SAGE draws the levels that decide a session, the opening range, the initial balance, the prior day's value, session VWAP with its bands, the overnight range, and virgin POCs, then names the day's type, the active rule, and the price that would invalidate it.
Every row answers a question you would otherwise answer by eye. Each read names the rule behind it, so you can disagree with it on purpose. Pick the preset that matches how you trade, the engine is identical, only what it shows changes.
Six rows, the key levels, and nothing else. The chip on the right is the read at a glance, the sentence beside it is the reasoning, including the number that invalidates it.
Study adds the rule rows, the 30 minute rule, the 80% rule, virgin POCs, and every level group, including the OR 2.618 and IB x3 extensions. A rule row is dropped whenever Setup is already spelling that rule out, so no two rows ever say the same thing. Here Setup is on the 30 minute rule, so the detail row steps aside and the virgin POC count takes the space.
Phone keeps the chips and drops the prose, so the whole read survives a 390 pixel screen. Same engine, same alerts.
BULL 5/5 counts how many independent reads agree. It is a plain count, and TradingView names all five when you hover it.
A unanimous count is a day to hold through pullbacks. Two or three is a day to trade the edges. VWAP is the vote that flips fastest, which is what the sigma bands are for: price can be on the right side of VWAP and two standard deviations stretched at the same time, and those are different trades.
In the hour before the open, the card becomes a plan: the gap measured against yesterday's actual close, where that puts price relative to yesterday's value, and what each opening location would mean. It is the same card, filled with the only four things that matter before there is a session to read.
Real output from October 7: ES gapped 33.25 points below the prior close and opened below value, so the 80% rule was live from the first bar.
Every level is drawn for the session it belongs to and stops at the bell instead of running across the week. Titles sit at the end of their own line, and levels sharing a price share one title instead of stacking on top of each other.
The opening relationship calls a shape. SAGE rereads the developing profile every 30 minutes and says whether the day is confirming that call or building a different one, and by the close the verdict is final, the day no longer counts as still forming. A trend day has to earn the name: price must reach the IB x2 extension and close holding that end of the range. A wide range on its own does not qualify.
A break of the initial balance that holds for a full 30 minutes counts as acceptance and opens the extension targets. A close back inside counts as a failed break and points at the IB midpoint. Both states are chipped and alerted.
Open outside prior day value, then trade back inside and hold it, and the far side of value comes into play. SAGE counts the closes for you and marks the price that kills the setup.
VWAP anchors to the opening bell, with two bands around it. Each band has its own multiplier, and the band itself can be measured three ways: as standard deviations, as a thin ribbon that tracks VWAP closely, or as a percent of VWAP. Setting band two to zero hides it. Which side of VWAP price is trading on is one of the five votes behind the header chip, and the bands show how stretched that side already is.
Two or more 30 minute periods sharing the session extreme marks an auction that never finished. It draws as a highlighted band at that price, the kind of level price tends to come back for.
Prior sessions' points of control that price has not traded back through, kept for 60 sessions, ranked by distance, and removed on first touch.
The current bar is compared against the average bar of this session, with the live bar projected to its full period so the comparison stays fair. After the close it switches to the day against its own 30 day average.
IB acceptance and failure, opening range breaks, the 80% rule coming into play, succeeding or failing, an untested POC touched, and the profile confirming or changing: all on a single alert function call, or set individually if you prefer.
SAGE Scan runs the same engine on ES, NQ, SPY, QQQ, and NVDA at once: the profile letter the session is building, the 80% rule, and the 30 minute rule, each on that symbol's own bars, so one glance shows whether a move is index wide or confined to one name.
Preset, dashboard position, text size, price scale tags, level titles, and how many minutes before the bell the brief appears.
Auto detects the day session from the instrument: equity index, stocks and ETFs, energy, metals, treasuries, grains, or set your own in any display time zone.
Opening range and targets, initial balance and extensions, prior day high and low, value area and POC, floor pivots, VWAP with its two bands, virgin POCs, overnight range, poor highs and lows, and shading.
Hold time for the 30 minute rule, hold measured by close or wick, value area percentage, live profile tracking and how many periods confirm it, and the volume read.
SAGE is published invite only. The source is protected, and access is granted per account. Every rule in the card is a chapter in the book: the indicator is the book, running on your chart.
SAGE reports the auction. It does not predict, does not claim a hit rate, and will not place a trade for you. Futures and options trading carries substantial risk. Full risk disclaimer →