Comparing Current Intraday Candles with a Historical Replay

Summary

This indicator description explains how to overlay candles from a selected historical date on a live chart. It aligns the replay zone with a matching region on the current chart, including aligning the last replay candle and current candle by opening price. Users can inspect the historical candles with tooltips for time, open, high, low, close, range, direction, and volume. The overlay and candle colors can be customized, and the zone can be moved interactively.

The intended use is visual comparison: traders can examine what price did after a prior period with a similar chart position and time of day. The description does not claim that matching candles predict future price movement, and it provides no testing or performance evidence. It says the tool requires intraday data and will show no candles if the selected replay date was a market holiday or closure; its timeframe guidance is internally inconsistent about whether the one-minute interval is supported.

Key ideas

• The indicator overlays candles from a chosen historical date onto a live intraday chart.
• It aligns the replay and current zones by matching the endpoints and their opening prices.
• Tooltips display candle prices, range, direction, time, and volume.
• The overlay supports visual comparison but provides no evidence that historical similarity predicts future movement.
• The description warns that closed-market dates produce no replay candles and gives inconsistent one-minute timeframe guidance.

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