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Pressure Wave
NewFreeSigned volume pressure as a gradient wave with tide line and divergences
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- Language
- QuaScript
- Engine
- Native C++, incremental on live ticks
- Rendering
- WebGPU + Canvas
- Placement
- Own pane
- Settings
- 4
- Plots
- 5
- Lines of code
- 73
- Source
- presets/analysis/gpu/pressure_wave.qs
About
Buying and selling pressure as a glowing wave. Each bar's buy and sell volume (exchange order flow when the chart has it, otherwise a bulk-volume estimate) gives a signed pressure between -1 and +1; a fast and a slow volume-weighted average of it form the wave. The area under the fast wave is filled with a per-bar gradient on a profit-and-loss ramp, the slow wave is the tide line, and the histogram is their difference. Reading: a wave above the tide and rising = buyers pressing; a wave that rolls over while price still makes highs is a pressure divergence, the early warning of a top (mirror for bottoms). Signals: tide crosses, bullish and bearish pressure divergences at confirmed swings.
What it draws
Own pane · counted from the engine's plot table and the script's draw calls
Series
- Line3 visible · 1 helperZeroWaveTide
- Histogram1Wave minus tide
- Band fills (render.band calls)1
Signal marks
Drawings and chart effects
- Dashboard tables1 created
How it runs
From source to the live chart, for this script
- 1Compile
The QuaScript compiler checks the 73-line script (63 lines of code) and lowers it for the native C++ engine. Compile errors point at the exact line and column.
- 2Place
The header sets
pane = hpanewithheight = 0.26(26% of the chart), so the output gets its own pane under the price with its own scale. - 3Compute
The script runs once per bar, oldest to newest. 7
persistvariables keep state (objects, counters) across bars. - 4Stay live
On the terminal the script keeps one live engine session: a tick rolls the forming bar back to its checkpoint and re-executes only that bar, and new bars are appended, so history is never rerun while the market moves. The live result is identical to a full run.
- 5Render
The results are handed to the chart: series on WebGPU, drawings on the Canvas 2D QuaScript layer.
- 6Tune
4 settings in 2 groups appear in the chart's settings dialog. Changing one reruns the engine with the new value.
Rendering
Hybrid: this script draws on 2 surfaces at once
The browser's modern GPU API. The chart uploads every line, band and mark of the script as GPU buffers and draws them in one pass, so dense heatmaps and dozens of series stay smooth while you pan and zoom. Without WebGPU support the chart's GPU layer falls back to WebGL 2, then Canvas 2D.
- • 5 plotted series
- • 1 band fill call
- • 4 signal mark types
Chosen by render = webgpu in the header.
GPU drawing through WebGL 2, available in every current browser. Used for chart-native profiles and for series that ask for it with backend = "webgl". Fast for large numbers of bars and wide fills.
The browser's 2D drawing API. Text-heavy and object-style output (dashboard tables, zones, tags, segments), candle colors and backgrounds are painted by the QuaScript layer, a Canvas 2D surface over the chart. Series use Canvas when the script's header does not ask for a GPU.
- • 1 dashboard tables (QuaScript layer)
Alerts
2 alert rules declared with alert.rule
Lower price low with a higher pressure low
Higher price high with a lower pressure high
Settings
4 settings, grouped as in the chart's settings dialog
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wave length | Integer | 8 | 2 – 200 | wave_length |
| Tide length | Integer | 34 | 5 – 500 | tide_length |
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swing bars | Integer | 5 | 2 – 30 | swing_bars |
| Divergence reach (bars) | Integer | 60 | 10 – 500 | divergence_reach_bars |
Script
packages/quascript/presets/analysis/gpu/pressure_wave.qs
Header
analysis "Pressure Wave" {
pane = hpane
height = 0.26
render = webgpu
short_title = PWV
precision = 2
}- Total lines
- 73
- Code lines
- 63
- Comment lines
- 9
- Helper functions
- 0
- Loops
- 0
- Persistent variables
- 7
- Higher-interval feeds
- 0
- Engine plots
- 5
Built with
ta.bars_sinceta.cross_downta.cross_upta.emata.pivot_highta.pivot_lowhft.flowmath.clampmath.coalescemath.is_namath.maxviz/premium
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