thetrading.tools

About

Market internals, measured in the open.

The Trading Tools is a free, daily-updated reference for what the market is actually doing under the hood — breadth, volatility, sector and global rotation, crypto, credit, options flow and positioning, day-trading session stats, sentiment, base rates, 13F portfolios, and the macro backdrop. No paywall, no signup, no black boxes.

What we offer

Every trading day, we recompute a catalog of market tools from our own price database and publish each one with a dated, plain-English reading and its full methodology on the page. The catalog spans five pillars:

  • Markets68 live tools, grouped by the question each answers: Internals, Risk, Tape, Stocks, Options, Valuation, Sectors, Sentiment, Global, and Crypto. From classic named signals — the Hindenburg Omen, Zweig Breadth Thrust, Coppock Curve and 90% up/down days — to the CBOE put/call ratio, VIX term structure, credit spreads, sector / country / crypto rotation, day-trading session studies, options flow, and a market heatmap. See the full catalog.
  • Signals — historical base-rate studies: every time a classic technical trigger fired on SPY since 1993, what the market actually did over the following weeks and months.
  • Fund Managers — quarterly 13F portfolios of tracked institutional managers, parsed straight from SEC EDGAR.
  • EconomyFRED indicators with full history, an SPY overlay, and a dated reading of each release.
  • Insights — data-driven market essays with a clear stance, live charts from the same datasets, and falsifiable claims.

Our approach

Most market-internals tools are either locked behind a subscription or presented as a number with no explanation. We do the opposite: the readings are free, and each one leads with what it means in plain language and exactly how it was computed — including where we deviate from a classic specification and why that changes the reading.

Everything is built on our own database of daily OHLCV bars for roughly 5,600 US equities, with sixteen years of history (SPY back to 1993). After each market close, an automated pipeline updates the data and recomputes every tool, so the readings you see are dated to the session they came from — never stale, never guesswork.

Ready to explore?

Start with today's Bubble Tracker reading, browse the full catalog, or read how it works and our methodology.

Important disclaimer

The Trading Tools is for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice. Nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. See the full disclaimer.