This indicator puts the time-based research of trader Daye on your chart. Daye studied the ICT killzones and macro times and presented his findings, as “Quarterly Theory” on YouTube. Thank you Daye for sharing!
This indicator is not the first, so S/O to @toodegrees, @a1tmaniac and @joshuuu for their own excellent Quarterly Theory indicators. Last but not least, huge thanks go to ICT for his trading innovation and generous free price action education and to @twingall for his insight, attention to detail and great teamwork coding this indicator.
Daye’s Quarterly Theory
First, the fundamental concept is that all units of time can be divided by four into quarters -- just as we look at the year’s corporate reporting cycle of Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4.
Dividing the day by four, into six hour quarters and again into 90 minute quarters and again into 22.5 minute ‘Micro’ quarters we reach the smallest unit shown by this indicator. Apply it to your NQ1! or ES1! charts and you may see remarkable confluence with the ICT macro times!
Why would we want to do this? It helps us understand, visualize and predict ICT’s PO3 concept:
• A - Accumulation (required for a cycle to occur) • M - Manipulation • D - Distribution • X - Reversal/Continuation
The bottom line - we want to sell after a manipulation (M) up, or buy after a manipulation down and Quarterly Theory plots times on your chart where this may occur. Every asset is different, so back-test and research it.
Note, this indicator always shows Q1 as the accumulation quarter (by color), but the order is not fixed and instead of AMDX may appear as XAMD, where Q1 is the Reversal/Continuation quarter. We may eventually offer an update to this indicator which would automatically transpose the quarter colors for you.
The Quarters
Yearly: • Q1 - Jan, Feb, Mar • Q2 - Apr, May, Jun • Q3 - Jul, Aug, Sep • Q4 - Oct, Nov, Dec
Monthly (starts with the first month’s Monday regardless of the date): • Q1 - Week 1, first Monday of the month • Q2 - Week 2, second Monday of the month • Q3 - Week 3, third Monday of the month • Q4 - Week 4, fourth Monday of the month
This indicator plots the quarterly time boxes in a panel which can be placed above or below your chart. It allows you to add labels with the opening time and dates and also place time of day markers which can be useful for anyone who wants to mark lunch, and of the trading day or perhaps a favorite ICT macro time. It also works on GOLD (CAPITALCOM), DXY (TVC), currencies and stocks in Regular Trading Hour (RTH) mode.
Note the way that the indicator displays quarters is affected by the time frame you are viewing and as a result you may notice imperfections. Also, the indicator is not tuned to work with every broker, so for example with DXY, you will see the TVC feed is displayed nicely but other feeds are not.
Settings
The DQT indicator offers a great deal of flexibility to customize the display of quarters aesthetically. But it’s designed to work out-of-the-box on both light and dark background charts. It's set up to only show 90 minute and micro quarters initially, but in the settings, you can turn on the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly quarters. Remember you will only see the Micros on the 7 minute TF or lower.
Lastly, the DQT indicator works well with our DOB indicator allowing you to visualize the confluence of high timeframe PDAs or POIs with manipulation quarters.
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Versionshinweise
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Reorganized the settings for clarity and updated chart to comply with publishing rules.
Hey there! Thanks for the indicator! A request if you don't mind, can you add opening prices of the True Opens too?
Liquidity_Pro
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@xe_, thanks for writing - I do want to add this feature and hope to do it sometime in the next few weeks. which time frames do you use?
edwinsutirto393
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@Liquidity_Pro, yes true open please. If from micro to yearly and toggle on or off. If I day trade I turn on 90 and micro. If I swing I turn on above 90m cycle. If you can do that, this is the best indicator for QT theory🔥 thank you so much🙏
Liquidity_Pro
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@edwinsutirto393, Yes, that's how I use it also. Unfortunately, the true open lines has to be done in a separate indicator... Still, we plan to do it.
edwinsutirto393
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@Liquidity_Pro, oh okay. Yeah well the at1 have all in 1 indicator with the true open too. But i prefer the Q1-Q4 like yours on the bottom not on chart like him . Oh well. Thank you
Liquidity_Pro
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@edwinsutirto393, yes I also use at1's - but hope to improvee on it
LAMOONBOY
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hello , Can you create indicator like savfx ?
ict_arg
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If you add all the true opens (Q2) on this indicator will be the best.
AlichaQT
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Hi, Thanks for the indicator. Just noticed, I seem to get a lack of time in each Q doesn't matter what the input timezone I put in. Please advise. Thx
iambigfish
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Hi, Can you make the date and time adjustable.. for example if i want my day to start at a particular time different from the normal or regular time. For the weekly and lower i want to set my own time if possible