Quick start
Two minutes and the board will make sense. No trading background needed.
Educational and entertainment statistics only. Not investment advice. This is a research model showing its work, for learning and paper trading. It does not know you or your situation, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.
1. What this is
A trading model is a set of fixed rules for deciding when a stock looks worth buying. Ours runs all day on a small watchlist and writes down its decisions, including the ones where it decides to do nothing.
This site is the window into that. You are watching the model work, in public, with its misses left in. It is here to be learned from and played with, not followed.
2. Read one card
Each card on the board is one stock on one time setting. Three things carry the meaning:
- How far the bar fills
- The model’s score for that stock right now, from 0 to 1. Longer means the trend is cleaner and picking up speed.
- How dark the bar is
- The confidence band the score falls into: none, low, medium or high. Darker is stronger. The band is always written out too, so you never have to judge it by color alone.
- Whether the bar is striped or faded
- Stripes mean vetoed, explained below. A soft, faded right edge means the reading is less certain, because the data is from an earlier session or trading volume did not back the move.
3. The four states
| Entry signal | The score cleared the model’s minimum and the longer-term trend agrees. This is the model saying it would open a position. |
|---|---|
| No trade | Nothing worth acting on. Expect to see this most of the time, on most stocks. |
| Vetoed | The score was high enough, but the longer-term trend pointed the other way, so the model vetoed the trade. These were historically its worst trades, which is why they are blocked outright rather than just marked down. |
| Earnings blackout | An earnings announcement is close. Prices jump unpredictably around those, so the model sits that stock out. |
4. Zoom out
One card tells you about one stock. The regime report tells you about the mood of the whole watchlist: how many stocks clear the model’s minimum, how many are vetoed, and where the model is watching for a trend to roll over. A day with many vetoes is usually a day the market is fighting you.
5. Try it with play money
The paper terminal gives you $100,000 of play money. Pick a stock, buy or sell, and the fill uses the same delayed price you can see on the board. Nothing is real and nothing is at risk.
Signing up takes one tap. We use passkeys, your phone or laptop’s own fingerprint or face unlock, so there is no password to make up and no email to hand over. Your trade log keeps every fill, so you can compare your calls against the model’s over time.
Words you will see
- Watchlist
- The fixed set of stocks the model follows. It does not go hunting outside it.
- Timeframe
- How much market time each reading covers. The board’s trading decisions run on a short timeframe; the permission check runs on a longer one.
- Volume confirmation
- Whether unusually heavy trading backed up the move. Price rising on light volume is weaker evidence.
- Regime gate
- The longer-term trend check that can veto a setup. “Good setup, wrong market” is what it exists to catch.
- Exit watch
- A flag that a rising trend is showing signs of stalling. It is an early warning, not a prediction.
- Delayed / stale
- Free readings run 15 minutes behind live prices. Outside market hours the board freezes and is marked as last session’s data.
What this is not
It is not advice, and it is not a prediction. The model does not know you, your money or your situation, and a high score is not a promise that a trade will work. Real trading puts real money at risk. Treat everything here as a way to learn what a systematic approach looks like from the inside.