One strategy, held against every market you follow
The hard part was never finding a strategy. It was working out which of the fifty markets you could trade is the one your strategy fits today — and doing that by opening fifty charts is how mornings disappear.
Why a strategy should not belong to a chart
Most tools tie an alert to an instrument. You set up RSI below 30 on EUR/USD, and if you want the same idea on GBP/JPY you set it up again — and again for gold, and again for the next pair. Each copy then drifts, because you tuned one of them at some point and not the others.
In SixOne8 a strategy is a definition: indicators, thresholds, timeframe and direction, written once. Instruments are pointed at it. Change a threshold and it changes everywhere at once, because there was only ever one copy of it.
How the scan works
- You define the strategy once. Six conditions, say — a trend filter, a momentum trigger, a volatility floor, and whatever else your setup needs.
- You point it at a set of instruments. Forex, metals, crypto pairs, or all of them. There is no per-instrument setup, because there is nothing to set up.
- Every instrument is scored as its candle closes. Each one gets a percentage: how much of your strategy it currently satisfies.
- The list is ranked. The market that best fits your edge right now sits at the top, and the ones that do not fit sink without you having to look at them.
What the ranking looks like
- XAU/USD — all six conditions met
- 100%
- EUR/USD — waiting on the RSI trigger
- 94%
- GBP/JPY — waiting on RSI and ADX
- 87%
- ETH/USDT
- 82%
The percentage is a progress figure, not a probability. 94% means five of six conditions are true — it does not mean the trade is 94% likely to work, and nothing in the product will ever tell you it does.
Two ways to read the same list
By instrument puts every market in score order, which is the view you want when you are running one strategy and deciding where to put it to work. By strategy groups each strategy's instruments underneath it, which is the view you want once you are running four or five and need to see which of them is finding anything at all.
What this does not do
It does not tell you which market is going to move, and it does not rank by expected return. It ranks by how much of your own strategy is currently satisfied, which is a fact about your conditions and today's prices, not a forecast. A market at 100% is a market where everything you asked for is true — whether what you asked for is any good is a question for a backtest.
Questions
How many instruments can one strategy watch?
Every instrument your plan gives you access to. A strategy is a definition, not a chart, so pointing it at fifty markets costs you nothing extra to maintain — the same conditions are held against all of them and the ranking decides which ones are worth your attention today.
What does the percentage next to each instrument mean?
It is how much of your strategy that instrument currently satisfies. A strategy with six conditions where four are met reads roughly 67%. It is a progress figure, not a probability or a confidence score — 100% means every condition is currently true, and nothing more than that.
Does adding more instruments make the scan slower?
No. Instruments are evaluated independently as their candles close, so the work scales with the number of markets rather than compounding. A strategy on fifty instruments updates on the same schedule as one on a single pair.
Can I group results by strategy instead of by instrument?
Yes. The ranking has two views: by instrument, which lists every market in score order, and by strategy, which groups each strategy's instruments under it. The second is the one to use once you are running several strategies at once.