Drawn by Cival.TrappedTraders.dll's own OnRender code on recorded BTC-PERP 5-minute bars, Oct 17 00:35 UTC – Oct 17 08:40 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 Trapped Traders
Finds aggressive buying or selling at a known reference that then fails — and follows each hypothesis from at-risk to confirmed, retested or invalidated, on closed bars only.
Bid/ask footprint (cluster) data is required: the source rules read executed aggression per price row.
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
Trapped Traders reads every closed candle's footprint for directional aggression at a known reference: the prior range, a confirmed swing or a level you set. When that aggression is followed by a close back through the reference and a later confirming candle, the study marks the failed side as trapped and keeps tracking the zone.
Each hypothesis carries an inspectable evidence checklist — aggression share, structure, stacked diagonal imbalances, relative volume, reclaim, displacement, directional close — scored out of 100 as a checklist, not a probability. Invalidation and 1R/2R guides are drawn from the source extreme so you can see exactly where the idea stops being true.
A separate gold LIVE layer previews the forming candle without ever changing confirmed history. Review mode replays what was known at any past bar.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Failed breakout / edge rejection / stack failure detection Same rules and thresholds. TradingView reads aggregated rows from request.footprint(); without a Premium/Ultimate plan the detector is off, as ATAS is without footprint. NinjaTrader reads Volumetric bars. | Full | Approximate | Full |
| Lifecycle: at risk → reclaimed → confirmed → retested; accepted, expired, invalidated | Full | Full | Full |
| Evidence checklist (/100), frozen invalidation, 1R/2R reference guides | Full | Full | Full |
| Zone bands, aggression VWAP, source-row profile, dashboard Drawn with each platform’s own boxes, lines and tables. | Full | Approximate | Approximate |
| Live unconfirmed preview of the forming candle | Full | Not ported | Not ported |
| Review as of a past bar Ports take a bar number instead of the crosshair. | Full | Approximate | Approximate |
| JSON and CSV export Pine cannot write files. NinjaTrader writes a simplified JSON export. | 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 Trapped Traders
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 1.2.1-atas · Updated 2026-10-26. Instructions match the shipped ATAS plugin and platform ports.
Before you buy
Does it know who is trapped?
No. It identifies executed aggression at a reference that then failed on a closed-bar basis. It cannot see positions, entry prices, remaining size or anyone’s exits.
Which instruments does it work on?
Any instrument where ATAS provides bid/ask footprint history: futures, crypto and stocks with tick-level data. Each source is checked for reconciled footprint rows before it is used.
Do I need a Cival dashboard?
No. Trapped Traders 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.