Explora mercados, gráficos y candidatos elegibles

Before deciding what a market might mean, we need to find it and identify it correctly. This chapter is about research inside TraderLobby: where market information appears, how to explore a chart, and what the candidate panel actually tells you. You can complete the whole lesson in Paper. No purchase is needed to prove that you understand a screen.

Begin in the Trading workspace and check the selected Paper or Live label. For this exercise, stay in Paper. On desktop, look for the control labeled Show coin universe if the market panel is hidden. When the panel is open, that control changes to Hide coin universe. You can also collapse the panel from its header. Hiding a panel changes the layout, not the account's holdings.

Coin Universe is the app's shared market list. It is not a list of assets you necessarily own, and it is not a personal collection that you must build one coin at a time. A market being visible means you can inspect the information shown for it. Visibility alone does not say that a particular strategy can enter it or that an order would succeed.

Read a row from its identity first. You may see a familiar name, such as Bitcoin, followed by a trading pair such as BTC-USD. The name helps you recognize the asset. The full pair identifies the market more precisely. In that example, Bitcoin is priced in U.S. dollars. The part after the dash identifies the quote asset, the unit used to express the price.

Keep the whole pair in your notes. BTC-USD and BTC-USDC share Bitcoin on one side, but their quote assets are different. A shared first symbol does not make two markets interchangeable. You will need that distinction later when comparing a market row, a holding, and a transaction. Copying only the coin's name can hide the very difference you need to notice.

Next, read the panel's information about its source and timing. In Paper, the unfiltered Coin Universe status describes a shared Coinbase snapshot with prices delayed forty-five minutes. Other account contexts can display different source labels. Read what your screen actually says rather than assuming the market list is a personal exchange statement or a perfectly current price for every possible action.

The desktop support panels and the mobile layout are different. If your phone does not show this Coin Universe panel or its sorting controls, follow the desktop demonstration for that part. Do not search endlessly for a matching button that your layout does not provide. Later, we will use the mobile position view to show the chart controls that are available there.

Your first research note can now be short and precise: I am viewing Paper, I found this complete pair in Coin Universe, and I checked the source and timing label. That is already more useful than saying you saw a coin going up. It gives every observation that follows an identity, a context, and a time boundary.

A useful search starts with a clear question. Let's look for Bitcoin's dollar market rather than scanning every row. Inside Coin Universe, the field says Filter coin universe, with name, symbol, or pair as the choices. Enter BTC or the complete BTC-USD pair. You can also search a name when you do not yet know its symbol, then read the matching pair before proceeding.

The local field begins filtering after at least three characters. If you type only one or two, the panel shows a reminder. That behavior is not a failed search. Add enough characters, then inspect the results. A partial word can match more than one row, so a result appearing is the beginning of identification rather than the end.

There is also a workspace search field. Its filter can affect Coin Universe in addition to the local field. The two filters work together: a row must survive both. For example, leaving one asset in the workspace search while entering a different asset in the local filter can hide the row you expected. An empty result does not automatically mean the market is unavailable.

When a workspace filter is active, the panel can show Filtered by, the search text, and the number of displayed coins. Its Clear filter button clears that workspace filter. It does not erase text you separately entered in the local Coin Universe field. To return to an unfiltered view, clear the local field too, then inspect the status again.

Now use the Sort selector. Its current choices are Top by Volume, Trending, High RVOL, High Volatility and Liquid, Mean Reversion, and Stable Liquidity, marked Core. Each changes the ranking used to arrange the list. Sorting does not change the amount of an asset you hold, submit a request, or enable a strategy. It changes the way you explore the market information.

The labels point to different research ideas. Volume concerns trading activity. RVOL means relative volume, activity compared with a reference level. Volatility concerns how much prices move. Liquidity concerns how readily trading can take place. Mean reversion concerns movement back toward a reference level. Treat these as explanations of the labels, not a claim that the screen reveals every calculation behind the ranking.

A high place in one ranking is not a general quality score. Trending does not mean guaranteed growth, and Stable Liquidity does not promise a stable price. The list can also contain markets outside the returned ranking, which appear after ranked entries. Do not interpret every position in the list as a precise score or as permission to trade.

Try one comparison: find your pair, clear both filters, select another ranking, then find the pair again. Explain what changed and what did not. Its place in a list may change while its identity stays the same. Finish by noting your active sort and filters. That makes your research repeatable instead of leaving the next person to guess how you produced the view.

Finding a market row and opening a chart are different steps in the current app. The Coin Universe name is displayed as text; it is not a built-in chart-opening button. The Buy control beside the row starts a purchase form. We do not use that control as a shortcut to research, and we do not need to create a holding just to complete this lesson.

The verified in-app chart route is through an existing Portfolio position. For our demonstration, we use an example Paper account that already has a Bitcoin position. If you have an appropriate existing Paper position, you can follow along with it. If you do not, use the demonstration and its example data. An empty Portfolio is a valid account state, not a reason to place a trade.

On desktop, locate the position's name in Portfolio. The name has a visual cue showing that it can be opened, and its help text describes seven-day trade history and reasons. Select that name to expand the history panel. Keep away from the separate Sell controls. Opening history is a viewing action; requesting a sale is a different action with a different purpose.

Read the expanded panel's heading and market identity before interpreting its contents. The view describes the last seven days of activity and can include price history, transaction information, and summary values. Those values do not all answer the same question. The current displayed price concerns the asset's market information, while your average entry concerns the position's recorded purchase history.

Give the history time to load. If you see Loading price history, the app has not finished presenting the result. If it says there is not enough recorded history to chart, do not turn the empty space into a price of zero. A failure message may ask you to close and reopen the chart to retry. Read the state before explaining the picture.

When a chart appears, inspect both axes. The horizontal axis shows time, and the vertical axis shows price. Move over a point or candle to read the available details. Use the displayed timestamp to understand what you are examining. A point from earlier in the week and a current-price marker can coexist on the same chart without describing the same moment.

On mobile, expand an existing position to reach its history and chart. The compact view has fewer surrounding tools than the desktop version. Use the controls that are actually visible, and read the pair again when moving between layouts. A familiar color or a similar price is not enough to prove you opened the same market or account context.

When you finish, collapse the position's history or return to the surrounding Portfolio view. Your research has not bought or sold anything. State the route you used: Coin Universe helped identify the market, and an existing example position provided the in-app history view. Keeping those steps separate prevents a useful research task from turning into an unintended trading task.

A chart's meaning depends on how much history you can see. A movement that looks dramatic in a short view may be one small part of a wider pattern. We will compare those views without changing the account or making a prediction. Begin with the example position's history open, and confirm the pair and the seven-day context in its heading.

The current history view loads the last seven days. It does not provide a separate menu for choosing any number of days you want. Instead, the chart has a time-range slider and zoom controls for changing how much of the loaded history is visible. Narrowing that range changes your view of the existing information. It does not request a new trade or create more history.

Use the slider to focus on a shorter section near the right side of the chart. Read the time labels after the change rather than assuming the view now means exactly one hour or one day. Then widen the slider to compare that section with the broader recorded window. On desktop, the chart's restore tool can also return its chart settings; read the resulting range again.

Keep an eye on the price axis as you compare. Its scale can adjust to the visible data, which changes how steep a move looks. A line crossing half the screen is not automatically a fifty-percent change. Read the actual prices and timestamps before describing the size of a move. The picture helps you explore; the labels help you explain it accurately.

The chart also offers Line and Candles. Line joins recorded price information into a continuous view. Candles summarize opening, highest, lowest, and closing prices for the recorded intervals. These are different ways to display available history. Switching between them does not change what happened, and choosing Candles does not create a new price forecast.

Candles is available only when enough recorded candle data exists. If that option is disabled, the app can still show the line view when suitable price information is available. Do not treat a disabled candle button as an instruction to trade, reload repeatedly, or fill in missing data yourself. Record the limitation and use the information the screen can actually support.

The chart may also show an average-entry line, purchase and sale markers, or a current-price marker. Those annotations have specific meanings for the displayed data. Read the legend, then inspect the relevant point. A marker near a candle is not proof that the whole candle represents your transaction, and an average-entry line is not a guaranteed future selling price.

Now describe the comparison in a sentence: within the same recorded history, I narrowed the visible range, checked its timestamps, and widened it again. Mention which display you used and whether candle data was available. On a compact mobile chart, use the visible slider and Line or Candles controls rather than expecting every desktop tool. Your task is to understand context, not to make the chart look more convincing.

Once you can find a market and read its chart, you can begin comparing the clues around it. Start with the price and the percentage change shown in Coin Universe. A positive percentage describes an increase over the stated comparison period; a negative percentage describes a decrease. Neither tells you what your own account earned unless you connect it to your actual position and its history.

The row's percentage is a twenty-four-hour market change. That is different from your position's result since its entry, and different again from a short section you zoomed into on the chart. Before comparing two percentages, name what each measures. Otherwise, you can put accurate numbers side by side and still reach an inaccurate conclusion about what they mean.

The row can also show trading volume. The asset quantity and its dollar-denominated value use different units. Read the labels instead of comparing the bare numbers. A large volume number does not mean that amount belongs to you, and a dash can mean that a usable value is not being displayed. Do not quietly replace a missing value with zero in your notes.

Use the ranking as another clue, not a verdict. A market can appear high in a volume-based list and lower in another ranking because the lists ask different questions. Likewise, a Trending label tells you about the category being presented, not that a purchase has been approved. Keep the selected ranking beside your observation so you can explain why that market caught your attention.

Where the news ticker is available, read the item and its source label. The current feed can include trending information and Coinbase service-status information. A trending item and a service-status report are not the same kind of news. One concerns attention around a market; the other may concern the operation of a service. Do not combine them into a single buy-or-sell signal.

A ticker symbol link can open that pair's Coinbase market page outside TraderLobby. It is not an internal chart tab or a completed order. You do not have to follow it for this lesson. If you do follow an external link later, recognize the destination and its separate account context before taking any action. A link is a route to inspect, not a reason to enter credentials automatically.

Check timing as carefully as content. The fact that a ticker item is moving across the screen does not prove the underlying report is new. The Paper market list has its own delay label, and chart points have their own timestamps. If you cannot establish a report's publication time or current relevance from the information provided, describe that timing as unverified rather than calling it breaking news.

Finish by writing an observation with its limits: this pair showed this market change in this view, this ranking was selected, and this source or timing label was available. Then add what you still do not know. That is not a weak research note. It keeps visible evidence separate from assumptions, which is exactly what you need before moving to the candidate panel.

Coin Universe asks which markets are in the shared list. Strategy Eligible Candidates asks a different question: what does the app currently show for the strategies being evaluated in this context? On desktop, use Show candidates if the panel is hidden. Read its heading and check Paper again. Opening this panel is a viewing action; it does not enable a strategy.

Candidate information is grouped by strategy. Read the strategy label before reading a symbol or price, because the same market can have different relevance to different strategies. The panel reflects the strategies returned for the current context; it is not a catalog of every strategy you could possibly obtain. If yours is not shown, do not enable one just to populate the lesson example.

Within a strategy group, you may see Eligible now or Close to qualifying. Read those as distinct categories. Close to qualifying is not eligible, and neither label is a completed transaction. The panel deliberately shows a limited view, including market symbols and prices. Do not invent a hidden score, a countdown to entry, or the exact rule that a near-qualifying market still needs to meet.

Even Eligible now does not mean an order has been placed or that every other requirement for an order has been satisfied. Available capacity, funds, access, current conditions, and the strategy's actual execution behavior still matter. To know whether activity occurred, inspect the relevant records. The candidate panel is information about evaluation, not a substitute for a transaction record.

Some strategies have a different presentation. Moonshot can show a Ranked daily watchlist with a note about how many passing markets are displayed and its limit of at most one new position per day. A visible ranked preview is not a promise to buy every market in it. Read the note instead of applying another strategy's label or behavior to this group.

Read the status when no markets appear. The panel can be preparing market history, waiting for broader market conditions, or scanning with no qualifying setup. It can also show At capacity with the number of used and available position slots. In that state, it explains that the strategy is not scanning for new candidates. An older-looking list is not enough, by itself, to diagnose a failure.

Where an Updated label appears, use it to understand the age of that strategy's snapshot. Also check the workspace filter. Candidate symbols are filtered by the symbol text, so a full coin-name search that helped another panel may not match here in the same way. Try the complete pair or clear the workspace filter before concluding that a market disappeared for a trading reason.

Your conclusion should stay close to the evidence: this strategy group showed this pair in this category, at this displayed update age, or it showed this waiting state. If the screen does not establish eligibility for your pair, say it is unknown from the current view. No purchase or strategy activation is required to reach that honest, useful conclusion.

Let's follow one pair through the app without assuming every screen should look the same. Use BTC-USD in our example account, or another clearly identified pair in an existing Paper position. Keep the full pair in your notes. We will compare what the market list, Portfolio, and Transactions each tell us, including the possibility that one view has no matching item.

Start in Coin Universe. Find the pair and note the source label, current ranking, and any filter. The row tells you about a market in the shared list. It does not establish that you own it. If you clear the search and the row moves, that is a change in presentation, not evidence of a purchase or sale.

Now look for the same pair in Portfolio. A matching position tells you that the displayed account has a holding recorded there. No matching position can be a perfectly sensible result when you have only researched the asset. Do not buy it to force the two lists to match. Also check the mode, filters, and any display setting that hides small holdings before explaining an absence.

You may see more than one position associated with the same pair. Different strategies or sources can have separate positions, so matching a symbol alone is not always enough to identify the exact holding you meant. Read the available strategy or source labels and quantities. Two rows with the same coin name should not automatically be treated as an accidental duplicate.

Open Transactions through the app's navigation and check its current account context and available filters. Look for the same pair in the relevant period. A transaction describes an event, while Portfolio describes a current holding. An older purchase and sale can remain part of the history even when no position is currently open. Those views can differ without either one being wrong.

Compare like with like. Check the pair, quote asset, side, quantity, price, and time that the record actually provides. If one view says BTC-USDC and another says BTC-USD, you have not yet matched the same market. If one is Paper and the other is Live, you are comparing different account consequences. Correct those mismatches before investigating the arithmetic.

Keep the record's scope in mind too. Recent app transactions on mobile identifies TraderLobby executions only and may display a delay notice. It is not a claim to include every action ever taken at an exchange. A current market price, an earlier execution price, and a position's average entry can all be different values for good reasons. Name their meanings before expecting equality.

Finish with a three-part note: the pair is visible in market research; the relevant holding is present, absent, or still unclear; and the relevant transaction is present, absent within this view, or still unclear. Add any filter or timing limitation. This is how you follow evidence across screens without turning a missing row into a story the app has not actually told you.

Now you will put the route together. Your task is to research one market and explain what the app supports you in saying about it. Use the example Paper account and BTC-USD, or an appropriate existing Paper holding if you are following along. You do not need a profitable position, an active strategy, or a completed purchase to pass this challenge.

First, identify the workspace and open Coin Universe. Find the complete pair using the available filter, and say what the quote asset means. Check whether the workspace search is also active. If your result is empty, inspect both filtering layers before choosing a different market. Record the source and delay information you can actually see.

Second, change the ranking once and explain what that does. You are changing the order used for exploration, not awarding the market a permanent quality grade. Return to your pair and note the selected ranking. If it moves in the list, describe the move without claiming that the strategy's eligibility or your holdings changed along with it.

Third, open an existing position's history in the example or your Paper Portfolio. Read the heading and pair, then use the chart's visible-range controls to focus on a shorter section and widen it again. Report the timestamps rather than inventing a period name. Compare Line and Candles if both are available, and explain a disabled candle option if the data does not support it.

Fourth, choose one market clue to describe carefully. It might be the twenty-four-hour percentage change, a volume value, or a source-labeled ticker item. State what the clue measures and what it does not prove. A useful answer includes its unit, period, or source. Saying that a row was green is an observation about appearance; explaining the labeled value is research.

Fifth, inspect Strategy Eligible Candidates in the same context. Name the strategy group, any relevant category, and its displayed status or update age. Check the workspace filter if the pair does not appear. Your answer can be that eligibility is not established by the current view. Do not activate a strategy or submit an order simply to create a more exciting result.

Finally, follow the pair into Portfolio and Transactions where records are available. Explain why a listed market, an open holding, and a historical event are different things. If you used the demonstration because your own Portfolio was empty, say so clearly. Understanding an example is a valid learning result, and it keeps the exercise focused on reading the app rather than changing the account.

You are finished when you can explain the route and its limits in plain language: here is the pair, here is the context and timing, here is the chart range I examined, and here is what the candidate and account views did or did not show. Next, Buying and Selling by Hand will follow an actual Paper request through its result. For now, keep the habit you just practiced: identify the information, check its scope, and separate evidence from a decision to trade.