Read the market.
Then run it.
A practical guide to Sentinel's simulator, market measurements, and session reports—written for a first run.
Open the simulatorStart your first simulation
- Choose a preset.Balanced is a useful first run because it mixes several participant behaviours.
- Choose a scenario.Normal Session provides a baseline. Stress scenarios deliberately change liquidity or behaviour.
- Launch and observe.Watch candles, the order book, signals, agents, and execution records update together.
- Stop and review.Stopping freezes an immutable session report that you can inspect or download.
Simulation and what's next
Simulation
A synthetic market where rule-based agents submit orders to Sentinel's matching engine. Use it to inspect cause and effect under reproducible conditions.
AURORA Coming soon
AURORA is not available in this release. Its documentation will be added when the feature is ready.
Candles and the order book
Each candle summarizes received mid-price samples. Green means the close finished at or above the open; red means it finished below. The thin upper and lower wicks show the sampled high and low.
The depth view shows resting buy and sell quantity by price. Hover or focus a level to inspect it. Large visible depth can disappear through fills or cancellations, so it is not a guarantee of support.
Read signals as evidence
Liquidity health, warning levels, visible concentration, imbalance, and volatility describe the current simulated state. They do not promise what the next price will be.
Session reports
Stop a simulation to preserve its final state. The report includes configuration, market outcome, price and depth paths, execution accounting, participant outcomes, detector transitions, data coverage, methodology, and limitations.
Use JSON for further analysis and PDF for a readable research record. A single run is evidence about one seed and configuration, not proof of a general result.
Provider warnings i
Provider warningMore information about this measurement.
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Provider warningMore information about this measurement.A provider warning means one market-data request failed, used an invalid instrument, or returned incomplete data. It does not automatically mean the whole monitor stopped. Check the warning text, covered-symbol count, current phase, and process state together.
Safety and limitations
- Simulation values and P&L are synthetic.
- AURORA is not available in this release.
- Warnings are research signals, not investment advice.
- Results depend on scenario, seed, population, latency, and run length.
- Repeat runs before drawing conclusions.
Glossary
- Bid/ask
- The highest visible buying price and lowest visible selling price.
- Spread
- The ask minus the bid. Wider spreads indicate more simulated trading friction.
- Depth
- The amount of visible quantity available in the order book.
- Imbalance
- The relative difference between bid and ask depth. It is descriptive, not predictive.
- Volatility
- The recent magnitude of simulated price movement.
- P&L
- Simulated profit and loss. It is not a statement of real-world performance.
- Basis point
- One hundredth of one percent. 100 basis points equals 1%.
- Fill
- An order, or part of an order, matched against another order.