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What MarketBox is

MarketBox puts prices, positioning, macro releases and scores in one place. Pick a page from the sidebar. It is a research tool. It is not investment advice, it places no orders and it promises no returns.

Pages you can use now:

• Daily brief: A short AI-written read of each market day: score moves, bias changes, strongest and weakest setups, releases due and COT shifts.
• Top setups: Every instrument ranked by total score, with bias, coverage and the 18 components.
• Top setups, compact: The same ranking with sub-totals in place of the 18 component columns.
• Top setups, macro only: Instruments ranked by the macro part of the score alone, with its own bias.
• Top setups indicator: Daily candles with the score drawn beneath and markers where it crosses a bias band.
• Instrument detail: One instrument's score, its components with dated inputs, price, COT positioning and next releases.
• Forex scorecard: The score for one FX pair, with base and quote currency inputs side by side.
• Trade ideas: Target and invalidation scenarios for bullish and bearish scores.
• Scenario backtests: Average forward returns after defined market events, with sample size and limits.
• COT latest report: Net positioning per contract from the latest CFTC report, dated by publication time.
• COT history: Weekly long and short positioning for one contract over time.
• COT velocity: Contracts ranked by weekly, monthly and quarterly change in net long share.
• COT trends: Long share over time for every contract, side by side.
• Retail sentiment: Share of retail traders long and short per instrument, where a free source exists.
• Retail sentiment history: Retail long and short share for one instrument over time, against price.
• Put/call ratio: Put/call volume ratio per symbol, with bands that mark unusually high put or call volume.
• Net options volume: Call volume against put volume per options underlying: the 5-session mean net share minus the 20-session mean.
• Put and call walls: Open interest by strike and expiry for one options underlying, from Cboe's delayed chain.
• AAII survey: The weekly AAII survey: share of investors who are bullish, neutral and bearish.
• US heatmap: Latest US releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the dollar and US stocks.
• EU heatmap: Latest euro area releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the euro and euro area stocks.
• UK heatmap: Latest UK releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the pound and UK stocks.
• JP heatmap: Latest Japanese releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the yen and Japanese stocks.
• CA heatmap: Latest Canadian releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the Canadian dollar and Canadian stocks.
• AU heatmap: Latest Australian releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the Australian dollar and Australian stocks.
• NZ heatmap: Latest New Zealand releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the New Zealand dollar and New Zealand stocks.
• CH heatmap: Latest Swiss releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the Swiss franc and Swiss stocks.
• CN heatmap: Latest Chinese releases with actual, previous and consensus, scored for the yuan and Chinese stocks.
• Economic calendar: Upcoming and past releases with actual, consensus, previous and revisions. Times are UTC.
• Surprise index: Per economy, the share of its latest releases that beat consensus, with its history.
• Strength index: Eight currencies ranked by their economy's latest growth, unemployment, policy rate and inflation.
• Real yields: Policy rate and 2-year government yield, each minus CPI inflation, per economy, now and month by month.
• Stock surprise meter: Share of recent releases that surprised in the direction stocks favor, per stock market.
• Carry scanner: FX pairs ranked by the gap between their two policy rates, with the 2-year yield gap beside it. It shows a rate gap, not broker carry income.
• GDP growth: GDP growth per economy, release by release, against consensus.
• GDP growth forecast: The IMF's projected annual GDP growth per economy, with the US GDPNow nowcast apart.
• Services PMI: Services PMI per economy, release by release, against consensus.
• Manufacturing PMI: Manufacturing PMI per economy, release by release, against consensus.
• Retail sales: Retail sales per economy, release by release, against consensus.
• Consumer confidence: Consumer confidence per economy, release by release, against consensus.
• Balance of trade: Trade balance per economy, release by release, against consensus.
• CPI y/y: Consumer price inflation per economy, year over year, against consensus.
• PPI y/y: Producer price inflation per economy, year over year, against consensus.
• PCE y/y: US core and headline PCE inflation, year over year, against consensus.
• Nonfarm payrolls: US nonfarm payrolls per release, with revisions and consensus.
• ADP employment: US ADP private employment change per release, against consensus.
• Unemployment rate: Unemployment rate per economy, release by release, against consensus.
• Jobless claims: US initial and continuing jobless claims each week, against consensus.
• Job openings: US job openings (JOLTS) per release, against consensus.
• Wage growth: US average hourly earnings growth per release, against consensus.
• Interest rates: Each central bank's policy rate: every stored decision, the change, consensus and the next meeting.
• Rate projections: Each central bank's own rate projection, kept apart from the path market prices imply.
• US Treasury yield curve: The spread between US 10 year and 2 year Treasury yields over time, with every stretch where it inverted.
• House price index: The US house price index and S&P/Case-Shiller home prices, month by month.
• Housing inventory: US homes for sale, month by month.
• Mortgage applications: US mortgage applications week by week, with the purchase and refinance indexes and the 30-year rate.
• Global housing prices: House price growth compared across countries over 1, 5, 10 and 15 years.
• Order flow: Live Bitcoin and Ether executions, footprints, delta, volume profile, market depth and session replay.
• Market heatmap: Price change for every instrument over a day, week, month, year to date or year, as tiles grouped by market.
• Momentum heatmap: Price against its 20, 50, 100 and 200 day averages for every instrument.
• Volatility heatmap: Average daily move over 7 days against its 90 day average, for every instrument.
• Annual seasonality: This year's path against the average year of the last 10, per instrument.
• Monthly seasonality: Average return per calendar month over the last 10 years, against this year.
• BTC/gold ratio: Bitcoin price divided by spot gold, daily, with its 20 day average.
• Credit spreads: US high yield and investment grade bond spreads over Treasuries, daily, with their 20 day averages.
• Indices scanner: Score, COT and sentiment side by side for every stock index.
• Gold and silver scanner: Score, COT and sentiment side by side for gold and silver.
• Commodities scanner: Score, COT and sentiment side by side for every commodity.
• Forex scanner: Score, COT and sentiment side by side for every FX pair.
• News feed: News links per instrument with source times, and optional summaries that cite them.
• Headline sentiment: AI-tagged headlines counted per currency and market, bullish against bearish, over 24 hours and 7 days.
• Geopolitical risk: A geopolitical risk reading from a published method, with every source linked.

Other pages in the sidebar show Not built yet, with the phase they are planned for.

Reading a page

• The ?: Beside each page's title. It says what the page shows, where its data comes from and when it updates.
• Scores: Each scored instrument has a total score and a bias, from Strong bearish to Strong bullish. The Watchlist and Top setups list them; select a symbol for Instrument detail, which shows each factor with the data behind it.
• Partial scores: Some inputs are not in yet. They rank apart from complete scores. Stocks and ETFs have no score yet.
• Colours: Blue is bullish or a beat, red bearish or a miss, gray neutral or in line. Violet marks what you selected.
• Dashes: A dash (—No value) means there is no value: the data does not exist yet, has no free source, or does not apply. It never means 0. Hover it for the reason where one matters.
• Dates and times: A value is dated when it was published, since that is when anyone could know it. Release, decision and headline times are in your browser's time zone; a market's own date, such as a day's close or a COT report date, stays as it is.

Where the data comes from

MarketBox uses free sources only. Each row is one kind of data, where it comes from and how often it updates.

Some sources are read for private testing only. They need a replacement or a licence before anyone else uses MarketBox.

Support and accounts

Accounts and sign in are not built yet, and there is no support contact yet. MarketBox has one user, its owner.