# Volume Delta Candles Volume Delta Candles is an indicator on [Vela](https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart), our next-generation charting platform, written in Pine Script®. Volume Delta Candles builds order flow into the bars themselves, coloring a proportional segment of each candle by its intrabar volume delta estimated from lower-timeframe or live tick data. A line marks the price where the most volume traded, and delta colors that clash with the candle expose hidden buying or selling: no separate volume pane needed. - Indicator in the LuxAlgo Library, by LuxAlgo, published Apr 11, 2024. - Access: free. - Concepts: [Volume Delta](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/volume-delta/) (primary) - Open on Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart?pineScriptCodeId=cmpwn6zuz009vvhsg8v1hz5am - Page: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-delta-candles/ **Volume Delta Candles** embeds the [volume delta](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/volume-delta/) read directly in your candles. Using lower-timeframe or real-time tick data, it measures the balance of buy and sell volume inside each bar and paints that delta as a proportional colored segment (filling upward from the base for net buying, downward from the top for net selling), while a contrasting line marks the price level where the bar's heaviest trading took place. ## How to Trade the Volume Delta Candles? - **Green segment rising from the candle base**: positive delta. Buyers outweighed sellers inside the bar. - **Red segment hanging from the top**: negative delta, net selling pressure. - **Delta color against candle color**: a red delta inside a green-bordered candle (or the reverse) means order flow disagrees with the bar's direction, a conflict worth resolving before trusting the move. - **Max-volume price line**: the busiest level inside the bar; enabling the previous-bar dot shows how these levels migrate from candle to candle. The delta can be drawn across the full bar or half of it, opposing-sentiment colors are customizable, and a dotted vertical line marks where intrabar data begins. Optional labels print volume, delta, and percentage values for exact reading. ## Volume Delta Candles Settings - **Data from**: lower-timeframe data or real-time tick data. - **Resolution / Auto + multiple** (default 1500): intrabar precision. On a daily chart the default resolves to a one-minute lower timeframe. - **Display**: colors the full bar or half of it. - **Show Previous Max Volume Price** (default disabled): dot marking the prior bar's highest-volume level. - Table, label, and color options control the timeframe readout and detail text. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Why do values change when I change the resolution? Different lower timeframes sample intrabar activity at different granularity, so the numbers shift, a different analytical perspective, not an inaccuracy. Finer settings approach tick-level detail; coarser ones smooth it. ### How does this differ from Volume Delta Methods (Chart)? [Volume Delta Methods (Chart)](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-delta-methods-chart/) plots delta, cumulative delta, and volume as separate series over the price chart. Volume Delta Candles compresses the same pressure into the candles themselves, keeping the read at the exact bar where it happened. ### How do I access Volume Delta Candles? It is a free LuxAlgo build available in the Library, and you can backtest it in Quant, our coding agent, without leaving this page. You can also copy the source code from this page and run it anywhere Pine Script® runs. ## Related indicators - [Volume Delta Methods (Chart)](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-delta-methods-chart/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-delta-methods-chart.md - [Volume Delta Trailing Stop](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-delta-trailing-stop/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-delta-trailing-stop.md - [Volume Footprint](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-footprint/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-footprint.md - [Delta ZigZag](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/delta-zigzag/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/delta-zigzag.md - [Delta Flow Profile](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/delta-flow-profile/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/delta-flow-profile.md - [Dynamic Delta FVG](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/dynamic-delta-fvg/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/dynamic-delta-fvg.md - [Volumetric Order Flow Structure](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volumetric-order-flow-structure/) (Volume Delta): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volumetric-order-flow-structure.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 --- Source: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/volume-delta-candles/ (LuxAlgo Library). Free to use with attribution: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/license/