Guides
How to read TRT Compass, room by room.
Charm and the CHEX lens
What dealers do when nothing moves and time simply passes
Read the guideGEX and VEX
GEX is what dealers do when price moves; VEX is what they do when volatility moves. Why the two look alike on a price chart, and how to hold them apart.
Read the guideRunning Compass Well
Compass is built to be left alone. Most of what follows is one double-click each, done once, and then never thought about again.
Read the guideThe Balance Point
Every strike on the map carries a size. The Balance Point is the single price where all of that size balances.
Read the guideThe Chart Room
It is your chart with the King drawn on it.
Read the guideThe Porthole
It is your own desk on your phone, read only.
Read the guideThe Swing Book
Read THE READ first. It is the only block on this card written to be acted on, and it closes on one conditional.
Read the guideThe Telescope and the Eternal Pose
The size that moved is the news. A strike that has held 28,000 contracts for ten sessions is furniture; one that went from 11,000 to 19,000 is somebody arriving.
Read the guideThe Telescope in three weeks
The short path into the Telescope. Two minutes of setup, three things, one a week, and explicit permission to ignore the rest for now.
Read the guideWhy our map looks different
Why a Compass board can disagree with another positioning tool's on the same symbol at the same minute: one assumption, explained.
Read the guideEach guide is also plain text, for a person or a model, indexed at llms.txt. Every term in them is in the Legend.