How do you read Macro to Name?

What is the Macro to Name path?

It is a desk order, not a signal. Macro is the market climate, Micro is the industry that is actually leading, and Name is the stock or crypto you might trade.

Most chart sites start on a ticker, but DominantX starts one step earlier. You should know which side of the market has the money before you build a watchlist.

A full pass can take about five minutes. You throw out groups that are not in play instead of hunting 47 unrelated charts.

What do you check on the Macro desk?

Open Macro first and read the regime, which is the current market climate such as risk-on or risk-off.

Then read theme leadership. A theme is a basket of related stocks that are moving together, so note which themes are leading and which are fading.

The factor lens uses official MSCI factor ETFs versus SPY for momentum, value, quality, size, and low volatility. You are asking which style is leading, not which ticker to buy.

Tape Stress and a theme verdict answer different questions. Tape Stress is about how strained the tape looks, while a theme verdict is about which story still has leadership.

Breadth tells you if the move is wide or narrow. Wide means many stocks are participating, and narrow means a few names are doing the work.

Write one sentence before you leave Macro, such as “offense is leading, but breadth is narrow.”

How do you move from a theme to an industry?

Take one leading theme into Micro, where sector and industry relative strength compare a group with the market.

Ask if leadership is broad or narrow inside that theme. A leading sector with a weak industry is not the same bet as a leading sector with a leading industry.

Stay with the groups that are carrying the tape, and leave the groups that are only bouncing. The Macro to Micro workflow is the longer map of this step.

Which list do you open next?

Only now open a list of names. Use a structure screener when you want a coil or an expansion.

A coil is a range that is getting tighter. Expansion is the move out of that range.

Exploding Now is the volume-led list, and the Waiting Room is the pause-after-a-move list. An empty Waiting Room means you wait; it does not mean the software failed.

Or open Insider Buys, which keeps Form 4 and Congress buys that also clear DominantX tape and structure filters. A filing alone is not a trade.

The filter is there so you can see if price is still near a breakout zone.

The four checks for any scanner are volume, a tightening range, sector rotation, and a plan. The breakout scanner article walks those checks in detail.

When do you open the chart?

Open the chart after the name sits inside a leading group, then define the entry and the stop. A stop is the price where the idea is wrong.

Use structure or ATR. ATR is the average true range, a measure of typical daily movement.

Define a first target where you take profit, then put that plan in the trade log. DominantX does not place the order, so you still decide.

If the chart disagrees with the list, pass. If the industry turned while you were reading, go back to Micro instead of forcing the ticker you already liked.

What should you skip?

Skip DominantX if you want a black box to pick the trade or if you want a private data feed. The terminal uses public market data and is not investment advice.

Keep a charting tool if you live in custom scripts and alerts, and use DominantX for the order of work: market, industry, name, plan.