QIs this a signal service?
No. It's market research and educational commentary. The panel shows a bias and the reasoning behind it — it never tells you to take a specific trade. There's no "buy here, stop there." What you do with the read is your decision.
QWhere does the data come from — is it live market data?
The reads are derived analysis, translated into NQ points — not a redistributed live market-data feed. Reference levels like the previous-day close are settled, prior-session data that's freely available everywhere. The value is in the interpretation, not the raw quotes.
QHow often does it update?
It lands a beat before each 15-minute close, so you have time to react before the bar prints — not after it's already moved. When something breaks mid-cycle, an urgent alert fires off-schedule the moment it happens.
QWhat am I seeing after hours?
During market hours (9:30 AM–4:00 PM ET) the panel updates live. Outside those hours you're seeing the day's closing read — each box marked "as of close" — plus a Day in Review that recaps how the session resolved and what's set up for tomorrow. That's by design: most people study the market at night, and the settled closing snapshot is exactly the right thing to study. Live updates resume ahead of the next session, around 9:00 AM ET.
QWhat instruments does it cover?
It's built specifically for the NQ (Nasdaq-100 futures). That focus is the whole point — the same macro input can push the NQ opposite to how it moves the broader market, so a dedicated read beats a generic one. Additional instruments come with paid access later.
QIs it free?
Yes — free to watch while it's being built out. Paid real-time access opens later, with founding-member seats first (first 50, price locked for life).
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QDo I need to install anything?
No — you can watch it right on the site. Optionally, you can
pop it out or install it as an app so it runs in its own frameless window docked beside your platform.
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QIs this financial advice?
No. It's research and education only — not investment advice, not a recommendation, and not personalized to your account. Futures trading carries substantial risk, and your trading decisions are your own.
QWhat are the Key Levels — the "walls"?
One of the panel's strongest reads. Instead of listing every price level from every method, it finds where they cluster —
weighted by how much each one actually matters — and shows them as walls of different strength: Brick (heavy), Solid, or Thin. You see what's above price, what's below, and how hard each wall is to get through.
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QWhy does it sometimes say "don't trade"?
The Economic Events box is a trading-window guard. When a high-impact event is about to release, it flips to a red "don't trade" warning — trading straight into a market-moving print is how a good setup turns into a coin flip. Once the number's out, it goes green: clear. It isn't telling you what to buy or sell; it's flagging when conditions are too unpredictable to act. Info, not signals — applied to risk.
QWhy only five of the Magnificent Seven?
Two of the usual seven don't meaningfully shift the NQ's bias, so they're left out — counting names that don't move the instrument would only add noise. The panel tracks the
combined lean of the five that do, never calls on individual stocks.
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QWho is KC?
An
algorithmic trader since 2014 — options first, then futures — who's spent over a decade building algorithms, trading bots, and systems for hedge funds. Studying how algorithms and information move markets is the hobby, not the job. This panel is years of that work distilled: the ideas accumulated over more than a decade, and about six months ago AI finally made it possible to run the analysis in real time, aimed at one instrument instead of the whole market. It's a persona, not a face — the credibility is in the tool being the genuine article, not a headshot.
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