Choosing the right time frame Time frame Main inputs Use case Long‑term (weekly, daily) Moodix Index™ / Sentiment wave Portfolio allocation; macro regime shifts Medium‑term (4 h – 30 m) Weekly sentiment + Moodix Index™ / Sentiment wave Swing trades lasting days /...
Moodix market sentiment
This section explains how do we construct Moodix index and how to read it effectively.
Follow the trend – go with the flow
Trend states inside each wave Wave & Trend What it means Typical trader response RiskOn – growing Fresh bullish appetite; Moodix Index above both MA‑5 and MA‑10 Add long exposure; buy the dips RiskOn – sideways Fresh bullish appetite; Moodix Index above both MA‑5...
Get familiar with sentiment wave
Meet the sentiment waves Moodix visualises market mood as waves that can be either RiskOn (bullish pressure) or RiskOff (bearish pressure). Wave strength is the distance of the Moodix Index™ from its five‑ and ten‑day moving averages (MA‑5 and MA‑10).Wave length is...
Follow key topics
Follow the topics that matter Each validated headline is tagged to a market topic—FED, Macro, Geopolitics, China, and so on. When a topic accumulates enough headlines, it gets its own cumulative topic index. Watching these indexes reveals which narrative is currently...
Start with breaking news
Start with the news Moodix does the heavy lifting by detecting which headlines actually moved the market, but context is still king. Read the breaking‑news feed every day.Spend roughly one‑third of the time you save thanks to Moodix on thinking about the stories...
Breaking news topics
Categorizing breaking news We categorize all breaking news according to its content into topics. For example, all Fed-related news is stored in the FED topic category. All macro news is stored in the macro topic category, etc. We further use the measured news sorted...
Speed of measurement
Coverage and speed Moodix measures live from 08:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC (full EU and US sessions). Asian‑session headlines are analysed retrospectively each morning. Most items are processed in under four minutes; only ambiguous cases take up to 15 minutes to resolve....
RiskOn and RiskOff sentiment waves
Constructing the Moodix Index™ The Moodix Index™ is crucial for constructing all other parameters including Sentiment waves (see below). For any period of time (intraday, week, month, YTD) the Moodix Index is the running sum of all Impact Scores recorded inside the...
Market memory
Market memory: how long news matters Any positive or negative breaking news only affects the market for a certain period of time. Unless the news or the entire topic to which the news belongs has further major developments, the market tends to focus on it for a...
Detecting the cause of the GAP
From price spike to matched headline: 1. Detect the move: Moodix continuously watches ES. A sudden gap or spike flags a potential news reaction.2. Locate the cause: It inspects the headlines published in the same minute (typically 3–4 items; dozens during EU and US...