Buying Gauge tier
The five-tier mapping from the Buying Gauge's 0-100 score to a plain-language verdict. HOLD (0-20) = euphoric crowd, patience. STACK SMALL (21-40) = below-average entry, no edge. STACK (41-60) = mixed signals, DCA on schedule. STACK NOW (61-80) = conditions favorable, stack with conviction. STACK HUGE (81-100) = blood-in-the-streets territory.
How to read it
The tiers translate a number into posture. HOLD says the crowd is euphoric, patience pays. STACK SMALL says entries are below average. STACK is the mixed middle: stay on schedule. STACK NOW says conditions historically favored buyers, lean in. STACK HUGE marks blood-in-the-streets extremes that have appeared a handful of times per cycle. The boundaries are even 20-point bands, deliberately simple.
On Galaxy Mind
The tier is the color and the label everywhere the gauge appears: the needle zone on /stack, the embed widget, the SVG badge, the shared verdict cards, and the tier-flip email alert that fires when the gauge crosses from one band into another.
Context
The tier exists because a bare 77 invites overthinking while STACK NOW invites action. The site keeps tier history in the gauge's daily KV snapshots, which is what powers the highest-since line under the dial and the 30-day trail in the sparkline.