Auction Guard

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Everything below is written for members only. Not a sales page. A walkthrough. Read it once before your first session with Auction Guard and you will know exactly what you are looking at.

Read the auction. Find where real money made its decisions.

Price tells you where the market went. Volume tells you where the market cared. Auction Guard maps the volume structure of each session so you can see exactly which price levels have institutional backing and which are thin air waiting to snap back.

Quick Start: On Chart in 5 Minutes

Add Auction Guard from your Invite-Only scripts. It sits alongside your chart rather than overlaying your candles.
Set View Mode to Trader. Clean mode hides too much for your first session. Trader shows the full volume structure so you can learn what each element means.
Find the Point of Control line. That is the most important line on the chart right now. Note where price is relative to it.
Watch for compression. If the Value Area is narrow and price is coiling, something is loading. When it breaks, the move will be fast.

What a Working Chart Looks Like

When Auction Guard is set up correctly you will see the following on an intraday chart:

A horizontal line marking the Point of Control for the current session. This is the price level where the most volume has been traded.
Two lines above and below the POC marking the Value Area High and Low. Between them sits roughly 70% of all volume traded this session.
A shaded fill between the Value Area boundaries, giving you an immediate visual of whether price is inside or outside fair value.
A POC Band showing whether the centre of gravity is flat, sloping, or accelerating.
A compression marker when volume is squeezing into a tight range.

If the chart looks cluttered: Switch to Clean view mode temporarily, then add elements back one by one as you learn what each means. Start with POC only, then add the Value Area, then the POC Band.

Reading Auction Guard in Three Market Conditions

Trending Market

The POC Band is sloping in the direction of the move. Institutional money is drifting steadily. Volume is building at progressively higher (or lower) prices. Price rarely spends much time at the old POC because the market has already moved on.

What to do: Follow the slope. Pullbacks to the sloping POC are entries, not exits. The drift tells you which side the money is on.

Choppy Market

The POC is flat. The Value Area is wide. Price keeps returning to the POC rather than moving away from it. Volume is distributed across a broad range and nobody has committed to a direction.

What to do: Fade the extremes. Buy below the POC toward the Value Area Low, sell above it toward the Value Area High. Treat the POC as a magnet and size down. This is not a trending environment.

Reversal Setup

Compression is flagged. The Value Area has become very tight over the last hour or two. The POC Band may be flat or decelerating after a trending move. Volume is squeezing in. The market is deciding.

What to do: Do not enter yet. Wait for the Value Area to break decisively on one side. That breakout with volume backing is the signal. Entry before the break is a guess.

Decision Flow: When to Act, When to Wait, When to Stand Aside

ACT

Price is at or near the POC in a sloping trend. Pull back has reached the institutional level.
A setup fires while price is testing the Value Area High or Low from outside. The volume structure gives you a defined level for your stop.
Compression has resolved. Price broke the Value Area with clear momentum and volume is expanding. The move has started.

WAIT

Price is in the middle of the Value Area. No level to anchor a stop. The market has not made a decision yet.
Compression is building but has not resolved. Something is loading. Let it load first.
Price broke the Value Area but pulled back inside immediately. False break. Let price confirm by spending time outside before entering.

STAND ASIDE

POC is flat, Value Area is wide, and price is oscillating without direction. This is chop. The cost of playing it is high and the reward is low.
Volume is thinning into end of session. Light volume means the readings are less reliable. Wait for the next session's auction to form.
The auction structure completely contradicts your chart setup. If the volume tells you one story and your entry is telling you another, the auction wins.

A Worked Example

NAS100 Intraday, April 2026

London opens and price is sitting 40 points below the overnight POC. The Value Area is tight, meaning volume from overnight concentrated into a small range. The POC Band has a slight upward slope from the Asian session.

Reading: smart money is positioned slightly long overnight. The tight Value Area means there is no broad distribution to absorb a sell. Any push higher into the POC will encounter buying interest.

New York opens. Price reaches the POC. A setup confirms long in the same direction as the POC slope. The stop goes below the Value Area Low, which is where the auction says buyers need to be wrong for this to be a losing trade.

The level was not drawn by hand that morning. Auction Guard had it on the chart from the moment the Asian session formed it.

Questions Members Ask

The POC keeps moving during the session. How do I use it in real time?

That is the POC drift, and it is one of the most useful reads in the tool. A POC that moves steadily in one direction throughout the session means institutional money is actively building in that direction. You follow the drift. A POC that keeps reversing direction means nobody is in control. You reduce size and wait for conviction to form.

What is the difference between the Value Area and the POC? Which matters more?

The POC is the single most important level. It is the price where the most volume traded. The Value Area gives you the range around it. Think of the POC as the exact answer and the Value Area as the context. In a tight range they are close together. In a wide range they tell different stories. Use both.

Should I trade breakouts above the Value Area High or fade them back inside?

Depends on the context. A breakout with expanding volume and a sloping POC in the same direction is a trend continuation. A breakout on thin volume that pulls back inside within two or three bars is a false break and a fade opportunity. Do not confuse the two. The volume expansion (or lack of it) is your filter.

When compression is flagged, how long do I wait before the move typically comes?

There is no fixed time. Some compressions resolve in 20 minutes, some build for two hours. What you are watching for is the first decisive break of the Value Area boundary on volume. The patience required is the point. When compression breaks, the move tends to be faster and further than anything that happened during the coiling phase.

The chart setup is perfect but the auction structure does not agree. What do I do?

Skip the trade. The auction is telling you that the volume is not behind what your chart is showing. A setup without volume backing is a weak setup. The auction is the senior voice in that conversation. When they disagree, wait for them to agree before entering.

What does Developer view show and should I use it?

Developer view shows every internal calculation Auction Guard runs. It is for learning the mechanics, not for trading from. Use it for 30 minutes when you first set up the indicator to understand how the readings relate to each other. Then switch to Trader view for live sessions. Clean view is for when you want minimal on-screen information during complex setups.

Settings Reference

View Mode: Clean for minimal display. Trader for full volume structure. Developer for all underlying calculations during learning or review sessions.
Show/Hide POC: Toggle the Point of Control line. Leave this on always.
Show/Hide Value Area: Toggle the Value Area High and Low boundary lines.
VA Fill: Shaded fill between Value Area boundaries. Useful visually, especially on wide ranges.
POC Band: Show or hide the direction indicator for the POC. Turn this on. The slope is one of the most actionable readings in the tool.
Compression: Toggle compression detection markers. Keep this on.
Panel Position: Move the context panel to whichever part of your screen keeps it visible without blocking candles.
Theme: Match the rest of your chart setup.

Pairs With

Titan Mentor

Mentor reads the environment. Auction Guard confirms whether the volume structure backs what Mentor is telling you.

Session Guide

Session Guide gives you the structural levels. Auction Guard tells you whether there is volume backing to hold those levels when price arrives.

Regime Guard

Regime Guard tells you the market state. Auction Guard tells you whether price is likely to hold or reject the key level within that state.

What's Coming Next

Auction Guard is being extended with multi-session volume context, so you can see not just the current session's POC but how it compares to prior days. That history layer shows which levels are genuinely significant versus ones that only mattered for a morning.

Alert integration is also in development, so you can be notified when compression resolves or when price tests a high-volume level, without watching the chart every minute.

Need Help?

If Auction Guard is not displaying, confirm your chart has volume data available. Auction Guard reads the volume that is already on your chart. If volume is turned off in your chart settings, re-enable it and the indicator will populate.

For any other questions, post in the member community. Screenshots of what you are seeing help get a faster answer.

Trading financial instruments carries significant risk of loss. Auction Guard is an analytical tool and does not constitute financial advice. Past performance of any tool or example shown on this page is not indicative of future results. Always manage your own risk and trade within your means.