The Oyamori Cognitive Framework is the language system at the center of the entire Oyamori Universe — the way the platform organizes every piece of market intelligence into three layers a human can actually think in: DNA, Pulse, and Score. Most platforms hand you raw metrics — Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, IV, volume, open interest, breadth — and leave you to assemble them in your head. Oyamori does the opposite. It answers the three questions you were already asking.

This article explains what DNA, Pulse, and Score are inside Oyamori, how the three layers stack, and how they turn a wall of disconnected numbers into a single, readable decision. Walk the interactive framework below first, then read the breakdown.

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Three Questions Every Trader Asks

Strip away the jargon and every trading decision comes down to three questions, asked in order:

  1. "What is this?" — Is TSLA a momentum stock? Is SPY range-bound? Does NVDA trend?
  2. "What is happening right now?" — Is it bullish today? Is volume expanding? Is volatility rising?
  3. "What should I do?" — Should I buy? Which contract? Is this a high-quality setup?

The Oyamori Cognitive Framework maps each question to one layer of intelligence. That mapping is the whole idea.

Layer The question it answers Type of intelligence Changes
DNA™ What is this? Identity Slowly
Pulse™ What is happening right now? Real-time Continuously
Score™ What should I do? Decision Per setup

Read top to bottom, it spells the natural arc of any trade: Identity → Condition → Decision.

Layer 1: DNA™ — Identity Intelligence

DNA is the slow-moving personality of a thing. It is built from historical behavior and it answers "what is this, and how does it usually behave?" DNA does not tell you what to do today — it tells you what kind of instrument you are dealing with before today even starts.

The first and most developed form is TickerDNA™ — the personality of a single ticker:

TSLASPYNVDA
TypeMomentum BeastInstitutional BenchmarkTrend Leader
VolatilityHighMean ReversionMomentum Driven
NewsNews SensitiveLower Gap RiskHigh Institutional Flow
PatternOpening RunnerHighly LiquidTrend Continuation

DNA is designed to expand across the Oyamori Universe into four parallel profiles:

  • TickerDNA™ — the personality of a ticker (live today)
  • SectorDNA™ — the personality of a sector (Tech, Financials, Energy, Healthcare)
  • StrategyDNA™ — the tendencies of a strategy (Opening Breakout, Gap-and-Go, Mean Reversion)
  • TraderDNA™ — the profile of a trader style (Scalper, Day, Swing, Position)
ℹ️ INFO
DNA is the layer you check before the market opens. Knowing TSLA is a "Momentum Beast" and SPY is "Mean Reversion" changes how you read every signal that follows — the same Pulse reading means different things on different DNA.

Layer 2: Pulse™ — Real-Time Intelligence

If DNA is identity, Pulse is the heartbeat. Pulse changes continuously and answers "what is happening right now?" It is the live condition of the market, the ticker, the contract, and the sector — measured this second, not this quarter.

Pulse comes in four forms, each scoped to a different part of the Oyamori Universe:

VIX, breadth, put/call, gamma, risk-on/off
MarketPulse
rel volume, trend, momentum, news, structure
TickerPulse
Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, IV, liquidity, flow
ContractPulse
rotation, relative strength, institutional flow
SectorPulse

This is where all the raw metrics other platforms dump on you actually live — but organized. Delta and Gamma are not free-floating numbers; they are ContractPulse. VIX and breadth are not a separate dashboard; they are MarketPulse. The framework gives every metric a home and a job.

You open six tabs: an options chain, a VIX chart, a breadth scanner, a news feed, a volume tool, a flow tracker. You hold all of it in your head and hope you weighted it right.

Layer 3: Score™ — Decision Intelligence

Score is where Oyamori's proprietary intelligence lives. DNA and Pulse describe the world; Score converts that description into action. It answers the only question that pays you: "what should I do?"

A Score is a decision engine that compresses many inputs into one number or grade. The Oyamori Universe defines a family of them, each answering a sharper version of "what should I do?":

Score Answers Example
ContractScore™ Which contract should I trade? 430C Jun26 = 92
SetupScore™ How good is this setup? A+ / A / B+ or 0–100
EntryScore™ How good is this entry timing? Trend + S/R + volume + R:R
ExitScore™ Take profit or hold? Momentum decay, target, time
FlowScore™ How meaningful is this flow? Quality of options flow
LiquidityScore™ How easily can I get in and out? Spread + depth
RiskScore™ How dangerous is this trade? Composite risk
ConvictionScore™ How confident is Oyamori? Overall confidence
DifficultyScore™ How hard is this ticker to trade? Partly from TickerDNA™

ContractScore is the clearest example. Instead of staring at a chain, you get a ranking:

92
430C Jun26
84
435C Jun26
67
440C Jun26
⚠️ WARNING
A Score is only as honest as the DNA and Pulse beneath it. Score never replaces the first two layers — it stands on them. A high Score on weak Pulse, or Pulse that contradicts the DNA, is exactly the kind of trap the framework is built to expose.

The Framework in Motion: A TSLA Walkthrough

Here is the full Oyamori Cognitive Framework resolving a single trade, layer by layer.

flowchart TD A["TickerDNA™ — TSLA<br/>Momentum Beast · High Volatility · News Sensitive"] --> B["TickerPulse™<br/>Rel Volume High · Momentum Bullish · Positive News"] B --> C["ContractScore™<br/>430C Jun26 = 92"] C --> D["ContractPulse™<br/>Δ 0.52 · Γ 0.14 · Θ -0.41 · IV 63%"] A -.-> A1(["What is it?"]) B -.-> B1(["What's happening?"]) C -.-> C1(["What to trade?"]) D -.-> D1(["How's my contract?"])
  1. DNA says TSLA is a Momentum Beast — high volatility, news sensitive. Now you know what you are holding.
  2. Pulse says relative volume is high, momentum is bullish, news is positive. The conditions match the DNA.
  3. Score ranks 430C Jun26 at 92 — the best contract for this setup. The decision is made.
  4. ContractPulse then monitors the live Greeks once you are in. The loop stays open.

Identity, condition, decision — in that order, every time.

The Oyamori Language System

The real goal of the framework is not a dashboard. It is a language — a way for traders to say something precise in a few words. Once DNA, Pulse, and Score are second nature, sentences like these carry a full analysis:

  • "TSLA has great DNA, but the Pulse is weak today."
  • "Market Pulse is risk-off — sit out."
  • "The Pulse is strong but the Score isn't there yet."
  • "Contract Pulse is improving."

Each sentence names a layer, and each layer has a fixed meaning. That is what turns a pile of metrics into a conversation.

Where the Framework Sits in the Oyamori Universe

The Cognitive Framework is the thinking layer of Oyamori — and it maps directly onto the broader market structure hierarchy, where Oyamori operates at Level 9 (Algorithms), serving individual traders. DNA, Pulse, and Score are how a Level 9 systematic engine reads the market on your behalf: it identifies (DNA), monitors (Pulse), and decides (Score) with the discipline a human under pressure rarely sustains.

Every other tool in the Oyamori ecosystem — scanners, signals, the daily brief — speaks this same three-word language. Learn it once, and the entire platform becomes legible.

The Takeaway: One Language for Every Decision

DNA tells you what it is. Pulse tells you what's happening. Score tells you what to do.

That is the entire Oyamori Cognitive Framework — three questions, three layers, one arc from identity to decision. You no longer assemble a dozen disconnected metrics in your head; you read three answers in order. The data was always there. Oyamori's contribution is the language that makes it think-able.