FORGEDocs
Documentation
Everything you need to install Forge and get the most out of it.
Quick install guide
From zero to your first chart, in six steps.
ReadUser guide
01The Forge window
Where everything is: the top bar, the menu, search and each chart’s toolbar.
Read02Workspaces
Save your whole desk, or just the way you like one chart, and come back to it with one click.
Read03Instruments and timeframes
Choose which instrument you see, with which bar type and how much history.
Read04The chart
Move around the chart, adjust its scales and set it up your way.
Read05Indicators
Turn on, adjust and arrange each chart’s indicators.
Read06Drawings and price alerts
Draw, mark, measure and annotate on the chart, and let Forge tell you when price gets there.
Read07Replay
Go back to any moment of the market and watch it form again, at the speed you want.
Read08Trading
Trade from the Trader panel or straight from the chart, with your account or in demo.
Read09Journal
Every trade logged automatically, with its metrics and its chart.
Read10Settings and shortcuts
Set Forge up your way and work from the keyboard.
Read11Data and history
Where the chart’s data comes from, how it loads and where it is stored.
ReadIndicators
ICT · With strategies2022 Model
A liquidity sweep, a structure shift with a displacement that leaves an FVG, and a limit order in that FVG.
ReadVolatility / RangeATR
How much price moves per candle, without saying which way.
ReadVolume / Order FlowAverage Delta
Which side the market is on in a sustained way, without the noise of each candle.
ReadVolatility / Range · With strategiesBollinger Bands
An average with two bands that widen when the market moves and narrow when it calms down.
ReadVolume / Order Flow · With strategiesCandle Speed
Marks the candles where the market suddenly speeds up.
ReadVolume / Order Flow · With strategiesCluster Finder
Describe what you’re looking for inside the candle and Forge marks it on the footprint.
ReadICT · With strategiesCRT (Candle Range Theory)
The three-candle pattern: one candle sweeps the previous candle’s range, closes back inside and the next one breaks out.
ReadVolume / Order Flow · With strategiesCumulative Δ
The sum of each candle’s delta: who has been winning since the session started.
ReadOther · With strategiesDaily Lines
The previous days’ high, low, open and close, over today’s price.
ReadVolume / Order Flow · With strategiesDelta
What was bought at market minus what was sold, candle by candle, with its signals.
ReadOrder Book / DOMDepth Of Market
The order book drawn next to price, order by order.
ReadICT · With strategiesFair Value Gap
The gaps a very fast candle leaves behind, marked as boxes until price comes back to fill them.
ReadOther · With strategiesGaps
The gaps between a candle and the previous one, marked until price comes back to fill them.
ReadOther · With strategiesGrayskull
Mark a stretch of the chart with the mouse and Grayskull shows you its profile and what the flow left inside it.
ReadMoving averages / TrendHeiken Ashi
Every candle on the chart, tinted by the direction of its Heiken Ashi candle.
ReadICT · With strategiesHTF Candles
The 1-hour, 4-hour or daily candle drawn over the chart’s own, with the Power of 3 of the one in progress.
ReadICT · With strategiesImbalances
The imbalance zones ICT looks at besides the FVG: inverted FVGs, FVG overlaps, gaps between bodies and opening gaps.
ReadICT · With strategiesIPDA Ranges
The high and low of the last 20, 40 and 60 trading days, as a liquidity reference for the day you’re looking at.
ReadICT · With strategiesJudas Swing
A false move one way sweeps the liquidity and price turns around: on indices, the London sweep before 9:30.
ReadOther · With strategiesKey Candle
The candle that breaks a zone and leaves its own: it only counts if price follows through, and its zone stays drawn until it is broken.
ReadICT · With strategiesKillzones
ICT’s four sessions with their high and low, the macros and the key opens, all in New York time.
ReadICT · With strategiesLiquidity
The stops waiting above the highs and below the lows nobody has taken, marked until price takes them.
ReadOscillators / Momentum · With strategiesMACD
The difference between two price averages: momentum, and when it changes.
ReadICT · With strategiesMarket Structure
The highs and lows of price, whether they rise or fall, and when a break follows the trend (BOS) or changes it (MSS).
ReadOscillators / MomentumMomentum
How many points the close has risen or fallen over the last n candles.
ReadMoving averages / Trend · With strategiesMoving Average
Every moving average in a single indicator: you choose the type, the price and the period.
ReadVolume / Order FlowOpen Interest Change
Whether each session’s move came from new positions or from positions being closed.
ReadICT · With strategiesOrder Block
The last opposite candle before an impulse that breaks structure, and the breaker and mitigation block of the leg that fails, with their midpoint and life.
ReadOrder Book / DOM · With strategiesOrder flow MBO
The order-by-order book attached to the axis, with every order in the queue in view.
ReadICT · With strategiesOTE
After an impulse that breaks structure, a limit order in the 62 to 79 % retracement of the leg, with the stop at its start.
ReadMoving averages / Trend · With strategiesParabolic SAR
A stop that follows price and flips when the trend changes.
ReadOther · With strategiesPivots
The pivot point and its support and resistance levels, taken from the previous period.
ReadICT · With strategiesPremium & Discount
The dealing range split in half: above, what is dear (premium); below, what is cheap (discount).
ReadVolume / Order FlowProfile Theory
What auction theory says about today’s session, and how many times it has held on your chart.
ReadICT · With strategiesSilver Bullet
Inside one of ICT’s three hours, a structure shift leaves an FVG and the limit order waits on it, heading for the liquidity.
ReadVolume / Order Flow · With strategiesStacked Imbalance
Several consecutive levels where one side overwhelms the opposite one, left as lines extending forward.
ReadVolatility / Range · With strategiesStandard Deviation
How far prices spread from their average: volatility, without direction.
ReadOscillators / Momentum · With strategiesStochastic
Where the close sits within the range of the last candles, from 0 to 100.
ReadOtherTime Bar
A countdown to the current candle’s close, in the corner of the chart you choose.
ReadICT · With strategiesTurtle Soup
A reference high or low is swept, price closes back inside and the order waits on the rejection block.
ReadICT · With strategiesUnicorn
A breaker and a matching FVG overlap, and the limit order waits on the common zone, heading for the liquidity.
ReadVolume / Order FlowVolume
How many contracts traded in each candle, with its average to see when it departs from the norm.
ReadVolume / Order FlowVolume Profile Composite
The volume profile of everything visible on the chart, attached to the price axis.
ReadVolume / Order FlowVWAP
The session’s volume-weighted average price: where trading has really taken place.
ReadComing soon
Services
The services that come with Forge and how to get them.
Coming soon