Enhance your trading strategy with our breakout indicator, designed to detect directional breakouts during periods of high volume and volatility. Tailored for major forex pairs, it aligns with the opening of key markets like London and New York. This tool generates precise buy or sell signals, optimizing your trading decisions. Manual override options allow flexibility in event time selection. Ideal for day trades, this indicator focuses on high-probability breakout events, leveraging volatility analysis for peak volume insights. Explore breakout opportunities at market openings or economic data releases with this powerful tool. Elevate your trading with strategic insights into hourly volume and volatility patterns.
The indicator will create a buy signal or a sell signal whenever a breakout event is detected during this period. The event time can also be overridden manually.
Figure 1: Single breakout event © forexop
Example uses:
- Detecting breakouts at the open of London, Tokyo or New York trading sessions
- Trading breakouts on economic data, monetary policy statements and other news
- Trading breakouts at any regular time interval
- Analyzing market behavior and hourly volume/volatility
Directional Breakouts at Peak Volume
Breakout strategies suffer when there are a high proportion of false breaks. Instead of trading on every potential breakout, this indicator looks for the highest probability cases only. The strongest breakout events often happen when volume is rising sharply. These events are often around the opening of the major markets such as London, Tokyo and New York.
Figure 2: Example EURUSD M15 © forexop
The indicator works as follows:
- On loading it will check the price history to find times of peak daily volumes.
- Displays the estimated peak volumes for each hour of the day
- Monitors price movements before and immediately after the peak volume time.
- Creates buy and sell alerts when a breakout has been detected.
This indicator only trades at one specific time of day – the time when volume and volatility is increasing sharply and where breakout events are usually strongest. This breakout strategy is designed for short duration trades only – day trades. The ideal timeframes are 5 minutes to 30 minutes.
Peak Volume
There aren’t any direct volume metrics available for foreign exchange. For this reason the indicator uses volatility analysis to predict times of day when volume is increasing or decreasing.
The graphic below shows volumes for the forex majors over a 24 hour period.
This breakout indicator will detect directional breakouts on high volume. It analyzes the chart to find the times of day when volume and volatility are highest. For major forex pairs this normally coincides with the open of the London market. For commodities it’s usually the start of New York’s trading session.
Figure 3: Peak volume analysis © forexop
Instead of having the indicator automatically detect peak volumes you can also manually override this and set any time to monitor. For example, this can be useful when trading breakouts on economic data releases.
For examples of volume breakout strategies see this page.
Figure 4: EURUSD 5M placing trades on indicator output signals © forexop
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