Anchored Volume Profile MT5
- Indicators
- Version: 1.0
Overview
Experience professional-grade order flow analysis with the Anchored Volume Profile, an ultra-lightweight, high-performance volume distribution indicator designed exclusively for MetaTrader 5. Built from the ground up using raw memory canvas mechanics, this indicator eliminates the massive CPU lag, UI flickering, and chart freezing commonly associated with standard rectangle-object profiles.
Experience professional-grade order flow analysis with the Anchored Volume Profile, an ultra-lightweight, high-performance volume distribution indicator designed exclusively for MetaTrader 5. Built from the ground up using raw memory canvas mechanics, this indicator eliminates the massive CPU lag, UI flickering, and chart freezing commonly associated with standard rectangle-object profiles.
By processing native terminal tick volume into directional matrices, this tool provides a visually stunning, pixel-perfect layout of market auction structure, letting you pinpoint institutional support, resistance, and key liquidity pools with absolute precision.
Key Professional Features:
- Canvas Engine: Draws the entire profile array directly onto a flat screen-space memory bitmap. The layout updates instantly in a single thread cycle on a new tick, completely eliminating screen latency.
- Directional Up/Down Tick Split: Dynamically scans intraday order data to divide total tick volume into buying (Up-Bar) and selling (Down-Bar) components, offering an inside look at historical balance and control.
- Seamless Left/Right Layout Physics: Switch the profile placement from Left to Right instantly. The math handles pixel margins dynamically, ensuring perfect geometric symmetry on widescreen monitors and multi-chart grids.
- Smart Screen-Percentage Scaling: Replaces rigid pixel constraints with fluid screen-percentage width parameters (e.g., 20% of screen). Your layout scales cleanly whether you resize windows or dock charts.
- Standard Value Area Calculations: Automatically isolates the Point of Control (POC) and computes the standard 70% Value Area balance . The Value Area highlights in a brighter shade to immediately separate high-volume nodes from low-volume regions.
- Infinite Horizon POC Anchor: The Point of Control line extends edge-to-edge behind your price action, anchoring directly to a hidden indicator line buffer. This keeps your chart controls completely open—simply right-click anywhere on the Red POC line to instantly open the indicator settings.
- Live CPU & Memory Guardrails: Built-in calculation throttling filters redundant updates, while an automated row ceiling limits metrics to 600 vertical bands to keep your platform completely responsive on volatile instruments.
Technical Specifications & Input Parameters:
- Anchor Start Date ( InpAnchorFrom ): Define the exact structural calendar date and time where the historical volume profile calculation begins.
- Profile Position ( InpPosition ): Select POSITION_LEFT (facing right) or POSITION_RIGHT (facing left).
- Profile Width Pct ( InpProfileWidthPct ): Allocate how much screen space the maximum volume node covers (from 5% to 100% of the active window width).
- Ticks Per Row Grid ( InpTicksPerRow ): Control vertical density. Set this according to your Broker asset's contract rules (e.g., set to 2 00 on Gold for clean $2.00 horizontal price blocks).
- Value Area Pct ( InpValueAreaPct ): Customise your focus threshold (defaults to the institutional standard of 70.0% ).
- Show POC Line ( InpShowPOC ): Toggle the high-visibility Point of Control horizontal ray overlay on or off.
Ideal Trading Styles:
This indicator is optimized for modern order flow traders, volume profile theorists, scalp strategists, and high-precision price action traders. It serves as a perfect foundation for identifying high-volume value levels to map out execution targets across Forex, Indices, Crypto, and Metals grids.
