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Market structure, order blocks, liquidity pools, key levels and zones on one overlay.
Black Tide Map draws the reference points price has already reacted to: structure breaks, the candles they came from, pools of resting stops above equal highs and below equal lows, untested highs and lows, prices the market has turned at again and again, yesterday's golden zones and the candles that print at turns. Thirteen modules sit on one overlay, each switched on or off on its own. The layers read each other, so a break is tagged with the level it took.
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Each part, what it shows and why it is there.
Market structure tracks swing highs and lows at two scales, Major (solid) and Minor (dashed). A BOS (break of structure) is a close past a swing in the direction of the current bias: continuation. A CHoCH (change of character) is a break against it, and the bias flips. Each break is tagged with the level it took, so CHoCH ×PWH took the previous week's high.
An order block is the candle a strong move came from. Each block is labelled with the break that made it, CHoCH OB or BOS OB, and carries a volume read that keeps updating while price trades inside it. A block moves from fresh to mitigated (tested) to invalidated; an invalidated block that price returns to becomes a breaker, redrawn for the opposite direction. Two modes: Arxon shows the blocks nearest price and keeps breakers, while Classic shows the most recently formed blocks, with no breakers and no filters.
A liquidity pool marks where stops are likely resting: buyside liquidity (BSL) above equal highs, sellside liquidity (SSL) below equal lows. Only swings price has not touched count, and each pool is graded Minor, Standard or Major by how many times the level was touched. A pool ends one of three ways: swept, when price wicks through and closes back inside; swept late, when price closes beyond and then fails; or broken, when price closes beyond and keeps going.
A reaction level is a price the market has turned at again and again: swing highs and lows alike, close enough together to count as one price, drawn as a dotted line at their average. The label counts the turns, RL ×7, and ⇅ marks a level price has turned at from both sides. Crossing a level does not end it; it leaves only after a long stretch with no reaction. Levels close together draw as one, and only the nearest above and below price are shown.
A preset sets how strict a turn has to be to count: Swings counts every swing, Returns and Strict returns count a swing only after price has left the level, and Custom lets you set your own. Every level draws at the same width; the count on the label is its weight.
A fair value gap (FVG) is a three-bar imbalance: price moved so fast that the middle bar left a range no trade passed through. Filling and inverting are different events. A gap price trades into and bounces from is spent and leaves the chart. A gap price closes cleanly through becomes an IFVG (inverted gap), drawn in the opposite colour.
Naked levels are past daily, weekly and monthly highs and lows that price has not traded back through; once tested, they are spent. Session levels mark the Asia, London and New York highs and lows after each session closes, and clear when that session opens again. Period levels draw the previous day's, week's and month's highs and lows, plus last month's open and close. Daily Zones draw yesterday's premium and discount golden zones, Fibonacci areas of the prior day's range.
Trend Path is a zigzag whose turns mark where momentum ran out, rather than where price shape bent. Each turn is labelled HH, HL, LH or LL (higher high, higher low, lower high, lower low) against the previous turn of the same kind. A second path can show the smaller swings inside the main legs. The live last leg is dashed because it can still move.
Anchor Candles mark Doji, Hammer, Inverted Hammer and Inside Bar candles, with a colour-blind palette available. Consolidation boxes ranges that are unusually tight for this instrument lately, and marks a failed break when a range rejects a breakout. Session Clock draws strips along the bottom of the chart showing which sessions are open, with the London and New York overlap in its own colour.
A BOS is a break in the direction of the current bias, so the move continues. A CHoCH is a break against the bias, and the bias flips. Both are tagged with the level they took.
Filled means price traded in and bounced: the gap worked, is spent and leaves the chart. Inverted means price closed cleanly through it: the gap failed and stays in the opposite colour as an IFVG. A spent gap can never invert.
Yes. Wave reads the flow moving now; Map reads what past flow left behind. Map runs on its own and needs nothing from Wave, and the two are built to share a chart.
Swept means price wicked through the pool and closed back inside: the stops were taken and price came back. Swept late means price closed beyond it first, then failed and came back. Broken means price closed beyond it and kept going. Each outcome has its own alert.
A liquidity pool sits beyond equal highs or lows price has not touched, where stops are likely resting, and it ends when it is swept or broken. A reaction level is a price the market has already turned at, from either side, and crossing it does not end it.
Black Tide Map is an analysis tool, not investment advice. Charts and examples are illustrations.