Y-Optics Canvas

What is Y-Optics Canvas?

Y-Optics Canvas is the visual cockpit for auditing trend, volume, volatility, and momentum indicators for all holdings in your Y-Actives. It provides advanced charting overlays and oscillators, fully synchronized with the underlying Y-Optics Vector and Y-Nexus decision engines.

To access Y-Optics Canvas, navigate to your Y-Active portfolio dashboard and select the Y-Optics tab.

Chart Layout & Grid Structure

Y-Optics Canvas uses a dual-grid layout to align price action with momentum studies on a unified timeline:

Upper Grid (Trend, Volatility, and Liquidity): Displays EOD price candlesticks, moving averages, standard deviation volatility bands, support/resistance lines, and the horizontal Volume Profile overlay.
Lower Grid (Oscillators): Displays the selected momentum indicator panel (RSI, MACD, or ADX) aligned chronologically with the price candles.

Technical Overlays (Upper Grid)

You can toggle structural overlays dynamically using the checkboxes above the chart:

1. Candlestick Price (OHLC)

Prices are plotted in local asset currency to eliminate currency translation noise.
Green Up-Candles (#00FFC2 - Growth Mint) represent positive sessions.
Red Down-Candles (#E11D48 - Risk Crimson) represent negative sessions.
Tooltips dynamically output high-precision Open, High, Low, and Close values.

2. Moving Averages (EMA 10, SMA 20, EMA 50, SMA 200)

EMA 10 (Red line, active by default) and SMA 20 (Green dashed line, active by default) track short-term crossovers.
EMA 50 and SMA 200 (Emerald line) outline primary market regimes (used to identify long-term bull or bear markets).

3. Bollinger Bands — `BB Upper(20,2)` & `BB Lower(20,2)`

Volunteers visual boundaries for volatility expansion and contraction.
Standardized to use a 20-period lookback window for both the middle SMA line and the standard deviation bands, with a multiplier of 2.0.
A tight squeeze (width $< 1.2%$ of price) warns of imminent breakout expansions.

4. Support/Resistance Floor & Ceiling

Plots horizontal white dashed reference lines representing the structural peak and valley prices.
Automatically calculated over the selected lookback range to avoid local noise and pinpoint floor levels.

Volume Profile (Liquidity study)

Toggle Volume Profile to project trading volume horizontally onto the price grid:

Calculation: Groups all EOD volume over the selected range into 20 equal price bins.
Interpretation: Highlights High Volume Nodes (HVNs) where high transactional activity occurred (indicating strong psychological support/resistance) and Low Volume Nodes (LVNs) where prices tend to slip through rapidly.
Ergonomics: The profile is scaled horizontally from the left edge of the chart, with the longest bar locked to exactly 25% of the grid width, keeping the background clean.

Momentum & Trend Oscillators (Lower Grid)

Select the active study in the footer bar below the chart to switch between momentum tools:

1. `RSI(14)` (Relative Strength Index)

Plots momentum speed on a 0–100 scale.
Dashed threshold lines are set at 30 (oversold boundary) and 70 (overbought boundary).

2. `MACD(12,26,9)` (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)

Standard parameters: 12-day Fast EMA, 26-day Slow EMA, 9-day Signal line EMA.
Zero-Line Baseline: Plotted at $Y = 0$ to clearly distinguish positive and negative momentum zones.
Crossover Markers: Automatically highlights Signal line crossover triggers directly on the blue MACD line:
- Golden Cross (Bullish): A green upward triangle (#00FFC2) showing buy suitability acceleration.
- Death Cross (Bearish): A red downward triangle (#E11D48) indicating momentum breakdown.
Histogram: Dynamic bar colors (Green for positive momentum, Red for negative momentum).

3. `ADX(14)` (Average Directional Index)

Measures trend strength regardless of trend direction.
Plotted with two dashed threshold reference lines:
- $Y = 20$: Values below 20 indicate a flat, trendless rangebound market.
- $Y = 25$: Values above 25 confirm a strong directional trend is underway.

Alerts & Divergences

The collapsible sidebar next to the main chart displays real-time, actionable alerts. Unlike basic indicators that prompt single-variable crossovers, the Ynves Alerts Engine combines multiple metrics to detect momentum exhaustion and portfolio breadth discrepancies.

1. Asset-Specific Momentum Alerts

These trigger when individual holdings reach high-conviction buying or selling extremes:

Buy (Oversold): Triggered when an asset’s 14-day RSI is $< 30$ AND Williams %R is $< -80$, provided the asset shows trend stabilization (the Average Directional Index is low, $\text{ADX} < 25$, or the trend state is not Bearish). This prevents buying into a strong downtrend (preventing “falling knife” traps).
Sell (Overbought): Triggered when an asset’s 14-day RSI is $> 70$ AND Williams %R is $> -20$, provided the asset shows trend exhaustion (the Average Directional Index is low, $\text{ADX} < 25$, or the trend state is not Bullish). This alerts you to overextension, facilitating optimal profit-taking without cutting strong trends too early.

2. Portfolio-Wide Breadth Divergence Alerts

The engine reconstructs a 10-day historical baseline of your portfolio’s Trend Participation (the percentage of the total portfolio capital value trading above their respective 20-day SMAs) to identify structural shifts:

Bearish Breadth Divergence: Triggered when the portfolio value increases by $\ge 1.5%$ over the last 10 days, but Trend Participation drops by $\ge 10.0%$. This signals breadth decay—meaning the portfolio’s gains are being carried by a few bloated assets while the majority of holdings are decaying. This flags capital concentration risk.
Bullish Breadth Divergence: Triggered when the portfolio value falls or remains flat, but Trend Participation increases by $\ge 10.0%$. This signals underlying accumulation—meaning more holdings are crossing back above their 20-day SMAs and starting to base, indicating a broad-based recovery is starting before it registers in the portfolio’s net asset value (NAV).

Ergonomic Controls

Time Range Selector: Quickly swaps dates to display EOD price data across 1M, 3M, 6M, YTD, 1Y, and 5Y historical horizons.
Collapsible Alerts Sidebar: The “Alerts” sidebar collapses to the left to maximize horizontal chart width. A dynamic listener automatically redraws the ECharts canvas to prevent squeeze distortions.
Non-Clipping Y-Scale: Y-Optics Canvas automatically pads the upper and lower limits by 5% to prevent wicks and overlays from clipping the edges.