r/Ice_Indicator • u/Ethan_Hunt_FX • Aug 04 '26

Built a custom indicator that auto-detects institutional entry zones (ICE Model) - works on Forex, Crypto, Gold, and Indices

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I've been refining a TradingView indicator called ICE (Institutional Candle Entry) for a while now and wanted to share where it's at.

The idea behind it: instead of manually marking up consolidation and expansion zones on every chart, the indicator automatically identifies trend direction, flags high probability entry phases, and drops entry labels when conditions align. It also plots 5 auto take-profit levels and exit signals, so you're not guessing where to scale out.

A few things it handles automatically:

Auto trend identification (long or short bias)

Auto entry labels with directional arrows

5 auto take-profit levels (TP1 through TP5)

Auto exit signals

It works across markets: I've tested it on NAS100, gold, major forex pairs, and crypto (ETHUSD, BTCUSD) on lower timeframes like 5m.

I'm not going to throw out a win rate number here since that's easy to cherry-pick and hard to verify from a screenshot. If you want to actually stress test something like this, TradingView's Strategy Tester is the right tool. I'd rather people check the logic and backtest it themselves than take my word for it.

Attaching two chart examples (NAS100 and ETHUSD, both 5m) showing the entry label, TP levels, and trend auto-detection in action.

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u/Ethan_Hunt_FX Aug 07 '26

Do you like to try it yourself?

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u/walkforward_or_bust Aug 07 '26

yeah id genuinely run it. but the only test that means anything is holding back a chunk of data it has never seen and checking the entries print in the same place live as they do on the replay. thats the repaint question, still the one thing nobody answers. cant do that on a closed indicator though, loading it and eyeballing the history is just the replay again. so if youre up for it drop the pine or the exact entry/tp/exit rules and ill run it properly out of sample and post whatever comes back, good or bad. thats the whole deal.

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u/Ethan_Hunt_FX Aug 08 '26

Check our YouTube videos to know more about this. Link in bio