Method

Every chart in a chart book is drawn by the same engine that draws the daily emails, from the same price history, the same way every time.

The views

Each view is one timeframe with one lower panel or one layer of levels, and it answers one question.

• Daily, one year: trend
  Where is price against its 50-day and 200-day averages, and which way have they been sloping?
• Daily: dollar volume
  Is today's traded value heavy or light against a typical day over the past year?
• Daily: momentum (RSI 14)
  How stretched is the recent run, against the 30 and 70 lines?
• Daily: 20-day volatility
  Is the market unusually quiet or unusually noisy compared with the past two years?
• Daily: Exhaustion Count
  How many bars into a one-way run is the daily chart, and has a count completed?
• Daily: anchored VWAP from the yearly extremes
  Is price above or below the average cost of everyone who traded since the year's high and low?
• Daily: relative strength
  Is this ticker beating or lagging its benchmark?
• Weekly: the multi-year picture
  What does the trend look like with the daily noise removed?
• Weekly: confirmed swing high and low
  Where are the last confirmed weekly swing levels, and is the weekly close between them?
• Weekly: momentum (RSI 14)
  How stretched is the run on the weekly chart?
• Weekly: Exhaustion Count
  How far into a one-way run is the weekly chart?
• Monthly: the long view
  What does the whole available history look like, one bar per month?
• Monthly: momentum (RSI 14)
  How stretched is the run on the monthly chart?
• Monthly: Exhaustion Count
  How far into a one-way run is the monthly chart?

The rules the engine keeps

Closed bars only. Weekly and monthly views draw only bars that have closed. A month still in progress is not drawn.

A view it cannot draw is left out. If a ticker has too little history for a panel, or a view means nothing for it (relative strength of a benchmark against itself), that page is dropped rather than drawn half empty. A book can therefore hold fewer pages than this list.

Description, not prediction. Every chart shows a reading that already printed in the price history. None predicts a price, and nothing here is advice to buy or sell.

See the chart book · SPY sample (PDF) · Bitcoin sample (PDF)