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Interactive Supplement · Trigonometry

The Rocket-Angle Workbench

Each of the five trading signals is a right triangle. Drag the threshold to see where the line between "ordinary rally" and "rocket move" sits. Tap a signal to inspect its geometry.

All five signals, one origin

Each ray is a signal, drawn at its launch angle θi = arctan(move / time).

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Signal inspector

Pick a signal to see its right triangle and the trigonometric ratios it produces.

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All five signals at a glance

Click a row to inspect that signal. Highlighting follows the current threshold.

Signal Move (ticks) Time (s) tan θ = move / time θ Verdict

What the geometry is telling you. Below the threshold the rays sit in a shallow zone — ordinary rallies, no particular reason to fade them. Above it the rays crowd into the narrow remaining slice of the first quadrant. That crowding is the rocket pattern: there is not much room left before the slope reaches the vertical asymptote of tan θ at 90°, where the tangent function blows up.

At the default 60° threshold (tan 60° = √3 ≈ 1.732), two signals qualify. S4 is steeper and uses less of the trading window getting there, leaving more time for the feather descent to deliver the short profit.

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