Stop Hunts [MK]Liquidity rests above/below previous highs and lows because these are the areas where traders are most likely to leave their orders/stop losses. The market can tap into this liquidity source by going beyond the previous highs and lows, this liquidity can then be used to reverse the market in the opposite direction.
As traders we may want to know if price will continue beyond previous highs and lows, or reverse the market. If price looks to be reversing after tapping into liquidity, this can be a good area to enter a trade. The same area can be used as a take profit level also.
The indicator identifies previous high/lows in two ways:
1. previous high/lows using 'PIVOT POINTS'. Pivots are easy to spot and are obvious within a price trend. Also called 'higher highs", "lower lows" etc. The number of candles required to form the pivot point can be adjusted in the script settings.
see below example of pivot point and stop hunt:
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see how price reversed upwards after stop hunt on pivot point above.
2. previous candle high/lows. A previous candles high and low are also good areas of liquidity.
see below example of previous candle stop hunt:
see how price reversed upwards after stop hunt on previous candle low above.
Personally, I use the pivot point stop hunts on lower timeframes and previous candle stop hunts on higher timeframes. However users can adjust on which timeframes to show the indicator depending on their own trading style.
As ever all items within 'settings' are customizable.
The indicator is by no means a 'trading strategy' and users should be fully aware of the stop hunt concept and have conducted extensive back-testing before using with 'live' accounts.
The indicator may also serve as a 'teaching aid' to new students and as a reminder to more experienced traders.
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Liquidity Concepts [BigBeluga]The Liquidity Concepts indicator is designed to represent the liquidity on the chart using pivot points as potential stop-losses / liquidity grabs.
The indicator is facilitated by a market structure detector and pivot points to identify resting liquidity / stop-loss levels.
A liquidity grab or a stop-loss hunt is when retail traders place their stop-loss orders at recent highs / most recent highs or lows. This is a spot where big players attempt to push the market to trigger all the stop-loss orders and gain a better entry in their favor.
🔶 CALCULATION
The indicator uses the Higher Lower script made by @LonesomeTheBlue to determine these pivot points. When a pivot point is formed, it is displayed on the chart with the corresponding symbol (HH - HL - LH - LL). When one of these points is broken, a line is drawn between the pivot point and the candle that broke it.
A liquidity grab is only recognized after it has occurred, and it is represented with a box showing all the candles that were involved in the sweep / stop-loss hunt.
A pivot point is established only after the selected lookback period and cannot be printed beforehand in any manner. This ensures that it captures the highest point within the lookback period following the candle formation.
An HL (Higher Low) point is established when it is lower than an HH (Higher High) point, whereas an LH (Lower High) point is established when it is higher than an LL (Lower Low) point.
Boxes are formed in two different types: Major and Minor.
- Major boxes occur when LH or HL points are breached, with their high or low point crossing above or below in the specific lookback period.
- Minor boxes occur when HH or LL points are breached, with their high or low point crossing above or below in the specific lookback period.
Minor points are less efficient since they represent key highs and lows, and before taking out those liquidity levels, the HL and LH points should be cleared.
Representation of Pivot Point Formation:
Liquidity wicks are a minor representation of a stop-loss hunt during the retracement of a pivot point. This means that a pivot point is broken only by the wick and not by the entire body.
Bigger wick = more liquidity
Lower wick = less liquidity
Liquidity wicks can be used as trade confirmation or targets for your entry to enhance accuracy.
Users have the option to display candle coloring based on the currently detected trend.
🔶 VERIFICATION
Users have the option to specify the verification length for when the liquidity should occur. This means that if the length is set to 7, the indicator will search for the liquidity formation within the last 7 candles; otherwise, it will be considered invalid.
🔶 CONCEPTS
The whole idea is to help find possible zone of stop loss hunting helping having a better entry in our trading, we can utilize a lot more tools, and this shoud be used as confluence only
🔶 OPTIONS
Users have complete control over the settings, allowing them to:
- Disable pivot points.
- Disable the display of boxes.
- Disable liquidity wicks.
- Customize colors to their preferences.
- Adjust lookback settings for historical data analysis.
- Modify candle coloring settings.
- Adjust the text size of labels for better readability and customization.
🔶 RECAP
Box => Represents liquidity formation / stop-loss hunt
- Minor Box HH / LL point
- Major Box LH / HL point
Liquidity Wicks => Formed when a pivot point is broken only by the wick
BOS / CHoCH => Calculated using the pivot points from the @LonesomeTheBlue script
🔶 RELATED SCRIPTS
Price Action Concepts =>
GRAB or TrendStrength Bars with Highlights[Salty]GRAB or TrendStrength Bars with Propulsion Dots and Highlights for Squeeze Pro, CCI-Arrows, and SlowStoch
This indicator shows GRAB or TrendStrength candles and allows several moving averages to be displayed at the same time.
It has arrows and diamonds above or below the candles to show CCI values above 100 or below -100 with the arrow pointing in the direction of the momentum.
Diamonds indicate slightly weaker momentum than arrows, but still consider strong.
It has background coloring that is light green to show bullish trends and light red to show bearish trends that are derived from slow stochastics.
In general Darker colors are used for down moves and lighter colors are use to show up moves. Also, red indicates bearish, and green indicates bullish throughout.
It has yellow background to show squeezes with additional Squeeze Pro information shown at the bottom of the chart in the form of letters and momentum arrows.
L = Low compression squeeze, S = Normal Squeeze, and H = High Compression Squeeze.
It has a set of propulsion dots for each Moving Average. The trend is consider bullish when green colored dots print, and bearish when red dots print.
3 ATR Keltner channels are printed. The first two show the values used by the squeeze by default
2 Bolinger Bands are displayed based on the values used by the Squeeze by default.
1 VWAP line may be displayed.
TIP: overlaying the TICK symbol is great for confirming a bias where positive values are bullish and negative values are bearish.
Salty GRaB Wave with Highlights for Squeeze CCI-Arrows SlowStochThis indicator shows GRaB candles and allows several moving averages to be displayed at the same time.
It uses background coloring to identify momentum shifts. Wide bands of color can be used to identify trends while short bands of color can be used to identify reversals.
It has arrows above or below the candles to show CCI values above 100 or below -100 with the arrow pointing in the direction of the momentum.
It has red background coloring to show slow stochastic Overbought ranges and dark red signals indicating a cross of the fast and slow lines.
It has green background coloring to show slow stochastic Oversold ranges and dark green signals indicating a cross of the fast and slow lines.
It has yellow background to show squeezes with additional Squeeze information shown at the bottom of the chart in the form of letters and momentum arrows.
GRaB Candles by mattlacoco with MMM by Harold_NL V1.1Update v1.1:
GRaB colors now green, red, gray
Added Murrey Range lines.
Cleaned up the code.
GRaB candles and a murrey math "midline" in one script.
Some traders using methods of Rob Booker (40% club, trifecta5) like to use both GRaB candles and Murrey Math to combine, or to compare entry and exit moments.
Color of candles are as GRaB candles.
Midline use: Crossing the midline is a change of color in murrey. Candles closing above the midline would be green and below would be red as murrey candles.
Credits:
Original script of Raghee Horner's GRaB Candles by Matt Lacoco (BUY BLUE SELL RED).
Murrey Math Midline added by Harold van Berk (most code copied from "UCS_Murrey's Math Oscillator_V2" by ucsgears)
Candle colors defined by GRaB
Green bulish, Red bearish, Gray neutral
Dark for close lower than open
Light for close higher than open
Candles that close above the Murrey Math Middle line would normally be (murrey) green. Below would be (murrey) red.
Murrey lines can be switched off in "format" of the indicator.
GRaB Candles by mattlacoco with Murrey Math Midline(use V1.1 now See links below)
GRaB candles and a murrey math "midline" in one script.
Some traders using methods of Rob Booker (40% club, trifecta5) like to use both GRaB candles and Murrey Math to combine, or to compare entry and exit moments.
Color of candles are as GRaB candles.
Midline use: Crossing the midline is a change of color in murrey. Candles closing above the midline would be green and below would be red as murrey candles.
Credits:
Original script of Raghee Horner's GRaB Candles by Matt Lacoco (BUY BLUE SELL RED).
Murrey Math Midline added by Harold van Berk (most code copied from "UCS_Murrey's Math Oscillator_V2" by ucsgears)
GRaB Candles w/NotificationsJust added "notifications" to the previous script I found from mattlacoco.
