IBH Market Profile for TradeStation®
Designed for the Market Profile professional while being approachable and easy-to-use for those learning the Market Profile.
Profiles can be generated for the standard daily trading sessions of day (regular/pit) and over-night (extended/globex) trading hours. Additionally, the package can generate profiles for typical composite periods of weekly, monthly, or yearly ranges. Finally, should those periods not be sufficient, the trader can select to build profiles for an arbitrary, trader defined, composite range.
The package contains two Market Profile tools:
The package contains two Market Profile tools:
- IBH MARKET PROFILE produces profiles for all session types (Session Break, RTH, ETF, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Arbitrary timeframe, Intrabar). The profile can be displayed in a chart analysis window or a RadarScreen
- IBH INITIAL BALANCE displays the initial balance (also called the opening range) of a trading session on a chart analysis window or in a RadarScreen
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Documentation
The indicator documentation is comprised of three documents available here:
There are a few other documents and links that you might find helpful while using the indicators: Some of my favorite Market Profile documents written by various experts.
- The user guide (in .pdf format),
- The user guide for the initial balance indicator (in .pdf format); the Initial Balance indicator has it's own product page on this website.
There are a few other documents and links that you might find helpful while using the indicators: Some of my favorite Market Profile documents written by various experts.
Sample Workspace
Click here to download the IBH MARKET PROFILE SAMPLE WORKSPACE OCT 2023.TSW file for TradeStation 10.0 Update 70 and higher (newer). If your platform is older than Update 70 then you MAY not be able to load the workspace, but you will be able to create new charts with the indicators provided in your subscription.
The workspace contains several different charts with one or more of the market profile indicators inserted into each chart. Start with this workspace to produce your first market profile chart for index futures, equities, or foreign exchange. When you open the sample workspace you will see the following windows:
The workspace contains several different charts with one or more of the market profile indicators inserted into each chart. Start with this workspace to produce your first market profile chart for index futures, equities, or foreign exchange. When you open the sample workspace you will see the following windows:
Chart 1 - if you day trade an equity index future and require the most complete profile insight...
@ES running on a 30 minute timeframe. Builds a profile for the regular trading hours and a separate profile for the extended trading hours.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE inserted twice (each instance is using a different Range: Type "RTH" or "ETH" with different Range: Start and End Time) and IBH INITIAL BALANCE.
Chart 2 - if you day trade an equity index future and require only regular trading hours profile insight...
@ES.D running on a 30 minutes timeframe. Builds a profile for the regular trading hours.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE (this example uses the default value for Range: Type "S") and IBH INITIAL BALANCE.
Chart 3 - if you day trade an equity during regular trading hours...
SPY running on a 30 minutes timeframe. Builds a profile for the regular trading hours.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE (this example sets Merge to 0.1. Please review the documentation, specifically the Advanced Topic "Merge Selection Methodology").
Chart 4 - if you trade foreign exchange...
EURUSD running on a 30 minutes timeframe. Builds a profile for the entire 24 hour trading period.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE (this example sets Session: Type "ETH", Range: Start 1700, Range: End 1659, and Merge to 0.0001).
Chart 5 - if you want to see the profile of every 30 minute bar inside a typical RTH profile
@ES.D is running twice. One instance is on a 30 minutes timeframe, the other on a 5 minutes timeframe (scaling tab Make price data invisible), both are on subgraph 1. IBH MARKET PROFILE is inserted twice. The Range:Type is "SB" for the 30 minutes instance of @ES.D and the Range:Type is "IS" for the 5 minutes instance of @ES.D.
Chart 6 - An example of a Monthly profile...
ES running on a 240 minutes timeframe. Range: Type="M".
Chart 7 - An example of a Weekly profile...
ES running on a 240 minutes timeframe. Range: Type="W".
Radarscreen 8 - An example IBH MARKET PROFILE running in a RadarScreen...
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@ES running on a 30 minute timeframe. Builds a profile for the regular trading hours and a separate profile for the extended trading hours.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE inserted twice (each instance is using a different Range: Type "RTH" or "ETH" with different Range: Start and End Time) and IBH INITIAL BALANCE.
Chart 2 - if you day trade an equity index future and require only regular trading hours profile insight...
@ES.D running on a 30 minutes timeframe. Builds a profile for the regular trading hours.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE (this example uses the default value for Range: Type "S") and IBH INITIAL BALANCE.
Chart 3 - if you day trade an equity during regular trading hours...
SPY running on a 30 minutes timeframe. Builds a profile for the regular trading hours.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE (this example sets Merge to 0.1. Please review the documentation, specifically the Advanced Topic "Merge Selection Methodology").
Chart 4 - if you trade foreign exchange...
EURUSD running on a 30 minutes timeframe. Builds a profile for the entire 24 hour trading period.
Contains IBH MARKET PROFILE (this example sets Session: Type "ETH", Range: Start 1700, Range: End 1659, and Merge to 0.0001).
Chart 5 - if you want to see the profile of every 30 minute bar inside a typical RTH profile
@ES.D is running twice. One instance is on a 30 minutes timeframe, the other on a 5 minutes timeframe (scaling tab Make price data invisible), both are on subgraph 1. IBH MARKET PROFILE is inserted twice. The Range:Type is "SB" for the 30 minutes instance of @ES.D and the Range:Type is "IS" for the 5 minutes instance of @ES.D.
Chart 6 - An example of a Monthly profile...
ES running on a 240 minutes timeframe. Range: Type="M".
Chart 7 - An example of a Weekly profile...
ES running on a 240 minutes timeframe. Range: Type="W".
Radarscreen 8 - An example IBH MARKET PROFILE running in a RadarScreen...
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Multiple Symbols, Multiple Timeframes MP Dashboard
If you ever wanted to see the current price of numerous symbols in relationship to its Value Area (or even daily Value Area, weekly Value Area, and monthly Value Area) then you are in luck. By utilizing the "Communication Channel" in IBH MARKET PROFILE you can share market profile variables with other indicators or strategies. Here is an example of a free value-add indicator (IBH MP LOCATION) that runs in a RadarScreen. In one RadarScreen the indicator IBH MARKET PROFILE is inserted 3 times using "SB", "W", and "M" Range:Type respectively. Each instance uses "Communication Channel" to share the Value Area. IBH MP LOCATION is also inserted 3 times in a different RadarScreen to listen to its specific Communication Channel.
First, download the free add-on indicator: IBH MP LOCATION ADD-ON UNPROTECTED OCT 2023 ELD file here.
- After you download this file for TradeStation then you must import the indicator into the TradeStation application.
- Once imported then you can use the TradeStation development environment to review/modify the code or you can insert it into a RadarScreen to begin the process to generate a dashboard as above, or you can move to the second step to download a workspace that contains the RadarScreen already developed.
- After you download this workspace file you may want to copy/move the file from your downloads folder to your default workspace folder.
- For Tradestation 10.0 the default workspace folder is Documents\TradeStation 10.0\Workspaces
- This workspace contains a RadarScreen that displays the dashboard.