Range profile

Drag a box over any stretch of chart and OrderVane profiles exactly that range — built from its own tick store, so it appears immediately.

Setting names are shown in English because that is how they appear in the Quantower settings window.

Drawing one

Click the profile button on the left edge of the chart, then drag a box over any stretch. OrderVane builds a volume profile for exactly that range and draws it immediately — no waiting on the platform to recalculate.

That last part is the reason this exists as its own tool. A profile you have to wait for is a profile you stop drawing, and the whole value of a range profile is that it is cheap enough to use as a question: what did that move actually look like?

The profile follows the box. Move or resize it and the numbers rebuild.

Each box is independent

Select a box and a row of chips appears under it for the things you change most often:

Two boxes on the same chart can be set up completely differently. Compare a busy hour against a quiet one with different row groupings, and neither setting fights the other.

The butterfly

The two sides can show different things, and volume on one side with delta on the other is the setup worth knowing.

The result is a butterfly: the volume wing shows where size traded, the delta wing shows where that size had a direction. Where the volume wing is long and the delta wing is short, a lot traded without going anywhere — which is the shape you are usually hunting for in a profile and which a single-sided profile cannot show you at all.

One scale, or each its own

By default every box on the chart shares one scale. A box covering a busy hour draws visibly larger bars than a box over a quiet one.

That is the honest default: if two profiles are drawn side by side at the same width, the eye reads them as comparable, and they would not be. Sharing the scale makes the size difference visible instead of hiding it.

Turn it off if you would rather each box use its full width — useful when you are examining the shape of a quiet stretch and do not care how it compares to the busy one next to it.

Why the boxes look plain

Boxes are drawn with no fill and a dotted border, so they do not hide the chart underneath.

A filled box would tint every cell, candle and marker inside it — which is everything you drew the box to look at in the first place.

Honest limits

• You have to draw it. The range profile does nothing until you place a box.
• It profiles what your data covers. The profile is built from OrderVane's own tick store; where that store does not reach, the profile is built from what the platform provides for those bars.
• A profile is a description of a range you chose. The range is your judgement — the profile only reports what traded inside it.
• The range profile is Pro, alongside the tape speed tools and the per-bar statistics grid.

Related

• Speed of tape — including the speed histogram a box can carry
• Session levels — the previous session's profile, built automatically
• Volume shelf — single levels rather than a whole profile
• All docs