Frequently Asked Questions

Nydar is a multi-asset trading platform with 105 technical indicators, XGBoost ML-powered buy/sell signals (53-56% directional accuracy across 13,500+ walk-forward fits), order flow analysis with 5,000-level depth, options flow tracking, risk analytics with Value at Risk, and paper trading with $100,000 virtual capital. Nydar covers crypto (200+ pairs), US stocks, and forex from a single drag-and-drop dashboard.See all features →

Nydar offers tiered pricing with different feature levels. Paper trading, 105 technical indicators, charting, and market data are available to get started. Premium tiers unlock advanced features like live broker integration, extended historical data, and priority signal delivery. Visit the pricing page for current options.View pricing →

No. Nydar is designed for traders at every skill level. Beginners can start with $100,000 in virtual capital through Nydar's paper trading simulator, follow the 7-step first trade walkthrough, and learn using 42 free tutorials covering technical analysis, order flow, and risk management. Experienced traders access Level 2 data (5,000 price levels), options flow analysis, 105 indicators, and ML signals.Beginner's guide →

Nydar supports 3 major asset classes: cryptocurrency (200+ pairs with sub-second WebSocket streaming), US stocks (real-time data with earnings calendars, 13F institutional holdings, and options flow), and forex (50+ pairs with session overlays and economic calendar). All 3 markets share the same 105 indicators, ML signals, and paper trading engine.Explore markets →

Yes. Nydar's dashboard uses a drag-and-drop grid layout with 46 available widgets. Add, remove, resize, and rearrange any widget. Save multiple named layouts and switch between them — for example, a crypto order flow layout and a stocks fundamentals layout. Each layout persists across sessions.Dashboard guide →

Nydar is a responsive web application that works in any modern browser, including mobile browsers on iOS and Android. The drag-and-drop dashboard automatically adapts widgets to your screen size. No app download is required — open nydar.co.uk in your browser and log in.

Nydar's signals use XGBoost gradient-boosted models trained on historical OHLCV data. The pipeline extracts 100+ features (momentum, volatility, trend, volume) and selects the top 15 by predictive importance using walk-forward validation across 13,500+ model fits. A meta-labeling confidence filter, as described by Marcos Lopez de Prado in Advances in Financial Machine Learning, reduces false signals by approximately 30%. Each signal includes a confidence score from 0-100%.How our AI works →

Nydar's XGBoost signals achieve 53-56% directional accuracy in walk-forward backtests across 10 cryptocurrencies and 4-hour timeframes, validated across 13,500+ model fits. Each model trains on 2,000 candles and tests on the next 500 (unseen data). Signals include confidence scores so traders can filter by reliability. As with any statistical model, signals should be one input in a broader trading decision — not the sole basis for trades.AI Signals feature →

Nydar's Daily Picks scans the entire market each day and ranks trading opportunities by signal strength, risk/reward ratio, and user-defined risk tolerance. The ranking algorithm combines the ML confidence score with technical confluence (how many of the 105 indicators agree) to surface the highest-probability setups without manually analyzing hundreds of assets.Daily Picks guide →

Yes. Nydar's Backtester widget lets you test signal-based strategies against historical OHLCV data going back several years. Configure entry/exit rules, stop losses, position sizing, and timeframes, then review equity curves, drawdown analysis, win rate, Sharpe ratio, and trade-by-trade logs. The backtester uses the same walk-forward methodology as Nydar's live signals.Backtester guide →

Paper trading on Nydar is simulated trading using $100,000 in virtual capital against live market prices. Nydar tracks positions, P&L, orders, and performance metrics (Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, maximum drawdown) exactly like a real brokerage account. Paper trading is available for all 3 asset classes: crypto, stocks, and forex.Paper trading guide →

New Nydar accounts start with $100,000 in virtual trading capital. This balance can be used across crypto (200+ pairs), US stocks, and forex (50+ pairs) simultaneously. Paper trading balances can be reset from the settings page to start fresh with a new strategy.

Live broker integration is planned for future premium tiers. Currently, Nydar focuses on paper trading, market analysis, and signal generation. Traders can use Nydar's ML signals, order flow analysis, and risk metrics to inform trades executed on their preferred broker platform.

Yes. Nydar allows you to reset your virtual portfolio from the settings page at any time. This clears all open positions and trade history and restores the balance to $100,000. Resetting is useful when changing strategy or starting a fresh performance track record.

Nydar's order flow suite provides footprint charts (volume at each price level), volume delta (cumulative buy vs sell pressure), and absorption detection — tools that reveal institutional activity invisible on standard candlestick charts. As Larry Harris describes in Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, order flow analysis identifies where large participants are accumulating or distributing positions.Level 2 & order flow →

Nydar's Level 2 widget displays up to 5,000 price levels of bid/ask depth with real-time WebSocket updates. It includes automatic wall detection (orders 5-10x surrounding depth), spoofing alerts, bid/ask imbalance calculation, time & sales tape with aggressor tagging, and depth chart visualisation. Level 2 data is available for crypto, stocks, and forex.Level 2 guide →

Yes. Nydar's liquidation heatmap displays estimated liquidation clusters across 5,000 price levels, showing where leveraged positions are likely to be forcibly closed. In crypto markets, cascading liquidations can move price 5-15% in minutes. The heatmap gives traders advance visibility into probable squeeze zones before they trigger.Liquidation map guide →

Nydar offers 105 technical indicators across 4 categories: momentum (RSI, MACD, Stochastic, CCI), trend (SMA, EMA, ADX, Ichimoku Cloud, Supertrend), volatility (Bollinger Bands, ATR, Keltner Channels), and volume (VWAP, OBV, MFI, Accumulation/Distribution). All 105 indicators update in real-time across 7 timeframes from 1-minute to weekly.Indicators guide →

Nydar's options flow tracks unusual options activity where volume exceeds open interest by 2x+ (Vol/OI flagging), with intermarket sweep detection (ISO orders), Black-Scholes-Merton Greeks (delta, gamma, theta, vega), IV percentile ranked against 252 trading days, max pain with open interest concentration, and put/call ratio analysis for US equity options.Options flow feature →

Yes. Nydar's Custom Indicator Builder supports Pine Script-compatible syntax with 29 built-in functions. Combine price, volume, and existing indicators with arithmetic and logical operators. Custom indicators appear alongside Nydar's 105 built-in indicators on any chart. The builder includes a formula reference, syntax highlighting, and live preview.Custom indicators guide →

Nydar's Advanced Screener scans markets using technical and fundamental filters. Choose from 24 built-in presets (e.g., "Golden Cross", "Oversold RSI", "Volume Breakout") or write custom screening formulas. Filter across stocks, crypto, or forex. Results update in real time and link directly to the chart for any matching asset.Screener guide →

Nydar's WSB Trading Floor includes 16 alternative data widgets: Reddit mention velocity (4 subreddits), dark pool volume (FINRA ATS data — 40-45% of US equity volume is off-exchange), short interest, congressional trades (STOCK Act filings), failures to deliver (FTDs), insider transaction clusters, GEX (gamma exposure) with dealer flip-point mapping, and max pain. These data sources are typically available only through institutional terminals.WSB Trading Floor →

Nydar's Game Stock Tracker maps video game review scores to publisher stock movements across 28 publishers on 8 global exchanges (TSE, KRX, KOSDAQ, WSE, Euronext, OMX, LSE, NASDAQ/NYSE). It calculates a Launch Health Score (0-100) from 6 weighted factors, tracks franchise deviation, detects RSS embargoes from 5 outlets minutes before aggregators, and monitors social buzz from Reddit, YouTube (6 channels), Discord, and Twitch.Game Stocks feature →

Nydar provides portfolio risk analytics including Value at Risk (VaR) calculated using 3 methods (parametric, historical simulation, and Monte Carlo with 10,000 simulation paths) at 95% and 99% confidence levels. Additional metrics include Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, Calmar ratio, maximum drawdown, beta, alpha, and pairwise correlation analysis for concentration risk.Risk analytics feature →

Value at Risk (VaR) estimates the maximum potential loss of a portfolio over a specific time period at a given confidence level. For example, a 1-day 95% VaR of $1,000 means there is a 95% probability that the portfolio will not lose more than $1,000 in a single day. Nydar calculates VaR using parametric, historical simulation, and Monte Carlo (10,000 paths) methods — the same 3 approaches used by institutional risk desks, as outlined in Philippe Jorion's Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk.Risk analytics guide →

Nydar's stress testing simulates how a portfolio would perform during historical market crashes: the 2008 financial crisis (-56.8%), the March 2020 COVID crash (-33.9%), and the May 2021 crypto crash (-53.4%). Each scenario replays real drawdown curves against your current holdings to quantify tail risk exposure before it materialises.Stress testing guide →

Nydar's Alert Builder creates multi-condition alerts using AND/OR logic. Combine price levels, indicator thresholds (any of 105 indicators), volume spikes, and signal triggers into a single alert rule. Alerts fire in real time via the dashboard and optionally via Telegram push notifications. Alerts run continuously while the relevant market is open.Alert Builder guide →

Yes. Connect a Telegram account in Nydar's settings to receive alert notifications on your phone instantly. Nydar sends a Telegram message when any alert condition is met — even when you are not actively using the dashboard. Crypto alerts run 24/7; stock and forex alerts fire during market hours.

Nydar supports multiple concurrent alerts, each with several combined conditions (e.g., RSI below 30 AND price above 200 SMA AND volume above 2x average). There is no hard limit on the number of active alerts. Each alert can target any of the 200+ crypto pairs, US stocks, or 50+ forex pairs.

Nydar streams crypto data in real time via WebSocket connections with sub-second latency. Stock data arrives through professional feeds during market hours (9:30-16:00 ET). Forex data updates in real time during active sessions (Sunday 17:00 - Friday 17:00 ET). All charts, indicators, signals, and order book depth update automatically as new data arrives — no page refreshing required.

Nydar displays times in your local time zone by default (detected automatically via your browser). The Economic Calendar shows events in GMT with local time conversions. Forex session indicators (Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York) display in GMT. Stock market hours follow US Eastern Time (ET).

Yes. Nydar's Backtester uses historical OHLCV (open, high, low, close, volume) data going back several years for stocks and crypto. You can test strategies across different market conditions including bull markets, bear markets, and ranging/sideways periods. The backtester supports the same 105 indicators available on live charts.Backtester guide →

Nydar uses HTTPS/TLS encryption for all connections, bcrypt password hashing (industry standard for secure credential storage), and JWT token-based authentication with expiring sessions. Nydar does not sell user data to third parties. The platform is hosted on dedicated infrastructure with CrowdSec intrusion prevention.About Nydar →

Yes. Nydar supports CSV export of your trading journal, portfolio history, and analytics data. The journal feature exports all trades, notes, entry/exit prices, P&L, and timestamps for record-keeping, strategy review, or tax purposes.