How to read this board
The Holdings strip above this board is what your money adds up to:
the scanner writes one record a minute from every venue's balances, its order books
and the open positions, and the strip shows the latest total, how it stands against
00:00 UTC today, seven days ago and the start of the record, the line over the window
you pick (1 day, 7 days or All, kept in this browser), and, under "Where the money is
and what moved it", each venue's share and what our own fills banked over each
window. Every figure is one the record holds; an asset nothing could price is named
and left out, never guessed.
Everything the platform can trade, as its venue reports it: prediction
markets, crypto, fiat, stocks and ETFs. The map draws every tile on the board, no cut,
in full-width sections one under the other: prediction markets, then economics and
weather (prediction markets the venue files under those categories), then stocks,
crypto, ETFs, fiat and anything else. A square's area grows with the square root of its
24 h traded value times (1 + the day's move: cents for a prediction market, percent
elsewhere), the Size select's Volume × momentum, so the liquid markets that moved
are the biggest squares; Traded value sizes by value alone and Equal draws every square
the same size. When a strip holds more than a row of quiet prediction markets (no move
today, under $100 traded), they fold into one grey tile; press it to show them all, and
press fold on the strip to fold them again. A market an analyst is reviewing never folds.
A bucket square of about four tiles or more names its series above the outcome.
A tile is about 75 by 45 pixels (150 by 90 in Stocks), as many to a row as the width
holds, the largest square first (prediction markets in strips by the venue's category);
a weighted square is from half a tile to eight tiles, so a mover stands out and every
market can be read and clicked, each strip as tall as Equal's, and the page scrolls down
the sections; the card with a clicked tile's figures is a one-line bar at the foot of
the window until a square is clicked, and Hide folds it again. The status line says how
many tiles of how
many are shown and how many prediction markets the map holds: every one on the board, not
every one the venues list (those past the board are only in the list). The list under the
map has every tile on the board, prediction markets first, loaded as you scroll. The list
also carries the wide universe, every market the venues list (read every five minutes), so
it runs past the board to the full universe. Stocks and ETFs also draw from the wide
universe, every active US stock and ETF Alpaca lists that traded today: the top 500 of
each (the board's own first, then the most traded), the rest behind Show all at the foot
of the section, a choice kept in this browser. A listing is an ETF when the Nasdaq
Trader symbol directory (read once a day) flags it as one or its name says ETF, so the
name alone still counts while the directory cannot be read. The Prediction markets box
covers its economics and weather sections too. Click a section's strip to show that
family alone; click the strip of the only family shown to show every family again. The
colour, size and family choices are kept in this browser and greet you on login.
A line along the foot of a square is its price trail: its last prices on the board, one
each time the board read a fresh price (about every 15 seconds; the scanner keeps the
last 40, about 10 minutes), oldest on the left, green when the price ended above where
the trail began, red when below, grey when level; a prediction market's in cents. A
Stocks or ETFs square's line is its session line instead: the venue's own closes over
the newest session, one a bar (15 minutes by default), read once a minute, on the same
colours. A move under a cent (a prediction market) or 0.2 percent (anything else) is
drawn small, so noise never fills the line's height. A small circle in an analyst's own
colour (its two-letter code on a large square; the legend names them) is that analyst
at work:
with Analyst motion checked it sweeps the squares it priced on the last tick, five a
second, pausing on its best candidate (a trend analyst sweeps the squares it charted),
and carries on where it was when the board is read again, going back to its best
candidate only when that changes; a few fading dots behind it show where it just was.
It sits at a square's top-right corner, clear of the name and price, and analysts on
the same square line up downward. While it pauses on its best candidate, or while the
pointer is on it, a chip to its left says what it is working on: its best candidate and
the net in bps (the square's name when you hover it mid-sweep); a map under 600 pixels
wide has no chip and the circle's hover tip says it instead. With
the box unchecked, or with reduced motion asked for, each circle sits still on its best
candidate. An analyst with no square on the map draws no circle.
The Live strip at the top, a closed fold you open by pressing its line, reads the
scanner's own streamed order books every second:
the YES bid, ask and mid in cents and the mid's move over 5, 15 and 60 seconds for the
prediction markets the scanner streams, those that moved most first, and each book's
age: how fresh the scanner's copy is, not when the venue last changed it (a quiet
market is re-sent from the scanner's own copy every second). It is sub-second, not
milliseconds, and it shows what the crowd is doing, not an edge; every other market
refreshes on the board every 15 s.
Reads the scanner's board every 5 seconds while
this tab is open. Each square is the venue's own figures or arithmetic over two of them
(change from last and previous price, traded value from volume and price); a figure the
venue did not report is grey, never estimated. Dimmed squares are venues this box cannot
trade (off, or no keys stored). Measured edge comes from the scanner's own detector rows:
the best net edge after fees, in bps, that a detector recorded on that instrument in the
window; a price map alone does not find edge.