Every column, badge & filter — explained

Panel header metrics

These four numbers always appear at the top of the PAI execution panel, in real time.

What is a zone?

A zone is a specific price range where the market previously showed a strong reaction — a big rally (demand zone) or a big fall (supply zone). PAI identifies these zones automatically and surfaces them when price returns. Think of a zone as price memory: the same type of buyers or sellers who caused the original move often act again at the same levels.

For the full anatomy with charts, see Demand & supply zones →

Zone pattern types

These are the "shapes" PAI detects to create a zone. Each pattern tells a story about what the market did before the zone formed. Naming rule: D = Drop, and a leading 2 = a two-candle base (written "2Base").

Demand patterns (bullish)

Supply patterns (bearish — resistance / exit levels)

Simple rule: DBR-family = demand (long-side study). RBD-family = supply (resistance levels).

Zone condition states

After a zone is created it moves through these states as price interacts with it. The state tells you how fresh — and therefore how potent — the zone still is.

T — Tested count

Execution timeframes

The timeframe chart a zone was detected on. Higher timeframes produce fewer but structurally stronger zones.

Key insight: higher timeframes (Q, H, Y) = fewer signals but much stronger zones with larger potential moves; lower timeframes (D, W) = more frequent signals with smaller individual moves.

Data feeds (watchlists)

The feed selector at the top of the panel chooses which curated scan of zones you are viewing. Higher plans unlock more feeds.

Run From — entry trigger types

RUN FROM tells you where, inside a higher-timeframe (HTF) candle, the zone is positioned — which affects how much room the move has. Format: {TIMEFRAME}_{CANDLE_PART}, e.g. H_BODY, Q_WICK.

Body vs wick

     ──── Candle wick / shadow (thin line at top)
┌────┐
│    │  ← Candle BODY (thick coloured rectangle)
│    │
└────┘
     ──── Candle wick / shadow (thin line at bottom)

• BODY zone — sits in the middle of the HTF candle; more room between the zone and the candle's extreme. Graded stronger.
• WICK zone — sits near the candle's extreme edge; less buffer. Valid but tighter.

Priority: Y_BODY > Q_BODY > M_BODY > H_BODY > Y_WICK > Q_WICK > M_WICK > H_WICK

Signal table columns

Every column in the signals table, in order.

Hist ATH% vs Disc.Peak: Hist ATH% is frozen at zone formation (what the discount looked like then); Disc.Peak is measured against the lifetime high (what the discount looks like now).

Row badges & markers

Small tags next to a signal give extra context at a glance.

Filter buttons

Quick-action toggles

Numeric filters

STR score — how zones are ranked

The STR (strength) score is PAI's single-number rating for each zone — it combines several measurable factors so dozens of zones can be ranked at a glance. On the dashboard this column may simply be labelled Score.

The public scoring methodology is described in How PAI scores zones →

Supply zones vs demand zones

In Supply — live overhead check

IN SUPPLY is a live column. For every demand signal it checks the stock's current price against active overhead supply zones across Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly timeframes — and tells you in real time whether the stock is running into seller resistance or has clean air above. It refreshes every 60 seconds and on each price tick. A demand zone wants to push price up; an overhead supply wants to push it down — when both apply, the setup is conflicted, and many traders exclude these rows with the Hide In-Supply filter.

Three possible states

Approaching buffer scales with timeframe

Priority when several zones match: INSIDE always beats APPROACHING; within INSIDE the highest timeframe wins (Q > M > W > D); within APPROACHING the closest zone wins. Hovering the badge shows the exact supply range, type and score.

SupBrk — supply break

SUPBRK is a historical bullish-confirmation column. For each demand zone it counts how many overhead supply zones that already existed when the demand formed have since been broken by price. More breaks = more seller tiers overcome = cleaner runway above the zone. Unlike IN SUPPLY (live), SUPBRK describes structural progress that has already happened.

Strict confirmation rule

A supply only counts if both are true:

• The supply already existed overhead when the demand zone was created.
• That supply has been broken since (price closed above its top, after the demand was created).

Supplies created after the demand are ignored — they were not overhead resistance at the time, so breaking them later does not validate this specific zone. The scan covers the demand's own timeframe and every higher one.

How the badge reads

Per-break weight (used for sorting)

Sorting the SUPBRK column descending floats the strongest structural confirmations to the top (total weight = Σ count × TF weight).

In Supply vs SupBrk at a glance

High-conviction combination: IN SUPPLY showing — (clean air) and SUPBRK showing a multi-TF label is the strongest structural profile a long-side study can have.

Entry types — Aggressive vs Conservative

In alert messages, the EC: prefix marks the conservative entry price. The execution panel's Aggr/Cons toggle switches between the two and recalculates target and quantity automatically.

Risk management defaults

Why R:R matters more than win-rate: Risk & expectancy →

Order terms

Quick-reference cheat sheet

Pattern strength ranking

What a top-graded setup looks like

• ✔ Pattern is DBR1 or DBR2
• ✔ STR ≥ 8
• ✔ T = 0 (FRESH) or T = 1
• ✔ IN SUPPLY shows — (clean air), or SUPBRK shows breaks
• ✔ RUN FROM is a BODY type (not wick)
• ✔ L ≥ 1 (at least one follow-through candle)
• ✔ Hist ATH% not extreme (not −90% or worse)

This describes how the scoring model grades quality — it is an educational profile, not a recommendation to trade any specific signal.

Glossary at a glance