Effort vs Result

Effort vs Result asks of every bar whether the volume spent bought commensurate price movement. Effort is volume against its 20-bar average, result the bar's movement against its own; their balance plots around a harmony baseline — negative when heavy effort goes unrewarded, positive when price travels with little behind it. It instruments the Wyckoff law of effort vs result at bar and swing-leg scale, and requires a symbol that reports volume.

How to Trade the Effort vs Result?

• Diamond flags: effort without result — volume at least 1.5× average, movement at or below 0.5× — the absorption warning, on the side the bar was heading.
• Circle flags: result without effort — unusual ground covered on thin volume, ease of movement that may prove fragile.
• Balance color: stretches below zero show effort being absorbed; above zero, price moving easily.
• Swing Read: a leg that needed more volume for less ground than the prior leg in the same direction flags exhaustion, alertable both ways.

Verdicts need location, as everywhere in the Wyckoff family: heavy effort with no result at a tested level is a finding; the same print mid-range is noise.

Effort vs Result Settings

• Normalization Length (default 20): the window defining what counts as average.
• Result Basis (default Range + Net Progress): what counts as result — true range, close-to-close progress, or their average.
• High Threshold (default 1.5) / Low Threshold (default 0.5): multiples of average marking high and lacking readings.
• Flag Effort/Result Divergences (default enabled): the on-chart diamond and circle marks.
• Swing Detection Length (default 5): pivot length defining the swing legs.
• Show Dashboard (default enabled); an off-by-default style toggle plots the normalized Effort and Result components.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does this differ from Ease of Movement?

Ease of Movement compresses the volume-versus-movement question into one smoothed ratio. This build keeps effort and result as separately normalized series, grades bars against explicit thresholds, and extends the read to whole swing legs.

Why does a huge bar sometimes score a low result?

Under the default Result Basis, result averages the bar's true range with its net close-to-close progress. A wide bar closing near its open covered distance without making progress — precisely the absorption signature the tool is built to catch.

Does it work on symbols without volume data?

No. Effort is volume by definition, so the study halts with an error where none is reported. Where volume is partial or synthetic, scale your confidence accordingly.