During the session
How to use wall tracking for intraday trading
Follow put and call walls alongside price, understand touches and tests, and read setup entry, target and invalidation levels without losing the context.
Find a nearby wall, watch the price response, and review the next condition. If price is far away or no setup is confirmed, wait.
What is wall tracking used for?
Wall tracking helps you answer three questions during the session: which exposure levels are nearby, what price did when it reached them, and what would need to happen before a setup qualifies.
Start in Scanner’s Wall activity view to see your saved symbols. Open a symbol to see its wall chart and the matching recorded assessment. On the dashboard, the same chart lives under Intraday → Wall tracking.
The view follows near-term 1W expirations throughout the current session. You do not need to choose among six expiry scopes to follow the live workflow.
Read the three lines first
A wall can stay flat while price moves. It marks a leading strike, not a moving average of price. It moves when another strike becomes the leading concentration in the model.
Price can trade above or below either wall. A wall changing from 600 to 605 is a change in the leading exposure strike; it is not proof that price broke resistance.
The chart is an overview of recorded observations. Open the supporting completed bars when you need to inspect an event; do not treat a line drawn between observations as a record of every price traded.
| Line | Meaning | What to look for |
|---|---|---|
| Coral: put wall | The leading negative net GEX strike. | How close price is, and whether the leading strike changes. |
| Green: call wall | The leading positive net GEX strike. | Whether price reaches the area and how it behaves there. |
| Purple: price | The recorded delayed underlying price. | Its path relative to both walls. |
What do the reaction labels mean?
Click a chart event marker to inspect its recorded assessment and supporting bars. A touch is evidence that price visited the area; it does not establish that the wall held.
A wall moving onto or across price is different from price touching a stable wall. The event rules use the recorded wall and bar sequence, so two lines appearing close on the overview do not by themselves prove a reaction.
| Status | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Approaching | Price has moved near the wall under the configured distance rules. |
| Touched the level | A completed bar reached the wall’s touch area. |
| Testing the level | The recorded sequence is examining the area; a completed setup has not necessarily formed. |
| No price reaction recorded yet | No qualifying reaction has been recorded for the assessed wall at that time. |
Read “What to watch at the walls” as a decision checklist
Start with the current delayed price and the distance to each wall. If the card says to watch for a return to the level, the practical next step is to wait for that return rather than assume an entry exists now.
If setup conditions are met, read the recorded direction and time, then the entry area, reference target and five-minute close that invalidates the scenario. Open the evidence to see the price sequence used.
“Conditions met” describes the assessment at its displayed time. It does not mean an old entry is still available or a target will be reached. A setup may later expire or be invalidated.
- Check that price reached the relevant wall.
- Read the recorded response and the next condition.
- If a setup qualifies, compare its entry, target and invalidation with current market price.
- Skip a scenario when the required sequence or usable entry is no longer present.
A simple example: a touch is the beginning of the review
Hypothetical example: a call wall is at 605 and recorded price approaches from 603. The first touch tells you where to focus. It does not tell you to buy or sell.
Next, inspect whether completed bars move away from the area, remain near it, or cross and retest it. Read the next condition on the wall card. If no sequence qualifies, there is no confirmed setup to act on from this tool.
If a setup later appears, use its own recorded boundaries. Do not substitute the wall strike for the setup’s entry area or invalidation rule.
Use alerts to return to a setup, then check the chart
Setup alerts follow your saved symbols while the site is open. The bell’s Recent alerts panel keeps today’s received alerts in this browser. Sound and wall-testing alerts are optional.
Open an alert to return to its symbol and recorded assessment. Read the timestamp and check whether the scenario is still relevant. These are in-app alerts; they do not arrive as push notifications after you close the site.
Check the time and understand what changes
Intraday prices are delayed at least 15 minutes. The platform works with completed five-minute price observations, and recorded times are shown in Eastern time. A new observation does not guarantee a new wall strike or event.
The wall model updates price and time while holding prior-session open interest and reference implied volatility fixed within each comparison window. It models changing exposure; it does not measure live dealer inventory or every intraday position change.
Use the displayed time before comparing the chart with your broker’s price. The tool provides context and a recorded scenario; your decision still needs current price and a risk plan.
Your quick checklist
- Open a saved symbol with a nearby wall.
- Check the delayed price and assessment time.
- Inspect the response and next condition.
- Review setup boundaries only when conditions qualify.