Quarterly Theory Opening PricesThis script plots key session opening levels for enhanced market structure analysis:
✅ Midnight Open – Marks the daily 00:00 (midnight) open
✅ TSO (True Session Open) – Marks 07:30 NY time for session start
✅ TWO (True Week Open) – Marks the weekly open from Monday 18:00 (start of Tuesday trading)
✅ TMO (True Month Open) – Marks the monthly open starting from the second Monday at 18:00, continuing to the last Friday of the month at 16:59
Each level:
🔷 Dynamically updates to keep charts clean and relevant
🔷 Offers customizable label size, color, and line style for personal preference
🔷 Works across all timeframes with min/max timeframe filters
🔷 Ensures stable, precise label alignment regardless of chart zoom
Ideal for traders using Quarterly Theory and seeking to identify precise session levels for intraday or swing strategies.
Quarterlytheory
True OpensTrue Opens: Pinpoint Key Inflection Levels
This indicator plots "True Open" price levels for Monthly, Weekly, Daily, and key intraday Sessions. Unlike generic opens, these are anchored to precise New York kickoff times (e.g., True Month Open from the second Sunday at 18:00 NY).
Especially valuable for Futures traders, these levels frequently act as significant support/resistance, offering clear reference points for your analysis.
Conceptual framework based on Daye's Quarterly Theory.
Time-based LiquidityThis indicator automatically marks important time-based liquidity levels on your chart, helping you stay aware of where major price reactions may occur and the market is forced to show its hand.
Key Features:
Previous Month’s, Week’s, and Day’s Highs and Lows: Displays PMH/PML, PWH/PWL, and PDH/PDL — key reference points where liquidity often accumulates.
Intraday Session Highs and Lows: Divides the trading day into quarters (00:00–06:00, 06:00–12:00, etc. following Day’s Quarterly Theory) and tracks session highs and lows dynamically across these periods.
Current Session 90-Minute Quarters: Splits the active session into 90-minute intervals to highlight short-term liquidity structures and potential reaction zones.
Level Alerts: Tracks when each liquidity level is reached and enables customizable alerts so you don’t miss important price movements.
Use Case:
This tool provides an organized, time-based framework for identifying where liquidity is likely to concentrate across different timeframes and intraday cycles. Use these levels for forming bias, planning entries, exits, or anticipating price reactions at key points in the market structure.
Customization Options:
Enable/disable liquidity levels to display (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Sessions, Session Quarters)
Customize the appearance of each level (color, style, line width)
Enable or disable tracking and alerts for level interactions
Triad QT - BetaQT Profiler is the ultimate tool for Quarterly Theory traders. It's great both for trading and backtesting purposes.
The indicator includes the following features:
- accurate plotting of quarters for cycles from micro to quadrennial, consistent across different markets
- plotting previous quarter high and previous quarter low with possibility of projecting it into next quarters
- plotting DFR for each cycle in convenient, clear way
- plotting True Opens with possibility of looking up higher cycle quarters on lower timeframe charts (you can look up even TYO on micro cycle!) in consistent manner
- plotting SSMTs both for present, as well as historical charts in vey fast fashion - priceless for backtesting and trading purposes
- 3 SSMT detection ways : wick above previous quarter high, close above previous quarter's high, close above previous quarter's highest close (vice versa for lows)
- possibility of choosing the triad you're using from drop down list, as well as setting up your custom triad
- fast performance due to unique coding solutions
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True Opens [Dango]Description:
This True Open Indicator for Quarterly Theory is designed to assist traders in studying and backtesting Quarterly Theory, a time-based approach to interpreting market cycles. Quarterly Theory, as introduced by the Inner Circle Trader, suggests that time must be divided into quarters for proper analysis of market cycles.
Key concepts of Quarterly Theory:
The yearly cycle consists of four quarters, each comprising three months.
The monthly cycle consists of four quarters, each representing one week (excluding partial weeks).
The weekly cycle consists of four quarters, each representing one day (Monday to Thursday).
The daily cycle consists of four quarters, each representing six hours, aligning with the four main trading sessions (Asian, London, New York, and afternoon).
This indicator plots the true opens, which are crucial reference points in Quarterly Theory. True opens are the opening prices of the second quarter (Q2) of each cycle. They serve as a time-based filter for gauging market swings and determining entry points. When bullish, traders aim to buy below the true open, and when bearish, they aim to sell above it.
The true opens plotted by this indicator include:
Yearly true open
Monthly true open
Weekly true open
Daily true open
Asian session true open
London session true open
New York session true open
Afternoon session true open
The exact times of these true opens are not disclosed, as they are calculated using a proprietary method to ensure accuracy and reliability.
By clearly delineating these true opens on the chart, this indicator serves as a handy visual reference for those who have studied Quarterly Theory. It enables traders to easily identify these key reference points while studying price action across various time frames. It helps traders make informed decisions based on the principles of Quarterly Theory, enhancing their understanding of market cycles and potentially improving the accuracy of their trades.
To effectively utilize this indicator, traders should have a basic understanding of Quarterly Theory and its underlying concepts. The indicator can be used in conjunction with other tools and strategies to analyze price action and make trading decisions.
Please note that while this indicator is designed to assist in studying Quarterly Theory, it should not be considered a standalone trading system. Traders should always exercise caution and use appropriate risk management techniques when trading.
Originality and Usefulness:
This True Open Indicator for Quarterly Theory is a unique tool designed specifically to assist traders in studying and applying the concepts of Quarterly Theory. While there may be other indicators that plot certain opening prices, this indicator stands out by comprehensively plotting all the true opens across various time frames, as defined by Quarterly Theory. Not all
The key unique features of this indicator are:
It plots true opens based on the specific rules of Quarterly Theory, which are not commonly found in other indicators.
It covers a wide range of time frames, from yearly and monthly down to intraday sessions, providing a comprehensive view of market cycles.
The plotted true opens serve as time-based filters for gauging market swings and determining entry points, which is a distinct approach based on Quarterly Theory.
The true opens are calculated using a proprietary method that ensures accuracy and reliability.
The source code of this indicator is kept closed to protect the intellectual property and the proprietary algorithms used to accurately identify and plot the true opens based on Quarterly Theory. The closed-source nature also ensures that the indicator remains reliable and consistent, as it prevents unauthorized modifications that could lead to incorrect or misleading results.
By offering a unique and comprehensive tool for studying Quarterly Theory, this indicator provides significant value to traders seeking to enhance their understanding of market cycles and improve their trading accuracy. The closed-source approach is necessary to maintain the integrity and effectiveness of this specialized indicator.
Daye Quarterly Theory by toodegrees> Introduction and Acknowledgements
The Daye Quarterly Theory° tool encompasses the cyclical Time aspect of the markets as studied and developed by Daye (traderdaye on Twitter).
I am not the creator of this Theory, and I do not hold the answers to all the questions you may have; I suggest you to study it from Daye's tweets and material.
I collaborated directly with Daye to bring a comprehensive Time tool to Tradingview.
S/O to @a1tmaniac and @joshuuu for their previous works on this Theory.
> Tool Description
This is purely a graphical aid for traders to be able to quickly determine Daye's Quarterly Cycles, and save Time while on the charts.
The disruptive value of this tool is that it reliably plots forwards in Time, allowing you to strategize and tape read efficiently; as well as calculating all the Cycles, from Micro Sessions, to the Year.
> Quarterly Theory by Daye
The underlying idea is that Time is to be divided in Quarters for correct interpretation of Market Cycles. The specific starting point of a Cycle will depend on the Timeframe at hand.
Daye being one of the most prominent Inner Circle Trader students, these ideas stem from ICT's concepts themselves, and are to be used hand in hand (PD Array Matrix, PO3, Institutional Price Levels, ...).
These Quarters represent:
A - Accumulation (required for a cycle to occur)
M - Manipulation
D - Distribution
X - Reversal/Continuation
The latter are going to always be in this specific sequence; however the cycle can be transposed to have its beginning in X, trivially followed by A, M, and finally D.
This feature is not automatic and at the subjective discretion of the Analyst.
Note: this theory has been developed on Futures, hence its validity and reliability may change depending on the market Time.
This tool does provide a dynamic and auto-adapting aspect to different market types and Times, however they must be seen as experimental.
> Quarterly Cycles
The Quarterly Cycles currently supported are: Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily, 90 Minute, Micro Sessions.
– Yearly Cycle:
Analogously to financial quarters, the year is divided in four sections of three months each
Q1 - January, February, March
Q2 - April, May, June (True Open, April Open)
Q3 - July, August, September
Q4 - October, November, December
Note: this Cycle is the most difficult to optimize as Timeframes become more granular due to the sheer length of its duration. With Time and advancements it will become more accurate. This is the only Cycle for which accuracy is not 100%.
– Monthly Cycle:
Considering that we have four weeks in a month, we start the cycle on the first month’s Monday (regardless of the calendar Day).
Q1 - Week 1, first Monday of the month
Q2 - Week 2, second Monday of the month (True Open, Daily Candle Open Price)
Q3 - Week 3, third Monday of the month
Q4 - Week 4, fourth Monday of the month
– Weekly Cycle:
Daye determined that although the trading week is composed by 5 trading days, we should ignore Friday, and the small portion of Sunday’s price action.
Q1 - Monday
Q2 - Tuesday (True Open, Daily Candle Open Price)
Q3 - Wednesday
Q4 - Thursday
– Daily Cycle:
The Day can be broken down into 6H quarters. These Times roughly define the sessions of the Trading Day, reinforcing the Theory’s validity.
Q1 - 18:00 - 00:00, Asian Session
Q2 - 00:00 - 06:00, London Session (True Open, Midnight New York Time)
Q3 - 06:00 - 12:00, NY Session
Q4 - 12:00 - 18:00, PM Session
Note: these Times are based on Futures Trading in New York Time, these will vary depending on the market type (experimental).
– 90 Minute Cycle:
Merely dividing one of the Daily Cycle’s Quarters we obtain 90 minute quarters. The first one in a Trading Day – 90min Cycles of the Asian Session – follows as an example, in New York Time.
Q1 - 18:00 - 19:30
Q2 - 19:30 - 21:00 (True Open)
Q3 - 21:00 - 22:30
Q4 - 22:30 - 00:00
– Micro Cycle:
Lastly, dividing a 90 Minute Cycle yields 22.5 Minute Quarters, known as Micro Sessions. An example breaking down the 90 Minute Cycle from 18:00 to 19:30 follows.
Q1 - 18:00 - 18:22:30
Q2 - 18:22:30 - 18:45 (True Open)
Q3 - 18:45 - 19:07:30
Q4 - 19:07:30 - 19:30
Note: trivially, these may not be exact unless the Timeframe is in the seconds, to correctly account for the half minute in each quarter – this said the tool is able to plot these anyways, although slight inaccuracy needs to be taken account depending on the Timeframe.
It is important to remember and be aware that the current chart’s Timeframe will heavily impact the plotted Time Cycles. This tool is in its initial form and it will be improved and adapted as traders start using it on a daily basis.
> Tool Settings
Plot Settings:
"Plot Type" will allow you to decide how the Cycles will be displayed. Out of the box the tool will be plotted on a separate pane, at the bottom of the chart; you can decide the orientation of the cycles from longest cycle at the bottom (Bottom Pane), or top (Top Pane). Alternatively you can move the tool to the chart and have the cycles plot on price (Move To -> Existing Pane Above), specifically above price (Top), or below (Bottom). The cycles will auto adjust their position based on the visible price action.
"Historical Cycles" will show previous Historical Cycles, up to where available in terms of script memory.
"Plot Size" will allow you to vary the height of the Cycle’s boxes
"Show Labels" will give you an auto-adapting legend which will help you determine which Cycle is which if you get lost.
The remaining Settings are self explanatory, allowing you to change colors, and choose which Cycles to see.
The source of the code is hidden due to the use of private libraries of mine. Happy to answer any questions in terms of code, where I will not be able to divulge any detail that concerns said libraries. Thank you for understanding!
Major thanks to Daye for his Time and Knowledge, it was a pleasure to collaborate and work together on this tool.
GLGT!