Accumulation Map
Oct 30, 2024
The Accumulation Map is a powerful charting tool designed to track trading volume across various price levels over a chosen time frame. By visualizing the correlation between an asset's price and traders' buying or selling actions, it effectively identifies key areas known as accumulation zones. These zones are indicative of critical trading activity, highlighting potential support and resistance levels within the market. Using a heatmap, this indicator offers traders a clear and intuitive visual representation of market sentiment and activity based on volume.
How to Trade the Accumulation Map Trading Indicator?
The Accumulation Map is adept at illustrating the distribution of trading volume across different price levels throughout a specific period. This is achieved by visualizing volume nodes in color gradients, each signifying different levels of accumulation (trading activity) within respective price ranges.
The indicator employs a heatmap to vividly depict accumulation areas on the chart through color gradients. Such visualization is crucial for traders wanting to identify areas of significant interest, as well as potential support and resistance levels in market trends.
There are various options for how accumulation metrics can be visualized on the chart. These include Level Value Ratio, Level Value Proportion, Combined View, or opting for None.
For ease of use, the Color Theme can be customized, allowing traders to switch between different predefined color themes.
Indicator Settings and Customization
The script allows users to personalize profiles through customizable user-defined parameters. Each input within the indicator's settings is equipped with a tooltip that explains its functionality in detail.
Accumulation Map Customization
- Accumulation Map | Heatmap: Toggle the visibility of the Accumulation Profile | Heatmap.
- Metric Display: Choose how accumulation metrics are presented on the chart.
- Color Theme: Select desired color themes for better visualization.
Style & Personalized Settings
- High Accumulation Color and Threshold: Set the color for zones with high accumulation and define the percentage threshold for these high accumulation areas (recommended 50%–99%).
- Average Accumulation: Choose the color for average accumulation zones.
- Low Accumulation: Customize the color for low accumulation zones, with a suggested threshold range of 10%–40%.
- Number of Rows: Determine the number of rows to display in the accumulation map.
- Horizontal Offset: Control the horizontal alignment of the map relative to the latest bar.
- Profile Width (bars): Define the width of the profile in bar units.
- Extend Calculation To The Right: Enable extending calculations to include the most recent bar data.
- Anchor Points: Establish the first and second anchor points for map placement.
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FAQ
What is the best way to use the Accumulation Map? The best way to use the Accumulation Map is to identify significant accumulation zones, which can help in determining potential support and resistance levels.
Can I change the colors used in the Accumulation Map? Yes, the indicator provides several options to customize the color themes to suit individual preferences.
How can I access the Accumulation Map indicator? You can get access on the LuxAlgo Library for charting platforms like TradingView, MetaTrader (MT4/MT5), and NinjaTrader for free.
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