> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.hydravision.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.hydravision.ai/products/asset-profiler/reference-states.md). # Reference States Reference page. Look up anything your report shows that you don't recognise. ### Verdict The badge beside the symbol, and the tone of the opening paragraph. | Value | Badge reads | Opening sentence reads | Meaning | | ------------------ | ---------------- | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `TRADEABLE` | TRADEABLE | *Tradeable.* | A workable range exists and costs stay inside tolerance across it. | | `MARGINAL` | MARGINAL | *Marginal.* | A range exists but costs have taken part of it (band compression above 1%), or the calculation did not fully settle. | | `COST_CONSTRAINED` | COST CONSTRAINED | *Not viable at these costs.* | Costs demand a wider step than the asset can retrace. No setting fixes it. | | `NOT_VIABLE` | NOT VIABLE | *Not viable.* | One of three things: the retrace never arrived in the sampled history; the p80 wait is longer than the carry runway; or costs exceed tolerance even at the widest step. | Full discussion on [The Verdict](/products/asset-profiler/the-verdict.md). ### Binding constraint What's actually limiting your range. Recorded in the JSON export; on screen the report shows the related information as **floor set by**, under the step range. | Value | Meaning | | ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `noise` | The asset's own movement sets the floor. The healthy case: costs aren't your constraint. | | `volatility` | The retrace was never measured in the sampled history, so the asset's movement is the limit and costs never come into it. Goes with a *Not viable* verdict. | | `spread` | Costs set the floor, and spread is the larger half. Read [Band compression](/products/asset-profiler/band-compression.md). | | `commission` | Costs set the floor, and commission is the larger half. The lever here is your account terms, not your broker's pricing. | | `carry` | Overnight cost is what binds: the wait, not the entry, is the problem. | ### Floor set by Printed under the step range. | Value | Meaning | | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `volatility` | The movement floor is higher than the cost floor. Costs took nothing off your range. | | `cost` | The cost floor is higher. The tight end of your range has been bought away by spread and commission. | ### Economic optimum Whether the report names a step. Full discussion on [Recommended Step](/products/asset-profiler/recommended-step.md). | Value | Meaning | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | `interior` | A real minimum inside the range. A recommended step is shown. | | `monotone_edge` | The cost curve falls all the way to the widest step. No recommendation: the widest step is arithmetic, not advice. | | `degenerate` | The range collapsed to a single value. Nothing to sweep. | ### Band preset Which multipliers built your range, from `step_band.preset`. | Value | Multipliers (× H4 ATR) | Chosen when | | -------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | `fx` | 0.30 / 0.40 / 0.55 | Auto, on symbols with a 100k contract size, and from v1.23 on any symbol Hydra Vision treats as forex. | | `non_fx` | 1.63 / 2.71 / 3.80 | Auto, on everything else: metals, commodities, indices, crypto. | | `custom` | Whatever you supplied | You set all three multipliers yourself. Marked `band_calibrated: false`. | ### Swap #### Swap verdict | Value | Meaning | | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `BOTH_ZERO` | No overnight cost either way. Runway is unlimited. | | `BOTH_NEGATIVE` | Both directions pay to hold. | | `NEGATIVE_LONG` | Long pays, short doesn't. Carry is one-sided. | | `NEGATIVE_SHORT` | Short pays, long doesn't. Carry is one-sided. | | `BOTH_POSITIVE` | Both directions earn. The model still charges zero rather than counting the income as return. | | `REOPEN_MODE` | Your broker rolls positions by closing and reopening them rather than charging a daily amount. There is no daily figure to model. | | `MIXED` | Something that fits none of the above — usually one side at exactly zero and the other positive. Read the raw figures. | #### Carry-free side | Value | Meaning | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `both` | Neither direction pays. | | `none` | Both directions pay. | | `long` / `short` | The named side doesn't pay. The model still charges the other side, so if you trade the free side the report is being pessimistic on your behalf. | #### Swap mode How your broker calculates it. The label is taken from the symbol as MetaTrader reports it. | Mode | Label | Handled | | ---- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 0 | `disabled` | Treated as carry-free. | | 1 | `points` | Exact. | | 2 | `currency_symbol` | Taken as reported, with no guaranteed conversion to your account currency — marked *approx*. | | 3 | `interest_current` | Converted. | | 4 | `interest_open` | Converted. | | 5 | `currency_margin` | Approximated — marked *approx*. | | 6 | `currency_deposit` | Used as reported; it is already in your account currency. | | 7 | `reopen_current` | No daily charge exists in this mode; carry reads zero and the swap verdict is `REOPEN_MODE`. | | 8 | `reopen_bid` | As above. | | — | `unknown` | A mode the terminal reports outside 0–8. Carry reads zero and the figure is marked *approx*. | Anything marked *approx* means the figure is indicative rather than exact. ### Flags and warnings Small markers that change how much weight a number deserves. | Flag | Where it shows | What it means | | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `is_approximation` | *approx* beside the swap mode | Swap calculation is estimated. Sanity-check against a real charge. | | `zero_suspicious` | Note in the carry panel | Both sides report exactly zero under an active swap mode — unusual for the instrument class. Worth confirming with your broker. | | `disabled_but_nonzero` | Note in the carry panel | Swap reported off while rates remain on the symbol. The mode is taken as authoritative. Worth confirming. | | `carry_side_asymmetric` | *"Carry here is one-sided"* | One direction pays, the other doesn't. | | `carry_is_worst_case` | Implicit throughout | The model always charges the expensive side and never counts swap income as return. | | `escalated_to_m1` | *"Measured on M1"* | Every step retraced inside one fifteen-minute bar, so timing was re-measured at one-minute resolution. Needs M1 history. | | `sub_bar` | Note in the retrace panel | The retrace distance is small relative to the bars used to measure it. Treat the median as a floor. | | `thin` | Dimmed rows in the sweep table; counted in the chart header | Too few samples at that step for the measurement to be reliable. | | Band collapsed | *"band collapsed to a single step — nothing to sweep"* across the chart | The range has no width. The portal detects this from the sweep; the export also carries `solution.band_degenerate`. | | `cost_constrained` | Export only | Recorded by the EA when the cost floor reaches the movement ceiling. On screen you see the consequence, as the verdict. | | Older-export banner | Amber bar at the top | The file predates the portal's schema. Panels needing newer fields are hidden. Re-run the EA. | | *(estimated)* | Beside the **as Minimum Step Size** value | The profile was made before Asset Profiler v1.23, so the setting unit was worked out from the symbol name. A v1.23 profile records it. See [Ticks, pips and price](/products/asset-profiler/ticks-pips-and-price.md). | | Re-run request | *"re-run this profile with Asset Profiler v1.23 ..."* in place of the setting value | A pre-v1.23 profile where the symbol name isn't enough to work out the setting unit, or a currency pair that was profiled as non-FX because of a small contract size. | ### Data quality | Value | Meaning | | ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `real_ticks` | The tick value was calibrated against the terminal's own P\&L engine. What you want. | | `tick_value_approximate` | Calibration failed and the symbol's reported tick value was used instead. Every dollar figure in the report is less trustworthy; the tick figures are unaffected. | If neither is possible (no usable tick value at all), the export is aborted rather than written, and the reason is printed to the journal.