The AIQ Expert Rating condenses a large body of technical evidence into a number you can read at a glance. This guide covers what that number actually means, how the scale works, and — just as important — what the rating is not built to do.
The first thing to understand is that the Expert Rating is really two numbers, not one: an up-rating and a down-rating, each on a 0–100 scale. A reading you might see written as "95 / 11" means an up-rating of 95 and a down-rating of 11 — strong evidence leaning bullish, very little leaning bearish.
They are reported separately on purpose. A stock can have conflicting evidence — some conditions firing bullish, others bearish — and collapsing that into a single net score would hide the disagreement. Two separate ratings let you see not just which way the evidence leans, but how one-sided it is.
This is the single most common misread, so it's worth stating plainly: on this scale, neutral sits around 33, not 50. A rating in the low 30s is the engine saying "no strong opinion," not "leaning bearish." Ratings climb toward the 90s as evidence stacks up on one side. If you read the scale as if 50 were the midpoint, you'll consistently misjudge how bullish or bearish a given reading really is.
When you add the indicator, you'll see numbered marks printed on the price bars. Each mark appears on a bar where the up-rating or the down-rating reached a threshold — 90 by default. A green mark below the bar is a strong up-rating; a red mark above the bar is a strong down-rating. The number printed is the rating itself.
You can raise or lower that threshold in the settings. Raise it toward the high 90s to see only the most one-sided readings; lower it to see more.
Here's the thing most indicator vendors won't tell you about their own tool. The Expert Rating is built to rank — to tell you how much evidence favors one side right now, relative to other moments and other stocks. It is not built to time an entry to the bar.
A high rating means the weight of evidence is currently one-sided. It does not mean "buy at today's close." Independent out-of-sample testing bears this out: the rating separates stronger setups from weaker ones well, but it does not, on its own, deliver a tradeable timing edge. That's why AIQ's own documentation has always said to confirm a signal before acting on it — with your own entry trigger, your own risk rules, or a second condition you trust.
Treat the rating as a research filter and a conviction gauge, not a buy button, and it does exactly what it was designed to do.
Add the indicator to any chart, and the panel appears in the top-right corner. Use the panel's view switch to move between the Expert Rating summary, the Price Chart indicators, and the Oscillators. Hover any row for a plain-English reading of what that condition is currently saying. Everything you see is computed on your chart, live — nothing is pre-baked.
AIQ ranks and explains. It doesn't claim to time entries. Confirm before acting.
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