The reading layer

Analog days

Most of the reads look at one feature at a time. Analog days looks at the whole shape. It finds the past sessions that most resemble the one in front of you, and shows what happened the day after each. Like the rest of the reading layer, it is impersonal and educational: the same matches for every user with the same data. The panel says it plainly: *History, not a signal.*

How it finds a match

CutlassEdge compares the current session's profile shape against every other session in your loaded history and ranks them by how alike they are. The match is mostly the shape of the distribution, where the fat and thin parts sit, plus a few measures like where the POC, open, and close landed and how wide the value area and the first hour were. Each candidate gets a match percentage, and the app shows the five closest.

If the day is still developing, it matches on the profile so far, and tells you it is doing that.

What the panel shows

In the Read tab, the Analog days section shows a small silhouette of today's shape, then the five most similar past sessions. Each one gives:

  • A mini picture of that day's shape, so you can see at a glance how alike they are.
  • Its date and a match %.
  • A Next: line: what the following session did, whether it closed higher, lower, or flat and by how much, and how value migrated.

Above the list is an aggregate: of these similar days, how many closed higher, lower, or flat the next session.

DisclosureStatistics shown are computed from historical market data and describe the past. Hypothetical or historical results have inherent limitations. They do not represent actual trading, are prepared with the benefit of hindsight, and do not reflect real conditions such as slippage, fees, and liquidity. No representation is made that any account will or is likely to achieve similar results. Sample sizes are shown because small samples mislead.

How to read them

Analog days is pattern-matching, not prophecy, and two cautions matter:

  • It is a small sample by design. You are looking at the five closest days, sometimes drawn from only a modest history. As an illustrative example, "Three of five closed higher" is a hint, not a statistic. The more history you load, the more the five matches will genuinely resemble today.
  • A similar shape is not the same situation. Two days can trace nearly the same profile for very different reasons, in very different markets. A close match surfaces a day worth studying; it does not make tomorrow rhyme.

Use analogs to find comparable days to learn from and to see the range of what followed them, not as a forecast. The honest, full-sample version of these questions lives on Base rates and sample sizes.

A fast way to study a day

Each analog is clickable, so it is a quick way to pull up a genuinely similar past session and see how it played out in full. That is often more useful than the count above it: one well-matched day you can actually study beats a five-day tally.