Reading the market with the terminal 5 / 12
Reading the market with the terminal · With the terminalLesson 5 of 12

"The top of the Analysis panel: Now, timeframes, history, range"

The first two lines of the Analysis panel summarise everything under them. Knowing how they are built — which values, which weights, which thresholds — tells you how much to trust a green headline and what a grey one is saying.

You will learn
  • How the Now line and its colour are built
  • How the timeframe strip is weighed into aligned, mixed or conflict
  • What Versus its own history and Typical range measure

Before you start: The lesson on timeframes in the Your plan module helps.

Two lines, then the evidence

The Now line has two sentences: the trend on this chart with how the other timeframes line up, then the volatility and how far price is stretched from its 100 EMA. Under it, the timeframe strip shows each timeframe's trend, volatility and RSI. Versus its own history compares the volume, the taker flow and the stretch with the coin's own past; on a live chart it adds funding, open interest and the long/short ratio. Typical range gives the width of the usual move ahead.

The top of the panel — the modelled week: the Now line on Wednesday at the change of character down, grey because the timeframes disagree; the strip's weights and its conflict rule; Sunday with the timeframes aligned up and the headline green, while volatility is very quiet and price is stretched; the history block an hour after the heavy-volume low; and the typical range as a band of width, not direction.

How to use it

A conflict between timeframes is a question, not an answer: a pullback in a larger move and the start of a turn look the same on the strip. Alignment says a move is broad, not that it is early. "Unusual" in the history block means unusual for this coin, measured against its own past rather than a fixed number. And the typical range is a tool for time: a target outside it will probably take longer than its horizon.

Takeaways
  1. The headline is coloured only when the timeframes mostly agree (60% of the weight one way, 10% or less the other).
  2. Higher timeframes weigh more: 1d 10, 4h 8, 1h 5, 15m 3, 5m 2, 1m 1.
  3. Versus its own history compares with this coin's past, not with fixed thresholds.
  4. Typical range: where the close was in about 4 of 5 similar cases — a width for planning time.

Open BTC in the terminal and read the Now line and the strip

Further reading

Education only, not financial advice · Updated 28 Oct 2026 · Data: Binance · Report a mistake