Patterns

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

Click Capture pattern in the chart header, then drag across 3 to 200 bars on the chart — the save panel opens with the evidence already scanning. (You can also drag a range first and choose Save as pattern on the selection chip.) Either way the pattern inherits your desk’s interval and active signals at the moment you save.

• 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.
• You can capture anywhere the chart has drawn bars, including further back than the heatmap below it reaches. If a range falls outside the history that is loaded, the chart header tells you so and asks you to scroll there first, rather than leaving you guessing.

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.
• If the desk has a mechanical trader, the evidence adds a net R line — what those matches would have made under the desk’s own stop and target, after costs — beside the raw return.
• The hold you pick also sets the pattern’s direction: on Auto, VYX reads whether price tended to rise or fall after the pattern at that horizon, and paints the board green or red to match. A setup can be red at 20 bars but green at 100 — so the Score line shows which hold the colour is read from, and the pattern’s rail card carries it too (e.g. “short · 20b”). Change the hold before you save to re-aim it, or override the direction by hand.
• The scan fetches only what your desk’s signals actually read, and the history it just loaded stays warm for a few minutes — so reopening the capture dialog, redrawing the range, or adjusting channel weights re-runs in seconds instead of starting over.
• 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.

Weight The Channels

A pattern is built from channels — every signal on the desk, optionally the Total, and optionally the price shape. Under the match threshold, each channel gets its own weight. VYX first balances them so no single channel dominates just because it swings more (the price line, which can move far, used to drown out the signals); then these sliders let you tilt the mix toward what you actually care about. Slide a channel to zero to ignore it entirely — set price to zero to match purely on order flow, or turn every signal but one down to match on that alone. The evidence re-scans as you settle each slider, so you see right away whether a leaner match is a cleaner one.

• Balanced by default — leave the sliders alone and every channel gets an equal say.
• Zero means off: a channel at zero drops out of the match completely.
• What you weight is what gets watched — the same weights drive the board, the evidence, and the 24/7 server match, so they never disagree.

Live On The Desk

A pattern is part of its trade desk, and it shows up everywhere the desk’s signals do. Its row lives inside the desk’s card in the left rail, right under the signals it was captured from — with its direction and horizon (e.g. “short · 20b”), an armed dot, and today’s match count. When a market’s recent window crosses the pattern’s match threshold, it lands in the Match Log as a row like any signal hit — marked with the pattern glyph — and clicking that row paints the pattern across the board and focuses the market. And a pattern in the Total sums its score into the desk’s one number alongside the signals, on the same timeframe it was captured at.

• Match Log rows fire on closed bars, at your pattern’s own threshold — the same bar the 24/7 server watch uses, so what you see in the feed is what an armed pattern would have caught.
• The Total membership toggle (in the Save panel) controls whether the pattern’s score joins the desk Total — on the board, in the rankings, and in what your desk’s trader reads. Off means it still matches and logs, it just doesn’t vote.
• Everything is timeframe-true: a pattern captured on 15m only matches, logs, and votes when the desk is reading 15m data.

See The Matches On The Board

A pattern is a kind of signal, so you can put it on the heatmap. Click a pattern in the desk’s Patterns list and the whole board repaints by how closely each market’s recent window resembles your saved shape — bright where it matches, dark where it doesn’t — across every symbol the desk watches at once. The board snaps to the pattern’s own interval so what you see is what the pattern actually measures. Click it again to go back to your normal board.

Trade It

Hand a pattern to the desk’s mechanical trader as an entry rule: set the trader’s decision source to Mechanical, pick Pattern match, choose the pattern and a minimum similarity, and it enters on the pattern’s evidence direction whenever a market matches — or fades it, if you flip the toggle. Like every mechanical rule it runs in paper mode until you arm it, and its stop and target come from the same geometry the evidence measured, so the backtest and the trade speak the same language.

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.

Editing A Pattern, And Going Back To Where You Caught It

Hover a pattern in the desk’s list and open its settings to change anything you chose when you saved it: the name, the match threshold, the hold and direction, whether it scores the board or votes into the Total, the channel weights, and the email opt-in. The panel header carries the pattern’s provenance — the market, the timeframe, the bar count and the date you cut it — so a shape you saved weeks ago is still identifiable at a glance.

• Click that provenance line to revisit the capture: VYX takes the board to that market and timeframe and back to the moment itself, with the captured window shaded on the chart. Leaving puts your board back where it was.
• While you are there you can drag a new window to widen, narrow or shift what the pattern matches. The evidence re-scans on the range you settle on, and saving updates the pattern in place — same pattern, new shape.
• Adjusting the range or the weights re-cuts the shape itself, so an armed pattern starts watching for the new one and its match cooldowns reset. Changing only a setting like the threshold or the name leaves the running watch untouched.
• A capture older than the board can load back to cannot be revisited on the chart — VYX says so plainly rather than guessing, and the pattern stays fully editable either way.

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 3 to 200 bars, captured at the desk’s interval — shorter shapes match more loosely, so raise the threshold for fewer, tighter hits.
• 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.