Description
Volume heatmaps are everywhere right now, but almost all of them show the same thing: intensity only, one colour, no sense of whether that volume was buying or selling. Impulse Heatmap adds the missing piece — every price zone is colour-blended by direction, not just density, so you can tell accumulation from distribution at a glance.
What it analyses: tick volume across a rolling lookback window, distributed into price bins the same way a standard volume profile works — except each bin's colour is a blend of how much of that volume came from bullish-closing candles versus bearish-closing candles at that price. A zone that's mostly bullish volume glows green (accumulation); a zone that's mostly bearish volume glows red (distribution); mixed zones sit somewhere in between.
How to read it:
- Bright, saturated zones = high volume concentration — these are the price levels the market has spent the most time and size at.
- Green-tinted zones = that price level built up mostly on bullish pressure — a potential support/accumulation area.
- Red-tinted zones = that price level built up mostly on bearish pressure — a potential resistance/distribution area.
- The gold POC line tracks the smoothed centre of gravity of volume — where the real "fair value" magnet currently sits, without the jumpiness of a raw point-of-control calculation.
- The white trend filter EMA gives you context: is the current heat zone backing the prevailing trend, or fighting it?
- A live HUD panel tells you the trend state and exactly how far price is from the POC in pips.
Key settings: lookback window length, number of price bins (resolution), POC smoothing, trend filter EMA period, and full colour customisation for both the bullish/bearish blend and the POC line.
Typical use cases: spotting whether a support/resistance zone was built on genuine buying or selling pressure rather than just raw volume; using POC as a dynamic fair-value magnet; confirming whether volume at the current level agrees with or contradicts the prevailing trend; combining with your own entry model as a volume-context filter.
Best suited for: intraday traders on forex majors, gold, and indices who want more than a flat volume bar or a single-colour heatmap — useful as a standalone read or as confluence alongside structure-based setups.
Summary
Key features include:
- Bright, saturated zones highlighting high volume concentration price levels.
- A gold Point of Control (POC) line representing a smoothed volume center of gravity as a dynamic fair value reference.
- A white trend filter EMA providing context on whether volume zones align with or oppose the prevailing trend.
- A live HUD panel displaying trend state and price distance from the POC in pips.
- Customizable settings for lookback window, price bin resolution, POC smoothing, trend filter EMA period, and color schemes.
Impulse Heatmap is suited for intraday traders focusing on forex majors, gold, and indices who require enhanced volume context to distinguish genuine buying or selling pressure at key support and resistance levels. It can be used standalone or combined with other structural or entry models.
