Day Trading Setups
Opening Print / First-Candle Momentum
The very first bar of the session is a single data point, but it is a real one. Score it live on its own range, its own volume, and where it closed inside its own range, then bet whether that opening push continues or fades.
Read the print, then call the follow-through
Every trial generates a fresh session and shows you only its opening bar, rendered large. Three factors get computed live against a trailing average of prior opening bars from your own session history, and combined into a tier, Weak, Medium, or Strong. Make your call, Momentum Continues or Fades, then watch the real forward bars decide it.
Reading the opening print…
| Tier | Trials | Continuations | Continuation rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weak | 0 | 0 | — |
| Medium | 0 | 0 | — |
| Strong | 0 | 0 | — |
How it works
- Range ratio compares this print to your own history. The opening bar's high-minus-low range divided by the real trailing average of every prior opening bar's range in this session. A ratio near 1 is an ordinary print, well above 1 is unusually wide.
- Volume ratio works the same way for the bar's simulated volume. Current print volume divided by the trailing average of prior print volumes.
- Close position measures conviction within the bar itself. Close minus low, divided by high minus low. A bar that closed near its high scores near 1, a bar that closed near its low scores near 0, independent of which direction the bar actually moved.
- The three factors combine into one score, sorted into a tier by real thresholds. Strong requires a wide range, high volume, and a close near the extreme in the print's own direction, all at once. Any single strong factor alone is not enough to reach the top tier.
Where this breaks
A Strong print still needs the rest of the session to cooperate
The tier only describes the opening bar itself, wide range, heavy volume, a close near its own extreme. None of that is information about what happens in bar two. A Strong print can still fail immediately if the level it printed against turns out to be exactly where the other side of the market was waiting, and the scoreboard in this tool typically shows the Strong tier continuing more often than Weak, not continuing every time. The print sets up a real edge in the data, it does not remove the chance of a fast, early reversal.