Momentum, in this stack, means a change in how price is behaving, not a colored arrow. Alpha is the recognition piece: patterns and shifts, looked at while they are still developing.
A shift is easier to overread when it is the only thing on the screen. The rest of the ecosystem exists so you can ask a second question. Is exposure positioned to dampen this, or to extend it? Is price at a cycle level, or in the middle of empty space?
Recognition can be early and wrong. It can also be early and useful. The software’s job is to show the shift clearly enough that you can disagree with it. It does not rank trades, size them, or send them.
Use Alpha beside the desk and the chart. If those three layers cannot be named in a sentence, you do not have a view yet. You have a picture.
