Six lines on the chart, ninety minutes on the clock
You marked up your NQ chart before the New York open: gamma levels, last week's VWAP, the weekly targets. Now the session is running and price sits among half a dozen lines. Which fit within an ordinary quarter, and which would take an unusual push?
A level marks a price; it does not say how much ground the market usually covers in these 90 minutes. That measure comes from PulseFlow Quarterly Theory 90m Cycles, and here it meets three other indicators that draw the map: PulseFlow Gamma Regime Manual, PulseFlow VWAP Levels + POC and Weekly Opening Targets ±5%.
The clock: what each quarter usually moves
The Quarterly Theory, popularized by Daye, splits the futures day, from 18:00 New York time, into four sessions (Asia, London, NY AM and NY PM) of four 90-minute quarters. Many readings of the theory try to tell where price will go next. The indicator looks at something else: the typical movement of each quarter, how much and not where, so you know which levels fit in each part of the day.
The current quarter carries two dotted lines where its range, high to low, would reach its typical size; they disappear once it has moved that much. A one-row panel shows the quarter's New York times and its range so far, and an alert fires when each new quarter begins. The typical range does not account for news days.
The map: three sets of levels
Gamma levels suggest whether options dealers are likely to dampen the next move or chase it. Gamma Regime Manual draws the Gamma Flip (the estimated price where gamma switches sign), the Call Wall and the Put Wall on NQ/MNQ or ES/MES. Its background turns green when moves tend to be dampened, red when they tend to stretch, yellow near the Flip.
VWAP Levels + POC adds volume: current and closed-period VWAPs (volume-weighted average price), a New York session VWAP and a Rolling POC (Point of Control), the price band with the most volume over recent bars, estimated from the chart's candles.
Weekly Opening Targets ±5% draws the week's open and a ladder of percentage targets, green above and red below, in 1% steps by default.
Hold the map up to the clock
At each new quarter, look at what sits between price and the dotted lines. A level inside them can be reached without the quarter going past its typical size; one beyond them would need a bigger quarter than usual. That turns half a dozen lines into a short list for the next 90 minutes. And if no weekly rung makes the list, narrow the ladder's interval.
A hypothetical morning on NQ
It is 09:40 in New York, in Q3 of NY AM (09:00 to 10:30), on a 5-minute NQ chart. The quarter has covered about a third of its typical range. Between price and the dotted lines sit only yesterday's VWAP and the Call Wall, both above; the weekly +1% line is beyond the upper one. The background is green.
Yesterday's VWAP and the Call Wall fit within an ordinary quarter; the weekly line would take an unusual one, and green points to a regime where moves tend to be dampened. For the next 50 minutes, you know which two of the six lines to watch.
At 10:20 the dotted lines are still there, but they measure the whole quarter and only ten minutes are left. At 10:30 the alert fires, Q4 begins and new dotted lines take over: time to sort the map again.
Setting up the chart
Use NQ or ES, or their micros, with extended hours on a 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 or 15-minute chart, where Quarterly Theory shows its full view; regular-hours charts and cash indices miss the early quarters. Gamma levels are modeled estimates that you enter by hand once a day, before the New York open; until then, VWAP and the weekly ladder carry the map.
TradingView Basic fits two indicators per chart (according to its pricing page in October 2026): keep the clock and pair it with one set of levels at a time. All four together need a plan that allows at least four.
Three layers, one clock
Gamma, volume and the week's percentage targets each widen what you see; the clock adds time, and with it an order: first, what this quarter can usually reach. The route across the map is yours to choose.
Prices for PulseFlow indicators are not active for now: details are in the pricing section. Add the clock to your NQ or ES chart and, at each new quarter, count which levels fall inside the dotted lines.