# Temporal Volume Profile 3D Temporal Volume Profile 3D is an indicator on [Vela](https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart), our next-generation charting platform, written in Pine Script®. Renders volume as a rotatable 3D terrain, with price across, time in depth, and traded volume as height, so liquidity can be watched building, migrating, and fading rather than read from one flattened histogram. A POC ridge line traces fair value through time, and the price tracker switches to a warning color while price sits inside a major high-volume zone. - Indicator in the LuxAlgo Library, by LuxAlgo, published Apr 20, 2026. - Access: free. - Concepts: [Volume Profile](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/volume-profile/) (primary) - Open on Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart?pineScriptCodeId=cmpwn6hg50096vhsgn0qawhwp - Page: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/temporal-volume-profile-3d/ The **Temporal Volume Profile 3D** indicator extends [volume profile analysis](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/volume-profile/) into a third dimension. It divides the lookback range into time slices and renders them along a depth axis, producing a rotatable terrain of price, time, and traded volume in which a node's age is as visible as its size. Where a standard profile compresses history into one histogram, this build shows whether a liquidity zone is recent, strengthening, aging, or fading. ## How to Trade the Temporal Volume Profile 3D? - **POC ridge migrating**: the highest-volume area shifting from older slices toward newer ones suggests fair value is moving, supportive context for trend-following. - **Peak stable across slices**: a node holding the same price region through many slices marks a durable zone for mean-reversion, bounce, or rejection trades. - **Low-volume valleys (LVNs)**: areas of thin historical agreement; price re-entering one often travels quickly toward the next major peak, which suits breakout planning. - **Peak Warning**: the real-time price tracker changes as price enters a major high-volume zone, flagging likely friction, consolidation, or reversal. Camera angles matter: top-down lays out how old and new liquidity relate, while side-on emphasizes peak height for comparing node strength. ## Temporal Volume Profile 3D Settings - **Lookback Bars**: the total historical range in the calculation. - **Price Bins (Width)**: horizontal resolution, with higher values locating levels more precisely. - **Time Slices (Depth)**: how many historical layers build the terrain. - **Terrain Smoothing**: softens neighboring nodes into a cleaner landscape. - **Yaw / Pitch**, **Scale X / Y / Z**, **Offset X / Y**: rotate, tilt, resize, and reposition the projection around your chart. - **Show Ridge Lines**, **Mountain Fills**, **Show POC Ridge Line**, **Peak Proximity Warning**: layer visibility and the price-tracker warning. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What does the POC Ridge Line represent? It connects the highest-volume node of every time slice into one continuous path through the terrain. A ridge trending up or down suggests the market's accepted value is migrating, while a flat ridge confirms a long-standing balance area. ### When is 3D genuinely better than a flat profile? Whenever timing matters. Two equally tall nodes read identically in 2D, yet one built recently and one built long ago rarely deserve the same weight. For structure-anchored 2D profiles, [Swing Volume Profiles](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/swing-volume-profiles/) is the natural companion. ### How do I access the Temporal Volume Profile 3D? Free of charge, via the LuxAlgo Library, and this page can launch it in Quant, our coding agent, for immediate testing on your markets. You can also copy the source code from this page and run it anywhere Pine Script® runs. ## Related indicators - [Volume Profile (Maps)](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-maps/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-maps.md - [Volume Profile Matrix](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-matrix/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-matrix.md - [Volume Profile Regression Channel](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-regression-channel/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-regression-channel.md - [Volume Profile with Node Detection](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-with-node-detection/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-profile-with-node-detection.md - [Anchored Clusters Volume Profile](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/anchored-clusters-volume-profile/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/anchored-clusters-volume-profile.md - [Clusters Volume Profile](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/clusters-volume-profile/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/clusters-volume-profile.md - [Gaussian Volume Profile](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/gaussian-volume-profile/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/gaussian-volume-profile.md - [Swing Volume Profiles](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/swing-volume-profiles/) (Volume Profile): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/swing-volume-profiles.md --- Source: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/temporal-volume-profile-3d/ (LuxAlgo Library). Free to use with attribution: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/license/