Volume Profile Std Deviations Plots Question

[john3]

Hello,

If I'm not mistaken, this script from Reddit has been shared here, but the question is, what are the deviations plots are based on? Sometimes they are inside the value area, so it seems that they are calculated from the prior day's POC. Is that correct? Thank you.

 

[john3]

Any ideas?

 

[BenTen]

@john3 I can’t find the post that you were referring to on here. You should post your question directly inside that thread.

 

[john3]

@john3 I can’t find the post that you were referring to on here. You should post your question directly inside that thread.

It is this study, I posted it some time ago.
https://tos.mx/CNLToy
Thank you.

 

[horserider]

@john3 Looks to be std dev of settlement price if entered manually or std dev of close if auto. As far as I can tell without wasting much time on it, also seems without entering settlement it may not work as designed. This one was quickly deleted from my ToS.

 

[john3]

@john3 Looks to be std dev of settlement price if entered manually or std dev of close if auto. As far as I can tell without wasting much time on it, also seems without entering settlement it may not work as designed. This one was quickly deleted from my ToS.

Makes sense. Thank you. It seems to work pretty well on auto. I have crossreferenced it with other scripts that plot the prior profile and they seem to match. One general issue with the volume profile in TOS is that it uses aggregated volume, so the values are often different on different time frames.

 

[markos]

Did you know that mathematically, there are at least 5 different standard deviations? Add that to the difference in aggregated volume on different time frames and you have made quite a soup!