Ballad Markets
Ballad Markets · Operator Guide

How Ballad Markets works, and how to make it work for you.

One institutional intelligence stack — scanners, an AI fund manager, and automated execution. This guide shows you what each engine does and builds your personal way to use them in 30 seconds.

01 — The System

Not signals. Reasoning.

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Intelligence, not alerts

Every call ships with its reasoning — fundamentals, structure, sentiment, risk. You see why, not just what.

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One connected stack

Scanners feed the AI desk; the desk reasons; DELIA executes. The same data hedge funds pay thousands for.

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Risk-first by design

The system rejects far more than it takes. Defined invalidations, structural stops, sizing discipline built in.

Ballad Markets is one platform with several engines. The scanners find structure across hundreds of markets. CHESKO 2.0, the autonomous AI fund manager, reasons over everything and runs a real book. DELIA turns decisions into orders. AMAIA reads the narrative behind the moves.

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The point of this guide
You don't need every tool on day one. The next section asks three questions and tells you exactly which engine to lead with — and how often to touch it.
02 — Star Section ⭐

Define your profile

Trader, investor, or both? How much time do you have, and how often do you want to act? Answer below and the system builds your Ballad Markets stack — primary engine, supporting tools, and a routine.

I am a…
Time I can give per day
How often I want to act
Your recommended stack
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Primary engine
CHESKO 2.0

Autonomous AI fund manager. Fully automated, multi-agent risk committee, position trades up to ~1yr plus only high-conviction swings.

Two engines: CHESKO holds the long-horizon core, you trade active swings around it.

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Price Action AI

BOS, FVG, liquidity sweeps and order blocks. Only setups scoring ≥ 75 surface.

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Squeeze Scanner

Volatility compression across 650+ pairs — catches the coil before the breakout.

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Technical

Multi-timeframe support / resistance levels for precise entries and invalidations.

Your routine

CHESKO holds the core automatically; you check swings a few days per week.

03 — The AI Fund Manager

CHESKO 2.0

A fully autonomous AI investment desk. It runs a research team, a bull-versus-bear debate, a risk committee, and a portfolio manager — and every position ships with its complete reasoning.

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CHESKO 2.0

Autonomous, fully automated, explained

Automation
Fully automated end-to-end. It researches, debates, sizes, and manages positions on its own.
Risk structure
One of the most advanced risk frameworks on the platform — a multi-agent risk committee vets every call before capital moves.
Horizon
Position trades held up to ~1 year, compounding the core book — plus only high-conviction swing trades.
Edge
Folds Congressional + insider buying into its analysis. Takes longs and shorts. Never a black box — always reasoned.
Open CHESKO 2.0 →
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Who it's for
If your time is minimal or you think like an investor, CHESKO 2.0 is your primary engine — it holds the long-horizon core and only acts on high-conviction setups, so you supervise rather than operate.
04 — The Scanner

Squeeze Scanner

Volatility always cycles between compression and expansion. The scanner finds the coil — the quiet before the move — across the full crypto futures universe, in real time.

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Squeeze Scanner

Compression before the breakout

Coverage
650+ pairs across Binance & MEXC futures, rescanned every 15 minutes by a persistent worker.
Signal
Bollinger Band compressing inside the Keltner Channel with declining ATR — the classic squeeze signature.
Scoring
Every candidate scored 0–100. A state machine tracks each pair from watching → trigger → triggered.
Use it for
Spotting where energy is building before price expands — your shortlist of what to watch next.
Open Squeeze Scanner →
05 — The Setup Engine

Price Action AI

Institutional price action — break of structure, fair value gaps, liquidity sweeps, order blocks. The engine reads the footprints of smart money and only surfaces setups that pass every filter.

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Price Action AI

Smart-money structure, scored

Concepts
BOS, FVG, liquidity sweeps, order blocks — ICT / smart money concepts, detected automatically.
Quality gate
Only setups scoring ≥ 75 with real confluence are shown. The engine rejects 70%+ of what it detects.
Each setup
Entry, stop, targets, historical win-rate and expectancy — with the full agent reasoning.
Use it for
Active swing trading: your edge is knowing which scored setups to act on.
Read the deep-dive Price Action guide →
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Want the full method?
There's a complete operational deep-dive — the 8 patterns, confluence scoring, how the agent thinks, and common mistakes — inside the dashboard.
06 — Precision Levels

Technical

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Technical

Multi-timeframe support & resistance

What it maps
Key support and resistance across multiple timeframes for any asset you track.
Why it matters
Precise entries and invalidations — know where a thesis is right and exactly where it is wrong.
Pairs with
Use alongside Price Action AI and CHESKO to time entries into a level, not into thin air.
Use it for
Turning a directional idea into a defined entry, stop, and target.
Open Technical →
07 — The Narrative Engine

AMAIA

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AMAIA

Narrative & sentiment, structured

What it does
Reads the market story — news, sentiment, narrative shifts — and turns it into structured signals.
Why it matters
Price moves on narrative before it moves on charts. AMAIA gives you the why behind a setup.
Feeds
Its read flows into CHESKO 2.0 and surfaces in the breaking-news feed with sentiment tags.
Use it for
Context — confirm a setup aligns with the prevailing narrative, or spot when it fights it.
Open the news & narrative feed →
08 — Execution

DELIA

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DELIA

Automated execution, paper or live

Modes
Paper trading to validate, or live execution on Binance & MEXC when you are ready.
Protection
Native exchange-side stops — your risk is enforced at the exchange, not just in software.
Discipline
Rules-based execution with no emotional override — it does exactly what the plan says.
Use it for
Turning CHESKO and Price Action decisions into orders without manual clicking.
Configure DELIA →
09 — Putting It Together

Your routine, by profile

The Investor

CHESKO 2.0 holds the book

  • ›Let CHESKO run the position core (held up to ~1yr)
  • ›Review once a week — read the reasoning, not the ticker
  • ›Use AMAIA to understand narrative shifts
  • ›Add manually only on high-conviction context

The Trader

Scanners + Price Action AI daily

  • ›Open Squeeze Scanner for the day's coils
  • ›Take only Price Action setups scoring ≥ 75
  • ›Confirm levels in Technical, narrative in AMAIA
  • ›Route execution through DELIA with native stops

Both

Automated core + active swings

  • ›CHESKO holds the long-horizon core automatically
  • ›Scan Price Action + Squeeze for swings around it
  • ›Size swings small; let the core compound
  • ›Check daily or a few days/week — your call
10 — The Non-Negotiables

Risk management

The tools find the edge. Risk management is what lets you survive long enough to compound it. These rules are not optional.

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Size by risk, not by conviction

Risk a fixed, small fraction of capital per trade — 1–2%. Four losses in a row should sting, not scar.

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The stop is structural

Stops come from market structure, not from how much you are willing to lose. If it is hit, the thesis is wrong — never widen it.

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Minimum 2:1 reward-to-risk

Below 2:1 you need a high win-rate just to break even. The engines do not surface setups worth less.

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No trade is a position

CHESKO rejects most of what it sees; so should you. Sitting out a low-quality day is the trade.

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The CHESKO advantage
CHESKO 2.0 enforces these rules automatically through its multi-agent risk committee — sizing, invalidation, and exposure are vetted before any capital moves. If you operate manually, you are the risk committee. Be as cold as the machine.
11 — Get Started

Start with one engine

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Your edge is already scanning the market.

Pick the engine your profile pointed to, give it 14 days free, and let the system do the heavy lifting. You bring the discipline.

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