User Guide

CIT Market Analyst brings the CIT Dates apps (OddsTrader, OT Trend, OT Seasonal, Gann 9, OT Fibonacci and OT Pivots) together in one window: charts with signals and cycles, a rule-based AI Analyzer, sector rotation, seasonality, the Dow's history, analyst ratings, your watchlists and portfolios, and valuation. Type a symbol once and every section follows it.

This guide explains what each part shows and how to use it. Where we have back-tested a signal, the guide says what the test found. Everything in the app describes the past; none of it is a forecast or advice.

Contents

Getting started

  • Free for 10 days: every feature is open for 10 days after you download the app, with no sign-up. The banner above the watchlists counts the days down, and a notification reminds you two days before the end.
  • Symbol: click the symbol box in the toolbar (or press ⌘L), type a stock, ETF, index or crypto symbol (for example AAPL, SPY, ^VIX, BTC-USD) and press Return. Every section switches to it. Clicking a symbol anywhere in the app (a watchlist, a rating, a rotation map) opens it too.
  • Sections: pick one in the sidebar: Chart, AI Analyzer, Rotation, Seasonality, DJIA History, Analyst Ratings, Watchlists, Portfolio and Value. ⌘1 to ⌘8 jump to the first eight (the Go menu lists them), and ⌘R reloads the section on screen.
  • Toolbar: the sidebar button, Watchlists (shows or hides the watchlist panel beside the chart), the symbol box and Refresh.

Chart (⌘1)

Basics

  • Chart type: Line, Bar and Trend are OddsTrader's compact views; OHLC and Candles show every bar's open, high, low and close.
  • Time frame: 1d (today, intraday), 6M, 1Y, 2Y and 5Y. 2Y and 5Y use weekly bars, and the watchlist's signal columns switch to weekly with them (their titles get a "W").
  • Trade and Share: the two icons in the symbol row. Trade opens the symbol in your broker's app or website (Webull, Robinhood, Fidelity, Schwab, Interactive Brokers or thinkorswim). Share sends a picture of the chart.
  • Zoom: pinch on the trackpad, or press ⌘+ and ⌘−. Once zoomed in, swipe sideways with two fingers (or turn the mouse wheel) to slide through the dates. Double-click or press ⌘0 to see the whole chart again. Drag across the chart for a crosshair with the price.
  • Chart Settings (the gear on the chart bar, or ⌘,): channels, cycles and iCloud watchlists, explained below.

Options, Target and Colors

Three buttons sit above the chart.

  • Options (on to start) draws the levels from the options market for the next three months as dashed lines: the strikes with the largest call and put open interest, max pain, the gamma wall, the put wall, the gamma flip and the expected move. How to use: large open interest strikes and the walls often act as magnets or barriers near expiration; above the gamma flip, dealer hedging tends to calm moves, below it to amplify them; the expected move is the range the options market prices in.
  • Target (on to start) draws the analysts' average 12-month price target, with its Reach score (our estimate of how likely the target is to be reached). The line is green when Reach is 75 or more, red below 50 and gray in between. The blue band is the OddsTrader range: the prices with a 50–75% chance of being reached within a year. Press and hold Target to set your own target. ETFs, indexes, futures, forex and crypto have no analyst targets.
  • Colors (with OHLC and Candles) colors the bars:
    • Up / Down: green when the close is above the open, red below.
    • Daily: green for a higher high that closes up, red for a lower low that closes down, yellow otherwise.
    • BSH: Gann 9's Buy / Sell / Hold for each bar.
    • CIT: pattern recognition: green when a bar closes up and holds the prior low (or breaks the prior high), red when it closes down under the prior high (or breaks the prior low), yellow otherwise.
    The colors make the trend easy to read at a glance. In our tests, buying on a color change alone had no edge, so read them as context, not entries.

Channels and cycles

  • Channels: the light blue inside channel and the red outside channel are bands around a centered average (dashed). Prices near the top of the outside channel are stretched; near its bottom, washed out. Auto Channel Width (on to start) fits the bands to each symbol: the inside channel holds about 80% of the highs and lows, the outside about 90%. Turn it off in Chart Settings to set the widths and colors yourself.
  • Cycle Length (Chart Settings): Auto finds the dominant cycle from the swing lows; or type your own length in bars, for example 30, 60, 90, 131, 189 or 365. The inside channel uses it and the outside twice that, unless you set Outer Cycle. Long cycles need a long chart (up to about 60 bars on 6M, 135 on 1Y, 50 on 2Y and 140 on 5Y; 2Y and 5Y bars are weeks).
  • Cycle Turns (on to start): an orange diamond over each cycle peak and a cyan diamond under each trough. A turn stays hollow until enough bars have passed to confirm it, so the latest one can still move. The line at the top left of the chart gives the cycle in use and how far apart the troughs really were.
  • Turn Window: ½ cycle (fewer, bigger turns, about two cycles apart) or ¼ cycle (about one cycle apart).
  • How to use: look at the real trough spacing rather than the ideal cycle, and treat the next trough as a time window, not a date. The AI Analyzer's Cycles section gives those windows with price ranges.

Marks on the price chart

  • Watch dates (the strip above the lower pane): Gann, Fibonacci and Lucas day counts from the recent high and low. A ★ means two or more counts agree. Click the strip for the full list. These are dates to keep an eye on, not predicted turns.
  • Trend pair bar (under the price bars): green when the daily and weekly swings are both up, red when both are down, yellow when the weekly is up and the daily down (often a pullback in an uptrend), orange when the weekly is down and the daily up (a bounce in a downtrend). On weekly charts the pair is weekly and monthly.
  • 200-day phase band (at the bottom, 1Y to 5Y): green above a rising 200-day average (the strongest phase), yellow below a rising one (a correction in an uptrend), orange above a falling one (a rally in a downtrend), red below a falling one.
  • CIT Pullback (daily charts): a green dot marks a close below the 7-day low while the price is above its 200-day average, after a longer than usual run of down days. The numbers under the bars count the down run: gray, orange one bar before the usual length, green from there on. A small cyan "w" marks the weekly setup. How to use: a buy-the-dip setup in an uptrend; the AI Analyzer gives the exit (a close above the 5-day average). In our tests it beat random entries, with a bigger edge when VIX was above 20. Options in the Indicators menu: CIT Pullback Counter, CIT Pullback Without 1σ Run (dots on every close below the 7-day low) and CIT Pullback + Band Break (teal dots when the close also breaks the short channel's lower band).
  • CIT Strategy Trades (Indicators menu, off to start; daily charts): the CIT Oscillator strategy's entries (green ▲) and exits (red ▼). An exit ends the trade; it is not a short signal. The AI Analyzer shows the strategy's current trade and record.

Lower pane

  • Chips under the chart turn the lower pane's lines on and off with a click:
    • RR (red), RSI (green) and CIT Osc (yellow): momentum oscillators from 0 to 100. Above 75 is overbought, below 25 oversold. A cross back up out of oversold is the strongest reading, especially in an uptrend.
    • BSH line: Gann 9's combo line. It rises while trend and swing agree up (green), falls while they agree down (red) and goes flat while they disagree (yellow).
    CIT Osc and the BSH line are on to start.
  • Limit: the lower pane shows up to 3 indicators at a time so it stays readable. Turn one off, or choose Allow More Than 3 in the Indicators menu.

The Indicators menu

Indicators ▾ under the chart adds more indicators from the other apps and the CIT TradingView tools. Everything starts off; the button shows how many are on. Hide All turns them all off.

OT Trend

  • Trend Oscillator (orange) and Trend Combined Oscillator (white dashed): OT Trend's 0–100 trend oscillators. High readings mean a strong trend; turns from the extremes warn of a change.
  • Cycle Wave (cyan), Long Cycle (light green) and Combined Cycle (teal dashed): smooth waves of the short and long cycles. Read them for timing: a wave bottoming while price holds support is the setup cycle traders look for.
  • Oscillator Signals: OT Trend's buy (green ▲) and sell (red ▼) marks.

Gann 9, OT Fibonacci and OT Pivots

  • Swing Strip (Gann 9): a colored strip of Gann 9's swing signal: green up, red down, yellow mixed.
  • Gann Cycle Bars, Fibonacci Cycle Bars and Pivots Cycle Bars: short bars at the bottom of the pane on the days each app's counts point to, running about 30 bars into the future. Clusters of bars mark the dates to watch.
  • Fibonacci BSH Line: OT Fibonacci's Buy / Sell / Hold line, read like the BSH line.
  • Pivots Oscillator + Targets (pink, with a 2-day average and two dashed targets): OT Pivots' oscillator; crosses of its average and the targets mark short-term turns. Needs at least 100 bars.

OT Seasonal

  • Seasonal Oscillator: green while the season ahead is rising, red while falling. In our tests, following the seasonal pattern halved the drawdowns, with a lower return in recent years.

CIT Swing Count

  • Swing Count: a line that rises through up runs (green) and falls through down runs (red). A number (1, 2, 3…) prints when an up run lasts longer than the down run before it, a letter (A, B, C…) when a down run outlasts the up run. A rising series of numbers is a healthy uptrend; letters taking over warn that sellers are gaining.
  • Swing Count Higher Timeframe: the same count on weekly bars (monthly on weekly charts), as a thin line.
  • Swing Count Combo (BSH): a thick line that moves only when the chart's count and the higher count agree. It's the cleanest read of the two together.
  • Statistics panel (top left; choose its corner under Swing Count Statistics, click it to fold): from 12 years of history, how long up and down runs usually last, how far they move, how often a series reaches 2, 3 or 4, and where today's run stands, with the dates it would reach the average and 1–3σ lengths. How to use: a run that has lasted longer than most past runs is stretched. The statistics describe the past; in our tests, the counts alone did not predict the next move.

CIT Combo Osc 2TF (daily or weekly charts)

  • One 0–100 line combining the CIT Combo oscillator on the chart's time frame and the next higher one. It turns green around a cross up through the entry level (25) and red around a cross down through the exit level (75), and a green dot marks each long signal: the chart's Combo crosses up through 25 while the higher one has just crossed up and is still below 75. The exit is the chart's Combo reaching 75.
  • How to use: it waits for both time frames to turn up from oversold, which filters out many false bounces. Settings let you change the levels, the rule, and show the two Combo lines separately.

CIT Angle (on the price chart; doesn't count toward the limit of 3)

  • Angle lines from the latest pivot highs (red, falling) and pivot lows (green, rising), drawn at the average speed of past swings: the 1x1 is the typical pace. Faster (2x1, 3x1, 4x1) and slower (1x2, 1x3, 1x4) angles can be added. Each line stops at its usual length or at the first close across it.
  • How to use: while price stays above a rising green 1x1, the upswing is keeping its usual pace; a close below it means the swing is losing speed. A close above a falling red 1x1 means the decline is losing steam. The table shows how often past 1x1 lines were crossed, after how many bars, and the move that followed. Dashed level lines from the pivots can be shown too.

CIT Swing Targets (on the price chart)

  • A green box from the start of the latest upswing and a red box from the latest downswing. The box's height is the typical move of past swings in that direction and its width the typical length, with a dashed diagonal for the typical path. Choose the average, the median or wider (1–3 SD) targets, the anchor and how many past swings to use.
  • How to use: a swing inside its box is ordinary; one past the box is unusually big or long. The Odds lines in the settings menu say how many past swings went as far. In our tests the targets described swings well but did not time entries.

CIT Swing Path (on the price chart)

  • A zigzag of the swings (up legs green, down legs orange) with the price at each turn. For the swing in progress it projects the average (dashed) and median (dotted) leg, with the price and the date each would be reached, an adaptive target that scales the median by the swing's speed so far, a target zone (the middle half of past legs) and a gray dotted path ahead of the next one to four legs. The chart widens itself to keep the projections in view.
  • Statistics table (bottom left): the past legs' average and median, this leg's move and time so far, how far it has come against the median, and its rank: Early, Typical, Long or Extreme.
  • Settings: the zigzag size: Auto (from the symbol's volatility; works on any symbol and time frame), a fixed percent, or a number of bars.
  • How to use: it answers "if this swing turns out ordinary, where and when would it end?". A Long or Extreme leg is stretched by the market's own history; an Early one has room left if it's typical. The projections are averages of past legs, not forecasts, and the last turn can still change.

My Data (daily charts)

  • Shows your own indicator from a CSV file (date, D, W on each line): D as columns, W as a line and their average, with shading where they reach the levels you track. Choose File… in its settings picks the file.

Chart Labels

  • Show Buttons and Show Level Labels hide or show the chart's buttons and the price labels of its levels, for a clean chart or screenshot.

AI Analyzer (⌘2)

A complete reading of the symbol on one page, built from the app's rules and back-tests on your Mac. On devices with Apple Intelligence a short summary is written on the device; nothing is looked up online. It opens with an outlook card (daily and weekly signals, long-term phase, daily levels, the typical range for the next week and month, and tiles for breadth, options and the CIT strategy), then a list of chapters. Click a chapter, or Show everything on one page. Share sends the outlook card; Trade opens your broker.

  • Signals and trend: Buy, Sell or Hold on the daily and weekly charts, the swing counts, and the long-term phase against the 200-day (40-week) average: confirmed uptrend, rally in a downtrend, correction in an uptrend or confirmed downtrend. A correction in an uptrend is often a buy-the-dip setup.
  • Levels to watch: the channel tops and bottoms, the pivot and the next swing targets, with the risk/reward of a long trade from here.
  • Options: the largest open interest strikes, max pain, put/call ratio, gamma and put walls, the gamma flip, the expected move and implied volatility. For SPY and QQQ with VIX above 20 and the price above a rising 200-day average, a put-selling setup with its back-test (a 16-delta put about 5 weeks out won 95% of the time from 2006 to 2026). For single stocks in a month without a seasonal lean, a quiet month note: in our tests those were the best months for selling premium. Unusual options activity lists contracts where new positions were opened (volume over twice the open interest); it shows where new money went and isn't back-tested as a signal.
  • CIT Pullback and Dip Buys: today's dip-buy signals, open trades, their exits and the record (see Dip Buys below).
  • Swings: how big and how old the current daily and weekly swing is against the usual swing, with the dates it would reach the average and 1–3σ lengths, and the zig-zag risk: how often swings at this stage reached the average move.
  • Cycles: for the 20, 40 and 80-day cycles and your own Cycle Length, how far apart the troughs really were in the last 12 years, the last peak and trough, and the next ones' date windows and price ranges. About half of past turns came inside these ranges: likely zones, not predictions.
  • Oscillators: RR, RSI and CIT Osc with their zones, and a buy-zone note when the CIT Oscillator crosses back up out of oversold.
  • CIT Osc strategy: the CIT Channel Oscillator strategy's current trade, its last trade and its daily (2-year) and weekly (10-year) record. A ◆ marks a high-confidence buy, with the daily, weekly and monthly trend all up; in our back-tests those had far fewer large losses. A note warns when the season ahead is weak: buys before weak seasons made about half as much.
  • Watch dates: Gann, Fibonacci and Lucas dates on daily and weekly counts; ★ when two or more agree.
  • Market snapshot: CIT Balance of Power (market fear and greed), the market-wide put/call ratio, the broad market against the giants (equal-weight vs. the S&P 500), and breadth gauges (switch Market breadth off to skip them).
  • Cash-flow value: what the cash flows say the stock is worth. Context only: in our tests, stock-level values did not predict returns.

Dip Buys

The Dip Buys tab at the top of the AI Analyzer scans today's S&P 500 members and SPY, QQQ, IWM, DIA, GLD and TLT after each close (4:35 pm New York time) for four tested dip-buy rules: QS RSI, CIT MACD Dip, CIT ComboRSI Dip and CIT RSI+VWAP Dip.

  • Today's buys: each with its season over the next five weeks. Strong-season dips are listed first: in our tests they beat random days of the same season by about twice as much.
  • Open trades and the record: every closed trade, winners and losers, for the last 12 months, 3 months and month, against random days.
  • How to use: buy at the next open (the CIT MACD Dip at the close) and sell at the next open after a close above the prior day's high (the RSI+VWAP Dip when its short RSI recovers). No new trade within 3 trading days of earnings, and open trades sell the day before a report. With VIX above 20, the edge was about twice as big.
  • The same signals appear in the CIT Dip Buys watchlist. Click a symbol to analyze it.

Rotation (⌘3)

Shows which groups are leading or lagging the S&P 500 (SPY) and whether their strength is rising or fading: sectors, asset classes, world markets, commodities, indices, factors and growth vs. value, on weekly or daily bars. Each symbol sits in one of four quadrants: Leading (strong and getting stronger), Weakening (strong but fading), Lagging (weak and getting weaker) and Improving (weak but recovering). Groups usually move clockwise through them. Filter by quadrant, sort by symbol or by time in the quadrant, and click a symbol to open its chart.

How to use: the market risk read at the top says whether defensive or growth groups lead. In our tests since 2008, when both sectors and asset classes read risk-off, the chance of a 10% S&P 500 drop within 13 weeks was about 1 in 5, against 1 in 10 normally: a risk gauge, not a timing signal.

Seasonality (⌘4)

  • Monthly and Weekly: each month's and week's average return, how often it rose, and its range over past years.
  • Season: the stretches of the year that have been strongest and weakest for the symbol.
  • Seasonal Chart: the average seasonal year drawn ahead of today's price, with the Reach and seasonal cone (where the price has typically ended up) and the options levels.
  • How to use: as a tailwind or headwind for other signals, not alone. Our dip-buy and CIT strategy tests both did better before strong seasons.

DJIA History (⌘5)

The Dow since 1886, or any symbol you type in the box at the top. Compare this year with any past years, see the average path of bull and bear years and their correlation with this year, and pick a Decennial pattern by typing a digit (for example 7 for years ending in 7). Reach adds the levels the Dow has a 75% and 50% chance of reaching this year, up and down. Clear all empties every year box.

Analyst Ratings (⌘6)

Upgrades, downgrades and price target changes for the symbols in your watchlists, with valuation tags. Sort them newest first, by Reach (the targets most likely to be reached) or by valuation. Click a row to open its chart.

Watchlists (⌘7) and alerts

  • The watchlists open in a panel beside the chart. Show or hide it with the Watchlists button, the sidebar item or ⌘7. Click a list to open it and a symbol to load its chart. The lists sync with the CIT apps on iPhone and iPad through iCloud.
  • Columns: B/S (Buy / Sell signal), T (trend) and the seasonal column; click its title to switch between the month and the week ahead.
  • Built-in lists: Trending (the most-watched symbols) and CIT Dip Buys (today's dip-buy signals, updated after each close).
  • Scan: runs a scanner over the list (Default, BSH, Swing, their lower-timeframe and combo versions, and Power Scan). Analyst Ratings opens the ratings for the list.
  • Footer: market breadth: the share of stocks rising, up volume and TRIN. Above 50% (green) the market's breadth is positive.
  • Signal alerts: click the bell at the top of the panel to get a notification when a symbol in your watchlists gets a new Buy or Sell signal. The app checks at 4:30 pm New York time on weekdays while it's open, even minimized; if it was closed, it checks when you open it. Allow notifications for CIT Market Analyst when macOS asks.
  • Long Watch and Caution Watch (the % button): two model portfolios of up to five positions from tested rules, with the orders for the next open, the positions, the candidates and the recent trades. Its own bell sends the next day's orders after each close.

Portfolio (⌘8)

Add symbols with their quantity and average cost (+). The table shows price, today's change, value, gain or loss and weight; the totals and statistics (best and worst today, largest holding, the portfolio against the S&P 500) stay at the bottom. Right-click a row to open its chart or remove it. Keep as many portfolios as you like: click the name at the top to switch, add, rename or delete one; all of them sync through iCloud. Click the Whole portfolio row for a performance chart (1 month to 5 years) against the S&P 500, with the largest drop from a high; Compare to swaps the benchmark for any symbol. The chart holds today's holdings over the whole period, dividends included; trades and cash aren't tracked.

Value

Valuation for one stock (Stock), or a whole watchlist (List). The Stock page puts the price, its cash-flow value, the analysts' target and the OddsTrader range on one scale; then the discounted cash-flow value with sliders for growth, margin and cost of capital, the growth the price implies, return on capital against its cost, debt risk, industry multiples, Graham's number and checklist, Buffett's owner earnings and checklist, and the market gauges (Shiller's CAPE, the Buffett Indicator and the equity risk premium). Banks and insurers get a book-value model instead. List sorts a watchlist by priced-in growth, price against value, return on capital or Reach.

How to use: in our tests the market gauges held up over 10 years; the stock-level values did not predict returns, so use them as context, not signals.

Free trial and subscription

Everything is free for 10 days after you download the app. Then CIT Market Analyst Pro is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year; the subscription screen appears when the 10 days are over, and from the app menu (CIT Market Analyst Pro…). Restore Purchases brings back a subscription on another Mac. Manage or cancel it in the App Store under your account › Subscriptions.

Updates: when a new version is on the App Store, the app tells you once a day, with what's new and a button that opens the App Store.

Keyboard shortcuts

  • ⌘1–⌘8: Chart, AI Analyzer, Rotation, Seasonality, DJIA History, Analyst Ratings, Watchlists, Portfolio
  • ⌘L: go to a symbol · ⌘R: refresh
  • ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0: zoom in, zoom out, full chart · ⌘,: Chart Settings

Market data and analysis are for information only. They are not investment advice. Back-test results describe the past and don't guarantee future results.

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