Daily VWAP and signal candle stops in the Academy tools

Most of this week's changes are fixes to things members ran into, plus updates to Quant Terminal.

Daily VWAP and a signal candle stop in the Academy tools

The Academy tools only had a rolling VWAP and a swing stop of two bars or more. A rule like "buy the cross above VWAP, stop under the signal candle" got saved as BLOCKED on Day 3.

Days 3 to 6 now have a VWAP that starts again each day at the time you choose, the same as the VWAP on a chart. They also have a stop at the signal candle's own low or high.

To use them, send the Day 3 prompt dated 27 Oct in the same chat, or ask your assistant to update the Academy tools. Then redo Day 3 with daily VWAP and a signal candle stop.

Bot X-Ray waits out order book blocks

Polymarket's order book server sometimes blocks an internet address for a few minutes. Bot X-Ray gave up on the read straight away, so each block cost you a scan.

Now it waits. It retries after 20 seconds, then 40, 80, 160 and 240, which is about 9 minutes in all. It tells you on screen and in the log that it's waiting, and carries on when the order book answers. If a block lasts longer than that, it stops with a clear message.

Download it again at /polymarket and leave it running.

Competition builder shows the limits before you submit

You could type a stop wider than 20 ATR or a risk above 10% into the competition builder. The entry was only refused when you pressed submit, with an engine error that didn't say what to change.

The builder now sets the same limits the engine runs with and tells you before you submit: a stop above 0 and up to 20 ATR, and risk up to 10%.

The round notice link shows the current round

The "Read the round notice" link on the competition page was still opening October's notice in the run-up to the November round, so it looked like there was nowhere to enter.

The link now opens the December notice, and the older notices are linked from the bottom of it. December entries are open at app.part-timequant.com/competition. They close at midnight Chicago time as 30 November turns into 1 December: 6am UK, 1am New York and 5pm Sydney, all on 1 December. Entries are measured on simulated money, and first place gets $500. The full terms are at /competition-round.

Quant Terminal

• Crypto perpetual futures. Type BTCUSDT.P, ETH.P or any coin with .P to chart its perpetual, live from Binance futures, or from Bybit where Binance futures is blocked. Search a coin and its perpetual sits in the list next to spot.
• Your own OANDA token. Add it to data/feeds.json and forex and metals chart from OANDA first. Anything else your account lists charts as OANDA:XAU_USD or OANDA:NAS100_USD, refreshing every 10 seconds. The prices are OANDA's own rather than CME data.

Get it at /tradingview.

Fixes

• Quant Terminal: an ad blocker or browser shield can stop the chart library loading, which left the chart area empty with no explanation. The app now tells you what's happened and what to do.
• Clicking the unlocked prompt on /polymarket, /tradingview and /bloomberg now copies it.
• Screenshots on /polymarket and /tradingview open full size.

If something here doesn't work the way it says, or there's something you want PTQ to do next, tell us.