The tick book

Intraday calls on the five-minute clock. Named and posted before the trade, graded on the day's close. The wrong ones stay.

The record grades one level a week on Friday's close. This page grades the tactical clock by the same law: a metal, a side, a level and a kill, written and posted before the trade, and graded on the 23:00 Madrid close of the day the row names. Two timestamps per row that this desk cannot edit, the post that named it and the commit that wrote it. No size, no profit or loss, ever: a row is a claim about price and a close, and nothing else is on it. None of this enters the weekly tally.

The one rule. Held if price traded to the level, no five-minute close printed through the kill before the grading close, and the grading close sits on the row's side of the level. Wrong if price traded to the level and either a five-minute close printed through the kill at any time before the grading close, or the grading close is not on the row's side. Never reached if price never traded to the level. The grading close is the last five-minute close before 23:00 Madrid on the day the row names, taken from the exported bars kept beside this page. A row still open 48 hours after the Friday close of its week is graded late and says so on the row.

The seal. A row is named by posting a SHA-256 seal of the call at the minute it is made: the metal, the side, the level, the kill, the grading day and a random nonce, hashed. The seal proves the call existed at that minute and that no part of it moved afterwards, and it reveals nothing while the trade is live. Every seal opens after the Friday close of its week, all of them together, with the string that produced it so anyone can recompute the hash. Every seal published is opened, and a seal that is not opened counts as wrong. That rule is what makes the count worth reading without taking this desk's word for anything.

How a row gets here

At the setup, before any trade, the call is sealed on the phone: the metal, the side, the level and the kill are hashed, and the seal is posted on X with the metal and the minute. The post's timestamp is the naming, and it is the one this desk cannot move. Nothing tradeable is in the post. After the Friday close every seal of the week opens at once, written to ticks.js with the string that produced each hash, so anyone can recompute it. A seal that is never opened counts as wrong, and every seal posted gets a row whatever price did afterwards, so the feed and the book can be laid side by side. The five-minute bars of the week are exported from the chart for each metal sealed and saved beside this page one file a day, each row is graded from its own day's file by a script that applies the rule and nothing else, and a second script refuses to let any graded row ship whose bars are not on file or disagree with its grade. Every graded row links its bars. Level, kill, side and the minute named are never edited after the first push; if one was wrong it says so in the result and stays.