Ophir fixes that. It connects your AI assistant to live market data, so every answer is computed from real price bars. Here’s how to use it well.
Step 1: Connect Ophir to your assistant
Ophir works inside Claude and ChatGPT. Connecting it is a one-time setup that takes about two minutes: follow the guide for Claude or ChatGPT. No account yet? Getting Started covers that first.
Once connected, you don’t need special commands. You ask questions in plain English, and Ophir pulls the data, runs the numbers and returns the analysis with a chart. Your assistant decides when to call Ophir, so if it ever answers from its own knowledge instead, name Ophir in the question: “Ask Ophir how gold has moved this month.”
Step 2: Start with one clear question
The single biggest factor in a good answer is a specific question. Compare these two:
“What’s going on with gold?”
“Describe gold’s structure over the past 12 months: the major swing highs and lows, the biggest drawdown, and where price sits now relative to its moving averages.”
The first gets a summary. The second gets dated levels, measured moves and a clear picture of trend. Tell Ophir what you want to learn, not just which chart to draw.
Specific questions are also repeatable ones. Ophir interprets the goal you give it, so a vague ask leaves room for two legitimately different reads of the same chart. That isn’t Ophir drifting. It’s the question leaving too much open.
Step 3: Name the market correctly
Ophir covers stocks and ETFs, forex pairs and crypto. A few habits avoid confusion:
- Stocks and ETFs: use the ticker, such as
NVDA,TSLAorSPY. - Forex: use the pair, such as
EURUSD. - Crypto: include the quote currency, such as
BTCUSDorETHUSD. - Indexes: use the tracking ETF. Ask about
QQQfor the Nasdaq-100 orSPYfor the S&P 500. - Gold: ask about
XAUUSDfor spot gold.
Step 4: Choose your timeframe and window
Ophir works on one timeframe per question, from 1-minute bars up to monthly. Match the timeframe to how you trade:
| If you trade… | Ask for | Typical window |
|---|---|---|
| Intraday | 1m to 15m bars | Today or this week |
| Swing (days to weeks) | 1-hour or 4-hour bars | Past 3 to 12 months |
| Position (weeks to months) | Daily bars | Past 1 to 2 years |
| Long-term | Weekly or monthly bars | Several years |
If you don’t specify, Ophir uses the defaults in your trader profile. That’s usually right, but a scalper asking a genuinely long-term question will get a scalper’s default unless the question says otherwise. Want to confirm a pattern across timeframes? Ask for each one in turn, such as the daily first and then the 4-hour.
Step 5: Ask for the indicators you actually use
Name the indicators you want and Ophir computes and overlays them. Supported indicators include moving averages (SMA, EMA, HMA), RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ATR, Stochastic, ADX, CCI, Williams %R, OBV and VWAP for intraday charts.
A practical starting set for swing trading:
- EMA 20 and EMA 50 for the working trend.
- RSI 14 to check whether momentum confirms price.
- ATR 14 to see how far price typically moves in one bar (a day, on a daily chart), which helps you size stops.
Step 6: Mark your own levels on the chart
Already have support and resistance levels in mind? Give them to Ophir, up to ten at a time, and it draws them as horizontal lines on the chart. It’s a fast way to see how price has behaved around the levels you trade.
“Chart XAUUSD daily for the past year and mark 3,950 as support and 4,270 as resistance.”
A real example
We asked Ophir one question: describe gold’s market structure over the past 12 months, with its major swings, trend and volatility. Here’s what came back, computed from live data as of October 13, 2026:
- Gold hit an all-time high of $5,597.23 on January 29, 2026, then fell 29.4% to $3,949.45 by June 30.
- After the high, three rallies failed at lower highs: February 11, February 24 and March 2.
- The June lows landed within about $60 of the October and November 2025 lows, a zone price has respected twice.
- Price closed at $4,159.24, below both its 20-day EMA ($4,212.29) and 50-day EMA ($4,267.71).
- RSI read 43.7, and ATR showed volatility was highest during the decline and has since calmed.
That’s a full structural read from one sentence, with every number traceable to the data.
Step 7: Push back on the answer
The best use of Ophir isn’t asking it to agree with you. It’s asking it to test you. Try questions like:
- “I think gold has bottomed. What in the data supports that, and what contradicts it?”
- “Is this breakout confirmed by momentum, or is RSI diverging?”
- “How many times has price crossed the 50 EMA in the past year? Is it a reliable signal on this market?”
It also helps to say where you stand. Holding a position, watching it, and sizing in for the first time are three different questions about the same chart:
“I’m long NVDA from 118 on a swing timeframe. On the daily, is the structure still intact, and what level would tell me I’m wrong?”
Questions that test a thesis against the data produce better decisions than questions that only describe the chart.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Asking for predictions. Ophir describes what the data shows, not what price will do next. Ask about structure, levels and conditions, or how a setup has played out in the past, then decide for yourself.
- Mixing timeframes in one question. Ask one timeframe at a time for a clean answer.
- Leaving out the window. “Gold’s trend” means something different over a week and over a year. Say which you mean.
Start with one question
Pick a market you trade, ask Ophir to describe its structure over the past few months, and compare the answer to how you read the chart yourself. Where you agree, you’ve gained confidence. Where you disagree, you’ve found something worth a closer look.
This article is for educational purposes only and is not investment advice. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.