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The best settings are the ones you've watched work.

No preset fits every market, timeframe and trading style. The starting settings on this page are a place to begin. The way to find what works for you is to test them on your own charts and watch how price behaves at the zones.

1. Pick one market and one timeframe, and stick with them until you finish.
2. Load the starting settings, then press Replay at the top of the Hyperprop chart and go back a few weeks. Let the bars play and adjust the settings as zones form, so you see each change on fresh price action instead of hindsight.
3. For each zone, note what price did when it came back: reacted at the edge, reacted at the midline, or sliced straight through.
4. Change one setting at a time. Changing two at once tells you nothing about either.
5. Keep the version that gives you fewer, cleaner zones you would actually trade.
6. Check again when the market's behaviour changes: a news-heavy week, a holiday session, a volatility spike.

Ignore gaps too small to matter.

Every market leaves tiny gaps that are just noise: a tick or two between candles during a quiet minute. The minimum size filter drops them so only gaps of a meaningful size are drawn.

Ticks suit futures, where every contract has a fixed tick and traders think in ticks. % of price suits perps: tick sizes differ from coin to coin and are often a fraction of a cent, so a percentage scales the same on BTC at $80k and on a coin at $2.

Raise it on low timeframes or noisy markets. Lower it if real zones you can see on the chart aren't being drawn.

Size the gap against recent volatility.

A 10-point gap means something different in a quiet overnight session than in the first minutes after the open. This filter compares each gap with ATR, the average true range of recent candles, so the bar for "big enough" moves with the market.

At 0.5, a gap has to be at least half a typical candle's range. This was the original "major zone" filter and it is on by default.

Test it as a range. Most markets sit somewhere between 0.4 and 0.7; thin, wicky markets need more. Raise the multiple to keep only the major zones. Lower it on slow markets where gaps rarely get large.

Only zones born while volatility is rising.

This filter compares a fast ATR with the slow one. When the fast ATR is above the slow ATR by your ratio, the market is speeding up: an open, a news release, a breakout from a range. Zones that form then come out of a change in behaviour rather than ordinary drift.

Turn it on for most markets. It is in every starting preset, because zones from quiet drift are the ones most likely to fail. Treat the ratio as a range to test rather than one number: around 1.05–1.15 on the index futures, gold and BTC/ETH, and higher for faster or thinner markets like crude, large-cap alts and small caps.

Turn it off only in steady, grinding trends where volatility stays flat while zones still hold, or if you see clean zones on the chart that aren't being drawn.

Was the move unusual for this market, right now?

The middle candle is the one that made the gap. This filter measures how far its range sits above the recent average, in standard deviations. At 1.5, that candle has to be clearly bigger than most candles in the lookback window.

That separates real displacement, a market moving with intent, from a normal candle that happened to leave a gap. It's the most direct way to keep only impulse moves.

1.0 is loose, 1.5 is a good middle, 2.0 and above keeps only standout candles.

Was there participation behind it?

A gap made on heavy volume had real orders behind it. A gap made on thin volume can be one large order in an empty book. This filter keeps zones only when the middle candle's volume is above its recent average by your multiple.

On CME futures, volume is the whole market. On perps, it's one venue's volume, so it reflects that exchange rather than the coin as a whole. If the chart has no volume, the filter is skipped.

This is volume, not order flow: it can't tell buyers from sellers.

Only zones from the hours you trade.

A gap made at 2am on thin overnight volume is not the same as one made in the first hour of New York. The session filter keeps only zones that formed inside a time window you choose, in New York time, so daylight saving is handled for you.

Pick RTH to keep only regular-hours zones (New York 09:30–16:00), ETH to keep only extended-hours zones (everything outside RTH, 16:00–09:30), or Custom times for your own window. Custom windows can cross midnight, so 18:00 to 03:00 covers the Asia session on futures.

It's off by default because 24-hour crypto markets often have meaningful moves at any hour.

The zones that matter right now, nothing else.

Nearest zones shows only the zones closest to current price on each side, three of each by default. Older zones far from price stay tracked in the background, so they come back on screen if price heads their way.

Overlapping zones merge into one by default. One fast move often leaves several gaps stacked on top of each other; merged, they read as one area. A merged zone gets a slightly stronger fill and a dashed outline, so you can tell at a glance it was built from more than one gap. Switch to Show each zone to see them separately.

When price breaks through, the zone changes sides.

A demand zone that price trades all the way through has failed as support. Many traders then watch it as resistance on the way back up. With Flip zones on, that zone stays on the chart in its own color instead of disappearing, and does the same for supply that breaks to the upside.

A flipped zone gets a dashed outline all the way around, so you can tell it from a merged zone, which is only outlined on three sides. It's removed when price trades back through it the other way. Flip zones are off by default.

When one side keeps winning.

Every zone is a moment where one side pushed price too fast for the other to keep up. When those moments start stacking on the same side, the auction is tilting. Two optional markers show it.

Streak marks the bar where a run of same-side zones completes, three demand zones in a row by default, with no supply zone in between. It shows as a small “3▲” or “3▼”.

Momentum shift looks at the share of demand zones among the last 10 that formed, and compares it with how that share has behaved over the last 50. When it moves 1.5 standard deviations above its own average, a green “M” marks a bullish shift; 1.5 below, a red “M” marks a bearish one. Because it's measured against its own history, it adapts to each market: a choppy market needs less of a tilt to trigger than a trending one.

Markers build as a trend builds. Each shift in the same direction as the last one counts up: M, then M2, M3 and so on, and an opposite shift resets the count. The count shows in the marker, and it switches to a bigger arrow from the third shift. A rising run of M2, M3, M4 is the study telling you one side has stayed in control.

The info box sums it up: the demand share of the last 10 zones, the current z-score and whether it reads bullish, bearish or neutral, how many shifts in a row, and the current same-side streak. It floats just right of the live bar, above the recent highs or below the recent lows.

Both are off by default and only count zones that pass your filters. They describe what has already happened, not what happens next.

When a zone is done, and what you see after.

Zone is filled when price sets when a zone disappears. Trades through it waits for price to cross the far edge and matches the original. Reaches the midline treats a half fill as used up. Touches it keeps only zones price hasn't returned to yet.

Shrink zones as they fill trims the part price has already traded into, so you see what's left. Show filled zones keeps recent filled zones faded on the chart, which helps a lot while you're testing.