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Session and ICT tools

The levels and zones price-action traders mark by hand, drawn for you as the replay goes. Open Indicators (I) and search for the tool, or type ict to see them all.

Each one only reads candles the replay has already shown. A swing counts once the bars after it have closed, and a gap only fills when a bar has traded through it, so what you see on a bar is what you would have seen live. Each tool's gear sets what it shows.

The tools

• Previous Day, Week and Month High/Low: yesterday's high and low (PDH, PDL) held across today, and the same for last week (PWH, PWL) and last month (PMH, PML). Today's are solid and tagged at the right edge; earlier days are dashed. On Monday the previous day is Friday. Last week and last month come from your data's daily bars, so they are there from the first candle of a session.
• Session Ranges: a box round each session's high and low (Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York), each in its own city's hours, so daylight saving is handled. Tokyo is the Asian range.
• ICT Kill Zones: the Asia (20:00 to 00:00), London (02:00 to 05:00), New York (07:00 to 10:00) and London close (10:00 to 12:00) windows, on New York's clock.
• Fair Value Gaps: three-candle gaps, green up and red down. A gap stays until a bar trades all the way through it. The gear sets how many are shown, and can show filled ones, faded.
• Market Structure (BOS / CHoCH): a line from the swing to the candle that closed beyond it. BOS (solid) is a break with the trend; CHoCH (dashed) is the first break against it. Swing length is how many bars each side a swing must beat.
• Order Blocks: for each break of structure, the last opposite candle before the move. A block holds until a candle closes through its far side.
• Average Daily Range: the average high-to-low range of the last 14 days, in pips, projected from today's low (ADR↑) and today's high (ADR↓). Near one, the day has already moved about as far as usual.
• Equal Highs and Lows (Liquidity): two or more swing highs (EQH, red) or swing lows (EQL, green) at about the same price, where stops tend to rest. A dot marks each swing and a dashed line holds the level until a bar trades beyond it; then it is swept, and stays faded and dotted (untick Show swept levels to hide those). Match within is how close the swings must be, as a fraction of the average bar range (0.2 by default); swing length as above.