Bar Construction · synthetic teaching data

Tick-Imbalance Bars guided lab

Choose a scenario, step or go back one trade, and observe why cumulative signed ticks reach a threshold frozen at the current bar's start. Price is context; signed-tick state makes the decision.

Price context and Tick-Imbalance Bar decision stateThe top panel shows synthetic prices as context. The bottom panel shows cumulative signed ticks, frozen positive and negative thresholds, closures, and session resets.
price contextcumulative θfrozen ± thresholdsession reset

Audit trace

TradeSessionPriceRuleSignθFrozen hResult

Keyboard: Right Arrow steps, Left Arrow goes back, Space plays or pauses, and R resets. Reduced-motion preference turns Play into one deterministic step.