KD SMC Mini Charts
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Dien Du Khanh Duong
I build practical MetaTrader tools for traders who want to read the market before they trade it — with context, structure, and confirmation.
The **KD Trading Suite** is designed as a connected trading workflow, covering the key layers of market analysis:
🔧 **Market Structure & Liquidity** - Versão: 1.0
- Ativações: 10
KD SMC Mini Charts embeds two live, SMC-aware sub-charts directly inside your MetaTrader 5 workspace, allowing you to monitor an additional entry timeframe and an additional trend timeframe without switching tabs.
This tool is designed to keep higher-timeframe context visible while you focus on a lower timeframe — addressing a common source of execution mistakes: losing sight of the broader trend while viewing a fast-moving chart.
Key Features
- Picture-in-Picture Dual Mini Charts: Display two additional timeframe views directly inside the main MetaTrader 5 chart without opening separate chart windows.
- Canvas Rendering: Renders at approximately 15–30 FPS, displayed cleanly over background indicators, in both live trading and Strategy Tester.
- Two Stackable Timeframe Slots: A primary slot (for example, M1 for entries) and a secondary slot (for example, H1 for trend), each independently collapsible.
- SMC Toolkit Included in the Mini Chart: Candles, ZigZag swings, HH/LL labels, BOS/CHoCH, current and higher-timeframe zones, Fair Value Gaps with 50% Consequent Encroachment, dynamic trendlines, Equal Highs/Equal Lows, and EMA.
- Real-Time Trade Overlay: Entry, Stop Loss and Take Profit lines for open and pending orders, plus buy/sell markers and position history.
- Bid/Ask Lines with Live Spread: Displays the current bid/ask spread on the mini chart.
- Interactive Header Controls: Collapse, zoom, shift the view, or fit the display to Stop Loss/Take Profit levels using on-chart buttons.
- Live Chart and Strategy Tester Support: The same dual mini-chart layout can be used during normal chart operation and visual testing in MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester.
Synergy with the KD Trading System
KD SMC Mini Charts is the 2nd pillar of the system, providing the multi-timeframe view:
- KD Ultimate SMC: Supplies the structure logic this tool displays on additional timeframes.
- KD SMC Mini Charts (This Tool): Displays higher/lower-timeframe structural context alongside your main chart.
- KD Auto SLTP: Its Stop Loss/Take Profit preview lines are mirrored onto the mini charts.
- KD MTF VWAP: Its VWAP and standard deviation bands can also be viewed on the mini chart's timeframe.
- KD MTF Candle Timer: Displays bar-close timing alongside the countdown.
- KD HTF Candles: Can be compared against what is forming on the mini chart's own timeframe.
- KD MTF Dashboard: Can be reviewed for a trend reading on the symbol before opening a mini chart for further review.
Practical Use Cases
Use Case 1: Reviewing Higher-Timeframe Bias While Trading a Lower Timeframe
- Setup: Main chart on M5 or M15; primary mini chart slot on M1 for entries; secondary mini chart slot on H1 or H4 for the broader structure.
- In practice: Review the point of interest on H1 in the secondary slot. Consider an M1 trade only when M1 structure aligns with the H1 order flow direction.
- Purpose: Helps keep entries in line with the higher-timeframe order flow, rather than reacting to isolated lower-timeframe movement.
Use Case 2: Confirming Structure Shifts Before Entry
- Setup: Main chart on M15 approaching a key support/resistance zone or Order Block; primary mini chart slot open on M1.
- In practice: Rather than placing an order as soon as M15 reaches the zone, review the M1 mini chart for a shorter-timeframe CHoCH forming together with a new Fair Value Gap.
- Purpose: Provides an additional layer of confirmation before entry and allows a comparatively tighter stop-loss placement than the M15 timeframe alone would allow. Actual risk-reward outcomes depend on market conditions.
Use Case 3: Identifying a Liquidity Sweep and Reversal Pattern
- Setup: Enable Reclaim detection and Equal Highs/Equal Lows display on the primary slot (M1/M5).
- In practice: When price moves beyond a prior high/low or an Equal-High/Equal-Low zone on the main chart and then closes back inside the range, the mini chart marks this with a Reclaim label.
- Purpose: Helps identify a common liquidity-sweep-and-reversal pattern as it forms, for the trader to evaluate.
Use Case 4: Viewing Multiple Timeframe Zones Without Extra Charts
- Setup: Enable Dual-HTF Zones and Dual-HTF FVG display on the mini chart.
- In practice: The M1 mini chart projects the support/resistance zones and Fair Value Gaps from two higher timeframes (for example, M5 and M15) onto itself.
- Purpose: Lets you see when an M1 candle is reacting inside an M15 Fair Value Gap or an M5 Order Block, without needing to open several separate chart windows.
Use Case 5: Using Equal Highs/Equal Lows as a Take-Profit Reference
- Setup: Enable Equal Highs/Equal Lows display on both mini chart slots.
- In practice: Equal High/Equal Low zones are marked, indicating areas commonly associated with clusters of stop-loss orders.
- Purpose: These zones can be used as one reference point for Take Profit placement, since they are commonly associated with liquidity being taken out. This is a reference only, not a guaranteed target.
Use Case 6: Monitoring Risk Levels Across Both Charts
- Setup: Run KD Auto SLTP on the main chart alongside KD SMC Mini Charts.
- In practice: Entry, Stop Loss and Take Profit preview levels, along with the nine alert lines from the main chart, are mirrored onto the mini charts. Once a position is open, the live Stop Loss, Take Profit and spread are also shown there.
- Purpose: Allows you to monitor lower-timeframe price action near your Stop Loss/Take Profit on the mini chart while adjusting risk levels on the main chart, with both views kept consistent.
Use Case 7: Visual Multi-Timeframe Review in Strategy Tester
- Setup: Run an Expert Advisor backtest or manual chart review in MetaTrader 5's Strategy Tester.
- Context: The Strategy Tester's default Visual Mode displays only one timeframe at a time.
- In practice: Using its canvas rendering, KD SMC Mini Charts displays two additional sub-charts within Strategy Tester.
- Purpose: Allows traders and developers to review a multi-timeframe approach visually during backtesting, similarly to how it appears in live trading.
User Settings & Customization
- Assign any timeframe independently to each of the two slots.
- Resize, reposition, and collapse or expand each mini chart.
- Toggle the trade overlay, bid/ask lines, and hover tooltips individually.
- Enable or disable Liquidity Reclaim labels and Equal Highs/Equal Lows display per slot.
- Enable or disable Dual-HTF Zones and Dual-HTF FVG projection.
- Match the color palette to KD Ultimate SMC for a consistent appearance across both tools.
