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Market Conditions

The weather report. Before the system looks for any single trade, it checks what kind of market it's trading into.

What this page shows

Market Conditions is the big-picture backdrop. It tells you how nervous or calm the market is overall, whether a major event is coming up that could shake prices, and how much of your capital is sitting ready to deploy. The system uses exactly this backdrop to decide how cautious to be — so reading it here tells you what it's thinking.

How to read the key tiles

  • ·Volatility (VIX) — a single number for how jumpy the market is. Below 15 is calm; 15–25 is normal; 25–40 is elevated; above 40 is panic. The system trades more cautiously when this is high, because quick bounces are less reliable in a panicky market.
  • ·Days to the next Fed decision — a countdown to the next big interest-rate announcement. In the day or two around it, the system gets more careful, because these events tend to whip prices around.
  • ·Account equity— the total value of your account (cash plus the value of open positions). It's shown here so you can judge market reads against the size of the capital actually at work.
  • ·Cash available — settled cash you could put to work right now. The platform aims to run on cash only — no borrowing — so a negative number here would be a flag worth checking.

Why volatility matters so much

SentinelHub looks for short-term bounces in beaten-down sectors. Those bounces are far more dependable when the market is calm than when everyone is panicking. So when volatility spikes, the system raises its bar for taking a trade — it would rather wait than chase a move in a storm.

How to use it

Glance here first thing. A calm reading with a quiet event calendar means the system has a clear runway. A high-volatility reading, or a Fed decision a day away, explains why it might be sitting on its hands — that caution is by design, not a malfunction.

Going deeper: Market Weather

This page's tiles sit alongside the Market Weathercard, which adds the bigger-picture read — the market's regime, a 0-to-10 macro health score, where we are in the business cycle, and how risky it is to buy a dip right now. See Market Weather for what each of those means and how to read them.