SPX Direction Price Display

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What it does

Pulls current close of the symbol you choose: ext1

Pulls previous bar close of that symbol: ext2

Calculates change = ext1 - ext2

Shows:

• Asset name + current price
• A green or red icon (🟢 / 🔴)
• The change value
  

Color logic:

• Green if change > 0
• Red if change < 0
• If change is exactly 0, it will show red (because it uses change > 0 only)

Step-by-step: Settings you’ll touch

1) External Source

External Source (default SP:SPX)

This is the symbol it reads from.

You can change it to anything TradingView supports, like:

• CME_MINI:ES1!
• NASDAQ:NDX
• AMEX:SPY
• CRYPTO:BTCUSD

2) Text Size

Text Size

Just controls how big the table/label text is.

3) Output Position

Output Position

You have two modes:

Mode A: Table mode (recommended)

Pick any of these:

• top_left, top_center, top_right
  
  
  
• middle_left, middle_center, middle_right
  
  
  
• bottom_left, bottom_center, bottom_right
  
  
  

This will show a 2-row table:

Row 1: SPX 4800.25

Row 2: 🟢 +12.50 (or 🔴)

Mode B: Adjacent mode (floating label)

Select: adjacent

It will display a label beside the most recent candle.

It updates every bar and deletes the previous label to keep only one.

4) Adjacent Offset

Adjacent Offset

Only used when Output Position = adjacent

Controls how far to the right of the current bar the label appears.

Bigger number = farther right.

How it behaves on different timeframes

It uses: request.security(selectSource, timeframe.period, close)

That means the external symbol is requested using your current chart timeframe.

On a 5m chart, it compares the last 5m close vs the previous 5m close.

On a 1h chart, it compares the last 1h close vs the previous 1h close.

So the “change” is not “daily change” unless your chart is on the daily timeframe.

How to interpret the number shown

The second line is change per bar, not total day change.

Example:

On 1m: change is 1-minute change

On 15m: change is 15-minute change

On 1D: change is daily change

Common use cases

You’re trading one thing (like ES), but want SPX price visible all the time.

You’re watching SPX/NDX/BTC while charting a different symbol.

You want a clean “ticker widget” directly on the chart.