Volume Profile & Order Flow · Works on every TradingView plan
A volume profile indicator for TradingView that reads its own profile — value area, support and resistance zones, low-volume gaps, naked levels and VWAP bands, calibrated for your interval.
$39.99one-time · lifetime access — or included in IQ Universal from $29.99/mo
On a TradingView Premium plan or higher? Volume Profile and Activity Map Premium builds the same map from volume footprints — and includes this edition.
Volume Profile and Activity Map is an invite-only indicator for TradingView that draws an anchored volume profile — point of control and value area — and turns it into support and resistance zones, low-volume gaps, naked levels, confluence markers and an anchored VWAP with bands. Every window carries a data-quality grade. It runs on any TradingView plan, for intraday and swing traders.
Most volume tools stop at the histogram. You get bars, and the work is still yours: find the value area, decide which clusters matter, remember yesterday's levels and guess whether the feed behind the profile carries real volume at all. A box at every cluster looks equally important, and a profile drawn on a symbol with no volume looks just as confident as one built on traded contracts.
Volume Profile and Activity Map reads the profile for you and shows its working. High-volume rows become a zone only when they stand out against the busiest row, and they are never merged across a low-volume valley. Each zone is scored for strength — volume mass, compactness and retests — and labelled with its delta. Every window is graded FULL, APPROXIMATE, DEGRADED or UNAVAILABLE, tick-volume feeds are flagged, and closed windows are frozen, so the levels you read yesterday are the levels you read today. The calibration behind it was tuned and tested over hundreds of hours on historical charts of the most traded markets.
Measure a session, a calendar period from today to last year, the last swing or a rolling window. The POC, the value area (70% by default) and the histogram sit in the right margin.
Zones below price read as support, above it as resistance, labelled with strength S 0–100, retests and delta. The zone price trades in gets a heavier border.
Grey bands mark low-volume valleys between two nodes, labelled with their depth — places price tends to cross quickly.
Levels of closed windows not yet traded through stay as dotted lines with their age — up to 12 by default, with an alert when one is tested.
Yesterday's, last week's or last month's value as dashed levels; the Bias row says where price sits against both.
Where profile, zones and VWAP agree, a marker scores the agreement 0–100; each family of levels votes once.
A bubble on bar close where a lower-timeframe volume burst met little price progress; an adaptive threshold keeps bubbles rare. Bar-by-bar volume absorption is Volume X-Ray's job.
A VWAP from its own anchor with up to five standard-deviation bands, three on by default; the dashboard adds its slope and the share of bars above it.
Decisive shows 10 rows, Extended 16: the window, its data and grade, the bias and the nearest unfinished business.
It measures the right window.
On higher intervals short anchors are promoted — a day on a 1H chart becomes the week — and the Window row names both (THIS WEEK ← Today).
It places volume where it traded.
Each bar's volume goes to the prices of the lower-timeframe candles inside it — 1-minute candles on a 5-minute chart — not spread evenly over the candle. Buy and sell are approximated and marked as such.
It scores before it draws.
A row joins a zone only if it stands out against the busiest row (35% by default), never across a valley; two-hump runs are split. Strength = volume mass 50%, compactness 25%, retests 25%.
It grades the data — and refuses when there is none.
Every window is graded FULL, APPROXIMATE, DEGRADED or UNAVAILABLE; tick volume reads TICK-BASED, and a symbol without volume draws nothing.
It freezes what is closed.
Closed windows are final; bubbles and naked-level tests print on bar close; the developing window is labelled DEVELOPING.
Every indicator in the family stands on the same foundation, so it reads the chart the moment you add it — and your time goes into the market, not the settings panel.
In Volume Profile and Activity Map, Auto-Timeframe sets the number of profile rows, promotes short anchors on higher intervals, picks the lower-timeframe data inside each bar and tunes the absorption radar — and every one of those values also has a manual field.
Auto-Timeframe, on by default
Your chart interval picks a calibration profile tuned over hundreds of hours of testing on historical charts of the most traded markets — gold, oil, major currency pairs, indices, stocks and crypto. Change the interval and the indicator re-tunes itself.
Manual Mode for experts
Every value the calibration sets is also a setting of yours. Full control, nothing locked behind the automation.
Dark and Light, automatically
The indicator reads your chart background and switches colours and transparency on its own. Line weights and text sizes are set by role.
One family, one visual language
The same concept wears the same colour in every indicator. Combined, they divide the chart instead of duplicating it.
A universal session clock
Asia, London and New York run on their own city clocks, daylight saving is handled for you, and the instrument class decides which windows apply.
Honest by construction
Events print on bar close, closed windows stay frozen, and the data behind a reading is graded or labelled. No profit promises and no hidden guesses: when the data cannot support a reading, the indicator says so.
Two minutes on a historical replay: the default map on gold, zones and gaps, London naked levels, a symbol without volume the indicator refuses to draw, and the map re-tuning itself on a new interval. Transcript under the player.
Examples come from closed historical charts and are used for education — they are not trade recommendations. New to the concept? How POC and value area work.
What you read on the chart TODAY with its grade, 1-minute intrabar data flagged TICK-BASED; five zones by role, one holding price; the value area around the POC.
How to use it The nearest green and red zones frame the range the day has accepted. Use them as context for your own plan — tick volume counts price changes, not traded size.
What you read on the chart A London profile on the London clock, daylight saving applied; naked levels of earlier London sessions with their age; the Naked row lists the nearest above and below.
How to use it Treat the nearest naked level on each side as unfinished business; the Naked Level Tested alert tells you when price returns.
What you read on the chart Dashed pdPOC, pdVAH, pdVAL beside today's value, three LVN gaps, and the Bias row against both value areas.
How to use it Compare today's auction with yesterday's value: acceptance above pdVAH, rotation inside it or a return to pdPOC.
What you read on the chart The day promoted to the week; three labelled zones, two LVN gaps with depth, confluence markers.
How to use it The strongest zone is where the week did most of its business; the deeper gap separates two areas of acceptance most cleanly.
Point at an indicator to see why it works with this one.
Sessions, ICT Killzones, PO3 with Key Levels and Volume Profile
It adds when — sessions, killzones, higher-timeframe candles; this indicator adds where volume accepted price. For one histogram on the chart, set Histogram = Off here and keep levels, zones and gaps.
Ultimate Liquidity and Market Structure
Pools and structure show why price travels between these levels. Both label the right edge: use Level Price Tags = Native (price scale) here.
X-Ray measures the participation behind each bar; this indicator shows where that volume sits by price. Reading absorption in X-Ray? Set Absorption Bubbles = Off here.
Use one edition per chart: this indicator or Volume Profile and Activity Map Premium, not both — they draw the same map.
| Volume Profile and Activity Map | Volume Profile and Activity Map Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| TradingView plan | any plan, including the free one | TradingView Premium plan or higher |
| One-time price | $39.99 · lifetime access | $49.99 · lifetime access · includes Volume Profile and Activity Map |
| Subscription | IQ Universal and IQ Premium | IQ Premium |
| Profile built from | lower-timeframe candles inside each bar | footprint rows at the prices they traded; one chart-bar sample where a bar has no footprint |
| Buy/sell split | approximated from candle direction | from the footprint, classified by intrabar direction |
| Zones by role, LVN gaps, naked levels, reference profile, confluence | yes | yes |
| Absorption radar | lower-timeframe volume bursts | footprint rows — the bubble sits on the row |
| Anchored VWAP with bands | weighted by each bar's typical price | weighted by footprint row prices (switchable) |
| Stacked-imbalance zones | — | yes |
| Time profile (TPO) and initial balance | — | yes |
| Automatic footprint row size | — | yes, by instrument family and interval |
| Dashboard rows (Decisive / Extended) | 10 / 16 | 10 / 18 |
| Alerts | 9 | 13 |
| Settings | 94 in 11 groups | 103 in 12 groups |
The Premium edition includes this classic edition. Use one edition per chart — both draw the same map. On a TradingView Premium plan or higher, see the footprint volume profile for TradingView.
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$39.99one-time
Lifetime access to Volume Profile and Activity Map and all its updates
Monthly
$29.99/mo
Annual
$299.90/year
12 months for the price of 10
Automatic renewal: renews every month at $29.99 plus applicable taxes until you cancel. Cancel any time; access continues to the end of the paid month.
Automatic renewal: renews every 12 months at $299.90 plus applicable taxes until you cancel. Cancel any time; access continues to the end of the paid period.
Monthly
$39.99/mo
Annual
$399.90/year
12 months for the price of 10
Automatic renewal: renews every month at $39.99 plus applicable taxes until you cancel. Cancel any time; access continues to the end of the paid month.
Automatic renewal: renews every 12 months at $399.90 plus applicable taxes until you cancel. Cancel any time; access continues to the end of the paid period.
Updates are published on TradingView and reach you automatically — the build stamp is on the Extended dashboard. Works on every TradingView plan; how many indicators and alerts you can run at once depends on your plan.
Not on closed windows: they are frozen, and bubbles and naked-level tests print on bar close. The developing window updates by design and is labelled DEVELOPING — how to verify an indicator does not repaint.
Any plan, including the free one. Where your plan serves no seconds data, 1-minute charts use chart bars and the Data row says so.
Any symbol with volume, from seconds to monthly charts. Cash indices without volume read UNAVAILABLE — use a futures contract or CFD on the same index.
Nine: bullish and bearish absorption, naked level tested, POC, VAH and VAL crossed, reference VAH and VAL crossed, profile window closed. Use Once Per Bar Close — how to set up TradingView alerts.
Yes. If another one draws a profile, set Histogram = Off; if it draws volume nodes, switch Show Activity Zones off. One edition per chart.
Anchor, row size, data source and value-area share differ. An intrabar profile places volume where it traded; a chart-bar profile spreads it over the candle.
The feed counts price changes, not traded size — common on forex and CFDs. For traded size, pick a related futures contract in Volume Source.
Give your TradingView username at checkout; the invite arrives within 24 h and the indicator appears under Invite-only scripts. Updates reach you automatically.
The terms for one-time purchases and subscriptions are set out in our refund policy.
Buy it if this is the one tool you need: $39.99, lifetime. IQ Universal ($29.99/mo) gives every Universal indicator, current and future, at a fixed price — one-time vs subscription.
Value, zones, gaps and untested levels — calibrated for your interval, readable in Dark and Light.
Educational and analytical tool, not investment advice. Trading involves risk of loss; past chart examples do not indicate future results. Risk disclosure