Market Profile TPO (Time Price Opportunity) and Volume Profile. Visible chart window range selection. Segmentation by divisor. Point of Control (TPOC and VPOC) and Value Area High and Low (VAH and VAL) indication by line. Market Profile TPO smoothed/interpolated line graph and Value Area indication on range background. Line graph sizes relative to segment with highest price level TPO. Market Profile TPO gradient on area of line graph. Volume Profile gradient on range background.
Chart Template Documentation
Market Profile displays the quantity and indices of time periods where prices occurred per price level. Units are named TPO's, short for Time Price Opportunity. Market Profile is a charting technique by J. Peter Steidlmayer, a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), ca 1959-1985.
Volume Profile Histogram
Market Profile TPO Block StructureTick Volume is the quantity of data ticks, data used in analytics to represent activity based on data feed updates.
Other factors might be a large dataset range, high amount of segments, small price level size and/or small TPO period size. More specific to the terminal is the total activity, i.e., resource utilization, of all attached chart application instances and Market Watch symbols. For calculations of multiple attached indicators the possibility of delay by single thread operations, i.e., MetaTrader 5 utilizes a separate thread to operate indicators for each symbol. If historical data is not downloaded before attaching an indicator instance to a chart distributions will be discarded and recalculated for each time new data is received until set timeout.
Templates (.tpl extension) are to configure charts they contain chart property settings including configurations of all applications attached to it. Templates can be used via the menu bar or context menu.
INI files (.ini extension) are to configure advanced or less frequently used settings and can be edited with a text file editor. For the Volume by Price Indicator they contain input parameter settings and can be used via the indicator's properties window 'Inputs' tab by file path as text input parameter values.
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