The unit of measurement
Pulse is derived from anonymised operational telemetry of the PineConnector bridge, which carries TradingView alerts into MetaTrader 4 and 5.
- Tracked instruction
- One instruction received by the bridge, counted once at its source. It is nota broker fill, an executed order, an open position, a distinct strategy or a human decision.
- Entry instruction
- A tracked instruction carrying a recognised entry command, including market, pending and close-and-reverse variants. Market, direction and recognised-field statistics use entry instructions.
- Management and other instructions
- Every tracked instruction that is not an entry: closes, modifications, cancellations and other recognised or unrecognised non-entry commands.
Windows and comparisons
- Preliminary editions. A partial month is compared with the same day range of the prior month and is visibly labelled month to date.
- Final editions. A complete calendar month is compared with the complete prior calendar month.
- Full restatement. Preliminary figures are recomputed and entirely replaced after month-end.
- Corrections. Any correction is stated on the affected page; figures are never silently changed.
Published metrics
- Activity share
- The share of tracked entry instructions belonging to a market or class. Shares within one figure sum to approximately 100% after rounding.
- Activity change
- The percentage change in tracked instruction volume between the stated windows. It is never presented as adoption or popularity.
- Time distribution
- Hour-of-day is published as a share of entry instructions. Weekday activity is published as an index rather than an absolute total.
- Historical entry direction
- The share of entry instructions carrying long- or short-directed commands, weighted by instructions.
- Recognised-field presence
- The share of parsed entry text carrying recognised SL or TP fields. Presence does not prove validity, execution or protection.
Aggregation and quality safeguards
- Only normalised public market names are published; venue-specific suffixes and raw symbols remain private.
- Parser-rejected records, malformed command-symbol echoes and obvious placeholder symbols are excluded consistently from each compared window.
- Only approved aggregate cells appear; publication-safeguard details remain private.
- Named markets pass internal normalisation and quality checks before appearing.
- No raw alerts, commands, identifiers, credentials, broker servers or strategy names are published.
Calendar effects
Consecutive months contain different numbers of weekdays and weekend days. A raw monthly total therefore mixes behaviour with the calendar. Where complete months are compared, Pulse reports a day-of-week-standardised change alongside the raw change:
Each edition states its exact current and comparison windows so calendar composition remains visible.
How direction is counted
Every recognised entry instruction contributes once to the activity-weighted long or short share. Direction describes historical entry instructions, never positions, exposure, sentiment or advice. It is not evidence that an order filled.
Direction Balance is a scale-free transformation of that same instruction-weighted split:
The index runs from −100 to +100. Zero is an even long/short split; +20 is equivalent to 60% long-directed and 40% short-directed entries. It adds no new denominator and remains a transformation of historical instruction shares. Reports may label an absolute bias of 5 or less “near neutral”; that is a provisional editorial band until several months of history exist.
Commercial privacy
Public Pulse data is deliberately limited to instruction-flow aggregates. Commercial operating metrics stay private, whether they would be expressed as totals, percentages or indices.
Participant-denominator metrics stay private.
The public repository and rendered pages contain no absolute instruction totals, revenue totals, broker attribution, prop-firm attribution, balances, equity, margin, lot sizes, P&L or execution results.
What this data cannot establish
- Instruction activity is not adoption or popularity.
- Direction describes historical entry instructions, never positions, exposure, sentiment or advice.
- Recognised SL/TP fields are not proof of protection or risk quality.
- Instructions received by the bridge are not broker fills.
- Co-movement with an external market does not establish cause.
- One month of observations does not establish a recurring trading rule.
Citing Pulse
Use the permanent period link shown on each report. PineConnector Pulse’s original figures and tables may be republished with attribution and a link to that report. External data and TradingView content remain subject to their respective source terms.