It doesn't wait for permission
Most signals in Z3Gamma require the entry sequence to be active. A side must be declared first — permission fires, the campaign starts, and then events like 🏇🏼T1 can follow. The campaign is the context. The signals happen inside it.
Marengo is different. It fires on any bar, independently, without an active permission on either side. The band broke. Volume was there. That is the entire condition. No campaign needed, no sequence to be in. Marengo names the event as it happens — wherever it happens in the session.
The condition
Two requirements on the same bar. Both must be true simultaneously:
North and South
Marengo has no inherited color from a parent signal. It names its own direction from the band it broke.
Why volume is required
A band pierce without volume is not the same event. Price can close outside the band in a thin session — low participation, a momentary push with no real order flow behind it. That bar reverses the moment normal volume returns. The boundary was touched, not broken.
Marengo requires that the pierce happens with elevated ♘relative volume on the same bar. Participants were active on the bar that crossed the boundary. The break is not a probe — it is a move with weight. That distinction is what separates a Marengo from a false band touch.
Marengo versus T1
The surface condition looks similar — 🏇🏼T1 also fires when price closes beyond the Bollinger Band. But the structure is completely different.
Why it matters for options
Marengo surfaces moves that are already happening — band broken, volume confirmed, direction clear. It does not require waiting for a campaign to be set up. If the session has not produced a clean entry sequence but the underlying is moving hard with volume, Marengo names that event.
For options, that information is immediate context. A North Marengo on a ticker means the upper band just broke with real participation — not a structural entry from the Queen and Rook sequence, but a raw directional move with volume behind it. Whether to act on it depends on the broader session context, but the signal identifies the event precisely and without delay.
When Marengo and the campaign sequence align — a North Marengo on a bar where the ♛Queen is already bullish and a 🏇🏼T1 is active — both the independent signal and the campaign event are confirming the same bar. That overlap is not common, and when it appears it carries weight.
On any chart
Add a Bollinger Band indicator (20-period, 2 standard deviations) and a relative volume indicator to your chart. Watch for bars that simultaneously close outside the band and show elevated volume in the sub-pane — RVOL above 1.2 on the same bar.
The check is fast: is the close above the upper band or below the lower band? Is RVOL elevated on this bar? If both are true, Marengo has fired. No campaign context required — just two readings from two indicators on the same bar.