Swing Profile — Volume Structure at Every Market Turn

📊 What it does

• Automatically detects swing highs and lows and builds a full volume profile across each completed swing leg
• Shows exactly where volume was traded during a move — not just where price went
• No manual anchoring, no session boxes, no fixed ranges. It follows market structure

🎯 Point of Control (PoC)

• Highlights the price level with the highest traded volume in every swing
• PoC line extends across the leg with a volume label (e.g. 40.442K)
• PoC levels frequently act as magnets, retest zones and reaction levels

📈 Buy / Sell Delta

• Every profile splits volume into buy-side and sell-side pressure
• Delta % instantly shows who dominated the swing
• Spot absorption, exhaustion and hidden imbalance before the reversal is obvious

🖥️ Collapsible Info Panel

• Live swing direction (UP / DOWN)
• Total volume, buy volume, sell volume
• Delta % with color-coded pill (green / red)
• Active PoC price, bin count, profiles on chart
• One-click collapse to keep your chart clean

⚡ Built for Speed

• Max Profiles parameter — show only the last N profiles (default 10) so the chart loads instantly, even on M1
• Max Bins Per Profile cap prevents object explosion on long swings
• Optimized O(bars) volume binning instead of brute-force nested loops
• Old profiles are removed automatically as new swings complete

🔧 Fully Configurable

• Swing Length — control how aggressive or smooth the structure detection is
• ATR-based bin size — profiles adapt automatically to any instrument (Gold, EURUSD, indices, crypto)
• Profile mode / HeatMap mode / outline on-off
• ZigZag overlay: dotted, dashed or solid
• Native cTrader color pickers for up, down, PoC and live colors
• Optional moving average overlay (SMA / EMA / WMA / Wilder / Hull)

🔴 Real-Time Leg

• The currently forming swing is rendered live in neutral gray
• Live volume, delta and PoC update as the swing develops
• Adjustable refresh interval to keep CPU usage low

💡 How traders use it

• Trade retests of the PoC after a swing completes
• Fade swings that show negative delta into new highs (and vice versa)
• Use low-volume nodes as fast-move zones and high-volume nodes as support/resistance
• Combine with SMC/ICT structure: PoC inside an order block = high-probability confluence

⚙️ Specs

• Timeframes: all
• Instruments: all (ATR-normalized)
• Volume source: tick volume (cTrader/broker standard for FX & metals)
• cTrader Desktop 4.6+ required (native color picker support)