Track what institutions do in the final hour of each session: the hour smart money trades. The Closing Hour Pulse scores every session's last hour as buying or selling, optionally weights it by volume, and plots the running total as a smart-money line you read against price.
What you see on the chart
A cumulative Pulse line in its own pane, plus a table with a −100 to +100 score and the current regime read. Optional pivot lines mark structural turns in the Pulse itself.
How to read it
- Pulse rising with price: institutions are buying into the close; the rally has sponsorship.
- Pulse rising while price falls: hidden accumulation. Smart money is quietly buying weakness. Bullish divergence.
- Pulse falling while price rises: hidden distribution. The rally is being sold into. Bearish divergence.
The divergences are the whole game: the Pulse is designed to show accumulation and distribution before price does. Best on index products (SPX, NDX, SPY, QQQ) on Daily charts and above.
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TA Closing Hour Tide
The Pulse's companion gauge: where the Pulse is the running trend line of closing-hour flow, the Tide compresses the same flow into a bounded −100 to +100 oscillator: the force behind the line, with clear regime bands.
What you see on the chart
A single bounded oscillator with five labeled regime bands:
- ≥ +50: Strong Buying
- +18 to +50: Buying
- −18 to +18: Balanced
- −50 to −18: Selling
- ≤ −50: Strong Selling
How to read it
Because the Tide is bounded, it answers the question the cumulative Pulse can't: how intense is the current closing-hour pressure, and is it at an extreme? Readings deep in a Strong band that start to fade (especially against price still pushing the other way) are exhaustion tells. Run it alongside the Pulse: the Pulse for direction and divergence, the Tide for intensity and regime changes, with alerts on each regime transition.
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