MIZAN Flow · preview guide · v1.0.2
What each label measures, when it becomes available, and what to check when the chart gets quiet.
Flow is not open for purchase yet. View launch status on Whop. This guide describes the current preview. Bar Replay has a known memory-limit issue. Read the limitations before using the preview.
Use TradingView Premium or Ultimate and a standard candlestick chart. Start with an instrument and timeframe you already understand.
Open Settings → Inputs → Display and turn Status bar on while learning. Read candle: and block:; footprint, intrabars and estimate are different kinds of evidence.
Read its actual duration. A requested 5-minute lens uses 6-minute blocks on a 3-minute chart. Give the trend and averages time to warm up.
Find its meaning below. Note when it became available, then compare it with your own trading rules. A mark is not an instruction to enter.
The status panel and optional candle recoloring are off by default. Your existing candle colors stay intact. Turn the panel on when checking data sources, then hide it again for a clean chart. When enabled, it appears bottom center at normal size.
When access opens, use the exact script named in your access confirmation under Indicators → Invite-only scripts. Do not purchase Core to obtain Flow.
The label dictionary
Green and red indicate the direction of the observation. They do not mean “buy now” and “sell now.” Marks can coexist or be suppressed by the trend guard. When several marks share one candle and side, the candidate combines them into one label with separate lines. A combined circle or diamond is shown as ● or ◆.
The retained flow state changes to bullish while the block price trend is still down, or bearish while the price trend is still up.
The default setting requires a change of side. A brief neutral pause followed by the same side does not print another FLOW.
Available on the next block’s first tick. Drawn on the completed block’s last candle.“Leads” describes current disagreement. It does not establish that price will follow.
A FLOW event also has qualifying stacked imbalances in the same direction within that completed block.
The default stack is at least three consecutive qualifying price levels, using the 300% imbalance setting.
Same timing as FLOW: next block’s first tick, drawn one candle back.The plus means an additional condition, not a stronger proven probability.
The flow state changes into the direction of the block’s price trend. It is not a fresh price-trend flip or a trade entry.
A block event. Available next block; placed on the previous candle.Flow and price-trend warm-up must finish before this event can print.
A block with above-average volume closes against its classified delta. By default, delta must oppose the close by at least 15% of block volume.
Every candle in the block must have usable footprint totals. Mixed-source blocks do not qualify.
A block event. Available next block; placed on the previous candle.This is a price/volume condition. It does not identify a hidden buyer, seller or institution.
At a fresh or equal high/low over the lookback, the aggressive side’s volume at the extreme is thin relative to the average price row. The candle also closes away from the extreme.
Defaults: 10-candle lookback and a 15% extreme-row threshold. Usable row data and at least four footprint rows are needed.
Finalizes at the candle close. Same-side spacing and the trend guard can withhold it.“Exhaustion” is a condition name. The move can continue afterward.
A shaded zone covers a qualifying run of stacked price-level imbalances. By default, its candle volume must meet the 20-candle average.
A green zone retires when a candle closes below its lower edge. A red zone retires when a candle closes above its upper edge.
Created and retired on closed candles. The oldest zones also retire when the configured count is exceeded.A zone is not a guaranteed support or resistance level.
The pivot’s extreme price row has classified volume on both sides. The line marks that level once the swing is confirmed.
The line retires when price trades back to the level, evaluated on a closed candle, or when the live-line count is exceeded.
Default: three later pivot candles and confirmation at close. Drawn back from the original swing.A line does not imply that price must return. The chart omits retired lines.
Optional green coloring: price closes up against sufficiently negative delta. Red: price closes down against sufficiently positive delta.
Defaults require at least 20% opposing delta and volume meeting its 20-candle average. Footprint or intrabar data is needed.
Finalizes at candle close. The example has this coloring switched off.Older brochure wording called these “hidden buyers/sellers.” The code cannot observe hidden orders or identities.
A lower price swing low has a higher CVD low, or a higher price swing high has a lower CVD high. The compared swings must share a CVD reset segment, with no missing-data or estimate-only stretch between them.
Defaults compare swings no more than 60 candles apart, with three pivot candles on each side.
Only available after three later candles by default and the confirming candle’s close. Drawn back on the swing.Historical placement is not when you could have acted on the information.
Each line keeps its own availability time. A later block or swing confirmation can add a line to an earlier candle’s annotation. The candidate retains the latest 500 annotation objects; older annotations retire. This is not a complete permanent event ledger.
It is hidden by default. Turn on Settings → Inputs → Display → Status bar to see four rows: CVD; flow and price trend; agreement and guard; data sources.
Use it when learning the marks or checking missing data. The current candle can use a different source from the last completed flow block. Hiding the panel also hides its data-quality warnings.
At the default 5% dead zone, BULL entry needs smoothed flow above +5% and two consecutive valid blocks with positive delta; BEAR uses below −5% and two negative blocks. The candidate becomes neutral at or inside ±2.5%. It also revokes BULL below −5%, or BEAR above +5%, unless the opposite state already qualifies. Smaller disagreements may persist between those boundaries.
TradingView’s categorized buy/sell volume supplies candle totals and, when available, price rows. Valid totals and usable row detail are checked separately.
Sparse, absent or more than 300 rows can still leave valid footprint totals. The optional status panel displays a totals-only warning, and Flow skips level reads; it does not turn good totals into a proxy estimate.
Without usable footprint totals, Auto classifies lower-timeframe volume from price changes. The summed intrabar volume must reconcile to the chart candle’s volume.
A nonzero mismatched sample is unavailable, not a full candle and not silently replaced by an estimate. Accepted intrabars support CVD, flow and qualifying candle reads, but do not create footprint price rows.
If footprint totals are unusable and no nonzero intrabar sample is available, Auto can split candle volume using the close’s location in the candle range.
A rough input to CVD and flow, clearly labeled as an estimate. It does not support price-level reads. Swing-divergence comparisons cannot cross an estimate-only stretch.
An incomplete or no-volume block leaves the previous flow EMA unchanged, breaks consecutive flow confirmation and produces no new FLOW, FLOW+, circle or ABS event. The status says data incomplete. Price-trend calculations can continue from price.
Intrabar volume must match chart volume within a numerical tolerance of 0.000001 × max(1, |chart volume|). This checks aggregation consistency; it does not prove data accuracy or completeness in the feed itself.
CVD remains visible with a since-reset quality qualifier. Swing comparisons cannot cross missing-data or estimate-only stretches. A block can still be partial at the start of loaded history or a session gap; “valid” here refers to the available constituent candles.
Footprint only disables the lower tiers. When usable footprint data is absent, the script cannot manufacture it. “No data” is not a neutral market opinion.
The script calls TradingView’s footprint API. Fallback calculations do not bypass that plan restriction. TradingView and exchange data charges are separate from Flow.
All tiers depend on the feed. Data revisions, loaded history and settings can change recalculated historical marks. No non-repainting guarantee is made.
These are the v1.0.2 release candidate’s defaults. Save your chart, note the version and settings, and compare the same symbol and timeframe.
The candidate’s defaults are starting values, not values validated for every symbol or a fitted trading strategy.
In Flow’s inputs, enable the flow lens alerts you want. Candle alerts are off by default because they can be frequent on short charts.
Select the Flow script and Any alert() function call. Choose your notification channels and save the alert.
TradingView alerts keep the script and inputs from creation time. Recreate them after changing the build, inputs, symbol or timeframe.
The candidate groups matching block events into one message and matching candle-close events into another. A candle can therefore produce both types. Block messages identify the completed block’s close and data source; swing events retain their confirmation delay. Check the timestamp and context before using a notification.
Historical rendering does not verify realtime notification delivery. Block-boundary and live alert checks remain part of release testing before sales open.
Native checks on NQ 5-minute Bar Replay reported “Memory limits exceeded” with both the v1.0.2 candidate and the older v1.0.1 preview.
The cause is unresolved. These tests do not establish a platform bug or production readiness. Replay compatibility has not been cleared; the candidate remains under private evaluation.
Check that the feature is enabled, the source is usable, enough history is loaded and the trend is past warm-up. The guard may be withholding countertrend marks. A qualifying condition simply may not have occurred.
Do not lower thresholds just to create activity. A quiet chart is a valid outcome, not evidence that a trend must continue.
Read the source status. CVD and flow can use fallback data. Row-based zones, EX and auction reads need usable footprint rows; ABS requires usable footprint totals on every candle in its block.
Also check feature inputs, row-limit warnings and warm-up. A retired zone or line disappears by design.
Do not read missing data as balanced pressure. A nonzero lower-timeframe sample whose volume does not match the chart candle is rejected. Check your symbol, feed, session and available history.
The last valid flow calculation is held internally, but the incomplete block cannot print new flow events. Confirm that the source status recovers before interpreting fresh marks. CVD’s incomplete qualifier remains until its next reset.
Block marks are drawn on the completed block’s last candle after the next block begins. Swing diamonds and auction lines wait for later pivot confirmation, then appear back at the swing.
That placement does not mean the mark was available at that earlier time. Historical recalculation can also change with data, history and settings.
Check the build, symbol, feed, timeframe, session and timezone. The example uses NQ standard 3-minute candles, ETH and a requested 5-minute lens that rounds to 6 minutes.
Its white/purple candles, recoloring off and bottom-center normal status are display preferences. Saved layouts can retain different inputs.
Move the status to bottom center, adjust its text size and leave some chart margin below price. Hide unused mark families or reduce optional candle coloring if your chart is busy.
The candidate combines marks on the same candle and side into one multiline label to reduce the overlaps seen in earlier previews. Adjacent candles can still become crowded at extreme zoom. Native layout testing remains separate from the website’s expandable image.
Flow uses the available price and volume data for the chart symbol. Futures, stocks, crypto or FX feeds may differ materially in volume quality and footprint availability.
Start on familiar standard intraday candles and check the reported source. The flow lens does not operate on daily or higher charts. Do not assume the same settings or interpretation transfer across markets.
Email Qasim with the script build, symbol, timeframe, feed, source status and a screenshot. Include the relevant input if you changed it.
Crop out private account information. Never send your TradingView password or payment-card details.
Flow adds context to your existing method. It does not execute trades, identify hidden participants, enforce account risk limits or promise a profitable result.
Not financial advice. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.