What your strategy can see

Every signal the agent can reference in a condition — price, volume, indicators, events, cross-asset relationships, and your own position state. Describe what you want in plain language; these are the ingredients it has to work with.

Price

The raw bar and everything you can derive from it.

  • Open, high, low, close
  • Gaps from the prior session
  • Rolling highs and lows (N-bar max/min, Donchian channel)
  • Floor-trader pivots and swing pivot points

Volume

Participation and money flow.

  • Volume and volume moving average
  • Volume ratio and volume percentile
  • On-Balance Volume (OBV)
  • Chaikin Money Flow (CMF)
  • Money Flow Index (MFI)

Trend

Direction and trend strength.

  • SMA, EMA, volume-weighted moving average
  • MACD (line, signal, histogram)
  • ADX
  • Aroon (up / down)
  • Supertrend (value and direction)

Volatility

How much the market is moving.

  • ATR and ATR percent
  • Bollinger Band width
  • Keltner and Donchian channels
  • Rolling standard deviation and variance

Momentum and oscillators

Overbought / oversold and rate of change.

  • RSI
  • Stochastic and Stochastic RSI
  • CCI
  • Rate of change / momentum

Bands and VWAP

Mean-reference envelopes with native band events.

  • Bollinger, Keltner, Donchian — touch, cross-in, cross-out, distance, reentry
  • VWAP (session / week / month anchored) and VWAP bands
  • Anchored VWAP from any event

Candle patterns

Named OHLC geometry.

  • Hammer, engulfing, doji, harami, morning / evening star, piercing line, and dozens more

Events

Scheduled catalysts, down to the minute — and their values.

  • Macro releases: CPI, core PCE, PPI, nonfarm payrolls, unemployment, jobless claims, GDP, retail sales, consumer sentiment, industrial production, housing starts, durable goods
  • Rates: fed funds, effective fed funds, SOFR
  • Treasury yields: 3-month, 2-year, 5-year, 10-year, 30-year
  • Market: VIX
  • Energy: crude / gasoline / distillate / natural-gas inventories, refinery utilization, production
  • Corporate: dividends, splits, ticker changes, IPOs; earnings filings
  • Your own custom event types
  • Distance to the next / last event (in minutes), plus event payload values — e.g. the actual print vs. expected

Cross-asset and cross-sectional

How one asset relates to another or to its peers.

  • Any other symbol's price or indicator (cross-instrument)
  • Cross-sectional rank and percentile among peers
  • Cross-sectional z-score
  • Explicit sibling references for ratios and spreads

Rank, percentile, and z-score resolve only inside a multi-symbol (universe / basket) strategy.

Position and portfolio state

What the strategy knows about its own book.

  • Bars in trade and unrealized P&L
  • Entry-bar high / low
  • Daily P&L and a daily-loss circuit breaker
  • Consecutive-bar condition tracking

Time

Where you are in the session and the calendar.

  • Session windows and trading hours (timezone-aware)
  • Day of week
  • Minutes to close
  • Calendar schedules — daily, weekly, monthly

Options-implied

Reference signals on names with options data.

  • Implied volatility and IV rank
  • Skew
  • Term structure

Read-only reference values, available where options data exists.

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