Learn Visor
Market intelligence, trading strategies, and how to read them honestly.
Getting Started
What Visor is, how workspaces and widgets fit together, and where the signals come from.
What Visor IsA market intelligence workspace — what it does, and the one thing it deliberately never does.Your First WorkspaceThe 4×3 grid, edit mode, and adding your first widgets.Widgets ExplainedThe widget model — how every panel is one composable, self-contained tile.Following SymbolsWatchlists, symbol linking, and how clicking one widget drives another.Reading the FeedWhat the SOOS feed is, where signals come from, and their limits.Market Basics
Candles, timeframes, spreads, liquidity, and the honest version of what moves a market.
What Is a CandlestickHow a single candle encodes four prices — open, high, low, and close — into one shape.TimeframesWhy the same market looks different on a 5-minute chart and a daily one, and how the two nest together.The Bid, the Ask, and the SpreadThere are always two prices, not one — and the gap between them is a real cost you pay.Volume and LiquidityWhat volume measures, and why liquidity is the hidden variable behind how a market behaves.Market vs Limit OrdersThe two basic order types — one prioritises speed, the other price — and the trade-off between them.Long and ShortWhat it means to be long or short — directional exposure both ways, described plainly and honestly.What Moves MarketsSupply, demand, news, and flows — the honest, non-mystical account of why prices change.Asset ClassesEquities, FX, crypto, and commodities — how they differ for someone reading a chart.Reading the Tape
Order flow, the depth ladder, and resting liquidity — watching intent, not just price.
What Is Order FlowThe difference between watching price and watching the orders that move it — intent, not just outcome.The DOM LadderReading the depth-of-market ladder — resting bids and asks stacked by price, and what the stack does and doesn't tell you.Time and SalesThe tape — the running record of trades that actually printed, which side was the aggressor, and how fast they arrive.Liquidity HeatmapsReading resting liquidity as colour over time — the OrderFlowMap view, and what the heat does and doesn't mean.Absorption and ExhaustionWhen aggressive orders keep hitting a level and price refuses to move — reading the difference between a wall that holds and a push that's spent.Spoofing and FakesLiquidity that isn't real — why a wall of resting orders can be a bluff, and how to stay sceptical of the ladder.The Tape in ContextWhy order flow is a lens and not a signal — what it genuinely adds, where it misleads, and how to keep it honest.Strategies
The material sold in expensive courses, presented as observation — and put through the robustness gates.
Market Structure BasicsHigher highs, lower lows, and breaks of structure — the grammar of a trend.Support and ResistanceLevels, why they form, and why they are zones, not lines.Supply and Demand ZonesImbalance zones where price turned sharply — the idea, how to mark them, and why Visor can't yet test the bounce mechanically.Order BlocksThe last opposing candle before an impulse — the concept, and what a mechanical version of it does on real SPY.Fair Value GapsPrice imbalances, the "fill the gap" claim, and what a mechanical version of it does on real SPY.Liquidity SweepsStop hunts and false breakdowns — and a mechanical version that fails the gate in the most instructive way of all.Breaks of Structure and Change of CharacterBOS versus CHoCH — the two ways a trend's structure ends, and how to tell continuation from reversal.Trend-Following BasicsThe moving-average trend follower, tested on real SPY — and what the gates say.The Golden CrossThe SMA(50)/SMA(200) crossover, run on real SPY — and what the robustness gates say about it.Mean-Reversion BasicsBuying the dip with RSI — the idea, and what it does on real SPY when you test it honestly.Trading SessionsLondon, New York, and Asia — when liquidity concentrates through the day, and why it matters for what you see on a chart.Session Opens and KillzonesThe claim that specific windows are high-probability trading times — and how to think about it without fooling yourself.ConfluenceStacking signals feels like stacking evidence — the real statistical case for it, and the multiple-testing trap it hides.The Overfitting TrapWhy a curve-fitted strategy looks perfect in-sample and falls apart out of it.Why Most Strategies Fail the GateA tour of six famous strategies that beat zero on real data — and every one of them fails the robustness gates.Building Your OwnComposing a rule in the Strategy Editor and putting it through the gates — the whole point of the track, in practice.Quant Methods
Correlation, cointegration, significance, and the statistics that separate an edge from luck.
CorrelationPearson correlation of returns — what one number can and cannot tell you about how two markets move together.Cointegration and PairsWhen two markets are tethered in price — the Engle-Granger test, the hedge ratio, and the spread z-score.Mean Reversion and Half-LifeWhat the half-life of a spread measures — the speed of the tether, and how to read it honestly.Sharpe and Risk-Adjusted ReturnReturn per unit of risk — why the headline percentage lies, and what the Sharpe ratio adds.The Random ControlThe null distribution — the difference between beating zero and beating a scrambled version of yourself.Multiple TestingWhy the bar is |t| ≥ 3.5 not 2.0, what the deflated Sharpe corrects, and how the hypothesis registry keeps the count honest.SeasonalityThe average shape of a symbol's calendar year — a historical calendar statistic, and its statistical caveats.Confidence Intervals on a BacktestWhy every backtest number is really a range — the bootstrap, what the width of the band tells you, and why few trades should make you nervous.Options
Calls, puts, the Greeks, Black-Scholes, and implied volatility — the contract, plainly.
What Is an OptionCalls, puts, strikes and expiry — the contract explained plainly, before any maths.Intrinsic and Time ValueAn option's premium splits into two parts — what it's worth now, and what you're paying for the maybe.The GreeksDelta, gamma, theta, vega and rho — the five numbers that describe how an option reacts to a changing world.Black-ScholesWhat the standard options model actually computes, the assumptions it rests on, and where those assumptions break.Implied VolatilityThe market's price on future movement — how implied vol differs from realised, and what the smile is telling you.Options RiskWhy options are a fast way to be very wrong — the leverage, the decay, the seller's tail, and the dealer-positioning lens that gets misread as a signal.Risk & Psychology
Position sizing, risk of ruin, drawdown maths, and the biases that undo a good process.
Position SizingHow much to put on a single trade — the one decision that decides whether a losing streak is a setback or the end.Risk of RuinWhy a strategy with a genuine edge can still empty the account — and how sizing sets the odds of that happening.Drawdown and RecoveryLosses and the gains that undo them are not symmetric — a 50% loss needs a 100% gain to get back to even.Monte CarloYour backtest is one ordering of your trades out of millions — reshuffling them shows the range of outcomes the same edge could have produced.JournallingA trade journal is the only honest feedback loop you have — memory rewrites your trades, the log doesn't.Common BiasesRecency, confirmation, and the stories we tell after the fact — the predictable ways the mind misreads its own trading.Why Professionals Bet Fractional KellyThe Kelly formula names the growth-optimal bet size — and almost nobody serious bets it in full. This is why half-Kelly, not full Kelly, is the working default.Using Visor
Workspaces, the scanner, alerts, backtesting, robustness reports, and operating the advanced order-flow and options-analytics widgets.
Workspaces and LayoutsBuilding, saving, switching, and organising several workspaces.The ScannerReading the SOOS scanner and its signal columns.AlertsArming price alerts and what fires them.Backtesting in VisorRunning a strategy through the engine and reading the run card.How to Read a Robustness ReportThe four gates and the verdict — the literacy behind every ⚡ lesson.The Daily BriefWhat the brief aggregates from the last 24 hours, and how to use it.Reading Order Flow in VisorThe four order-flow surfaces Visor gives you — the DOM ladder, the OrderFlowMap heatmap, the Bookmap, and the chart's footprint and volume delta — and how to read each honestly.Net Premium FlowReading the options tape — how much premium takers bought versus sold, split by call and put and bucketed by expiry or strike, and why the widget is honest about only seeing the tape since it started watching.The GEX ProfileReading dealer gamma exposure across the BTC chain — per-strike bars, the net-GEX-vs-spot line, the zero-gamma flip — and taking seriously that the whole picture rests on an assumption the widget states out loud.The Volatility SmileReading implied vol against strike — the smile, the skew, why the out-of-the-money wings sit higher — one line per expiry off the live BTC chain, and what a change in the curve does and doesn't tell you.The Greek SurfaceReading a strike-by-expiry heatmap of open-interest-weighted charm and vanna — where the second-order greeks pile up across the live chain, deliberately unsigned, and why that makes it the honest counterpart to GEX.Congress TradesReading US congressional stock-trade disclosures — and why the lag matters.The Yield CurveReading the US Treasury par yield curve — maturities, the 2s10s spread, inversions, and how to scrub the curve through history.The Economic CalendarOfficial release schedules, source tags, and reading actual-versus-prior once a print drops.The Bookmap — the Order Book Over TimeVisor's Bookmap widget draws the order book as a landscape — liquidity as heat, trades as bubbles, detections as inferences — and lets you replay the last fifteen minutes at sub-second resolution.