The HST question
The stock is up 2.1% from the open. Is that a lot?
It depends on the stock. HST answers with its own history: “only 12% of its past candles went up that far”.
What HST is
A +2% on a quiet stock is a rare event; on a nervous one it is an ordinary Tuesday. HST does not hold every stock to the same yardstick: it compares each candle with the past candles of its own stock.
Every distance is measured in percent from the candle’s open. For every symbol and every timeframe the platform keeps how far the highs and lows of the past candles went, in 200 levels.
So today’s candle becomes a readable number: “further up than 80% of the past candles got”. The same number, computed the same way, holds for every symbol on the list.
HST does not tell you what will happen. It tells you how many times a situation has already occurred and how it ended, on the candles you chose. The decision stays yours.
How to read the position
Price is further above the open than 80% of the past candles got.
Price is around the open: nothing unusual, in either direction.
Price is further below the open than 95% of the past candles fell: a rare case.
A candle still forming has no close: HST uses the latest price and says so.
The pages
Three pages read the current candle of every symbol; the fourth opens one symbol’s history. Your choices follow you from page to page: timeframe, sector, search and conditions stay in the address, ready to bookmark or share.
Overview
How many symbols stand in each position band, above the open on the right and below it on the left: the further out, the rarer the move was for that symbol.
Map
The sector map colours each symbol by where its candle stands against its past candles, so the exceptions show at once.
Screener
A range on each of the six measures of the current candle, always computed on the history of each symbol.
Symbol
The page that answers in detail: where the reference candle stands, how far candles usually go, what happened once a price was touched.
Try it now
Pick the question, the stock and the period: the answer comes from the platform’s daily candles, with the number of cases next to it. In the platform the same question works on every symbol, with the filters you want.
Pick a question
Since 1993, SPY closed higher in 55% of weeks: 968 of 1,759.
The typical move between the open and the close of a week is 1.2%.
The symbol page
One page, top to bottom: first where you are, then how far candles usually go, then how they got there, and finally under which conditions. Every number is computed on all the candles of the sample.
For every distance from the open, the share of past candles that got at least that far, above and below. The ladder turns the levels into prices.
The session minute by minute, as distance from its open, against the levels 50, 25 and 10% of the past candles reached.
What happened inside the candles of the sample, each measured from its own open: minute by minute for a session, day by day for a week or a month. Median, quartiles, and the candles most similar to yours so far, with how they ended.
Average high, low and close split by volatility, gap, month, weekday, day of the month and year. The matrix shows how far candles go in each volatility band.
High, low and price of the reference candle placed on the past candles, with the share of candles that went further.
Type a distance or a price, or click the chart: how many candles got there, how many then closed beyond it, how many came back across the open.
How many candles had their high, low, close and gap at each distance, and how they closed against the open.
At the top of the page, three or four sentences sum up the numbers: how unusual today’s candle is, how the sample’s candles usually close, how far they reach. Every sentence carries its sample.
Save a set of filters as a preset and ask for a Telegram or Discord message when today’s high or low goes beyond the level you choose.
Every candle of the sample, drawn from its own open, in a sortable table with a CSV export: the numbers can always be checked.
Filters
A stock’s whole history is an average answer. Filters narrow it to the candles that resemble today’s.
Only candles that opened with a similar volatility, in bands of 5 points.
How far it opened above or below the previous close, in half-point bands.
Above the previous high, inside the body, in the shadows or below the previous low.
Month, weekday and day of the month of the candle.
One click keeps only candles with a volatility, gap, month or day like the one you are looking at, even with a past date.
Presets, alerts and links
A set of filters is saved under a name and can send you a Telegram or Discord alert when a level is passed. The page address keeps everything: bookmark it or share it. When filters leave few candles, the page says so: read it as a pointer, not as a rate.
How to use it
The pages are linked: each opens the next with the choices you already made.
Overview
Pick a timeframe and see which symbols and sectors are stretched, up or down, against their own history.
Map or screener
Narrow down with conditions on the current candle, or spot the exceptions on the sector map.
Symbol
Read the ruler and the reach curve, then keep only the candles similar to today’s.
Level
Test the level you have in mind and look at the most similar past sessions: how many got there and how they closed.
Who it is for
HST does not choose for you. It puts a historical number next to the question you are already asking.
Day trading
“The stock is already up 1.8%: is there room left?”
The ruler and the reference session show what share of past sessions went further, and the most similar sessions show how they ended.
Options
“How often did price reach this strike before expiry?”
The level ladder in prices, on weekly or monthly candles, says how many times a distance was touched: the risk measured before getting in.
Swing
“Is this week unusual for this stock?”
Overview and map on the weekly timeframe show where each symbol stands; the past weeks stacked show the typical path.
Research
“Does the stock move more in August, with high volatility?”
The filters and the by-condition view answer with the candles counted, exportable as CSV to carry the analysis elsewhere.
How to get it
Sign-up, subscription and sign-in go through app.metricalgo.com: the same account works across the whole MetricAlgo platform.
Account
An email and a password on app.metricalgo.com is all it takes.
Subscription
Pick the plan on the subscription page: access starts as soon as the payment is confirmed.
Platform
Overview, map, screener and the symbol page are there at once, with your presets and your alerts.
Every number says how many times something already happened. No page promises an outcome.
Every share comes with its number of candles; when they are few, the page says so.
The sample’s candles are in a table and can be downloaded: the numbers can be redone.
HST gives statistical context. The decisions, and the risk, stay yours.
Common questions
Historical analysis gives context before deciding. It does not promise results and does not tell what will happen.
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No. HST counts how many times a situation has already occurred and how it ended. The past does not guarantee the future: a historical number is one more element for deciding, not a forecast.
That price is further above the candle’s open than 80% of that symbol’s past candles got, on the same timeframe. −80 is the same downwards. The percentile is computed on that symbol’s own history.
Five years of daily candles and twenty years of weekly and monthly candles, up to the end of last month. Filters narrow the sample; the page warns you when few candles are left.
They read the same data, the current candle of every symbol, in three ways: the overview summarises, the map shows the exceptions by sector, the screener filters on precise conditions and exports a CSV.
A forming candle has no close: HST uses the latest intraday price, else the latest quote, and flags it. Symbols whose quote is much older than the others are shown faded.
Yes. A set of filters is saved as a named preset; on each preset you can turn on a Telegram or Discord alert, with the high and low level you want. The page address keeps the conditions too.
HST is inside the MetricAlgo platform. Create the free account and turn on a plan with HST at app.metricalgo.com; with the subscription active the HST pages are in the menu.
They are two tools of the same platform. Options studies and compares trading systems tested on history; HST reads a stock’s history to understand where price stands today.