What is True Day Open (TDO)?
In AKQX, the True Day Open is the opening price of the 00:00 UTC candle for that day, used as a daily directional anchor for filtering setups.
What does True Day Open (TDO) mean in practice?
Unlike many ICT-adjacent ideas, it is a single unambiguous price, which makes it unusually easy to test. A strategy can be restricted to one side of it: for example, allowing only sell setups while price trades above the TDO line and only buy setups while it trades below.
Because there is no judgement in locating it, any effect it has is measurable. Compare the same entry rule with and without the TDO filter over the same data and the difference, or lack of one, is plain.
A worked example
Illustrative only: the 00:00 UTC candle opens at 2,000. Later price trades at 2,015, above it, so under the filter only sell setups are allowed until price crosses back below 2,000.
How to read or test it
Because the TDO is one fixed price per day, test it the simplest way: run an entry rule with no directional filter, then with the filter that allows only trades on the permitted side of the TDO line, over the same period. Compare results. Be consistent about the day boundary, here 00:00 UTC, and remember it is a convention of this platform rather than a universal definition.
How AKQX handles True Day Open (TDO)
AKQX uses the TDO as a filter in its Smart Strategy Builder, including a whole-candle variant. This definition is AKQX's own working definition, not a universal standard.
See ICT and SMC algo builder for the feature page.
A common mistake
Assuming the TDO is defined identically elsewhere. Different sources anchor the day at different times.
Educational only. This entry explains a term. It is not investment advice and does not recommend any trade, setting or strategy, and example numbers are illustrative, not results.
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