Galley

Where raw ingredients become useful output. Converters, simulators, and planning tools.

🔧 Calculators

Essential instruments for every captain.

Position Size Calculator

Calculate the optimal number of shares based on account size, risk per trade, and stop distance. Never overload the hull.

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Compounding Forecast

Project fleet growth over time with configurable return assumptions. Star charts for your portfolio.

PlanningOpen tool →

Risk/Reward Ratio

Quickly assess whether a maneuver is worth the exposure. Soundings before you sail.

Pre-TradeOpen tool →

Drawdown Simulator

Model how your fleet would survive a sequence of losing voyages. Test your ballast.

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The Quadrant

ABCD Swing Trade Calculator. Enter A, B, and C points to project trigger, target, stop, and reversal date.

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The Bandwidth Gauge

Calculate Bollinger Bandwidth and %b position in real-time. Measure volatility compression and know exactly where price sits within the bands.

IntermediateOpen tool →

The Volume Sounding

Calculate Accumulation Distribution and Intraday Intensity. Volume confirmation for Bollinger Band breakouts, trends, and reversals.

IntermediateOpen tool →

The Draft Marks

LSS envelope calculator: Buy/Sell zones, Trend Momentum Indicator, and overbought/oversold levels for Taylor day trading.

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The Load Line

Position size and risk-of-ruin calculator. Know your maximum safe draft before you load the hull.

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The Star Compass

Project planetary cycle dates from any anchor: Venus, Jupiter-Saturn, Mars-Jupiter, Mercury-Venus. Navigate by orbital geometry.

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The Eclipse Dial

Eclipse cycle calculator with asset-specific presets: S&P 500, GBPUSD, Gold, and Crude Oil. Mark your reaction zones.

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The Chronometer

Intraday cycle calculator: Moon 333°, 108-hour, 216-hour, and 76-hour projections from any anchor. Ring the watch bell.

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The Signal Book

Pattern probability reference and position sizing calculator for Japanese candlestick formations. Lookup win rates, Efficiency Ranks, and size trades by edge.

IntermediateOpen tool →

The Living Grid

Dynamic grid trading calculator. Auto-adjusting levels that breathe with volatility and maintain proportional exposure across a range-bound voyage.

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The Proportional Compass

Ratio and proportion calculator for position scaling, pyramid entries, and harmonic position sizing. Measure before you magnify.

AdvancedOpen tool →

The Rangefinder

Price target calculator: measure the distance from entry to objective with precision optics. Know your horizon before you weigh anchor.

IntermediateOpen tool →

The Retracement Quadrant

Four-quadrant Fibonacci calculator: project pullback zones, extensions, and confluence levels from any swing. Map the likely turns.

AdvancedOpen tool →

The Reckoner

Square of 9 navigator, harmonic number generator, and calendar day projector. Calculate Gann's master levels from any price.

IntermediateOpen tool →

🏗️ Shipwright

Design, test, and launch your own trading models.

Model Builder

Pro Feature

Build custom screeners and backtest strategies against historical data. Define entry rules, exit conditions, and position sizing. Run simulations across multiple timeframes and market regimes.

⚙️ Chronometer Guides

Measurement, calculation, and derivation. The engine room of the ship — where abstraction becomes action.

The Engine Telegraph

Option Greeks in real time. Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega — what each dial measures, how they interact, and how to read them before the boiler explodes.

Chronometer 18 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Tide Gauge (Coming Soon)

IV Skew and term structure. How to measure the pressure building before the storm arrives.

Chronometer Advanced

The Helm Response

Rolling Beta calculation. How far your portfolio moves when the index shifts, and why the rudder ratio changes when you least expect it.

Chronometer 16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Astrolabe

Expectancy, win rate, and backtesting math. Navigate by the stars, not by luck — with a false breakout probability estimator.

Chronometer 20 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Harbor Master's Ledger

Order book mechanics, slippage, and market impact. The hidden cost of every click — derived, calculated, and color-coded by danger level.

Chronometer 20 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Geometer's Proof

Does the Golden Ratio actually predict price reversals? Statistical testing of Fibonacci levels against random controls. Geometry meets evidence.

Chronometer 18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Barometer's Proof

Wilder's RSI derived step-by-step. Bounds proof, smoothing mechanics, and why 50 is midpoint — not magic. The math Elias needed in E21.

Chronometer 18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Drawdown Compass

Mathematical derivation of maximum drawdown, recovery ratios, and the geometric nature of capital erosion. Know the true cost of a storm.

Chronometer 18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

📘 Reference

Quick lookup. No narrative. Just the translation between our helm and every other ship in the fleet.

📖 Sextant Guides Navigation Strategy

Education for finding your own way. Manual, skill-based, timeless.

Reading the Barometer

How to interpret economic calendars and sentiment indicators before the storm hits.

12 min read • Beginner Read guide →

Chart Room Fundamentals

Technical analysis essentials: support, resistance, trends, and volume. The charts every captain must read.

18 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Running Lights

Gann's Green/Red Trend Line method: mechanical trend-following that captured 62.8% of all market movement over 42 years using only weekly highs and lows.

18 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Trim Tab

Gann's 10% rule, 3-loss rule, and position sizing that kept him solvent through 42 years of markets.

16 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Standing Orders

Gann's 7 non-negotiable trading rules, the Fourth Time Rule, Trend Line Indicator, and the 3-step execution plan. Discipline is the edge.

18 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Cartographer's Grid

Verify chart scale, identify swing points, and establish your reference frame. The foundation of all market geometry.

16 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Compass Rose

Master Gann's nine angles, the penetration cascade, and price-level sensitivity. Which angles are active in any market.

18 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The True Square

Square time and price using the three core methods. Static vs. variable squares, and how to discover your market's master square.

20 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Great Circle

Master the Square of 9, harmonic numbers, calendar day projections, and time-price overlays. The advanced geometry of market timing.

22 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Night Glass

When to add daily charts, how to adapt Green/Red for forex, crypto, and modern indices, plus software implementation.

15 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Signal Lantern

Master single-candle patterns: Doji, Hammer, Marubozu, Shooting Star. Read conviction, indecision, and reversal from one session.

14 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Sounding Lead

Volume analysis as confirmation, divergence, climax, and statistical threshold. How to read participation without seeing faces in the foam.

18 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Turning Tide

Two-candle reversal patterns: Engulfing, Harami, Piercing Pattern, Dark Cloud Cover, Tweezers. When one candle absorbs the next.

12 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Ballast Management

Position sizing, cash allocation, and defensive positioning. How to avoid capsizing in rough seas.

15 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Navigating by Star Charts

Long-term portfolio construction using macro trends and secular themes. Celestial navigation for wealth.

22 min read • Advanced Read guide →

Reading the Compass

How to determine market direction using trend, momentum, and moving averages. Never sail against the wind.

14 min read • Beginner Read guide →

Sounding the Depths

Fundamental analysis for captains who want to know what lies beneath the price. P/E, cash flow, and balance sheet essentials.

16 min read • Beginner Read guide →

Knot Tying

Master the order types every captain needs: limits, stops, trailing stops, and OCOs. Tie your orders tight.

12 min read • Beginner Read guide →

Reading the Tide Tables

Market sessions, seasonality, and the rhythms that repeat. Trade when the tide is rising.

13 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Captain's Temper

Discipline, psychology, and the patience required to trade only the highest-probability setups. Quality over quantity.

15 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Mind's Compass

Trading psychology framework: FOMO, confirmation bias, loss aversion, narrative fallacy, and ego identification. The quantitative habits that keep emotion from stealing your edge.

18 min read • All Levels Read guide →

Reefing the Sails

When to take profits, trim winners, and reduce exposure without abandoning ship.

14 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Dead Reckoning

Track your fleet's true performance. Journaling, attribution, and the honest math of your edge.

15 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Charting the Course

Build a trade plan before you leave port. Entries, exits, scenarios, and contingency routes.

16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Swell and the Setback

The complete A-B-C-D swing trading method. Measure the rhythm, find your entry at the half-way mark, and project your exit.

22 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Reading the Currents

Sector rotation and industry tides. Ride the current that's already moving.

15 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Signal Flags

Options decoded for the working captain. Covered calls, cash-secured puts, and the Greeks without the jargon.

18 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Celestial Mechanics

Build systematic, rules-based strategies. When the captain becomes the algorithm.

20 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Proving Grounds

Backtest a strategy without curve-fitting, over-optimising, or lying to yourself. The seven-stage protocol from hypothesis to paper trade.

18 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Storm Navigation

Surviving and profiting from volatility spikes, black swans, and market dislocation.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Three-Day Gale

Three-candle and multi-candle patterns: Morning Star, Three Black Crows, Tower, Mat Hold, Dumpling Top. The complete reversal narrative arc.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Storm Cellar

Stress-test your portfolio against scenarios that seem impossible until they happen. Price shock, liquidity freeze, and correlation breakdown.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Mariner's Almanac

Time projection, cycle measurement, and the extended Reaction Cycle. Count the moons to know when the tide turns.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

Convoy Tactics

Factor investing, smart beta, and building a fleet that moves as one. Correlation is your enemy.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

Reading Icebergs

Detecting fraud, accounting red flags, and the warning signs that sink ships.

16 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Short Sail

Short selling mechanics: borrow, locates, margin, squeezes, and the risk management rules that keep a short book from becoming a suicide mission.

16 min read • Advanced Read guide →

Longitude & Latitude

Global macro navigation. Emerging markets, currency regimes, and the world beyond your home port.

20 min read • Advanced Read guide →

Charting the Tides

The complete Bollinger Bands philosophy: Rational Analysis, First Principles, Three Time Frames, and the two traps that sink traders who skip the foundation.

22 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Pressure Gauge

Bandwidth, %b, The Squeeze, W-bottoms, M-tops, and Walking the Bands. Learn to read volatility compression and the patterns that form at extremes.

24 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Three Courses

The three Bollinger trading methods — Volatility Breakout, Trend Following, and Reversal — with volume confirmation from AD and Intraday Intensity.

26 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Book Trader's Log

George Taylor's mechanical 3-day market rhythm: Buying Day, Selling Day, and Short Sale Day with signal marks for immediate execution.

18 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The False Move

When the 3-day cycle breaks: violations, failures to penetrate, limit moves, and exhaustion patterns.

15 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Trade Routes

Trend areas, D/R column tracking, swing trading, and accumulation or distribution strategies.

16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Lookout's Post

Discipline, tape reading, market manipulation theory, and modern adaptations for today's markets.

14 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Fleet

True diversification, crisis validation, and why trend following profits when conventional portfolios sink. Multi-market navigation.

20 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Helmsman's Bearing

Trend following defined: reactive, price-based, mechanical systems that replace prediction with disciplined response.

20 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Iron Rudder

The psychology of mechanical discipline: loss acceptance, drawdown survival, and the behavioral edge.

22 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Celestial Clockwork

Planetary cycle mechanics: Venus 8-year, Jupiter-Saturn Great Conjunction, Mars-Jupiter 22-year, and master number confirmation.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Eclipse Matrix

Asset-specific lunar eclipse trading cycles: 36/40/41/42 week projections for S&P 500, GBPUSD, Gold, and Crude Oil.

16 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Watch Bell

Intraday cycle trading: Moon 333°, 108-hour and 216-hour trading months, and Gann's Law of Vibration timeframe scaling.

15 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Barometer Falls

When sentiment shifts and pressure drops. Reading the warning signs before the storm hits and the first gusts reach your sails.

14 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Barometer's Secret

What Wilder never published: the hidden edge in RSI that separates noise from signal, and the divergence that predicts before it confirms.

16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Anchor Chain

Layered stop-loss mechanics: how to chain multiple defensive anchors without capsizing your risk profile when the tide turns hard.

14 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Reading the Wake

Price action analysis through the trail left behind. What the wake reveals about the ship ahead — momentum, exhaustion, and intent.

15 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Sailing Leeward

Trading with the wind at your back: trend-following tactics for downwind profits, trailing stops, and letting the trade run its course.

16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Reading the Signal Flags

Multi-candle pattern recognition: flags, pennants, and the signals that forecast continuation. Read the fleet's intentions from a distance.

14 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Port of Call

Strategic entry and exit planning: when to make landfall, when to resupply, and when the port offers better value than the open sea.

13 min read • Beginner Read guide →

Pressing the Canvas

Aggressive position scaling: when to add sail for speed and when the extra canvas becomes dangerous in a rising gale.

15 min read • Advanced Read guide →

Navigating Fog

Trading through low-visibility regimes: range-bound markets, low volume, and uncertain direction when the horizon disappears.

14 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Overhauling the Rigging

System maintenance: when to recalibrate indicators, refresh data, and replace worn assumptions before they fail under load.

12 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Navigating the Reefs

Identifying and avoiding market traps: false breakouts, liquidity holes, and shallow participation that tears the hull.

16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

Cabin Fever

The psychology of confinement: overtrading, screen addiction, and breaking the cycle of compulsive action when the voyage grows long.

14 min read • All Levels Read guide →

The Ship's Stores

Resource allocation beyond cash: reserves, dry powder, and the strategic value of uncommitted capital when opportunity finally arrives.

13 min read • Beginner Read guide →

The Widening Channel

Expanding volatility patterns: how to trade broadening formations, megaphone tops, and the chaos that precedes the decisive move.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →

The Mariner's Retracement

Fibonacci pullbacks from a sailor's perspective: which levels hold, which fail, and why 50% is the true north of every correction.

16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Navigator's Tower

Gaining perspective: how to step above the chop and see the true market structure from altitude, beyond the noise of the deck.

15 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Protective Reef

Defensive architecture: building layers of protection — hedges, correlations, and cash buffers — that keep your fleet safe in hostile waters.

16 min read • Intermediate Read guide →

The Rippling Currents

Reading market microstructure: how order flow, tape reading, and volume ripples reveal intent before the price confirms.

18 min read • Advanced Read guide →