> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.primal.trade/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Signals feed

> Trenches, reinvented. A curated pipeline instead of a firehose.

## The problem with trenches

Every terminal has a "trenches" feed: the raw firehose of newly created coins. It creates zero
value, and the reason is simple. A deployed coin is not a market. Thousands of tokens are created
every day, and the overwhelming majority never see a real participant. Much of the volume that
does print is washed: manufactured activity designed to look like demand on exactly the feeds
that rank by volume.

Watching the firehose is not an edge. It is noise with a user interface.

## What Radar does instead

Radar is that lane reinvented as a curated pipeline. primal. analyzes market metrics and
participants in real time, and only what holds up surfaces as a signal:

* **Participation is real.** Actual market participants acting, not a deploy transaction and a
  bot loop.
* **Volume is true.** Activity is weighed by what it costs and how it is structured, so washed
  volume does not buy a spot on the feed.
* **Structure is clean enough to touch.** Holder concentration, sniper and insider cohorts, dev
  behavior, liquidity state, and security checks are read before a token earns the screen.

The curation is the alpha. You watch a short list that earned its place, and every signal is
tracked against its real on-chain outcome afterward.

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/primaltrade/XaPeFvE3UThtlcRi/images/radar.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=XaPeFvE3UThtlcRi&q=85&s=2c34b3ee25715885e608eb6ec8829f0d" alt="Radar: Discovery and Heating lanes with live signal cards" width="1415" height="900" data-path="images/radar.png" />
</Frame>

## The three lanes

| Lane           | Meaning                                                       |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Discovery**  | First evidence. Early, highest risk, highest optionality      |
| **Heating**    | Escalating. Activity accelerating, more confirmation arriving |
| **Conviction** | Validated. The strongest and most complete evidence           |

Tokens move up lanes as the evidence builds. Each lane has its own quick-buy amount and filter
controls, so you can size Discovery punts differently from Conviction entries.

<Card title="Reading a signal" icon="magnifying-glass-chart" href="/radar/reading-a-signal">
  Every number and chip on a card, and why each one is hard to fake.
</Card>