Price Action & Sessions
Combine session quality, killzones, higher-timeframe context and Power of Three levels with key daily, weekly and monthly references on one chart.
Most session tools only tell you the clock. This one tells you whether the session in front of you is actually behaving like one worth trading, what the timeframes above it are building at the same time, and exactly what price is being measured against — all on the chart you're already trading from.
Session boxes are typically flat colour, with no read on whether the session actually behaved like one worth trading — every London looks like every other London, whether it was a tight, high-conviction range or thin, aimless drift. Higher-timeframe context usually means switching charts or squinting at a cramped secondary panel. And reference levels pile up day after day until the chart is unreadable by midweek, with no way to tell a level still in play from one that stopped mattering three sessions ago.
This one tracks the range and grades every instance as it happens — then keeps only today's genuinely current levels instead of letting old lines pile up.
This one behaves identically everywhere by default, with local time one switch away.
Here, two full-size candles sit right beside live price, each naming its own phase.
Long moving averages are usually meaningless on fast charts, shrinking to a few hours of data. Anchoring two of the five slots to a higher timeframe keeps them structurally honest.
Here, sweeps and structure breaks are tiered, so a graze never gets mistaken for a break.
This describes how session, higher-timeframe and reference-level tools commonly work as a category — it does not name or refer to any specific competing product.
The class and score are added to the session label the moment the window closes — use the finished grade of the last instance of a window as context, not a still-moving live score mid-session.
Every one of seven named trading windows (Pre-Asia, Asia, London, NY Open, NY Lunch, NY PM, Rollover) is tracked live and graded the moment it closes. Benefit: see at a glance whether a session behaved like one worth planning around. Why it matters: filter which sessions deserve a plan using the finished grade of the last instance, not a still-moving live score.
Two higher timeframes are projected as full-size candles right beside live price, each labelled with the phase it's reading — accumulation, manipulation or expansion. Benefit: follow the higher-timeframe story to its resolution without leaving your execution chart. Why it matters: a wick that merely touched a prior high or low is separated from a close beyond it and from a forceful, displaced break — so a "sweep" only gets called that when it earns it.
Six independent reference opens (today's, yesterday's, this week's, last week's, this month's and last month's), plus the previous day, week and month's high and low, each with its own switch. Benefit: the chart carries only the references you actually use. Why it matters: one glance shows which side of each reference the market is trading on.
The projected timeframes, anchored averages and default settings adjust themselves the instant you change charts, and session grading adjusts to the market you're trading, whether that's metals, forex, indices, stocks or crypto. Benefit: no re-tuning, whether you're on a fast scalping chart or a monthly view. Why it matters: if something genuinely can't be resolved cleanly for the chart you're on, the indicator hides it and discloses that, rather than showing a quietly wrong reading.
Five average slots (two anchored to a higher timeframe so a long-term average doesn't shrink to a few hours of data on a fast chart), plus one trend-structure layer — an automatic trendline or a statistically fitted channel. Benefit: trend alignment and its turning points become something you read at a glance. Why it matters: all of it ships switched off — enable only what fits your process.
One compact, machine-readable status update per closed bar, sent to any webhook through a single TradingView alert. Benefit: your bot, trading journal or AI assistant sees exactly what you saw, at the moment you saw it. Why it matters: optional and off by default — turn it on only if your workflow can put it to use.
Accumulation, manipulation, expansion — each phase is read against the candle that came before it, and a wick that merely touched a prior level is never confused with a close beyond it or a forceful, displaced break.
Auto — the default in both editions, and the only mode in Lite — resolves the projected timeframes and the anchored moving-average references from the chart you have open, so nothing needs re-tuning when you switch charts. Manual mode, available in FULL, hands those same fields back to you for direct control — set your own higher-timeframe pair and your own reference timeframes instead of using the resolved defaults.
No setup. Opens correctly calibrated on any timeframe, from a 1-second chart to a monthly view.
Full control over the projected timeframe pair, the anchored moving-average references, and the moving-average cross pair.
Both editions run the same analytical engine, the same defaults, and the same optional data feed — the only difference is how much of the calibration you can touch.
Built for a fast start — sensible defaults, automatic calibration, and a short, clear settings list. Turn layers on or off, pick a theme, and you're trading.
Everything Lite has, plus the whole workshop underneath it — manual calibration, full control over every session window, name and colour, every scoring weight, every average and its reference timeframe, and complete styling control.
Every session window's name, hours and colour can be set by hand. The quality grade's six weighting factors are adjustable in FULL, so the grade can lean toward what matters most in your own process. A market preset — automatic by default — adjusts grading sensitivity for the asset class you're trading. Visual controls (Dark/Light theme, ray and label styling, killzone display mode) are available in both editions.
As a price-pane overlay with a deliberate, theme-aware colour system and no on-chart table, this indicator is designed to sit cleanly alongside other SSM IQ tools without visual conflict — so a trader layering in a structure or momentum read from elsewhere in the SSM IQ family keeps a readable chart.
No, not in the sense of moving or vanishing after it's drawn. A trendline only appears once enough price structure has confirmed behind it — a short, disclosed delay — and once drawn, its anchor points never change; it extends forward rather than being redrawn. This is specific to the automatic trendline: the channel modes are rolling calculations that update on every bar by design.
No. Sessions, the projection and the reference levels are all built from confirmed, closed chart bars — nothing here looks ahead at unformed data.
Metals, energy, forex, crypto, index CFDs, cash indices, stocks and ETFs — the same engine runs on all of them; only the session-grading sensitivity adjusts to the market you're trading.
The session layer is intraday by design and works down to very fast charts, but the product makes no scalping-specific claim either way.
Yes — the session map, grading and higher-timeframe projection are intraday features by construction. This describes the tool's design, not a trading recommendation.
Auto resolves the timeframe pairing and average references from your chart automatically. Manual (FULL only) hands those fields to you for direct entry.
The same engine, the same defaults, the same data feed. FULL gives you full per-module control; Lite gives you clear on/off switches and a handful of presentation controls, with everything else set to sensible defaults.
Not addressed as a claim in the product's own materials beyond TradingView's general platform limits, which this indicator uses well within.
Start with Lite. Move to FULL the day you want full manual control.
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