FAQ

Do I need an account? Yes. Every call needs a Cycles IQ account. Signing up is free: in the app at app.cyclesiq.com, or when you add the connector in Claude or ChatGPT. A new account starts with the 30-day trial and then continues on the Free plan. See Plans and limits.

What does it cost? The 30-day trial, the Free plan and the FSC member plan cost nothing. Pay as you go is priced at 1.75 EUR per 1,000 tokens, plus VAT where it applies; you book it on the API page of the app, and it is billed monthly through Stripe with Link as the merchant of record (see Plans and limits). The cost calculator estimates a month. Scale is set up for Pro members by agreement. The Cycles IQ Membership and the Pro Membership include everything of the app, the API and MCP, on the Member plan at half the token price (0.875 EUR per 1,000 tokens) and with higher limits; see Cycles IQ. The plans are licensed for private use; professional and commercial use needs the Pro Membership.

Can I get the prices of a market? Not in a plan. The markets built into the app are the feature MarketDataAccess, granted on request to known customers: with it you search a market and analyse it by id through the REST API and the connector, and the REST answers carry the prices; through the connector the answers carry the cycles, never the prices. Without the feature every analysis takes your own data. See Market data by id.

Can my AI assistant look up a market through Cycles IQ? Only with the feature MarketDataAccess on your account: then the tool search_symbols finds the market and the analyses take its id. Without it the MCP server analyses the data you give it: values from another connector (a market-data connector, for example), a file, your own numbers, or your stored datasets. It never returns prices.

What data can I analyse? Any regular series of more than 100 values, oldest first: send it with the call, store it as a dataset, or, with the feature MarketDataAccess, name a market by its id. Prices, indicators, economic series, sensor data.

How many values should I send? More than 100. A cycle is measured reliably when the series holds several repetitions of it, so a 200-bar cycle needs many hundreds of bars. For the cyclic RSI keep the cycle length at most a third of the series length.

Why does my result differ from the Cycle Scanner app? Almost always different inputs: the app detrends with a Hodrick-Prescott filter and uses its own length window, Bartels limit and number of bars. Send the same settings (dType, minCycleLength, maxCycleLength, bartelsLimit, the same window) and the results match.

Why are stabilityScore and dominantRank 0? Each needs its option on the scan: useStability=true for the stability score (every plan since 8 October 2026) and dominantPeakFinder=true for the rank (a PRO feature of the 30-day trial, pay as you go, Member and Scale). Without the option the field stays 0: rank the cycles by strength and bartelsValue instead.

The API answers 429. What now? Wait the seconds Retry-After names and call again; retrying at once does not help. If the answer says an allowance is used up (the calls of the month or of the trial), it names your plan, when it resets and the way to more. See Answers and errors.

The API answers 403. What now? The call is not part of your plan, or it needs a feature. Waiting does not help; the message says what to do, for example to analyse a market by id instead of loading its bars.

How do I keep a series on the server? Store it once (store_dataset, or PUT /api/datasets/{name}) and name it with datasetid in later calls. The number and size of datasets depend on the plan; list_datasets or GET /api/datasets shows yours and your quota.

Who can see my datasets? Only you. Other users' calls cannot read your datasets.

Are my datasets the same in the app, with my key and in my AI assistant? Yes, once your e-mail address is confirmed: a dataset you upload in the app or store with your key is there for your connector, and one your assistant stores is there for your key and on the app's My Datasets page, where you can also delete it.

How do I connect a different Cycles IQ account to my AI assistant? Open https://app.cyclesiq.com/app/account/logout in the browser that opens for the connector's sign-in. Then disconnect the Cycles IQ connector in your assistant and connect it again: the sign-in asks for the e-mail address.

Can I stream live bars? Yes, in the trial, in pay as you go, Member and Scale, and for FSC members as their membership allows; not on the Free plan. Push bars to your stream and analyse the stream like a dataset. Stream updates never count toward your calls; on Pay as you go and Member, ten updates are one token.

Is this investment advice? No. Cycles IQ measures cycles and projects them; decisions stay with you.

Answers of Cycles IQ are measurements and projections of cycles, not investment advice. Questions: support.