Welcome to WhaleClues

Take a 2-minute tour to learn what every part of the screen means — from the watchlist rail to the markers, the indicator, block prints, and key levels.

ETF INTELLIGENCE8 STEPS~2 MINUTES

Built to inform your intraday and day-trend read — not second-by-second scalping. Educational and informational only, not financial advice.

01 — THE LEFT RAIL

Your Watchlist

The left rail groups your subscribed ETFs — US Equity Indexes (SPY, QQQ, IWM, DIA) and The Metals (GLD, SLV). Each row is one Instrument Tile: today's HIGH / LOW pills, a sparkline, last price, and tick value. Click a tile to open its full chart.

Subscribe to more than two of the four indexes and they stack on one time axis so you can see them move together. GLD and SLV share a panel the same way, when you hold both.

The watchlist rail: one tile per instrument. **SPY** is selected, so its chart fills the panel to the right.

02 — WHALE MARKER

Whale Trades

BLUE WHALE — BUY POWER DOMINANT

PINK WHALE — SELL POWER DOMINANT

YELLOW WHALE — NO DOMINANT SIDE

A Whale marks a session where flow is concentrated — often an early heads-up that volatility is elevated, not a forecast of direction. The color shows which side’s power dominates the flow behind the marker; when neither side dominates, the whale is drawn yellow.

BLUE — buy power dominant PINK — sell power dominant YELLOW — no dominant side

Blue = buy-side power is dominant in the flow behind the marker. Pink = sell-side power is dominant. Yellow = neither side dominates — the balance is undetermined, and the move could develop either way.

**Blue — buy power dominant.** The whale prints around 08:00, hours ahead of the 11:00 push. XJER below runs green through the session, agreeing with the colour.

03 — INDICATOR

XJER — buying vs selling energy

Negative value shrinking

Selling pressure is fading — sellers are losing strength.

Positive value shrinking

Buying pressure is fading — buyers are losing strength.

The XJER Indicator measures the current balance of buying vs. selling energy. Watch for divergence: price holding a range or printing a fresh extreme while the dominant XJER energy is contracting or rolling over — the two disagree. Price shows where the market is; XJER shows whether that move still looks funded. A reading, not a trade call.

**Negative value shrinking.** Price grinds along its lows from 11:30 to 13:00 while XJER's red area is already contracting — selling is running out. The push off the low follows.

04 — TRADE MARKERS

The Sun

SUN — MOMENTUM EXHAUSTION

A Sun flags the trend running out of fuel — momentum is draining or already spent, so price is at or nearing a local extreme. A red Sun marks price at or approaching a local high; a green Sun, a local low. A lone Sun is a caution flag on the chart; a Sun stacked with Circles or Stars (or a key level) is one of the overlaps the tool is built to highlight — still not a buy or sell.

The **red Sun** sits on the 14:00 spike — the session high to the tick. Price rolls over from there. This one stands **alone**, so it is a caution flag on the chart rather than a stacked overlap.

05 — TRADE MARKERS

Circles & Stars

CIRCLE — LARGE TRADE

STAR — HUGE TRADE

RED — long TP GREEN — short TP YELLOW — direction undetermined

Shape is size: circle = large trade, star = huge trade. Color is the action: red = take-profit on longs, green = take-profit on shorts, yellow = direction undetermined. Neither marker draws its own line — the dashed horizontals are Key Levels, covered next.

Size is the message. The **stars** at 09:45 and 10:50 dwarf every circle on the chart — those are the huge prints, and both land on a turn.

06 — MARKET STRUCTURE

Block Trades

The lane on the right edge of the chart marks institution-sized prints in the underlying, each pinned to the price it actually crossed at. A bar's length is the dollar value of what traded there. Where several blocks hit the same price they stack into one bar.

DARK / LIT

Where it traded

Purple is a dark-pool print; blue is on-exchange. Brightness is how it traded — a sweep is brighter than a resting block.

**12 Aug, SPY.** A **$231M dark-pool block** at 771.62. Price dipped there twice and did not trade through it — size landing on a level the session already knew.

07 — MARKET STRUCTURE

Key Levels — VWAP, VC Line & S/R

Beyond the markers, WhaleClues plots the horizontal price levels a session keeps returning to. VWAP is the day's fair-value line; VC Lines (gold dashed) are volume cluster lines — heavily-traded price levels that act as magnets; S/R lines (light purple dashed) are where price has repeatedly stalled or turned.

Each line is labelled with its price (rounded to the instrument's nearest tick) on the left and its strength on the right — VC Line strengths are scaled down proportionally (strongest ≈ 200), and a thicker line means a stronger level. Levels mark where size has clustered; a marker or an XJER divergence at the same price marks when something printed there. Overlap to read — not a call to trade.

Price falls to the **731.95 VC Line** and rides it for two hours (yellow). Underneath, XJER climbs out of its trough (green). Together they front-run the move to 737.

08 — CONFLUENCE

Trading Tips: confluence to watch

Single markers print all day long. The overlaps that more often coincide with a turn share one trait: confluence — a way to read the chart, not a strategy to follow.

01

Cross-instrument resonance

The four equity-index ETFs · SPY, QQQ, IWM, DIA · share the same macro flow. When Stars, Circles, or Suns print on several of them at the same time and against the same structure, that stack is usually more interesting to watch than the same marker on a single instrument — still context, not a trade.

**31 Jul.** Green band around 10:30 — all four indexes print green Stars at the same morning low and reverse together. Red band around 11:00 — red Stars at the first bounce high.

02

Multi-signal confluence at a level

Different marker types stacking at the same price. Watch for a Star or Circle at a VC Line or S/R; markers clustering at one price; or a Sun overlapping a Star at a recent extreme. The more independent types stack, the clearer the overlap on the chart — not a sharper trade.

**SPY, 17 Jul.** Circles, Stars and a Whale on the same session, several of them sitting on the dashed VC / S/R lines.

You're all set.

You now know what every part of the screen means. Ready to dive in? Anytime you need a refresher, the full guide is a click away — also from the Help menu.

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