Delta Pressure Spectrum

What this indicator is (brief)

Delta Pressure Spectrum (DPS-3) is a volume-pressure oscillator that estimates buy vs sell imbalance (a delta proxy), then normalizes it into a robust z-score so “significant” pressure means the same thing across different volatility regimes and market conditions. It visualizes that pressure as delta candles + a histogram, and only “lights up” with three breach tiers (plus an ultra-rare white core) when the move is statistically extreme for the current environment.

How to use it:
1) Read it like a pressure gauge, not an entry signal
-Histogram/candle height = intensity of net pressure (buy-dominant vs sell-dominant).

It’s best at telling you: “Is this move real pressure or just price wiggling?”

2) The 3 tiers tell you “how abnormal” the pressure is
-Tier-1 (weak breach): meaningful but common; “something’s happening.”
-Tier-2 (strong breach): rare enough to care; often aligns with real expansions / squeezes / liquidation events.
-Tier-3 (extreme breach): statistically extreme; often shows climactic behavior (either continuation impulse or blow-off/flush conditions).
-White core: only when Tier-3 overshoots hard—treat as “exceptional event.”

Key idea: tiers are adaptive. Tier-2 on BTC 1m and Tier-2 on ES 1h should both represent “strong for that regime.”

3) Best ways to trade with it (high-signal)
-Trend continuation confirmation: In an uptrend, repeated Tier-2/Tier-3 on the up side = real demand; avoid fading unless structure breaks.
-Exhaustion / climax watch: Tier-3 + white core after an extended run = “crowded pressure.” That can precede either: continuation (if structure holds), or reversal / mean reversion (if structure fails).

So you use it as a warning light, then let price structure confirm.

-Compression → expansion detection:
-Quiet baseline for a while, then sudden Tier-2/Tier-3 = expansion regime shift.
-Divergence (use carefully): Price makes new high, DPS-3 fails to reach prior tier intensity → weakening participation. This is most useful on HTFs or at major levels.

4) What the alerts should mean (how you set them)
-Tier-3 breach alerts: your “something serious just hit the tape” alert.
-Pressure flip alerts: best used as contextual reversal confirmation (it requires strong context in your logic).
-White core alert: extremely rare “event mode” notification—use sparingly.

5) One simple rule that keeps you out of trouble
-Don’t fade Tier-2/Tier-3 pressure just because it’s extreme. Fade only when price structure says the move failed (break of trend / reclaim failure / key level loss). DPS-3 tells you strength, structure tells you directional validity.