HTF Candles

Overlay higher-timeframe candle structures on your execution chart with OHLC projections and SMT detection.

Overview

The HTF Candles indicator visualizes higher-timeframe candle structures directly on your execution chart. Rather than switching timeframes, you can observe HTF candle components — OHLC, wicks — while maintaining focus on lower timeframes like 1 or 5-minute charts.

The tool renders up to 10 historical HTF candles plus the current forming one, includes an optional countdown timer until HTF candle closure, automatically detects SMT divergences, and displays horizontal projection lines for the current HTF candle's OHLC levels.

Settings

Info Box

Show Info Box — Toggle (default: on)

Text Color — Color picker (default: black, 20% transparent)

Timeframe Settings

Timeframe — 1 MIN to 1 MONTH (default: 15 MIN)

Display Settings

Number of HTF Candles — 1–10 (default: 5)

Horizontal Offset — 1–50 (default: 10)

Candle Width — Narrow / Medium / Wide / Extra Wide (default: Medium)

Transparency — None / Low / Medium / High / Full (default: None)

Show Time Label — Toggle (default: on)

Time Format — 24 Hour / 12 Hour (default: 24 Hour)

Label Size — Tiny / Small / Normal / Large / Huge (default: Small)

Show HTF Close Timer — Toggle (default: on)

Visual Settings

Bullish Color — Color picker (default: green)

Bearish Color — Color picker (default: red)

Border Color — Color picker (default: black)

Wick Color — Color picker (default: black)

Alert Settings

Enable Alerts — Toggle (default: on)

SMT Settings

Enable SMT — Toggle (default: on)

Correlated Asset — Symbol (default: CME_MINI:ES1!)

SMT Color — Color picker (default: black)

SMT Line Style — Solid / Dashed / Dotted (default: Dashed)

SMT Line Width — 1–5 (default: 1)

Enable SMT Alerts — Toggle (default: on)

Show SMT Labels — Toggle (default: on)

Current Candle Projections

Enable Projections — Toggle (default: on)

Left Extension (bars) — 0–50 (default: 8)

Show Open / High / Low / Close — Individual toggles (all default: on)

Open / High / Low / Close Color — Individual color pickers (all default: black)

Line Style — Solid / Dashed / Dotted (default: Dotted)

Line Width — 1–5 (default: 1)

Show Price Labels — Toggle (default: on)

Label Size — Tiny / Small / Normal / Large / Huge (default: Small)

How We Use It

HTF Candles integrates into CRT-focused workflows, typically configured to 15-minute timeframes on 1-minute charts. The close timer enables precise entry timing relative to distribution candle phases.