Price levels screener settings

A level is a price the market has already returned to. The screener finds such prices on its own from swing points of recent candles and tells you when a coin enters a level zone, breaks it, or comes back to it after a break. You draw no lines and type in no prices.

In short

The levels screener finds supports and resistances on its own from swing points of recent candles — no prices to type in.
The form sets the timeframes, the minimum level weight, the side (support or resistance), and the events: approach, break, retest.
Where to start: timeframes 1h and 4h, weight 60, and the single “approach” mode — roughly 2-3 levels per coin.
The screener sees horizontal levels only: there are no trendlines and no volume profile in it.

Setting this up comes down to three decisions: which candles to find levels on, how strong those levels have to be, and which event to report — approach, break, or retest.

One detail removes half the questions. The levels themselves are recomputed rarely — once per quarter of the selected candle — while the event is checked every minute against the current price. So the timeframe does not change how fast the alert arrives; it changes how much history the level is built from.

Which levels to look for

A level is a place price has already returned to. The more returns and the fresher they are, the higher the weight.

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Price levels

The screener finds support and resistance levels from candles on its own and tells you when price approaches or breaks them. No prices to type in.

before the event Approach to a level

Price entered the level zone from outside. The alert fires once per entry, not every minute while price sits at the line.

after the event Level break

Price went through the zone and committed beyond it. Chatter right on the edge does not count as a break.

return Retest of a broken level

Price came back into the zone of a level that carries break marks. This is an addition to approach: plain approach keeps working as before, retest only separates returns to damaged levels.

Limits

Cap how often the screener may fire on a single coin

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When on, limits how many alerts the same coin can generate, so you do not get dozens of notifications about the same move.

Repeat the alert

Off — each level fires once per event: approach, break, and retest are counted separately. On — a level can fire again, no more often than the pause allows.

Filters

Narrow what counts as a hit

Price levels: where to look and which ones count

Timeframes set the scale. On each one the engine keeps the last 250 candles: on 15m that is under three days of history, on 1d it is over eight months. A 4h level weighs more than a 15m one simply because more traders see it.

The minimum weight filters out weak lines. The weight is relative: 100 is the strongest level of this coin on this timeframe, and the comparison runs only against other levels of the same coin. That is why one threshold works the same on BTC and on a meme coin.

The three modes are three moments of the same story. Approach — price entered the level zone from outside and nothing is decided yet. Break — price went through the zone and committed beyond it; chatter right on the edge does not count. Retest — a return into the zone of a level that already carries break marks.

Retest is an addition to approach rather than a replacement: with approach also on, it takes only the returns to broken levels, and plain approaches keep arriving. You can turn all three on, but then one move through a level gives you a chain of three alerts.

The level side is taken from the price before the event: once price enters the zone it is already inside the band, so the side is undefined there. Support is a level below the price, resistance is above it; long traders usually want supports only.

Limits: how many level alerts you are willing to read

The alert limit is counted per coin: no more than the number you set per period. That is the upper bound on the stream — price wandering between several levels would otherwise send an alert a minute.

Repeat is a separate row, and it is counted per level. Repeat off is the quietest setting: one alert per event. Repeat on lets a level fire again, but no more often than once per its timeframe pause — from 30 minutes on 15m to 12 hours on 1d.

Filters: which coins to look for levels on

Levels are found from candle history, and on an illiquid pair that history consists of occasional trades. Lines will still be found there, they will just be random: somebody's single order rather than a balance of forces. Both fields are in millions of dollars: 5 means $5m.

A note on spot: spot has no open interest, so a non-zero open interest threshold drops spot venues entirely. If you want levels on spot, leave that field empty and narrow the set by turnover instead.

Timeframe and weight: what the numbers mean

How much history each timeframe sees

The depth is the same in candles — 250 of them — and very different in time:

Timeframe	250 candles cover	Set refreshes	Per-level pause
15m	2.6 days	4 minutes	30 minutes
1h	10 days	15 minutes	2 hours
4h	41 days	1 hour	6 hours
1d	8 months	6 hours	12 hours

The per-level pause in the last column applies when repeat is on: it decides how soon the same level can report the same event again. A level does not appear right after a listing — the engine needs at least 120 candles: about five days on 1h, about four months on 1d.

How many lines the minimum weight leaves

The threshold answers one question: how many levels per coin stay in play.

Weight threshold	Levels per coin	What for
30-45	5-6	Intraday work, if you are ready to read a lot of alerts
50-70	2-3	The working balance; the default is 60
75-85	1-2	The top of the list only: the chart's major levels
90-95	1	Effectively the strongest level alone

The difference between 45 and 70 is the difference between five or six lines per coin and two or three — that is roughly twice as many chances to fire on each coin, with the same timeframes and modes. You cannot go below 30: that is where the slider starts.

An illustrative example of the zone. A level is a band rather than a line: its half-width comes from the average candle range and lands between 0.12% and 1.8% of price. For a coin at $2.00 with a 1% average range the band works out at roughly $1.988-$2.012, and the approach is marked on the minute price entered it from outside — once per entry, not every minute while price sits at the line. One alert lists at most 5 levels that fired, strongest first.

Ready-made setups

These are the same sets applied with one click in the screener settings. The values below are exactly what gets filled in.

Approaching major levels

4h and 1d · weight 70+ · approach

Timeframes: 4h, 1d
Minimum level weight: 70
Level side: Both sides
Period: 360 min.
Min. Open Interest Value: 5 M $
Min. Exchange 24h Turnover: 50 M $

Logic: higher timeframes only and the top slice of the level list, approach mode. The alert lands before price reaches the line, not after. Few hits: 2 per 6 hours, liquid pairs only.

Hourly levels: approach and break

1h · weight 60+ · approach and break

Timeframes: 1h
Minimum level weight: 60
Level side: Both sides
Period: 240 min.
Min. Open Interest Value: 3 M $
Min. Exchange 24h Turnover: 10 M $

Logic: the hourly grid and both events on the same level — the approach first, then the break if price goes through. Weight 60 leaves 2-3 levels per coin, and a cap of 3 hits per 4 hours keeps the flow readable.

Break of a strong level and its retest

1h and 4h · weight 75+ · break and retest

Timeframes: 1h, 4h
Minimum level weight: 75
Level side: Both sides
Period: 240 min.
Min. Open Interest Value: 5 M $
Min. Exchange 24h Turnover: 50 M $

Logic: approach mode is off — you only get exits beyond a level with commitment, and edge chatter is filtered out. Retest is included: price coming back to a level it broke earlier. Weight 75 leaves the top 1-2 levels on the chart: the stronger the level, the more visible its break.

Fast levels (15m and 1h)

15m and 1h · weight 50+ · repeat on

Timeframes: 15m, 1h
Minimum level weight: 50
Level side: Both sides
Period: 120 min.
Min. Open Interest Value: 10 M $
Min. Exchange 24h Turnover: 20 M $

Logic: the fastest option. 15m produces noise on thin pairs, so the turnover floor is raised to $20M and open interest to $10M. Repeat is on and the cap is 5 hits per 2 hours: the same coin can arrive several times a session.

Any set is a starting point, not a recommendation. Once applied the thresholds are yours: move them and the screener starts counting the new way immediately.

Common mistakes when setting up the levels screener

Every timeframe at once. Levels from different scales overlap and price is almost always near one of them — the screener starts firing constantly. Start with 1h and 4h.
Weight left at the bottom of the slider — 30. That keeps 5-6 lines per coin in play, accidental touches included.
All three modes with no alert limit. One move through a level produces approach, break, and retest — three alerts about the same thing.
Expecting a bounce off the level. The weight scores the line's observable properties — how many times price returned to it and how fresh those visits are — not the odds of a bounce. The alert itself says so.

What the screener computes and what the alert shows is covered in “Price levels screener”. If you already know the price and need exactly one level, that is a different job — see target price screener settings. Telling useful hits from noise is covered in “How to filter out false signals”.

Levels screener setup FAQ

Which timeframe should I pick for level detection?

The defaults are 1h and 4h, and that is the working middle. On each timeframe the engine keeps the last 250 candles, so 15m sees under three days of history and produces the noisiest levels, while 1d sees over eight months but its level set is recomputed only every 6 hours. Starting with all four at once is a bad idea: levels from different scales overlap.

What minimum level weight should I set?

A weight of 60 leaves roughly 2-3 levels per coin — the working balance and the default. A threshold of 45 or lower leaves 5-6 levels, which is about twice as many chances to fire on each coin. A threshold of 75 leaves the top 1-2 levels on the chart, and 90 leaves effectively only the strongest one. The slider runs from 30 to 95 in steps of 5.

Why do I get no alerts at all on the coin I care about?

Levels are computed for the 500 most liquid pairs, and a new pair does not enter that list immediately. The engine also needs at least 120 candles: on 1h that is about five days after listing, on 1d about four months. And some pairs will never produce levels: when the average candle range is under 0.15% of price (stablecoins, pegs, dead listings) the engine deliberately publishes nothing. The last reason is the open interest and turnover filters in the form itself.

Why does one coin send an approach, a break, and a retest?

Those are three different events on the same level, and each sends its own alert: price entered the zone, then went through it, then came back. If you want one mark per move, keep a single mode. If you want all three but less often, turn on the per-coin alert limit (3 per 4 hours, for example).

What does the repeat-alert toggle do?

It decides whether the same event on the same level can arrive twice. Repeat off is the quietest setting: one alert per event. Repeat on allows repeats, but no more often than once per its timeframe pause: 30 minutes on 15m, 2 hours on 1h, 6 hours on 4h, 12 hours on 1d.

What happens if I pick no timeframe or no mode?

The form will not save, and that is a guard rather than a bug: with no timeframes there is nowhere to look for levels, and with no modes there is nothing to report. A screener in that state would stay silent forever while its switch looked on.

Does the levels screener work on the spot market?

Yes, with one caveat: spot has no open interest, so a non-zero open interest threshold drops spot venues entirely. If you want levels on spot, leave that field empty and narrow the set by turnover instead.

Everything described above is set up in the screener: pick a ready-made setup or your own thresholds, and alerts arrive by push or Telegram.

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