system_knowledge_base/image_chart_rules.md

TRADING IMAGE AND CHART DATASET RULES

Chart screenshots and candlestick images can be used for:

1. image-to-text captioning,
2. visual question answering,
3. chart-analysis conversations,
4. multimodal supervised fine-tuning.

Do not claim exact price values from a chart image unless they are legible or provided as structured metadata. Do not infer hidden candles or indicators.

A chart-image example should preserve: image path or image identifier, symbol if known, timeframe if known, visible chart context, visual observations, market structure, liquidity observations, indicators visible, setup classification, entry/stop/target only when provided or clearly inferable, and uncertainty notes.

For a multimodal dataset, the image reference must remain associated with the text response. For a text-only dataset, OCR and/or a vision caption may be used, but the generated text must be marked as image-derived.

A chart-analysis response should distinguish observation from inference and should not manufacture certainty.