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Higher-Timeframe Candles indicator

Keep the bigger picture on your execution chart: the 15-minute, 1-hour and 4-hour candles that are forming right now, drawn small at the right edge with their own volume levels.

NinjaTrader 8Any symbol, any intraday chartNo repainting

Not sold separately: every Holdout indicator and both strategies come in one plan, $39 a month. See pricing or start with the free Session Levels Lite.

Higher-Timeframe Candles indicator on a live chart

What it draws

Higher-Timeframe Candles: Higher-timeframe candles at the right edge
15-minute, 1-hour and 4-hour lanes: each forming candle with the previous one in outline, its 25/50/75% levels, its POC and the previous POC, delta and volume.

Higher-timeframe candles at the right edge

Up to four lanes, each from 5 minutes to daily, showing the forming candle with the previous one in outline. Your execution chart keeps the bigger picture.

Full feature list

  • Up to four lanes, each 5-minute to daily, with the previous candle in outline
  • 25%, 50% and 75% levels of each forming candle
  • Each candle's point of control (POC) and the previous candle's POC, optionally extended across the chart
  • Delta and volume of each forming candle
  • Weak-pullback marker: price pulls back to the 4-hour POC after breaking away from it, and a 15-minute bar rejects it
  • Sits beside Holdout Volume Profile automatically when both are on the chart

How it works

Candles are built from 1-minute bars and aligned to the 18:00 ET session open, so the 4-hour candles start at 18:00, 22:00, 02:00, 06:00, 10:00 and 14:00 ET.

Each candle's POC comes from a volume profile of that candle's own bars.

The marker needs price to have balanced around the 4-hour POC, broken at least half an average 15-minute range away, then pulled back with weak bars before a 15-minute bar rejects the POC. It draws the stop, a 1R target and the result.

Good to know

  • The weak-pullback marker comes from the one POC-retest pattern that held up out of sample in our NQ tests. Use it as a high-quality spot to look for your own entry.

Questions

Which lanes should I use?

Choose timeframes larger than your chart: 15m, 1h and 4h on a 1- to 5-minute chart; 1h, 4h and daily on a 15- or 30-minute chart. The Holdout chart templates set this for you.

All 14 Holdout tools, one plan

Higher-Timeframe Candles plus every other indicator and both strategies for $39 / month or $349 / year, or $599 once.

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