summary: this is the starting point for every new edgeful member. a guided 30-minute walkthrough from your first login to having edgeful's data on your TradingView chart, plus links to the onboarding video series and every deeper guide you'll need in your first week.

new to edgeful? start here. this is the one article to read first. it walks you through your whole first loop, then hands you off to the deeper guides. if you're not sure where to begin, you're already in the right place.

and if you haven't subscribed yet — this is still worth your time. it's exactly what your first 30 minutes inside edgeful look like, so you can see how the platform actually works before you commit. the steps below assume you're logged in, but read it as a preview of day one.

and if you only read one thing about how to read a report, make it from stats to trading rules. it's the article that turns a stat into an actual trade.

you just signed up. great. there's a lot of platform here: 150+ reports, the what's in play (WIP) dashboard, the screener, edgeful AI, and TradingView/NinjaTrader indicators. trying to take it all in on day 1 is the fastest way to bounce.

so don't.

instead, follow the next 30 minutes step by step. by the end, you'll have run your first report, bookmarked it for tomorrow, scanned your tickers in WIP and the screener, and have edgeful's levels showing up directly on your TradingView chart.

that's the whole goal. one full loop, end to end, so you actually know how to use edgeful, not just where the buttons are.

you'll need:

prefer to watch? click get started in the left sidebar. it's the IB masterclass: 10 short chapters, from "trade with data, not emotions" to "stacking it all together", with a progress tracker that marks each chapter off as you watch. home also has a 7-minute platform tour and a few short "learn the essentials" videos. you can follow this article, watch the videos, or do both.

if the tracker isn't marking your videos complete, see onboarding videos not playing. this is a known issue on some browser configurations. the videos still play and your account is still fully onboarded. only the visual tracker is affected.

go to edgeful.com and log in.

the first thing you'll land on is home. there's an ask edgeful AI bar at the top (type a question or pick a suggested prompt), then cards for each part of edgeful. take 60 seconds and look around. don't click anything yet. the left sidebar is your navigation. the main area changes based on what you select.

the sidebar is grouped into historical data (the reports and the tools for studying them) and live data (what's happening in the market right now). search, home, and get started sit at the top. resources sits at the very bottom and opens a menu holding the risk calculator, your TradingView and NinjaTrader indicator access, help docs, the blog, discord, refer a friend, and what's new.

the 4 things you'll use most:

at the top of the sidebar there's a search box. press / from anywhere in the app to open it.

start typing and it matches across all 150+ reports — including the subreport variants, so typing "gap" surfaces gap fill by close, by weekday, by spike and the rest. it also finds the tools: the risk calculator and your TradingView and NinjaTrader indicator pages. arrow keys move through the results, enter opens one, esc closes it.

this matters more than it sounds. edgeful has a lot of reports, and hunting for the right one in a list is the main thing that slows new members down. once you half-know a report's name, search gets you there in about two seconds.

want to see what's changed lately? every update is logged at edgeful.com/updates, or open what's new from the resources menu.

can't log in? the most common fixes are in account access issues — common fixes.

for the full intro to the platform, welcome to edgeful is the orientation article. short, useful, worth a skim.

now the actual work. you're going to open a report, pick your ticker, and read the numbers.

if you trade futures, start with the gap report for your ticker. it's the simplest report on the platform, the data is clear, and it tells you something useful immediately: how often gaps fill, by ticker, by timeframe, by session.

if you trade equities, the gap report still works. ES, NQ, SPY, and QQQ all have rich gap data.

steps:

tip: once you know your usual setup, save it so you don't redo this every day. click your profile icon (top right) → manage account → default settings, pick your default market, ticker, report, session, and lookback, then hit save defaults. they apply everywhere: reports, the screener, and what's in play.

now read the numbers. every stat on edgeful is anchored to 3 things: ticker + timeframe + session. don't skip those — the same setup on the same ticker over the same lookback is a different number in the NY session than it is in London.

of those three, the session matters most — it changes what the report is measuring, not just the number, so set it before anything else. the built-in NY, London, Asia, and Daily sessions (plus custom, timezone-selectable sessions) are covered in sessions.

one more thing that trips up new members: what a number actually counts. when a report says a level got "hit" or a gap "filled," that can mean the wick touched the level or the candle closed through it, and those are different numbers. wick vs close — and what "broken" means across reports spells out exactly what "hit" and "broken" mean so you're reading every stat the way it's measured.

now open the subreport dropdown, right under the report selector in the left panel. subreports break the same data down by direction, size, day of the week, or recent performance. they're how you go from "gaps fill X% of the time" to "gaps down on a wednesday after a green friday fill Y% of the time."

more on those: subreports.

if you trade ORB instead of gaps, jump to which ORB report should I use? — it'll save you 20 minutes of clicking around.

the goal at this point: you've run 1 report on 1 ticker and read the headline number with full context. that's it.

you're not going to re-run that report from scratch every morning. that's what bookmarks are for.

at the top of the report you just ran, click the bookmark icon. now it's in your bookmarks, one click away tomorrow. a bookmark saves the report, not your ticker or session, so if you want the exact setup back (ticker, date range, session, customizations), save it as a custom template in the left panel too.

next, open what's in play (WIP) in the left sidebar.

WIP is your daily dashboard. instead of you going to the data, the data comes to you. it shows which setups are active across your tickers right now. by default it ships with a starter set of reports; you can swap reports in and out so it matches the exact data you care about.

walkthrough: customizing reports on what's in play.

then open the screener. WIP is "what's in play on my main ticker." the screener is "what's in play across every ticker I trade." it's the fastest way to scan 5+ tickers in under a minute.

quick reads:

by minute 25, you've got: 1 saved report, a customized WIP dashboard you can come back to every morning, and a screener configured for the tickers you actually trade.

last step. this is the one that turns edgeful from "a tab I open" into "data on my chart while I trade."

click resources at the bottom of the left sidebar, then TradingView indicators. enter your TradingView username — you'll find it at the top left of your TradingView profile. click update, then refresh TradingView.

once that's done, the edgeful indicators are added to your TradingView account. open a chart, add an edgeful indicator, and the levels you've been looking at on the report page will show up directly on your chart.

if anything goes sideways (the indicator doesn't appear, the username didn't save, the levels aren't drawing), the troubleshooting article covers every common issue: TradingView indicators: access, updates, and troubleshooting.

want the bigger picture on how TradingView and edgeful work together? how TradingView integrates with edgeful.

30 minutes in, you've got the loop down. from here, it depends on which plan you're on.

the natural next step is turning a single report into a plan — stack a few reports that agree, then define your entry, stop, and target. how to build a trading plan using edgeful and combining multiple reports into one strategy show how, and the ultimate bullish setup is the cleanest first example. keep expectations realistic too — does edgeful guarantee results? is a quick read worth taking.

essential and pro members:

all access plan members:

the platform rewards traders who customize. the data is most powerful when the timeframe, session, and subreports are tuned to your specific style. that takes some time and effort, not a single click. start with the workflow above, then start swapping in the reports that match how you actually trade.

this article is your home base. every guide a new member needs in their first week or two spokes out from here, grouped by topic.