smc-vol ••• ahihi🚀 User Guide – SMC-Vol Optimized
📖 Overview
This indicator integrates Smart Money Concepts (SMC) with Volume Analysis to identify high-quality trade entries based on smart money flow behavior.
🎛️ BASIC SETTINGS
Enable/Disable Features
Inside Bar: Show inside/outside bars
PKV: Price-Volume Divergence patterns
HV Monitor: Track High Volume candles (MOST IMPORTANT!)
Color Settings
High Volume Candle: Yellow (default)
PKV: Purple
HV Break: Orange (when HV level is broken)
Daily Open: Blue
📊 HIGH VOLUME (HV) ANALYSIS
HV Settings:
Volume Ratio: 100 (lookback for highest volume)
SNR %: 46% (minimum body/range ratio)
Bars to Monitor: 5 bars (after HV candle appears)
How to Read HV:
Yellow = High Volume candle
Fuchsia = SNR (Supply & Demand Reversal)
🚨 "X" = Pattern breaking HV levels
HV Monitor Table (bottom left corner):
HV Monitor | Status | Details
Last HV | 3B ago | 1.2345/1.2300
Break Status | WATCHING | 3/5
Monitor | 5 Bars | After HV
🎯 TRADING STRATEGY
Step 1: Identify High Volume Candle
Wait for a yellow candle (HV confirmed)
Mark HV High & HV Low
Table shows status: "CURRENT"
Step 2: Track the Next 5 Bars
Table shows "WATCHING" with count (1/5, 2/5…)
Look for patterns:
SKU/SKD: Supply & Demand patterns
SNR_UP/SNR_DOWN: Reversal patterns
CHUOT_UP/CHUOT_DOWN: Hammer / Shooting Star
SK_MOM: Momentum patterns
Step 3: Entry on Pattern Break
🚨 Alert triggers when pattern breaks HV levels
BUY: Break above HV High
SELL: Break below HV Low
🔥 MAIN PATTERNS
SK (Supply/Demand)
SKU (▪️ below candle): Demand pattern, wait for HV Low break → BUY
SKD (▪️ above candle): Supply pattern, wait for HV High break → SELL
CHUOT (Mouse/Hammer)
CU (below): Hammer with long lower wick
CD (above): Shooting Star with long upper wick
SNR (Supply & Demand Reversal)
Small body candle (<46% of range) with low volume
↑ Break HV → Bullish reversal above HV High
↓ Break HV → Bearish reversal below HV Low
📈 MOVING AVERAGES
Three customizable MAs:
MA #1: EMA 21 (Yellow) – Short-term trend
MA #2: EMA 9 (White) – Entry timing
MA #3: EMA 50 (Green) – Long-term trend
Usage:
Bullish: Price > MA #3, MA #2 > MA #1
Entry when: Pattern break + price retest on MA
⏰ SESSION ANALYSIS
Session A (New York):
Range Box: NY Session (19:59–21:59)
Max/Min Lines: Draw session high/low
Custom Sessions:
Pre-Session (11:00–12:00): Blue Box
Main Session (12:00–13:00): Teal Box
Watch for breakout from these ranges
💰 COMPLETE TRADING SETUP
Entry Setup:
Identify HV (Yellow candle)
Wait for pattern (within 1–5 bars)
Confirm Break (🚨 alert + level break)
Enter in breakout direction
SL: Above/Below HV level (depending on direction)
TP: 1:2 or 1:3 Risk/Reward
Extra Filters:
Volume: Enter with increasing volume
MAs: Only trade in main trend direction
Sessions: Prefer entries during active sessions
🚨 ALERTS & NOTIFICATIONS
Two main alerts:
"Price breaks HV directly" → SNR break
"HV level broken" → Pattern break within 5 bars
Setup:
Right-click indicator → "Add Alert"
Select condition
Set notifications (email / Telegram / app)
🎯 TIPS & TRICKS
✅ DO:
Wait for HV confirmation before setup
Trade with trend (MA direction)
Use strict risk management (1–2% per trade)
Backtest before live trading
❌ DON’T:
Enter immediately on pattern (wait for confirmation)
Ignore volume (Volume is key!)
Chase price after breakout
Trade against major trend
💡 Pro Tips:
Combine with Price Action for better entries
Use Multi-Timeframe Analysis
Focus on major pairs in key sessions
Keep a Trading Journal to track performance
📞 SUPPORT & UPDATES
The indicator is continuously optimized to:
Reduce lag & increase accuracy
Add new features
Fix bugs & improve UX
Happy Trading! 🚀💰
Candlestick analysis
Auction Market Theory: Value Area & VWAP Fade - DashboardAn "Auction Market Theory" dashboard is a visual summary of the market's state according to the principles of Auction Market Theory. It consolidates key metrics like the Value Area (VA), Point of Control (POC), and Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP) into a single, easy-to-read panel on your chart.
What a Dashboard Shows
The purpose of the dashboard is to give traders a quick, real-time snapshot of the market's auction process. It helps you answer critical questions like:
Where is the market's "fair value"? This is shown by the Value Area (VA) range.
Where is the most volume concentrated? This is the Point of Control (POC), the price that acts as a gravitational center.
How are market participants currently positioned? The VWAP provides a measure of the average price paid, weighted by volume. Price trading above VWAP suggests a bullish volume bias, while price below suggests a bearish bias.
Is the market in a state of balance or imbalance? The relationship between the current price and these key levels helps to quickly determine if the market is accepting a price range (balance) or rejecting it (imbalance/trend).
How to Interpret the Dashboard
Value Area (VA) & Point of Control (POC)
These metrics are derived from a volume profile and are the foundation of the auction theory dashboard. The dashboard displays the VA's low and high, as well as the POC. These levels define the market's "accepted" price range for a given period.
VWAP
VWAP acts as a real-time moving average that is more responsive to volume than a standard moving average. It's often used as an intraday anchor. When price is significantly stretched from the VWAP (and its standard deviation bands), it's a signal of a potential over-extension and a target for a mean-reversion trade.
Dashboard's Role in Trading
The dashboard is not an entry signal itself, but a contextual tool. It provides the framework for your trading decisions. For a "fade the edge" strategy, you would use the dashboard to:
Identify the edges: See the exact price levels of the VA and VWAP bands.
Wait for the stretch: Look for price to move beyond those edges.
Confirm the reversal: Only then would you look at other indicators (like RSI or volume spikes) for an entry signal.
Manage the trade: Use the POC as a potential take-profit target, as price has a high probability of returning to this point of volume consensus.
First Candle Ruleworks only starting at 10 am.!!!
First five minute candle that closes outside of 30m wick area (grey wick box) or show direction
HTF Bias Signals (Daily EMA Bias + LTF EMA Cross)clean, flexible indicator (Pine v5). It defines higher-timeframe (HTF) bias from Daily and/or Weekly EMAs, then only fires entries on your chart’s timeframe when that bias agrees with a simple fast/slow EMA trigger. It also includes alertconditions so you can automate alerts.
ATR + Position SizingThis is an equalized risk calculation for easy position sizing when trading multiple instruments at the open.
The formula is simple:
Position Size = $ Risk / X-period ATR
Manipulation Day [Alex Ko]🇺🇸 Description
Indicator “Manipulation Day”
This indicator helps you detect a potential manipulation day (e.g. Monday) and track the price reaction afterward.
📌 Features:
Select any weekday as a manipulation day.
Wait for N candles after it.
If the manipulation day closes higher than it opened — a green triangle appears. If lower — red triangle.
After N days, a line is drawn from the next day's open to the close — green if price increased, red if dropped.
A label shows the delta (Δ) between open and close for that range.
🧠 Useful for spotting potential trap setups or liquidity grabs followed by directional moves.
Tweezers Bottom Strategy 5m - Long OnlyTweezers Bottom 5m Strategy – Catch Reversals Like a Pro!
Looking for fast, precise entries on the 5-minute chart? This strategy automatically detects the Tweezers Bottom candlestick pattern and opens long positions at the perfect moment. Signals appear as ▲ arrows on the chart, making it incredibly easy to spot high-probability setups.
Risk and Reward Perfectly Managed: Stop-loss is set just 0.1% below entry, and take-profit at 0.3% above, giving you a clear, controlled trading edge. All levels are visualized on the chart with lines and labels, so you always know where your risk and profit targets are.
Ideal for scalpers and short-term traders across Forex, crypto, and stocks. Enter reversals before the crowd, maximize your winning trades, and automate your trading with minimal risk!
STRATEGY WITH POINT TP/SL BY SKBTSThe formula for the standard middle band is simply a moving average, often set to 20 periods:
Middle Band = 20-period moving average (close)
The upper and lower bands are calculated from the standard deviation, which measures how dispersed the price data is from the average.
Upper Band = Middle Band + (2 standard deviations of 20-period close)
Lower Band = Middle Band - (2 standard deviations of 20-period close)
The key inputs are the 20-period moving average, the number of standard deviations (typically 2), and the 20-period standard deviation. The bands will expand and contract based on the standard deviation value.
Some traders increase the standard deviation multiplier to 2.1 or 2.2 to make the bands looser and more sensitive. Decreasing the number of periods for the moving average and standard deviation will also increase sensitivity.
MultiFactor Power Indicator v4 (No-Repaint) 📊 Strategy: Trend + Momentum + Signal Confirmation
This setup uses 3 layers so signals are reliable:
1. Trend Filter: 200 EMA → only take trades in trend direction.
2. Momentum Trigger: RSI + MACD combo to confirm momentum.
3. Entry/Exit Signal: Arrow on chart (Buy/Sell) with alerts — non-repainting because it only confirms on candle close.
Leg Out Candle V2.0The Script marks candles that could be considered as a leg out of a supply/demand and are bigger than the previous ones based on the adjustable lookback value. There is also the option to adjust the threshold ob the body to wick ratio of the leg out candle. The lowest value is 50% because anything lower would be a basing candle.
Price Action Patterns DetectorIt's something like "Price Action Candlestick Pattern Detector." That is, it's an indicator that detects not only Pinbars and Engulfing but also all popular candlesticks in Price Action (Doji, Hammer, Shooting Star, Inside Bar, etc.)
Price Action + Fractals DetectorThe Price Action Patterns Detector indicator also includes a Fractal (WICK.ED style). This way, you'll see Pinbar, Engulfing, Doji, Inside/Outside Bar, Morning/Evening Star formations, and fractals will appear. 🔥
Volume (K) & Value (Cr)shows value of a candle in crores
shows value of a candle in crores
shows value of a candle in crores
shows value of a candle in crores
shows value of a candle in crores
shows value of a candle in crores
Smart Moving Concepts [GILDEX]This all-in-one indicator displays real-time market structure (internal & swing BOS / CHoCH), order blocks, premium & discount zones, equal highs & lows, and much more...allowing traders to automatically mark up their charts with widely used price action methodologies. Following the release of our Fair Value Gap script, we received numerous requests from our community to release more features in the same category.
"Smart Money Concepts" (SMC) is a fairly new yet widely used term amongst price action traders looking to more accurately navigate liquidity & find more optimal points of interest in the market. Trying to determine where institutional market participants have orders placed (buy or sell side liquidity) can be a very reasonable approach to finding more practical entries & exits based on price action.
The indicator includes alerts for the presence of swing structures and many other relevant conditions.
Features
This indicator includes many features relevant to SMC, these are highlighted below:
Full internal & swing market structure labeling in real-time
Break of Structure (BOS)
Change of Character (CHoCH)
Order Blocks (bullish & bearish)
Equal Highs & Lows
Fair Value Gap Detection
Previous Highs & Lows
Premium & Discount Zones as a range
Options to style the indicator to more easily display these concepts
Settings
Mode: Allows the user to select Historical (default) or Present, which displays only recent data on the chart.
Style: Allows the user to select different styling for the entire indicator between Colored (default) and Monochrome.
Color Candles: Plots candles based on the internal & swing structures from within the indicator on the chart.
Internal Structure: Displays the internal structure labels & dashed lines to represent them. (BOS & CHoCH).
Confluence Filter: Filter non-significant internal structure breakouts.
Swing Structure: Displays the swing structure labels & solid lines on the chart (larger BOS & CHoCH labels).
Swing Points: Displays swing points labels on chart such as HH, HL, LH, LL.
Internal Order Blocks: Enables Internal Order Blocks & allows the user to select how many most recent Internal Order Blocks appear on the chart.
Swing Order Blocks: Enables Swing Order Blocks & allows the user to select how many most recent Swing Order Blocks appear on the chart.
Equal Highs & Lows: Displays EQH/EQL labels on chart for detecting equal highs & lows.
Bars Confirmation: Allows the user to select how many bars are needed to confirm an EQH/EQL symbol on chart.
Fair Value Gaps: Displays boxes to highlight imbalance areas on the chart.
Auto Threshold: Filter out non-significant fair value gaps.
Timeframe: Allows the user to select the timeframe for the Fair Value Gap detection.
Extend FVG: Allows the user to choose how many bars to extend the Fair Value Gap boxes on the chart.
Highs & Lows MTF: Allows the user to display previous highs & lows from daily, weekly, & monthly timeframes as significant levels.
Premium/Discount Zones: Allows the user to display Premium, Discount, and Equilibrium zones on the chart
Color coded up movesIt has up moves in different colors ranging from 3% till highest on different color scale
3-5
5-10
10-15
15-20
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
60-70
70-80
and more than 80
12H Range (Body + Wicks)12H Range (Body + Wicks)
This indicator highlights the 12-hour candle ranges across any chart timeframe. Each 12H candle is split into its body and wicks, with customizable fill and border colors.
Features:
Draws the full 12H range (Open → Close for the body, High/Low for wicks).
Live updates as the current 12H candle forms.
Works on all chart timeframes.
Custom colors for bullish/bearish bodies and wicks.
Option to show only the current 12H block or keep a history of past ranges.
Lightweight performance with adjustable max bars to keep on chart.
Optional high/low guide lines for quick reference.
Use Cases:
Identify where price is trading relative to the current or past 12H session ranges.
Visualize intraday bias with clear body/wick separation.
Combine with your strategy to trade range reclaims, breaks, or reversals.
Tip: Change the reference timeframe input (default = 12H/720min) to quickly adapt for 4H, 6H, daily, etc.
Two Candle Comparison - TMPThis about comparison two candles in chart and gives some idea for entry. this is most suitable for 4H chart
Cheat CodeWhy Monday & Friday
Monday evening (NY): frequently seeds the weekly expansion. Its DR/IDR often acts as a weekly “starter envelope,” useful for breakout continuation or fade back into the box plays as liquidity builds.
Friday evening (NY): often exposes end-of-week traps (run on stops into the close) and sets expectation boundaries into the following week. Carry these levels forward to catch Monday’s reaction to Friday’s closing structure.
Typical use-cases
Breakout & retest:
Price closes outside the Monday DR/IDR → look for retests of the band edge for continuation.
Liquidity sweep (“trap”) recognition:
Friday session wicks briefly beyond Friday DR/IDR then closes back inside → watch for mean reversion early next week.
Bias filter:
Above both Monday DR midline and Friday DR midline → bias long until proven otherwise; the inverse for shorts.
Session open confluence:
Reactions at the open line frequently mark decision points for momentum vs. fade setups.
(This is a levels framework, not a signals engine. Combine with your execution model: orderflow, S/R, session timing, or higher-TF bias.)
Inputs & styling (quick reference)
Display toggles (per day):
Show DR / IDR / Middle DR / Middle IDR
Show Opening Line
Show DR/IDR Box (choose DR or IDR as box source)
Show Price Labels
Style controls (per day):
Line width (1–4), style (Solid/Dashed/Dotted)
Independent colors for DR, IDR, midlines, open line
Box background opacity
Timezone:
Default America/New_York (changeable).
Optional on-chart warning if your chart TZ differs.
Practical notes
Works on intraday charts; levels are anchored using weekly timestamps for accuracy on any symbol.
Live updating: During the Mon/Fri calc windows, DR/IDR highs/lows and midlines keep updating until the session ends.
Clean drawings: Lines, box, and labels are created once per session and then extended/updated—efficient on resources even with long display windows.
Max elements: Script reserves ample line/box/label capacity for stability across weeks.