Trading & Technical Analysis Glossary.

The exact price level at which the greatest amount of trading volume occurred during a specified lookback period. In the Impulse Heatmap, an Adaptive Smoothed POC line dynamically tracks price action to identify fair value equilibrium and institutional support/resistance.

A trading script that alters, recalculates, or shifts historical buy/sell signals retroactively based on future price information (lookahead bias). Repainting indicators create deceptive backtest results that cannot be replicated in live market conditions.

An indicator where signals are calculated and committed permanently to chart state at the exact moment a candlestick closes (barstate.isconfirmed). Once confirmed, the signal is immutable and will never change or disappear.

A visual overlay that displays transactional volume concentration directly on the candlestick chart using color gradient intensity bands (green for high buying volume, red for high selling volume), revealing institutional accumulation and distribution zones.

A sharp price spike beyond a key support or resistance high/low designed to trigger clustered retail stop losses. Institutional market makers use this liquidity to fill large order blocks before reversing price in the intended direction.

A mathematical position sizing and risk-to-reward methodology engineered to recoup drawdown sequences using high-expectancy trade setups without doubling down or emotional tilt.

The range of price levels where approximately 70% of total trading volume occurred during a lookback period. The top boundary is the Value Area High (VAH), and the bottom boundary is the Value Area Low (VAL).

A proprietary indicator published privately on TradingView. Access is granted directly to a user's TradingView username by the script author and works on all TradingView tiers, including free accounts.