Reading the Daily Report

Where this fits. The pre-market plan from the pipeline, published roughly an hour before every US opening bell. This concept walks through each section of the report so a reader without trading background can understand what they're looking at.

What a daily report is

The daily report is the pre-market plan for the coming US trading session. It arrives roughly an hour before the opening bell — on the site under /reports/daily and by email — and lays out the day before it starts: today's regime, today's candidates, today's sizing posture.

The point isn't to recap yesterday's news. There are dozens of services for that. The point is to walk into the session with a written read so the trader isn't building it from scratch under time pressure at the open.

A reader who follows the daily reports day after day gradually sees the regime evolve, which is the entire reason for writing them down.

When it arrives

About an hour before the US opening bell — so around 08:30 ET, which lands in the early-to-mid afternoon in Europe (roughly 14:30 Berlin, 13:30 London, shifting one hour with daylight saving). On non-trading days (US holidays, weekends) it doesn't run. The Weekly Report is a separate publication and fires Sunday evening (Berlin time) — see the Weekly Report concept for timing.

Section by section

Real pipeline output follows a fixed structure. Walking through what's actually in each section:

Header. Title formatted as "Daily Report YYYY-MM-DD — REGIME · N setups". The regime color (🟢 GRÜN+, 🟢 GRÜN, 🟡 GELB, 🟠 GELB-ROT, 🔴 ROT) and the number of actionable setups today are visible at a glance.

Index charts. SPY, QQQ, IWM daily charts at the top. The visual context for the regime — where the major indexes are sitting relative to their moving averages and recent swings.

CMRF panel. Composite score and the five components (trend, breadth, momentum, sentiment, structure). Sometimes a short convergence note explaining which signals are aligning with which.

Marktlage / Market overview. One paragraph on the current state: regime context, dominant themes today, where the risk lives. The editorial summary that ties the numbers into a sentence the trader can carry into the session.

Regime-Briefing. A paragraph on what the current regime means in practice — max exposure for the day, position size, what kinds of setups to favor, what to avoid.

Contraction Setups. The main candidate list. Each candidate gets:

• A verdict tag: ACCEPT_FULL (clean setup, take at full size), ACCEPT_PROBE (smaller probe entry), WATCH (interesting but not a fresh entry today), or PASS
• A grade (A+ / A / B) and the strategy that flagged it (CPA, HVE, Base & Break, EMA Crossback, etc.)
• "Why this is actionable today" — the structural reasoning in plain English
• A daily chart of the name
• "Regime fit" — how the candidate aligns with the current regime
• "QC" — convergent signals across strategies and any caveats
• Suggested entry / stop / R:R for the trader to evaluate live

Volume Edge. Names that triggered on the high-volume-edge scanner specifically. Sometimes empty if no qualifying setups today.

Stocks in Play (Intraday). Day-trade candidates — news-driven movers, often already extended. Listed separately because they're a different kind of trade (intraday, not swing).

Learning Notes. Two or three short observations from the regime — patterns the system noticed today that are worth remembering for next time.

How to read it efficiently

Five-minute version before the bell:

1. Glance at the regime color in the header — tells you the day's posture.
2. Scan Contraction Setups for ACCEPT_FULL verdicts — those are the actionable names.
3. Check the suggested entry/stop for each.
4. Read the Regime-Briefing if you have an extra minute — sets the sizing context for everything below.

The Marktlage paragraph, full charts, and Learning Notes are for the reader who wants depth. The verdict tags + structured fields are enough for action.

Common patterns to recognize

A few signatures show up repeatedly. Learning to spot them speeds up the read.

Regime intact, breadth slipping. The composite stays positive but the breadth component drops by 1 point over a few sessions. Often precedes a top. The headline regime looks fine; the internals are deteriorating.

Most candidates are WATCH, not ACCEPT_FULL. When the verdict mix shifts toward WATCH, the regime isn't producing high-conviction setups today. A softer signal that the market isn't paying for the playbook.

Candidates dominated by extended names. When the list is mostly names already several days past their setup trigger, the report itself flags it — "RMV >35, late-entry territory." The Regime-Briefing usually responds with size-down language.

Strategy mix collapses. When the active-strategies list shrinks from five to two between weekly reports, the regime is tightening even before the CMRF flips colors. The strategy filter is more sensitive than the composite.

What it doesn't include

The daily report doesn't tell you when, exactly, to buy or sell during the session — that's live execution, which depends on the open, the gap, and what the tape does after the bell. The candidates are pre-market reads; the entries are trader decisions at the live tape with volume confirmation.

It also doesn't make predictions. There's no forecast of where the indexes will be next week or how the regime will evolve. The report is a snapshot of today's setup and what's currently true. Tomorrow's report will tell you what changed.

And it's not a post-trade review. The daily doesn't track what the trader actually did after the bell or how trades fared — that's downstream work in the journal and outcome tracker. The daily is purely the pre-market plan.