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How AthenixFlow works

From running your first AI analysis to reading the output, macro & news, sniper entries, journaling and billing — the complete guide.

Getting Started

What AthenixFlow is, how to get in, and how the platform is organized.

AthenixFlow is an institutional-grade, AI-powered market-analysis terminal for Forex, Crypto, Stocks and Metals. You choose a trading mode, an instrument and a timeframe, and the engine returns a structured read of the market — bias, liquidity, points of interest, probabilities, and a proposed trade setup (entry, stop, and take-profits) — in the language of Smart Money Concepts (ICT/SMC).

ImportantIndices are not analysed. Our market-data provider does not cover them on our current plan, and we will not analyse an instrument we cannot price — so selecting an index returns a clear “no data” rather than an estimate. Everything else on the platform — the mentor, signals, journal and analytics — works normally.
ImportantAthenixFlow is an analysis and education tool, not financial advice. Every output is a probabilistic read to support your own decision-making. You are responsible for your trades and risk.

Creating your account

  1. 1Open the app and choose Register (or “Get Started”).
  2. 2Enter your full name, email and a password (at least 8 characters, with upper- and lower-case letters and a number), and confirm it — or use “Continue with Google”.
  3. 3Verify your email: we send a confirmation link on signup. Running an analysis or asking the mentor requires a verified email — until then a banner lets you resend the link. Google sign-in is verified automatically.
  4. 4You can log in later with email + password, and reset a forgotten password with the “Forgot Password?” link (a recovery email is sent).

The Dashboard

After you log in, the Dashboard is your home base. It shows your subscription tier, your two credit balances (Analysis and Education units), your live terminal/database status, a Trade Performance snapshot (your win rate and outcome breakdown from the analyses you’ve logged results on), and Quick-Launch cards that jump straight to the AI Assistant, Education Hub, Trading Signals and Trade Journal.

Navigating the app

The left sidebar is your main navigation: Dashboard, AI Assistant, Education Hub, Trading Signals, Trade Journal, Partners, Subscription, Settings, and this Documentation page. On mobile, tap the menu icon to open the sidebar drawer.

Credits & plans at a glance

The platform runs on two credit types: Analysis units (one is spent per market analysis) and Education units (one is spent per mentor question). Your plan (Lite / Pro / Elite) grants a monthly allocation of each, and you can top up anytime. See “Subscription, Tokens & Billing” below for details.

Core Concepts & Terminology

The Smart Money / ICT vocabulary the engine uses — read this first if the terms are new.

AthenixFlow speaks in Smart Money Concepts (SMC), the framework popularized by ICT. The engine reads markets as a story of liquidity: price is engineered to reach pools of resting orders, then reverses or expands. These are the terms you will see throughout your analyses.

Market structure & phases

Uptrend / Downtrend
A series of higher highs & higher lows (up) or lower highs & lower lows (down).
Ranging
Price oscillating between a high and a low with no clear directional break.
Accumulation / Distribution
Sideways, choppy phases where large players build (accumulate) or unload (distribute) positions before an expansion.
Protected High / Low
A swing level that must hold for the current trend to remain valid; if it breaks, the structure is rebuilt.

Liquidity

Buy-side / Sell-side liquidity
Clusters of resting stop orders above highs (buy-side) or below lows (sell-side) that price tends to run.
Liquidity sweep
A move that spikes through a level to grab that resting liquidity, then often reverses.
Inducement / Equal highs & lows
Engineered levels that lure traders in and cluster stops, set up to be swept.
Draw on liquidity
The next liquidity pool price is most likely being “drawn” toward — the target of the move.
IRL — Internal Range Liquidity
Liquidity resting inside the current dealing range; a common intermediate target.
ERL — External Range Liquidity
Liquidity at the extremes/outside the range. The engine ranks it above internal liquidity, and it is typically where a move is ultimately drawn.

Points of interest (entry zones)

POI — Point of Interest
A high-probability zone to watch for entries: order block, FVG, breaker or supply/demand. The engine selects one on a higher timeframe first, then refines it down — and prefers the extreme valid zone (the last institutional area before the move) over the nearest one, because the nearest is usually the inducement.
Order Block (OB)
The last opposing candle/zone before an impulsive move — where institutions were active. Only the block belonging to the move that actually broke structure counts; an opposing candle followed by a green one is not automatically an order block.
Mitigated
A zone price has already traded back into. It is spent — the engine prefers an unmitigated POI. Price merely approaching a zone is not mitigation.
Entry method
Where inside the zone the fill sits: the order block’s open or its 50%, the base of a qualifying wick or its 50%, or a micro imbalance. Shown on the decision chain so the precision is visible rather than implied.
Invalidation
The price event that proves the setup wrong. The stop is placed just beyond it, with an allowance for spread — never inside the POI, where ordinary mitigation would close the trade while the thesis is still intact.
Breaker Block
A failed order block that price swept past; it then acts as support/resistance in the opposite direction.
FVG — Fair Value Gap
A three-candle imbalance (a price gap) that price often returns to “fill.” An inverted FVG flips its bias once traded through.

Premium / discount & entries

Equilibrium
The 50% midpoint of a dealing range — fair value.
Premium
Above equilibrium (“expensive”) — the side to look for sells.
Discount
Below equilibrium (“cheap”) — the side to look for buys. Deep premium/discount = the extremes.
OTE — Optimal Trade Entry
The 0.62–0.79 retracement sweet spot within the discount (for longs) or premium (for shorts).
MSS — Market Structure Shift
A break of the most recent swing that signals a change in short-term direction — often the trigger to enter after a sweep.

Scoring & sessions

Confluence
How many independent factors line up behind a setup — more confluence, higher conviction. Scored out of 40.
Sessions / Killzones
Asian (accumulation), London (often the manipulation/sweep) and New York (often the expansion). The active session, killzone and Asian range are measured from a real clock and real candles — not estimated. See “Sessions, Killzones & Best Times to Trade”.

The Analysis Terminal — Setup

How to configure and run an analysis in the AI Assistant.

The AI Assistant is the core of AthenixFlow. The left column is where you configure the analysis; the right column shows the result and your history.

1. Choose a trading mode

The mode sets the timeframe band and how far down the engine refines the entry. Refinement steps down progressively — H4 to H2 to H1 to M30 to M15, for example — and stops at the first clear, valid zone rather than always running to the floor:

  • Scalp Mode — execution on M1–M15, refined as far as M1. Fast, ultra-short-term.
  • Day Trade Mode — execution on M15–H2, refined as far as M5. Intraday.
  • Swing Mode — execution on H4–D1, refined as far as M15. Multi-day positions.

2. Select a market sector

Pick the sector tab — Forex, Crypto, Stocks, Metals or Indices — to load its instrument list.

3. Search & pick an instrument

Type in the search box (e.g. “EURUSD” or “Euro”) and select from the dropdown. The list is filtered live as you type.

4. Choose the execution timeframe

Only the timeframes allowed by your selected mode appear. The selected timeframe highlights in gold. (You must pick a mode first.)

5. Macro Data toggle (optional)

Turn on “Macro Data Context” for a hybrid technical + fundamental read. When on, the engine also considers interest-rate & yield differentials, inflation and the broad macro backdrop, and it scans for scheduled high-impact news around your trade. When off, the analysis is purely technical.

6. Sniper Entry toggle (optional, Pro & Elite)

Turn on “Sniper Entry” for a second, parallel precision read of the same setup: the engine relocates the entry into a micro point-of-interest on the refinement timeframe — measured on the leg a completed liquidity sweep produced, where there is one — with the stop and the targets inherited unchanged from the standard read. Only the entry is refined, so your risk falls because you got a better price — not because the invalidation was moved closer. The standard setup is always shown too. (See “Sniper Entry Refinement”.)

7. Run the analysis

Press “Initialize Analysis Cycle”. It becomes available once a mode, instrument and timeframe are set. Running an analysis spends one Analysis unit. You will see a “Decoding Market Architecture…” state while it works.

NoteIf you are out of Analysis units or your subscription is inactive, an error banner appears with a “Subscribe to Unlock Analysis” button that takes you to pricing. No unit is spent on a failed run.

Reading Your Analysis

Every field in the analysis output, explained.

The result card (“Probabilistic Terminal Output”) packs a full institutional read into one view. Here is what each part means, top to bottom.

Header & verdict badges

  • Instrument, mode and timeframe badges — echo your selection.
  • Verdict badge — VALID SETUP (passes the quality gates), BELOW THRESHOLD (a setup exists but confluence < 20 or quality < 70), or NO TRADE (no valid setup detected).
  • Market phase — uptrend, downtrend, ranging, accumulation or distribution.

Total Confluence & supporting scores

Total Confluence is scored out of 40 — the sum of four 0–10 sub-scores: Structure, Liquidity, POI and Premium/Discount. Below it sit three 0–100 reads: Quality (overall setup grade), Impulse (strength of the continuation setup) and Corrective (strength of the counter-trend setup). A total under 20 is flagged as below the reject threshold. (See “How Scoring Works” under Trade Setups.)

Scenario Outlook

Three scenarios whose weights sum to 100: Scenario A — IRL reaction (price reacts at internal liquidity); Scenario B — IRL → ERL (price runs from internal to external liquidity); Scenario C — Expansion (price expands beyond the external range). The bars show how the engine weighted them against each other, and the heaviest one is emphasised.

ImportantThese are model-estimated weights, not calibrated probabilities. They express how the engine ranked the three scenarios against one another on this read — they are not a measured frequency, and a weight of 70 does not mean that outcome happens 70% of the time. We will only call them probabilities once they have been measured against realised outcomes, the same standard we hold the liquidity heat score to.

Decision Chain

The panel that shows how the setup was actually reached, rather than only where it ended up. It carries the selected point of interest — its type, the timeframe it was chosen on, its price zone, its score out of 50, whether it is unmitigated, whether it is the extreme valid zone, and the liquidity that justifies it — followed by the refinement ladder and the invalidation level.

  • Refinement ladder — one row per timeframe the engine consulted, stepping down from the POI’s own timeframe. Rejected rungs are shown struck through with the reason, so a chain that stopped early is distinguishable from one that never ran.
  • Entry method — where inside the zone the fill sits (order-block open or 50%, wick base or 50%, micro imbalance).
  • Invalidation — the level the stop is placed beyond, what structure that level is, the spread allowance applied, and the price event that would prove the setup wrong.
NoteIf a setup contradicts the strategy — the entry set to the current market price while price sits outside the point of interest, a stop resting inside the zone it is meant to protect, or a refinement that left its parent zone — it is downgraded to NO TRADE and the reason is shown. Every one of those checks is run server-side against the engine’s own declared zone.
NoteA downgraded setup keeps its levels, but it does not keep its prominence. When a setup is rejected the entry, stop and targets are collapsed behind a “Show the rejected levels” control and greyed when opened, so a refused trade can still be inspected without being presented as one you should take. If the engine declined it, the platform is not going to hand it to you as a setup.

Market Narrative Context

  • HTF narrative — the higher-timeframe bias and structure.
  • Selected-TF narrative — what your chosen timeframe is doing.
  • Refinement narrative — what to watch on the lower timeframe to time the entry.

Session Context & Market Story

Session Context gives the active session and killzone, the current New York time, the Asian session high/low, and whether either side of the Asian range has been swept. Market Story reconstructs the sequence: origin of the move → current phase → the projected liquidity path (which pools price is likely to take next).

These session facts are measured server-side from a real clock and your instrument’s candles, then handed to the engine — so the session named on the card, and in the written reasoning, is the session it actually is. Killzones are anchored to New York time and shift against GMT with US daylight saving.

NoteAsian High/Low shows “measured” when it was computed from real bars. If your timeframe’s history doesn’t reach back far enough to cover the Asian window (100 bars of M15 is only about 25 hours), the range is shown as “—” rather than guessed.

Liquidity Architecture

Buy-side and sell-side liquidity pools are listed as price levels, along with a projected liquidity path and a liquidity heatmap describing where pressure/volatility is concentrated.

Volatility & Reasoning

Volatility Context describes the current regime (e.g. compressed, expanding). The Reasoning grid explains the HTF structural framework and the liquidity engineering behind the read, in plain language.

NoteNew to any of this? Tap “Explain / Teach Me Why” at the bottom of the result to send the analysis to your AI mentor, which breaks down why the engine reached this read — at your chosen learning depth. (Uses one Education unit.)

Trade Setups, Execution & Scoring

Impulse vs corrective setups, entries/stops/targets, and what the scores mean.

Two setups

  • Impulse Setup (Primary) — the with-trend continuation trade, in the direction of the expansion, with an Entry, Stop Loss and three take-profits (TP1, TP2, TP3). This is the higher-probability, primary play.
  • Order type — the badge on the primary card reads the full order type, not just the direction: Buy Limit, Sell Market, Buy Stop and so on. A MARKET order is live the moment it is given to you. A LIMIT order only becomes a trade if price returns to the entry, and expires unfilled if it never does — which is not a loss, and is counted separately from one. A STOP order requires price to break beyond the entry in the trade direction first.
  • Corrective Setup (Counter-Trend) — the lower-probability alternative that fades the impulse. Its direction is the opposite of the impulse, its Entry is anchored to the premium/discount reversal zone the move is drawing toward (not the current price), its Stop sits just beyond that structure, and it aims at a single, shallower Retracement Target rather than a fresh high/low.
ImportantThe corrective setup is a counter-trend fade — statistically lower-probability than the impulse continuation, with a shallower target and tighter stop. Treat it as the exception, not a co-equal second entry, and size it down accordingly.

Each setup shows a Buy/Sell direction badge and its price levels. If the engine finds no valid setup of a type, it shows a “No … Setup Detected” placeholder rather than inventing levels.

Placing & managing the trade

  1. 1Confirm the direction and that price has not already blown past the entry.
  2. 2Set your entry at the given level (a limit order at the POI is common) and your stop just beyond the invalidation level shown.
  3. 3Scale out at TP1/TP2/TP3 or manage to your own plan; consider moving the stop to break-even after TP1.
  4. 4Always size the position to your personal risk per trade — the engine gives levels, not position sizing.

How scoring works

Confluence (out of 40) = Structure + Liquidity + POI + Premium/Discount, each scored 0–10. A total below 20 is a reject. Quality (out of 100) grades five dimensions (structure integrity, liquidity alignment, POI quality, session timing, risk-reward geometry); 70+ is the “valid” line. The verdict badge combines these: VALID needs a trade decision AND confluence ≥ 20 AND quality ≥ 70; otherwise you’ll see BELOW THRESHOLD or NO TRADE.

NoteThese scores are computed by us, not written by the AI. Each one is derived from the measured chart — swing structure across your timeframe and the daily and weekly, the liquidity pools we mapped, where your entry sits in the dealing range, and the actual risk-reward of the levels. That means the same chart always produces the same score. The AI writes the analysis and the reasoning; it does not grade its own work.
NoteScores are a conviction guide, not a guarantee. Treat a high score as “more factors aligned,” and always apply your own risk management.

Liquidity Map

Where institutional liquidity rests, scored, charted and explained.

Every analysis carries a Liquidity Map: a price chart with the pools drawn on it, above a price-ordered ladder that scores each one 0–100 and shows exactly why it scored what it did. It is measured from your instrument’s real candles across the execution timeframe plus daily and weekly, and it is available on every plan.

Reading the chart

The shaded bands are liquidity pools — green above price, red below — and the stronger the pool, the more solid the band. Pools already swept are drawn as a dashed outline instead of a filled band. Your entry, stop and targets are marked as labelled lines, along with equilibrium and the true day open, so you can see the whole setup positioned rather than listed.

NoteThe chart shows the exact candles the engine analysed, not a live feed. That is deliberate: an analysis you open a week later still plots its levels where they were derived, instead of against a window that has moved on. Analyses saved before charts existed will say so rather than show an empty axis.

Reading the ladder

Pools above the spot marker are buy-side liquidity (buy stops resting above old highs); pools below are sell-side. Bar length and the number beside it are the significance score — how much the level matters if price gets there. Tap any row to see the factors behind it, and the measured chance of price reaching it.

Equal highs / equal lows
Two or more swings at effectively the same price. This is where stops genuinely pile up, and clusters score higher the more members they have.
Previous day / week / month
PDH/PDL, PWH/PWL and PMH/PML — among the strongest targets price is drawn toward.
Session highs and lows
The Asian, London and New York range extremes, measured from a real clock.
Internal vs external
External liquidity sits at the edges of the dealing range and outranks internal levels like order blocks and fair value gaps inside it.
Inducement
Nearer liquidity price may take first, to fuel the move toward the larger pool beyond it.
Draw on liquidity
The pool price is most likely being pulled toward. Chosen by how far it sits from price first — that is the part we have measured against real outcomes, and closer levels are reached far more often — and by pool strength between levels that are equally far away. Opposing liquidity in the way is reported alongside it as path resistance.

Pool states

A level that has already been taken is not the same as one that has not. Every pool carries a state, and a swept pool always ranks below an otherwise identical fresh one.

Fresh
Untouched since it formed. The most valuable kind.
Tapped
Price has traded into the band but not through it.
Swept
Taken out — the resting orders there are gone.
Reclaimed
Swept, then price closed straight back past it: a failed raid.
Consumed
Broken with follow-through, or gapped over entirely.

Crypto: real order-book depth

Crypto is the one market we support where a real order book exists and can be read. On crypto analyses we check the live book and mark any pool it corroborates with a “book” tag; a large wall with no structure behind it appears on its own as “book only”. Real resting size can lift a pool’s heat by up to 25%, and never lowers it.

ImportantA book snapshot is evidence, not a guarantee. It is one venue at one moment: quoted size can be withdrawn instantly, and stop orders — most of what this map is about — never appear in an order book at all. That is why depth adjusts a score rather than deciding it.
NoteThe 0-100 score and the reachability percentage answer different questions, deliberately. The score is SIGNIFICANCE: how much a level matters if price gets there. Reachability is a MEASURED probability, replayed over 12,798 historical liquidity pools, and it depends almost entirely on how far the level sits from current price. We tested whether the significance score also predicts reachability. It does not — so we do not present it as though it does, and reachability is shown only for distance bands where the sample supports it.
NoteEverywhere except crypto, this is inferred liquidity rather than an order book. Spot forex has no central exchange, so no consolidated order book or volume exists anywhere in the world — no provider can sell one. The map shows where orders are structurally likely to rest, derived from price. For instruments with real volume (stocks), volume corroborates the score slightly; where it does not exist, the structural read stands on its own.

Indices have no live price feed yet, so they show an explicit “no liquidity map” note rather than an empty grid or a blank chart.

Structure Intelligence Panel

The supporting, code-computed read that sits alongside the analysis.

Below the main output is the Structure Intelligence panel — a supporting read computed directly from price structure. It informs your view; it does not override the engine’s setup.

Confidence
A 0–100 score for how well the STRUCTURE supports the setup — pattern strength, multi-timeframe confluence and liquidity — with a High / Medium / Low tier and a bar. On forex pairs the macro backdrop (policy-rate and 10-year yield differentials) is folded in too, and can move the score either way depending on whether it agrees with the trade direction. Where there is no macro reading — every non-forex instrument, or when the data is unavailable — that part is left out and the remaining factors are reweighted, rather than filled in with a neutral guess.
Pattern
The strongest candlestick pattern detected at a key level (e.g. pin bar, engulfing, double top), or “None at level.”
MTF Confluence
High / Medium / Low — how well the higher timeframes agree with the trade direction.
Correlation Timeframes
The two higher timeframes checked for that confluence (e.g. H1 · H4).
Premium / Discount
Where price sits in the dealing range (deep discount → deep premium) plus the % position and the equilibrium level.
Suggested Entry Zone
A structure-derived entry zone (order block / FVG) on the correct side of the range, flagged “OTE” when it falls in the optimal-entry band.
Refined Entry
A tighter entry located on the lower “refinement” timeframe, with a “MSS” badge when a market-structure shift confirms it.
Liquidity Sweep Zones
Price levels most likely to be swept for liquidity.

Sessions, Killzones & Best Times to Trade

When each session runs, which pairs move in it, and what suits scalping vs day trading.

The market is not equally tradeable at all hours. Liquidity arrives in waves, and the same setup that works cleanly at the London open will drift sideways for three hours in the middle of the Asian session. The Market Session panel on your dashboard shows which session is live right now, the countdown to the next killzone, and the pairs that are actually moving.

The daily rhythm

Smart money accumulates in Asia, manipulates at the London open, and expands through New York. Most intraday setups are a variation on that sequence.

Asian · 19:00–03:00 ET
Accumulation. Ranges are tight (often 20–50 pips) and liquidity is thin. The high and low set here become the liquidity London reaches for. Killzone 19:00–00:00 ET.
London · 03:00–08:00 ET
Manipulation. The first aggressive move often sweeps the Asian range, traps breakout traders, then reverses — the “judas swing”. Killzone 02:00–05:00 ET.
New York · 08:00–17:00 ET
Expansion. The London–New York overlap carries the deepest liquidity and the tightest spreads of the day, and most sustained directional moves start here. Killzone 07:00–10:00 ET.
London Close · 10:00–12:00 ET
Reversals and profit-taking as European desks square up. Tradeable, but it turns quickly.
NoteAll killzone times are New York time, which is how they are defined — so they shift by an hour against GMT when US daylight saving starts and ends. AthenixFlow resolves this exactly; you never need to adjust for it yourself.

Which session suits your trade mode

  • Scalp — the London killzone (02:00–05:00 ET) and the New York AM killzone (07:00–10:00 ET). Scalping depends on tight spreads and real momentum, and outside those windows you have neither. Scalping the middle of the Asian session is the single most common way to bleed an account slowly.
  • Day trade — London open through the New York afternoon (roughly 03:00–16:00 ET). Intraday trends need volume to develop, and the London–NY overlap is where they form.
  • Swing — largely session-agnostic for finding the setup, since it is read from H4/D1. But place and close orders in a liquid window (London or the NY overlap) to avoid slippage on the fill.

Which pairs move in which session

  • Asian — USD/JPY, AUD/USD, NZD/USD, AUD/JPY, EUR/JPY. The yen and antipodean crosses are the ones with domestic flow behind them.
  • London — EUR/USD, GBP/USD, EUR/GBP, GBP/JPY, XAU/USD. Sterling and euro pairs get their sharpest moves here, especially around UK and EU data.
  • New York — EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, XAU/USD. Anything with USD on one side, plus gold.
  • Gold (XAU/USD) — most reliably during the London–New York overlap. It is markedly more volatile than the majors, so size accordingly.
NoteLive market data is not yet enabled for indices (US30, NAS100 and similar), so analyses on those instruments run without candles. Forex, metals, crypto and stocks are fully supported.

When not to trade

  • The 15 minutes either side of a high-impact release. Spreads widen dramatically and stops get slipped — the daily briefing banner names the exact windows.
  • Friday after about 15:00 ET. Positions get squared into the weekend and moves rarely follow through.
  • The Sunday reopen. Spot FX opens Sunday 17:00 ET and often gaps; let the first hour settle.
  • The 17:00–19:00 ET lull, between the New York close and the Asian open. Volume collapses and spreads widen.
ImportantTrading the right setup at the wrong hour is still a bad trade. If the Session panel says the current window is “Avoid” for your mode, the honest response is usually to wait for the next killzone rather than to force an entry.

Macro / Fundamental Context

What the Macro toggle adds and how to use fundamentals with technicals.

With the Macro Data toggle on, the analysis gains a Macro / Fundamental Context panel drawn from real economic data (via FRED).

  • Policy-rate differential — the interest-rate gap between the pair’s two currencies (a key driver of FX direction).
  • 10Y yield differential — the gap in 10-year government bond yields.
  • Per-currency reads — policy/short rate, 10Y yield and CPI year-over-year for the base and counter currency.
  • US backdrop — broad-market gauges such as the Dollar Index (DXY), VIX and key US series.

Best practice: use fundamentals for BIAS (which way and how strongly), and technicals for the ENTRY. When macro agrees with the technical structure, treat the setup as higher-conviction; when they conflict, lower conviction and favor the more conservative scenario.

News Awareness

High-impact news warnings and the news-refined setup.

When the Macro toggle is on, AthenixFlow scans for scheduled high-impact economic releases inside your trade’s horizon and warns you before you commit. Separately, a daily briefing warns everyone about the day ahead.

The daily briefing

At the start of each trading day the economic calendar is checked once, and if anything notable is scheduled a banner appears across the terminal. It names each release, its US-Eastern time and your local time, which session and killzone it lands in, and what to do about it — including the blackout window to avoid entering across (±15 minutes for high impact, ±5 for medium).

The banner only appears when there is something to say; a clear day shows nothing. Dismiss it and it stays hidden until the next trading day. It is available on every plan — unlike the per-analysis news scan, which is part of the Macro toggle.

NoteCoverage is US scheduled releases (via FRED) plus FOMC. Non-US data — UK, EU or Asia-Pacific releases — is not included, so a quiet briefing is not a guarantee of a quiet London session.

The per-analysis news banner

If events are due, a banner lists each one with its date, US-Eastern time and a countdown. High-impact events (CPI, NFP, FOMC, PPI, PCE, GDP, Retail Sales) show in a warning tone; secondary events show as a lighter “scheduled news” note.

ImportantAround high-impact releases, spreads blow out and price often runs a violent “liquidity raid” (stop-hunt) before its real move. Be cautious entering into the blackout window; a correctly-placed stop can still be swept by the spike.

The News-Refined Setup

On a high-impact day the engine also produces a separate News-Refined Setup that anticipates the manipulation: the entry is placed at the zone price is likely to be driven into, the stop sits just beyond the expected sweep, and the take-profits are unchanged. It’s shown alongside the standard setup — the standard entry is never overwritten.

ImportantThis setup deliberately trades INTO the release, which is the opposite of what most institutions do — the usual professional practice is to stand aside entirely through a tier-1 event. We place the entry where the release is expected to hunt stops, and we do not widen the stop to survive the spike, because the tight stop is the whole point of the setup. The consequences are real: spreads can widen sharply, price can gap straight through your stop rather than filling at it, and your actual fill may be materially worse than the level shown. Treat it as a different risk profile from the standard setup, not as the same trade with better timing.

Sniper Entry Refinement

The precision-entry overlay: entries on the swept leg, stops beyond the liquidity, targets unchanged.

With the Sniper Entry toggle on (Pro & Elite), AthenixFlow refines the same trade idea into a precise, structure-anchored entry. The analysis engine authors it: it selects the point of interest, then relocates the fill to a smaller point of interest INSIDE that zone on the refinement timeframe — a refined order block, a micro fair value gap, or the origin of the displacement that followed a liquidity sweep.

Which leg the retracement is measured on

An optimal-trade-entry is a retracement of a leg, so the leg has to be the right one. Where a liquidity sweep has completed and structure has shifted, the entry band is the 62%–79% retracement of the leg that sweep produced — from the wick that took the liquidity to the extreme of the move away from it — with 0.705 the precise level. That leg is measured server-side from real candles and handed to the engine, so it is not a guess.

A fibonacci level with no point of interest at it is never an entry on its own. If there is no order block or fair value gap sitting in the band, the refinement declines rather than filling at a bare price.

What the liquidity map does here

The liquidity map is a support layer, not a separate opinion. Before the analysis runs, AthenixFlow measures where liquidity rests — equal highs and lows, session and previous-period extremes, inducement, and which pools have already been swept — and supplies it to the engine. That evidence is what the engine scores its Liquidity Alignment and Heatmap Alignment against when it chooses the point of interest. It ranks the zone; the zone sets the entry. Liquidity never sets a price directly.

NoteReachability and significance are different questions, and the map reports both. Measured across 12,798 replayed observations, a pool within 1 ATR of price was reached about 85% of the time within the next ~96 bars, while one beyond 16 ATR was reached under 1% of the time — even though the far level is usually the more structurally important one.

Two entries, one stop

  • Entry 1 — refined. The micro point-of-interest (order block or fair value gap) nearest price inside the OTE band, the 0.62–0.79 retracement of the leg. This is the fill you are most likely to get.
  • Entry 2 — deep. A second point-of-interest at the extreme of the zone, beyond the 0.79 retracement (deep discount for a buy, deep premium for a sell). Better price, lower chance of filling. It only appears when it is meaningfully deeper than Entry 1; otherwise the card shows a single entry.
  • Stop — the SAME stop as the standard setup, unchanged. The stop answers what would prove the trade idea wrong, and that idea was read on your chosen timeframe, so its invalidation lives there too. A stop drawn on a one-minute pattern asks a much smaller question, and one-minute structure breaks constantly inside a perfectly healthy setup on the hour chart. Your risk still falls — because the entry moved closer to the stop, not because the stop moved closer to the entry.
  • Take-profits — unchanged. The draw on liquidity is the same; only the fills and the stop are refined.
NoteWhy the stop does not get tighter: a stop placed a hair beyond a zone edge is taken out by the ordinary retest spike, and then you lose on a trade that was never actually wrong. So the sniper refinement improves the PRICE YOU PAY, not the level that proves you wrong. If the refined entry is no better than the standard one, there is nothing to refine and we show you the standard setup rather than dressing it up.

Inducement

Inducement is nearer liquidity that exists to be taken first — the dip that fills institutional orders on the way to the real objective, and the move that collects stops parked on the obvious level. Where two candidate entries are otherwise comparable, the refinement prefers the one that is not sitting on an inducement pool. When every candidate is contested the setup is still shown, marked “Entry contested by inducement”, because resting liquidity beneath a discount entry is the normal state of a market rather than a fault — what protects the trade is where the stop goes.

Reading the Sniper-Refined card

The card shows each entry with the zone it came from, the blended average if both fill, the single stop and what it is anchored to, the unchanged targets, and projected risk-reward both for Entry 1 alone and for the blended fill. A “structure aligned” chip confirms the entry sits on the correct side of equilibrium — buys from discount, sells from premium.

When it declines

The refinement fails closed rather than inventing a setup. It will decline when there is no valid point-of-interest to build from (a fibonacci level with nothing at it is not an entry), when the direction conflicts with premium/discount, when the refined setup does not clear 1R, when no stop placement clears the resting liquidity beneath the setup, or when the read lacks displacement conviction. The reason is stated on the card.

ImportantA sniper entry is an alternative risk profile, not an upgrade. Size each entry separately — the deep entry may never fill, and if both fill your total position is larger than either rung alone. The R:R figures are projected from the listed levels; they are not a performance claim. The standard setup is always shown alongside.

History, Forecast Lifecycle & Logging Outcomes

Your analysis ledger, how forecast status is tracked, and recording results.

Every analysis is saved to your Neural Analysis Ledger. Each entry is a collapsible card (instrument, direction, date, key levels); expand it to see the full analysis again.

Overlapping exposure

When two or more of your open forecasts share a currency and lean the same way on it, the Ledger says so above the list. Long EUR/USD and long GBP/USD look like two separate ideas, but both are really a bet against the dollar — if the dollar strengthens, both lose together.

NoteThis only reads the currencies in the instrument names, which is simple arithmetic rather than a prediction: a pair is one currency priced in another, so two pairs sharing one of them share that exposure. Positions that cancel out — long EUR/USD and long USD/CHF — are not flagged, because they offset rather than stack. Instruments that tend to move together for other reasons, like gold and the yen, are not covered, and the note says so.

Forecast lifecycle

Every forecast is always in exactly one state, worked out by replaying every candle since it was created. It is measured, not judged — the same forecast and the same price history always produce the same state.

Pending
Generated, but price has not reached the entry yet.
Active
Price touched the entry, so the trade is live. Market orders are active from the moment the forecast is created.
TP1 / TP2 hit
A target has been reached and the forecast is still running toward the next one.
Completed
The final target was reached. Closed.
Stopped out
The stop was hit after entry. Closed — permanently.
Expired
The entry was never reached, and the setup either aged out (scalp 24h, day trade 3 days, swing 14 days) or price broke the level it was built on.
Not tracked
The instrument has no live price feed (indices), or price history does not reach back far enough, so the outcome cannot be verified automatically.
ImportantCompleted, Stopped out and Expired are permanent. Once a forecast reaches one of them it is closed and can never reopen or be reported as valid again — even if price later moves back in its favour.

Expand a saved forecast to see exactly what happened and when: entry fill, each target, and the stop, with the price and timestamp for each.

NoteForecast states only ever advance when you ask for it. Nothing re-checks in the background, and simply opening your history changes nothing. Press “Check Status · 1 Unit” and confirm, and the forecast is replayed against live prices for 1 analysis unit. Re-checking the same forecast within two minutes reuses the result you just paid for and costs nothing — a forecast cannot resolve inside a window that short.
NoteOccasionally one candle contains both a target and the stop, and the candle alone cannot say which came first. When that happens the engine drops to a lower timeframe to find the true order; if that is unavailable it assumes the stop came first — the cautious reading — and labels the event so you can see it was assumed rather than observed.

Log Trade Outcome

Tell the system how a trade actually went via “+ Log Trade Outcome.” Pick one outcome and (optionally) add a comment:

  • TP HIT — a take-profit was reached.
  • SL HIT — the stop-loss was hit.
  • BREAK EVEN — closed around entry.
  • STILL RUNNING — the trade is open.
  • NOT TAKEN — you did not take it.
  • INVALID — the setup was invalidated.

Logging is still useful for instruments the engine cannot price — those outcomes are recorded as self-reported and clearly marked. Where the engine CAN measure the price path, its result is authoritative and a logged outcome will not override it.

Your Trade Performance snapshot

The outcomes you log also power the Trade Performance section on your Dashboard — a personal, at-a-glance read of how your AI-Assistant trades are working out. It summarizes only the trades you’ve logged, so it fills in as you record results.

  • Win rate — the headline ring: Completed (wins) ÷ (Completed + Stopped out). Pending, active and expired forecasts are excluded from the ratio rather than counted as anything.
  • Outcome breakdown — running counts of Wins, Losses, Break-even and Still-running.
  • Recent form — a small strip showing the sequence of your latest decided (win/loss) trades.
  • By trade mode & direction — win rate split across Scalp / Day / Swing and Buy / Sell, so you can see where your edge is.
NoteThe snapshot reflects your most recent analyses (up to a few hundred); if you’ve logged more than that, it will note that it’s based on your recent trades.

Education Hub (AI Mentor)

Ask an SMC mentor anything, at your level.

The Education Hub is your personal Smart Money Concepts mentor. Ask any trading question and get a tailored, structured answer.

  1. 1Pick a Learning Depth — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Institutional. This genuinely changes the answer: Beginner replies use plain language, define every term and include worked examples, while Institutional replies are dense and technical. Choose the level that fits you.
  2. 2Optionally filter by a topic category (Market Structure, Liquidity, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps, Risk Management, Trading Psychology, Fundamental Analysis, Platform Tutorials).
  3. 3Type your question (or tap a suggestion pill) and press “Ask Mentor.” This spends one Education unit.
  4. 4After an answer, use “Ask Follow-Up Question” — your previous question and answer are sent along as context, so the mentor builds on what it just told you.
NoteExplain your analyses: on any AI Assistant result, tap “Explain / Teach Me Why” to jump here and get a plain-language breakdown of why the engine reached that read — bias, liquidity, the setup and its invalidation — explained at your selected learning depth. (Uses one Education unit.)

Every Q&A is saved to your Learning History (right column) as a collapsible entry showing the category, the exact learning depth used for that answer, and the date, so you can revisit answers anytime.

Trade Journal

Log trades, track performance, and review outcomes.

The Trade Journal lets you record and review your trades — separate from analyses, this is your own performance log.

Logging a trade

  1. 1Search and select the instrument.
  2. 2Choose the trade type (Scalp / Day / Swing) and direction (Buy / Sell).
  3. 3Enter your Entry, Stop Loss and Take Profit — the Risk-Reward ratio is calculated automatically.
  4. 4Pick the timeframe and outcome, add notes, and Save Trade to Journal.

Reviewing trades

Filter your history by outcome, trade type and timeframe. Expand any trade to see its levels, date, notes and risk-reward; update the outcome as the trade develops, or delete an entry.

Trading Signals

Verified real-time setups you can copy.

The Trading Signals feed shows real-time, high-probability setups from verified publishers.

  • Toggle between ACTIVE (live/pending) and HISTORY (closed) signals.
  • Each card shows direction, instrument, order type & timeframe, a status badge (Active / Pending / Closed / TP / SL), entry, stop and target, plus any notes and the publisher.
  • Use “Copy Setup” to copy the full setup to your clipboard in a clean, shareable format.

Subscription, Tokens & Billing

Plans, the credit economy, and topping up.

How credits work

  • One Analysis unit is spent per market analysis in the AI Assistant.
  • One Education unit is spent per question in the Education Hub.
  • Your plan grants a fresh monthly allocation of each; you can also refill anytime.

Plans

Free
A one-time starter trial of 1 Analysis + 3 Education units so you can try the terminal. Technical AI, signals, education hub and journaling; subscribe for a monthly allocation.
Lite — $55/mo
10 Analysis + 70 Education units/month. Technical-only AI, signals, education, journaling. No fundamental/hybrid (Macro) analysis.
Pro — $130/mo (Most Popular)
30 Analysis + 150 Education units/month. Full hybrid technical + fundamental (Macro) intelligence with news awareness and Sniper Entry precision refinement.
Elite — $240/mo
70 Analysis + 300 Education units/month. Everything in Pro (incl. Sniper Entry precision refinement), maximum allocation and priority access.
NoteThe Macro Data Context (fundamental/hybrid) analysis and the Sniper Entry precision refinement are available on Pro and Elite only. Free and Lite run technical Smart Money Concepts analysis.

Launch discount

For launch, the first 500 members to subscribe with code ATHENIXLAUNCH get 50% off their first plan (Lite, Pro or Elite). Enter the code in the Subscription/Billing page before choosing a plan — the discounted price is confirmed at checkout. It’s one-time per account and stops automatically once the 500 spots are claimed, after which standard pricing applies.

Refilling tokens

In Subscription/Billing, choose Analysis or Education, enter an amount (minimum $5.00) and authorize the top-up. Indicative rates: $5.00 ≈ 20 Analysis units, and $5.00 ≈ 500 Education units. You can upgrade, downgrade or cancel anytime — no contracts; new limits apply immediately.

Partnership Program

Bring traders on board and earn a cash share of their subscriptions.

The Partnership Program lets you earn by bringing other traders onto AthenixFlow. It’s approval-only — you apply, our team reviews it, and once you’re approved your partner link and dashboard go live under Partners in the terminal.

Getting approved

  1. 1Open Partners in the sidebar and submit a short application (how you plan to share AthenixFlow).
  2. 2You’ll get an email confirming your application was received.
  3. 3When our team approves you, you’ll get a second email with your partner link — and the dashboard unlocks.

How you earn

  • Share your unique partner link (it carries a ?ref code). Anyone who signs up through it is tracked on your dashboard.
  • You earn 5% of a referred trader’s first subscription — in real cash, credited the moment they subscribe.
  • Only subscriptions earn — top-ups and other payments don’t.

Tracking & payouts

Your Partner dashboard shows everyone you’ve brought on board, your total earned, amount paid out, and your current balance owed, plus a line-by-line earnings history. Payouts are settled in USD by our team — reach out to support to arrange one.

NoteOnly approved partners earn, and each trader’s first-subscription reward is counted once. Subsequent renewals continue to earn an ongoing 1%. Earnings are a reward for genuine referrals, not guaranteed income.

Settings & Diagnostics

Your profile, system checks, and session control.

Settings shows your profile (name, email, access tier & status, join date, residence, and current Analysis/Education balances) and gives you system tools.

Language

Pick your display language in Settings or from the globe in the header. The change is instant, is saved to your account so it follows you across devices, and covers the terminal interface and the public site. The AI mentor also answers in your language, and “Explain this analysis” explains a result in it.

NoteTwo things stay in English by design: the analysis card’s own generated narrative (the engine writes one read, and its numbers are universal — use “Explain / Teach Me Why” to have it explained in your language), and this documentation. Anything not yet translated falls back to English rather than showing a blank.
  • Residence — your country and state of residence. On your first sign-in a required popup asks for these before the terminal unlocks (you can only sign out until they’re set); afterwards you can change them anytime with the Update button in Settings. This is reserved for a location-aware feature launching soon.
  • Active Sessions & Devices — every device signed into your account, with its browser, operating system, approximate location and last-seen time. A new device or location also triggers a sign-in email so you notice access you don’t recognise.
  • Run System Scan — pings the Firestore database and the market-data feed and reports each as connected, checking or failed. Use it if something feels off.
  • Purge Current Session — securely logs you out of the terminal. Log Out All Devices ends every active session everywhere.

Rate AthenixFlow

From Settings you can leave a star rating (1–5) with an optional headline and a short review. Reviews are moderated — once our team approves yours, it appears publicly on the AthenixFlow homepage.

FAQ & Tips

Quick answers and best practices.

Why did my analysis show “NO TRADE”?
The engine didn’t find a setup that passes its structural rules — that’s a valid, protective result. Try another timeframe or wait for a cleaner structure.
Why does a re-run give slightly different numbers?
Scoring is authored by the AI, so the same chart can vary a little between runs. The bounds guard keeps values in range; use scores as a conviction guide, not an exact measure.
Does an analysis cost a unit if it fails?
No — units are only charged on a successful analysis.
What’s the difference between the Journal and the Ledger?
The Ledger stores your AI analyses; the Trade Journal is your own manual record of trades you took.
Should I turn on Macro?
Yes when you want fundamentals and news-awareness folded into the read (Pro/Elite). It’s especially useful around high-impact news.
Should I turn on Sniper Entry?
Turn it on (Pro/Elite) when you want a precision alternative: entries at micro points-of-interest on the leg a liquidity sweep produced, with the stop set beyond the wick that took that liquidity rather than a hair outside the zone. The standard setup is always shown too, so you can pick the risk profile that suits you.

Best practices

  • Let the market reach the given entry — don’t chase price past the level.
  • Respect the stop; size every position to a fixed risk you’re comfortable losing.
  • Around high-impact news, expect a sweep first — the News-Refined setup anticipates it.
  • Log your outcomes honestly; it’s how you learn what actually works for you.
ImportantAthenixFlow is for analysis and education only and is not financial advice. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.