We prove that the polar decomposition of the singular part of a vector measure depends on its conditional expectations computed with respect to the q-regular filtration. This dependency is governed by a martingale analog of the so-called wave cone, which naturally corresponds to the result of De Philippis and Rindler about fine properties of PDE-constrained vector measures. As a corollary we obtain a martingale version of Alberti’s rank-one theorem.