Buying / Selling aggression

Buying / Selling Aggression

Marks candles where one side of the order flow clearly dominates, using GoCharting's trade-level buy and sell volume rather than total volume alone.

What it does

A green circle appears below a candle when aggressive buyers dominate; a red circle above when aggressive sellers do. A candle must pass two tests to qualify:

The dominant side's volume meets a minimum threshold

That side exceeds the other by a set ratio

The volume floor prevents quiet candles from qualifying on lopsided ratios built from very little trade.

Settings

Min Aggressive Volume (default 10,000) — the volume floor. Lower this on 1m charts, raise it on higher timeframes.

Imbalance Ratio (default 2) — how one-sided the candle must be. The more effective of the two filters; raise toward 2.0 to flag only extreme imbalance.

Circle Size (default 4) — 1 tiny through 5 huge.

Both alert conditions are exposed to the alert widget for webhook or notification use.

Calibration

Aim for roughly 5–15 markers per session. Too many means the ratio is too low; too few means the volume floor is too high.

How to use it

This is a scanner, not a signal. A marker in the middle of a range means little on its own. It carries information when it appears at a level you had already marked — value area edges, VWAP, session highs and lows. Aggression at a level being broken suggests the break is real; the absence of it on a break suggests the move lacks participation or there was an agressiona and it went in the opposite direction then its indicates that there was absorption.

Requires: a symbol and chart type with order flow data available.

Disclaimer

Built and calibrated for NIFTY futures. The default thresholds reflect NIFTY's volume profile and will not transfer to other instruments — on lower-volume symbols nothing will plot, and on higher-volume ones nearly every candle will. Recalibrate both settings before using it elsewhere.

Extra tip : use it on the previous day's VAH,VAL and POC of volume profile.

For education and analysis only. Not investment advice.