Setup
A setup is a market situation with enough structure to deserve review. It is not a guarantee, prediction, or promise of outcome.
Core Terms
The language behind the basic review flow
Report Lane
A report lane is the specific part of the platform built for a certain market style or timing window, such as overnight, intraday, options, crypto, or a steadier long-term lane.
Ranked Setup
A ranked setup is an idea that has already been narrowed and ordered so a member can see where to look first. The rank helps focus attention, but it does not replace judgment.
Trade Context
Trade context is the surrounding information that shapes how an idea should be read, including market posture, sector behavior, timing, confidence, and nearby event risk.
Context Terms
Terms that help explain the environment around the idea
Market Tone
Market Tone is the platform's plain-English read on the broader environment. It is meant to help a trader think about selectivity, caution, and posture before diving into a ticker.
Sector Context
Sector context means understanding whether a group of stocks is acting strong, weak, or mixed before a member treats one name in that group like it exists on its own.
Event Risk
Event risk refers to something near the setup that could change behavior quickly, such as earnings, economic news, a company announcement, or another scheduled catalyst.
Storm Watch / Storm Warning
Storm Watch / Storm Warning is Tide Trader's market-weather risk layer. A Storm Watch means conditions are present for trouble, such as sector deterioration, profit-taking risk, or trend-change risk. A Storm Warning means broad setup conditions are already hostile, with short-side pressure outweighing clean long opportunities.
Timing Window
A timing window is the practical life span of the setup. Some ideas are meant for the next session, some are intraday, and some are better treated like slower multi-day or longer-term opportunities.
Support Terms
Shared tools and support language
Tide Trader also uses support tools and educational pages to help members read the reports more clearly. These tools are there to improve context, not to remove the need for independent decision-making.
If a term still feels fuzzy after this page, the best follow-up is usually Trading Basics for the broader concepts or the Market Tone Guide for the environment-specific language.
Beach Forecast
Storm Watch / Warning
Scout
Crest
BackTesting Scorecard
Educational guides
Next Steps