crypto, and more. This indicator combines numerous Moving Averages of your choice, a few of which include:
EMA
SMA
WMA
HMA
RMA
DMA
LSMA
VAMA
TMA
MF
Using this indicator will make entries more simple because crossovers and crossovers can more easily be detected, either manually or using alerts. These multiple Moving Averages allow for a smoothed out price trend, and the filtering of irregular and odd short-term price fluctuations. Due to the ample count of price trends that are widely used, it is difficult to view the market through the eyes of all types of investors/traders. This indicator manages to counter exactly that, you will be able to see all existing trends and enter/exit positions accordingly. This indicator can be used with all chart types and works well with many other indicators. It allows for complete customization and offers easy-to-understand settings which can be designated to a certain individual. You can modify every single factor of the MAs which allows for an even more personalized and adapted Indicator that reflects your trading/ investing inquiries. Most importantly, it looks cool.
A few of the technical settings you can change are:
Moving Average Count (Select how many do you want to be displayed.)
Moving Average Type (EMA, SMA, WMA, etc.)
Source (close, open, high, low)
Separate MA Length (The length of each Moving Average, its lookback. How many previous candles should it be based on? Choose each Moving Average's lookback length.)
You can also change the style settings of the indicators like:
Progressive opacity percentage (By how much will the next MAs fill affect the other? 1st: 50%, 3rd: 30%, 4th: 20%, 5th: 10%)
Bullish Candle Color
Bearish Candle Color
This indicator is unique because it can be used for all strategies and all trading styles, for example, day trading or long-term investing, really anything if used correctly. The reason it can be used in so many instances is a result of the detailed and in-depth settings tab. This allows the indicator to be used and to be useful in various situations and allows you to dominate the market. You can either increase the MA length difference by progressively small amounts for day trading and create bigger gaps in the MA length difference for swing trading or long-term investing. Integrated alerts also enhance your efficiency while using this indicator because you can choose to be notified at the crossovers and crossunders of a pair of Moving Averages.
The technical portion of the indicator creates and plots the chosen amount or count of Moving Averages as specified in the settings tab. Then it fills each MA using the selected color and opacity. Afterward, it adapts the moving Averages to use the inputted data from the settings tab and uses it to plot them accordingly.
Relative VolatilityRelative volatility highlights large changes in price. This was designed to be used with my relative volume indicator so that traders can see the effect of volume on price action. It is also a good tool to analyse breakout patterns to identify best entry points and waves.
Above shows relative volatility and relative volume working together.
DMI With Crosses (MyNewTrade)Directional Movement Indicator:
+DI and -DI
I changed the color of the bar bars according to the crossed of +DI and -DI . It helps us to have an idea of whether the trend is continuing or not.
+DI crossover to -DI barcolor is Aqua, if not bar color is Red.
It also helps us to find the lowest and highest points of the graph according to the positions of Adx +DI and -DI .
It gives warnings at the lowest and highest points, which helps us to detect the direction of the trend.
Volatility - Sacred GeometryThis indicator is designed to pick up changes in volatility before it happens. It also shows current volatility, as price action drops the blue lines contract. The script uses the blue lines to locate spikes in volatility.
Example of dump revealing itself with plenty of notice.
Here large changes in price action are shown when the white lines spike. Traders can get a heads up on any pump or dump a few candles before it happens.
This example shows a low volatility channel vs high volatility channel. The blue lines expand as price range increases.
Trends can be discovered by studying the patterns.
* This indicator does not use sacred geometry, I just called it that because it looks like it. *
If anyone is interested in developing this indicator any further please get in contact.
Candle Percent Volatility by AllenlkThis indicator gives you the percentage movement of each candle. Measurements are taken between the candle High point and Low point, and also between the Open and Close and calculated in percent %. From there it smooths out the data with a moving average. This gives you an idea of how much volatility is within each candle given the time resolution of the chart.
I like to use this information as a way to turn off a strategy, or select a proper time resolution for a strategy. If each candle has less than 2.5% Volatility most strategies will typically buy and sell rapidly at prices that are too close together, potentially losing money. During those times it seems best to either temporarily turn off the strategy, change the time resolution or switch to another strategy.
Big Move Finder Outlier ZoneA way to find if price made a big move in a user input given amount of time ago. If it made a move more than the given percent amount, a colored zone will be placed until a given amount of length finishes taking place, and then it will stop coloring the zone. This helps filter out or find stocks that are making or have made too big a price move or were too volatile in the past.
DisplayPriceMoveThresholds-by-STTAEnglish
Name: DisplayPriceMoveThresholds-by-STTA
- This study shows symbols in chart where a defined price movement percent threshold between a configurabele range of current bar and historic bar is exceeded.
- This information can be used to backtest possible PUT and CALL strike distances for option trading.
- User can configure if rising or falling or both price movements shall be displayed.
- This study can be used with all symbols and all time periods.
- A Extended functionality can be selected, where all price movements will be displayed in chart
German
- Dieser Indikator zeigt im Chart Symbole an, wenn der Preis bestimmte konfigurierbare Prozent-Schwellen zwischen zwei Kerzen mit konfigurierbarem Abstand überschreitet.
- Diese Information kann beim Optionshandel nützlich sein, wenn passende Strike Abstände gewählt werden sollen.
- Der Benutzer kann konfigurieren, ob steigende, fallende oder beide Preisrichtungen ausgewertet werden sollen.
- Dieser Indikator kann für alle Symbole und Zeitperioden verwendet werden
- Eine erweiterte Funktion kann ausgewählt werden, wo alle Preisbewegungen mit Schwellen als zusätzlicher Linienchart gezeichnet wird.
Inputs
- displayed triangle symbols above or below candle in chart window
Settings/Parameter
- Resolution: defines the resolution for calculation
- Source: defines bar value as open, close, high, low
- Direction: specifies price direction
-- UP: evaluates only rising price movements
-- DOWN: evaluates only falling price movements
-- BOTH: evaluates rising and falling price movements
-- ALL: evaluates rising and falling price movements; additionally plots all percentage values and thresholds as linegraph in chart
- Up Threshold in %: Float value of rising price movement threshold in percent: Min Value:0.0
- Down Threshold in %: Float value of falling price movement threshold in percent: Max Value:0.0
Outputs
- Up Threshold Exceeded: triangle symbol in chart above bar
- Down Threshold Exceeded: triangle symbol in chart below bar
- ALL Output:
-- plot of all percentage values as linegraph in chart when Direction ALL is selected
-- Line Up Threshold: plot of Up Threshold horizontal line in chart when Direction ALL is selected
-- Line Down Threshold: plot of Down Threshold horizontal line in chart when Direction ALL is selected
If you are interested to obtain access to this indicator, please send me a message via Tradingview or Signature contact data below this description
Solltest Du Interesse für einen Zugriff auf diesen Indikator haben, sende mir bitte eine Nachricht über Tradingview oder meine Signatur Kontaktdaten unter dieser Beschreibung
ADX Histogram with DI linesInspired by the user scarf from Tradingview. In contrast with that other indicator, this one instead of a simple moving average (SMA) for the ADX calculations, uses a running moving average (RMA) or also known as Wilder's Average. I like having a histogram for the DI lines over just having lines alone because it makes it easier to see. In addition I made it so that values less than 5 for the DI lines are colored lightly to note that the movement was less significant(might not matter but some might care about it, atleast I do). The ADX has a color fainting effect too, and when it goes above the threshold then it becomes black to note that it is trending, as the indicator suggests.
The advantages with these additions and changes are that it shows a more traditional moving average like the original author Wellers Wilder suggested and you can see the crossings and directional movement changes easier from seeing the colors on the histogram easier than you would by looking at the DI lines alone. The disadvantages are you won't be able to tell when the ADX line is above both DI lines and when the ADX then makes a decrease from there(which can sometimes show a reversal), but personally it doesn't matter too much to me and perhaps to those who care more about seeing the direction than having to focus on all those 3 lines crossing all over the place.
Commercial Movement Index-BuschiEnglish
Inspired by the book "The Commitments of Traders Bible" by Stephen Briese, this indicator is a follow-up of my already published "Commercial Index-Buschi".
Here, the Commercial Index isn't shown in values from 0 to 100, but in how far the value changed from a given timeframe (default Movement Reference: 6 weeks). Therefore it ranges from 100 (bullish move from the Commercials during the last weeks) to -100 (bearish move).
Deutsch
Inspiriert durch das Buch "The Commitments of Traders Bible" by Stephen Briese, ist dieser Indikator eine Weiterentwicklung meines bereits veröffentlichten Skriptes "Commercial Index-Buschi".
Hier wird der Commercial Index nicht in Werten von 0 bis 100 angezeigt, sondern in wieweit er sich innerhalb eines vorgegebenen Zeitfensters (Standard: Movement Reference: 6 Wochen) verändert hat. Daher schwankt er zwischen 100 (bullishe Bewegung der Commercials innerhalb der letzten Wochen) und -100 (bearishe Bewegung).
Daily High Low MovementIndicates the daily high and low drawn by green and red lines. Fill blocks indicate the average value movement relevant to the previous day. Green fills indicate that the value is moving higher than the previous day and red meaning lower.
NYSE:BA
Combo Backtest 123 Reversal and ADXR This is combo strategies for get
a cumulative signal. Result signal will return 1 if two strategies
is long, -1 if all strategies is short and 0 if signals of strategies is not equal.
First strategy
This System was created from the Book "How I Tripled My Money In The
Futures Market" by Ulf Jensen, Page 183. This is reverse type of strategies.
The strategy buys at market, if close price is higher than the previous close
during 2 days and the meaning of 9-days Stochastic Slow Oscillator is lower than 50.
The strategy sells at market, if close price is lower than the previous close price
during 2 days and the meaning of 9-days Stochastic Fast Oscillator is higher than 50.
Secon strategy
The Average Directional Movement Index Rating (ADXR) measures the strength
of the Average Directional Movement Index (ADX). It's calculated by taking
the average of the current ADX and the ADX from one time period before
(time periods can vary, but the most typical period used is 14 days).
Like the ADX, the ADXR ranges from values of 0 to 100 and reflects strengthening
and weakening trends. However, because it represents an average of ADX, values
don't fluctuate as dramatically and some analysts believe the indicator helps
better display trends in volatile markets.
WARNING:
- For purpose educate only
- This script to change bars colors.
Combo Strategy 123 Reversal and ADXR This is combo strategies for get
a cumulative signal. Result signal will return 1 if two strategies
is long, -1 if all strategies is short and 0 if signals of strategies is not equal.
First strategy
This System was created from the Book "How I Tripled My Money In The
Futures Market" by Ulf Jensen, Page 183. This is reverse type of strategies.
The strategy buys at market, if close price is higher than the previous close
during 2 days and the meaning of 9-days Stochastic Slow Oscillator is lower than 50.
The strategy sells at market, if close price is lower than the previous close price
during 2 days and the meaning of 9-days Stochastic Fast Oscillator is higher than 50.
Secon strategy
The Average Directional Movement Index Rating (ADXR) measures the strength
of the Average Directional Movement Index (ADX). It's calculated by taking
the average of the current ADX and the ADX from one time period before
(time periods can vary, but the most typical period used is 14 days).
Like the ADX, the ADXR ranges from values of 0 to 100 and reflects strengthening
and weakening trends. However, because it represents an average of ADX, values
don't fluctuate as dramatically and some analysts believe the indicator helps
better display trends in volatile markets.
WARNING:
- For purpose educate only
- This script to change bars colors.
Multi-period Simple Moving Average trenderA plot of 6 SMA's grouped by 3's for short and long views of trading patterns.
Average Directional Movement Index Rating Strategy The Average Directional Movement Index Rating (ADXR) measures the strength
of the Average Directional Movement Index (ADX). It's calculated by taking
the average of the current ADX and the ADX from one time period before
(time periods can vary, but the most typical period used is 14 days).
Like the ADX, the ADXR ranges from values of 0 to 100 and reflects strengthening
and weakening trends. However, because it represents an average of ADX, values
don't fluctuate as dramatically and some analysts believe the indicator helps
better display trends in volatile markets.
WARNING:
- This script to change bars colors.
CMYK MOVEMENT / FORCE ◊ Introduction
Price Movement / Force
A script that uses Volume and price movement to indicate Bullish/Bearish momentum, like a hindsight MACD.
◊ Origin
This is a part of Project XIAM.
◊ Theoretical Approach
Philosophy γ :: consequential
◊ Usage
Early Indication of Bullish/Bearish momentum, before price reversal.
CLEANSIGNAL can be used as input source, for more reliable results.
Currently BTC◊USD ETH◊USD XRP◊USD Are available in my scripts.
Otherwise the ticker's volume is used as input.
My own indicators will be updated soon, to include source selection in their settings.
◊ Features
BULL / BEAR Phase to open orders. ( HINT : combine with RSI ? )
EXIT sweep : to find appropriate exit moments, to close opened orders.
Sweep is muffled if Phase continues.
Sweep Finalize send final EXIT signal.
◊ Community
Wanna share your findings ? or need help resolving a problem ?
CMYK :: discord.gg
AUTOVIEW :: discordapp.com
TRADINGVIEW UNOFFICIAL :: discord.gg
G2LGain over Loss indicator final version. Simplified the code and added option to select period values for the most used resolutions.
Free BirdShows the move of the symbol When not correlated with the source index. Gives the upward or downward tendency when symbol moves uncorrelated that can be used to determine the flow.
The flow curve gives an general idea while the move is more precise showing pure price action.
Gain Over LossSelf adjusting gain over loss indicator. Shows price movement and momentum. If you want to reach to the parameters you can use the old version.
