Using EVA as a whole

EVA's tabs run from the left in this order: Book · Flow → Screener → Overview → Macro → Capital → News → Pump/Dump → Replay → Statistics → Office → Learning → Help → Journal. Each answers its own question:

• Book · Flow — the main working screen: the chart with markup and layers, and on the right the book, flow, liquidity walls, heatmap, and the feeds of large trades, liquidations and book events. Everything in the panel refers to the coin in focus.
• Screener — the terminal's coins against EVA zones on the chosen timeframe: approaching a zone, in it, bounced.
• Overview — full screen, two views: a heatmap of coins (area is the day's turnover or OI, colour is the price change over 1 h, 4 h or a day) and “Funding by exchange” — each venue's rate normalised to 8 hours and its deviation from the average.
• Macro — the broad market: capitalisation, dominance, stablecoin shares, issuance. A monthly scale, not an intraday one.
• Capital — money flows around the market: exchange and whale transfers, stablecoin issuance, ETFs, CME reports, exchange reserves.
• News — a headline feed and a calendar of macro events with the actual value and BTC's range after release.
• Pump/Dump — sharp moves across the whole market (about 755 pairs) and a check of which such events come true.
• Replay — the recorded market at a chosen moment.
• Statistics — your trading journal, equity curve and reviews; the chatbot window on the right.
• Office — a shared space for signed-in users: figures of people sit at the table of the coin they are watching. There are no numbers for analysis here.
• Learning — this course. Help — what each number on the screen means.
• Journal — a summary of logged trades by group; this tab exists only for the owner, and an ordinary user has everything needed for the journal on «Statistics».

The tab order is not the work order. A convenient daily order goes from general to particular:

1. News — what is out today and when. At the top are the nearest events with a countdown, and before an important release the terminal reminds you with a chip in the header. If an hour from now there is a release after which BTC usually moves several times wider, that changes everything else.
2. Macro — the backdrop: is money leaving risk or being reshuffled within the market. Once a day, no more: it is a monthly scale.
3. Capital — is there new money behind the move: stablecoin issuance, ETFs, large transfers.
4. Overview — what moves more than the market (heatmap) and where the leverage skew on one exchange differs from the others (“Funding by exchange”).
5. Pump/Dump and Screener — where something is happening now and which coins are at zones.
6. Book · Flow — the coin itself: intentions (orders), facts (trades) and how other people's intentions ended.

After a trade — Statistics (journal entry) and Replay (review). Each step answers its own question. If a step says “today is unpredictable”, that is an answer too — perhaps the most valuable one of the day.

The “?” sign sits next to almost every number in the terminal. It opens a short popup in place — the first paragraph of the article and the value — without taking you off the screen; some popups have a “more in Help →” line at the bottom that opens the right page of the Help tab.

The Help tab is a set of pages with search and contents: how to use the terminal and what each metric, layer and panel shows. Articles about values say separately what the value does not show and when the picture misleads — that is half the value: almost all misreadings of the terminal are about a number meaning something other than what a person thinks.

Two details that are easy to miss. The number in the “?” popup is a snapshot at the moment of the click: while the popup is open, it does not update; the live value is on the screen itself, at the widget. And a dash instead of a number means a number can exist but there is none right now.

A few “what it does not show” points worth knowing by heart:

• A transfer to an exchange is not a sale; an ETF inflow is not necessarily a purchase; wallets we do not know are called unknown.
• A funding gap between exchanges is a fact about skew, not a ready trade: exchanges differ in fees, intervals and risks. A rate older than half an hour is marked “stale” and left out of the average.
• Liquidations: Binance and Bitget send at most one liquidation per second per coin — some small ones are invisible there.
• Pump/Dump watches about 755 pairs, while the terminal covers 135 coins. A row marked “outside the set” opens a chart, but there are no numbers for that coin in the panels or in the chatbot — that is the boundary of the set, not a fault.
• News is not the cause of a move: price often moves before the headline. Coincidence in time is not causation.

“No data”, the source and the time. An empty block in EVA is an answer, not a zero. “Nothing large happened” does not mean “nothing happened”: feeds and the archive receive what passed its threshold. Where a source is silent, the block says so directly — for example, since when there has been no data — instead of drawing zeros.

Different data arrive at different speeds, and the source and time labels must be read before the number. The Capital tab has four speeds: on-chain delay equals block time, ETF flows are published after the US market close, the CME report comes out on Friday and describes Tuesday. That is why the blocks on that tab are never added together. When two blocks disagree, first check which one is fresher: the answer is almost always in the delay, not in the market.

Personal alerts let you avoid watching the screen all day: the terminal tells you itself when what you are waiting for happens. The bell opens the “My alerts” window: the list of your alerts and the “+ New alert” button. The types are “Price”, “Clusters”, “Stacked imbalance”, “Intersection” and “Market events”; the form has the main fields, “Where to notify” and “Extra” with frequency, quiet hours and a custom name. From the Screener, the bell in a row opens the “Alert on this zone” menu: “Intersection” and “Clusters” come with the form already filled in for that coin and zone.

Three things worth knowing. There are three channels, each turned on separately: on screen — while the terminal is open, in Telegram and to the phone — even with the tab closed; without Telegram, alerts work on screen and on the phone. The on-screen sound is turned off with a single “Alert sound” switch. And alerts describe what has already happened: an archive check found no edge in the direction the old texts promised for messages about zones, false breakouts, price–delta divergence or walls, so the messages only say what happened.

Why narrow. An alert that arrives twenty times a day stops being read — and the one alert everything was set up for gets missed. The terminal covers 135 coins; even a rare event multiplied by 135 coins and several timeframes easily yields dozens of messages a day.

There is plenty to narrow: fewer coins — the ones you actually trade; fewer event types — the ones after which you know what you will do; higher timeframes instead of all of them. A good question for every alert: “what will I do when it arrives?” If the answer is “I'll look at what's there”, and you would be looking anyway, you do not need that alert.

And finally: an alert is a reason to look, not a reason to enter. A message arrives — you open the coin and go through the short order from lesson 1: what about news, what is in the flow and the book, where the stop would be.

Replay shows the market as it was at the chosen moment: candles, the bands under the chart (CVD, OI, funding and others), the book, large orders, liquidations, walls, events and engine zones — only what was known by that moment.

How to use it. Date and time are in the terminal's time zone; “go” loads a window around the moment. Buttons — an hour back, a bar back, play and pause (space), a bar forward, an hour forward; speed — from ×1 (real time) to ×1000; the scrubber rewinds within the loaded window. The “in the archive at this moment” row shows which data exist.

Limits. Replay works while this tab is open: switch to another and the chart returns to the live market. There is no price inside a minute, so at ×1 a candle changes once a minute. Replay does not work on timeframes above 4h. And it is not a backtest: no trades are counted here and no result is shown.

How to review your entry honestly. In hindsight the market always looks clearer than it was. Replay lets you remove that knowledge:

1. Set the time a few minutes before your entry and pause.
2. Before playing on, write down what you see: flow and delta, walls in the way, large trades, liquidations and book events nearby.
3. Ask yourself: where, from this picture, would be the point at which the idea is wrong (the stop), and does it match what you set at the time.
4. Only then press play — at ×10 or ×60, to see the path and not just the outcome.

This separates decision quality from the outcome. A good decision can end at the stop, a bad one in profit; you learn from decisions, while the outcome of a single trade is largely chance.

A journal in R. EVA’s trading journal is on the «Statistics» tab. A trade is logged from the chart: a «Position» (entry, stop, take profit), right-click it → “Log to the Journal — trade taken”; the server sets the entry time and the market snapshot at the moment of logging, and they do not change afterwards. By hand — “+ trade”. The terminal does not pull trades from the exchange. Results are counted in R — lost exactly the stop, minus one R; took twice as much, plus two.

• Tiles at the top — the result in R, the share of trades in plus, expectancy per trade, the largest drawdown, average duration, the best and worst day; filters by coin and direction.
• Equity curve — the running total of R over closed trades in closing order. Look at the shape, not the end.
• Calendar, By Coin, Time, Direction, Setups, Streaks — the same result in different breakdowns; the trade count sits next to it.
• Market snapshot at entry and, for each trade, “Market at logging time” — 11 snapshot points at entry and at exit: what was for the trade and what was against. The snapshot is saved at the moment of logging and never changes afterwards.
• Mistakes you tagged — their price in R. Old “plan” rows are visible in the list but do not count in the statistics: a plan without execution says nothing about trading.

All these blocks lie exactly as much as the journal is incomplete, and on a small sample a difference is almost always chance.