Operator's Manual

Today's edge — the front door

The Market tab opens with three cards distilled from the board below. Strongest longs and weakest shorts hold today's three best-qualified names each — fresh conviction first (high Alpha that isn't already stretched), and when fewer than three qualify, the gaps fill from the fastest movers, marked with a blue ↑ or ↓ pill: those are there for momentum, not score. Hedge ideas shows the three best-qualified pairs — widest fresh gaps, true-peer legs favored, heavy market leans penalized — each pill showing the Alpha gap the pair is built to harvest. Every name and pair is a click from its full chart; the links under each card jump to the complete board. The logo brings you back here from anywhere.

The Alpha Board

Four columns, one sorting rule each. Top longs / Top shorts — the highest and lowest Alpha scores on the desk right now: the engine's current conviction list, not a performance leaderboard. Gaining / Losing strength — the movers: names whose relative strength is rising or falling fastest (the ±pp figure is the RS change), which is where tomorrow's leaders and casualties audition. Every row carries three small bars — Edge (blue), Conviction (green), Sector rank (amber) — the same three dials decoded in the Alpha section above, so a long row with a full blue bar but a short green one reads "opportunity, lightly trusted." Click any row and its full chart loads up top.

The board refreshes with the engine, so names rotate through it — that's the point. If you want to keep one, don't bookmark the board; track the name and let the tracker freeze it.

The Signal Heatmap — three views

The heatmap is the three engine dials spread across the whole universe, one view per dial. Alpha — the score itself: where each name stands on the 0–100 scale. Confidence — how much to trust each read: the tile counts how many of the engine's ten checks agree with the call (10/10 signals is a chorus), and mentions volatility or a tape headwind only when one is actively working against the name — silence means nothing's wrong. Sector rank — where each name stands inside its own sector's race, as a percentile, oriented to the call.

Same tiles, three questions: how strong · how sure · how special within its group. A name that lights up on all three is the full package; strong on Alpha but weak on Confidence is a read to size down; strong on Sector rank in a weak sector is hedge-pair material.

The Market tab — a rotation map, not a scoreboard

At market level the sector cards answer two questions at once: where does the sector stand against the market, and which way is it moving? The two together give four states. Leading — strong and still gaining: leadership in force. Weakening — still strong, but momentum is cooling: the early rotation warning. Improving — behind the market but gaining: where next quarter's leaders come from. Lagging — weak and still losing: the short-hunting ground. Cards sort in that order, so the top row is what's working now and the bottom row is what's bleeding.

Two small tags add the inside view. split — the sector has real leaders and real laggards at the same time: it's fighting itself, which is exactly where hedge pairs live. quiet — almost nobody stands out either way: the sector is asleep, and pair edges there are thin. A sector can be Lagging yet split — weak overall while a few members buck the trend — and that combination says more than either word alone.

Don't be surprised by an all-green-and-red map. In a steadily trending tape, position and direction agree almost everywhere — leaders keep gaining, laggards keep bleeding — and the mixed states barely appear. That's normal. Weakening and Improving are turn signals: when rotation starts, Weakening shows up at the top before the leader actually breaks, and Improving at the bottom before the laggard's score recovers. The lead time is the point of the second axis — when amber and blue cards start appearing, the ranking is about to reshuffle.

Market Pulse

The headline gauge — a blend of breadth and score momentum on a 0–100 scale, 50 = neutral, with reference lines at 40 and 60. Read it like a tide chart, not a trade signal: above 60 the tape is broadly supportive and longs are swimming with the current; below 40 the current has turned and even good names fight it. The interesting moments are the crossings — Pulse rolling down through 50 while the index still looks calm is breadth quietly leaving the party.

Alpha Momentum

Bars counting the net number of names whose Alpha is rising versus falling over the last ten sessions. It's the desk's own advance/decline line, built from scores instead of prices — and because scores move on relative strength, turns here can show up before the index itself bends. A shrinking green stack while the market grinds higher is the classic tell that leadership is thinning.

Breadth Tide & Flow

Two views of the same water on one −100…100 axis: Tide (the histogram) is the daily thrust — how many names are accelerating versus decelerating right now; Flow (the blue line) is the 30-day trend of that thrust. The yellow band around zero is drift — noise, not direction. SPY rides the right-hand axis for context, which is where divergences become visible: Flow bleeding lower while SPY holds its highs means the average name already left.

Trend Posture

The structural read: how many names sit in real uptrends (the baseline histogram), the slower tide of names above their long-term averages (dashed), with the market drawn beside them. The ✦ line above the chart is the aggregate verdict in words — the same regime read that feeds every card's headwind/tailwind note. This is the slowest chart on the desk by design: it answers "what kind of market is this," not "what should I do today."