Your Personal Junior Analyst

The market throws hundreds of data points at you every morning, some are distinct events - economic announcements, one off news items, central bank speeches. There's ongoing geopolitical sagas (like Brexit, wars) that last months and that can spook the market at any time.

Then there's technical data about positioning and flows of funds. Jigsaw gathers this information on a daily basis, filters, curates, analyzes it for sentiment and matches it to your market. On any day, you'll know what's happened, what's likely to happen and how the day might play out.

Information is great but there are complex relationships between these events that may not be obvious without some knowledge of economics. The main reason most home traders stare at charts and "stay out before news" is they don't know what impact that news will have on their market.

Take Corn futures for instance. If there's disruption in oil supplies, the price of corn goes up. Corn is turned into Ethanol, Ethanol is added to Gasoline. Corn is also impacted by weather, especially early freezes that can ruin crops.

There's no need for you to learn any of this, we tell you what it means every day for your markets.

Information is power - if you know what to do with it. We give you an actionable game plan, yet this is not about changing the way you trade.

It's about improving your results with an additional layer of information that is very clear and easy to understand. But also, because it's so easy to understand, you'll start to learn these relationships just like the way you learn more about the characters in a Netflix show with every episode.

You'll know when risk is high, you'll understand commercial positioning, you'll know when a move is likely to be sustained.

It's not just a confidence booster, prop firms do this analysis daily to plan their days because it reduces their losses and maximises their profits.

And after all, isn't that why we are here?

To win, you have to know where the actual money is moving. Alpha screens 21 major futures instruments and instantly categorizes them into Risk-On and Risk-Off buckets. Instead of wasting hours hunting across charts for a setup, you use this global dashboard view for one simple thing: to quickly select exactly which markets are active, alive, and worth trading today.

Professional managing exposure across different markets need to read the macro regime (aka big picture) before placing or adjusting any trades.

This cross market read - bonds vs currencies vs equities vs gold etc, is the kind of read that, on an institutional desk, is delivered verbally by the desk strategist before the open.

The Overview compresses that into a page that can be scanned in well under a minute.

Once you pick an active market, Alpha breaks down the real forces moving it. Take this exact snapshot from the morning progress on a US-Iran deal hit the wires. A normal price chart leaves you guessing, but Alpha interprets the data in real time.

Look at the gauges: News Sentiment and Market Sentiment are both bearish because of the headlines. But Alpha's proprietary Flow Sentiment gauge (based on market maker and institutional positioning) is pointing hard to the right, meaning institutional money has been buying oil aggressively due to shortages impact on Oil prices. So recent news against their positions makes it likely that at some point, they'll have to sell as oil supplies free up. The ride up is over!

Right below, our Geopolitical Risk tracker is tracking long term geopolitical events - think Brexit, GFC, Ukraine/Russia, USA/Iran, tarriffs etc.

What's interesting about the market is the inter-relationships. For example the system understands that when oil is hit, so is Corn - because we make ethanol from Corn and that get's added to Gasoline. But also, Corn can be impacted bu adverse weather events, like early frosts late in the season. This is all taken into account. It's smart enough to know that Iran oil supplies will impact European equities more than America's as America is less reliant on external supply.

Alpha pulls back the curtain on commercial positioning in your market as well as the related options markets showing you where those institutional positions are sitting without overloading you with visual noise.

By breaking down complex options activity, open interest changes, and COT data, Alpha reads the smart money's playbook for you.

Commercial and Speculator positioning is provided graphically and so is option positioning. These participants both need to take profits and defend their positions.

Options levels are often defended but also options market makers often need to jump into the futures markets to maintain the spread they captured in the options market. 

We show you where those levels are as well as 'Net GEX' and 'Gamma Flip', which help you understand if market makers are likely to be involved, prolonging moves.  When those market-makers have to hedge, it acts like rocket fuel, making market moves go much further and last much longer.

Risk Timeline, on the right, gives you a visual on news that is likely to impact that market.

When you can see that the headline news is a trap, that the big institutional flow is positioning the other way, and you know the exact levels where market-makers are forced to chase the move, trading stops being a guessing game.

But - you didn't have to learn a thing, we aren't here to fill your head with facts to decipher - so we give you both short summary descriptions of what it means and more details ones for the information junkies.

Alpha handles the massive data mining under the hood, but gives you the final answer in a clear, concise, plain-English morning summary. You stop fighting the smart money. You simply step out of the way of the retail news traps and ride the explosive waves created when trapped traders are forced to liquidate.