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Overview

Book Duplex is a market microstructure learning system built around relative price, orderbook structure, and executed flow. The documentation is organized so a user can move in both directions:

  • primitive to tutorial
  • tutorial to primitive
  • concept to panel
  • panel back to concept

Why This Docs System Exists​

The objective is not to dump definitions. It is to reduce cognitive load while teaching deterministic reasoning:

  1. Learn what each primitive means in isolation.
  2. Learn what pairs of primitives imply together.
  3. Learn how full-system agreement or conflict changes the read.
  4. Learn where each signal lives in the interface.

Documentation Layers​

Primitives​

Primitive pages define the canonical vocabulary of the system:

Tutorials​

Tutorial pages turn those primitives into scenario-based reasoning:

Visual Reference​

Visual reference pages connect metrics to the Book Duplex interface:

Frameworks​

Framework pages compress the system into reusable mental shortcuts:

Learning Path​

Phase 1: Isolated Primitives​

Start with Position, then Structure, then Flow. The goal is to stop translating the metrics and start reading them directly.

Phase 2: Pair Interactions​

Read combinations like:

  • displacement + depth
  • log(A/B) + centroid
  • trade profile + depth
  • flow + structure

Phase 3: Full-System Reads​

Use tutorials like Structural Trap and Momentum Alignment to learn how agreement and conflict propagate across the system.

Deterministic Reading Standard​

Every good read should answer:

  1. Where is price relative to equilibrium?
  2. What liquidity exists near the execution zone?
  3. Who is actually participating?
  4. Do structure and flow agree?
  5. What would invalidate the read?

Next Step​

Continue to Mental Model before moving into the primitive pages.