Interstellar Brokers [by Oberlunar]

Interstellar Brokers [by Oberlunar]

Interstellar Brokers by Oberlunar is a multi-broker gap-native heatmap engine designed for markets where discontinuities are viewed as a seed structure.

On instruments like commodities, such as XAUUSD , the daily (D) or weekly (W) open can “teleport” away from the previous close, creating a shadow zone where price discovery, liquidity rebalancing, and dealer positioning tend to leave readable footprints. This indicator treats that shadow as the anchor of the entire analysis. Every lane of every broker, every intensity shift, and every marker is conditioned on what the market is doing relative to the active daily or weekly gap.


Here, I show a plot of two trades caught in real-time: one bullish and one bearish, plus the reversal moment where the stars first guided a small bullish reaction and then, shortly after, helped confirm the bearish continuation.

Each of the five broker feeds becomes a dedicated lane with its own micro-state: above the gap, below the gap, inside the gap, or in the act of filling it. Color is not cosmetic here—it is a regime tag. Green/red encode direction relative to the gap boundaries, while the neutral fill state turns the lane white to explicitly remove bias when the market is doing the one thing that invalidates the edge: closing the discontinuity. That is why neutral zones stay clean and silent: no signals are allowed to appear in white regimes, because ambiguity is not tradable.

Intensity is where the lanes become more than a binary map. The heatmap alpha is driven by a chosen pressure source, normalized into a stable magnitude so five different feeds remain comparable rather than visually “loud” for arbitrary reasons. You can anchor that pressure to PV (Price × Volume), a proxy for weighted participation and “where volume mattered”; to CVD (Cumulative Volume Delta), the running balance of volume on up candles versus down candles, used as a simple order-flow pressure gauge; to OBV (On-Balance Volume), a classic accumulation/distribution line built by adding or subtracting volume based on whether price closed up or down; to Raw Volume, the untransformed traded volume accumulated over time; or to pure Distance, the normalized separation between current price and the gap boundaries (scaled by ATR), which turns the heatmap into a strictly geometric “how far from the shadow” measure. Inside the gap, intensity is deliberately attenuated: the shadow zone is information-rich, but structurally constrained, so the indicator reduces the temptation to over-read micro fluctuations while price imbalance is still "negotiating" the gap.

The AGG lane is the arbitration layer. It is not a simple average of colors; it is a weighted consensus that can be strict (ALL), pragmatic (MAJORITY), or opportunistic (ANY). This turns five parallel realities into a single decision surface: when the brokers align, the signal is not “louder”, it is more trustworthy because it survives feed variance, spread quirks, and venue microstructure differences. When they diverge, the system doesn’t force a trade; it exposes the fracture.

Divergence stars are the early-warning system. They appear only when the price direction and the selected flow metric disagree with sufficient magnitude, so the mark is earned rather than incidental. In gap markets, this matters: reversals and continuations often begin as a mismatch between what price is doing and what participation is doing, especially around the shadow boundaries.


However, a key point is verification...

Run a Bar Replay and watch how the lanes evolve step by step: values update only as candles confirm, the hourly horizon advances cleanly, and nothing “magically” appears after the fact. The entire architecture is built to avoid lookahead bias—no future candles are used to paint the present—so what you see in replay is the same logic you get live, and the market narrative stays coherent rather than retrofitted.


★👁 by Oberlunar