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QuickStart Instructions

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To understand the basic features of Pressure-Read, follows these step before proceeding to read the User Manual.

Get a book on the page and read it. The full manual explains the numbers. This only gets you running.

Pressure Read is a second look at resting bids and asks. It is not a broker. It does not tell you to buy or sell. Demo books are hypothetical. Not investment advice.

Open Pressure Read. Three blocks: BOOK, OPINION, RESEARCH.

1. Try a Demo

  1. Click a scenario, A through F.
  2. Look at the lights. Tape is one choice: Lift ask, Mixed, or Hit bid. Persistence is one choice: Persistent, Liquid, or Delayed. A demo may light a teaching pair. Only one in each group should stay lit.
  3. Click Read pressure.
  4. Read the headline, the clause, and the ladder. The chart is the same snapshot. Width is size at that price, not a price chart.
  5. Change one button. Read again. The ladder should stay put. The clause can move.

Start with A (packed bids) and D (packed offers). Then C if you want book and tape to disagree.

2. Load a CSV trade depth table

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  1. On the desktop, double click the zip file to create a csv file folder, Choose any file and load file into Pressure_Read.
  2. Click Refresh book from file. The note on the page: local CSV. Refresh re-reads the same file after IEX.
  3. Check the lights. A file does not set them. If two persistence buttons are lit, click one so only one stays on. If you did not watch the tape, use Mixed.
  4. Click Read pressure.

The ticker can come from the filename. Sizes in a CSV must be plain: 1200, not 1,200. Your own file works the same way. TD Advanced Dashboard, Market-by-price L2, then Excel Data from Picture, saved as CSV UTF-8.

3. Load IEX (Top of book - Investors Exchange)

  1. Type a ticker (US exchange only).
  2. Click Load IEX top-of-book. Live load sits here. Demos A–F stay manual.
  3. Set tape and persistence yourself. IEX does not set them.
  4. Click Read pressure.

This is the inside quote only, best bid and best ask. It is capped Moderate and flagged top-of-book only. Fine as a glance. Not a ten-level book, and not a read on the next trade.

Session Quote

Show quote pulls a Yahoo Finance snapshot for the ticker: prior close, last, and day change. It is context only. It is not used in the Pressure Read.

The book is one moment of resting bids and asks. The session quote says where that moment sits in the day. A packed offer means more if the stock is already down from the prior close. A thin bid means less if the last trade is unchanged. The quote does not score the ladder, and it does not confirm the headline.

4. Research

Ask Grok is wired and may be off until credits are on the account. It is news and context only. Not a Pressure Read or BUY/SELL recommendation. It does not rescore the book above it.

**Be sure to type the stock ticker symbol in the question.

Before you trust a headline

Buttons survive a load. After a CSV or an IEX pull, look at the lights before you read. One tape, one persistence. Then decide yourself.

Download User Manual and save it to your Desktop for easy reference: 2op_usermanual.pdf