The next generation trading indicator is here
Finally trade with the Achilles heel to the market
Structure, liquidity, momentum, order flow — all in one.
The ultimate map to the market.
The next generation trading indicator is here
Structure, liquidity, momentum, order flow — all in one.
The ultimate map to the market.
Anyone can join, backer or not — ask questions about the tools, say what is not working, and see what is being tested. Backers get one extra channel; everything else is open to everybody.
Join the DiscordTesting is the expensive part — data, compute, and the hours spent establishing that things do not work.
BenefitsLeave your Discord username at checkout and the Backer role is added by hand. Nothing to renew, nothing to cancel.
Make a one-off contributionThe whole system on a live chart — where the levels come from, what the readings say when price arrives at one, and what is happening inside the candle.
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Everything written in an easy and understandable way for any new trader entering the market, detailing what each part of the indicator does. It is free, and it downloads from here without an email address.
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The Achilles Trading System is free. All seven indicators, the complete guidebook, and every test behind them — including the ones that failed. They are published publicly on TradingView, so there is nothing to buy and nobody to ask.
It is paid for by the people who find it useful.
What is free stays free. The seven published indicators and the guidebook are free to everyone, permanently, whether you back the project or not. That is the promise, and it is deliberately the narrow kind you can check rather than the vague kind you have to trust.
What backing adds is separate from that. Early access to work in progress, a private channel and the videos are extras built on top — they do not take anything away from the free system, and nothing that is free today moves behind them later.
Backing does not buy an opinion. Nothing here is financial advice, no performance is claimed, and no amount of support will get you a trade idea — if you ask for one you will be pointed back at the guidebook.
Achilles marks the levels, shades the zones and names the state you are in. The homework is done before you open the chart, so the time you spend is on the decision.
Readouts say the state in words — EXHAUSTION, Rising, Bottomed — so there is no colour code to memorise.
Gold is context, blue is a trigger, grey is detail. Learn the Confluence Scorecard’s grouping once and a glance tells you what kind of reading you are looking at.
The tooltips are written for someone who has not read the code — what the setting changes, and when to leave it alone.
Each does a different job, and each has its own colour across the charts, the guidebook and this page — so a name always looks the same wherever you meet it.
Structure, order blocks, liquidity and levels — drawn automatically as the chart develops. The largest by some distance.
The next-generation momentum design — one clear wave, a handful of readings and a compact card that states the lot in plain words — tested in depth against recorded market data.
Every reading the framework carries, gathered into one bull and bear percentage — so you can see whether a setup has broad support or is resting on one loud row.
Two timeframes on one card — the structure chart you take your bias from beside the faster chart you trigger on — so you can see whether the quick chart agrees with the slow one before you act. It states what it reads and names no side.
Reconstructs what happened inside each candle — who lifted offers, who hit bids — and puts it in one card.
The version for anyone who prefers the classic wave oscillator design over the next-generation momentum design our team has come up with. This one replaces Achilles B on the chart.
Includes the Odysseus Wave, the EMA crossover feature and the vector candle detector — all of it fully customisable through the settings.
Four running context readings as coloured strips in their own pane — the ambient conditions you are trading in, without another oscillator to read.
Nine tools built here rather than borrowed. What each one tells you, and what it puts on your chart.
Tells you how far a move has stretched compared with the way this market normally behaves. It prints EXHAUSTION when a move has run unusually far and PRESSURE at the other extreme, drawn as a red or green track along the floor of the pane with the same word on the readout card — so you can see at a glance whether you are looking at an ordinary move or a stretched one.
Finds the candles price left in a hurry and boxes them, then carries the box forward across the chart so you can see the level coming rather than discovering it afterwards. The box recolours itself as price deals with it: one colour while price is away, another when price comes back to it, gone once price closes through, and a distinct colour when heavy volume pushes back into a level that already broke.
Only the boxes worth watching are kept on each side, so the chart never fills up with them. They can be worked out on your own timeframe or pinned to a higher one, so a three-minute chart can carry the one-hour boxes.
Marks the swing highs and lows sitting above and below price and puts a score on each one, so you can see at a glance which levels had serious business done at them and which were quiet. It keeps only the few biggest on each side rather than drawing every level it finds, so what you get is a short, ranked map of where orders are resting — the obvious places to aim a target, and the levels price has to get through before it goes anywhere.
Levels drop off the chart the moment price closes through one, so you are only ever looking at what is still live. They can also be locked to a higher timeframe, so a fast chart still carries the levels the slower one made.
Horizontal levels at the prices this chart has actually turned at. A level holds until price closes through it, and then either flips to the other side — a broken floor becoming a ceiling — or retires. Supports sit below price in blue and resistance above in purple, each carrying its own price in plain text at the right-hand end, so you can read a level without measuring against the scale.
The blue and purple lines above are the S/R levels. Ones bunched at nearly the same price collapse into a single line, and anything an Achilles Block already covers is left to the block, so the two never draw on top of each other.
A darker cloud drawn inside the money-flow cloud that shows how much of the flow is actually backed by volume. When the pressure sits near zero while the cloud around it is wide, the move is coasting — running on without much behind it. It reads at a glance, with no number to interpret.
Runs in Achilles B, and in B Classic alongside the rest of that stack.
A second wave beneath the main one that condenses everything the framework is reading into a single shape — weight of evidence on the bullish side above the zero line, bearish below. It sits flat when the readings are split and swings out as they line up, so you can follow the state of the whole system without reading every component.
A dropdown redraws the same reading as bars, a line, or a filled area, whichever suits your pane. It lives in Achilles B Classic.
One line telling you which side is currently carrying the move: lighter above the zero line while buying pressure has the upper hand, darker below it when selling does. It gives you the balance of pressure as a single readable line instead of a pair of crossing ones.
It reads the symbol’s real high, low and close, so switching your chart to Heikin Ashi or another smoothed candle type does not distort it. Runs in Achilles B and in B Classic.
Rebuilds what went on inside each candle — who was lifting offers and who was hitting bids — and marks the moments worth seeing on price: where heavy two-sided trade met at one price, where one side pushed through several levels unopposed, where a bar’s flow points against its own close, and where a long wick traded hard into a move and then closed back. A corner card carries the bar’s volume, its buy and sell split, the heaviest traded price, delta and a running session total.
This one needs a TradingView plan that serves seconds data on faster charts. Without it the card says so plainly rather than showing numbers it cannot compute.
Every reading the framework carries, on one card, each one marked for or against on both sides — with a bull and a bear percentage on the bottom row. It answers the question you actually have in front of a setup: is this broadly supported across the system, or is it resting on one loud row?
Both percentages are written into TradingView’s Data Window as well as the card, so they can be logged or alerted on.
The indicators are TradingView scripts, so that is where they run. A free account is enough for six of the seven — Achilles VF needs a plan that serves seconds data.
All of them are on one page — open any script and press Use on chart. Or from a chart, click Indicators and search Achilles. They are published publicly, so there is nothing to request and nobody to ask.
Start with the concepts, not the settings. The defaults are chosen to be sensible on a normal chart, so you can leave them alone while you learn what each tool is showing you.
Six of the seven run on any plan. Achilles VF is the exception — it rebuilds each candle from second-based intervals, which needs a plan that provides them, and the volume footprint chart type is a paid feature. Without them VF says plainly that it has no sub-bar data rather than showing numbers it cannot compute.
It is built for that case. The tools do the drawing and name the states in words, and the guidebook starts from the concepts. You will still need to decide how you want to trade — no indicator does that part — but you will not be learning to draw structure by hand first.
Anything TradingView charts. Crypto, forex, futures, stocks, indices, commodities, bonds — the indicators read price and volume, so they run on any symbol and any timeframe your TradingView plan gives you. Nothing is hard-coded to one instrument or one exchange.
Three practical notes. Development and day-to-day testing is on crypto perpetuals, so that is where the default settings are tuned — on a very different instrument you may want to adjust the lengths. Anything volume-based needs a symbol that reports volume, which not every feed does. And open interest is only published by derivatives venues, so on a spot symbol Achilles VF says n/a on this venue rather than inventing a number.
No. This is software and a guidebook, and it stays that way. Nothing here has been shown to predict direction, so there is no signal to sell you.
Please do — send anyone the link, or point them at the scripts on TradingView. The one thing to avoid is republishing the scripts yourself or passing the guidebook off as your own work.
The seven indicators that exist today stay free and stay public. That is the whole point of the change and not something to be quietly walked back.
More charts running the tools than a paid product would ever have reached, which is the only way the testing programme gets more interesting. If you find something the guidebook does not explain, or something that looks wrong, say so.
The scripts are public, so the old access problems have gone away — there is no username to send and no permission to wait for. What is left is mostly TradingView itself. Below are the ones that actually come up.
Email support@achillestrading.com
A charting platform that runs in your browser or as a desktop app. Our indicators are TradingView scripts, so TradingView is where you use them. Making an account is free.
Yes. These are Pine scripts that run inside TradingView — there is no separate app to install and nothing that runs on its own. If you do not have an account you will need one before access can be granted.
Six of the seven run on any plan, including the free one. Achilles VF is the exception: it rebuilds each candle from second-based intervals, which needs a plan that serves seconds data, and the volume footprint chart type is itself a paid feature.
There is a second thing worth checking before you buy. TradingView limits how many indicators you can put on one chart, and the free tier’s limit is smaller than this bundle — so running the whole stack at once needs a paid tier. The exact limits change, so check the current numbers on TradingView’s own pricing page. You can still use any of them individually on a free account.
Open a chart, click Indicators, and type Achilles into the search box. Look under Community scripts — that is where public scripts live. If nothing comes up, refresh the page first; TradingView’s search index can lag a fresh publication by a few minutes.
If it is still missing, email us and say which one you were looking for.
There is no catch and no upsell. The indicators are published publicly on TradingView and the guidebook downloads from this site without an email address. Contributions are voluntary and buy nothing — there is no paid version to be upgraded to.
The scripts are published closed-source. The reason is narrow: several of the tools are the result of a long testing programme, and publishing the internals invites them to be repackaged and sold as something with claims attached to it — which is exactly what this project argues against. Everything the code actually does is described in the guidebook, in more detail than the source would give you.
No, and that is not a gap waiting to be filled. Nothing in this system has been shown to predict direction, which is stated plainly in the guidebook and in the scripts themselves. The tools describe what a market has already done. Anyone selling you the other thing should be asked for their evidence.
Last updated: 21 September 2026
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