ANATOMY OF AN EDGE CARD: FIELD-BY-FIELD PROTOCOL
Every published card presents a deterministic architecture—live status token, trigger price, structural invalidation stop, two-tier profit ladder, 0–100 score breakdown, verified SEC and telemetry provenance, and chronological tape logs—leaving zero subjective discretion to the reader.
Applies to every setup card rendered on the terminal interface, governing morning briefing publications (8:35 AM ET) and intraday discovery alerts (9:45 AM – 2:00 PM ET).
Header Telemetry and Live Status Badges
The masthead of each published card identifies the asset and its current operational lifecycle state within the market session. Cards never present ambiguous or narrative-based status flags; every token represents a machine-evaluated state transition governed by the market tape.
Displays the primary ticker symbol, legal company name, exchange venue (NYSE, NASDAQ), publication price, and assigned quantitative archetype: INSTITUTIONAL_DRIFT, VOLATILITY_EXPANSION, or MEAN_REVERSION.
Indicates active tape standing: WATCHING (awaiting trigger confirmation), TRIGGERED (confirmed execution), EXPIRED (untriggered after 60 minutes), STAND_DOWN (morning brief canceled pre-bell), STOPPED, T1, T2, or AMBIGUOUS.
A secondary metadata row displays the exact microsecond timestamp of card generation in Eastern Time (ET), the active data provider attribution tag, and the numeric Strategy Version hash guaranteeing audit reproducibility.
Trade Geometry Quadrant: Trigger, Invalidation Stop, and Target Ladder
The central module of the card details the pre-computed price levels that govern trade execution. Every level is determined strictly before publication and remains permanently immutable throughout the trading day.
| CARD FIELD | DERIVATION LOGIC | OPERATIONAL BEHAVIOR |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger Price | Pre-market high or 15-minute Opening Range High + ATR noise buffer | Price threshold that activates trade from WATCHING to TRIGGERED status. |
| Invalidation Stop | Pre-market structural pivot low, consolidation base, or VWAP failure | Defines absolute dollar risk per share. Never widened after publication. |
| Target 1 (T1) | Prior resistance level or ATR projection yielding ≥ 1:2.5 planned R | Mandatory 50% position scale-out; moves remaining runner stop to breakeven. |
| Target 2 (T2) | Multi-day resistance or secondary volatility extension level | Final planned exit for the remaining 50% runner tranche. |
| Planned R-Multiple | Mathematical ratio: (Target 1 - Trigger) / (Trigger - Stop) | Engine rejects any setup with a planned R-multiple below 2.50R. |
Directly below the geometry quadrant, the card provides explicit per-share dollar metrics: Dollar Risk Per Share, Dollar Reward to T1, and Dollar Reward to T2, enabling instantaneous position sizing without manual calculation.
The 0–100 Edge Score and Conviction Breakdown
The Edge Score communicates the mathematical quality of the candidate setup on a normalized 0–100 scale. It serves strictly as an intake and ranking filter; it is never a probability prediction or future price target.
Evaluates SEC Form 4 cluster conviction, Form 8-K material disclosure impact, or Olyth social momentum velocity.
Measures technical trend alignment, VWAP proximity, opening range consolidation, and multi-timeframe moving average support.
Audits bid-ask spread tightness, 20-day dollar volume liquidity, and pre-market tape order flow continuity.
Rewards favorable asymmetry where planned risk-to-reward to Target 1 comfortably surpasses the 1:2.5 floor.
The score module also displays the total adaptive learning adjustment and any trap radar deductions.
Regulatory Provenance and Catalyst Audit
Every card anchors its catalyst to public regulatory records, presenting direct links to audit raw submissions on SEC EDGAR.
Displays the SEC Accession Number, CIK, filing date, reporting entity, and verbatim quotes. For Institutional Drift cards, the cluster cites executive roles (CEO, CFO), total shares, and net purchase value.
For Volatility Expansion cards, the module cites specific Form 8-K items (e.g., Item 1.01 Agreements or Item 2.02 Earnings).
When momentum contributes to qualification, the card exposes Olyth Capital telemetry: 24-hour heat, 2-hour velocity, engagement, and verification links.
Structured Deterministic Rationale Without LLM Inference
To completely eradicate artificial intelligence hallucinations and subjective narrative bias, card rationales are synthesized using deterministic code templates bound directly to verified telemetry. Every published sentence maps directly to an underlying database value.
Documents the verified regulatory or momentum driver with exact dates, quantities, and filing sources.
Reports 20-day average daily dollar volume, pre-market relative volume (RVOL), and percentage distance from anchored VWAP.
States the mathematical justification for the trigger level, structural invalidation stop, and target ladder geometry.
Certifies that the candidate cleared all eight automated trap checks, including S-3 dilution shelf and wide spread screens.
Chronological Event Tape Audit Trail
At the bottom of each card, an interactive tape log records every state transition and lifecycle event in chronological sequence. This live ledger provides full transparency into when a card was published, when its trigger price was printed on the consolidated tape, and when targets or stops were reached.
Each log entry stores an immutable ISO-8601 UTC timestamp, exact execution price, realized R-multiple, and descriptive transition label. When post-market tape evaluation runs at 16:15 ET, the final verified outcome is permanently locked into this event tape.
Frozen vs Mutable Card Elements
| FIELD CATEGORY | STATE | BEHAVIORAL CONSTRAINT |
|---|---|---|
| Trade Geometry (Trigger, Stop, Targets) | FROZEN | Permanently locked at publication. Levels never move or widen. |
| Edge Score & Score Components | FROZEN | Locked at publication timestamp. Never recalculated post-market. |
| Regulatory Provenance & Filings | FROZEN | SEC accession numbers and filing text remain fixed forever. |
| Live Status Badge & Telemetry | MUTABLE | Transitions live across WATCHING → TRIGGERED → outcome tokens. |
| Chronological Event Tape | APPEND-ONLY | New events append sequentially; past log entries are immutable. |
What This Page Does Not Cover
Mathematical derivation of stop loss placement, target laddering, and planned-R floors.
Detailed 0–100 score architecture, component weightings, and adaptive learning algorithms.
Complete state transition rules and exact accounting impact on the performance ledger.
The four sequential survival gates a candidate must pass prior to card publication.
DISCLAIMER: Day Trade Edge is an automated quantitative research and analytical software tool. It is not a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser. Method descriptions outline the operational algorithms applied to published cards. Past performance and historical ledger prints do not guarantee future returns.