Genuinely useful
Comparison against an asset's own recent history
Transparent, non-custodial, yours
Reading crypto market data without fooling yourself
Candles, volume, liquidity depth, RSI, MACD, funding rates and on-chain flow. What each measurement says about the past and never about the future.
Genuinely useful
Comparison against an asset's own recent history
Not predictive
Indicators, patterns and crossovers used as timing rules
Always required
The measurement window and the source
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What you should know
Market data describes what already happened. An indicator is a function of past prices, and no arrangement of past prices is a promise about the next one. That sounds obvious until a chart tool presents a reading as a signal.
Each page here explains one measurement: how it is calculated, what it is genuinely useful for, and the specific way it misleads people. FBT Swap shows these readings with their window and their source, and shows an unavailable state rather than an invented number when the source is down.
Market data is useful for describing conditions and almost useless for predicting them, and the gap between those two uses is where most trading education goes wrong. An indicator can tell you that recent movement has been unusually one-sided. It cannot tell you what happens next, and no amount of parameter tuning changes that.
What does survive scrutiny is comparison against an asset's own history, stated with its window and its source. "Volume is three times its thirty-day median" is checkable. "Volume is surging" is not.
At a glance
At a glance
Not predictive
Indicators, patterns and crossovers used as timing rules
Always required
The measurement window and the source
Never provided here
Price forecasts or trade recommendations
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers before you decide.
Do technical indicators work?
They describe what already happened, which is sometimes useful context. As standalone timing rules, published testing is weak and usually fails after transaction costs.
Why does FBT Swap show indicators at all?
Because describing current conditions against an asset's own history is informative. Every reading is shown with its window and its source, and none is presented as an instruction to act.
Risk notice
Crypto assets are volatile and on-chain transactions cannot be reversed. You can lose money, including all of it. Nothing here is financial advice.