Read the market underneath the index: TICK, ADD, VOLD and TRIN intraday; advance-decline lines, percent-above-MA, McClellan and breadth thrusts daily; VIX structure, put/call and dealer gamma; bonds, dollar, credit and sectors. Then build a 10-minute dashboard and log the regime.
Module 1: Why internals matter
The index is not the market, a handful of megacaps can hide a weak tape, and every timeframe needs a regime call before a setup.
Module 2: Intraday internals
NYSE TICK, ADD, VOLD, UVOL/DVOL and TRIN: what each measures, what extremes look like, and how a trend day differs from a chop day.
Module 3: Daily and weekly breadth
Advance-decline divergences, percent of stocks above the 50 and 200-day, new highs and lows, the McClellan family, equal-weight vs cap-weight, and breadth thrusts with honest hit rates.
Module 4: Volatility and positioning
VIX and its term structure, VVIX, put/call ratios and skew, dealer gamma explained without mysticism, and what options expiration does to the tape.
Module 5: Intermarket relationships
Bonds and the yield curve, the dollar and commodities, credit spreads, sector rotation across the cycle, crypto's shifting correlation, and what to do when the relationships break.
Module 6: Building a dashboard
A ten-minute daily routine, free sources for every series, a regime log for your journal, how it plugs into the swing and day trading playbooks, and a worked example week.
Educational content, not financial advice.