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What You’ll Learn

How Session Pulse works, what its scheduled briefings cover, where the in-app panel gets its context, and how to read it as educational market structure rather than personalized advice.

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What Session Pulse Is

Session Pulse is Hermes’ scheduled, SPY-focused market context engine. It publishes structured market briefings during the trading week, stores durable analysis records for Hermes, and feeds the in-app Session Pulse panel with the same evidence-grounded context. Each briefing is built around:
  • current SPY, SPX, VIX, DXY, oil, and rates context where available
  • prior session levels, overnight context, VWAP, initial balance, volume profile, and repeated price areas
  • dealer gamma, open interest, call/put walls, max pain, and put-call context
  • macro calendar and headline context when the feeds are available
  • continuity from earlier Session Pulse records, including what changed since the last public read
The goal is to keep the day legible: what changed, which levels matter, what conditions would confirm or weaken the current read, and what data quality limits should be kept in mind.

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Public Briefing Schedule

All scheduled times are Eastern Time. Holiday sessions are skipped when the market calendar marks the date as a U.S. equity holiday.

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The Regular Session Reads

The intraday briefings are meant to be read as a sequence:
  • Premarket Brief: overnight context, expected levels, macro calendar, and the setup before cash equities open.
  • Opening Read: how the first auction is lining up against VWAP, the initial range, dealer levels, and early quote/price context.
  • Halftime Adjustments: what changed by midday, where value is forming, and which earlier assumptions still hold.
  • Power Hour Playbook: late-session context, nearby levels, positioning, and what would make the close cleaner or more unstable.
  • Closing Debrief: what mattered, how the read evolved, and what should carry forward into the next session.
Session Pulse should not be read as a single static prediction. Its strength is continuity: later reads know what the earlier reads said and update the market map when market facts change.

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Special Reports

Session Pulse also produces longer context reports:
  • Week Autopsy reviews the completed week, major levels, positioning changes, and whether prior reads were useful.
  • Past 10 Days Analysis builds a deeper map of the past 10 completed SPY trading sessions plus adjacent weekend and headline context. It summarizes daily auction behavior, value migration, repeated levels, headline coverage, dealer snapshot history, and the scenarios that matter over the next few days.
  • Sunday Night Futures Check-In frames the upcoming week before the Monday session begins.
These reports are stricter than normal session posts. If the output is blank, truncated, structurally incomplete, calendar-contradictory, or fails the public safety checks, Hermes withholds it and records the failure instead of silently shipping a bad report.

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In-App Session Pulse Panel

Open Session Pulse from the right rail to see the latest available briefing inside Hermes. The panel is the same product surface as the Discord post: it is there to keep market context near the chart, Quote Flow, GEX, and open interest views. Use it for:
  • loading the current session map before reviewing charts
  • checking which levels the latest briefing emphasized
  • comparing the written read against Quote Flow, GEX, and price action
  • reviewing what the system believed earlier in the day
Session Pulse records include timing, quality-audit status, delivery status, and coverage notes. Those audit fields help Hermes show when the latest briefing is stale, partial, or unavailable.

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How To Use It Well

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Start with the latest briefing

Read the most recent Session Pulse note before deciding which chart or level to inspect first.
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Cross-check the cited levels

Put the named levels next to price, Quote Flow, GEX, and open interest. The written read is most useful when it matches the visible market structure.
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Track what changed

Compare the latest briefing to the prior one. A change in VWAP behavior, value area, dealer wall, or headline context matters more than a sentence in isolation.
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Keep the data boundary visible

If coverage is stale, partial, or unavailable, Session Pulse should say so. Treat those sections as lower-confidence context.
Session Pulse is an educational market-structure briefing. It does not know your account, positions, size, time horizon, or risk tolerance.