Two questions before the bell
Fifteen minutes to the New York open, and two questions matter on your NQ or ES chart: where could price react today, and if it gets there, will the move tend to slow down or keep running? If your answer depends on how the morning feels, a routine helps.
This one takes three PulseFlow indicators, one per step. The gamma regime speaks to the second question; the gamma levels, the VWAP lines and the week's targets give you prices for the first.
Step 1. Enter today's gamma levels
Options dealers, the market makers on the other side of options trades, hedge their positions. With positive gamma, they tend to buy dips and sell rallies, which can dampen moves; with negative gamma, they tend to trade in the same direction as price, which can stretch them. PulseFlow Gamma Regime Manual brings that context onto your chart.
TradingView scripts cannot read the internet, so this part is manual: once a day, copy the levels from a free gamma-data provider and paste them as one line or type them into the fields. Each provider uses its own model, and free sources usually publish them with some delay. The levels must be in your chart's price scale (NQ levels for NQ or MNQ, ES levels for ES or MES), and the indicator converts nothing.
Click OK and they appear as thin labeled lines: the Gamma Flip (the estimated price where gamma changes sign), the Call Wall and Put Wall (where calls and puts concentrate the most gamma), Max Gamma/Pin and, if you want them, the 0DTE walls for options that expire that day. The background shows the regime: green, moves tend to be dampened; red, they tend to stretch; yellow, price is near the Flip and the regime may be changing.
Step 2. Mark the volume references
PulseFlow VWAP Levels + POC draws volume-weighted average price (VWAP) references. Before the open, start with the ones that no longer move: the previous day's and week's VWAP, and the last closed monthly, quarterly and yearly VWAP.
The developing daily and weekly VWAP move with every candle, and the RTH VWAP covers only the regular New York session, which has not started yet. The Rolling POC (Point of Control), an estimate of the price band with the most volume in recent candles, moves too: before the open it reflects only the latest trading.
Step 3. Find price on the week's map
Weekly Opening Targets ±5% draws the week's open as a fixed line, with percentage targets above it in green and below it in red. It rests on the idea that institutional traders measure the week in percentages from its open.
In this routine, the question is simple: has the week barely left its open, or is price already near an outer line?
Pull it together in two lines
Before the bell, write two lines: the background color, and the nearest levels above and below price. Then look for narrow bands where lines from different tools sit together: those few prices are what you will watch once the session starts, and the rest can wait.
A hypothetical example: price sits just above the Gamma Flip, so the background is yellow, and in that same band you also find last week's VWAP and the week's open. Three tools, one area: that is where the session could change character. Decide now, not in the middle of the move, what you will do if price holds that band or closes through it.
Setting it up
Use a 5- or 15-minute NQ/MNQ or ES/MES chart, the kind of intraday chart Gamma Regime Manual is built for. Weekly Opening Targets needs a standard candle or bar chart.
Gamma Regime Manual has four alerts: a candle closing above or below the Flip, above the Call Wall or below the Put Wall. In the example, the two Flip alerts would tell you if price closes on the other side.
As of October 2026, TradingView's pricing page lists two indicators per chart on the Basic plan. Gamma Regime Manual runs on Basic, but the three together will not fit: do the routine in two passes, gamma and VWAP first, then swap one for Weekly Opening Targets. Your notes keep the whole map.
Reread your two lines after the close
After the close, compare your two lines with what the session did: did price react at the band you marked, and did it move the way the background suggested? A few sessions in, you will know which layer you keep coming back to and which one can leave the chart. That rereading is your test.
Prices for PulseFlow indicators are not active for now: details are in the pricing section. Run the routine before your next New York open.