Indicators

Turn on, adjust and arrange each chart’s indicators.

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The Indicators ▾ button on the bar opens CHART INDICATORS: the list of the ones that chart has, each with its checkbox to show or hide it and its ⚙ to configure it.

VWAP settings panel in Forge — Each indicator’s ⚙ opens its settings; here, the VWAP’s.

More Indicators… opens the full catalog.
Order Book · Order by Order (MBO)… opens the order-by-order book (we explain it on the blog).
Chart Settings takes you to the chart settings.

The catalog

Pick an indicator and it is added to the chart with its default settings. Each chart has its own settings: changing an indicator on one chart doesn’t change the same indicator on another. If you want the same setup on several, save it as an Individual Desk.

1-minute ES candlestick chart with the session VWAP — A newly added indicator with its default settings: the VWAP.

Documented indicators

Each one has its own page: what it measures, how to read it and all its settings.

ICT

2022 Model With strategiesA liquidity sweep, a structure shift with a displacement that leaves an FVG, and a limit order in that FVG.
CRT (Candle Range Theory) With strategiesThe three-candle pattern: one candle sweeps the previous candle’s range, closes back inside and the next one breaks out.
Fair Value Gap With strategiesThe gaps a very fast candle leaves behind, marked as boxes until price comes back to fill them.
HTF Candles With strategiesThe 1-hour, 4-hour or daily candle drawn over the chart’s own, with the Power of 3 of the one in progress.
Imbalances With strategiesThe imbalance zones ICT looks at besides the FVG: inverted FVGs, FVG overlaps, gaps between bodies and opening gaps.
IPDA Ranges With strategiesThe high and low of the last 20, 40 and 60 trading days, as a liquidity reference for the day you’re looking at.
Judas Swing With strategiesA false move one way sweeps the liquidity and price turns around: on indices, the London sweep before 9:30.
Killzones With strategiesICT’s four sessions with their high and low, the macros and the key opens, all in New York time.
Liquidity With strategiesThe stops waiting above the highs and below the lows nobody has taken, marked until price takes them.
Market Structure With strategiesThe highs and lows of price, whether they rise or fall, and when a break follows the trend (BOS) or changes it (MSS).
Order Block With strategiesThe 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.
OTE With strategiesAfter an impulse that breaks structure, a limit order in the 62 to 79 % retracement of the leg, with the stop at its start.
Premium & Discount With strategiesThe dealing range split in half: above, what is dear (premium); below, what is cheap (discount).
Silver Bullet With strategiesInside one of ICT’s three hours, a structure shift leaves an FVG and the limit order waits on it, heading for the liquidity.
Turtle Soup With strategiesA reference high or low is swept, price closes back inside and the order waits on the rejection block.
Unicorn With strategiesA breaker and a matching FVG overlap, and the limit order waits on the common zone, heading for the liquidity.

Moving averages / Trend

Heiken AshiEvery candle on the chart, tinted by the direction of its Heiken Ashi candle.
Moving Average With strategiesEvery moving average in a single indicator: you choose the type, the price and the period.
Parabolic SAR With strategiesA stop that follows price and flips when the trend changes.

Order Book / DOM

Depth Of MarketThe order book drawn next to price, order by order.
Order flow MBO With strategiesThe order-by-order book attached to the axis, with every order in the queue in view.

Oscillators / Momentum

MACD With strategiesThe difference between two price averages: momentum, and when it changes.
MomentumHow many points the close has risen or fallen over the last n candles.
Stochastic With strategiesWhere the close sits within the range of the last candles, from 0 to 100.

Other

Daily Lines With strategiesThe previous days’ high, low, open and close, over today’s price.
Gaps With strategiesThe gaps between a candle and the previous one, marked until price comes back to fill them.
Grayskull With strategiesMark a stretch of the chart with the mouse and Grayskull shows you its profile and what the flow left inside it.
Key Candle With strategiesThe 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.
Pivots With strategiesThe pivot point and its support and resistance levels, taken from the previous period.
Time BarA countdown to the current candle’s close, in the corner of the chart you choose.

Volatility / Range

ATRHow much price moves per candle, without saying which way.
Bollinger Bands With strategiesAn average with two bands that widen when the market moves and narrow when it calms down.
Standard Deviation With strategiesHow far prices spread from their average: volatility, without direction.

Volume / Order Flow

Average DeltaWhich side the market is on in a sustained way, without the noise of each candle.
Candle Speed With strategiesMarks the candles where the market suddenly speeds up.
Cluster Finder With strategiesDescribe what you’re looking for inside the candle and Forge marks it on the footprint.
Cumulative Δ With strategiesThe sum of each candle’s delta: who has been winning since the session started.
Delta With strategiesWhat was bought at market minus what was sold, candle by candle, with its signals.
Open Interest ChangeWhether each session’s move came from new positions or from positions being closed.
Profile TheoryWhat auction theory says about today’s session, and how many times it has held on your chart.
Stacked Imbalance With strategiesSeveral consecutive levels where one side overwhelms the opposite one, left as lines extending forward.
VolumeHow many contracts traded in each candle, with its average to see when it departs from the norm.
Volume Profile CompositeThe volume profile of everything visible on the chart, attached to the price axis.
VWAPThe session’s volume-weighted average price: where trading has really taken place.

Indicators in the bottom panel

Panel indicators (volume, delta, cumulative delta…) go in strips under the candles: double-click to configure them, drag the separator to change their height, and right-click to move them up, down or change their frame.

V/D/TPO profiles and Grayskull

Some indicators aren’t calculated over the whole chart but over the range you mark with the mouse. Turn them on in Indicators first, and then:

V/D/TPO profiles: hold the V key and drag on the chart. Tab switches between V-Profile, D-Profile and TPO. If you drag one profile over another, they merge.
Grayskull: hold the X key and drag. It’s a Pro plan indicator; everything it calculates is on its page.

Automatic profiles

Forge can also draw a profile on its own for each day, week or month across the whole chart. Turn it on in the settings (⚙) of V/D/TPO profiles, section COMMON TO ALL THREE:

Automatic profiles: Off (default), One per day, One per week or One per month.
Mode of the automatic profiles: V-Profile, D-Profile or TPO.

They use the same colors and settings as the profiles you draw with the V key. The day starts at 6:00 p.m. New York time, so the overnight session already counts toward the next day (Sunday night belongs to Monday). The week runs Monday to Friday and the month is the calendar month. With the chart on regular trading hours (RTH), the daily profile only covers the day session.

Automatic profiles can’t be selected, don’t appear in the object list and don’t get in the way when you move the chart. The ones you draw with the V key work as always and sit on top.

Profiles are calculated from the chart’s footprint: no footprint, no profile.

All documentation