> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.momentrates.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Reading the chart

> The lines and labels on the chart, sync, and how markets and dates work.

Every page in the app shows the same chart: your money over time. Learn it once and you can read every screen.

![Annotated chart: last synced, synced stretch, Now, gold balance, blue yield, red cost, green gain, maturity, infinity, not to scale](https://mintcdn.com/moment-0fa29e7e/5c4BULtyWxFid-gy/images/reading-the-chart.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=5c4BULtyWxFid-gy\&q=85\&s=7252f53a3d1246360fe400623eeb929c)

| Colour | It means |
| - | - |
| **Gold** | Your balance on each day |
| **Blue** | Yield you earned since the last sync, added to every day from Now on |
| **Red** (see-through) | What you pay with. You can still see what it covers |
| **Green** | What you get |

Red and green sit in front of the gold and blue. The blue strip never moves with a trade.

## Lines and labels

| You see | It means |
| - | - |
| **Now** (solid blue line) | Today |
| **Synced 4h ago** (dashed blue line) | When your position was last updated |
| The box between them | What you held since then. Its yield becomes the blue strip |
| **Maturity** (dashed gold line) | The date a trade pays out on |
| **Not to scale** (dashed axis) | Short periods drawn wider so you can read them |
| Small boxes (pills) | The change at that moment, for example +0.02 −1,000.00 = −999.98 |

Drag the chart, or use **‹ Now ›**, to move through time.

## Sync

![The box held since the last sync earns yield, which lands as a flat blue layer from Now to infinity](https://mintcdn.com/moment-0fa29e7e/5c4BULtyWxFid-gy/images/sync.gif?s=dda0a670cd55b77daae69048b9518549)

At sync, the yield you earned becomes a flat layer from Now to ∞.

Any action syncs your position: a trade, a close, adding or removing liquidity. The yield you see is already after the 5% performance fee.

## Markets, dates and rates

Each market is one yield-bearing coin. It has a calendar of **maturities**. In the example market they fall on the 2nd and 17th of every month at 08:00 UTC, with 8 open at a time. The gap between two maturities is a **period**, and each period has its own rate.

![A calendar with maturities on the 2nd and 17th and 8 open maturities rolling forward](https://mintcdn.com/moment-0fa29e7e/5c4BULtyWxFid-gy/images/maturity-calendar.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=5c4BULtyWxFid-gy\&q=85\&s=c7cd3ec72c9fc2b1c7238fa297968870)

Maturities on the 2nd and 17th. Eight are open at once; a new one opens as one passes.

On the **Markets** page you can see each market as:

* **Overview**: one row per market, with a fixed rate and the date it runs until, its liquidity and your position.
* **Forward**: the rate of each period.
* **Term**: the rate to fix from Now until each date.

Every rate reads the same way. Give up **x** of your line until a date, and get **x × rate × days ÷ 365** more from that date on. Across several periods, each period is priced on its own rate and the results chain, so the exact total is a touch above this estimate. The app shows the exact figure. For example, 1,000 at 5.21% for 35 days gives about 5 more.

When a maturity passes, nothing expires. Your line just keeps going.


## Related topics

- [Moment: choose when you earn yield](https://docs.momentrates.xyz/index.md)
- [How it works](https://docs.momentrates.xyz/for-builders/how-it-works.md)
- [Contracts and parameters](https://docs.momentrates.xyz/for-builders/contracts-and-parameters.md)
- [Leverage](https://docs.momentrates.xyz/use-the-app/leverage.md)
- [Integrating with Moment](https://docs.momentrates.xyz/for-builders/integrating-with-moment.md)


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