Flash Analysis
The short read: one chart, ten seconds, six fields. For when the market is moving and you have no time to read a report.
Six fields, and not one is filler
Flash Analysis exists because sometimes you do not need a report: you need to know whether what you are looking at is what you think it is, and you need to know now.
- What it needs
- A screenshot of the chart and the direction you are evaluating (
LONGorSHORT). Nothing else: no written thesis, no levels, no capital. - What it returns
- Structure (the main technical reading, anchored in something visible), technical alert (breakout, rejection, sweep, overextension… or nothing if there is no clear signal), key levels, entry, stop and take profit if they can be read on the chart, R:R, main risk, what would confirm and what would invalidate.
- What it does NOT return
- No developed counterarguments, no entry plan with a valid zone, no fourteen dimensions, no score. That is Complete Analysis, and asking for it here would lengthen exactly what this mode exists to shorten.
- Where it is
- In the web app, inside “Analyze with chart”, and in APEX Copilot as the first step of the journey.
- Is it saved
- A Flash on the web is not stored in your History: its shape is not that of the complete analysis. In Copilot, when a Flash becomes a complete analysis, the two are linked and the complete one is saved.
It is a reading, not a decision
- The price is moving and you want a reading before deciding whether it deserves a serious analysis.
- You are reviewing several assets and want to quickly discard the ones without structure.
- You already have the position open and want a second reading of where the risk is now.
- You are about to open a sizeable position. There you want someone to try to knock your idea down — that is Complete.
- The doubt is not technical but about process (“am I entering out of FOMO?”). That is Decision.
- You want to understand the business behind the asset. That is Fundamental.
Flash is APEX's fastest read, not its cheapest in rigor: every field still has to be anchored in something visible on that chart. “Manage the risk” is not a technical alert.
You choose the direction, and APEX respects it
Before reading the chart, APEX already knows whether you are evaluating a long or a short position — and that changes the whole analysis, not just the sign. On a short, the stop goes above the entry, the take profit below, and APEX is forbidden from suggesting you buy the asset or reading a drop as a reason to go long.
It sounds obvious and it is not: it is the most common failure when a model is asked to analyze a chart without being told which thesis it is judging. It ends up evaluating the opposite trade and confidently answering a question you did not ask.
The market context that reaches the analysis is labelled as such, and APEX can only use what arrived measured. If there is nothing relevant for that asset, it says so literally instead of inventing a catalyst.
Flash receives no source for earnings, dividends, splits or the macro calendar. It does not mention them because it does not measure them: we would rather say it is missing than fill it with an estimate that looks like data.