The tools behind our trading.

An order block is the last opposing candle before price makes a strong, decisive move: the final bearish candle before a sharp rally, or the final bullish candle before a sharp drop. Those candles often mark where large orders were placed, and price regularly comes back to them. Goldsands Order Blocks finds them for you automatically.

Not every pullback is an order block, so the indicator filters out the noise. The move away from the zone has to be large compared with the market's normal range (measured with ATR), and you can require it to break the most recent swing high or low as well. What's left are zones where something genuinely changed, not every small wiggle on the chart.

Each zone extends to the right until price uses it up. You decide what counts: the first touch, a close beyond the halfway line, or a close right through the far edge. Used zones disappear or turn grey, so the chart only shows levels that still matter. Everything is calculated on closed candles, which means a zone never appears and then vanishes after the fact.

A fair value gap is a three-candle imbalance. Price moved so quickly that the wick of the first candle and the wick of the third candle never overlap, leaving a gap where very little trading took place. Price often returns to these gaps to fill them, which makes them useful areas for entries, targets and stops.

Goldsands Fair Value Gaps draws each gap from the first candle of the pattern, so the box sits exactly between the two wicks that created it. A dotted line marks the halfway point, known as consequent encroachment, which many traders watch as the key reaction level. A minimum-size filter based on the market's normal range keeps tiny, meaningless gaps off your chart.

You choose when a gap counts as filled: when a wick fills the whole gap, when it reaches the halfway line, or only when a candle closes beyond it. The box stops at the candle that fills it. If you prefer, it can shrink as price trades into it, so you only ever see the part that is still open.

Above every obvious swing high sit stop losses from sellers and breakout buy orders. That's buy-side liquidity (BSL). Below every obvious swing low sit stop losses from buyers and breakout sell orders, which is sell-side liquidity (SSL). Price is often drawn to these pools, and Goldsands Liquidity maps them on your chart as they form.

When two or more swing highs or lows line up at almost the same price, the indicator marks them as equal highs or equal lows (EQH and EQL) in gold. These are the most obvious targets on the chart, because that's where stops cluster the most.

The indicator also tells a sweep from a genuine break. A sweep is when price wicks through a level and then closes back on the other side: the stops were taken, but the move was rejected, which is often where a reversal begins. Swept levels stay on the chart and are marked, while levels that price closes straight through are removed.

Getting position size wrong is one of the quickest ways to fail a prop firm challenge or damage an account. Goldsands Lot Calc takes it off your plate. Choose long or short, set your stop loss and take profit in pips, and enter your risk as a percentage of your account or a fixed amount. The lot size is worked out instantly and always rounded down to your broker's lot step, so you never risk more than you intended.

Your entry, stop loss and take profit are drawn on the chart with shaded risk and reward areas, showing exactly how much money is at risk, the potential reward and the risk-to-reward ratio. Commission can be included, so the numbers match what actually leaves your account. Fixed lot mode works the other way round: type in a lot size and see what it really risks.

On MetaTrader 5 and cTrader the panel reads your broker's own contract details and can be edited live on the chart. You can flip between long and short, or change your stop, target or risk without opening any settings. The panel, lines and boxes can each be switched on or off.

While Asia trades, the major currency pairs usually build a range. Its high and low are where stop losses gather, and the London open often runs one side before the real move of the day. Goldsands Asian Range draws that box for you every day, from 00:00 to 07:00 UK time by default, and extends the high, low and halfway line into the London and New York sessions.

Times are set in UK time and the indicator handles the switch between GMT and BST automatically. On MetaTrader 5 it also converts your broker's server time, so the box always starts and ends at the right moment. The New York midnight open is marked as well, a reference level many intraday traders use to judge whether price is expensive or cheap for the day.

Not every range is worth trading. The label shows the size of the range in pips and compares it with the recent average. When the range is above a fixed limit (30 pips on EUR/USD and 40 on GBP/USD by default), or more than 1.5 times the average of the last 20 sessions, the box turns red and is flagged TOO WIDE. Both limits can be changed.

Displacement is a strong, fast move: a candle that is much bigger than the ones before it, with a solid body. It shows that one side has taken control, and it's what turns a simple break of structure into one worth trading. Goldsands Displacement highlights those candles for you.

A candle counts when its size is larger than the market's normal range (ATR multiplied by a setting you choose, 1.3 by default) and its body makes up at least half of the candle. You can measure size by the full range including gaps, or by the body alone. Matching candles are coloured and marked with an arrow.

Signals can be limited to the sessions you trade, Asia, London and New York, set in UK time. You can choose to trigger only when a candle has closed, so a signal never appears and then disappears mid-candle. Alerts tell you the moment a new displacement candle prints.