Forward Insights on the chart
A Forward Insight puts a study's answer on the chart. Click an event on the chart and it tells you what usually happened next after events like this one, with the sample behind the number, for example reached the prior day's high 51 times in 61.
Make one
A Forward Insight comes from a finished study. The quickest route is the agent: when a study finishes, open the full report from the Study results card and click Attach to chart. On a study run you opened yourself, the banner Want to bring this study onto your chart as a forward insight? has the same Attach to chart button.
Either way, a short wizard asks what you care about and how to break the answer down, previews it, and saves it under Pin name with Save pin. Forward Insights covers each step.
See it on the chart
A Forward Insight belongs to one definition, one profile and one timeframe. To see it:
Open Trading → Charts on the timeframe the study used.
Add the definition with the same profile, as in Definitions on the chart. The wizard's last step lists the Forward Insights available for the profile you picked.
Click one of the definition's marks on the chart.
A popover opens beside the mark. It works the same live and in a replay.
Read the popover
The header names the event, with its date and timeframe.
Select a pin lists every Forward Insight for this definition, with its instrument, timeframe and sample size (n). Pick one to switch. New study starts another.
This event shows how this event scores on the breakdown you chose, such as its distance from VWAP.
Signal gives the verdict for events like this one, followed by the numbers and the sample each rests on.
Learn about this opens the full Study results, with Open study to go to the study itself.
More details shows the data the definition recorded for this event.
When it shows something else
Message | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
No study pin on this chart yet | No Forward Insight exists for this definition on this timeframe | Go to Studies and attach one |
Not set up for this profile | The Forward Insight was made for another profile | Click the button to switch the chart to that profile |
Can't use this pin on a timeframe | It was made for a different timeframe | Switch the chart's timeframe, pick another pin, or pin a study made on this timeframe |
No study insight for this event | The study does not include events like this one | Run a study that tracks this event |
Need more chart history | The chart has not loaded enough bars to score this event | Scroll back or wait for more data, then click again |
Manage your Forward Insights
The chart does not list them. Open the definition under Tools → Definitions and go to its Forward Insights tab. It shows the ones for this profile and version, or for all versions of the profile, with Add Forward Insight to make another and Archive to retire one.