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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, Metals and Indices. 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).

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, 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; a higher-probability final target.

Points of interest (entry zones)

POI — Point of Interest
A high-probability zone to watch for entries: order block, FVG, breaker or supply/demand.
Order Block (OB)
The last opposing candle/zone before an impulsive move — where institutions were active.
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 engine notes the active session and the Asian range.

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 deeply the engine refines the entry:

  • Scalp Mode — execution on M1–M15, refined down to M1. Fast, ultra-short-term.
  • Day Trade Mode — execution on M15–H2, refined to M5. Intraday.
  • Swing Mode — execution on H4–D1, refined to 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 inside the selected zone on the refinement timeframe, with a tighter stop just beyond the expected micro sweep. Targets are unchanged and 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.)

Probabilistic Outcome Engine

Three scenarios that 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 most likely scenario is highlighted.

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, the Asian session high/low, and any liquidity sweep already taken. Market Story reconstructs the sequence: origin of the move → current phase → the projected liquidity path (which pools price is likely to take next).

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.

Trade Setups, Execution & Scoring

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

Two setups

  • Impulse Setup (Primary) — a continuation trade in the direction of the expansion, with an Entry, Stop Loss and three take-profits (TP1, TP2, TP3).
  • Corrective Setup — the counter-trend/retracement alternative, with Entry, Stop Loss, a single Target, and its own score.

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.

NoteScores are a conviction guide, not a guarantee. Treat a high score as “more factors aligned,” and always apply your own risk management.

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 structure-confidence score with a High / Medium / Low tier and a visual bar.
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.

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.

The 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.

Sniper Entry Refinement

The precision-entry overlay: micro-POI entries with tighter stops, targets unchanged.

With the Sniper Entry toggle on (Pro & Elite), AthenixFlow runs a second, parallel read of the exact same engine with one directive: execute the same trade idea with surgical precision from the refinement timeframe.

What it changes — and what it never changes

  • Entry — relocated into a micro point-of-interest (a refined order block, a micro fair value gap, or the displacement origin after a micro liquidity sweep) inside the zone the engine already selected, on your mode’s refinement timeframe (Scalp → M1, Day Trade → M5, Swing → M15).
  • Stop — just beyond the predicted micro swept extreme, kept tight. This compressed risk is where the improved projected R:R comes from.
  • Take-profits — unchanged. The draw on liquidity is the same; only the fill and the stop are refined.

Reading the Sniper-Refined card

The card shows the refinement timeframe, the micro basis used, the refined entry and stop, the unchanged targets, and a Standard vs Sniper projected risk-reward comparison. If no valid micro point-of-interest exists inside the selected zone — or the read lacks displacement conviction — the card honestly reports “no sniper refinement available” instead of forcing a level.

ImportantA sniper entry is an alternative risk profile, not an upgrade: the tighter stop raises the projected R:R but also the chance of being stopped out by the sweep wick before the move. The R:R figures are projected from the listed levels — they are not a performance claim. The standard setup is always shown alongside; choose the profile that fits your risk tolerance.

History, Revalidation & Logging Outcomes

Your analysis ledger, re-checking setups, 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.

Revalidate Setup

From a saved analysis you can run “Revalidate Setup” to re-check whether the setup is still valid against current price, and see the last validation result and time.

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.

Logged outcomes appear on the card immediately and feed the platform’s accuracy tracking over time — the more you log, the better the picture of what’s working.

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: TP-HIT (wins) ÷ (TP-HIT + SL-HIT). Break-even, still-running and not-taken trades are shown for context but excluded from the ratio.
  • 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 — to match the answer to your level.
  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” to go deeper on the same topic.

Every Q&A is saved to your Learning History (right column) as a collapsible entry with its category, difficulty and 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.

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.

Settings & Diagnostics

Your profile, system checks, and session control.

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

  • 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.

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: a deeper entry at a micro point-of-interest with a tighter stop and higher projected R:R — accepting a higher chance of being wicked out. 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.