Absorption Score 14Microstructure

Timeframe M1 · unit score

What it measures

Signed accumulation of absorption candle quality over 14 bars. Absorption occurs when volume is high but the body is small - both buyers and sellers are active and one side is absorbing the other without price moving much.

How Janira reads it (bullish vs bearish)

Positive: absorption bars closed above midpoint - buyers absorbed sellers at high volume. Negative: absorption bars closed below midpoint - sellers absorbed buyers. Near zero: no significant absorption pattern.

In plain language

Absorption is when a large fight happens between buyers and sellers, but the price barely moves because one side is soaking up all the orders. Like a sponge absorbing water - a lot of activity with little net displacement.

Scenarios

• Score above +1: multiple high-volume bars with small bodies closing in the upper half - significant buyer absorption of seller pressure; price held despite large sell flow.
• Score below −1: multiple high-volume small-body bars closing in the lower half - sellers absorbed buyer demand without allowing meaningful rises.
• Score near zero with low overall volume: no absorption signal - the market is simply quiet rather than actively absorbing pressure.
• Score spiking after a long move: a high-volume, small-body bar appearing at the end of a trend may indicate that the dominant side is finally running out of opposition to absorb.

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Janira computes Absorption Score 14 deterministically from live price action, the same way for every reading - no discretion, no hidden weighting. This page explains the method; it is not a live reading and not advice.