Volume Heatmap Gradient
Colors each candle's volume along a 12-step gradient (dark — low, bright — high) and flags climax bars — liquidity peaks in your chosen volume ranges, around which support and resistance zones are built.
Every candle is colored by its own volume: dark — quiet, bright — a spike. Liquidity clusters read off the chart instantly, without parsing the histogram bar by bar.
A bar with volume in your chosen ranges is flagged as a climax — a peak of activity, where a reversal or key level often forms. A Top/Bottom zone is built around it and holds until a double breakout.
Auto Filter recalculates the ranges every bar from the average and maximum volume over the period — one indicator works on a liquid future and on a quiet instrument alike, with no manual tuning.
In Backlight mode a candle's body is colored by its own volume, not its direction. In an impulse move you see where the real strength is: early candles glow bright (volume present), later ones fade — the move is running out of steam.
The same volume — three ways to show it: histogram on the panel, colored rectangle under the candle (Volume On The Chart), and body backlight (Backlight). The step color is identical across all — you pick whichever is easiest to read.
The whole volume range from minimum to maximum is split into 10 steps + a lower one (below min) and an upper one (above max) = 12. Auto Filter recomputes the bounds every bar from the average and maximum volume.
A candle's volume falls into its step and takes that step's color — dark bottom of the scale (low) → bright top (high). Choose the view: histogram, rectangle under the candle, or body backlight.
Volume lands in a chosen range — the bar is a climax. A zone is built around it: Top = Open, Bottom = max-volume price; direction comes from the candle (bullish/bearish).
The zone lives until price closes through it in both directions. A double breakout closes the zone — the level is done.
The volume range is cut into 12 steps (lower + 10 main + upper). A bar's volume falls into its step and takes that step's color: dark bottom — low, bright top — high. Lands in the top range → the bar is a climax → a zone is built. Auto Filter moves the bounds to fit the market.
Price falls through 4 bearish candles, volume fades — sellers run out of steam. Then an abnormal (maximum) volume bar — a climax: a Top/Bottom zone is built around it, off which price bounces up.
A trader wants to see where the most liquidity sits — the levels that act as support and resistance — and not miss an abnormal-volume bar, after which price often reverses.
- Adds the indicator and enables Backlight Bars — candle bodies are colored by their own volume
- Enables Auto Filter so the scale tunes itself to the instrument
- Watches where the bright cells glow — these are the max-liquidity bars, potential support/resistance levels
- Catches a climax candle at the bottom of a decline: a zone is built around it — a likely upward-reversal point
Volume ranges (manual Min/Max or Auto Filter), three display modes, 12 gradient colors, an interactive button panel, and a built-in tester — tuned to your instrument and style.