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Product Philosophy September 9, 2026 | 3 min read

By the Kunkafa team

One Forecast, Three Ways to Read It

A newcomer and a veteran look at the same forecast and need different screens. How Kunkafa designed three reading levels of one set of numbers.

Two people open the same gold forecast. One has never read a probability. The other has studied markets for twenty years. The first wants one sentence. The second wants everything on one screen. Neither is wrong.

The question. Can one forecast serve a newcomer and an expert without dumbing down or overwhelming either?
The finding. Yes, if the numbers never change and only the amount shown does. Kunkafa designed three reading levels of the same forecast.
Where Kunkafa stands. The question, the picture, the full view. Same level, same duration, same confidence at every step. Nothing hidden, including the other direction.
What to do. Start at the level that fits you today. Move up when you want more.

Where the three levels came from

We did not guess at this. We ran workshops with people of different profiles: newcomers who had never seen a probability on a chart, self-taught learners, experienced market readers, and readers who live inside spreadsheets.

Each group was shown the same forecast and asked one thing. What do you need to see to make sense of it?

The answers did not overlap. Newcomers and learners wanted a list. Visual thinkers wanted distance against time. Experienced readers wanted the price line, the band and every level at once.

So we stopped looking for one screen. We designed three, on one rule: the numbers are identical at every level. Only the amount shown changes.

Level 1: The question

Your question in one line, the answers listed under it, both directions. Each row is a level with Kunkafa’s confidence for that level over the same duration. Could gold go up 1% within 12 days? Kunkafa’s confidence: 84%. The other side sits directly below it: down 0.6% in the same period, 70%. The figures are the homepage’s illustrative example.

This is for the reader who wants the list. Read the rows together, not the best one alone. A high confidence on a small move and a low one on a large move can be the same market saying one thing quietly.

Kunkafa forecast for Alphabet at the the question level, phone width
The question

Level 2: The picture

Every possible move from one point. Farther right is more time. Higher or lower is a bigger move. Bigger dots are likelier.

This level is for the learner who wants to see distance against time. It is also the clearest picture of the founding idea: greed draws one line up, fear draws one line down, Kunkafa draws every path with Kunkafa’s confidence in each.

Kunkafa forecast for Alphabet at the the picture level, phone width
The picture

Level 3: The full view

The price line, the forecast band, and every level with Kunkafa’s confidence. Everything on one screen, for the experienced reader who wants it that way.

All three levels are available in the app. You can switch between the question, the picture and the full view in the Kunkafa market forecast app.

Kunkafa forecast for Alphabet at the the full view level, phone width
The full view

The rules every level obeys

  • Same numbers, less or more of them. A level never rounds, softens or reorders what another level shows.
  • The other direction is never hidden. The side you asked about comes first, the other side below it or one tap away.
  • Kunkafa’s confidence for every level, not one number for the market. A 52% is shown as 52%.
  • No celebration, no consolation. Reaching a level and missing one are both counted the same way in the record.
  • Phone first. Every level was designed at phone width before desktop, because that is where most readers open a forecast.

Which level is yours

If you want an answer, start at the question. If you think in pictures, use the picture. If you want everything, the full view is waiting.

Free is where every account starts, and looking costs nothing. Open the Kunkafa market forecast app and try the levels, or start your 7-day free trial.

Probability, not prophecy. Forecast, not advice.

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