How PAI scores zones

1. Base quality

The base is the small cluster of candles between the two strong legs.

A good base is tight, short, and clean — narrow range, 1–5 candles, mostly small bodies. Wide or sloppy bases score low.

2. Leg strength

The departing leg is the strong directional move that follows the base.

A strong leg means high momentum and a decisive shift in market participation. Weak, drifting moves score low; sharp moves with rising volume score the highest.

3. Freshness

Each time price re-enters a zone, the zone weakens. After 2–3 visits, it's essentially spent.

• Fresh (0 retests) — full 3 points
• Tested once — 2 points
• Tested twice — 1 point, flagged as weakening
• 3+ retests — 0 points, usually filtered out

4. Multi-timeframe (MTF) alignment

A zone is more reliable when a higher timeframe also has a zone in the same region. Daily inside weekly is stronger than daily standalone.

• Aligned with one higher timeframe → 2 points
• Aligned with two higher timeframes → 3 points
• No alignment → 0–1 points

Elite tier exposes MTF-aligned setups as a separate scan so you can study only the confluence cases.

What never reaches your dashboard

Even a high-scoring zone is dropped if it fails any of these checks:

• Risk-reward below ~1:2 to the next opposing structure
• Zone formed more than 90 days ago (stale)
• Stock is halted, suspended, or under ASM/GSM circuit
• Composite score under 6 — we'd rather show nothing than noise

Why price action, not indicators

PAI focuses primarily on price-action structure rather than lagging indicators. Zones are direct observations of where market participation has actually shown up — readable on any timeframe, on any instrument.

That said, no model is right every time. PAI shows you the structure and the score; the decision to trade is yours.