ICT Levels Desk ICT levels indicator for TradingView

1. Old pricesPrevious day, week, month or four-hour highs and lows; midnight, 08:30 and 09:30 opening prices.
2. Price gapsAn opening gap compares a tracked close with the next open. FVG means a gap between the first and third candles of a three-candle pattern.
3. Time and rangesSession boxes, their completed highs and lows, fixed macro windows and the previous-day midpoint.

NDOG names a new-day opening gap; NWOG a new-week opening gap. FPFVG means the first qualifying FVG from an enabled anchor time. These names describe recorded prices and conventions, not confirmed orders.

High or low: resting until the first strict wick-through. That first test is swept only if it closes back inside; a close exactly on the level is tested. A strict close beyond breaks it. Tested and swept remain live until broken. A later return cannot relabel the first test or revive a broken line.

Opening gap: open, entered, midpoint touched, filled. A wick reaching the far edge fills it, even on its birth candle. It can skip intermediate states.

First FVG: fresh, touched, inverted. A later candle must close strictly beyond the far edge to invert it. A wick through, or a close exactly on the edge, is not enough. Its birth candle cannot touch or invert it.

Filled, broken and inverted drawings end at their event candle and fade. Separate switches remove filled gaps or broken high/low lines; neither removes inverted FVGs. Opening-price lines stay live after a crossing.

The proximity filter draws registered references within 2 daily ATR by default. ATR measures recent price movement, including gaps. Distance is to a line or a box’s nearest edge; inside a box, it is zero.

Hidden references still update and may appear in the nearest lists. Box midpoint decides its above/below list. The tracked count includes retained finished references. Session boxes, macro shading and previous-day range shading are separate from this filter.

Proximity and gap-size rules use the last closed daily ATR 14, falling back to ten times chart ATR 14. FVG size uses chart ATR 14. Near alerts have their own radius.

Previous periods: completed day, week, month or four-hour extremes are received on confirmed chart bars. A new pair is created when the returned high/low pair changes; an identical pair does not create another. Daily history is limited by age; other period pairs replace their predecessors.

Opening gaps: compare the last tracked close inside the configured clock window with the opening bar’s open. Creation commits at that bar’s close. A close captured on Friday or Saturday makes a weekend gap, not a second daily gap. The minimum size is inclusive.

Opening prices: use available bars at or after their clock time. The first local-date bar can stand in for midnight. Separate 08:30 and 09:30 opens are suppressed if that candle is also the first date bar.

First FVG: bullish means third-candle low above first-candle high; bearish mirrors this. The first bar at or after an anchor can confirm the pattern using two earlier bars. If several anchors are armed, priority is 09:30, then 08:30, then midnight; one pattern uses one anchor.

Session lines: born on the first closed candle outside the session, after that candle’s state checks. Their tests start on the following candle.

Session boxes, also called killzones, expand as session candles close. Their highs and lows can become references afterward. Turning off session tracking also stops those lines being created.

The previous day’s midpoint splits its range: premium is the upper half, discount the lower half. These describe position, not fair value or an entry.

Macro windows are fixed time conventions, not tested predictions. London: 02:33–03:00 and 04:03–04:30. New York AM: 08:50–09:10, 09:50–10:10 and 10:50–11:10. Lunch: 11:50–12:10. New York PM: 13:10–13:40 and 15:15–15:45.

All use the selected timezone. Four groups can be enabled; their eight times are not editable. Hiding macro drawings leaves the enabled countdown available. It follows chart-bar time, not a running wall clock.

Price: current price, tracked count and hidden count. Nearest above / below: three unfinished references each way, their state and distance in points and daily ATR.

Open: which side of midnight price is on. NDOG / NWOG / FPFVG: each current box’s range, direction and state. Dealing range: position around the midpoint. Macro: current or next enabled window. Base rates: counts from loaded history.

Brief Co-Pilot shows NOW. Standard adds WHY and WATCH. Detailed adds BASE RATES and GLOSSARY. These describe the map; they do not choose a trade.

All fifty-six inputs, in the order shown in settings. Defaults are on the right.

Fifteen named conditions: NDOG formed, NWOG formed, gap entered, gap midpoint touched; previous day/week high/low swept; first FVG formed, touched or inverted; macro opening; midnight crossed; near a level; session high/low swept.

Any alert() function call sends eight event types: NDOG, NWOG, GAP_ENTERED, SWEEP, FPFVG_FORMED, FPFVG_INVERTED, MACRO_OPEN and NEAR_LEVEL. Choose JSON or readable text. It omits midpoint, FVG touch, midnight crossing and session-sweep events. There is no separate gap-filled condition.

{"src":"ICTLevelsDesk","symbol":"ES1!","tf":"5","event":"SWEEP","what":"PDH","price":6410.5}

The example shows the core JSON fields; messages also carry nearestAbove, nearestBelow and macro context. Near alerts rearm after price leaves an unfinished level. Zero disables them.

Dynamic messages use once-per-bar-close frequency. Most named events follow confirmed state changes; macro opening is not explicitly close-gated. Select Once Per Bar Close when needed, and recreate alerts after changing inputs.

1. Match the clock to your chart’s session.
2. Start with previous highs and lows. Follow one nearby reference through closed candles.
3. Add opening gaps, then compare their different finishing rule.
4. Turn the proximity filter off briefly to see what was hidden.
5. Record your own trade rules and outcomes separately; this desk has no entry, stop or target engine.

We counted opening-gap fills, highs and lows taken, and first-FVG revisits on three charts: index futures, gold and a stock ETF. The samples covered weeks or months and differed by market.

Descriptive, not predictive. These are level counts, not trade returns. Some outcomes settle at a period rollover while totals start at birth; shared daily flags can group older levels or multiple anchors. The rows do not give an independent chance for your next trade.

The lab notes carry the measurements and caveats together.

The lab notes are in review and will be linked here.

A live candle can change before close. Committed reference states use closed candles, while session ranges develop across their session. Different feeds, history, timeframes or settings can recalculate the map.

Context, not signals. It does not predict price, verify resting orders or account for news, fills or trade size. Trading risk is entirely yours; this is research tooling, not financial advice.