Volume that does not belong
A volume z-score measures this bar against its own recent history. Size showing up where no news did is the oldest tell there is.
Evidence-first · Whale flow · No fake win rates · Free to start
Big money leaves footprints. We hunt them.
Whether you trade stocks, forex, crypto or metals, Bit by Bit is the hunting ground where the tape does the talking. It scans your watchlist continuously, tags every volume anomaly, gap and range expansion, and tells you which symbols the big players are actually moving — and which are just noise.
Nothing fires until defined conditions are met. You see the exact supporting and conflicting evidence behind every BUY and SHORT, the levels that would invalidate it, and the outcome recorded afterwards in an immutable ledger. WAIT is a successful hunt. We never invent a confidence percentage.
New hunters start with 100,000 DEMO on the house desk. Research alerts only. Never a live venue.
How it works
Seven honest states, and only one of them says trade
Most tools show you a signal and hide the reasoning. Bit by Bit shows you the whole lifecycle, including the long stretches where the correct answer is to do nothing at all.
01WAIT
No viable hypothesis. The hunter shows the range it is watching — never an entry.
02WATCH
Something interesting. Conditions are open and listed in plain language.
03SETUP
A potential plan appears: possible entry, invalidation, target, estimated R:R.
04TRIGGER
BUY or SHORT fires. The full evidence snapshot freezes at that instant.
05I TOOK IT
You place the trade with your own broker, then arm the position watcher.
06EXIT
Target, stop, or thesis invalidated. MAE and MFE are stored either way.
07LEARN
The outcome lands in the ledger and changes what we claim next time.
Hunting the big whales
A whale cannot hide the size of its own footprint
Institutions can conceal their intent, but they cannot buy millions of shares without leaving marks on the tape. Bit by Bit hunts those marks, and it tells you plainly which instruments it can and cannot see yet.
Range that suddenly expands
Measured against ATR, not against a round number. When a quiet instrument starts travelling, somebody decided price mattered.
Gaps against the prior close
A gap scaled by ATR separates a genuine repricing from ordinary overnight drift.
Volume sigmaAnomalous size versus recent history
LiveGap vs ATRRepricing against the prior close
LiveRange expansionTravel measured in ATR
LiveOrder book (Level 2)Resting size and absorption
Not wiredOptions flow & skewWhere premium is being paid
Not wiredOpen interestPositions built, not just traded
Not wiredCFTC COTDealer, asset manager, leveraged money
Not wiredETF create / redeemPrimary-market pressure
Not wiredSEC EDGAR (13F)Named institutional positioning
Not wiredEvery sensor reports AVAILABLE, STALE or UNAVAILABLE. A sensor that cannot see is never quietly replaced by a guess.
The academy
Learn to read the tape on your own watchlist
Every lesson runs against symbols you actually follow, using the same output the hunters produce. You learn the tell, then watch the engine find it live. Sign in to the academy →
What a candle is telling you
Open, high, low, close as a record of the fight between buyers and sellers — not a shape to memorise.
Volume is the lie detector
Why a move without participation rarely holds, and how a z-score separates size from noise.
Range, ATR and volatility regime
The same 50-cent move means different things in a quiet stock and a wild one.
Support, resistance and the 20-bar range
Levels as zones where decisions were made, not lines that magically repel price.
Spotting absorption
What it looks like when heavy selling meets a buyer who simply will not move.
Risk before reward
Invalidation first, target second. Position size is the only variable you fully control.
Honesty
The quiet part, said out loud
Trading products are full of numbers designed to feel like certainty. Here is exactly what Bit by Bit refuses to do, and what it does instead.
What we will not do
- Print an invented "87% confidence" next to a signal.
- Advertise a win rate that was chosen after the fact.
- Show an entry, stop and target while the engine says WAIT.
- Feed a headline to a language model and call the output a BUY.
- Fill a missing data feed with a plausible guess.
- Execute anything. There is no broker behind any button.
What we do instead
- Count supporting and conflicting facts, and show both.
- Freeze the evidence and engine version at the moment a trigger fires.
- Keep levels hidden until the lifecycle has earned them.
- Let the market confirm a hypothesis the news only suggested.
- Label unavailable sensors as UNAVAILABLE, permanently.
- Hand you the research and let you place the trade.
The trade ledger
Does this thing actually work?
That question is unanswerable if the record can be edited once the outcome is known. So it cannot be.
Written once
A signal row is appended the instant BUY or SHORT fires and is never rewritten.
Full context
Evidence, regime, market class, entry, stop, target, engine version and every hunter version.
Resolved separately
Outcome, MAE, MFE, realized R and exit reason land in their own write-once record.
Reported plainly
Target before stop, stop before target, or neither — grouped by strategy and by regime.
Free to start
Hunt the whales. You make the trade.
Build a watchlist, let the hunters run, and judge the engine by a record it is not allowed to edit.