# Vantage

> Free, independent trading analytics: historical market reaction to scheduled macro releases, and which half-hours of the week are historically quiet. No signup, no upsell. Educational content and tools only, not financial advice.

Vantage (tryvantage.co) is not affiliated with Vantage Markets, Vantage FX, or VantagePoint Software. Those are separate, unrelated companies: Vantage Markets/Vantage FX is a regulated forex broker, VantagePoint Software is a market-forecasting company. Vantage (this site) doesn't hold client funds, execute trades, sell forecasting software, or offer financial advice. It's free statistics tools built by one retail trader.

## Tools (live)

- [News Impact Explorer](https://tryvantage.co/news-impact): historical market reaction to scheduled macro releases, by pair and surprise size. 16 years of 1-minute price data, 41 instruments, 78 macro series.
- [Calm Zones](https://tryvantage.co/calm-zones): which half-hours of the trading week are historically quiet, by pair. 28 FX pairs, 16 years, 6,720 half-hour slots.
- [The Brief](https://tryvantage.co/brief): today's high-importance macro events on the trading calendar, cross-instrument context.

## Tools (in build, not live yet)

- [Prop Firm Simulator](https://tryvantage.co/prop-firm-sim): will simulate prop-firm daily/overall loss rules against historical price paths.
- [RPD](https://tryvantage.co/rpd): will project likely reversal zones from new high/low formations.

## Insights

Educational articles on trading statistics, tool-driven trade-idea analysis, and academic research relevant to retail trading. Includes a "Paper Trail" series summarizing the academic econometrics papers behind the methodology (Newey-West, Andrews-Monahan, Sharpe, and others).

- [All Insights posts](https://tryvantage.co/insights): the current, complete index (this file intentionally does not enumerate every post, to avoid drifting out of sync with the registry).

## About and contact

- [About](https://tryvantage.co/about): who builds Vantage, where the numbers come from, and the disambiguation from Vantage Markets/VantagePoint above.
- [Contact](https://tryvantage.co/contact): contact@tryvantage.co.
- [Privacy](https://tryvantage.co/privacy): what's collected (anonymous usage analytics only, no accounts) and how to opt out.