Drawn by Cival.Manipulation.dll's own OnRender code on recorded BTC-PERP 5-minute bars, Oct 17 17:05 UTC – Oct 17 22:50 UTC. The panel shows the study's state at the end of the 4.8-day recording, so it can describe a later setup than the one in view.
How these images were made
Each image was drawn by the indicator plugin’s own rendering code, run outside ATAS on recorded Hyperliquid BTC-PERP trades from October 17–21, 2026. The candles underneath are drawn by our render harness in place of ATAS’s chart, so fonts and spacing differ slightly from ATAS itself. Nothing was edited after rendering.
Step through the interactive replay ↓Cival Manipulation & Pressure Toolkit
Two order-flow studies in one package: a closed-bar compression → sweep → reclaim → expansion cycle map, and footprint pressure bubbles with until-touch absorption candidates.
Manipulation runs on price with optional footprint evidence. Pressure Toolkit needs footprint data; big prints need tick history and DOM bars need a live depth feed.
Chart-analysis software, not financial advice or a trading signal service. Indicators describe what price and order flow did; they do not predict what happens next. Trading involves substantial risk of loss. Full disclaimer →
See it work on real market data
Recorded Hyperliquid BTC trades, built into footprint bars and run through the exact plugin you download. Step through one complete example; hover any candle for its numbers.
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What's included
How it works
Cival Manipulation maps a four-stage pattern on closed bars: a compressed range is confirmed and frozen, one side is swept, price closes back inside, and a displacement candle expands out of the opposite side. Each cycle reports its evidence — compression, sweep, reclaim, displacement, relative volume, VWAP, delta and recorded stacked imbalance — and derives stop and 1R/2R reference prices. Invalidated and expired cycles stay on the chart, so failures are as visible as completions.
Cival Pressure Toolkit marks the strongest one-sided row of a candle with a pressure bubble, flags unusually large wick activity as absorption candidates whose lines run until price touches them, draws large individual prints, adaptive round numbers and live resting depth from the DOM.
Both are described the way the data allows: executed aggression and price response, never claims about whose stops or positions were involved.
Platform support
ATAS is the reference version. Other platforms expose different order-flow data, so each port does what its platform allows and says so in the chart when a feature is approximate or unavailable.
ATAS Platform 8.0.15 or newer (.NET 10)
Built from source, tested, and run on recorded BTC data for the demo below
Pine Script v6. Footprint features need a Premium or Ultimate plan (request.footprint)
Compiled on TradingView’s servers
NinjaTrader 8; footprint features need Order Flow+ Volumetric bars
NinjaScript source, compiled on import (F5). Not yet compile-tested inside NinjaTrader by Cival
| Feature | ATAS | TradingView | NinjaTrader 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manipulation cycle: range → sweep → reclaim → expansion → 1R/2R guides, invalidation, expiry | Full | Full | Full |
| Manipulation price evidence (compression, sweep, reclaim, displacement, volume, VWAP) | Full | Full | Full |
| Manipulation flow evidence (delta, CVD response, stacked imbalance) TradingView uses request.footprint() on Premium/Ultimate plans and a labelled lower-timeframe estimate otherwise. | Full | Approximate | Full |
| Pressure bubbles at the strongest qualifying row TradingView sizes bubbles in five buckets. | Full | Approximate | Full |
| Wick-absorption candidates with until-touch lines TradingView detects touches on closed bars only. | Full | Approximate | Full |
| Adaptive round numbers | Full | Full | Full |
| Big individual prints Pine has no access to individual trades. NinjaTrader cannot establish the aggressor side of historical trades (Tick Replay replays last price only). | Full | Not available | Not available |
| Live DOM resting-volume bars Pine has no order-book access. NinjaTrader draws them from its level-2 book, live only. | Full | Not available | Approximate |
Install in ATAS
Full instructions, including manual install and uninstall, are in the download and the documentation below.
DOCUMENTATION & TUTORIALS
Learn to install and use Cival Manipulation & Pressure Toolkit
Version-specific installation, a guided practice exercise, every setting with its default, a signal walkthrough, a trading playbook, troubleshooting and recovery checks. Available before purchase and from your account afterward.
For release 1.0.0-atas · Updated 2026-10-26. Instructions match the shipped ATAS plugin and platform ports.
Before you buy
Does “manipulation” mean it detects market abuse?
No. The name describes a well-known price pattern — compression, a one-sided sweep, a reclaim and an expansion. The study reports the pattern and its evidence; it makes no claim about anyone’s intent.
Are absorption candidates proven absorption?
No, and they are labelled as candidates. A footprint shows executed trades, not which resting orders absorbed them.
Do I need a Cival dashboard?
No. Each of these studies is a standalone chart indicator. It does not connect to the Cival dashboard, any exchange account or the internet.
Does it place trades?
No. It draws analysis on your chart and can raise local alerts. It never sends orders, and nothing it shows is a recommendation to trade.
Does it repaint?
Confirmed signals are computed on closed bars only and are not changed by later candles. Anything drawn on the forming candle is labelled as live or unconfirmed.
Which platforms are included?
The compiled ATAS plugin is the reference version. TradingView and NinjaTrader 8 ports are included as source code, with a table of which features each platform can and cannot support.
What license do I get?
A one-time, perpetual license for one person to use the software on their own machines, with updates to this major version. Redistribution or resale of the files is not permitted. The full text is in LICENSE.txt and the store terms.