PFA_Cumulative Volume

Complex Technical Summary – PFA_Cumulative Volume Indicator

The PFA_Cumulative Volume indicator implements a session-normalized volume aggregation framework that conditionally resets at each daily time boundary, thereby isolating intraday participation dynamics from multi-day carryover noise. By cumulatively summing raw traded volume from the session open, the script constructs a real-time proxy for directional conviction and liquidity absorption across the trading day.

In parallel, the indicator captures the immediate microstructure context by explicitly retaining the volume of the last two completed candles, enabling short-horizon comparative analysis of participation decay, acceleration, or stalling. This dual-layer design—macro session accumulation coupled with micro candle-level volume comparison—allows traders to infer whether price movement is being structurally supported by expanding market involvement or merely drifting due to transient order flow.

The visualization layer, implemented via a dynamically updated table overlay, prioritizes informational density over graphical plots. By segregating cumulative session volume, last-candle volume, and second-last-candle volume into discrete cells, the indicator facilitates rapid regime assessment without distorting price charts. Functionally, the tool does not assert directional bias; instead, it acts as a participation integrity monitor, highlighting divergence between price action and underlying volume commitment, which is critical for detecting distribution, exhaustion, or false continuation scenarios.

In essence, the indicator operationalizes volume as a state variable rather than a trigger, framing trades around the sustainability of market effort rather than isolated price events.