👨‍🔬 Cagliostro's MT5 Laboratory

ramassrs wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:53 pm Hi,

Many thanks for this indicator. Is there a page where I can find explanation for the various parameters? Thanks in advance.

The indicator is a 1:1 porting from this
https://www.tradingview.com/script/cZh1 ... -KEYALGOS/

Smart Money Pattern — MT5

Standalone MT5 indicator that renders the classical contraction → expansion → trend market cycle as a live chart overlay.
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▸ What it is

Smart Money Pattern maps the three-phase market cycle directly on the chart:

• Contraction boxes — zones where price is balancing. The midline is the fair-value / true-value reference for that range.
• Fair-value / expansion lines — the balance midpoint projected forward. Price crossing it is the belief-switch level between buyers and sellers.
• Liquidity lines (buy / sell) — horizontal levels at the cycle extremes, where trapped-trader stops tend to cluster and forced order flow occurs.

No DLL, no external dependencies, no broker-telemetry, no account widgets. Pure MT5 chart engine.

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▸ Core methodology

The underlying model is Wyckoff's three-phase cycle — accumulation / distribution → transition → markup / markdown — expressed in the modern Smart Money Concepts (SMC) framing: institutional positioning during contraction, manipulation during expansion, trend once the position transfer is complete.

Liquidity lines are not "signals to fade retail." They are a structural map of where stop clusters live and where forced order flow is most likely to occur when price reaches those zones.

The methodology naturally supports a two-chart workflow:

• higher timeframe → directional bias
• lower timeframe → execution around contraction / liquidity

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▸ Features

• Contraction boxes (active + confirmed states)
• Fair-value / midpoint lines
• Buy / sell liquidity lines with cascade logic
• Historical liquidity retention toggle
• Optional duplicate-level merging
• Heikin-Ashi hybrid candle overlay: Off, Historical HA + live price, Full HA
• Quantum Color Themes — multiple presets, optional chart background
• Full custom-colors override for manual palette control
• Two calculation models: Reference and Adaptive (ATR-weighted threshold)
• Multi-instance safe (per-chart object prefix via InstanceTag)
• Standalone MT5 — no DLL, no login, no external data, no telemetry

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▸ Attribution

This is built on concepts that are part of the public trading literature:

• Richard Wyckoff (early 20th century) — three-phase market cycle, accumulation / distribution
• Smart Money Concepts (SMC) — institutional order-flow framing used widely in modern price-action literature
• Classical liquidity / stop-hunt mapping — as discussed across institutional-trading literature and community material

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▸ Roadmap

An advanced version with additional workflow features — including HTF bias, an alert framework, and a directional-bias / momentum-shift engine — is currently in development. Availability will be announced in the coming weeks.

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▸ Install

1. Copy Smart Money Pattern.ex5 into MQL5/Indicators/
2. Restart MT5 or refresh the Navigator panel
3. Attach to chart, pick a theme preset, set visibility toggles

Bug reports, feedback, and chart examples are welcome in this thread. No further features will be added to this version — future development continues separately.

— Cagliostro

Hi Cagliostro!

I tried to use the Smart Money Pattern Indicator, but I had the following error:
2026.04.23 00:31:46.583 MQL5 your CPU architecture does not allow to run the file 'Smart Money Pattern.ex5': AVX2 required, you have AVX only

Do you know something about that?

Shink wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 1:36 pm Hi Cagliostro!

I tried to use the Smart Money Pattern Indicator, but I had the following error:
2026.04.23 00:31:46.583 MQL5 your CPU architecture does not allow to run the file 'Smart Money Pattern.ex5': AVX2 required, you have AVX only

Do you know something about that?

Hello - try this build, it should work. Let me know.

Smart Money Pattern is a keeper, thanks!

Cagliostro wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 5:15 pm Hello - try this build, it should work. Let me know.

Works. Thank you so much

Cagliostro wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 5:15 pm Hello - try this build, it should work. Let me know.

This version is working properly.

Thanks a lot.

ps. You've developed so many great tools that I haven't been able to reach a consensus on which ones to use in my template.

What if....

.....we match Azimuth with the Smart Money Pattern?

It's not a surprise that our ABC setups appear after a consolidation/ accumulation phase as liquidity grab moments, just before a new trending phase. The two systems see the same thing, from two different angles, and by joining them it's even clearer.

I leave you the comments. Happy week!

Cagliostro wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2026 7:26 pm What if....

.....we match Azimuth with the Smart Money Pattern?


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It's not a surprise that our ABC setups appear after a consolidation/ accumulation phase as liquidity grab moments, just before a new trending phase. The two systems see the same thing, from two different angles, and by joining them it's even clearer.

I leave you the comments. Happy week!

Hi Cagliostro!

I tried to use Trinity V2 System with Smart Money Pattern.
I put Quantum Color Preset to None in SM Pattern, even so, candle colors adopted colors different from Azimuth Configuration. (Remember I'm using AVX Version of SM Pattern).
I tried to change Pattern Candles to None in SM Pattern too, but when I change the Time Frame, colors return to original values.

Is there something I can do to use both systems together?

Shink wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 4:53 am Hi Cagliostro!

I tried to use Trinity V2 System with Smart Money Pattern.
I put Quantum Color Preset to None in SM Pattern, even so, candle colors adopted colors different from Azimuth Configuration. (Remember I'm using AVX Version of SM Pattern).
I tried to change Pattern Candles to None in SM Pattern too, but when I change the Time Frame, colors return to original values.

Is there something I can do to use both systems together?

Try this.