MONEY FLOW PROFILE Trading Guide
The Money Flow Profile converts abstract volume and capital flow into physical levels on your chart. Unlike a standard Volume Profile that just counts trades, this indicator maps the buying/selling polarity into a heatmap, showing exactly where capital was absorbed or distributed during the lookback period.
What does the indicator show?
- Profile Histogram (Right Side): A horizontal bar chart stacked on top of price data.
- High Traded Nodes (Yellow/Blue): Price zones where massive amounts of volume or money flow occurred.
- Low Traded Nodes (Red): Price zones where price moved fast with no volume (inefficiencies).
- Point of Control (POC): A bright, distinct "Last(Zone)" or "Last(Line)" that highlights the absolute highest concentration of capital. This acts as massive gravity for the price.
- Sentiment Density Heatmap: The background of the chart is painted to show where Bullish (Buying) vs Bearish (Selling) pressure was heaviest inside the profile.
Key Settings
- Lookback Length: How many historical bars are pulled into the profile database (e.g., 200).
- Profile Source: Decide whether the profile is built on raw "Volume" or "Money Flow" (price movement * volume).
- Sentiment Polarity Method: Controls how the profile colors the blocks. "Bar Polarity" uses the Close/Open, while "Bar Buying/Selling Pressure" measures exactly how much of a wick was absorbed.
How to use Strategy Parameters (Condition Source)
Within the Strategy Tester module, you can leverage the physical price levels generated by the profile to anchor your bot logic.
1. The Gravity Centers
Direct references to the profile's densest nodes.
pocPrice— The exact numerical price level of the main Point of Control (where the most volume transacted).spPocPrice— The exact price level where Sentiment (the difference between Buyers and Sellers) was at its absolute peak.
Strategy Example: You can use these values not as direct entry signals, but as dynamic magnets. For example, instruct a bot to trigger a Long trade on a breakout, and dynamically assign the Take profit to perfectly match pocPrice.
Strategy Example 2: Demand that Close > pocPrice before allowing any Bullish entries, ensuring you are trading on the "safe" side of the capital gravity.