Named for the two-faced god who sees past and future simultaneously, Janus Atlas was forged in the crucible of institutional memory. Where do traders react? Where do algorithms trigger? Where do stop-losses cluster like sheep before the slaughter? Janus Atlas knows.
It has mapped every pivot, every session boundary, every VWAP anchor where price respects invisible walls.
While amateurs draw hundreds of lines hoping one holds, Janus Atlas reveals only the lines that matter—the ones institutions programmed into their systems generations ago.
Why Levels Matter
Markets have memory. Prices where significant trading occurred in the past tend to be significant again in the future. Why? Because traders remember.
More importantly, algorithms remember. Institutional trading systems are programmed with reference points: previous day's high/low, weekly pivots, monthly opens, VWAP bands. When price approaches these levels, automated orders trigger. Billions of dollars of liquidity cluster around these invisible lines.
If you don't know where these levels are, you're trading blind. You'll enter positions right into a wall of resistance. You'll set stops exactly where they'll get hunted. You'll miss the levels where price is most likely to reverse.
The Terrain Janus Maps
HTF Levels (Higher Timeframe)
Daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly highs/lows. These are the major boundaries—the fortress walls of market structure. A break above the monthly high is a different event than a break above an hourly high.
Previous Session Data
Yesterday's high, low, and close. The previous session's value area. These are the fresh battlegrounds—where today's war will reference yesterday's outcomes.
VWAP Anchors
Volume-Weighted Average Price from key anchors: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly. VWAP is where institutional algorithms benchmark their execution. Price above VWAP = buyers winning. Below = sellers winning.
Volume Profile Zones
Point of Control (POC)—where the most volume traded. Value Area High (VAH) and Value Area Low (VAL)—the boundaries where 70% of volume occurred. These are the zones of acceptance and rejection.
Session Markers
Asia, London, New York session boundaries. Different participants, different liquidity, different behavior. The London open often reverses the Asia session. The New York open often sets the day's direction.
"The map exists before the journey begins. Those without it wander. Those with it navigate."
The Problem With Manual Levels
Every retail trader draws support and resistance lines. Most draw too many. They see patterns everywhere—but without a systematic framework, they're just seeing what they want to see.
The result: charts covered in lines, most of which are meaningless. When you have 50 levels, none of them are significant. You can't make decisions because everything looks like a potential turning point.
Janus Atlas solves this by being systematic. It doesn't draw subjective lines based on what looks like a pivot. It plots objective levels based on institutional reference points—the same levels that bank algorithms and hedge fund systems use.
Fewer lines. More significance. Actual edge.
How To Use The Map
For Entries: Look for confluence at Janus Atlas levels. When Pentarch shows a cycle signal (TD, IGN, etc.) at a key level from Janus Atlas, the probability of that signal working increases significantly.
For Stops: Place stops beyond the relevant level, not at arbitrary distances. If you're long at daily VWAP, your stop goes below the next support—perhaps the previous day's low. This is logical placement, not random risk.
For Targets: The next level above (for longs) or below (for shorts) becomes your natural target. Price tends to move from level to level, resting at each one before continuing or reversing.
For Context: Is price in the value area or outside it? Above daily VWAP or below? At the week's high or near the low? This context shapes everything about how you interpret other signals.
The Third Lesson
Janus Atlas teaches a fundamental truth:
"The map exists before the journey begins. Those without it wander. Those with it navigate."
The levels exist whether you see them or not. Institutions are trading off them whether you know it or not. Your choice is simple: learn where the terrain features are, or stumble through the battlefield wondering why you keep getting ambushed.
The Cartographer draws no lines by hand. It knows the lines. And now, so will you.
Every battlefield has its terrain. Know yours.