What A Pattern Is
A Pattern is a saved moment of your trade desk’s signals — a stretch of bars where the readings lined up in a way you want to see again. VYX matches it against your desk’s signal readings, not price shapes: two markets whose charts look nothing alike can still tell the same signal story. That makes a pattern portable from birth — capture it on one market and VYX looks for it on every symbol the desk watches. The market you captured it on is just provenance, never a restriction.
Capture One From The Chart
Drag-select 20 to 200 bars on the focused chart and choose Save as pattern on the selection chip. The pattern inherits your desk’s interval and active signals at the moment you save, and the save panel opens with the evidence already scanning.
- Name the setup, not the symbol — "Squeeze fade", never "SOL squeeze fade". A pattern watches the whole desk, so a ticker in the name only misleads.
- Where and when you captured it (symbol, interval, bar count) is recorded on the card as provenance, so you can always jump back to the original window.
The Evidence Scan
Before a pattern can be armed, VYX scans recent history across every market the desk watches and shows what the pattern would have caught and what followed: how many matches, the win rate with its confidence interval, and the median forward return at your chosen hold. Tune the match threshold with this history in view — tighter means fewer, closer matches; looser means more, rougher ones — and watch the numbers move as you drag it.
- A thin sample flag means too few matches to lean on the statistics; a clustered flag means many raw hits were really one episode counted once.
- The panel always shows a distribution of outcomes, never a projection — past matches are history, not a promise about the next one.
- One honest warning, once: a hand-picked window is the easiest thing in trading to overfit. The evidence scan exists so you find that out before arming, not after a week of noise.
Arm It
Saving a pattern and reading its evidence is free. Arming it puts it on VYX’s servers, watching every market in the desk’s scope around the clock — tab closed, computer off. Each match lands as a row in the Match Log with the symbol, the similarity, and the pattern’s evidence one-liner; opt in to email and matches reach you anywhere. Arming is part of the paid plans (Trader and up), the same tier that runs your 24/7 alerts.
- A market that keeps re-matching won’t spam you — repeat matches on the same symbol are muted for a cooldown window.
- Pattern emails share your existing daily email budget with alerts, so one loud pattern can’t flood your inbox.
When Your Desk Changes
A pattern is defined by the signals it was captured with, so those are frozen at save time — editing or swapping the desk’s signals afterwards never silently changes what an armed pattern is looking for, and its evidence stays exactly true. When the desk’s signals drift from a pattern’s frozen set, the card shows a quiet amber "desk changed" chip; the pattern keeps matching on the signals it was saved with. When you’re ready, Re-base re-captures the same window under the desk’s current signals and re-runs the evidence scan — always your call, never automatic.
Limits
- A pattern is 20 to 200 bars, captured at the desk’s interval.
- The evidence scan covers a recent window that scales with the interval — roughly 90 days at 1h, about 30 days at 15m.
- Matching runs at bar close, not intrabar — a match means the completed window resembles your saved moment.
- A pattern belongs to the desk it was captured on; to use it elsewhere, capture it again on that desk.