Dashboard Guide

Neboard is a live BTCUSDT perpetual futures monitor. It streams real-time price and order-flow data and surfaces a live read of structure, flow, levels and derivatives context alongside the chart. Nothing on this dashboard places or manages trades. It is a read-only window built for learning to read the market.

The page is structured in four main zones:

A floating Readout panel (drag its header to reposition, toggle with Rdt) shows the live values of every signal input: structure, order flow, levels, and derivatives data.

Timeframe buttons: 5m / 15m / 1h / 4h

Switches the chart between 5-minute, 15-minute, 1-hour and 4-hour candlesticks. All data comes from the same pool of 5m bars; the browser aggregates them into the target timeframe on the fly, so switching is instant. The liquidity ratio in the ticker strip adapts: on 5m it looks at the last 1 hour; on 4h it spans the last 48 hours.

Telegram link

The paper-plane icon next to BTCUSDT.P in the masthead opens the project's public Telegram group in a new tab — that's the channel for feedback, ideas, and announcements.

Connection indicator

Live data feed connected; updates every ~15s plus live price ticks. Offline Disconnected. The browser retries automatically.

Menu (≡)

The hamburger menu at the right of the masthead links to the Intro page (the project story) and this Help reference. Both open in new tabs.

The strip on the left shows four live metrics alongside the current price and 24h change.

The row of buttons along the right edge of the chart controls which overlays are visible. Active = highlighted. Click to toggle.

Signal markers are the Neuro layer of Neboard: a set of AI-biased strategies that watch the same inputs as the Readout (structure, flow, levels, derivatives) and drop a long or short marker on the bar where their gates lined up. Toggle them on the chart with Sig (trend) and Rev (reversal).

Signals only fire during active trading hours: Monday to Saturday, 07:00 to 23:00 CEST. The window is empirical, not arbitrary. Splitting the historical data by hour and weekday showed the excluded slots (Sundays, late nights, the small hours before Europe wakes up) were consistently net-negative: thin liquidity, wider spreads, and the same setup that works during London or New York hours tends to fail when bots chasing late-night ticks are the only participants. The active window keeps the wins and drops most of the bleed.

This is still an early beta. The chart only marks direction (long or short) and grade. It does not show entry, stop, or target levels, and it does not manage a trade for you. Treat every marker as one more piece of confluence on top of your own read, not as an instruction.

The engine also does not catch every good trade. Plenty of clean moves go by without a marker because at least one gate did not fire. That is the work-in-progress part: every iteration is about catching more of the real moves without letting in more of the bad ones.

Trend vs Reversal

Two different layers, two different jobs. Sig (trend) is the workhorse: it catches continuation moves while structure and flow are aligned. Rev (reversal) is rarer and counter-trend by design: it catches the moment a stretched move runs out of fuel, typically a 4H outside-engulfing candle in an exhausted state. Different bar pattern, different exit math (tight ATR trail rather than fixed TP1 / TP2), different cadence.

Grading: A / B / C

Each setup carries a confidence grade derived from a weighted score across the gates that fired (structure alignment across 4H/1H/15M, flow, levels vs POC/ATR, vol-quality, and derivatives context).

The grade is a confidence label, not a guarantee. A's still lose and C's still win; the grade tracks expectancy across a large sample, not the outcome of any single trade.

Candles

Standard OHLC candlesticks. Green = close above open. Red = close below open. Wicks show the full high/low range. The current (forming) bar is reconstructed from 1m closes in real time, its volume ticks up every minute.

Volume bars

Each volume bar is split into taker-buy BTC (green, above zero) and taker-sell BTC (red, below zero). A tall green portion = buyers lifting the ask aggressively. A tall red portion = sellers hitting the bid.

Session VP overlays

Bitcoin trades 24/7 but the participants don't, liquidity rotates between Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York, and each handover changes the character of price action. Day traders care because session opens routinely produce range expansions and sweeps of the prior session's extremes, and yesterday's value area often acts as today's reference.

Toggle Syd · Asn · Lon · NY and each session is drawn as a colored box on the chart:

• Left/right borders = session start and end times.
• Top/bottom borders = session high and low.
• POC: solid line inside the box. The single price level with the most traded volume during that session.
• VAH / VAL: dashed lines. The Value Area High/Low; together they bound roughly 70% of the session's volume.

For completed sessions the POC, VAH and VAL also extend as thin reference lines across the rest of the chart, so the prior session's key levels stay visible against current price in real time. Each session uses its own color: Sydney amber · Tokyo purple · London blue · New York orange.

Trade Profile footprint (1H only)

When Prf is on and TF is 1H, each candle column shows a mini footprint. Each $50 bucket has two numbers: left = taker-buy BTC, right = taker-sell BTC. Green = buy-heavy · Red = sell-heavy. Bucket size and column width auto-aggregate to stay readable at any zoom.

Hover info

Move the crosshair over any candle and a small overlay near the top of the chart shows the full breakdown of that bar. It updates live as you hover and disappears when the cursor leaves the chart.

Two rows, left to right:

• Row 1 — price: bar timestamp · O open · H high · L low · C close · close-vs-open change % (green up / red down).
• Row 2 — flow & context:
  • V total volume (BTC) · B taker-buy BTC (green) · S taker-sell BTC (red) · B% taker-buy share (green ≥ 55%, red ≤ 45%, neutral in between).
  • LIQ (only if the bar had liquidations): long liquidations in green, short liquidations in red, BTC notional.
  • VOL bar volume vs the 23-bar trailing average, labelled spike (≥ 2.0×) · high (≥ 1.3×) · norm · low (≥ 0.5×) · dead (< 0.5×).
  • ATR 14-bar Average True Range, in dollars and as % of price — red if extremely tight (< 0.08%), amber if extended (> 0.30%), green in the normal range.

The same panel exists on mobile: long-press and drag on the chart to surface the crosshair and the overlay populates in the same format.

The floating Readout shows the live computed values behind every signal input (structure, flow, levels and derivatives), updating every ~15 seconds. Drag the header to move it; resize the text with the − / + buttons; close with × or toggle with Rdt.

Structure

Determined by comparing swing highs/lows: BULLISH = higher highs + higher lows · BEARISH = lower highs + lower lows · RANGING = no clear sequence.

Ask five traders to draw a trend line on the same chart and you'll get five different trend lines. The structure here doesn't work that way: it's math, not a visual read. The engine walks the bar history, picks out swing highs and lows by comparing actual numeric prices, and counts HH/HL/LH/LL programmatically. Same chart, same answer, every time. The margin of error is mechanical, not subjective.

Flow

Derived from the live trade tape, measures who is the aggressor: buyers lifting the ask (bullish) or sellers hitting the bid (bearish).

Reading an absorption row

When the composite triggers, the row shows a direction arrow, an intensity score, a fill bar, and the three underlying components, for example: ↓ 31 · buy 62% · vol 1.47× · px −0.15.

• ↑ / ↓: direction. ↑ bullish absorption (sellers absorbed) · ↓ bearish absorption (buyers absorbed).
• Intensity 0–100 + matching fill bar: strength of the signal. ≤30 mild · 30–60 moderate · >60 strong.
• buy %: taker-buy share of volume. >55% buyers were the aggressors; <45% sellers were.
• vol ×: window volume vs baseline (effort). ≥1.3–1.5× = real participation, not a quiet drift.
• px ATR: price progress in ATR units (result). Sign tells you which way price actually went.

The pattern only fires when effort and result disagree. The example above means: 62% of takers were buying, with 1.47× normal volume, but price closed −0.15 ATR down. Aggressive buyers were spending ammo into a passive seller sitting on the offer; the seller's inventory wins. Bearish absorption tends to precede a roll-over once the buy-side runs out of effort. The mirror image (heavy selling that fails to push price down) is bullish absorption (often precedes a bounce).

Rows where the composite didn't trigger show only buy% · vol× · px in dim text; those windows had no clear effort/result mismatch.

Levels

Derivs

The Bk toggle overlays markers on the price chart at moments when the futures order book underwent a sustained one-sided burst. A marker is plotted whenever there were two or more consecutive 15-second snapshots in the same direction with a strong imbalance shift on each.

Each marker is labelled BkN ±$X:

Markers are filtered to events where |5-minute price move| ≥ $75; smaller moves are hidden as noise. Up to 50 of the most extreme events from the last 7 days are shown, scored by cluster size × imbalance magnitude × depth shift.

The bottom panel has four tabs: Volume, Tech, Liq, and Readout (mirrors the floating Readout overlay so you can park it inline instead of as a floating box). The ⇿ Split button enables side-by-side mode — turn it on, then click a second tab to pin it next to the active one. Click Split again to unpin. Drag the thin handle at the top to resize the whole panel; use Btm in the chart toggles to hide it entirely.

The Volume tab shows per-bar taker flow as a split bar chart. The header stats summarise the current bar:

The Liq tab shows forced-liquidation BTC per bar on a dedicated y-axis. Each candle gets two values: how much was force-closed on each side of the book.

How to read it

• Big red spike during a move up: shorts capitulating into the rally — the move is being fuelled by forced covering rather than fresh demand. Often marks an exhaustion point near the top.
• Big green spike during a move down: longs flushing out at the lows — same pattern, mirrored. Cascade-style flushes often complete on the largest green bar.
• Sustained one-sided liquidations (multiple bars in a row): the trend is grinding through a positioned cohort. Watch for the moment liquidations fade — that's often where the move runs out of forced flow.
• Most bars empty: normal. Liquidations cluster in volatility spikes; the panel is informative when something fires, not as a continuous read.

The Tech tab shows individual indicator verdicts (BULL / BEAR / NEUTRAL) with a detail value per row. The header shows the score tally: Buys / Sells / Neutral.