# Ideas
> The ranked action list on the Ozmium home screen - how plays are ordered, what the tags mean, and why a play you expected is not on the list.
Source: https://docs.ozmium.org/guides/ideas/
Keywords: ozmium ideas, ranked defi actions, portfolio suggestions base, yield opportunity ranking, defi action list
Updated: 2026-08-09
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Ideas sits on the home screen, above your action history. It reads the book you already have - wallet
balances, vault positions, loans, and open leveraged trades - and lists the moves available to you
right now, ordered by what they are worth.

Every row is one action with a number attached. Not a watchlist, and not a market scan you have to
translate into a decision yourself.

![The Ozmium ideas feed listing ranked setups including a copper versus silver momentum divergence, an Avalanche short with entry, target, stop and liquidation, crowded-book reads for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and a suggestion to put idle funds into the OZ/USDC pool.](/img/ozmium-ranked-trade-ideas.webp ">> Each row is one action, with what it is worth and the reasoning behind it.")

## The Four Groups

Every play belongs to exactly one group, and the filter row only offers a group that currently has
something in it. An empty chip is a dead end, so it is not drawn.

| Group | Covers | Tags you will see |
|---|---|---|
| **Risk** | Leveraged positions, open and prospective | Risk, Scalp, Lock In, De-Risk, Free Up, Bank It |
| **Earn** | Supplying assets for yield | Earn, Move, Loop |
| **Loan** | Borrowing, collateral, and liquidation distance | Save, Shore Up, Deploy, Protect |
| **Swap** | Spot positioning | Buy Dip, Swap |

## How the List Is Ordered

**Best** is the default and is the engine's own ranking. It sorts by tier first, then by size within
the tier:

- **Tier 0 - urgent.** Protecting capital. A loan drifting toward its liquidation price.
- **Tier 1 - carry.** Recurring money, ranked by dollars per year.
- **Tier 2 - opportunistic.** Everything else worth doing.

A loan near liquidation therefore stays above a fatter yield play, because the two are not competing
for the same decision.

**Reward** ignores tiers and sorts purely by the number, largest first. **A-Z** sorts by title. Both
exist for hunting a specific play you know is there, not for second-guessing the ranking.

The search box matches the title, the plan text, the reward, the tag, and the internal id at once, so
typing `BTC`, `short`, or `gold` all find what you mean. The feed is capped at 24 rows.

## Why a Play Is Not Listed

Most "why am I not seeing this?" questions have one of four answers, all of them deliberate:

- **It is worth under $5.** Dust-sized moves are filtered out.
- **You traded that market in the last 7 days.** A market you just acted on is not re-pitched back at
  you blind.
- **A yield move cannot repay its own switching cost within 30 days.** Moving funds between vaults
  costs gas and spread. If the better APY does not recoup that inside a month, the move is not an
  improvement and is not offered. Swap cost is assumed at 0.3% of notional, all in.
- **Nothing compelling exists.** When no leveraged play clears the bar, the panel says so rather than
  showing an empty Risk section.

## With No Wallet Connected

The panel runs on a sample book, so you can see the shape of the output before connecting anything.
The numbers are illustrative. Connect a wallet and every row is computed from your own positions.

## What This Is Not

Ideas is commentary on your own book, not financial advice, and not a forecast. A dollars-per-year
figure is arithmetic on a rate that is live right now - rates move, and a leveraged play can lose.
The reasoning is printed on each row precisely so you can disagree with it.

See [Leverage](/guides/leverage/) for how the leveraged entries are sized against real volatility, and
[Earn](/guides/earn/) for how vault yield is measured. Agents get the same ranking over HTTP at
`GET /v1/ideas`.