Coming Full Circle

[antwerks]

Well, it's been about 2 years since I came onboard, and I have written a few scripts, some as "threads" and some in conversations and or "trying" to help or "improve" on others' scripts. I started out simplistic.
I evolved and got more complex and complicated. Then I got too complicated and now devolving back to simplistic.

It seems, soon I will be back to looking just at candles and volume again. But not like I did in the past, these "eyes" now see behind and beyond the charts, interpretating the language it speaks and that has been "gifted" to me by you guys and your generous teachings and advice.

This site allows sharing of the codes that makes it a virtual college course in many subjects that are needed to canvas the market and steer it to pretty much where we wanted it to go. I look at this world now, a lot like Neo looks at the Matrix (maybe not as well).

So, my point is this, out of the ~150 odd scripts (maybe more lol) that I have written or contributed to, are there any that you guys use "somewhat regularly" to help you trade? If so which ones? I ask because I have virtually thrown a "big ol'bowl of spaghetti" against this wall and would like to know which ones stuck, if any. This will help me apply directionally and effectively to writing scripts going forward that actually add value.

I will take whatever comments or advice or criticism you guys got. I am old and you can't hurt my feelings, believe me. So, if you would shoot me a comment and if you do have some scripts that I participated in or wrote that helped you in anyway, let me know which ones were or are your favorites, and if any have been of value to you in our quest to making "a million". Thank you in advance!!!!

 

[merryDay]

Straight up, your logic isn't flawed. Its good. It is why your weekly list of stocks to watch is spot on:
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/what-trades-are-setting-up.21672/

As a trading strategy, your indicators will work on high-conviction days when the sun is shining and the Megacaps are leading a coordinated charge. They purr, keep you on the right side of a massive trend, and make money.
Over 80% of the trending indicators and oscillators on the forum; work in a similar manner. You are in good company.

And no lie; there is brillance in your indicators. Your Trapped and Absorption logic. Is perfect and non-lagging.
It shows that buyers put in a ton of effort (high volume/delta), but the price didn't go up. It means a Big Shark (passive seller) sat there and absorbed every single market buy order.

For most of 2024, we had sunny days and the Megacaps are leading a coordinated charge. And everybody made a ton of money.
Sadly 2026, doesn't see many sunny days; many days it’s a street fight, and that’s where the complexity of your dashboards start to work against you.

Plan of Action
For now, remove the repainters; they are making your charts look pretty in hindsight. And not adding to the price action that you want to identify. When you have finalize your charts; then you can add them back in.
This means not just the AGAIG indicators but also your Fib 0.681 script which is the biggest offender. Because it uses HighestAll, it recalculates the Discount/Premium zones every time a new high is made. On a chart, it appears to always predict the perfect bottom.

The rest of your scripts are lagging:
Structure (Sweep Hunter)
Correlation (/ES Lead-Lag)
Sentiment ($TICK)
Energy (Delta Traps)
Efficiency (Intra-day Sharpe)
You wait for a label to tell you it's Safe to trade.

In daytrading, safe to trade means the move is mostly over.
Your moving averages are waiting 30min; getting you to the party way too late; and worse waiting to leave the party after giving profits back.
Every indicator you added moved you one step further away from the price action. And five lagging layers deep in math.

Your assessment is correct. Turn off all the sub-graphs. Hide the Sharpe, hide the TICK, hide the Delta.
Keep your key levels
ETH High/Low: (The overnight range boundaries)
Previous Day High/Low/Close: (The institutional benchmarks)
Keep the Sweep Hunter logic, but remove the lagging Arrows
Add your Gamma Levels

You are correct, the answer is in the price action. Where is price rejected; where is it supported.
When price hits a level, ask yourself: 'Is the current candle bigger than the last three?' If yes, that's your Sharpe Ratio. If no, it's chop.

You said it succicently in one of your other posts:
Today’s market (April 2026) is driven by 0DTE options and Dealer Hedging.

This creates Mean Reversion until a level breaks, and then it creates Violent Expansion.

Which is why your 10-minute labels are struggling because they are trying to apply Smooth Math to a Jagged Market.
When the VIX is elevated, the noise between your 10-minute candles is actually where the trade is won or lost.
By the time your script scores an 'A+,' the Market Makers have already finished their hedging move, and the Easy Money is gone.

Never take someone else's critque over what you know works for you.
Had my annual physical the other day. The doctor told me 12 things that I must change. Seven of them, do not fit in with my current job and family commitments. I am incorporating the five that I can do.
Going forward, I will do what I can to assimilate the principles behind the others. You have to do what works for you.

 

[antwerks]

Straight up, your logic isn't flawed. Its good. It is why your weekly list of stocks to watch is spot on:
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/what-trades-are-setting-up.21672/

As a trading strategy, your indicators will work on high-conviction days when the sun is shining and the Megacaps are leading a coordinated charge. They purr, keep you on the right side of a massive trend, and make money.
Over 80% of the trending indicators and oscillators on the forum; work in a similar manner. You are in good company.

And no lie; there is brillance in your indicators. Your Trapped and Absorption logic. Is perfect and non-lagging.
It shows that buyers put in a ton of effort (high volume/delta), but the price didn't go up. It means a Big Shark (passive seller) sat there and absorbed every single market buy order.

For most of 2024, we had sunny days and the Megacaps are leading a coordinated charge. And everybody made a ton of money.
Sadly 2026, doesn't see many sunny days; many days it’s a street fight, and that’s where the complexity of your dashboards start to work against you.

Plan of Action
For now, remove the repainters; they are making your charts look pretty in hindsight. And not adding to the price action that you want to identify. When you have finalize your charts; then you can add them back in.
This means not just the AGAIG indicators but also your Fib 0.681 script which is the biggest offender. Because it uses HighestAll, it recalculates the Discount/Premium zones every time a new high is made. On a chart, it appears to always predict the perfect bottom.

The rest of your scripts are lagging:
Structure (Sweep Hunter)
Correlation (/ES Lead-Lag)
Sentiment ($TICK)
Energy (Delta Traps)
Efficiency (Intra-day Sharpe)
You wait for a label to tell you it's Safe to trade.

In daytrading, safe to trade means the move is mostly over.
Your moving averages are waiting 30min; getting you to the party way too late; and worse waiting to leave the party after giving profits back.
Every indicator you added moved you one step further away from the price action. And five lagging layers deep in math.

Your assessment is correct. Turn off all the sub-graphs. Hide the Sharpe, hide the TICK, hide the Delta.
Keep your key levels
ETH High/Low: (The overnight range boundaries)
Previous Day High/Low/Close: (The institutional benchmarks)
Keep the Sweep Hunter logic, but remove the lagging Arrows
Add your Gamma Levels

You are correct, the answer is in the price action. Where is price rejected; where is it supported.
When price hits a level, ask yourself: 'Is the current candle bigger than the last three?' If yes, that's your Sharpe Ratio. If no, it's chop.

You said it succicently in one of your other posts:
Today’s market (April 2026) is driven by 0DTE options and Dealer Hedging.


Which is why your 10-minute labels are struggling because they are trying to apply Smooth Math to a Jagged Market.
When the VIX is elevated, the noise between your 10-minute candles is actually where the trade is won or lost.
By the time your script scores an 'A+,' the Market Makers have already finished their hedging move, and the Easy Money is gone.

Never take someone else's critque over what you know works for you.
Had my annual physical the other day. The doctor told me 12 things that I must change. Seven of them, do not fit in with my current job and family commitments. I am incorporating the five that I can do.
Going forward, I will do what I can to assimilate the principles behind the others. You have to do what works for you.

This is just what the "Doctor ordered" for me - this is awesome and thank you a "million"!!!! The evolution continues!!!