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Asia, London and New York, each with its volume profile inside its bracket — HVN and LVN marked, the POC drawn as a level beside the high and low.

Chart pictures are illustrations of the software, not a performance record. Futures trading carries substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor, and hypothetical or simulated results have inherent limitations that may differ materially from live trading. Risk disclosures.

Why you need it

A session's high and low show where it traded; they don't show where it did its business. DS ASL adds that: inside every session's bracket, the volume it traded at each price, with the busiest price — the POC — carried forward as a level beside the high and low, so the last session's accepted prices are on the chart when price comes back to them.

On the chart

Everything DS Session Levels draws is here, unchanged. Inside every bracket it draws the session's volume profile — how much traded at each price — and turns the busiest price, the POC, into a level of its own. It sits behind your candles and never touches your price scale.

  1. 01Thin bars inside the bracket — the session's volume at each price; the longest is the POC, the stronger bars the value area
  2. 02A line from the longest bar — the POC as a level, dotted forward until the session opens again, faded once price trades at it
  3. 03A thick bar or a hairline with a serif — an HVN, or the LVN, the thin place between two of them
  4. 04A dotted spine — more than 5% of that profile was completed from 1-minute bars

Before you buy

What it needs, where it runs, and what it is not.

Where it runs

MarketsBuilt on NQ · MNQ

Futures and stocks

  • Futures — runs on it
  • Stocks — runs on it
  • Forex — not supported
  • Crypto — not supported

The session profiles are built from traded volume. Forex and CFDs report none in NinjaTrader — DS Session Levels, the free one, is the tool for those.

What it reads

Price and traded volume, on any intraday chart: real trades read in the background, gaps filled from 1-minute bars. No Tick Replay.

NinjaTrader 8 · 8.1.8.1 or newer. Everything runs on your machine, on your own data feed.

Good to know

No Tick Replay needed: the trade history is read in the background, and the chart never waits for it.

It comes free with DS Complete and is not sold on its own.

DS Universe tools are charting and research software for educational and informational purposes. They are not investment advice and no output is a forecast or a guarantee of any result. Trading futures and other leveraged instruments carries substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor.

NinjaTrader

Test it on your own charts first.

Four screenshots and a paragraph are not enough to judge an indicator on. Watch it work in your own instrument, on your own timeframe, before it goes anywhere near a live account. Both ways of doing that are free.

Get NinjaTrader freeAbout the simulator
  1. 01

    Replay a session you have already seen

    Market Replay runs a past session back tick by tick, at whatever speed you like. You get to watch DS ASL print in conditions you remember, and pause on the bars where it mattered.

  2. 02

    Then trade it forward, on the simulator

    Replay shows you the past with the ending already known. The simulator does not — it runs live, in real time, on real prices, with nothing at stake. That is where you find out whether you can actually act on what you are seeing.

A simulated fill is not a live fill. Replay and the simulator cannot reproduce real queue position, slippage, or what it feels like to hold a position with money on it, and results from either may differ materially from live trading. Test to learn how a tool behaves — not to estimate what it might return.

See it work

DS ASL, moment by moment

The conditions DS ASL is built for, drawn by its shipped rules. Scroll and scale it like a chart, replay it bar by bar, jump between its moments, or switch the chart to light.

DS Replay examples are illustrative: each scenario is composed for the example from recorded one-minute futures candles, to show the conditions a tool is built for, and is not a recording of a trading session. The tool drawing on it runs its shipped rules unchanged. They show how the software reads price; they are not a performance record, no trade is taken or shown, and live markets often behave differently. Futures trading carries substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor, and hypothetical or simulated results have inherent limitations that may differ materially from live trading. Risk disclosures.

Also in the bundle

DS Complete