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?

Why does a huge bar sometimes score a low result?

Does it work on symbols without volume data?