03 · The BullBear Labs Guide

Analysis: asking the right question

The quality of an analysis depends on the context you give it. Choosing the timeframe and the mode is the question itself.

Last updated: 18 August 2026

What a timeframe actually means

The timeframe answers “at which scale do you want this to be true?” A setup that looks strong on a 15-minute chart may be a small bounce in the middle of a falling daily trend. Both readings are correct; they answer different questions.

TimeframeTypical holdSuited to
15 min · 1 hourHoursIntraday trading, reaction at a level
2 hour · 4 hourA few daysSwing trading — the most balanced choice for most people
1 dayWeeksPosition trading, trend following
1 week · 1 monthMonthsLong-term accumulation, the big picture

God's Eye: five timeframes, one call

Most setups that look strong on a single timeframe fall apart once you look at the one above it. God's Eye scans five timeframes together and measures how much they agree. When all five point the same way, that is far stronger than the same signal seen on one timeframe alone.

Low agreement is not a defect — it is information. “Short term up, medium term down” tells you the setup is short-lived and that you should shrink the target accordingly.

Spot and futures mode

For crypto symbols you are asked for a trading mode. This is not cosmetic: with a spot account you cannot profit from a falling market. When the mode is “spot” and the direction is down, the product will not produce a short plan you cannot execute — it gives you a plan to protect what you hold instead. Details in the next section.

What the analysis sees

For transparency: the engine hands the language model the price and volume data of the last CLOSED bar on the selected timeframe, computed technical indicators (RSI, MACD, ADX, ATR, moving averages, Bollinger, MFI, VWAP, pivots), fundamental ratios where available, recent headlines, exchange filings, and market-regime measurements. The unclosed bar is deliberately excluded: an indicator computed on half a bar produces a wrong result.

The evidence scene: what you watch while waiting

While the analysis runs, the screen shows the symbol's own chart rather than a spinner. The detected evidence is drawn on it in sequence: pattern geometry (shoulders, neckline, measured target), indicator divergences, the Fibonacci leg and its levels, volume zones. All of it is computed before the AI writes a single word — because it is exactly the evidence the model reads. The double bottom you watch and the double bottom you read about are the same object.

When the result arrives the scene does not close; it becomes the Evidence card. There you can switch layers off and on, add indicators, and replay the reel. The goal is not to convince you but to let you check.

How Fibonacci levels are drawn

Fibonacci levels are measured from the last swing leg, not from a fixed window: the move between two pivots (shown as a dashed line) defines the 0% and 100% ends, and the ratios in between give the retracement levels. If the leg is up, the retracement is measured down from the high; if it is down, up from the low — which is why 38.2% sometimes sits above 61.8% and sometimes below. That is correct: the measuring direction follows the leg.

Volume is not a single number

A bar's volume is split between buyers and sellers according to where the close sits inside the candle range. That makes the real question answerable: is the advance backed by buying, or is it drifting up on seller volume? When cumulative delta diverges from price, that is a sign of distribution or accumulation — if price makes a new high but buying power does not, the advance is hollowing out.

The same calculation yields money-memory zones: the bars with the highest buy and highest sell volume in the lookback window. That bar's price range is drawn as a box; price returning there is expected to react.

Channels, wedges, triangles

Some patterns are not a single event but a GEOMETRY that price is squeezed inside. Two trendlines are drawn — one through the highs, one through the lows — and the shape’s name follows from the slope of those two lines and how the gap between them changes. Both lines in the same direction with a constant gap is a channel; same direction with a narrowing gap is a wedge; one flat and one sloped is a triangle.

Directional claims belong only to CONTRACTING shapes: rising wedge bearish, falling wedge bullish, ascending triangle bullish, descending triangle bearish. We do not paste the same label on their expanding siblings — there the information is volatility, not direction, and the stop should be widened accordingly. A symmetrical triangle carries no direction either: it is a coiled spring, and the energy releases whichever way it breaks.

A break is confirmed by a CLOSE, not a wick; a candle that pierces the line and comes back is not a break. If the break has gone stale (more than a few bars old) the shape is not mentioned at all — it is history, not evidence.

Structure breaks and order blocks

What we call “structure” is the chain of swing highs and lows. When that chain flips — when a new low runs clearly below the prior low, or a new high clearly above the prior high — structure has broken. “Clearly” is a measured thing here: the move must travel a third of the broken leg beyond the level. Without that buffer, structure flips on every bit of noise and means nothing.

The last opposite candle before the breaking move is drawn as an “order block”: the last down candle before an upward break, the last up candle before a downward break. The assumption is that this is where the large order was left, so if price returns there the same side is tested again. Zones left behind by the previous leg that have switched sides are marked separately as “breakers” — former resistance turned support, or the reverse.

Ready when you are

You have read the guide. Now try it on your own symbol — the first analysis is free.