OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT
YURI Session Regime Engine
# Publication description: YURI Session Regime Engine
Paste into the PulseWire publish dialog, page 1. Keep the bold headers, drop the
markdown hashes if the editor does not render them.
Categories used: Trend Analysis, Volume, Chart Patterns
Suggested keywords: day type, regime, opening range, session, intraday, VWAP
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Most intraday losses I have looked at come down to running the wrong playbook for
the day. Buying pullbacks on a session that never trends. Fading the edges on one
that never comes back. By the time the character of a session is obvious on the
chart, the move it was going to give you has usually already happened.
This labels the session while it is still forming.
**How it decides**
Five checks vote on direction, and each one covers a blind spot in the others.
1. Which side of session VWAP price is trading
2. Whether VWAP itself is rising or falling, measured across the last 75 minutes
3. Whether the opening range has broken
4. Where the higher timeframe trend points, hourly close against its 20 period SMA by default
5. Whether price has cleared the prior day's high or low
Four votes out of five makes it a trend day. A gap larger than 2 percent that
trades back through the session open gets labelled a gap fill. Price still sitting
inside the opening range well after the open, with a quarter of the range width
allowed either side, is a range day.
Each of those five is weak on its own. VWAP position whipsaws in chop, the
opening range fails on gap mornings, and a higher timeframe read is always late by
construction. Prior day levels tell you nothing at all about today. What makes the
combination worth more than its parts is that they fail in different places, so
requiring agreement across all five stops any single one of them from driving the
label.
**The part that actually matters**
A new label has to hold for 25 minutes before it replaces the current one.
Drop that layer and this becomes every other conditional colouring script. Price
wicks back through VWAP, the label flips, it flips back ten minutes later, and
within a week you have learned to ignore it. The hold period is what makes the
output stable enough to be worth reading. Set it to 10 minutes if you want it
reactive, an hour if you want it stubborn.
**Reading it**
TREND UP / TREND DOWN: four or more of the five checks agree on direction.
RANGE: price is still inside the opening range plus a quarter of its width either
side, well after the open.
GAP FILL UP / GAP FILL DOWN: the session gapped hard and has since traded back
through its own open.
MIXED: the opening range has formed but nothing has agreed strongly enough to name
the day. Days that stay here are the ones worth trading small.
OPENING: the opening range has not finished forming and there is not enough
information yet.
The table carries the live vote count on both sides. Three votes up and rising
tells you more than the label does, because it shows a regime change building
before the hold period lets it commit. What you do with any of this is your
method, not mine. The label is an input to that decision.
**What it will not do**
It describes what has already happened. It is a classification of the session so
far, and it will not tell you where to enter or where to get out.
The first 15 minutes are always OPENING, by construction. Once the session ends
the day keeps whatever label it closed with until the next one starts, because
judging a finished day against a frozen VWAP would be meaningless.
If you set the context timeframe below your chart timeframe, that vote gets
dropped instead of being computed on partial bars. The table tells you when this
happens.
It assumes an instrument with a defined regular session. On 24 hour markets the
session logic loses most of its meaning.
Time thresholds are set in minutes and converted to bars internally, so the same
defaults behave the same way on a 1, 5 or 15 minute chart. It was built for US
equity index sessions. Every threshold is exposed in the inputs, including the
vote count needed for a trend day, so you can tighten or loosen it for whatever
you trade.
Paste into the PulseWire publish dialog, page 1. Keep the bold headers, drop the
markdown hashes if the editor does not render them.
Categories used: Trend Analysis, Volume, Chart Patterns
Suggested keywords: day type, regime, opening range, session, intraday, VWAP
---
Most intraday losses I have looked at come down to running the wrong playbook for
the day. Buying pullbacks on a session that never trends. Fading the edges on one
that never comes back. By the time the character of a session is obvious on the
chart, the move it was going to give you has usually already happened.
This labels the session while it is still forming.
**How it decides**
Five checks vote on direction, and each one covers a blind spot in the others.
1. Which side of session VWAP price is trading
2. Whether VWAP itself is rising or falling, measured across the last 75 minutes
3. Whether the opening range has broken
4. Where the higher timeframe trend points, hourly close against its 20 period SMA by default
5. Whether price has cleared the prior day's high or low
Four votes out of five makes it a trend day. A gap larger than 2 percent that
trades back through the session open gets labelled a gap fill. Price still sitting
inside the opening range well after the open, with a quarter of the range width
allowed either side, is a range day.
Each of those five is weak on its own. VWAP position whipsaws in chop, the
opening range fails on gap mornings, and a higher timeframe read is always late by
construction. Prior day levels tell you nothing at all about today. What makes the
combination worth more than its parts is that they fail in different places, so
requiring agreement across all five stops any single one of them from driving the
label.
**The part that actually matters**
A new label has to hold for 25 minutes before it replaces the current one.
Drop that layer and this becomes every other conditional colouring script. Price
wicks back through VWAP, the label flips, it flips back ten minutes later, and
within a week you have learned to ignore it. The hold period is what makes the
output stable enough to be worth reading. Set it to 10 minutes if you want it
reactive, an hour if you want it stubborn.
**Reading it**
TREND UP / TREND DOWN: four or more of the five checks agree on direction.
RANGE: price is still inside the opening range plus a quarter of its width either
side, well after the open.
GAP FILL UP / GAP FILL DOWN: the session gapped hard and has since traded back
through its own open.
MIXED: the opening range has formed but nothing has agreed strongly enough to name
the day. Days that stay here are the ones worth trading small.
OPENING: the opening range has not finished forming and there is not enough
information yet.
The table carries the live vote count on both sides. Three votes up and rising
tells you more than the label does, because it shows a regime change building
before the hold period lets it commit. What you do with any of this is your
method, not mine. The label is an input to that decision.
**What it will not do**
It describes what has already happened. It is a classification of the session so
far, and it will not tell you where to enter or where to get out.
The first 15 minutes are always OPENING, by construction. Once the session ends
the day keeps whatever label it closed with until the next one starts, because
judging a finished day against a frozen VWAP would be meaningless.
If you set the context timeframe below your chart timeframe, that vote gets
dropped instead of being computed on partial bars. The table tells you when this
happens.
It assumes an instrument with a defined regular session. On 24 hour markets the
session logic loses most of its meaning.
Time thresholds are set in minutes and converted to bars internally, so the same
defaults behave the same way on a 1, 5 or 15 minute chart. It was built for US
equity index sessions. Every threshold is exposed in the inputs, including the
vote count needed for a trend day, so you can tighten or loosen it for whatever
you trade.
Open-source script
In true PulseWire spirit, the creator of this script has made it open-source, so that traders can review and verify its functionality. Kudos to the author! While you can use it for free, remember that republishing the code is subject to our House Rules.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by PulseWire. Read more in the Terms of Use.
Open-source script
In true PulseWire spirit, the creator of this script has made it open-source, so that traders can review and verify its functionality. Kudos to the author! While you can use it for free, remember that republishing the code is subject to our House Rules.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by PulseWire. Read more in the Terms of Use.