Macro Lab · Pattern Lab · baskets · the live room
The index is lying
to you
Ten mega-caps set the print, and the average on your screen cancels out every dollar rotating underneath it. Trading Addicts measures every theme in the market on its own, every session (macro, patterns, baskets, flow) and puts the whole desk in your browser, with a live room calling it while the bell's still ringing. No guru bullshit. Receipts.
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The platform
The whole desk. Every tool. In your browser.
Most services toss you an alert and keep the reasoning to themselves. This is the entire desk: the macro, the patterns, the baskets, the screener, the charts, plus an AI coach that'll argue the read with you. Everything below is the real app, recorded on a real session.
Macro Lab
The whole backdrop on one page
Where the cycle sits and what season the market is in, whether liquidity is coming or going, who's levered up, where speculators are crowded in futures, and what the hyperscalers are actually spending on AI, pulled from their filings. Rates, the curve, the dollar and credit sit next to long-run channels, TD Sequential counts and breadth thrusts, each with its record against random buying. Stop guessing what kind of market you're in.
Cycle & seasons
Liquidity
Leverage
Macro
Channels & ratios
Technicals
CFTC positioning
AI & capex
Pattern Lab
Setups found by measurement, not vibes
Pattern Lab scans the names the room talks about most, or the whole liquid universe after every close, and finds broadening formations, wedges, triangles, flags and inverse head and shoulders by fixed rules. Every hit becomes a trade plan — a buy, a stop and a target — with backtested odds, the conditions that moved them, and a count of the overhead walls between you and the target. Same bars, same answer, every time.
Broadening
Falling wedge
Triangles & flags
Inverse H&S
Trade plans
Backtested odds
Overhead check
Basket analysis
Follow the money, theme by theme
Quantum, drones, nuclear, AI infrastructure, China, housing — every theme in the market is a basket, and every basket gets measured on its own. Basket Analytics shows which ones pushed and which are rotating, from constituent prices and traded dollars. Basket Breadth tracks each one's advance/decline, TICK, and performance against QQQ, IWM and ARKK. The rotation quadrant puts six sessions of trail on all of it, so you see a rotation while it's still improving, before the rankings catch up.
Basket analytics
Basket breadth
Rotation quadrant
Theme rotation
Risk appetite
Growth vs value
Moving Together
The groups Wall Street hasn't named yet
Moving Together clusters liquid stocks whose daily moves, with the market taken out, have run together over the last 250 sessions. The groups come from prices, not labels, so they cross industries: crypto miners next to AI power names, quantum next to nuclear. That's where you find the trade before somebody launches an ETF for it.
Price-based groups
250-session window
Cross-industry
Basket overlap
Screener · chart grid
Every name you follow, on one screen
Filter on sector, industry, country, theme, market cap, unusual volume or short interest, then read the whole result as a live candle grid instead of a list of tickers. The chart grid holds your whole watch list at once, with Pattern Lab's lines drawn right on the charts. Every name opens onto its chart, volume profile, options chain, short interest, float and ownership.
Stock screener
Chart grid
Ticker pages
Options chain
Short interest
Watch lists
SkyNet
An AI coach that'll argue with you
SkyNet is built into the platform with the theme data, your open positions and the room's history in context. Ask it why a rotation matters, what threshold should have pulled the trigger, or what you screwed up last month, and the answer comes back with the numbers attached. Public channel or private DM.
SkyNet AI coach
Public channel
Private DMs
Recap summaries
No account. No card. No catch.
See what the room is saying right now
The trading room is yours for your first 36 hours. No email, no card, nothing to cancel. Same room the members are in, same messages, live — veteran traders posting entries, exits and why, while the tape is moving. The watch list, the theme analytics and this month's recaps come with it. After that the door shuts on the room, and the screener and ticker pages stay open.
Opens the members app. The room is yours for 36 hours; the screener and ticker pages stay after that.
The room
This shit happens every session, with or without you
Veterans post their entries, exits and reasoning while the tape is moving, and Jeff is in there with them. Ask why a trade is on and the answer comes from the person who took it — not a bot, not a newsletter, not some guy selling a course.
Members only
The rest is behind the door
The room runs every session, 9:30–4:00 ET
Two minutes to set up. No charge for 30 days.
Why the index lies
An average of ten companies,
describing five hundred
Theme rotation
Example session · 2026-08-04
Theme21d · rank Δ
1
China ADRs
IN+15.5%↑21
2
Software / SaaS
IN+14.6%↑22
3
AI infra / datacenter
IN+13.3%↑18
4
Energy
DIST+12.0%↑16
5
Drones / defense
IN+9.1%↑21
Ranks 6 to 25 omitted
26
Health / biotech
OUT−10.8%↓25
27
Clean energy
−12.0%↓4
28
Space
OUT−15.7%↓10
Every theme re-ranked each session on the median move of its members, so one mega-cap cannot set the level.
Correlation has collapsed, a dozen mega-caps now decide what the S&P prints, and the number on your screen has become an average of ten companies claiming to describe five hundred.
Underneath that average the market has pulled apart. Themes run in opposite directions inside the same session, so money can leave one and arrive in another while the headline number sits still and reports that nothing happened. An average is built to cancel exactly that out.
Which is why the old sentiment playbook — everything green, everything red, wait for the extreme, buy it — stopped paying. A rotation between two themes leaves no trace in the headline number. If you're still trading the index, you're trading a rumour. You have to measure the pieces separately.
Jeff, in the recaps — dated and on the record
“Dispersion is at historic extremes — the index is now the average of ~10 stocks, not 100, so the old “everything's green / everything's red” sentiment cycle doesn't apply anymore.”
Market recap · 24 Jul 2026
“The index is dead — nothing moves it anymore, even nuclear/holy war headlines. Meanwhile the average stock's range of motion is only matched by 2008.”
Market recap · 19 Feb 2026
“Stop reading the index for opportunity; use it for risk only.”
Market recap · 3 Jan 2025
“Dispersion is the theme: lowest correlation environment in modern times, market can't reach any extreme because too much is going up underneath.”
Market recap · 10 Mar 2025
The method
So we measure the pieces, every session
The market gets split into themes — quantum, AI infrastructure, drones, nuclear, housing, China ADRs, big pharma and so on — and each one is measured on its own terms, then ranked against the others. Four rules keep it honest:
The median member move
A theme's daily figure is the median of its members, so a single $3-trillion company cannot set the level for a group of forty.
Measured against the other themes
Each figure is a residual against the median theme, which strips the market day back out. What survives is relative flow — money leaving one theme and arriving in another.
Six sessions of trail
Position tells you where a theme sits; the trail tells you where it is going. A theme still weak on the month but accelerating on the week is a rotation that hasn't reached the rankings yet.
Breadth has to agree
Rank on its own whipsaws, so a move only counts when the residual and the breadth of the theme confirm each other. That is the line between a one-day pop and something you can size.
Inside the app these themes are called baskets. Same thing.
The record
Receipts. Twelve years of them, dates attached
The alert log goes back to 31 January 2014 — 6,700+ posted entries and exits across 776 tickers. Members see all of it, including the ones that didn't work. A few that did:
Still holding — open right now
marked to market 4 Aug 2026
WULF
+720%
A bitcoin miner bought as an AI-datacentre business
$2.31Apr 2025$18.94
AAOI
+2,099%
Optical networking, held since the 2020 low
$6.02Mar 2020$132.38
CENX
+1,213%
Aluminium, added at the 2020 bottom and never sold
$3.60Mar 2020$47.28
MRVL
+1,069%
Semis, bought in the March 2020 washout
$18.85Mar 2020$220.38
IREN
+555%
The neocloud trade, six months before it had a name
$6.24Apr 2025$40.86
KC
+415%
China cloud, while China was uninvestable
$2.54Jul 2024$13.08
Open positions, so these gains are unrealised and move every session. Entry prices are the posted alert; the mark is the close on 4 Aug 2026.
Closed — entry and exit both posted
Ticker
The call
Alerted
Exit posted
SM
Energy, bought into the 2020 crude collapse
SM Energy · scaled out across several exits
$1.83 Apr 2020
$40.62 Jun 2022
FNGD
Positioned against the mega-caps before the 2022 drawdown
Short big-cap tech
$3.06 Jun 2021
$66.78 Apr 2022
TMV
Short bonds two years before the rate shock
Short long-dated Treasuries
$6.10 Mar 2020
$64.18 Feb 2022
BTU
Coal, when nobody would touch it
Peabody Energy · scaled out across several exits
$2.62 Mar 2021
$27.03 Jun 2022
GME
In seven months before the squeeze, out into it
GameStop · scaled out across several exits
$4.44 Jun 2020
$33.50 Jan 2021
GDS
China data centres, ahead of the AI-infrastructure bid
GDS Holdings
$6.80 Feb 2024
$32.49 Nov 2025
X
Held the steel thesis through six years of noise
US Steel
$8.70 Apr 2017
$49.68 Dec 2023
CENX
Aluminium, held from 2018
Century Aluminum
$8.33 Sep 2018
$50.47 Feb 2026
AA
Jan-2027 $40 calls on the metals turn
Alcoa LEAPS · option premium, not share price
$2.53 May 2025
$27.75 Feb 2026
Not investment advice. Past performance doesn't guarantee future results.
Early to the theme
The dates matter more than the prices
Reading dispersion is worth something only if it puts you in a theme before it has a name. When each of these was first flagged in the room:
Aug 2017
AI hardware
AMD, NVDA
Jan 2018
Bitcoin miners
RIOT, MARA
Feb 2019
Data centres
GDS
late 2024
Miners turned AI infra
WULF, CORZ
2025
Neoclouds
IREN, CRWV
mid 2025
Quantum
RGTI, IONQ, QUBT
Execution
When it's time to pull the trigger
Members only
Trade alerts
Every entry and exit the second it happens — price, target, stop and the reason in one line, pushed to your phone. Members mark the alerts they took, so you see what the room actually put money behind.
Daily market recaps
Every session gets walked on video: the grid, the open positions, what changed and why. Watch it on demand, or skim the AI summary and transcript when you're slammed.
Sample recap · unlocked
Watch the recap from the day the tape turned
This is Jeff Kohler, trading since the '90s, working through an ugly session and a violent late-day reversal across two dozen charts to decide whether it was capitulation. Nothing rehearsed, nothing cut, and there's one of these waiting after every session. Want to know who you'd be trading with? Start here.
31 July recap opened
“A week where a year happened.”
3 August recap opened
“Two back-to-back monster days as the pain trade rips higher.”
AI summary
Excerpt
Ugly tape, but that late-day reversal off the Fed was breathtaking and smells like capitulation buying.
Market action
Widest VWAP band width in 10-20 days today - rip-to-fade template means a strong buyer AND a motivated seller were both in there.
Velocity of the buy effort was the most extreme of the last 10 days; QQQ cleared 40 points on the move, made Friday's bounce look tiny.
Software is now the safety trade, which tells you where sentiment is.
Tickers / setups
MU (Micron): 1200 to 750 is 40% top to bottom, 33.3% off yesterday's close - trade it, don't “invest” it.
SMH / SOX: 671 to 400 would be 40% and that's Armageddon territory - one-third (33%) is where funds start throwing down a piece.
TLT: the standout - everything got back above its Fed print. Made me go wow.
Watch list
QQQ oversold, ES nowhere near it, RTY funny up here, Dow/NYSE barely off overbought - mixed picture.
If we're not in a better spot by end of week, we rethink some things.
Every recap gets one of these, plus a full transcript.
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He talks like this every session
Straight off the recaps and bootcamps, no script, no edit. Hit play and hear him say it.
“If you haven't done a high short interest scan, then you're pretending.”
Jeff · Recap, 21 Apr 2026
“At the point of maximum opportunity, we're doing the least amount of shit. And then it takes a while and a while and a while. And then finally, we're guns blazing.”
Jeff · Recap, 21 Apr 2026
“As soon as people clear the room, that's the time I like to go in.”
Jeff · Recap, 29 Jul 2026
“Those are the hardest days to buy are usually the ones you want to engage.”
Jeff · Recap, 2 Apr 2026
“I think the only way to analyze this market is via baskets.”
Jeff · Recap, 30 Jul 2026
“Dispersion is the healthiest thing that could happen in a market.”
Jeff · Bootcamp, May 2026
Who's in the room
The platform reads the market. The room trades it.
Jeff Kohler — “Option Addict” — has been trading since the '90s, and he sits in the room the whole session instead of yelling alerts at it from somewhere else. Around him are members who have traded together for years and post their own reasoning as they go.
Ask him a dumb question and he answers it, then asks one back until the reasoning is yours. Members bring that up more than they bring up the alerts.
Members
Don't take our word for it
“Jeff just has a sixth sense in reading the market. I have seen incredible moves since I became a member.”
Ken · Member
“Jeff was able to show me the error of my ways and turn me into a profitable trader.”
Trent · Member
“I don't know how to explain it other than you just do things different.”
Ray · Member
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