The Green Light Special
— Complete User Course

Your access includes two indicators, used together:

1. Green Light Special — the main chart indicator. It reads direction across four timeframes, filters out the chop, and shows you when to enter, where your stop and target go, and how big to size.
2. GLS OSOB — a companion pane that sits below price. Its one job: tell you when to get out / take profit.

• Built for: intraday index & commodity futures — MES · MNQ · MGC · MYM (and similar index/commodity contracts).
• Best timeframes: the 5-minute and 15-minute.

1. Open TradingView → Indicators → Invite-Only Scripts.
2. Add Green Light Special and Green Light Special — OSOB to your chart.
3. GLS goes on the main price chart. OSOB drops into its own pane below automatically.
4. Set your chart to MES / MNQ / MGC / MYM on the 5m (day trading) or 15m (more context).
5. One-time scale fix (only if needed): if the lines ever look like they're floating off the candles, right-click the price axis → "Merge all scales into one." (The latest version locks to the candles automatically, so most people never touch this.)

That's it — you're ready to read the dashboard.

GLS ships ready to trade. These are the recommended defaults and the few you may tune.

Recommended values

• Chop filter: 0.3 — lower = more signals (more chop), higher = stricter (fewer, cleaner). Start at 0.3.
• Volume × average: 1.2 — only takes breaks with above-average volume.
• Sniper band width (× ATR): 1.0 — lower = more signals, higher = only the biggest breaks.
• Max risk per trade ($): set to your number (e.g., $100–$250). GLS auto-sizes to it.
• Reward multiple (R): 2.0–3.0.
• Daily loss limit / profit goal: set to your account's rules (funded accounts: match your drawdown).

Off by default (turn on only if you want them)

• 🛡🧱 Strong S/R levels (master switch — flip ON to show support/resistance)
• 💧 Liquidity lines (PDH/PDL), 🏛 BOS/CHoCH, Power Hour, Highlight-all-gaps

The dashboard answers the four questions in order: which way, is it real, where do I get in, when do I stop.

🎯 The DIRECTION panel (bottom-left)

Four timeframes stacked: Day · 4h · 15m · 5m, each ▲ UP or ▼ DOWN.

• All green = strong long. All red = strong short. Mixed = wait / lower confidence.
• The header shows the overall lean: STRONG LONG · leaning LONG · MIXED · leaning SHORT · STRONG SHORT.
• This is your bias. Trade with it, never against it.

🟢 The 3 Green Lights (bottom-right)

• ① Trend — there's a clean trend (not chop).
• ② Momentum — momentum is healthy (not exhausted).
• ③ Setup — a real entry is actually present.
• Plus your live day P&L and Win %.
• Three white = nothing yet. The lights turning green = the pieces lining up.

🚦 The Status Banner (center)

One plain-English instruction that walks you through the whole trade:

It also says CHOP — STAND ASIDE, CLOSED, and STAND DOWN (daily limit hit).

GLS marks entries as simple lights, never cluttered "BUY/SELL" text:

• Small dot = a standard signal. Large dot = 💎 STRONG — the A+ version, when all four timeframes also agree. The large dot is your highest-conviction trade.
• Every dot is with the trend, confirmed on a closed candle, with above-average volume, inside the session, and out of chop. GLS does not fire random counter-trend signals.

When a signal fires, GLS also draws the ticket: entry, 🛑 stop-loss, 🎯 target, and position size in contracts — so you know exactly what to do.

• ⭐ Golden Pocket (yellow band) — the 0.618–0.79 institutional retracement, the prime pullback entry zone. It orients to your trend: leaning long → it's a buy zone; leaning short → a sell zone. (They can never disagree with your DIR lean.)
• 🔄 Reversal Zones (shaded boxes at key highs/lows) — where price tends to stall and turn. Great for exits and for spotting where a pullback may end.
• 🛡 Strong Support / 🧱 Resistance (optional, toggle on) — levels tested 2+ times that held. The bounce/rejection spots.
• 🚀 Opening-Range Breakout (ORB) — the session's opening range; a volume-backed break in the trend direction is a classic play.
• 📦 Fair-Value Gaps (FVG) — a gap is highlighted as it forms and reads "wait for fill." When price returns and tags it, it flips to "✅ FILLED — GET IN." That's your heads-up the pullback reached the gap.

• 📊 VWAP (yellow line) — institutional fair value. Above it favors longs, below favors shorts; great for managing a runner.

The 🟡 Yellow Man paints a candle yellow when short-term momentum flips. It is a WARNING — "heads up, something may be turning" — not an entry.

OSOB is the second indicator in your bundle. It sits in its own pane below the price chart, and it has one job: tell you when to GET OUT / take profit. GLS gets you in; OSOB tells you when the move is running out of gas.

What it is

A smoothed momentum wave (built on an Ehlers Fisher Transform of a Fibonacci channel). It swings between roughly +120 and −80, centered on 0, and it snaps at turns so tops and bottoms are obvious instead of rounded over.

The 3 reference lines

• 🔴 Red dashed (~+40) = OVERBOUGHT — the up-move is stretched.
• ⚪ Gray dashed (0) = neutral midline.
• 🟢 Green dashed (~−40) = OVERSOLD — the down-move is stretched.

The wave color = where momentum is

• ⚪ White, drifting → momentum is healthy → let your trade ride.
• 🔴 Turns red at the top (above +40) → a long is getting tired → first target / scale out.
• 🟢 Turns green at the bottom (below −40) → a short is getting tired → cover / scale out.

🟡 GOLD dots = the EXIT BELL (this is the one to act on)

A gold dot means the extreme is rolling over — the wave hit overbought/oversold and started turning back. When the gold dots fire, act: take profit, scale out, or tighten your stop. Don't wait for the wave to travel all the way back to the middle.

The background tint = momentum side at a glance

• Faint green background = momentum on the up side.
• Faint red background = momentum on the down side.

▲▼ Zero-cross = momentum flip

When the wave crosses 0, momentum just changed sides — an early heads-up.

How to USE it with GLS (step by step)

1. GLS (top chart) gets you in with a 🟢/🔴 light.
2. While you're in the trade, watch OSOB — white wave = hold, let it ride.
3. When the wave reaches the colored extreme and the 🟡 gold exit-bell dot fires → take first target / scale / tighten your stop.
4. Use the OSOB alerts to get pinged on your phone when the extreme rolls over.

1. Read DIRECTION. Which way is the market leaning? Only trade with it.
2. Wait for the BANNER to say SYSTEM GO — not just three lights, not a yellow candle.
3. Take the entry GLS draws — enter at the marked level, place your stop and target exactly where the ticket shows, size to your $ risk.
4. Move to breakeven at +1R. Now the trade can't hurt you.
5. Let the trail ride the trend toward the target (the banner will say RUNNER — LET IT RIDE).
6. Use OSOB to exit — when the 🟡 gold exit-bell dots fire, take first target / scale / tighten.
7. Stop for the day at your profit goal or loss limit. The firewall enforces it.

• ❌ CHOP — banner says "STAND ASIDE." No clean trend = no trade.
• ❌ Against the trend — a counter-trend yellow flip or bounce is a fake-out, not an entry.
• ❌ Into a reversal zone / resistance with the trend exhausted — that's an exit spot, not an entry.
• ❌ During news — let the 8:30 / 10:00 ET releases settle.
• ❌ After you hit your daily limit or goal — you're done. Walk away.

• Markets: MES (S&P), MNQ (Nasdaq), MGC (gold), MYM (Dow).
• Sessions: trade the opens — London (~3:00 AM ET) and the New York open (index 9:30 ET, gold ~8:20 ET). GLS auto-fits the right session per instrument.
• Avoid: the dead midday chop and the final minutes — let the system stay quiet there.
• Timeframes: 5-minute to trade, 15-minute for context.

1. Buying the yellow candle. Yellow = warning, not buy. Wait for green + GO.
2. Trading against the DIR lean. If it's leaning short, you're looking for shorts.
3. Entering into a reversal zone with the trend. That's where you take profit, not where you enter.
4. Ignoring the banner. Three lights ≠ go. The banner is the final word.
5. Skipping the stop or oversizing. Always use the ticket's stop and size.
6. Trading after STAND DOWN. Done means done.

Everything above is all you need to trade. These extras are OFF by default on purpose — so the chart stays clean for new traders. Once the core feels second-nature, you can switch any of these ON in Settings. Add them one at a time so you understand each.

Beginner tip: ignore this whole page for your first couple weeks. Master direction → green light → manage → exit first. Come back here when you want more tools.

• 🏛 BOS / CHoCH (structure breaks) — marks when price breaks a prior swing. BOS = the trend is continuing; CHoCH = the trend may be changing. A clean way to see structure shift. (Settings → Levels)
• ↪ Pullback entries — flags a dip back to the trend line that resumes with the trend (the bread-and-butter "buy the dip in an uptrend" spot). (Settings → Setup)
• 📐 Premium / Discount zones — shades the chart into "expensive" (premium, favor sells) and "cheap" (discount, favor buys) halves, so you buy low and sell high. (Settings → Display)
• 💧 Liquidity lines (PDH/PDL · PWH/PWL) — draws the prior day's and prior week's highs and lows. These are where stops sit and where price gets pulled — strong magnets and reaction levels. (Settings → Levels)
• 🟡✅ HTF-confirmed Yellow Man — a stronger version of the flip warning: it only marks 🟡✅ when the higher timeframes agree with the turn. More reliable heads-up. (on with Yellow Man)
• 🛡🧱 Strong Support / Resistance — green support / red resistance at levels tested 2+ times (the bounce and rejection spots). Master switch is OFF by default; flip it ON to show them. (Settings → Levels)
• 🕓 4h & 15m High/Low lines — key higher-timeframe levels drawn on your lower-timeframe chart for context. (Settings → Display)
• 🌙 Swing mode — switches the whole engine to 4h/Daily and ignores intraday sessions, for swing trading instead of day trading. (Settings → Sessions)
• 🕒 Power Hour — marks the 3–4 PM ET window. (Off by default — research shows a weak edge, so test it before trusting it.) (Settings → Sessions)
• 🔴 News-day stand-down — flip this ON before a big news day (CPI, FOMC) and GLS stays quiet all day so you don't get chopped up. (Settings → Firewall)
• 🔶 Level Regain — the failed-break reclaim: price pokes beyond a level then closes back within in 1–3 candles = a trap. Fires WITH the trend only. (Settings → Setup)
• 🔁 Reversal Switch — catches the flip after the Yellow Man warning; great for the slow overnight / Asia trends. Optional volume-spike setting for sharp-only reversals. (Settings → Setup)
• 🎯 Sniper — opening-momentum breakout dots (BUY / SELL / STRONG) for the first move of the session. (Settings → Setup)
• 🔔 Opening Go — the opening-bell direction call. Prints 🔔 OPENING GO – LONG or SHORT the moment the session opens clean, or 🟡 CHOP – STAND ASIDE when there's no clean trend — so you know your bias before the first candle. (Settings → Setup)
• 🔄 Smart Reversal — flags exhaustion at key levels — use it for exits and careful counter-trend, never a blind fade. (Settings → Setup)

A few more shots of the system on live charts so you know what to look for.

The full dashboard on a desktop chart — direction stack, the 3 lights, the banner, the zones all working together:

Zones doing their job — golden pocket, reversal zones, and support/resistance marking the spots that matter:

Reading a move on gold (MGC) — trend, the band, VWAP, and the OSOB exit pane below:

Study these until reading the chart at a glance feels natural. The more reps, the faster you'll spot a clean setup.