How to Read a Signal Explanation
A guide to the platform's signal explanation format — summary, technical, fundamental and historical factors, risks, invalidation, and supporting evidence.
Every signal the platform publishes can carry a full explanation. The format is deliberately uniform so that two signals can be compared without re-learning the presentation each time.
The sections
Summary — one sentence stating the direction and the core reason. If the summary does not make sense on its own, treat that as a warning.
Technical factors — structural observations the platform weighed: pivots, timeframe alignment, level interaction.
Fundamental factors — macro or policy inputs: rate expectations, policy communication, data surprises.
Historical factors — how comparable situations resolved in the platform's dataset, including sample size where published.
Risks — what could invalidate the reasoning other than price: scheduled events, liquidity conditions, headline exposure.
Invalidation — the price condition under which the thesis is wrong. This is the most operationally useful line in the document.
Supporting evidence — the market frame, volatility percentile, and related readings the platform attached.
A reading order that works
- Invalidation first. Decide whether the risk implied by that distance is acceptable before the narrative persuades you.
- Risks second. Check whether a scheduled event sits inside the signal window.
- Then the factors. Ask whether technical and fundamental factors agree. When they conflict, position size is the appropriate response.
- Summary last as a comprehension check.
Reading in this order resists the narrative pull of a well-written summary.
What an explanation is not
It is not a forecast, a guarantee, or an instruction. It is a record of the reasoning behind a published signal, which is what makes the platform's track record auditable: the reasoning was stated before the outcome was known.
Key takeaways
- The format is fixed so signals are comparable.
- Read invalidation and risks before the narrative.
- Conflicting factors are a sizing decision, not a reason to ignore the signal.