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Session Guide is the visual context layer. Once it is on your chart you will wonder how you ever traded without it. Read this guide before your first live session and you will know every element by name before price even moves.

Session Guide

The structural framework. Every session, every level, always on the chart.

Institutional traders do not trade random levels. They trade where real capital made decisions during previous sessions. The highs and lows of the New York open, the London range, the Asian session, the overnight move. These are the fingerprints of large-order flow, and Session Guide puts all of them on your chart automatically.


Quick Start: On Chart in 5 Minutes

  1. Set your timezone first. Open the indicator settings before anything else. Find the timezone setting and match it to your local time. Session Guide draws levels based on real-world clock times. Wrong timezone means every level on the chart is wrong.
  2. Add Session Guide from your Invite-Only scripts. A set of colour-coded horizontal lines will appear on your chart immediately.
  3. Identify the current session's range. The shaded session box shows where the opening range was established. The High and Low of that box are your primary reference levels for the session.
  4. Check where price is relative to the overnight range. Is price inside the Titan Lens range, above it, or below it? That position tells you the directional bias coming into the main session.

Critical: Set your timezone accurately before your first session. Wrong timezone means wrong session times, which means wrong levels. Every trade you make using those levels will be anchored to the wrong context. Check it once now and it will never need changing.


What a Working Chart Looks Like

When Session Guide is configured correctly and running on an intraday chart you will see:

  • Session boxes: Shaded rectangles marking the opening range window for New York, London, and Asia. Each session has its own colour so you can tell them apart instantly.
  • Session High and Low lines: Horizontal lines extending from each session box. These are the levels price will interact with throughout the day.
  • Mid and Quarter levels: Finer subdivisions within each session range. The mid-level is particularly useful as a magnet during range-bound conditions.
  • Titan Lens range: The overnight range from midnight to the pre-London open, drawn as a wider reference band across the top of the chart context area.
  • Break and retest labels: When price clears a session level with conviction, a label appears. When it returns to test that broken level, a retest label appears.

If your chart looks too busy: Start by showing only the New York session. That is the most important session for most instruments. Add London and Asia once you are comfortable reading the NY levels. Titan Lens can be added last.


Reading Session Guide in Three Market Conditions

Trending Market

Session highs from previous sessions are being broken and held. Each new session opens and makes a higher high than the last. The break labels are stacking in one direction. Price is not returning to old session lows.

What to do: Trade with the trend. Use the most recent session high or low as your stop anchor. Retests of broken levels are entries. The structure is giving you a clear map.

Choppy Market

Price is contained inside the Titan Lens overnight range or inside the Asian session range. No session has broken out with conviction. Levels are being tested and failing. The break labels are mixed in direction.

What to do: Reduce size and trade the range. The session High and Low are the fade targets. If price is in the middle of a range, there is no edge until a session level breaks cleanly.

Reversal Setup

Price has been trending and just ran into a major session level from the prior day or the overnight range. The break label appeared but the retest label quickly followed. The retest is failing to extend the move.

What to do: Watch for the session level to act as a ceiling. If price cannot break and hold above the prior high after two or three attempts, the reversal potential is real. The level is telling you where institutional supply is sitting.


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

ACT

  • Price has broken a session level cleanly and is pulling back to retest it. The retest holds. Entry on confirmation with a tight stop just beyond the tested level.
  • New York opens above the overnight range. Directional bias is clear. First pullback to the Titan Lens High is the entry opportunity.
  • A confluence zone forms where a session level aligns with another structural element. Multiple reasons to be there. Size up.

WAIT

  • Price is inside the overnight range and no session has broken out yet. The context has not resolved. Bias is neutral until one side goes.
  • A level just broke but price has not yet returned for the retest. The retest is where the entry is. Chasing the initial break has poor risk management.
  • The current session is too young. The NY opening range is still forming. Let the first 15 minutes complete before reading the level.

STAND ASIDE

  • Price is trapped inside the Asian range and both London and New York have failed to break out. This is indecision at the highest level. There is no structural edge to trade.
  • Session levels are stacking from multiple days in the same area. The market is repeatedly testing and failing the same level. This is a compression zone, not a trading zone. Wait for the resolution.
  • End of week with price in the middle of a weekly range. The session levels are offering no clear directional read. No structural reason to be in a position.

A Worked Example

NAS100 Intraday, April 2026

Asian session closed with a range of 26,310 to 26,348. London opened and traded inside that range without breaking either side. Titan Lens overnight range was 26,290 to 26,380.

Reading: price is contained. No session has committed to a direction. The Asian session High at 26,348 is now the key level to watch at the New York open.

New York opened and within 12 minutes broke above 26,348 on expanding activity. A break label appeared. Price pulled back to 26,348 five minutes later. A retest label appeared. The level held. That retest, with a stop below 26,348, was the structural entry for the NY session long.

The Asian High was on the chart from the moment Asia closed. There was no manual work. The level was there when New York arrived at it.


Questions Members Ask

How many days of history should I show?

Two to three days covers most situations. A level that mattered yesterday often matters again today. Showing five or more days starts to clutter the chart without adding much. Start with two days, add a third if you find yourself referencing levels from earlier in the week regularly.

What is the Titan Lens range exactly and how is it different from the overnight range?

The Titan Lens is the full overnight range, from the New York close to the start of the pre-London open hours. It captures every move that happened while the main sessions were closed. Think of it as the market's off-hours position. When New York opens above or below the Titan Lens range, that gap is the first directional signal of the US session.

What is the RTH Option setting for?

RTH stands for Regular Trading Hours. Some instruments only trade during specific windows, and their data outside those hours is either absent or very thin. If you trade stock index futures or individual equities via CFDs, the RTH setting aligns session times to when the instrument is actively liquid. If you trade 24-hour instruments like forex or spot crypto, leave this off.

The mid-level keeps stopping price. Is that reliable?

More than most traders expect. The mid-level of any session range is where the market has to make a decision. Above mid suggests buyers are in control within the session. Below mid suggests sellers are. Price stalling at the mid before reversing is a common intraday pattern. It is not a signal on its own, but it is worth watching when other factors align.

I trade forex. Do session levels work the same way?

Yes. The London open and New York open are the two most important windows in forex. The Asian session sets the overnight range. The logic is identical. The difference is that session levels in forex often show up at round numbers and recent swing highs and lows from the prior session, which aligns well with the levels Session Guide draws automatically.

What is the difference between a Break label and a Retest label?

A Break label appears when price moves through a session level with conviction. A Retest label appears when price returns to that level after breaking it. The Retest is often the better entry of the two. The Break tells you the level was not held. The Retest tells you whether the market is now treating it as support or resistance from the other side. That second test, the retest, is where you can enter with a defined stop and logical structure.


Settings Reference

  • Per-Session Toggles: Show or hide each session independently. New York, London, Asia, Titan Lens. Start with NY only and add the others as needed.
  • Day History: How many prior trading days of session levels to display. Two to three days is the practical sweet spot for most traders.
  • Market Type: 24x5 for standard markets (futures, forex, equities). 24x7 for crypto where markets never close.
  • RTH Option: Regular Trading Hours mode. Use for instruments with defined active trading windows. Leave off for continuous 24-hour instruments.
  • Session Box Shading: Visual intensity of the shaded opening range boxes. Reduce this if the shading interferes with reading your candles.

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What's Coming Next

Session Guide is being extended with weekly level tracking, so monthly and weekly session extremes are visible alongside the daily levels. The highest-probability setups often form where daily and weekly session levels align.

Alert integration is in development so you can be notified when price approaches a key session level, without watching the chart continuously.


Need Help?

The most common issue is timezone misconfiguration. If the session boxes do not align with where you expect the New York or London opens to be, go back to settings and verify your timezone against your broker's session times.

For anything else, post in the member community with a screenshot of what you are seeing. Include your timezone setting and the instrument you are charting.


Trading financial instruments carries significant risk of loss. Session Guide 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.

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