Session Guide. Know which session is driving the market.
Every market day runs through four distinct windows. Asia sets the tone. London re-prices it. New York resolves it. The handoff between each session is where the real information lives. Session Guide puts that handoff on your chart, automatically, so you can read the day in real time rather than reconstruct it after the fact.
“If you only trade New York, you still need to know what Asia built and what London defended. Session Guide shows you the shape of the day before your session opens. That is not optional information.”
Session Guide is included from Core at £59/month.
Trading Your Session Without Reading the Others
What you miss when you open your chart without session context.
Most traders only watch the session they trade. That is understandable. But the market does not start when your session opens. Asia has already moved. London has already reacted to it. By the time New York opens, there is a full session’s worth of price action above and below the current level that tells you exactly what buyers and sellers defended overnight. Ignoring those levels is trading without context.
The other version of this problem is the handoff. Asia ranges. London breaks out. New York re-tests the London breakout level. If you do not know where the London session opened and closed, you do not know whether the level New York is sitting on is meaningful or arbitrary. Session Guide makes that visible, automatically, without you having to draw a single line.
What Session Guide Shows You
Five session layers that turn a price chart into a readable narrative.
Asia, London, New York, and the overnight range are all drawn on your chart at the start of each session. Colour-coded so you can read them at a glance. The levels that institutional participants worked through are always visible, without manual effort.
Session Guide reads the transition between sessions. When London opens into an Asia bid, the high and low are there. When New York opens into a London breakout, the breakout level is marked. You see the handoff in real time, which tells you whether the move is a continuation or a fade waiting to happen.
When price interacts with a session level, Session Guide labels what happened: break above, retest and hold, failed break. You see the outcome on the chart as it develops, not when the move has already run away from you.
The first thirty minutes of each session often define the direction for the rest of it. Session Guide captures that opening range and tracks whether price breaks out or stays contained. The first directional decision of a session is often the most informative one.
Yesterday’s session highs often become today’s support. Last week’s New York low might be the level this week’s Asia range is sitting on. Session Guide keeps prior session levels visible, configurable to your preference, so you are working with the full structural picture rather than just today in isolation.
The Three Session Windows
Pre-London, Pre-NY, and the close. Session Guide reads each transition in real time.
What the Trader Sees
How Session Guide reads during a typical handoff.
It is 06:00 GMT. You are a London trader. You open NAS100 on the 15-minute chart. The Asian session range is drawn in green: 26,845 low, 27,010 high. The overnight range sits slightly wider. You can see immediately that Asia closed near the top of its range, which tells you the early participants were not selling into the close.
London opens. Price breaks the Asian high of 27,010 in the first twenty minutes. Session Guide labels it: break above. That is institutional confirmation of the bid. The Asian high is now your first pullback reference. You wait for the retest.
Price pulls back to 27,012. Session Guide labels it: retest and hold. Your stop goes below 26,980, your target is the next session level above. You did not draw a single line. You did not guess at support. The level was already there, already labelled, because Session Guide read the Asian session while you were asleep.
Session Guide + Alpha Insights Pre-Session Briefs
Alpha Insights members receive a written brief before each session opens. The brief names the key session levels, flags which handoff matters that day, and sets the directional bias. Session Guide puts those same levels on your chart. The brief tells you what to watch. Session Guide shows you when it happens. Members who use both tools read the same market from two angles simultaneously, one in writing and one in real time on the chart.
What the session reads flagged this week
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29 Apr — Pre-London brief
Asia bid the dip ahead of the FOMC window. NAS100 held the 27,180 overnight floor and opened London with quiet US futures bid. Session Guide had the Asian range locked in before the European open. London traders knew exactly where Asia had found buyers before placing a single order.
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29 Apr — London to NY handoff
London handed New York a tape the dollar had re-written. USDJPY ran from 159.62 at the Asia close through the morning session to 159.84. Session Guide’s prior session reference made the carry reload visible as a deviation from the Asian close rather than a random move. New York opened with context, not noise.
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29 Apr — Pre-NY brief named the dollar reload
The brief flagged a dollar reload setup before DXY closed plus 0.33 percent on the day. The session-level read on USDJPY showed the carry book reloading harder than positioning suggested. WTI long at 98.50 with session floor support paid to target 102.50 before noon.
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29 Apr — Post-close session read
NAS100 round-tripped from a 27,184 morning print, dipped to 27,047 at the press, then recovered to close 27,246. The session high and low were visible at every stage. The Post-Close brief locked in today’s levels as the reference for Thursday’s Asia open with the Mag 7 quartet ahead.
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29 Apr — Session Guide flagged the Asia to London fade setup
The session handoff from Asia into London showed the prior Asian range and overnight levels clearly. The London thesis for the day — range-trade with a defensive lean before the Powell catalyst — was directly readable from the session structure on the chart before the European open.
Who It Is For
Session Guide is useful at every level, for a different reason at each.
If you are still learning how the global sessions relate to each other, Session Guide makes it visual on a real chart in real time. You see the Asian range. You see where London opened relative to it. You see what New York inherited. You build the mental model in the context of actual price action rather than theory.
You only trade London or only trade New York. Session Guide tells you what the sessions you missed built overnight, where the levels are, and whether the session you are entering is opening with momentum or into a fading move. Your single session becomes better informed by the sessions you did not trade.
You trade across sessions and need to track which session is the engine of the day and which is the noise. Session Guide separates the levels by session, shows you multi-day history, and lets you filter which sessions appear on your chart. You get the full picture without cluttering your chart manually.
Session Guide in the Titan Suite
Session Guide provides the time-based structural layer. It knows which session produced each level. The structural tools know whether those levels are holding. The two layers work together: Session Guide tells you where the market made decisions by session, and the structural tools tell you whether those decisions still matter right now.
Guide draws the structural cloud and compression zones. Session Guide draws the session levels. Together they show you what the structure is doing and where the time-based levels are.
Titan Mentor reads the broader market environment and names the bias for the session. Session Guide provides the structural reference levels that bias is measured against.
Session Guide identifies the levels. Auction Guard tells you whether there is real volume backing to hold them when price arrives. Both layers are needed for a high-quality trade.
Pricing
Session Guide unlocks from Core.
- ✓ Session highs, lows, and opening ranges
- ✓ Break and retest labels
- ✓ Multi-session history
- ✓ Asia, London, New York, overnight range
- ✓ Foundry education library access
Adds Guide, Trend Guard, Regime Guard.
- ✓ Everything in Core
- ✓ Guide structural cloud
- ✓ Trend Guard multi-timeframe alignment
- ✓ Regime Guard market-type identification
Adds Titan Mentor, Alpha Insights, and the full Shield research library.
- ✓ Everything in Edge
- ✓ Titan Mentor
- ✓ Alpha Insights daily briefs
- ✓ Shield research library
Frequently Asked Questions
What sessions does it cover?
Asia, London, New York, and the overnight range. Each draws its own high and low automatically and is colour-coded so you can read them at a glance. The overnight range captures the high and low set between the New York close and the next main session open, which frequently acts as support and resistance when London or New York opens into it.
I only trade New York. Is this still useful?
Yes. The levels Asia and London built before your session opened are the context your session is opening into. Whether New York opens above or below the London high tells you something about the direction and strength of the move before price has gone anywhere. Most experienced New York traders think of London structure as the map for the first hour.
Can I toggle sessions on and off?
Yes. Show only the sessions relevant to your trading. If you trade London, you might want Asia and overnight visible and New York off. If you trade New York, you might want London and overnight visible. The chart stays clean and relevant to how you trade.
How many days of history does it show?
Configurable. Show just today’s levels for a clean chart, or extend the history to see how prior session levels continue to act as reference. Most traders find two to three days is the right balance between context and chart clarity.
Does it work on instruments other than indices?
Yes. Session levels are relevant on any instrument where distinct trading windows create identifiable flows: forex, commodities, crypto. USDJPY for example runs three clear sessions with different drivers in each. The logic is the same regardless of instrument.
Does it integrate with the Alpha Insights briefs?
Yes, by design. The Alpha Insights pre-session briefs name session levels and session handoffs as part of the daily read. Session Guide shows those same levels on your chart. Members who use both tools see the same market read in written analysis and in live chart form simultaneously.
See what the other sessions built before yours opens.
Session Guide is included from Core at £59/month. No manual level-drawing. No missed handoffs. The structural session context is always there, already labelled, when your session opens.
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Educational analysis only. Not financial advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Always manage your own risk.
