The Terminal
Field Guide

00How to read this guide

The Terminal answers one question: which trades is Oracle in right now, and for the one I am looking at, where is price relative to entry, stop and targets? Everything on the screen serves that question. This guide walks the screen in the order you actually read it.

Contents

01Anatomy of the screen

The Oracle tab is the terminal's default view — it is what loads when you sign in. Four zones, each answering a different question about the same trade.

02The Oracle globe

The small turning globe of dots at the top of the Alert Stream is Oracle's house view. It is not about any one trade — it is the stance every trade is being read against.

What it shows

Where it sits

On a desktop, at the top of the Alert Stream column, with the word beside it. Hide that column and the globe hides with it. On a phone, on the ORACLE tab, at the top of the Signals list, to the left of the NEW / BEST switch, with the word beside it.

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Hovering or pressing the globe

On a desktop, hover the globe, tab to it or press it, and a card opens under it carrying the stance badge, a one-line positioning note, and a six-cell MACRO REGIME grid: EQUITIES, DOLLAR INDEX, BONDS, METALS, RISK APPETITE and CRYPTO. Each reads BULLISH, NEUTRAL or BEARISH, and the header tallies the split as a percentage of the six. A press keeps the card open until you press the globe again, press Escape or click elsewhere.

Limits

The stance is a posture, not a forecast. It tells you which direction Oracle is leaning across the book so you can weigh an individual signal against it. It says nothing about any specific trade, and because it is set by hand rather than computed from prices, it can lag an intraday reversal. Read it once when you sit down, not continuously.

03Reading a signal card

The left column is one card per signal. Cards start collapsed until you open one, and the terminal remembers which you opened. Everything on a collapsed card is designed to be scannable in one pass down the list.

On a collapsed card

03Reading a signal card, continued

The T1 bar, in full

The duration row

Every trade can carry a minimum hold — the least time Oracle wants to give it to work. Four states:

04Sorting and selecting

Two sorts sit at the top of the Alert Stream. Both are always visible — pick one directly.

Selecting a signal

Two sort states, not one

Desktop and mobile keep separate sort settings, and neither is remembered: every page load starts on NEW. Choosing BEST on your laptop does not change what your phone shows. Both lists use the same active, runners, closed-today grouping described above. If the same account shows a different order on two devices, this is why.

Why did the list reorder while I was reading it?

The signal list reloads every 2 minutes and the stream is redrawn again on a 3-minute cycle; profit and loss figures patch every 10 seconds in between without moving cards. Under BEST a redraw can move cards. Under NEW the order only changes when a signal is issued, closed or marked a runner.

05Trade at a Glance

The plan at the top of the right column is the whole trade on one bar, lowest price first: stop, entry, trigger and the targets, with a pin at the live price. On a narrower window it is the strip below, above the chart, read left to right.

What R means

One R is the distance from the signal's entry to its stop — the trade's unit of risk. On the strip, a target reading 2.0R is twice that distance from the price now, so a $12 stock and a $600 one compare without arithmetic.

Two things that appear only in trouble

On the strip, under the STOP cell, a progress sliver shows how far into the risk band price has travelled. It is hidden unless the trade is in drawdown (and until a live price arrives). Beside the ticker, the trigger status reads ✓ TRIGGERED or PENDING TRIGGER — and is blank when the signal carries no trigger price, which is not the same as pending.

06The Signal Brief

The brief is the plan in words: the framing, the next actions, and where to take money off. BRIEF swaps it in for the chart, and What to do now is also the first tab of the right column. It is built when you select a signal and does not redraw on its own — select the signal again to bring its steps and target badges up to date with price.

How the scale-out percentages are set

They are fixed by how many targets the trade has, not by conviction:

The chart

On a desktop the centre shows a chart of the trade, with its entry, stop and targets. Pick a timeframe from 5m to M; Trade plan, GEX and the other switches set what is drawn. BRIEF swaps in the brief and CHART brings the chart back. The CHART tab charts any symbol, full screen.

07The Confidence Index

The arc at the bottom of the right column is the single most misread number in the product. It is not a probability, and it is not a score for entering. It is a decay detector — it tracks whether Oracle still believes a trade it already issued.

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The colour of the arc is the zone

On a wide screen the arc is one quiet colour and does not pulse: the phase label and the plan carry the trade's state. On a narrower window its colour is the zone:

How to use it

The useful reading is the gap between SETUP and live, not the absolute number. A trade sitting at 71 that was issued at 68 is improving. A trade at 71 that was issued at 85 is decaying, and the fact that it is still green on the day is exactly what the score is there to argue with.

08Signal Components

Under the arc, a set of bars breaks the score into its parts. This is where you find out why conviction moved rather than just that it did.

Reading a bar. The bars are all one colour, and the number beside each carries the reading: 70 and above is healthy, 40 to 69 is worth watching, below 40 is a problem.

The two traps

VALIDITY can be measuring an invented stop. When a signal has no stop, the bar measures from a level as far below entry as T1 is above it (above entry, for a short). R is then the entry-to-T1 distance. Check that the STOP cell in the ribbon shows a real price before you lean on this bar.

PACE depends on the horizon being understood. A horizon the system cannot parse falls back to a long default. On a trade you are holding for two days, a long default makes PACE permanently flattering — it will tell you that you are ahead of schedule when there is no schedule.

09Risk / Reward

Below the component bars, the shape of the trade when Oracle issued it. How far price now sits from the stop and each target is in the plan (section 05).

This box is static. It shows the ratio the trade was issued with — reward to the first target divided by risk to the stop — and does not move as price does. It is there to answer "was this a well-shaped trade when Oracle took it", not "is it now".

Why is the Risk / Reward box missing entirely?

It hides itself rather than showing a misleading number. That happens when the signal has no entry, no targets or no invalidation level; when either side of the ratio computes to zero or less; or when there is no price for the instrument yet. A hidden box means the ratio could not be computed honestly, not that the ratio is bad.

10Performance

The PERFORMANCE tab is the closed-trade record, newest first: the last ten trades up front, each trade’s full story one click away, and everything before them in one line. How each number is computed matters more than its value.

The $10K challenge

From Oct 12 to Dec 31 one $10,000 account takes every Oracle alert at real size, at the prices actually filled. While it runs, PERFORMANCE opens on it and nothing folds away: its value and its chart against SPY, four gauges, its stats (profit factor, win rate, the average win and loss, each closed trade, the up days, the average hold), then its open positions, every move it made and its closed trades. A trim is the contracts the account actually sold, banked when sold; open positions are valued at the 4:00 pm midpoint. Every alert, beside it, is this record; its last ten show each trade’s dollars in the account, and each trade’s recap its size.

10Following the $10K account

Each time the $10K account buys, adds or trims, members get an alert in the bell, a push notification and a post in the Discord signals channel, in the account’s own numbers. A move recorded late says when it was made: earlier today (2:31 PM ET), or on Oct 10 at 2:31 PM ET for an earlier day.

What the alerts say

At any account size

The contract counts are the $10K account’s own. The percentages are shares, so they read the same at any size: 40% of the position is 40% of what it held, and 44% of the account is how much of the whole account that position is.

Where a trade’s history is

Turning them on or off

The Size changes row in alert settings (the gear beside the bell) turns these alerts and the daily recap on or off, by notification, sound or pop-up. The Discord post goes to the shared channel either way.

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The rows, and a trade’s recap

Each row shows when the trade closed, the contract, how it ended, the days held, the result on what the alert said to trade (the option’s return for an options alert) and, beside it, the stock’s own move. Click a row or its bar to open the trade’s recap: in the right-hand column on a wide screen, under the row everywhere else. The recap shows both results with their prices, THE PLAN (stop, entry, exit and target on one line, with the levels as last recorded on the signal), WHY WE TOOK IT, WHY IT CLOSED and AFTER WE CLOSED.

Before these 10, and the full record

BEFORE THESE 10 sums up the rest of the record in one line: how many of its trades won, the average winner and loser, and the median hold. The full record lists every close, grouped by the month it closed in; filter it by direction (ALL / BULL / BEAR) or by vehicle (ALL / STOCKS / OPTIONS), or type a ticker into FIND. Export CSV downloads the whole record, active trades included and filters ignored, with each option’s own return.

After we closed

AFTER WE CLOSED shows what the stock did once the trade was closed, 1, 3, 5, 21 and 63 trading days later (1D to 3M). Each figure is measured from the close on the exit day, and a plus means the price kept moving the trade’s way: on a bearish trade, a drop after the exit reads as a plus. A horizon that has not arrived yet says how many sessions are left. Indices, futures, FX and crypto have no daily history here and show a note instead.

Outcome tags

On the Oracle tab, a closed trade’s card carries one of: 🎯 T1 / T2 / T3 TARGET HIT, ✕ INVALIDATED, ⏹ CLOSED EARLY, ⌛ EXPIRED, or a plain ⏹ CLOSED. Closed trades also stay visible on the Oracle tab, under the CLOSED TODAY divider, until midnight Eastern — then they live only here. In the Performance rows the outcome reads T1 target hit, T2 target hit, Closed early, Expired or Invalidated, with the reason where one was recorded.

11On a phone

The terminal reflows below 768 pixels. Most of it survives the trip. One large piece needs the phone turned sideways, and it is better to know that than to keep hunting for it.

What the mobile card still gives you

Symbol, direction, the ⚡ NEW pill, ★ RUNNER, compact profit and loss, days in trade, a large live price with today's change, and the same three-state T1 bar. Expanding a card adds its stop, entry and first target on one line with the live price, plus risk, reward and the risk/reward ratio, when the signal has all three. That is enough to answer "how is it going". It is not enough to answer "what should I do".

12Why is this empty?

Every blank, dash and placeholder on this surface means something specific. Here is the whole set, so you never have to guess whether something is broken.

13Reading it for edge

Everything above says what the screen shows. This page says where the signal actually is — and, just as usefully, where it is not.

The three readings worth having

Phase beats score for trigger status. PRE TRIGGER versus IN TRIGGER ZONE tells you whether price has reached the trigger level; the confidence number is a continuous opinion. Two cautions: a signal with no trigger reads PRE TRIGGER throughout, and once price crosses the trigger the phase stays in the trigger zone for the rest of that tab's session even if price falls back.

The SETUP-to-live gap beats the live number. An absolute score tells you little because trades are issued at different bases. The drift since issue tells you whether the thesis is strengthening or aging, and it is the one thing a profit-and-loss figure cannot show you — a trade can be up on the day and decaying underneath.

VALIDITY warns before the arc does. Its number drops below 40 at about half an R from the stop. The arc turns red only inside the last third of the distance to the stop. If you want one early-warning readout on this screen, it is that bar, not the colour of the arc.

The four things this screen cannot tell you

14Where to go next

The Terminal tells you what Oracle thinks about a trade it has already taken. The other surfaces answer the questions it deliberately does not.

A closing note on how this guide stays true

Guides rot. Buttons get renamed, thresholds get tuned, and the document quietly becomes fiction — we have shipped that mistake before and it is why this one is built differently. The key on-screen labels and two of the numbers quoted here are registered in an automated check that runs against the product's own source on every change. If one of those labels stops existing, the check fails and this page gets fixed. It is not a promise to be careful. It is a test.

If you find something here that does not match what you see on screen, that is a defect worth reporting, and we would like to hear about it.