📖 Zone Intelligence Guide

Understand every
observation we send

What each message means, how to read the heat map, and how to combine zone intelligence with your existing strategy.

What is zone intelligence?
Not just what happened — who did it, and how many times.

Standard volume analysis tells you how much was traded in a candle. Zone intelligence tells you something more useful: how many times large institutional players have returned to the exact same price level, and how much capital they have committed there.

Think of a price zone as a level where large players keep returning to buy or sell. Each time the zone holds, it gets stronger. When you see $41 million absorbed at the same ETH price level across 71 separate transactions over 5 days — that is not a chart pattern. That is institutional commitment. Zone intelligence is the X-ray of the volume.

How it works
01 — Detect
📡
Real-time ingestion

WebSocket connections to HyperLiquid, Binance, and Bybit stream every large transaction the moment it happens. Each trade is evaluated against asset-specific thresholds — $750K+ for BTC, $100K+ for SOL.

02 — Enrich
🔍
Zone clustering

Each transaction is matched against 5 days of history at the same price zone. When the same level is touched 3 or more times — that is accumulation or distribution, not noise. Touch count and absorbed volume build your edge.

03 — Score
🧠
Pulsar Score

Each observation receives a confidence score 1–10 combining zone strength, transaction size relative to asset norms, wallet type, exchange, and market trend context. You only act on what actually matters.

Intelligence types

What each observation means

Every observation has two things: what it detected and why it matters.

🐋
Large Buy / Sell — Print
Live
What it is
The first detection of a large transaction at a price level. A single institutional-sized trade crosses the threshold for that asset — and no zone exists at this level yet. It is the raw observation before a pattern is established.
What value it provides
Significant capital just moved at a specific price. Not retail — thresholds filter out normal trading noise. When a $2M SOL buy fires on HyperLiquid, someone with real money just took a position. Think of it as the first data point — the system starts watching.
Example message
🐋 SOL — Buying activity observed
HyperLiquid · $1.8M · $82.40
Pulsar Score 6.2 · 09:14 UTC
🧲
Accumulation
Live
What it is
The same price zone has been touched by large buy-side transactions 3 or more times over the last 5 days. Each touch is a separate decision by a large player to deploy capital at this exact level.
What value it provides
Identifies where smart money is actively building a position. A zone with 21 touches and $41.8M absorbed is not a chart pattern — it is a documented record of institutional buying. When price returns here, buyers have proven they will defend it.
Example message
🐋 ETH — Buying activity observed
Binance Perps · $2.14M · Zone: $1,980–$2,010 · 71 touches · $41.8M absorbed
Pulsar Score 8.4 · 14:32 UTC
📤
Distribution
Live
What it is
The mirror of Accumulation — repeated selling activity at the same price zone over 5 days. Institutional sellers keep returning to the same level to offload their position.
What value it provides
Identifies where smart money is distributing — selling into strength. A distribution zone with 30+ touches is a resistance level backed by documented institutional selling. Use it to identify where to take profit on longs or enter short positions.
Example message
🐋 BTC — Selling activity observed
Binance Perps · $3.2M · Zone: $67,100–$67,900 · 51 touches · $95.1M absorbed
Pulsar Score 8.1 · 15:45 UTC
⚔️
Battle Zone
Live
What it is
Both buy-side and sell-side are actively competing at the same price level simultaneously. Opposing pressure reaches 40%+ of total zone volume — meaning neither side has won yet.
What value it provides
Shows you a market decision point in real time — before price moves. The bar chart tells you who controls more volume. When one side overwhelms the other, price breaks decisively. Most traders only see the resistance after price reverses.
Example message
⚔️ BTC — Battle Zone
Binance Perps · $65,900
🔴 Sell-side ███████░░░ 73% $86M
🟢 Buy-side ███░░░░░░░ 27% $31.7M
Sell-side dominant
🧲
Verdict
Live
What it is
A milestone message that fires when a zone reaches 10, 15, 21, or 30 cumulative touches. It marks confirmed institutional commitment — a declaration that a zone has crossed a threshold of reliability.
What value it provides
A zone visited 21 times over 5 days is fundamentally different from one visited 3 times. The Verdict tells you: this level has been tested repeatedly and consistently defended. Zones that reach 21+ touches have the highest historical win rate of any signal type.
Example message
🧲 ETH — Accumulation zone · 21 touches
Zone: $1,980–$2,010 · $41.8M absorbed
Pulsar Score 9.1 · 14:22 UTC
⚠️
Funding Extreme
Coming April
What it is
Fires when the perpetual futures funding rate exceeds +0.10% or drops below -0.10% on any monitored asset. Extreme funding means the market is heavily overleveraged in one direction.
What value it provides
Extreme funding is one of the most reliable contrarian indicators in crypto. When 82% of retail is long and funding is +0.127%, the market is a coiled spring. Historically, funding above +0.10% precedes an average -8.4% correction within 48 hours.
📈
OI Spike
Coming April
What it is
Fires when open interest on any monitored asset rises more than 5% in a 30-minute window. Open interest is the total value of all open futures positions — a spike means new money is entering the market rapidly.
What value it provides
Distinguishes real directional conviction from position reshuffling. When price moves and OI rises simultaneously, new money is entering — real conviction. An OI Spike combined with an Accumulation zone at the same level is one of the strongest confluence setups from free exchange data.
🎯
Liquidity Sweep
Coming May
What it is
Fires when price wicks sharply below a key support level — triggering stop losses — then immediately recovers above it within 1-2 candles. Large buy absorption is detected on the wick.
What value it provides
This is the stop hunt pattern smart money executes against retail traders. Price dips below a key low, retail stops are triggered, smart money absorbs the selling at the bottom, then price reverses sharply upward. The Liquidity Sweep catches this the moment the absorption is detected.
📥
Smart Money Flow
Coming May
What it is
Fires specifically when a wallet identified as institutional smart money — a known fund, market maker, or historically profitable address — makes a large transaction above threshold.
What value it provides
The same $2M transaction means completely different things depending on who made it. A wallet identified as a known hedge fund buying $2M at a zone with 20+ touches is an exceptional confluence observation. It answers: are the people who actually know what they are doing buying or selling right now?
🧲
Absorption
Coming May
What it is
Fires when buy-side is consistently absorbing sell pressure at a zone without price declining — buy volume exceeding sell volume at a contested level across multiple candles.
What value it provides
Identifies the moment when sellers are being exhausted. Price is not falling despite sustained selling because buyers are absorbing everything that comes at them. When sellers run out of ammunition, price breaks upward suddenly and sharply. Absorption is the early warning before that break.
Pulsar Score

What the score means

Every observation receives a confidence rating from 1 to 10. Higher score = more independent factors aligned = more reliable observation.

9.0 – 10.0
Exceptional — multiple strong factors aligned simultaneously. Rare. Act with full confidence.
8.0 – 8.9
Strong — high conviction observation. Zone well-established, transaction size notable, market context aligned.
7.0 – 7.9
Moderate — solid evidence but some uncertainty. Worth monitoring. Cross-reference with your own analysis.
Below 7.0
Forming or weak — early stage zone, limited data, or conflicting data. Treat with caution. Watch for development.
Score factors
The Pulsar Score combines six independent factors: zone strength, transaction size, wallet reputation, exchange quality, market trend context, and opposing pressure balance. Each factor is weighted and combined into a final score from 1 to 10.
Zone Heat Map

How to read the heat map

The heat map answers one question in seconds: what is the market doing right now?

📡 PULSE · 09:35 UTC
Buy-side dominant · 7 of 10 zones
AssetBuy / sell balancePctScore
BTC
$65,800
82%
8.1
ETH
$1,994
74%
8.4 🔥
SOL
$82.8
63%
7.3
XRP
$1.42
42%
6.1
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Bar length = buy vs sell balance
A longer green bar means more of the institutional zone activity at that asset is buy-side. A red/shorter bar means sell-side is dominant. The percentage shows the buy-side share of total zone volume.
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Overall bias = macro market direction
The header line tells you how many of the monitored assets are currently buy-side dominant. "Buy-side dominant · 7 of 10 zones" means 7 out of 10 monitored coins have more institutional buying than selling right now.
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🔥 = Pulsar Score above 8.0
The fire emoji marks the highest-conviction zones — Pulsar Score 8.0 or above. These are the observations worth acting on. An asset with 🔥 has strong institutional backing behind its current direction.
Practical guide

How to use Pulsar with
your existing strategy

Zone intelligence does not replace your strategy. It adds one confirmation layer on top of it.

01
Identify your setup using your normal analysis
Support/resistance, volume profile, RSI, EMA crossover, liquidation map — whatever your approach is. Find the level and identify the conditions as you normally would.
02
Type /pulse before entering
The heat map shows you the current state of all monitored assets in seconds. Is the overall market bias aligned with your trade direction? Is the specific coin showing buy-side or sell-side dominance?
03
Check the zone data for your level
If the asset you are trading has an active zone at your price level, look at touch count and absorbed volume. 20+ touches with $10M+ absorbed is strong institutional conviction. 3 touches with $2M is early-stage — treat with caution.
04
Size based on confluence
When your technical analysis and zone intelligence agree, enter with full position size. When they disagree — chart is bullish but zone shows sell-side dominant with Pulsar Score 6.1 — reduce size significantly or skip entirely. Disagreement is information too.
FAQ

Common questions

Is this financial advice? ▾
No. Pulsar Intelligence provides market observation data for informational purposes only. All data describes observed institutional activity. It does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation to buy or sell, or a prediction of future price movement. Always do your own research and never risk more than you can afford to lose.
How often do observations fire? ▾
It depends on market activity and your delivery mode. In stream mode during an active market, you may receive 10–30 individual observation messages per day across all monitored assets. In digest mode you receive one heat map message every 30 minutes (Tier 1) or 60 minutes (Free) regardless of how many observations fired in that window. The /pulse command gives you an instant snapshot any time you want one.
What coins are monitored? ▾
HyperLiquid — the entire exchange feed is monitored automatically (all perpetual pairs). Binance and Bybit — top 12+ coins by market cap including BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, AVAX, DOT, LINK, ARB, LTC. Expanding to 30+ coins in April 2026. Free tier receives observations for 10 fixed coins. Tier 1 receives all monitored coins.
What is the difference between stream and digest mode? ▾
Stream mode sends individual observations as they are detected in real time — you see each signal the moment it fires. Digest mode sends a single zone heat map every 30 minutes (Tier 1) or 60 minutes (Free) summarising all active zones. Quiet mode sends only Verdict messages — milestone touch counts of 10, 15, 21, or 30. Switch modes anytime with /mode stream, /mode digest, or /mode quiet.
What does Buy-side dominant mean? ▾
It means the majority of active institutional zones across monitored assets currently show buying activity. It is based on the balance of zone activity across all monitored coins — not price direction alone. Buy-side dominant tells you where the largest players are currently deploying capital. It is a macro market bias indicator, not a price prediction.
What is the win rate? ▾
Live performance data will be available in the portal launching May 2026. The outcome tracker records price at +1h, +4h, and +24h after every observation. Current data (from our internal tracking): Distribution observations — 67.5% correct direction at +4h across 745 signals. Accumulation observations — 35.5% at +4h (the market has been in a downtrend since March 25, which significantly affects accumulation observation accuracy). These numbers update as market conditions change.
How do I start? ▾
Open Telegram and search @PulsarIntelligence_bot or click the button below. Type /start to receive your welcome message and mini legend. The free tier activates immediately — no credit card, no setup, no wait. You will receive your first zone heat map within 60 minutes of joining.

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