PRICE & TRADE STRUCTURE
Price Control ↗
Select an area and examine the recorded evidence behind its response, rather than relying on an unexplained strength number.
Read the manual →THE LEVEL COMPARISON MANUAL
Level Comparison
User manual.
A practical guide to Level Comparison: what the screen means, how to navigate it and what to check before relying on a reading.
Supported markets: NQ · ES · GC · RTY · YM* · Updated September 19, 2026
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Choose market, history and sources
Select NQ, ES, GC, RTY or YM and the history span you want to review. The default history is six hours; shorter and longer selections are available. Source availability varies: YM currently has Price Control context without a configured wall source.
Use Both sources, Price Control only or Wall Path only. Isolating a layer is useful when you want to understand where an observation came from. Check each source’s coverage and timestamp rather than assuming the two always cover the same period.
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Understand the chart layers
Price Control bands describe areas observed in price and trade behavior. Purple dashed lines describe mapped walls during the periods they were recorded. Response markers connect recorded events with nearby wall context when the required evidence exists.
“Wall inside an area” describes overlapping location. A recorded response near a wall adds a timed observation. Neither proves the wall caused the move, and one source should not be counted as independent confirmation of itself.
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Add opening-range and session context
Turn on the optional opening-range and session overlay when you want those references. The opening range uses 9:30–10:00 Eastern; regular-session high and low use 9:30–16:00. The overlay includes the opening-range high, low and midpoint plus labeled bull and bear extensions.
R denotes the opening range’s height. An extension is a reference distance beyond its boundary, not a promised destination. Faint lines and small labels add context without forcing distant references into the chart’s automatic price scale.
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Inspect the event and area
Use the “What happened at walls” record and selected-area details to inspect the sequence. Compare event time, area role and response. The comparison table describes the latest shared source time; it is not necessarily the time under your crosshair.
A recovered pullback, rejected rally or observed defense describes a recorded response. “No retest observed” means no qualifying retest has been recorded—it does not tell you to wait for one. Price may continue without returning.
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Respect source timing
Gaps remain visible. A wall that was not recorded at an event’s time cannot supply historical confirmation for that event. A current wall and an old response may be near the same price without having coexisted.
If a source is missing, inspect the remaining source on its own. Change history or scale to investigate what is loaded, but do not interpret absent records as proof that no market interaction occurred.
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Use it as a comparison workspace
Start with the current price and relevant areas. Add recorded walls, inspect a nearby event, then check whether the sources overlap in time. Use Price Control for a closer examination of the area or Kaleidoscope for the current wall-distance view.
Separate observation from expectation. The page helps compare evidence; it does not place trades or guarantee that overlapping levels will hold.