₿itcoin Radar Help & FAQ

Last updated: August 3, 2026

About the App

• What is ₿itcoin Radar?
  A Bitcoin signal app that provides three layers of market analysis: Trend (long-term direction), Swing (multi-day positioning), and Day Trader (intraday signals across 5 timeframes). Built for serious Bitcoin traders who want empirical, data-driven signals over hype.
• What signals does it provide?
  Three independent signal layers:
  • Trend. Long-term market direction (BULLISH / BEARISH / HOLD) based on Weekly MA, Macro Regime, On-Chain metrics, and EMA+ADX
  • Swing. Multi-day signals (BULLISH / BEARISH) blending Technical, On-Chain, Crypto, Macro, Derivatives, and ML pipelines
  • Day Trader. Intraday signals across 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h timeframes using 10 indicators
• Is this financial advice?
  No. ₿itcoin Radar provides signal data and market analysis tools. All trading decisions are your own. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Subscription / Pro

• What's free vs Pro?
  Free: Trend signal (BULLISH/BEARISH/HOLD + day count), BTC price, news, full Mining Network data (hashrate, difficulty, block height, miner revenue, halving countdown), On This Day Bitcoin history, solo block alerts, Swing direction + days-active + entry price + live open-trade percentage, basic widget.
  Pro ($9.99/mo or $79.99/yr): Swing exact score + entry/target/stop levels, 5-day Swing accuracy stats + full signal track record, Trade History summary (win rate, avg P&L, best/worst trade), Day Trader (all 5 timeframes × 10 indicators), the four signal-edge Data sections (On-Chain Intelligence, Whale Activity, Futures & Derivatives, Market Cycle), confidence percentages, push notifications, full widget customization.
• How much does Pro cost?
  $9.99/month or $79.99/year (33% off annual).
• Can I try Pro free?
  Yes — Pro includes a 7-day free trial. You'll confirm through Apple, you're charged nothing for 7 days, and it auto-renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends.
• How do I cancel?
  Open the iOS Settings app → Apple ID → Subscriptions → ₿itcoin Radar → Cancel Subscription. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your billing period.

Signals

• What does Trend mean?
  The Trend layer shows long-term market direction. It's intentionally slow to change to filter noise, uses Weekly MA, Macro Regime detection, On-Chain metrics, and EMA+ADX. Three-run anti-chop logic prevents flip-flopping.
• What does Swing mean?
  Swing signals are multi-day positioning. BULLISH or BEARISH. Built from a 6-pipeline blend: Technical 30%, On-Chain 15%, Crypto 15%, Macro 15%, Derivatives 10%, ML 15%. Includes hysteresis exit bands to avoid premature exits.
• What does Day Trader mean?
  Intraday signals across five timeframes (1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h) using 10 indicators: RSI, MACD, EMA, Bollinger, StochRSI, VWAP, Volume, Candles, Orderbook, Funding. Primary timeframes are 1m and 5m for active day traders.
• What's "confidence"?
  A score from 0-100% showing how strongly the underlying data agrees with the current signal. Higher confidence = more pipelines pointing the same direction. Pro feature.
• What does BULLISH / BEARISH / HOLD mean?
  BULLISH. Signal indicators favor upward price movement
  BEARISH. Signal indicators favor downward price movement
  HOLD. No strong directional bias, ranging market
  STRONG BULLISH / STRONG BEARISH. High-conviction signals
  LEAN BULLISH / LEAN BEARISH. Mild directional tilt
  We use BULLISH/BEARISH labels (not BUY/SELL) because we provide market analysis, not trade execution advice.
• How accurate are signals?
  Signal accuracy is tracked over time for Trend and Swing and is visible in the Signals tab; Pro users see the full Trend and Swing history. We do not display win-rate or accuracy percentages for Day Trader: short-term outcomes don't reliably predict future results. Past accuracy doesn't guarantee future accuracy, markets change.

Swing Layer: Details (added 2026-05-11)

• How is signal accuracy measured?
  For Trend and Swing only, two complementary views: (1) the 5-day lock measures whether the call was directionally right 5 days after firing, fast verdict, doesn't depend on when the signal flips back. (2) the full-trade lifecycle measures total return from BULLISH→BEARISH (or BEARISH→BULLISH) flip, captures the entire signal's journey. Both are tracked. Pro users see both.
• What does "BULLISH active for X days" mean?
  It's the age of the current signal, how long the system has been on this side of the market since the last flip. It doesn't mean you're holding a position; it means the signal hasn't reversed. The longer the streak, the more conviction the underlying data has shown.
• What is the "Open trade: +X%" number?
  Live tracking from the price BTC was at when the signal fired vs the current price. Sign-flipped for BEARISH signals (a short profits when price drops). It's not your personal P&L, that depends on when you actually entered. It's a clean attribution view of the signal itself.
• The signal has been BULLISH for weeks, how do I know when to re-enter?
  For now, signals stay BULLISH until the underlying conditions flip BEARISH. Use the entry zone + stop loss + target levels (Pro) for sizing your own trades. Coming soon: a re-entry zone feature (Phase 1c) that surfaces pullback opportunities to a key moving average during long-running trends. Requires backtest validation before launch.
• What's in the Trade History stats?
  An aggregate view of all completed swing signals (BULLISH→BEARISH or BEARISH→BULLISH flips): total closed trades, win rate, average win/loss percentages, average duration in days, best and worst single-trade returns. Updated automatically as new signals fire and close. Pro only.

Tools tab

• How do I use my own node?
  Run a Bitcoin node, like Umbrel, with the Mempool app installed. In Settings, pick Personal Node and type your Mempool web address, for example http://umbrel.local:3006. Your phone must be able to reach it, so use the same Wi-Fi as the node, or a VPN app like Tailscale when you're away. The app then asks your node first, which gives you more privacy. For wallet lookups, also install the Electrs app on your node. Its first sync takes a few days. If your node is still syncing, can't answer within 10 seconds, or an address is too big for a home node (like an exchange wallet), the app uses a public source instead and a small gray line says why. The next lookup tries your node again.
• Why does wallet lookup say "Public source used for this lookup" on My Node?
  On My Node, ₿itcoin Radar asks your node's Mempool app which address backend it uses and runs a quick test lookup, then sends address lookups to your node. A lookup uses public mempool.space only when your node can't answer it, and the notice says why: the Mempool app has no address backend (Electrs) connected, Electrs is still indexing or stopped, or your node didn't return that address within 10 seconds. The next lookup tries your node again.
• How do I use Track Transaction?
  Tools tab → Track Transaction → paste a transaction ID to watch it. You get up to two alerts, each once: Transaction Confirmed when it first lands in a block, and Fully Confirmed at 6 confirmations, the standard finality mark most exchanges and merchants treat as irreversible.
• What if I start tracking a transaction that's already confirmed?
  If it's confirmed but still under 6 confirmations, you'll only get the Fully Confirmed alert at 6; the first-confirmation alert already happened before you started watching. If you paste a transaction that's already at 6+ confirmations, it's already final, so you get no alerts.
• How many transactions can I track at once?
  Free tracks 1 transaction at a time; Pro tracks up to 10. Everything you're watching appears in a tracked list under the Track Transaction card with its live state. At your limit, new adds show "Tracking limit reached"; remove one to add another, or upgrade to Pro. Re-checking a transaction you already track never counts twice.
• What happens when I remove a transaction from my tracked list?
  It leaves your list on that device right away, but the watch itself finishes on the server; it runs until the transaction fully confirms or 48 hours pass, whichever comes first. Until then it may still send its alerts and still occupies a tracking slot; the slot frees automatically when the watch completes or expires.
• What does "Transaction Tracking Ended" mean?
  A watch lasts up to 48 hours. If your transaction hasn't reached 6 confirmations by then, tracking stops and you get one final alert. Never confirmed at all: it may have been replaced (RBF) or dropped from the mempool; check your wallet and track the replacement if there is one. Confirmed part-way: the alert says how far it got. Either way it shows as "expired" in your tracked list.
• What is "When Can I Retire on Bitcoin?"
  A free Tools-tab calculator that estimates when your Bitcoin stack could fund your retirement. Two modes: MY RATE (you pick an expected annual growth rate) and POWER LAW (uses our data-based Power Law model so you don't have to guess). It uses the 4% rule (you can sustainably spend about 4% of your stack per year) and adjusts your income target for inflation. It's a projection based on assumptions, not financial advice, and Power Law mode projects the model's fair-value trend, which is currently above the live price, so it's more optimistic.
• What is the DCA Calculator?
  A free Tools-tab calculator that shows what regular Bitcoin buys (dollar-cost averaging) would be worth. Two modes: BACKTEST uses real historical BTC prices back to 2010-07-18: pick an amount, frequency, and start date and see total invested, total BTC, current value at the live price, average cost basis, total return, plus two unique bits: vs Lump Sum (would buying it all on day one have done better?) and your best and worst single buy. FORWARD projects future buys using the same Power Law model the Retirement Calculator and Data-tab Power Law card use. Forward mode is a statistical projection of the long-term trend, not a guarantee and not financial advice. Bitcoin can trade far from the model for long stretches.

Data Tab & Mining Network

• What is Hashprice?
  Gross mining revenue per petahash per second per day: what 1 PH/s of hashpower earns at the current block reward, transaction fees, and BTC price, shown as $/PH/day. It's an estimate of gross revenue before electricity and pool costs (not profit). Free, in Data → Mining Network.
• What does the Halving Countdown show?
  A live progress bar through the current halving epoch, the exact number of blocks remaining, and an estimated halving date. The date is projected at ~10 minutes per block, so it drifts as block times vary. Free.
• What is the Power Law Model card?
  A statistical model fit to Bitcoin's price history since 2010 (Price = 10^a × (years since genesis)^b). It shows an "expected price" trend with 0.5× / 3× bands and long-term projections. It's a model of the historical trend, not a prediction; Bitcoin can trade far from it for long stretches. Free, in the Data tab.
• What is the U.S. National Debt card?
  Macro context for Bitcoin's fixed 21-million supply: the live U.S. federal debt figure, shown on the Trend and Data tabs, to contrast an inflating fiat supply with Bitcoin's capped one. Informational only.
• What is Top BTC Holders / Flow Trends?
  A breakdown of how much BTC major groups hold: Companies, Governments, ETFs, Exchanges, Miners, Custodians, plus an estimate of Lost Keys. The holdings numbers are free. Flow Trends (24h / 7d / 30d net balance change per group) is a Pro feature; free users see a blurred preview.

Pinning to Home

• What is pinning?
  Tap the + on any item (or a whole section) in the Data tab to pin it to your Home screen. It's how you build a Home view of just the metrics you care about.
• Where do my pinned items show up?
  In the "Your Pinned Items" area on the Home screen. They appear in the order you added them, and the number on each badge is its position on your Home.
• How many things can I pin?
  Up to 20 items. Once you reach 20, unpin something to make room for a new one.
• How do I unpin something?
  Tap the position number on the item (on Home, or on its + badge in the Data tab) to remove it from Home. Everything below it shifts up to fill the gap.
• Are my pins saved? Do they sync across devices?
  Pins are saved on your device. From version 1.0.32 they also sync through your own iCloud when iCloud is on, so they come back after a reinstall and show up on your other devices. We cannot read them.
• What's the small dot on a section header?
  It means something inside that section is pinned; useful when the section is collapsed and you can't see the pinned piece. It's just an indicator (no number), separate from the position badges.
• Can I pin Pro items?
  Some items are Pro-only; they're visible and pinnable with a Pro subscription. On the Free tier they stay locked and won't appear on your Home.
• Where did Fear & Greed go?
  The Fear & Greed dial and trend chart now live in their own section in the Data tab, and you pin them like anything else: the dial and chart together, or each on its own. They're no longer fixed on Home.
• My Home looks empty. What do I do?
  When nothing is pinned, Home shows a quick guide to get you started. Open the Data tab, tap the + on the metrics you want, and they'll appear on your Home.

Solo Blocks

• What are solo block alerts?
  When a solo miner (not a big pool) finds a block, we alert you. There are two categories: True Solo (a clear solo find) and Unknown (a likely-solo find we can't fully confirm). Note: OCEAN is a pooled service, not solo mining, so it is no longer included.
• Can I control which solo alerts I get?
  Yes. A master Solo toggle turns all solo alerts on or off, and a separate Unknown toggle lets you include or exclude the unconfirmed "Unknown" finds. True Solo finds come through whenever the master toggle is on.

Widgets

• My widget shows "Not Connected" or won't update
  Widgets refresh automatically; most "Not Connected" cases are temporary (fresh install, iCloud restore, or iOS handing the widget less refresh budget than it asked for). Try in order:
  1. Tap the widget on your Home Screen; it deep-links into the app and self-heals the connection.
  2. Or open the ₿itcoin Radar app; every foreground re-syncs the widget's auth keys and triggers a fresh reload.
  3. If it's still stuck after a relaunch, tap below to force a manual refresh:
  Force refresh widget
• How do I add ₿itcoin Radar widgets to my Home Screen?
  Long-press an empty area of your Home Screen → tap Edit → + → search "Bitcoin Radar" → swipe between sizes → tap Add Widget. Repeat for each size you want (Small, Medium, Large, Lock Screen). After placing, long-press the widget → Edit Widget to customize which metrics each slot displays.
• How do I customize what my widget shows?
  Long-press the placed widget → Edit Widget → tap each slot to pick from: BTC Price, 24h Change, Trend Signal, Swing Signal (Pro), Day Trader Signal (Pro), Trend Confidence (Pro), Swing Confidence (Pro), Day Trader Confidence (Pro), Accuracy % (Pro, Trend only), Hashrate, Block Height, Difficulty, Halving Countdown, Mempool Fee, Fear & Greed, Sats per Dollar, Miner Net Profit / Hashrate, Stock Ticker, Sparkline. Slot counts: Small has 4 slots, Medium has 4 slots, Large has 8 slots.
• What widget sizes are available?
  Home Screen: Small (2×2), Medium (4×2), Large (4×4). Lock Screen: Circular, Rectangular, Inline. All 6 surface live BTC data; sizes differ in how many slots and how much detail fit.
• How often do widgets refresh?
  The widget requests a refresh every 5 minutes; iOS controls the actual cadence and may grant fewer refreshes under heavy budget pressure (low power mode, background-app-refresh disabled, etc.). Opening the ₿itcoin Radar app forces an immediate refresh of every placed widget.
• Why are some widget values updating faster than others?
  Different metrics have different freshness ceilings: BTC price, block height, and 24h change refresh live (every few minutes when iOS grants a reload). Hashrate, difficulty, halving countdown, and $/day mining update on our 4-hour pipeline schedule (00/04/08/12/16/20 UTC). Stock tickers (BTCI, BLOX, etc.) update approximately hourly. Trend signal + day count update on the same 4-hour pipeline because trend transitions are intentionally slow-moving. The widget refresh cycle itself is 5 minutes, but a slot will only display new data when the underlying source has new data.
• Why does my widget show "—" for some values?
  That slot needs data that isn't currently available. Common reasons: (1) the slot is a Pro option (Swing Signal, Day Trader Signal, Confidence, Accuracy) and you're on the Free tier, (2) the underlying pipeline is briefly between updates (will populate on next refresh), or (3) the data source is temporarily unavailable.
• Which widget features require Pro?
  Pro-only slot options: Swing Signal, Day Trader Signal, Trend Confidence, Swing Confidence, Day Trader Confidence, Accuracy % (Trend only; there is no Day Trader accuracy slot; we don't publish one). Free-tier basics: BTC Price, 24h Change, Trend Signal, Sparkline, Hashrate, Block Height, Difficulty, Halving Countdown, Mempool Fee, Fear & Greed, Sats per Dollar, Miner data, Stock Ticker. Free-tier users can fully customize widget slots, but Pro-only options display "—" until you upgrade.
• Lock Screen widgets: what do they show?
  Circular: BTC price or signal indicator in a compact circle. Rectangular: price + 24h change with trend dot. Inline: a single-line price readout displayed alongside the clock on the Lock Screen.

Privacy / Data

• What data do you collect?
  ₿itcoin Radar collects no personal data. Privacy label: "No data collected." We don't track you, we don't sell data, we don't run analytics SDKs. Crash reports are anonymized via Apple's MetricKit.
• Where do signals come from?
  On-chain data: BGeometrics (primary), CoinMetrics (fallback). Mining/network data: mempool.space. Market data: Binance Public, Yahoo Finance, OKX, Bitget, dYdX, Deribit. News: CoinTelegraph, Decrypt. ML model: XGBoost trained on 2015-2023 data, validated on 2024, currently in OOS test on 2025+.

Support

• How do I contact support?
  Email: support@bitcoinradar.app
• How do I report a bug?
  Email: support@bitcoinradar.app, please include your iOS version, ₿itcoin Radar build number (Settings → About), and a description of what happened.

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