📊 Market Environment – Introduction #

The Market Environment indicator is built on ICT (Inner Circle Trader) methodology to provide a structured visual framework around the IBDR (Interbank Dealing Range).

Its goal is simple: help you instantly determine whether you’re in a logical buying or selling zone.

By displaying Premium, Discount, and Equilibrium zones across multiple timeframes, the indicator helps filter market noise and align your trades with institutional logic.


📌 Purpose of the Indicator #

The IBDR answers one crucial question:

“Am I buying too high or selling too low?”

To help with that, the indicator automatically plots:

  • Interbank Dealing Ranges (IBDR) across multiple timeframes (e.g. 30m, 1h)
  • Premium / Discount zones and the Equilibrium
  • Intermediate and optimal levels to refine your entries


🧠 Who is this tool for? #

Whether you are:

  • A beginner tired of entering trades at random
  • An intermediate trader looking to filter setups with more logic
  • An advanced trader aiming to align with Smart Money behavior

👉 Market Environment helps you:

  • Stop trading blindly
  • Wait for entries in favorable zones
  • Quickly analyze the market structure across multiple timeframes


⚙️ Modularity & Customization #

Every feature can be tailored to your trading style:

  • Select the timeframes (e.g. 15m, 30m, 1h)
  • Choose IBDR sensitivity: high, medium, or low
  • Pick which levels to display (Equilibrium, 0.25, OTE, etc.)
  • Customize the color, lines, and labels
  • Enable automatic IBDR switching

👉 Whether you’re a scalper or a swing trader, this indicator adapts to your market view.


🔔 Built-in Alerts #

The indicator includes several types of alerts:

  • When a new IBDR is plotted
  • When the High or Low of the IBDR is broken
  • When price crosses from Premium → Discount (or vice versa)

📍 Alerts can be configured:

  • Globally via Any alert() function call
  • Individually (e.g. “New Environment”, “High Break”…)

👉 To learn more, visit the Alerts – Market Environment page.


🔍 What you’ll find in this section #

To get the most out of this indicator, the section is divided into:

  1. IBDR – Theory: understand how Smart Money structures the market
  2. IBDR – Application: configure and read the indicator effectively
  3. Alerts: receive the right signals at the right time
  4. FAQ – Common questions answered to help you use the indicator effectively  
  5. (Coming Soon) Use cases – Learn how to combine modules in real trading situations 
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