Reading the Today screen
Today is the screen the app opens on. It is every market a strategy of yours is watching, ranked by how close that strategy is to being met there, with a few measurements of the market itself beside each row. This guide is what each part means and how to read it in a minute.
What a row is
One row is one market and one strategy — the same market appears once per strategy that watches it. The match column is how much of that strategy currently holds on that market, weighted by the importance you gave each condition, measured at the last closed bar. A row at 100% is matched now. The status says what is holding the rest back: "Waiting for RSI" means every other condition is met and the RSI one is not, which is a more useful thing to know than the percentage alone. The applying guide explains how the percentage is weighted.
The line at the top says when the figures were last updated and when the next check is due. Rows change at bar closes, not continuously: a strategy whose fastest condition reads the 1-hour chart is re-evaluated when the hour closes.
The market columns
The columns to the right describe the market, not the strategy. Each is measured on the timeframe you pick under Columns, at the last closed bar, and each has a ⓘ with the same explanation the app gives.
- Vol pct. Volatility percentile: how volatile this market is now against its own past year. The current ATR is ranked among the market's ATR readings over the trailing year — 0% is the quietest it has been, 50% typical, 100% the most volatile. A percentile, not a percentage of price.
- ATR %. The average true range as a percentage of the current price: the typical size of one bar's move, in proportion, so a currency pair and a coin at very different prices can be compared.
- Trend. Whether the latest close is above or below the 200-bar simple moving average. A fact about where price sits, not a forecast.
- RSI, ADX, ATR. Optional columns: the fourteen-bar readings of each, the ATR in the instrument's own price units.
None of these columns is part of any strategy. They are there so that when a row reaches 100% you can see, without opening a chart, whether it did so on a quiet market or a wild one, above its long average or below it.
Filters and views
- 100% and 75%+. Only the rows matched now, or the rows close to it. The count at the top says how many of each there are.
- Market open. Drops markets whose session is closed, so a forex row at the weekend does not sit at the top with a stale figure.
- By instrument / by strategy. The same rows grouped either way. By strategy is the view for "which of my markets is this setup closest on"; by instrument for "what is close on this market".
- The search box. Narrows to a market or a strategy name.
A routine that takes a minute
Filter to 100% to see what is matched now, then to 75%+ to see what is one condition away and read the status column for which condition that is. Glance at Vol pct for anything near the top of its range, which is a market behaving unlike its usual self, and at the trend column for a long strategy sitting below its 200-bar average or the reverse. Then open the row for the chart. Alerts arrive without any of this — the screen is for seeing the shape of things between them.
What the screen is not
A recommendation. Rows are ordered by how much of a definition you wrote currently holds, and the market columns are measurements. Nothing on the screen says what any market will do, and a row at 100% is a strategy that is satisfied, not a trade to take.