What OddTick is,
and what it refuses to be.

The idea

Most market tools sell you a forecast. OddTick doesn't, because the honest version of this product is a different one: you cannot watch 45 markets at once, and most of the time nothing worth watching is happening. What you actually need is something that watches continuously and tells you when the picture changed.

So that's what this is. An engine reads 45 Kraken pairs every five minutes, around the clock, alongside US equities, Treasury yields and the dollar. Twice a day it writes up what it found. Between those, the numbers on the site keep refreshing on their own.

The line it doesn't cross

Everything here is descriptive. It reports things that already happened and can be checked: a level was tested this many times, funding sits here, this share of flow hit the ask, these two markets moved together by this much.

It does not forecast prices. It does not tell you to buy or sell anything. It does not imply that acting on any of it is profitable. Where a reading is thin or a level is barely tested, the writing says so rather than dressing it up.

That constraint is deliberate and it costs something — confident predictions are more fun to read. But a prediction you can't verify is entertainment, and there is already plenty of that. Every number on this site is one you could check yourself with enough time. The product is the time.

How the briefing is written

The measurements are computed by the engine. The prose that explains them is written by a language model, from those measurements and nothing else, twice a day. It has no access to opinions, forecasts or outside commentary — only the numbers the engine just produced.

It's also instructed never to quote a support or resistance price in the text. Those levels move during the day while the written briefing doesn't, so the prose describes structure and the live tiles carry the numbers. If the two ever disagree, trust the tiles.

Who makes it

One person, in Virginia. OddTick runs on the engine behind a trading system that's still in active development. Watching 45 markets around the clock is what that engine does anyway — and the readings it produces turned out to be worth publishing in their own right, so they are.

It's free to read, with no account and no paywall. It isn't free to run: data feeds, the model that writes the briefing, hosting and a PO box all cost money. So expect advertising on the site, alongside an exchange referral link marked as one. Neither decides what the numbers say, and neither can change what the briefing is allowed to claim — the constraints above apply regardless of who is paying for the page.