Early Relative Volume

"Buy or Sell when you see a spike in volume" is advice that you often hear, the problem for me was that you only find out that volume is spiking after the fact. So that's why I created the Early Relative Volume indicator.

The Early Relative Volume indicator takes the amount of time that has passed for the current bar, let's say 10 seconds, and compares the volume of that first 10 seconds to the average volume in 10 seconds of the previous candle.

That means that it will tell you if the volume thus far in the current candle is more or less than the relative volume of the previous candle, so that you can potentially get an indication that the volume of the current candle is going to be greater or less than the previous candle.

This approach is of course not perfect, and obviously the values update as the current candle progresses, but I've found it useful to identify early breakout candles.

There is also an option to do the same calculation with the size of the body of the candle, by enabling the "Blue bars if candle body and volume bigger" option. It will only turn blue of both the volume and the size of the candle's body is calculated to be bigger.

I hope this helps you in your trading!