Day Trading Setups
Momentum Ignition / Volume Spike Continuation
A sudden volume spike paired with real range expansion and a close in the direction of the move tends to precede continuation more often than a climactic rejection spike does.
Drag the threshold, watch the flags change
Real candles play with a real volume histogram directly beneath them. Drag the ignition threshold slider and every bar whose volume, range expansion, and close direction clear that bar gets flagged live. When a fresh flag appears, bet Continuation or Stall and the outcome grades against the real bars that follow, sorted into a threshold bucket.
Press play to run the session.
| Threshold bucket | Bets | Continuations | Continuation rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low (1.5–2.2×) | 0 | 0 | — |
| Tuned (2.2–3.2×) | 0 | 0 | — |
| High (3.2–4.0×) | 0 | 0 | — |
How it works
- The volume multiplier compares each bar to its own recent past. Real generated volume on the current bar divided by the causal trailing 10-bar average volume immediately before it, not the whole session's average.
- Range expansion is a real ratio too. The bar's high-minus-low range divided by the trailing 10-bar average range, only counted once that ratio clears 1.3×.
- A direction filter separates ignition from climax. The bar's body has to cover at least 55% of its own range, and the close has to land in the favorable 40% of the bar in the direction of the move, no long opposite-direction rejection wick allowed.
- The slider's threshold gates all three at once, live. Drag it and the flagged candles on the chart update immediately. Every bet locks in the slider's value into a Low, Tuned, or High bucket, and the win-rate table tracks the real continuation rate for each bucket as bets accumulate.
Where this breaks
Volume alone can't tell you who is trading
A volume spike with a strong close looks the same on the tape whether it's genuine accumulation or a single large order getting worked through the book in pieces. This tool has no way to distinguish those, and neither does a real one-second read of the tape. Ignition candles that fire far from any real prior high, low, or level also fail more often than ones that fire right at a level the market has already shown it cares about, since there's no nearby resistance to actually confirm the move. The Low bucket above should stay noticeably worse than Tuned, and even the Tuned and High buckets will keep losing bets, not just the Low one.