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Zendo FVG

Multi-timeframe fair value gap confluence

Not every gap matters. This one watches five timeframes and marks the ones that agree.

Included with every Zendo membership
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What a fair value gap is

When price moves fast in one direction, it can leave a hole behind. Look at three candles in a row: if the first candle's high and the third candle's low never overlap, the space between them was skipped. Nobody traded there. That untraded space is a fair value gap.

Markets tend to be drawn back to those holes. Price often returns to fill the imbalance before continuing — which is why traders watch them as areas of interest.

candle 1 candle 2 candle 3 THE GAP untraded space
A bullish fair value gap. Candle 1's high sits below candle 3's low, so the shaded band was skipped entirely. Price frequently returns to it.
The idea

Why overlap changes everything

A single gap is a hint. It might get filled, it might not.

But when gaps from several different timeframes land on the same price, that price stops being a hint and starts being a level. Independent imbalances all pointing at the same band is confluence.

Zendo FVG runs the gap check on up to five timeframes at once, each reading its own data — so your chart period doesn't have to match what is being analysed. You choose which combinations count, and it draws only the shared band where every timeframe in that group has a live gap pointing the same way.

gap on 5m gap on 15m gap on 30m CONFLUENCE ZONE the shared band where all three agree
Three timeframes, three gaps. Zendo FVG draws the intersection — the narrow band all three point at — and leaves the rest as context.
The part most tools get wrong

A zone doesn't die on the first break

Most gap indicators delete a zone the moment price trades through it. But a gap that fails is information — the level that stopped buyers often turns around and stops sellers.

So Zendo FVG flips it instead of deleting it:

  1. The gap forms.Drawn in its timeframe's colour and carried forward until something happens to it.
  2. Price closes through it.The zone flips polarity — bullish becomes bearish — recolours, and stays live as an inverse gap. The edge it broke is remembered.
  3. Price reclaims that edge.Only now is the zone retired for good. It dies on the second break, not the first.
1 · FORMS live gap 2 · FLIPS break level inverse — still live 3 · RETIRES off the chart
The lifecycle. Because retirement requires a reclaim of the broken edge, zones clear themselves off the chart instead of piling up forever.

One rule keeps this honest: inverse zones cannot create confluence. A gap that already failed is never counted toward a new overlap, so you never get a confluence zone manufactured out of broken levels.

On your chart

What it looks like live

Four screenshots, in the order you would actually meet them: set your timeframes, decide what counts as confluence, then watch what gets drawn.

1 · Pick your timeframes

Zendo FVG settings panel showing five timeframe slots set to 1, 3, 5, 15 and 30 minutes
Five slots, any period you want. These are the defaults — 1m, 3m, 5m, 15m, 30m — and you change them to whatever you actually trade.

2 · Decide what counts as confluence

Zendo FVG settings panel showing five overlap groups, each a list of timeframe slots with its own colour
A group is a list of slots that must all agree. 1,2,3 means the 1m, 3m and 5m each need a live gap pointing the same way. Five groups can run at once, each in its own colour, so you can tell at a glance which combination drew a zone.

3 · Watch the zones hold

NQ one-minute chart with a purple confluence band; price returns to it and bounces, marked with arrows
NQ on a 1-minute chart. The purple band is 1m + 3m + 5m in agreement. Price came back to it and bounced — and the overlap zone higher up did the same thing. Arrows mark each touch.

4 · The noise gets filtered out

Chart where a single-timeframe gap is present but only the overlap zone is drawn, and price rejects from it
There were plain single-timeframe gaps all through this move. The indicator drew only the one the timeframes agreed on — and that is the level price rejected from.

That is the whole point. Any gap tool will show you fifty levels. This one shows you the handful that more than one timeframe is willing to defend.

What it does

Four things it handles for you

Five timeframes at once

Runs the three-candle gap check on each timeframe independently, on its own data — no flipping charts to see what the higher frame is doing.

Draws only the agreement

You define which timeframe combinations count. It marks the shared band where every one of them has a live gap in the same direction.

Tracks the failures

Broken gaps flip and stay live as inverse zones, then retire on reclaim — so a failed level keeps working for you instead of vanishing.

Tunes to your chart

Gap size limits, colours per timeframe and per group, 50% midpoints, zones that shrink as price eats in, and an optional Bollinger overlay.

Platform
Quantower today — custom C# indicator
Timeframes
Five slots, default 1m / 3m / 5m / 15m / 30m
Groups
Up to five overlap combinations, each its own colour
Updates
On bar close — nothing redraws mid-candle
Filters
Minimum and maximum gap size in ticks; invalidate on close or on wick
In development
A TradingView build, with more platforms to follow

It is a lens, not a signal. Zendo FVG shows you where imbalances stack — it does not tell you to buy or sell. You still bring the trend read, the sizing, and the exit. That is the part we teach inside the hall.

Getting it

Included with every membership

Zendo FVG is not sold separately and is not available anywhere else. It comes with your Zendo membership, alongside the live sessions, alerts, and breakdowns — and we walk through how to actually use it, which matters more than having it.

It runs in Quantower today. A TradingView build is in development and more platforms will follow.

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