Quickstart

Get access

IIF is an invite-only TradingView indicator. Access is granted to your TradingView username after you start a plan (or trial) on alienalgorithms.com. Once granted, the script appears in your TradingView indicator library automatically; there is nothing to install.

Add IIF to a chart

1. 1
   Open any chart on TradingView

   Any symbol and timeframe works. For your first session we recommend a liquid market on an intraday-to-swing timeframe, for example BTC/USD on 1H, EUR/USD on 1H, or S&P 500 on 15m.

2. 2
   Open the Indicators dialog

   Click Indicators at the top of the chart, then open the Invite-only tab.

3. 3
   Add “Institutional Imbalance Framework”

   Click the script name. TradingView adds a new pane below your chart (the CVMI oscillator) and draws the OrderBlocks, dashboard, and labels directly on the price chart.

4. 4
   Give it a moment to load

   IIF requests higher-timeframe data and scans up to 10,000 bars of history on first load, so allow a few seconds on slower symbols. If the chart has very little history, see FAQ & Troubleshooting.

What you see by default

With factory settings, four things are active:

• CVMI oscillator (bottom pane): a 0-100 pressure line. High readings (≥ 80) mean the market is leaving heavy unresolved bullish displacement behind; low readings (≤ 20) mean the same for bearish displacement.
• HTF OrderBlocks (on the chart): up to 3 active blocks with live labels showing the block's timeframe, mitigation percentage, and creation volume. Recently resolved blocks remain visible as muted history boxes.
• Liquidity Matrix (right of price): two columns of heat-colored rows projected into the future: Active (untested volume) and Filled (absorbed volume), with marked rebalance levels.
• Sweep labels: the Block Sweep signal is enabled by default and stamps Sweep on the chart when price sweeps an OrderBlock edge and reclaims the zone.

Your first read

Here is the fastest way to orient yourself on any chart with IIF loaded:

1. 1
   Check the CVMI level

   Between 20 and 80: balanced conditions, no stretch. At or beyond the extremes: the market is carrying a heavy load of unresolved displacement and mean-reversion probability is elevated.

2. 2
   Locate the nearest active OrderBlock

   Look at its label: the timeframe it formed on, and how mitigated it already is. A fresh block (low fill %) below price is untouched demand; a nearly exhausted one (high fill %) has already done most of its work.

3. 3
   Scan the Liquidity Matrix

   Find rows where the Active column is hot while the Filled column is dark: dense untested volume. Those are the levels price is most likely to be drawn toward.

4. 4
   Put it together

   The interesting moments are stacked ones: price testing an OrderBlock while CVMI sits at an extreme while a rebalance level waits overhead. That confluence logic is the entire framework in miniature. The Trading Workflow page turns it into a repeatable routine.

Quick activations

The first settings group, 01 Quick Activations, is a one-click row of extras that are off by default:

• Pivots: draws confirmed pivot high/low lines with sweep tracking.
• Trend: shows the structural trend panel at the top of the chart.
• Squeeze: highlights candles breaking out of compression before a full FVG can even confirm.

All three are covered in depth in the Chart Toolkit page.

Sensible first tweaks

• Chart feels crowded? Lower Max Active OBs from 3 to 2, or turn off History in the OrderBlock Display group.
• Dashboard overlapping candles? Increase the dashboard Offset so the matrix starts further into the future.
• Trading a volumeless symbol? Nothing to do; IIF detects this and falls back to Spatial gap processing automatically.
• Want earlier, noisier information? Enable Squeeze candles; want cleaner charts, keep them off. That trade-off is a recurring theme across the framework.