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Stacked imbalances above PoC on a BTC Bid × Ask footprint chart

BTC on 15-minute bars in the 0xArchive Terminal, 2026-10-23.

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Load it on BTC 15m in the terminal, then change its settings or open it in the script editor.
Buyers stepping up through a bar’s busiest price and holding there into the close: three or more imbalanced rows in a row, wholly above the bar’s point of control, on a bar that closed above it. Each stack is shaded across the bar, on the Bid × Ask footprint’s own rows, so it sits exactly on the imbalances the footprint colours. Side marks selling stacks too, or only them. The imbalances follow the footprint chart’s rule: buying at a row against the selling one row below it (diagonal), three times or more, leaving out cells under 8% of the bar’s biggest. Each is an input. Only closed bars are marked, since “closed above” needs a close.

How it works

chart.rowSize is the row size the footprint draws, Auto or the reader’s own. volumeProfile() gives each bar’s rows and point of control at that size, and plot.cells shades each stack as one band inside the bar. When Auto picks other rows as you zoom, the script runs again on them.

Try changing

  • Require the close above the stack itself, not just the PoC, for buyers who held every row they took.
  • Turn on its alert to hear of each one as the bar closes.

The script

stacked-above-poc.ts

Next step

See the next example, Trapped traders.
Last modified on October 23, 2026