PDH / PDL Touch

Prior day's high and low act as touch magnets during today's session. Pure level-touch tracker — the simplest model in the dataset, used as confluence input to the consensus scorer.

The setup

The prior day’s high (PDH) and prior day’s low (PDL) are the two most-watched reference levels intraday. Touch rates are roughly symmetric across direction and stable across years — when price sits within ~5 × ATR14 of either level at the open, it tags that level intraday about 60% of the time.

Line ships on our chart HUD as PDH TOUCH / PDL TOUCH.

Entry rules

• Snapshot: at session open, freeze yesterday’s RTH high and low
• Distance gate: fire only when current price is within 5 × ATR14 of the level
• Direction: PDH = bull (price rising to tag), PDL = bear (price falling to tag)
• Target: the exact PDH or PDL price
• Hit: any bar high ≥ PDH (bull) or bar low ≤ PDL (bear) before close

Why Tier 2

Touch rates are decent (~60%) but the trade itself is hard to execute cleanly — by the time you’re confident a touch is coming, price is usually already mid-move. PDH/PDL works best as confluence, not as a primary signal. It feeds the TRIPLE consensus scorer as one of the magnet inputs.

History

• 2026-04-28 — Page created. Behavior is essentially unchanged since the original model dropped — this is the simplest, most-stable signal in the stack.