# Liquidity Heatmap LTF

Liquidity Heatmap LTF highlights the candle bodies that carried the most volume on a lower timeframe you select, painting them as column heatmaps on your working chart. The result is a fast, selective map of where trading activity concentrated (likely support and resistance) without you having to drop down a timeframe yourself.

- Indicator in the LuxAlgo Library, by LuxAlgo, published May 31, 2022.
- Access: free.
- Concepts: [Resting Liquidity / Liquidity Heatmap](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/resting-liquidity-liquidity-heatmap/) (primary), [Liquidity Pool](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/liquidity-pool/)
- Open on Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart?pineScriptCodeId=cmpwn302l0045vhsg6yojlsfy
- Page: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-heatmap-ltf/

**Liquidity Heatmap LTF** highlights, on your working chart, the candle bodies that carried the most volume on a lower timeframe of your choosing, a chart-built cousin of the [resting-liquidity heatmap](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/resting-liquidity-liquidity-heatmap/) that estimates areas of concentrated interest from traded volume rather than order-book feeds. The heaviest zones print as column heatmaps, an immediate picture of where the real business was done.

## How to Trade the Liquidity Heatmap LTF?

- **Highlighted bodies (yellow by default)**: the lower-timeframe candle bodies with peak trading activity, candidate support and resistance where positioning concentrated.
- **Interval lines**: each highlighted body comes framed by two lines, keeping the zone easy to track as price returns to it.
- **Range and direction lines**: additional lines trace each candle's full range and color its direction, green for bullish and red for bearish; they can be hidden.
- **Overlap logic**: when a lower-volume body overlaps a higher-volume one, the lower-volume body takes the highlight, keeping the heatmap selective rather than exhaustive.

For the cleanest read, consider hiding regular candles or switching to a more discreet presentation of price so the heat zones stand out.

## Liquidity Heatmap LTF Settings

- **LTF Timeframe**: the lower timeframe supplying opening/closing prices and volume. Keep it below your chart's timeframe for the calculation to make sense.
- Style inputs let you change the highlight color and tune the other graphical elements.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Why isn't every high-volume area highlighted?

The overlap rule filters the map: when candle bodies overlap, the lower-volume body is the one highlighted. Some busy areas therefore stay unmarked by design, focusing attention on the most relevant zones instead of flooding the chart.

### How does this differ from a volume profile?

A profile aggregates volume by price across a whole range, while this heatmap works candle by candle, spotlighting the individual lower-timeframe bodies where volume peaked. For swing-anchored aggregation, [Swing Volume Profiles](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/swing-volume-profiles/) is the natural companion.

### How do I access the Liquidity Heatmap LTF?

Free through the LuxAlgo Library. You can load it into Quant, our coding agent, straight from this page for testing. You can also copy the source code from this page and run it anywhere Pine Script® runs.

## Related indicators

- [Volume Bubbles & Liquidity Heatmap](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-bubbles-liquidity-heatmap/) (Resting Liquidity / Liquidity Heatmap): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-bubbles-liquidity-heatmap.md
- [Crypto Liquidation Heatmap](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/crypto-liquidation-heatmap/) (Resting Liquidity / Liquidity Heatmap): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/crypto-liquidation-heatmap.md
- [Historical Liquidity Proximity Heatmap](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/historical-liquidity-proximity-heatmap/) (Resting Liquidity / Liquidity Heatmap): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/historical-liquidity-proximity-heatmap.md
- [Liquidity Price Depth Chart](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-price-depth-chart/) (Resting Liquidity / Liquidity Heatmap): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-price-depth-chart.md
- [Liquidity Swings](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-swings/) (Liquidity Pool): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-swings.md
- [Liquidity Levels](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-levels/) (Liquidity Pool): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-levels.md
- [Volume Footprint](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-footprint/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-footprint.md
- [Liquidity Structure & Order Flow](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-structure-order-flow/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-structure-order-flow.md

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Source: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-heatmap-ltf/ (LuxAlgo Library). Free to use with attribution: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/license/