How the score is made

The OrdLord Cycle Score is cycle heat, from 0 to 100. Zero is cold: early, washed out, room to run. One hundred is overheated: late, euphoric, stretched. 32 or below reads Pointing up. From there up to 68 reads In the middle. 68 or above reads Pointing down. A score within a point of either edge keeps that edge’s name, so it does not flip from one day to the next. None of this is a buy or sell signal or a price target.

Each voting metric is ranked against its own past, using only what was known on that date. That is an expanding window: later days are not allowed to change an earlier rank. Expensive, greedy, or stretched readings raise heat. Cheap, fearful, or washed-out readings lower it. The headline number is where that day’s blend sits against every earlier blend, so a genuine extreme can reach the ends of the scale.

The phase name and the Score marker on the wave use this same number. The Calendar marker is separate. It is the traditional four-year halving clock, about 1,460 days from the latest supply cut. The two markers can disagree: the clock can be late while the heat is still cold. The homepage says so in plain English when they do.

Today’s official score is taken on the first visit at or after 10:00 Australia/Melbourne and then held until the next morning. If a reading misses that print, the last good value stays, with its date. The seven-day change uses the historical score series until two official 10:00 prints exist, and the page says so. In November 2026 the score was recalibrated onto this heat scale, so past tops land hot and past bottoms land cold. Prints from before that change used an earlier scale.

Some cards are context and do not vote. Each metric’s own page says whether it votes. Rainbow band names are nicknames, not orders. See the live score · Track record