What is a Balanced Price Range (BPR)?
A Balanced Price Range is not a fourth candle pattern. It is what you get when a bullish Fair Value Gap and a bearish Fair Value Gap occupy the same prices. Buy-side inefficiency and sell-side inefficiency stack. The overlap is usually a narrower band than either gap — and that is the zone this scanner is built to find.
Why the overlap is the interesting part
A single FVG says “price skipped this range in one direction.” A BPR says both directions printed an imbalance through the same levels in a short window. That often happens after a whip: a dump creates a bearish gap, a reclaim creates a bullish gap, and the shared prices become a magnet for later trade.
Traders treat that band as a condensed support/resistance — less “maybe the whole gap fills,” more “this slice saw both aggressive buying and aggressive selling.” It still fails. It just fails less often than every 5-minute micro-gap on an alt.
How this tool detects a BPR
After FVGs are marked, every bullish gap is compared with every bearish gap:
- Opposite type (one bullish, one bearish).
- At most 50 candles apart on the timeframe you selected.
- Price overlap exists, and the overlap is larger than 0.01% of price.
- Duplicate identical boxes are dropped.
The purple boxes on the chart are those overlaps. The list under the chart prints high, low, width, and the candle times that bounded the pair. The market scanner runs the same test across Binance USDT-M pairs and ranks which symbols currently have a BPR.
Scan all Binance USDT pairs for BPRThen open any symbol on the live FVG chartBPR vs a lone FVG
| Single FVG | BPR | |
|---|---|---|
| Built from | Three candles, one direction | Two opposite FVGs that overlap |
| Typical width | The full skipped range | Only the shared slice — often tighter |
| Noise | High on 5m alts | Lower; needs two displacements |
| This site | Green / red boxes | Purple boxes + scanner table |
A practical read on BTC 4h
On BTC/USDT, a 4h BPR after a stop-run and reclaim is the setup most people actually mean when they say “balanced range.” The 5m chart may show a dozen FVGs inside it; the BPR is the one worth putting on a higher-timeframe map. Open 4h, toggle FVG off if the chart is busy, and leave BPR on.
No overlap is a trade by itself. Confirm with your own structure, risk, and whether the gap is already spent.
BPR FAQ
Is BPR an ICT term?
The overlap idea shows up in ICT-style teaching as a balanced / inversion area. This tool names the geometric overlap of opposite FVGs “BPR” and measures it. It does not score “smart money” or predict direction.
Why 50 candles?
Far-apart gaps that happen to share a price years (or hundreds of bars) later are coincidence. Fifty candles keeps the pair in the same swing. You can still switch timeframe: 50 × 5m is not 50 × 4h.