Concept family
Breadth, Sentiment & External Data
Market internals, positioning, options-derived data, crypto-native and macro feeds.
Price shows what the market did; sentiment and breadth show who was behind the move. The tools gathered here measure participation and positioning: how many stocks are advancing, which groups lead, what option prices imply about volatility and hedging demand, where futures traders and funds are positioned, what surveys and composite gauges say about the mood, and how yields, credit, and the dollar frame everything else. Crypto adds its own layer, since funding rates, open interest, and on-chain data expose positioning with unusual transparency.
Most of these readings are context rather than triggers. Broad participation tends to confirm a trend, while narrowing breadth, stretched positioning, or extreme sentiment mark conditions where reversals become more likely. Their timing value is contested, so they are best read together, raising or lowering confidence in price-based signals.
Start here
Advance/decline Internals
The foundational participation measure, tracking how many issues rise versus fall each day to show whether the average stock confirms the index.
1 indicators
VIX
Cboe's index of 30-day expected S&P 500 volatility implied by option prices, widely treated as the baseline gauge of market anxiety.
0 indicators
Liquidation Clusters
Maps the estimated price zones where leveraged crypto positions face forced closure, levels traders watch for sudden, liquidity-driven moves.
5 indicators
Breadth
Measures how much of the market is participating in a move, from advance/decline data and up/down volume to thrust signals and the share of stocks above key moving averages.
Relative strength & rotation
Compares one instrument's performance against another to find leadership and lag, through ratio charts, rotation frameworks, and currency strength meters.
Options-derived
Extracts expectations and hedging pressure from the options market, spanning put/call ratios, the VIX complex, and positioning estimates like gamma exposure and strike walls.
Positioning & flows
Tracks who holds what and where money is moving, from COT reports and short interest to insider transactions, buybacks, and fund flows.
Surveys & composite sentiment
Reads the mood directly through investor surveys, composite gauges like fear and greed indexes, and contrarian curiosities such as the magazine-cover signal.
Crypto-native
Collects the tools for reading crypto positioning and valuation, from perpetual funding rates, open interest, and liquidation maps to on-chain metrics and cycle models.
Macro/intermarket
Sets the cross-asset backdrop, reading yield curves, credit spreads, real yields, and dollar correlations for the regime that price action is trading inside.