The day's arc bar

How to read the gradient bar at the top of every Daily Recap.

The horizontal gradient bar at the top of every Daily Recap. It’s the visual story of how the quant score moved through the trading day.

How to read it

Time runs left to right:

Position	Time (ET)
Far left	8:00 AM (pre-market)
~15%	9:30 AM (cash open)
~40%	12:00 PM
~80%	4:00 PM (cash close)
Far right	6:00 PM (post-market wind-down)

Color encodes the score at each moment:

Color	Score range
Bright green	+0.5 or higher (strong risk-on)
Light green	+0.2 to +0.5 (mild risk-on)
Orange	−0.2 to +0.2 (neutral)
Light red	−0.5 to −0.2 (mild risk-off)
Bright red	below −0.5 (strong risk-off)

What to look for

• Smooth left-to-right gradient — the day had one direction. Cross-check with the day type badge.
• Color flip mid-day — a regime shift, often newsy (rate decision, geopolitical headline, big earnings, CPI surprise).
• Bright color compressed at one end — most of the day’s drama happened in a small window.
• Bar ends short of the right edge with a vertical white line — today’s intraday recap. The white line is “now.”
• Bar fills end-to-end — past day, complete.

A quick example

A bar that starts green, oscillates through orange around 11AM, then deepens into red by 3PM tells a “morning rally faded into close” story — almost certainly tagged Reversal (Failed) or Trending Down, depending on how strong the morning was.