Field glossary · v1

How To Read

Every number, badge and colour on the dashboard, explained in plain English. For the decision workflow itself, see How to use.

Freshness badge (top of Market & News)

Tells you whether the screen you're looking at is actually fresh.

Green dot: Last refresh was less than 60 seconds ago. Trust the numbers.
Red dot · STALE: More than 60s since last refresh OR a feed returned no data. Click Refresh now before deciding.
src: yahoo / stooq: Which data source was used this cycle. If you see stooq it means Yahoo failed and the fallback kicked in.
missing: …: A specific feed (e.g. USD/NAD) didn't come back. Decisions on that line should wait.
Refresh now button: Force-fetches everything immediately. Use it before placing a buy/sell.

The four big price boxes on /market.

LME Copper 3M (proxy): COMEX HG=F price × 2204.62 lbs/tonne. Best free proxy for the LME 3-month settle.e.g. 8,500 USD/tonne
COMEX Copper: Front-month US copper futures, $/lb. This is the rawest copper number on the page.
Silver: COMEX silver front-month, $/troy oz.
USD/NAD: Live Namibian dollar per US dollar. Used by the calculator to convert margins.
Green/red % change: Day-on-day % change since prior close. Bigger than ±2% = volatile day, size down.

Bullish / Sideways / Bearish: Price vs 90-day MA vs 180-day MA. Bullish = price > MA90 > MA180.
30D / 90D %: Return over the last 30 / 90 sessions. Positive = momentum is up.
vs 12M AVG: How far today's price is from the 12-month average. Negative = relatively cheap.
12M HIGH / LOW: Highest and lowest close in the last 12 months. Sets the trading range.
POS IN RANGE: Where price sits between the 12M low (0%) and 12M high (100%). >80% = expensive, <20% = cheap.
CONFIDENCE: How strong the trend is, based on the gap between MA30 and MA90. Low confidence = halve your size.
Suggested action: BUY AGGRESSIVELY · BUY SELECTIVELY · HOLD STOCK · SELL / MARKET ORE · WAIT FOR BETTER PRICING. Plain-English instruction derived from the KPIs above.

Orange line: Daily close.
Dark solid line: 30-day moving average — short-term direction.
Dashed grey line: 90-day moving average — medium-term direction.
30-Day / 90-Day Outlook: Base case = momentum × time. Bull and Bear values are ±1σ of recent daily volatility.

Aggregate Cu / Ag bias %: Sum of expected price impacts across all matched headlines, capped at ±10%. This is the net news-implied move.
News-Implied price: Current price × (1 + bias). What price would look like if the news fully repriced.
Per-headline Signal: Bullish / Bearish / Neutral based on which historical rule matched.
Expected Move %: Single-event sigma estimate from historical analogues (Cobre Panamá, Fed cuts, etc.).
Horizon: Typical days until the price impact plays out.
Confidence (low/med/high): How many rules the headline matched. Higher = more conviction.

Max Buying Price / ton: The highest USD/ton you can pay and still hit a 15% margin on payable metal. Never bid above this.
Margin / ton: Net USD per ton ore after costs and offer price.
Total Margin (NAD): Margin × tons × USD/NAD. The real money number.
Buy signal: BUY AGGRESSIVELY = offer well below max + strong margin. BUY SELECTIVELY = thin but positive. DO NOT BUY = offer ≥ max price.
Sell signal: SELL NOW in bullish trends with strong margin, or any bearish trend. MARKET SOFTLY when sideways.
Margin quality: NEGATIVE · THIN (<10%) · HEALTHY (10–20%) · STRONG (>20%) relative to your offer.

Forensic trail to debug feed issues.

OK (green): Refresh succeeded, all feeds present.
PARTIAL (amber): Some feeds missing. The dashboard kept old data for those lines.
ERROR (red): Full failure for that feed cycle. Investigate network / source outage.
src column: Which provider answered (yahoo, stooq, google-news).
Latency: Round-trip time. Sudden jumps to >2000ms often precede outages.