Vi IQ: one score, six domains, and the one that is not it
Vi IQ compresses several things about a crypto market into a single 0–100 number, and then shows you all of them, because a score you cannot take apart is a score you have to take on trust. This page sets out what the 6 domains are, how to read a band, where the score appears — and why a column of the same name in the trader tables measures something else entirely.
The current published score
01 Market snapshot
Vi IQ research score and domains
BTC on the major spot venues, as reported by the existing public crypto research pack.
StaleObserved 7 rowsThe source reports stale or incomplete inputs; these values are retained for context.
| Domain | Score (0–100) |
|---|---|
| Overall research score | 66 |
| Market quality | 100 |
| Liquidity health | 92 |
| Order flow | 46 |
| Arbitrage potential | 0 |
| Volatility | 58 |
| News and attention | 100 |
Coverage6 of 6 domains reported. Method: vi-iq-research-v1.
A heuristic research score, not a calibrated probability, forecast, or measured investment performance.
This is the public research-pack score. It is not a claim that every app pair score or source has the same coverage.
The source marks 1 inputs stale: whales. The aggregate can include retained inputs.
Domain values are mirrored, not recalculated or relabelled as current when an input is stale.
The 6 domains
Each domain is scored on its own inputs and published on its own row. The set is fixed: a score is always over these 6, never over a subset chosen after the fact, and when a domain has no inputs it reports as unavailable rather than as zero.
- Market quality
- How orderly the market looks: whether quotes are consistent across the venues that reported, and whether the pair's data has the shape a functioning market produces.
- Liquidity health
- What stands behind the quote. A tight spread over a thin book and a tight spread over a deep one are very different conditions, and this is the domain that separates them.
- Order flow
- The balance and character of recent trading — which side has been taking, and in what size.
- Arbitrage potential
- How far the venues disagree at the moment, relative to what it would cost to act on the disagreement. A zero here usually means the venues agree, which is the normal state.
- Volatility
- How much the price has been moving. High volatility is neither good nor bad for the score's purpose; it is a condition that changes what every other domain means.
- News sentiment
- Attention. Whether the sources being tracked are currently saying anything about this market, and in what direction.
The precise inputs behind each domain belong to the published method, whose identifier travels with every score. The methodology is where that is documented.
How to read one
Start with the coverage line, not the number. A score computed from two reporting domains and a score computed from all 6 can be identical and mean very different things, and only one of them is worth acting on.
Then read the spread between domains. A market that is strong on liquidity and weak on order flow is a different proposition from one that is middling on both, and the aggregate hides that distinction by design — it exists to rank pairs, not to describe one.
In the app the score carries a band label — Strong opportunity, Favorable, Neutral, Caution, Avoid — and is clamped to a 1–100 range. The band is a name for a range of scores. It is not a recommendation, and nothing about it changes with your plan.
Finally, check the observation time and the stale list. Vultax will show you a score built on a retained input, and it will tell you that is what it did; the alternative, quietly recomputing and presenting the result as current, is how a stale feed becomes an invisible one.
Where it appears
- In the crypto workspace for a selected pair, as the score panel with the domain breakdown and as a compact ring beside the chart.
- As a badge on the prediction terminal, where it is a pointer into the crypto workspace rather than a score for a prediction contract.
- In Vultax's public data packs, where a score is published for other subjects too — each with its own stated subject line, so a score about one thing is never read as a score about another.
- On this website, in the table above and in the feature page for the crypto score.
The other Vi IQ, and why it is not this one
The trader tables in the app have a column headed Vi IQ. It is an activity score: it ranks recent taker recency, volume, fill count and market breadth, and the app states on the page that it is descriptive rather than a return forecast, with observed performance evidence kept in a separate cohort. It has no domains, it is about a wallet rather than a market, and a high value means a trader has been busy across several markets — not that a market is in good condition and not that the trader has been right.
Two measures sharing a name is a naming decision that has to be paid for somewhere, and this page is where it is paid. If a number is described as Vi IQ, check whether it is about a market or about a wallet before comparing it with anything.
What Vi IQ is not
- Not a probability. It is not calibrated against outcomes and no accuracy figure is published for it, because none has been established.
- Not a signal to trade. Nothing on Vultax is financial advice, and no band means buy.
- Not comparable across subjects. A score for a spot crypto pair and a score published for a different subject answer different questions with different inputs.
- Not affected by your plan. A plan changes how much detail you see, never the value of the score.
Questions
What is Vi IQ?
A 0–100 research score for a crypto market, computed across 6 named domains and always shown with those domains beside it. It is a way of deciding which market to look at, not a view about what will happen in it.
Is Vi IQ a prediction?
No. It is a heuristic research score, not a calibrated probability, not a forecast and not measured investment performance. No accuracy claim is attached to it because none has been established.
Why does the trader table have a column called Vi IQ that means something else?
Because two measures were given the same family name. The trader column is an activity score built from recent taker recency, volume, fill count and market breadth; the app itself describes it as descriptive rather than a return forecast. The market score is the six-domain one. They are not comparable and should never be averaged.
What score is high?
The app groups scores into five bands, from Strong opportunity through Neutral to Avoid. A band is a label for a range, not a recommendation, and a score built on partial coverage sits in its band for a weaker reason than one built on all six domains.
What happens when an input is stale?
The table says so and names the stale input. The aggregate can still include a retained value, which is why the coverage count and the stale list are printed rather than folded into the number.
Where is Vi IQ calculated?
Upstream of the interface. Neither the app nor this website computes the score; both display and normalise a published one, and the method identifier travels with the figure.
Which plan shows the domains?
The headline score on a selected pair is available on the free tier in the app. The six-domain detail on every pair sits on Essential and above. The published score on this page is free to read.
See it on a pair
The headline score is on the free tier. Essential adds the domain breakdown on every pair.