Sessions

This indicator is a powerful tool for traders, showing user-defined active sessions with various metrics utilizing the closing price within those sessions. It allows customization of up to four session times, making it a flexible choice for different trading strategies. However, it's essential to note that accuracy diminishes on chart timeframes exceeding one hour.

Customizable Settings for Optimized Trading

Sessions

• Enable Session: This feature lets traders enable or disable all elements associated with a specific session they set. This customization ensures that traders can focus on relevant data.
• Session Time: Define the session's opening and closing times in a convenient hh:mm format, providing clarity on trading hours.
• Range: By highlighting the session range on the chart, traders gain insight into price activity during specific periods.
• Trendline: Use this to visualize the session trendline, making it easier to identify the direction of price movements during that session.
• Mean: Displays the session mean average on the chart, a useful indicator for equilibrium levels.
• VWAP: This feature shows the session's volume-weighted average price, useful for understanding price direction based on volume.

Ranges Settings

• Range Area Transparency: Adjust the transparency of session range highlights to avoid clutter on the chart.
• Range Outline: Clearly defines the range area’s borders for better visual clarity.
• Range Label: Displays session labels at the mid-point of the session interval, aiding quick identification.

Dashboard

• Show Dashboard: Enables an overview dashboard on the chart for quick reference.
• Advanced Dashboard: Provides in-depth information regarding custom sessions, enhancing strategic decisions.

Dividers

• Show Session Divider: Highlights active sessions with intervals at the chart's base, though it might affect chart responsiveness.
• Show Daily Divider: Marks daily divisions on the chart to aid in daily trend analysis.

How to Trade with This Flexible Tool?

The indicator offers versatility, enabling traders to highlight and dissect price action within specific sessions periodically. Default settings focus on major forex trading sessions; however, customization of session times allows for personalized trading preferences.

Utilizing range highlights helps identify sessions that exhibit the most volatile price swings, aiding in strategic planning for future trades.

Trendlines serve as a way to gauge underlying trends for a given session or to spot potential trend reversals.

Calculating the session mean can guide traders to key equilibrium levels, often informing potential support and resistance levels for consideration.

The VWAP gives real-time application advantages, acting as dynamic supports and resistances particularly during live trading scenarios.

Enhanced Analysis with the Advanced Dashboard

This feature returns vital data about customized sessions, each component designed to bolster strategic oversight:

• Status: Shows whether a session is currently active (open) or inactive (closed).
• Trend: Indicates correlation between session prices and a linear sequence, where values above 0 suggest uptrends, and below 0 suggest downtrends. Values nearer to 1 or -1 indicate strong trends.
• Volume: Illustrates the accumulated trading volume in the session, allowing for volume intensity analysis.
• σ (Standard Deviation): Reflects session volatility, helping compare with other sessions for the most active trading periods.

The dashboard maintains values from inactive sessions until they become active again, providing continuity and reference for traders.

FAQ

How can I access the Trading Indicator? You can get access on the LuxAlgo Library for charting platforms like TradingView, MetaTrader (MT4/MT5), and NinjaTrader for free.

What timeframe should I use for highest accuracy? For optimal performance, it's best to use this indicator on timeframes of one hour or less, as higher timeframes may result in reduced accuracy.

Can I customize session times? Absolutely! This indicator supports up to four customizable session times, giving traders the flexibility to tailor the tool to their unique trading strategies.

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