Sigma Syndicate · invite-only TradingView indicator
SAGE draws the levels that decide a session — opening range, initial balance, prior-day value, session VWAP and its σ bands, overnight range, virgin POCs — and then does the part most indicators leave to you: it says what kind of day is building, which rule is live right now, and the price that proves it wrong.
01 — The context box
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 is a count of how many independent reads agree — a count, never a probability. Hover it on TradingView and it names all five.
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 σ 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.
02 — Before the bell
In the last hour before the open the box becomes a pre-open brief: 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, 7 October: ES gapped 33.25 points below the prior close and opened below value, so the 80% rule was live from the first bar.
03 — On the chart
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; levels on the same price share one title rather than printing on top of each other.
04 — What it reads
The opening relationship calls a shape. SAGE re-reads the developing profile every 30 minutes and tells you whether the day is confirming that call or building a different one — and by the close the verdict is final, never "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 is acceptance and opens the extension targets. A close back inside is 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 anchored to the opening bell, with two bands around it. Each band has its own multiplier, and the band itself is measured three ways: as standard deviations, as a thin ribbon that tracks VWAP closely, or as a percent of VWAP. Set band two to zero to hide it. Which side of VWAP price is trading on is one of the five votes behind the header chip; the bands say how stretched that side already is.
Two or more 30-minute periods sharing the session extreme is an auction that never finished. It draws as a blue 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 against the average bar of this session, with the live bar projected to its full period so it compares fairly. After the close it switches to the day against its own 30-day average.
IB acceptance and failure, opening-range breaks, 80% rule in play, success and failure, untested POC touched, profile confirmed or changed — all on a single "Any alert() function call" alert, or individually if you prefer.
05 — The watchlist
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 tells you whether a move is index-wide or confined to one name.
| Symbol | Profile | 80% | 30-min |
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06 — Settings
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/low, value area and POC, floor pivots, VWAP with its two bands, virgin POCs, overnight range, poor highs and lows, 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.
Access
SAGE is published invite-only: the source is protected, and access is granted per account. Every rule in the box is a chapter in the book — the indicator is the book, running on your chart.
Open the script page on TradingView and send a private message with your TradingView username.
Your username is added to the script's access list. It then appears under Invite-only scripts in your indicator menu.
Add it to a 1- to 30-minute chart, pick a preset, and set one alert on "Any alert() function call".
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SAGE reports the auction. It does not predict, it does not claim a hit rate, and it will not place a trade for you. Futures and options trading carries substantial risk. See our full risk disclaimer.