ByteTrend 101
What ByteTrend is
Every day, ByteTrend asks the same five questions of thousands of assets and turns the answers into a single number from 0 to 5.
The idea in one paragraph
Markets trend. Prices that have been rising tend to keep rising for longer than intuition suggests, and prices that have broken down tend to stay weak. ByteTrend doesn’t forecast where a price is going. It measures, systematically and without opinion, whether a trend exists right now and how strong it is.
The score
Every asset gets a score from 0 to 5. It is a count: five independent yes/no tests, one point each. No weightings, no tuning, no discretion.
| Score | Reading | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Strong Bullish | All five conditions met — a full uptrend |
| 4 | Bullish | Four met — the trend is well established |
| 3 | Neutral-Bullish | Three met — a trend forming, or starting to break |
| 2 | Neutral-Bearish | Two met — a trend broken, or starting to form |
| 1 | Bearish | A single condition holding |
| 0 | Strong Bearish | No condition met — a full downtrend |
Why a fixed rule set matters
Because every asset is scored by the same rules every day, scores are comparable across markets, sectors and asset classes. A 5 means the same thing for a US mega-cap, a copper future or bitcoin: all five trend conditions are met.
That consistency is the point. It lets you scan the whole market for leadership and deterioration without reading a single headline — and it means a screen you run today is directly comparable to the one you ran last month.
What it covers
Stocks, ETFs, digital assets, futures and currencies. Everything is recomputed once a day, at 04:00 UTC, on the latest closing prices. Stocks are scored on the days their markets trade; digital assets trade around the clock, so they are scored every calendar day. Data and timing has the detail.
Together those make up the ByteTrend universe — the dataset ByteTrend runs on, on every plan. ByteTree’s other products and research portfolios each run on a smaller universe of their own (BOLD, Whisky, Soda, Quality, Global Opportunities and ByteFolio), scored by the same five rules and read through the API. How much of the ByteTrend universe carries scores depends on your plan: without one, only the largest stocks, ETFs and digital assets do — futures and FX are scored for everyone. Plans and universes has the table.
What it is not
ByteTrend is a research and information tool. It describes trends that exist in the data. It is not a forecast, not a recommendation, and nothing on the platform is investment advice. What you do with a 5 is your decision.