Session Handoff Analyzer
Each session inherits the range of the one before it, and what it does with that range is the trade. London either holds inside the Asia box, sweeps one edge and closes back in, or accepts outside and runs. New York does the same to London. Paste the day's timestamped bars and the analyzer splits them into sessions, reads each handoff, measures how much of the ADR is already spent, and writes the fade plan for a sweep that failed: entry on the close back inside, stop 10% of the box past the sweep, targets at the box midpoint and far edge. Sessions default to the UTC convention used across this site, Asia 00:00 to 07:00, London 07:00 to 12:00, New York 12:00 to 21:00, and every boundary is editable.
Any intraday timeframe. Times as HH:MM, a full date and time, or Unix seconds. Commas, tabs or spaces. A volume column is ignored. If you paste more than 1 day, the last day is read.
A chart exported in New York time in September is UTC minus 4, so the offset is -4. Move London to 8 in winter if you key sessions to local opens.
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Paste a day of bars with a time column, then hit Read. Or load an example.
How it reads a handoff. The new session's high and low are checked against the prior session's range. Inside: neither edge taken out. The box is holding; fade its edges when they're tagged. Sweep and reclaim: one edge taken out and the session's latest close is back inside. The break found no follow-through, so the fade goes the other way: entry on the close back inside the box, stop 10% of the box past the sweep extreme, T1 the box midpoint, T2 the far edge. Acceptance: one edge taken out and the latest close is still outside. Don't fade the old box; the market is repricing. Wait for the next session to test the edge from the other side. Both edges swept: back inside is a whipsaw box, fade with care and a wider stop; still outside is a whipsaw that resolved, treat it as acceptance. The ADR budget is the day's range so far over the ADR you give. Under 50% used there's fuel for a sweep to extend, so wait for the close back inside before fading. 50 to 100%, fades at the day's edges have the odds. Over 100%, the day's range is spent and a fresh breakout has to work against it. Both the 10% stop buffer and the 2-close acceptance rule match the London Open Fade Trainer. Keyboard: Ctrl+Enter reads, 1 to 3 load the examples, C copies the read.
Educational tool only, not financial advice. Session boundaries are a convention, not a law, and a sweep that reclaimed can sweep again. The read tells you where the box is and which way it failed. The stop is what pays for being wrong.
Built by Jason Parker, founder of Trading Ranges.
Built by Jason Parker, founder of Trading Ranges.