How the levels are made
Every weekday before the open, an automated scanner (the Falcon engine) sweeps 57 liquid tickers and maps supply and demand zones off the 1-hour, 2-hour, and daily timeframes. The output is frozen and published as-is. Nothing is edited after the bell.
The zones
- Zone, not a line. Each level is a band (zone low to zone high), because real order flow works in ranges. A tag inside the band counts as a touch.
- Timeframe matters. In a 43-session replay (1,285 zone touches, Aug-Oct 2026), 1H zones returned +0.21R per trade and 2H zones +0.31R at a plain bracket entry; daily zones were flat. The table labels every zone with its timeframe so you can weight it yourself.
- Direction is a bias, not a signal. "Long at demand" means the level is a reference for a bounce — the entry trigger (sweep, reclaim, confirmation) happens on your chart, not on this page.
The ranking
Top plays are ranked by higher-timeframe alignment (does the zone agree with the bigger trend), reward-to-risk to the next opposing zone, and ATR context. It's a filter, not a promise — roughly 3-4 names make the cut out of 57 on a typical day.
The receipts
Every published day stays in the archive, unedited, with its lock timestamp. Check any historical page against the chart for that date. If the levels are good, the archive is the proof. If they stop being good, the archive will show that too.
What this is not
TradingStraw publishes reference levels for education and research. It is not investment advice, not a trade-alert service, and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Options involve substantial risk of loss. You alone decide whether and how to trade.