How finscans works

How the overall assessment is formed

Two independent sources feed every assessment. The technical side reads the trend across eight timeframes, from 15 minutes to one day, and is recomputed from the raw price candles every five minutes. The fundamental side reads the sentiment of news analyses over the past 30 days, weighted by how much impact each item was judged to have.

Both are normalised to a scale from −1 to +1 and then combined. The weighting shifts with the time horizon: an intraday trade barely cares about last week's news flow, while a position held for weeks is dominated by it. The overall figure is a weighted mean of the three horizons, centred on the medium one — that is what most visitors mean when they ask how an asset looks.

When both sides point the same way, that is noted as agreement. When they point in opposite directions and both are clear enough to matter, that is flagged as a divergence — usually the most informative state a page can show, because it marks the moment where price action and news have not yet resolved into one story.

The three time horizons

Short covers the 15-minute to 2-hour charts and is weighted 90 % technical, 10 % fundamental. Medium covers 4 and 8 hours at 60/40. Long covers 12 hours and one day at 30/70 — there the news flow carries most of the weight.

A horizon is only shown when there is technical data for its timeframes. The mix bar under each horizon shows its weighting, so it is always visible which side is driving that particular assessment.

What the confidence figure means

Confidence is calculated, never written by a language model. It combines three things: how closely the technical and fundamental sides agree (40 %), how much evidence there is in the form of active signals and news items (35 %), and how decisive the resulting score is (25 %).

A high confidence means the picture is consistent and well covered — not that the market will move as described. It says how solid the reading is, not how certain the outcome.

Trend direction and strength

Each of the eight timeframes is assessed with the Average Directional Index over 14 periods. The direction comes from whether upward or downward directional movement dominates; the strength comes from the ADX value itself, mapped to five steps: below 20 means no usable trend, above 60 means an exceptionally strong one.

At strength one the bar is shown grey regardless of direction. Below an ADX of 20 the method still names a nominal direction, but "no trend" is the more honest reading — colouring it green or red would suggest more than the data supports.

Trading styles and their timeframes

The eight timeframes are grouped into four styles: scalping (15 and 30 minutes), intraday (1 and 2 hours), swing (4 and 8 hours) and position (12 hours and one day). Each card shows the assessment for its own pair of timeframes, so a page can be bullish for swing traders and directionless for position traders at the same time — which is common and worth knowing.

How hit rates are calculated

A hit rate answers one narrow question: of the signals that ran untouched to either their target or their stop, how many reached the target? Signals closed early on a reversal are excluded, because an early exit says something about position management rather than about whether the direction was right.

The population is always stated alongside the figure. Where fewer than 20 decided trades exist for a timeframe, no rate is shown at all — a percentage built on a handful of cases is noise dressed as insight. There is no fallback to other assets: a figure on a Bitcoin page is always computed from Bitcoin trades.

Past results do not predict future ones. A hit rate describes what happened, under market conditions that will not repeat identically.

How the news situation is read

Every article is analysed for which assets it concerns, whether it argues bullish, bearish or neutral for each of them, and how much impact it carries on a scale of one to ten. The fundamental score is the impact-weighted balance of those judgements over 30 days, so one major central bank decision outweighs a dozen minor mentions.

The asset snapshot

The snapshot is generated automatically from the coverage statistics of the past year: how many news signals were recorded, how they split by direction, the average model confidence and impact. It describes how well an asset is covered, not what it will do.