Market Structure
The concept of market structure is crucial in price action trading, offering insights into market behavior through key patterns and transitions.
Market Structure
Break of Structure (BOS):
Occurs when price breaks a previous swing high in an uptrend or swing low in a downtrend, confirming trend continuation.
Change of Character (CHoCH):
Happens when price breaks the opposite side of the current trend — for example, in an uptrend, breaking below a previous higher low — suggesting a potential trend reversal.
Delta Volume Diamonds
Instead of just showing price labels, the tool places colored diamonds on your swing points to reveal the exact volume momentum behind the move:
◆ Green Diamond
Strong buying delta volume. The trend is highly likely to continue upward.
◆ Red Diamond
Strong selling delta volume. The trend is highly likely to continue downward.
◆ Yellow Diamond
Neutral/exhausted volume. Buyers and sellers are balanced, often signaling an impending trend reversal.
You can see an examples of this on the attached images, where the diamonds clearly indicate the type of volume driving the breakout.
Market Structure Hover Label
Market Core now displays an MS Rating tooltip on every BOS and CHoCH event. When hovering over the diamond marker, a compact breakdown of the structure break is shown.
The hover label includes:
Volume: Measures the cumulative net volume between the initial High/Low and the breakout point (ChoCh)
Relative Strength Shows the relative strength of the current structure break compared to the previous break.
Break Quality Indicates how clean and decisive the structure break is (Weak , Moderate, Strong)
Time to Break Displays how many bars it took for price to break the market structure level.
This hover label provides quick, contextual insight into the quality and strength of each structure event without adding chart clutter.
Market Structure Future Projection
You don't need to guess where a key structure break will happen. The tool automatically projects active levels forward on your chart as horizontal lines:
Use these projected lines to set pre-alert levels on your chart.
By knowing exactly where a structural flip will occur before it happens, you can anticipate institutional order flow shifts and prepare your execution strategy well ahead of the market.
Change in State of Delivery (CISD)
A Change in State of Delivery (CISD) identifies the exact moment institutional order delivery flips between buy-side and sell-side.
When a BOS or CHoCH fails and price aggressively reverses, the CISD toggle tracks these early structural failures before a full market structure shift confirms.
Bullish CISD: Signals that sellers have lost control and institutions are aggressively buying. Look for upward reversals.
Bearish CISD: Signals that buyers have lost control and institutions are aggressively selling. Look for downward reversals.
Market Structure MTF Screener
The Multi-Timeframe (MTF) Screener is a dashboard that lets you see the Market Structure trend direction of multiple timeframes at once, directly on your main chart.
It helps you ensure you are always trading in alignment with the higher-timeframe trend.
Market Mapping
Market Mapping is a zigzag-based structure tool that outlines the market’s flow by marking key swing highs, swing lows, and trend shifts.
Real-time mapping using a dashed line to show the currently forming swing before it is confirmed.
Strong/Weak High and Low
In trading and technical analysis, Strong vs. Weak Highs and Lows are structural points used to determine market trend direction, liquidity pools, and future price targets
If the trend is upward, the low is considered strong, while the high is weak.
Conversely, if the trend is downward, the high is strong, and the low is weak.
Structure Candles
Structure Candles change the color of the candlesticks on your chart based on the market structure trend. This gives you a clean, visual representation of who is currently in control of the market.
Colors candles based on internal structure changes. Shorter structure length = faster color shifts.
Double Tops/Bottoms
Double Bottoms (DB) and Double Tops (DT), which are key reversal patterns formed when the market tests a major price level twice and fails to break it. The indicator highlights both standard variations and enhanced "+" variations, which confirm immediate momentum shifts.
Standard Patterns (DB / DT)
Standard Double Bottom (DB): The second floor drops lower than or equal to the first floor, but holds support as buyers step in to defend the level.
Standard Double Top (DT): The second peak climbs higher than or equal to the first peak, but hits resistance as sellers step in to defend the ceiling.
Strong Patterns (+DB / +DT)
Strong Double Bottom (+DB): The second low creates a lower low but fails to break down. Price quickly returns and completes on a bullish (green) candle, confirming strong buying pressure.
Strong Double Top (+DT): The second peak creates a higher high but fails to break up. Price quickly returns and completes on a bearish (red) candle, confirming strong selling pressure.
The market treats these double tops or double bottoms as heavy target zones because massive amounts of retail stop-losses (liquidity) rest right outside them.
Swing Data
Each confirmed swing point is marked with a detailed label showing:
Structure Type: HH, HL, LH, LL — identifying higher highs, higher lows, lower highs, and lower lows.
• Higher Lows are displayed in green. (Bullish) • Lower Highs are displayed in red. (Bearish) • Other HH and LL labels are displayed in white.
Price Change % (PC): The percentage distance from the previous swing, helping traders instantly see the strength and size of each move.
Settings
Internal & Dynamic Mode
Internal: Defines the sensitivity lookback for detecting minor market structure points (minor highs/lows). Lower values result in more frequent detections for short-term structure analysis.
Supports independent side filters (All, Bullish, Bearish) and custom color blocks.
Dynamic Mode: Allows the system to automatically adjust these internal structural detection lengths based on live, changing price behavior.
Source & Projection
Source: Determines the structural anchor calculation point (e.g., using candle wicks or bodies).
Projection: Projects future structural thresholds forward on the chart. Instead of waiting for a bar to close and wondering where the break occurred, the system projects these levels forward to show you the exact price targets market makers are watching.
CISD
Enables a Change in State of Delivery (+/-CISD) identifies the exact moment institutional order delivery flips between buy-side and sell-side.
Internal MTF Screener
Displays higher and lower timeframe structural bias states simultaneously on your chart.
Swing
Configures the lookback period used for detecting major swing highs and lows (significant macro structure points). Larger values generate stronger, highly confirmed historical swing levels.
Supports independent side filters (All, Bullish, Bearish) and custom color blocks.
Features full color customization for both sides.
Mapping
Connects swing points visually with structural lines across your chart.
Customize line thickness and style (solid, dashed)
Color to make visual detection of BOS and CHoCH events immediate.
Strong/Weak H&L
Display Price Swing leg high and low levels
Define swing detection length
Customize high and low level colors
Swing Data Display
Display swing data labels (HH, HL, LL, HL)
Double Top/Bottom
Display double top and bottom pattern detection
Customize a percentage threshold (e.g., 0.3%) to easily identify engineered retail liquidity pools.
Structure Candles
Enable candles color based on Market Structure Trend
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