Publication:16.09.2026Absorption Candle
- Category: Algotrading
- Asset class: Futures, Stocks, Cryptocurrencies
Description
An order flow visualization indicator that makes absorption easier to spot by transforming how candles look based on their delta.
Instead of showing only the candle's actual price structure, the indicator builds a delta-based candle representation — so you can immediately see the relationship between aggressive buying/selling pressure and the resulting price move.
Key Features
- Delta-Based Candle Shape. Displays each candle's visual size and structure based on its delta, not just its actual price range.
- Delta vs. Price Comparison. Makes it easier to spot situations where significant aggressive buying or selling isn't matched by a corresponding price move.
- Absorption Identification. Highlights potential absorption — where aggressive market orders are absorbed by passive liquidity.
- Visual Order-Flow Representation. Turns complex delta data into an intuitive candle format you can read straight off the chart.
- Live Visualization. The delta-based candle develops in real time as the candle forms, so you can watch absorption as it happens.
- Works Alongside Standard Candles. The delta view adds extra information while keeping the context of the actual market price.
Settings
Colors, design.
Absorption can be hard to spot when looking only at standard price candles. Absorption Candle gives you a second angle: instead of asking only where price moved, you can see how aggressive buyers and sellers were behaving relative to that move.
When the delta-based candle looks noticeably different from the actual price candle, it can point to an imbalance between aggressive order flow and the price response — an important characteristic of potential absorption.
Independent developer specializing in ATAS indicators. The author (Adam Pixa) has been actively trading for over 6 years and has spent a long time creating custom indicators for ATAS — with more than 60 proprietary indicators to his name, originally built for personal use and for friends. He previously worked as a software developer, which gave him experience writing clean, maintainable code.
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