Volume Tide [JOAT] — Indicator by officialjackofalltrades — TradingView

◆ WHAT IT IS

Volume Tide reframes volume as a tide: it measures how strongly current participation is running against its own long-term baseline and classifies the market into four intuitive states. It is a pure market-context tool — it maps where real activity is entering the market and builds structure from it. It does not print buy/sell signals.

This is 100% original code, written from scratch. It is not a repackaged volume oscillator.

◆ HOW IT WORKS

1. The tide ratio. A short-term volume average is divided by a long-term baseline. This ratio — incoming wave versus sea level — tells you whether participation is expanding or draining, independent of the raw volume scale of the symbol.

2. Four tide states. The ratio is banded into:
• EBB — participation drained out
• RISING — filling back up
• FLOOD — active participation
• SURGE — institutional-scale bursts
All four are painted as a seamless aquatic gradient in the lower pane.

3. Tide pools. When a SURGE begins, the tool carves a tide pool onto the price chart across the traded range. As price continues to trade inside that pool, it accumulates volume by price overlap and computes:
• a volume-weighted anchor line (a natural magnet level), and
• a live buy/sell pressure split with a total-volume readout.

◆ WHAT YOU SEE

• A gradient tide histogram with Ebb / Flood / Surge threshold guides
• Tide pools on the price chart during surges, each with a volume-weighted anchor and live buy/sell delta stats
• A resizable dashboard showing the tide state and direction (coming in / going out), the tide ratio with a wave meter, fast-versus-baseline volume, live pool count, the newest pool’s volume and delta, and surge history

◆ HOW TO USE IT

• Use the tide state as a conviction filter: breakouts and trends that develop during FLOOD or SURGE have real participation behind them, while moves during EBB are thin and prone to reversal.
• The volume-weighted anchor inside a tide pool often acts as support/resistance when price returns to it.
• The buy/sell delta inside a pool shows which side did the heavy lifting during the surge.
• Works on all symbols and timeframes that provide volume.

◆ NOTES & LIMITATIONS

Volume Tide requires a genuine volume feed — on symbols without one the tide ratio is not meaningful. It describes participation conditions and structure; it is not financial advice and does not predict direction on its own. Use it alongside a directional method and your own risk management.

— made with passion by officialjackofalltrade