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name: read-the-evening-book
description: Read tonight's RingMaster book, Trade Cards and the model book, and say what changed since the previous trading day. Use when the user asks what RingMaster publishes tonight, what the signals are, or what changed in the book since yesterday.
---

# Read the evening book

Trigger on: "what's in the book tonight", "what are tonight's signals",
"what does RingMaster hold", or "what changed in the book".

1. For tonight's signals, call `get_todays_book`. That is Trade Cards: one
   row a name, the side, the win rate, the confidence, the
   option strategy and its limit. It also carries the index funds.
   Each row's win rate is the desk's measured rate for its rank, on paper.
   State it as a percent, alone, and never lead with vs. Win rates are the
   higher of two paper measures: calls that went the called way, or the same
   with rises and falls weighed equally. anyStock in the data carries 50 for
   older readers. Name a lottery at 50% only beside a win rate under 50, and
   nothing beside one at 50 or above. The probability of profit
   under a strategy is the option market's own chance of ending past the
   breakeven at expiry.
   To see the other lists, pass `tab`: `trending`, `favourites`,
   `leaders`, `themes` or `indexes`. Trending is the names with the most
   option contracts traded today. The default reply is tonight's sheet
   with a count of further signals. Pass `more` for those, `all` for the
   whole screen, or a `ticker` for one name's row.
   SPX, NDX, RUT and DJX chains come from `get_options_board` and
   `get_options_positioning`, not from the Indexes tab. That tab lists SPY,
   QQQ, IWM and DIA.
2. For the model book, call `get_tonight_book`. It is five names long and
   five short, equal weight. The only construction is `model`. The three
   ladder books were retired on 2026-09-22; if the user names one, say so.
   The reply keys `own` and `avoid` are wire words: `own` is the bullish
   side and `avoid` the bearish side. Say bullish and bearish, never own
   or avoid.
3. State the trading day and the delay flag from the stamp before anything
   else. If `delayed` is true, say so in the first sentence, in the stamp's
   own words.
4. List what came back exactly as returned. Do not round, estimate, or add a
   name or a figure the tool did not return. Quote every win rate as a
   percent, alone.
5. Always close with the paper line from the stamp, verbatim.
6. Never suggest an action ("you might want to..."). State what the book
   holds. It is published research, the same for every reader, and it is not
   advice about anybody's own account.