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You are most likely looking at the wrong ticker. If you are trading futures and looking at MNQ or MES, that is the wrong ticker inside TradingView.

You need to find and use the continuous contract tickers:

We chart on the continuous contract so that you never have to adjust when we update our script or when the contract rolls. The instruments we currently run analytics for are: SPX, ES, QQQ & NQ.

There are a few reasons the indicator may not appear after adding it. Walk through these steps in order:

1. Confirm you are on the correct ticker — NQ1!, ES1!, SPX, or QQQ.
2. Check that you are on the correct timeframe. Our indicators are optimized for the 1-minute and 5-minute charts during the regular session.
3. Make sure the script is added to your chart — open the Indicators panel, search for Level Beast, and confirm it shows a checkmark.
4. If it was recently updated, remove and re-add the script. TradingView sometimes caches an old version.
5. Hard refresh your browser: Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + R (Mac).

Our standard delivery target is 9:15 AM EST. However, the data does not update automatically in your browser — you need to refresh your chart after 9:15 AM to pull the latest levels.

It takes us two hours every morning to distill data across four tickers. We have to wait for the government to release specific data and we have to wait on foreign markets, currency, earnings, sector rotation data, and a mountain of other inputs.

1. Wait until 9:15 AM EST before expecting levels.
2. Refresh your TradingView chart by pressing F5 or clicking the refresh icon.
3. If nothing appears by 9:20 AM, remove the indicator and re-add it.
4. Still nothing? Check our community channel — we post status updates if there is a data delay.

Yes — TradingView allows you to set price alerts manually at any level on your chart.

1. Right-click on any level line on your chart.
2. Select "Add Alert" from the context menu.
3. Set your condition — we recommend "Crossing" so you get notified when price reaches that level from either direction.
4. Add a name that references the level type (e.g., "LIS Upper" or "Magnet Level 1").
5. Set delivery to Popup + Email or Popup + App Notification depending on your plan.

The best place to start is our dedicated How-To Guide pages.

1. LIS (Line in the Sand) — defines the directional bias for the session. Price above = bullish. Price below = bearish.
2. Magnet Levels — price is drawn to these. Primary targets and reaction zones.
3. Variance Zones — upper and lower boundaries of expected price range.
4. ATR Gas Tank — tells you how much of the average daily range has been consumed.

Please watch our training videos. We have a free Master Class that covers the full system in detail.

1. Our indicators work alongside any system — they provide institutional-grade data, not a standalone mechanical strategy.
2. The system is built on VVP — Volume, Volatility, and Price Action. These are the only inputs that matter.

The Daily Trade Prep Station is your pre-market command center. Access it here every morning before 9:30 AM EST:

1. You switched to an unsupported ticker. The indicator only renders on NQ1!, ES1!, SPX, and QQQ.
2. We pushed a script update and TradingView cached the old version. Fix: remove and re-add.
3. Your TradingView session expired. Log out and back in, then refresh.
4. You accidentally toggled the indicator off — check the eye icon next to the script name.

LIS 1 is your primary Line in the Sand — the dominant institutional pivot for the session. Price above LIS 1 means bullish structure. Price below means bearish structure.

LIS 2 is a secondary confirmation line. It marks where a secondary concentration of volume or institutional interest is sitting.

Magnets are areas where institutions have defined interest and volume. Price is tethered to these levels — expect it to gravitate toward them and often pin or stall once reached.

Variance Zones are statistical 1st and 2nd standard deviation hedging boundaries. They hold approximately 85% of the time. When they don't hold, a significant volume event or massive institutional imbalance — a Volume Shift — is occurring.

That is the Regime Line. It is the master hedge level for the session — the single most important macro level on your chart for the day.

Red means ATR Utilization is at or above 90%–100%. The market has consumed its Gas Tank for the current move. The probability of a reversal or heavy stall is extremely high.

1. Stop adding to the current direction. The gas tank is empty.
2. Watch for a volume shift or a stall at a key level.
3. Wait for the ATR meter to reset before looking for a new entry in the same direction.
4. Consider the opposing trade — a mean reversion back toward a major level.

No. RSI, MACD, and Bollinger Bands are lagging retail indicators. They tell you what already happened — not what is about to happen.

The Level Beast system is built on Volume, Volatility, and Price Action (VVP). These are the only inputs that matter for understanding institutional flow and dealer positioning.

No. Support handles technical and billing issues only — not trade analysis or coaching.

The loss is data. Analyze it, learn from it, move on.

The LIS is the single most important level on your chart every session. It is the institutional pivot that defines the directional bias for the entire day.

1. LIS Reclaim / Rejection — Price tests the LIS and either reclaims it (long) or gets rejected (short). Highest-conviction directional setup.
2. Magnet Pull — Once price breaks through a key level, it gravitates toward the next Magnet. Enter on the pullback confirmation.
3. Variance Zone Fade — Price hits the outer Variance Zone while ATR is at an extreme. Fade the move back toward LIS.
4. Regime Line Acceleration — Price breaks through the Regime Line with volume. Trade in the direction of the break. This signals a trend day.

The Multi-Anchor VWAP w/ ATR Advantage tells you where the institutional volume anchor is and how much room the move has left.

Full how-to guide: levelbeast.com/howto/multi-anchor-vwap

Full how-to guide: levelbeast.com/howto/level-beast-pro

Free Master Class: pages.levelbeast.com/free-training-page

1. Even the highest-probability setups will fail sometimes. No level is a guarantee. The 1% rule ensures a failed setup is a data point — not a blown account.
2. Your job is to survive long enough to become consistent.
3. At 1% risk per trade, you can be wrong 10 times in a row and still have 90% of your account intact.
4. As your account grows, your dollar risk scales — but the percentage stays at 1%.

Every daily report produces multiple trade plans covering four markets — ES and NQ for futures, and SPX and QQQ for indexes and ETF products. The structure of all trade plans is identical.

The Seven Components

1. Where We Stand — Structural context before the session opens. LIS1, LIS2, Regime Line, and catalysts.
2. The Playbook — If/then scenario blocks. Read all before the open. Do not pick one in advance.
3. Market Structure — Dealer posture. Does not change during the session unless LIS1 is reclaimed or lost.
4. Trading Lens — Bridge between structural context and real-time execution.
5. Catalyst Watch — Verified list of high-impact releases. Never pre-position for a catalyst.
6. Key Takeaways — Four statements summarizing session logic. Read as your checklist before the open.
7. Trader Language — Plain voice summary. Read last before the open.

VPAX — Volume Pressure Absorption Index — is Level Beast's volume-by-time indicator. It sits in a dedicated panel below your price chart and reads the pressure behind every candle. Not just how much traded, but who was winning, how much conviction was behind the move, and when smart money is quietly building a position before the market moves.

This is not a standard volume indicator. Standard volume tells you how much traded. VPAX tells you who won each bar, whether to trust the signal, when a move is exhausted, and when institutional flow is absorbing before the move happens.

VPAX is organized around five core reads:

Instrument selection matters more with VPAX than any other indicator in the suite because VPAX requires real traded volume to produce valid signals.

Nothing is wrong. The absorption diamond is designed to be rare. It only fires when two proprietary conditions are detected simultaneously: volume must be above average threshold AND net delta must be nearly balanced despite that volume. On slow or clearly trending days this may not fire at all. That is correct behavior.

When the diamond fires — mark that price level on your main chart immediately. Then:

1. Do not enter on the diamond itself. It is the earliest warning — not the entry signal.
2. Watch the Delta EMA over the next 1–3 bars for directional confirmation.
3. The first vivid confirming bar with the EMA turning teal (long) or coral (short) is your entry.
4. Most powerful when it fires at a level already marked — LIS, Magnet, Variance Zone. That confluence is not coincidence.

To see more diamonds fire, lower the Absorption Vol Threshold setting from 1.2 toward 1.0 in VPAX settings. Full documentation: levelbeast.com/howto/vpax

The muted bar rule is the single most important read on the entire VPAX panel. It overrides everything else.

Every bar on the VPAX panel communicates its own reliability through color intensity. A vivid saturated bar means volume is above the 20-bar average — institutional participation is present and the signal is trustworthy. A muted transparent bar means volume is below average — retail noise, low conviction, no edge present regardless of direction.

The three questions to ask on every bar — in order:

1. Vivid or muted? Muted = stop here. Vivid = continue to step two.
2. Who is winning? Delta EMA color and position relative to zero. Teal above zero = buyers. Coral below = sellers. Gray flat = nobody. Do not force a direction.
3. Sustainable or exhausted? Bar inside the Exhaustion Band = room to continue. Breaking outside with background glow = move is statistically done. Exit warning, never a continuation entry.

Every VPAX setup requires vivid bar confirmation. If the absorption diamond fires but the confirming bar is muted — you wait.

VPAX has a complete training ecosystem. Start with the 15-minute training below — it covers the core concepts and two primary setups in detail. Then go deeper with the how-to guide and the full VPAX volume training series in the Master Class.

This training covers:

Volume Profile w/Pre-Market builds four independent volume profiles — Asia, London, Pre-Market and Regular Hours — on a single chart, with a signal engine layered on top. It reads participation across all four sessions separately, then isolates the prices where different groups of participants repeatedly committed size and stopped.

Most charts show you that a level exists. This shows you the order flow sitting underneath it — and whether that level is still being defended.

Everything it draws falls into five reads:

Because four different groups of participants trade the same instrument at four different times of day — and none of them coordinate with each other. Blending them into one distribution destroys the most useful piece of information on the chart: which groups agreed.

1. Asia — Overnight positioning while the US sleeps. Typically the thinnest of the four, which makes its point of control unusually meaningful. Thin tape means the price that held did so without much help.
2. London — European desks arrive with real size. London's value area frequently frames the entire US morning range.
3. Pre-Market — Thin tape, decisive prints. Where US participants commit before the bell. Pre-Market highs and lows are the most frequently tested levels of the session.
4. Regular Hours — The cash session. Deepest participation, and the reference tomorrow gets measured against.

Point of Control (POC) — the single price where the most volume traded during that session. It is the session's centre of gravity, the price the most participants agreed was fair. Trade it as a magnet when price is away from it and as support or resistance when price is testing it.

Value Area — the price range containing the bulk of that session's volume, bounded by the Value Area High and Value Area Low. Inside the value area, price is doing business. Outside it, price is exploring. The edges matter more than the middle.

Buyer / Seller Node Coloring — each volume node is colored by which side did the work at that price. This is the difference between knowing volume happened and knowing who did it.

The signal engine fires when price returns to a volume reference on unusually heavy volume for that time of day. Strength measures how many independent references agree at that price — not how big the candle is, and not how fast price moved.

1. Trace — One volume reference in play. Awareness, not a trade. Mark the level and move on. Trace tells you where to look, not where to enter.
2. Build — A second independent reference agrees at that price. Tradeable with confirmation. Wait for your own trigger — a rejection wick, a reclaim, a VPAX absorption print. Never enter on the Build alone.
3. Convergence — Three agree. Different participants, same price. This is your bread and butter. Three uncoordinated groups defending one price is real structure.
4. Apex — Four or more. Maximum agreement, and rare. Apex prints a handful of times a month, not a handful of times a day.

Guidance lines are drawn at the exact level each signal fired against. This is the most practically useful thing on the chart because it removes the guesswork from two decisions at once.

Volume touch markers flag when price meets the previous day's high or low with real participation behind it. This is the difference between a genuine test and a drive-by tag.

That is the indicator working as designed. Previous day and previous week high, low and close are drawn on your chart — but they are not treated as static lines.

Our script runs across yesterday's completed volume distribution and scores every node for continued relevance against today's developing structure, weighted by how much participation is still defending it. Only the references that survive that scoring get passed into the signal engine. The rest are drawn for context but carry no weight.

Nine times out of ten it is one of two things. Check these first, in this order:

If both check out, walk these steps:

1. Confirm your access is confirmed by email. Invite-only scripts only appear once your TradingView username has been added.
2. Check the script is present under Indicators → Invite-Only Scripts and shows a checkmark.
3. Remove and re-add the script. TradingView sometimes caches an older version after we push an update.
4. Hard refresh: Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + R (Mac).
5. Check the eye icon next to the script name — it may simply be toggled off.

It works on any volume-rich market — stocks, futures, forex or crypto. The requirement is not the asset class. It is whether the instrument reports genuine traded volume through the sessions.

Volume Profile runs standalone with its own built-in signal engine — it does not depend on anything else. But each tool in the suite answers a different question, and the highest-conviction trades are the ones where several agree.

1. Market Map Pro — Where are the levels? LIS, Magnets, Variance Zones, Regime Line.
2. Volume Profile w/Pre-Market — Which of those levels still has volume behind it, and is it being tested right now?
3. VWAP ATR+ — Does the move have room left, or is it exhausted?
4. VPAX — Is size being absorbed at this exact price right now?

The complete documentation lives on the how-to guide — every element explained, all settings with their defaults, your daily routine, four high-probability setups, best-practice configurations by timeframe, and the common mistakes to avoid.

The how-to guide covers: