A composite profile aggregates several periods into one shape drawn beside the chart, rather than one profile per candle or per session. Where a session profile tells you what happened today, a composite tells you where the market has been building value over the past week or month — and those levels tend to matter long after the session that created them has closed.
There are two of them, drawn on opposite sides of the chart: CPL on the left and CPR on the right. Running both lets you compare two periods against each other, for example a month-long composite on one side and the current week on the other.
CPL and CPR have identical settings. Everything below applies to both dialogs.
Profile Mode
Profile period sets the unit the composite is built from — day, week or month.
Start counting back from decides where the count begins. Developing includes the current, unfinished period, so the composite updates as the session builds. The alternative starts from the last completed period, which gives you a fixed shape that does not move during the day.
Number of periods back is how many of those periods are aggregated. Together these three settings define the composite: four weeks back, counting from developing, is a rolling month that includes today.
Profile bar type chooses what the composite is built from — a volume profile, a delta profile, and so on. This is the same choice as cluster mode, applied to the composite instead of to individual candles.
Volume profile color / gradient and VP outside VA, color / gradient set the fills inside and outside the value area, each with an optional gradient.
Text type prints values inside the profile bars. Bid-Ask splits each level into buys and sells, so the composite carries order-flow detail rather than only a volume shape. Short numbers abbreviates those figures.
Tick * (sync with chart) ties the composite's price granularity to the chart's tick size. Turn it off and Tick * (custom) sets an independent value. This is worth doing: a composite covering a month usually reads better at a coarser tick size than the chart itself, because a month of data at chart granularity produces a profile too fine to interpret.
VA and POC
Show POC marks the point of control of the whole composite — the single price at which the most volume traded across every period included. On a monthly composite this is one of the more durable reference levels available.
Show VA marks the value area, and VA Line draws its boundaries as lines.
Profile opacity % sets how solid the composite is drawn. Outside VA opacity % fades everything beyond the value area separately, which pushes the value area forward and lets the tails recede.
VA % sets how much of the traded volume counts as the value area. The default of 68% is one standard deviation, the market profile convention.
Settings
Show edge line outlines the profile.
Bars separated draws a gap between rows instead of running them together, which makes individual price levels easier to pick out.
Draw main chart in area and Draw behind main chart control how the composite and the price chart share space. Drawing behind the chart lets the composite span the full width as a background reference rather than sitting in its own column, so you can see price trading directly against the composite's levels.
Flip side mirrors the profile horizontally.
Indicator width caps how much horizontal room the composite takes. Wider is easier to read; narrower leaves more of the window for price.