Charts

How to read the Ozmium chart on the Risk screen - candles, timeframes, indicator chips, candlestick patterns, and what a BUY or SELL marker actually means.

The chart on the Risk screen is the same one that sizes a position, so what it shows and what the ticket does are never two different opinions. This page explains how to read it.

Picking a Market

The market picker opens a searchable list of every tradeable pair. Tabs narrow it by class - crypto, forex, metals, energy, indices, equities - and the star tab is your favorites.

Tapping the star on any row favorites that market. The star swallows the tap so it never opens the market by accident, and favorites are stored per device rather than against your wallet, so nothing about your list touches the chain or leaves the browser.

Candles and Timeframes

Two controls change what you see, and they are independent of each other.

Because they are separate, one-minute candles across a full day and daily candles across a year are both valid views. Your choice is remembered per market, so returning to a pair reopens it the way you left it.

A candle size is offered only when the market has actually existed long enough to draw one. A pair a few months old will not offer yearly bars, because three bars is the minimum that can be read as a chart at all.

Zoom far enough out and the chart switches from candles to a line. Past roughly four hundred visible bars the candles overlap into noise, so the line is the honest rendering.

Switching timeframe keeps the old bars on screen while the new ones load. You never get a blank chart, and the previous view stays readable until the replacement is ready.

Reading a Candle

Each candle covers one interval and reports four numbers: where the interval opened, where it closed, and the highest and lowest it traded. The body spans open to close, green when the close was higher and red when it was lower. The thin wicks above and below reach to the high and the low.

A long body means one side controlled the whole interval. A small body with long wicks means price went somewhere and came back, which is a different market than the one that simply went up.

Candlestick Patterns

Specific shapes and sequences have names, and the chart marks them when they appear. Tapping any marked formation opens its clinical definition alongside a citation, so you can read the textbook source rather than take the app's word for it.

The Indicator Chips

Underneath the price, the indicator pane draws several measurements on a shared scale, and each one appears as a tappable chip. Tapping a chip opens its definition and citation, the same way a pattern does.

A divergence is when price and an indicator disagree - price making a new high while momentum does not, for instance - and both the pane and the markers treat that as meaningful.

What BUY and SELL Mean

A marker on a bar is a directional read, and the two words map directly onto the two things you can do with a perpetual:

SELL does not mean sell what you own. On the Risk screen it means open a short, which is a new position rather than an exit. Closing an existing position is a separate action.

Each marker carries a conviction value rather than being a yes or no. That number comes from combining every indicator above into one weighted read, where each input leans bullish or bearish and carries its own weight. Agreement across many inputs produces high conviction; a single indicator firing alone produces low conviction, and the marker is drawn faintly to say so.

Several conditions deliberately suppress a marker or force it to neutral:

• Regime gating. A long signal in a market whose broader trend is down is downgraded rather than shown, because the setup and the environment contradict each other.
• Macro blackout. Around scheduled high-impact events, directional reads are withheld.
• Thin books. Crowd positioning is only read as a signal when there is enough open interest to mean anything, and never gets to outvote the measured indicators.

The last constraint is worth stating plainly: crowd positioning is capped at half the influence of the measured signal, because it is the one input that cannot be backtested. Gains publishes no positioning history, so a live book read against an old bar would be an anachronism.

What They Look Like in Practice

Four consecutive BUY markers on silver, each landing at a local low before the move. The liquidation line for the open position is drawn above the price, and the indicator pane carries RSI, MACD, and CVD across the same window.

One chart is not evidence of an edge, and this page has already said the markers are unproven. It is shown because it is what a working signal looks like when it works, and because reading the markers against the pane beneath them is the skill this page is trying to teach.

Where the Data Comes From

None of this is invented, and none of it is a single feed taken on faith.

Two rules govern how those are combined. A figure is never reported more confidently than its source supports, so a failed read holds its last known-good value and marks it stale instead of printing a zero. And no single feed is trusted alone where a second one exists to check it, which is why a price that two sources disagree about is treated as uncertain rather than averaged into false precision.

The specific weighting, cross-checking, and signal construction are not published.

The Backtest Panel

The signal panel can replay the strategy over the loaded window, recomputing the verdict at each bar from only the information available at that bar and checking how often the direction matched the next candle. That produces a win rate over the tested window.

Treat it as a description of that window and nothing more. It is not a forecast, the sample is small, and a strategy that fit one window is not thereby correct about the next.

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