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You don't need any background to use this site. Here is what each section does, how to read the numbers, and what every word on the screen means.
Three steps, in order
1. See what's happening
Open the Dashboard. The strip at the top is live prices; below it sits today's headlines, the releases coming up, and where big traders are positioned. Nothing to set up.
Go to the dashboard2. Find out why
Fundamentals turns the economy — inflation, jobs, interest rates — into one bullish-or-bearish score per market, and shows its working. COT Positioning shows what the biggest traders are actually betting.
See today's bias3. Know what's next
The Economic Calendar lists the releases that can move prices this week, in your own timezone. Tap 'Brief me' on any big one for a written explainer of what markets expect.
Check this weekReading the numbers
Three visual patterns repeat across every page. Learn these and the whole site opens up.
The bias score
One number from −100 to +100
It answers “bullish or bearish, and how strongly?” by comparing today against the last three years. You never need to know what a normal reading looks like — the scale does that for you. Past ±75, the crowd is already heavily one-sided.
The green and red bar
How the crowd splits
Green is the share of big traders betting the price goes up (“long”), red the share betting it falls (“short”). The thin line down the middle marks an even split.
The impact rating
How much a scheduled release usually moves markets
- High
Interest rate decisions, inflation (CPI), jobs (payrolls). Expect sharp moves within seconds. Worth knowing about before they land.
- Medium
Matters when the number is far from what was expected, otherwise a non-event.
- Low
Background detail. Rarely moves prices on its own.
Where everything lives
Every term, in plain English
The same definitions you get from the ? buttons dotted around the site.
- COT report
- A free weekly report from the US regulator (the CFTC) that shows how the biggest traders are positioned in futures markets — how many are betting prices rise versus fall.It comes out every Friday at 3:30pm New York time, and covers positions as of the Tuesday before.See it in use →
- Large speculators
- Hedge funds and money managers who trade purely to make a profit. They are the group most traders watch, because they move with the trend rather than hedging a business.The opposite group is 'commercials' — companies like airlines or miners hedging real-world costs.See it in use →
- Net position
- Bets on the price rising, minus bets on it falling. A positive number means the group as a whole expects the price to go up; a negative number means it expects a fall.+120,000 on gold means speculators hold 120,000 more up-bets than down-bets.See it in use →
- Bias score (−100 to +100)
- A single number summarising the read. −100 is as bearish as it has been in three years, +100 as bullish, and 0 is the middle. It compares today with history so you do not need to know what a 'normal' number looks like.Anything past +75 or −75 means the crowd is heavily on one side already.
- Stretched positioning
- Almost everyone is already betting the same way, so there are few buyers (or sellers) left to push the price further. It often comes before a reversal — but it is not a timing signal on its own.
- Long and short
- 'Long' means betting the price goes up. 'Short' means betting it goes down. The green/red bar shows how the crowd splits between the two.
- Impact rating
- How much an economic release usually moves markets. High-impact events — interest rate decisions, inflation, jobs — regularly cause sharp moves. Low-impact ones rarely do anything.See it in use →
- Forecast vs previous
- 'Forecast' is what economists expect. 'Previous' is last time's number. Markets react to the gap between the real number and the forecast — not to the number itself.See it in use →
- AI brief
- A short written explainer generated on demand: what the backdrop is, what markets expect, the likely reactions, and which assets to watch. It is information, not financial advice.
- Fundamental analysis
- Working out what something should be worth from the economy behind it — inflation, jobs, growth and interest rates — rather than from the shape of its price chart.See it in use →
- US data pulse
- One number for how hot the US economy is running across all the releases we track. Positive means the data is strong enough to keep interest rates high, which usually supports the dollar.See it in use →
- Real yields
- The return on a government bond after inflation is taken out. It matters most for gold: gold pays no interest, so when bonds pay more after inflation, gold becomes less attractive.See it in use →
- Interest rates / the Fed
- The US central bank sets the interest rate that ripples through every market. Higher rates generally lift the dollar and weigh on gold and shares; lower rates do the opposite.See it in use →
- EPS estimate
- Earnings per share — the profit a company made divided by its number of shares. The 'estimate' is what analysts expect; the share price usually reacts to the difference between the two.See it in use →
- Pre-market / after close
- When a company publishes its results: before the US market opens (pre-market) or after it closes (after close). Companies avoid reporting during trading hours.See it in use →
- EA (Expert Advisor)
- A program that trades a strategy for you. It watches the market and places the trades its rules call for, whether or not you are at the screen. It automates the strategy — it does not remove the risk.GoldPit EA is ours: you install it, activate it with a license key, and it runs.See it in use →
- News wire
- A single running feed of market headlines pulled together from several public news sources, with duplicates removed so you read each story once.See it in use →
None of this is financial advice. It is public data, organised and explained, so you can form your own view — and every market position carries the risk of loss.