Liquidity Thermal Map [BigBeluga]

🔵 OVERVIEW
Liquidity Thermal Map [BigBeluga] visualizes where the highest traded volume has accumulated across price levels over a fixed lookback period.
Instead of plotting classic volume profiles with bars, the indicator builds a horizontal thermal heatmap directly on the chart, highlighting areas of strong and weak liquidity using smooth color gradients.

This makes it easy to identify high-interest price zones, volume clusters, and the dominant Point of Control (PoC) at a glance.

🔵 CONCEPTS

Price-Level Volume Aggregation — The indicator divides the entire price range of the selected lookback period into fixed horizontal bins.
Volume Binning — Each bin accumulates total traded volume whenever price closes near its midpoint.
Thermal Gradient Mapping — Volume intensity is translated into a color gradient, forming a continuous liquidity heatmap.
Point of Control (PoC) — The price level with the highest accumulated volume is highlighted using a distinct PoC color.

🔵 FEATURES

Liquidity Heatmap — Displays horizontal volume concentration directly on the chart background.
Fixed Resolution Bins — Uses 30 evenly spaced price levels to maintain a clean and readable structure.
Adaptive Lookback Period — Volume is calculated only within the user-defined historical window.
Two-Stage Color Gradient —
• Low volume → transparent / muted tones
• High volume → stronger, warmer colors
PoC Highlighting — The most traded price level is emphasized with a dedicated PoC color and volume label.
Range-Aware Scaling — Automatically adapts to the highest and lowest prices within the lookback period.

🔵 BUY / SELL LIQUIDITY SCALE

Directional Liquidity Breakdown — The vertical scale on the right side summarizes how total traded volume is distributed between bullish and bearish candles within the analyzed range.
Buy Liquidity (Green) — Represents the total traded volume during candles that closed higher than they opened.
This approximates aggressive buying pressure and shows how much volume has accumulated below the current price.
Sell Liquidity (Red) — Represents the total traded volume during candles that closed lower than they opened.
This reflects periods where selling pressure dominated and shows how much volume accumulated above the current price.
Liquidity Percentage — Each side displays the percentage share of total traded volume.
This helps quickly identify which side of the market controlled the majority of activity within the lookback range.
Volume Imbalance — The Imbalance value at the top shows the absolute difference between total buy and sell liquidity.

A larger imbalance suggests stronger directional dominance from either buyers or sellers.
Interactive Hover Details — Hovering over the liquidity bars reveals a tooltip showing the exact accumulated volume for that section (for example total liquidity below the current price).

This allows traders to quickly inspect how much volume has been concentrated on each side of the market.
Visual Pressure Gauge — The vertical red/green bar acts as a quick visual gauge of market pressure, allowing traders to instantly see whether buyers or sellers dominate liquidity within the selected range.
PoC Highlighting — The most traded price level is emphasized with a dedicated PoC color and volume label.

🔵 HOW TO USE

Identify Liquidity Clusters — Bright or dense zones indicate prices where significant trading activity occurred.
Support & Resistance Context — High-volume zones often act as reaction areas for price.
PoC Tracking — The PoC shows where the market spent the most time and volume.
Breakout Awareness — Moves away from dense liquidity areas may signal expansion into lower-volume zones.
Contextual Analysis — Use the heatmap as a background liquidity reference alongside trend or structure tools.

🔵 VISUAL LOGIC

Cooler Colors — Lower volume participation.
Warmer Colors — Higher volume concentration.
PoC Label — Displays the exact volume value of the strongest liquidity level.

🔵 CONCLUSION
Liquidity Thermal Map [BigBeluga] provides a clean, intuitive way to visualize where liquidity truly exists across price.
By transforming raw volume data into a continuous thermal layer, it helps traders quickly locate dominant trading zones, identify high-interest price levels, and better understand how volume is distributed within the market.

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