The first question you put to a markets Super Intelligence is usually broad. What does the SPY map look like. What are the perps doing. The broad answer is a starting point. The value is in the second and third questions, where each one cuts the subject down.
Why narrowing works
A broad answer has to cover everything, so it says a little about each thing. A narrow question lets the SI spend the whole answer on one reading, with its venue and its age. How to open well is covered in how to ask a markets SI a good question. This is about what comes after.
Narrow by instrument
If the first answer covered three indexes, pick one. If it covered an index, pick the level. “Which wall is nearer on QQQ” is a follow-up that has one answer.
Restate the instrument when you do this. Words like “it” drift. After a few exchanges “it” might be the share, the perp or the token. Saying “the NVDA perp” again costs three words and removes the doubt.
Narrow by venue
The same ticker can list on more than one perp book, each with its own price and open interest. If the first answer mentioned a perp, ask which book. If you want another book, ask for it by name. A careful SI keeps them in separate sentences and never adds them, for the reasons in how a markets SI keeps markets apart.
On a chain, the venue question becomes the contract question. Ask which contract address the answer was about.
Narrow by time
Ask how old the figure is. Ask what it was at the last cash close. Ask over what span an average was taken. Each of these turns a number into a number with a clock on it.
Narrow by comparison
Ask against something. How far is the wall as a share of the expected move. Which of the seven largest index names moved most since the close. Which large perps have funding far from the resting value. A comparison is where a reader that holds many markets at once is most useful.
Where narrowing ends
There is a point where the next natural question is no longer a reading. You have the level, the distance, the age and the comparison. The next thing that comes to mind is “so should I take it”.
That is the end of the SI’s part. The question has stopped narrowing and has changed kind. It now needs your account, your size and your horizon. A markets SI declines it, as set out in questions a markets SI should refuse.
A useful habit is to notice that moment. When your follow-up turns into a decision, you have all the readings you were going to get. Close the conversation and decide.
Dr. NoVo, NoVo’s Financial Markets SI, takes follow-ups on his own page. Through the MCP & API, ask_novo puts the same plain-English questions to him from your own AI app.