A trend is rarely just "up" or "down." It can be strong in one way and shaky in another — so instead of a single arrow, we drew it as a shape.
Most trend tools boil everything down to one figure: up, down, strength seven out of ten. Tidy — but it hides the disagreements. A move can be charging ahead on the surface while quietly losing support underneath, and a single number erases that tension completely.
We wanted to keep the tension visible. So the Trend dial doesn't hand you one number — it hands you a shape.
The radar reads the move from several angles at once, each one a spoke pushing out from the center. When every spoke stretches out together, the shape is big and balanced — a clean, well-supported trend where everything is rowing the same way. When the shape stays small, the move is weak. When it's lopsided — long on some spokes, short on others — the trend is conflicted: forceful in some respects, hollow in others.
You don't have to study each spoke. The overall shape tells the story in a glance: full and even is conviction; small or spiky is doubt.
Regime tells you whether there's a trend at all; the Trend radar tells you what kind of shape that trend is in. A strong regime with a full, balanced radar is about as aligned as the screen gets. The same regime with a lopsided radar is a quieter warning — the move is there, but not everyone is convinced.
As always, it's a description of the move as it stands — not a call on where it goes next.