u/op98765

▲ 12 r/Ascaso

Espresso is spraying out to the sides during the shot — what could be causing this?

Hi everyone,
I’ve noticed that when I pull a shot, the espresso sometimes sprays out to the sides instead of coming out in a clean, steady stream.
I’ve attached a video so you can see exactly what’s happening.
Is this likely to be an issue with my grind size, puck prep, tamping, or something else with the machine/portafilter?
Any advice on what I should check or change would be appreciated. Thanks!

Ascaso dual PID

u/op98765 — 13 days ago
▲ 36 r/Ascaso

My e2e Ascaso setup

Ascaso pid duo + H64 Ascaso grinder

u/op98765 — 27 days ago

I built a signals API that returns a verdict + rationale per ticker (stage analysis, P&F, breadth, macro, insiders). Free tier, MCP server for Claude.

Solo project, sharing because this sub is exactly who it's for.

WHAT IT IS

A JSON API for US stocks and ETFs. Give it a ticker, get back:

- a composite 0-100 score and a verdict (accumulate / hold / distribute / avoid), with per-factor sub-scores and a written rationale
- four-stage trend analysis (basing / advancing / topping / declining) from a 30-week moving average, current and as a weekly history up to 10 years, computed walk-forward so backtests don't cheat
- Point & Figure signals and relative strength vs SPY
- sector bullish-percent breadth
- macro regime (risk-on / neutral / risk-off) from credit spreads, rates, the dollar and COT positioning, with the point tally shown
- SEC Form 4 insider buys and sells, and 8-Ks, per ticker
- webhooks that fire on stage transitions, P&F flips, regime changes and insider clusters

WHAT IT IS NOT

Not real-time (daily and weekly signals), not advice, not a broker, no machine learning. It's textbook methods applied consistently, with the reasoning exposed so you can disagree with it.

REAL OUTPUT, NVDA

I asked GET /v1/verdict/NVDA this week. It came back: accumulate, 70.6 out of 100, high confidence. Here's what went into that, factor by factor:

- Trend stage, scored 85. Price is 11% above its 30-week moving average and that average is rising, which puts NVDA in Stage 2, the advancing phase. In stage terms that's the one phase where you're meant to be long.

- Point & Figure, scored 85. The chart printed a double-top breakout and is still in a rising X column, so demand is in control. Relative strength against SPY is positive, meaning it's outperforming the index, not just riding it.

- Insider activity, scored 35. Two insiders sold in the last fourteen days and none bought. That's a mark against, and the score says so rather than hiding it.

- Macro regime, scored 70. The backdrop is risk-on: high-yield credit spreads are tight at 2.67%, the 2s10s curve is positively sloped at +41bps, and initial jobless claims are 206k. Nothing in the macro picture argues for caution.

Weighted together (stage 30%, P&F 20%, insiders 20%, macro 10%) that lands at 70.6. Three more factors (13F institutional flows, short interest and congressional trades) are in the response marked available: false with zero weight until their data sources land, so the score is built from four inputs today and will absorb the rest without changing shape.

The written rationale the API returns is one paragraph: NVDA scores 70.6 (accumulate), driven mainly by stage and P&F; price is 10.99% above a rising 30-week MA (Stage 2); double-top breakout on the P&F chart with positive relative strength.

The part I'd draw your attention to is the insider line. A verdict that only ever agrees with itself is useless. This one carries a 35 in the middle of an 85-85-70 lineup, and you can see it and weight it differently if you think insider selling at NVDA means more than the model does.

WHY YOU MIGHT CARE EVEN IF YOU'D NEVER TRADE A "VERDICT"

The stage history endpoint gives you a clean, no-lookahead weekly stage label per ticker back to 2016, which is a decent regime feature for your own models. And every response tells you as_of and when to re-check.

PRICING

Free tier: 1,000 credits a month, no card (a verdict is 5 credits, most signals are 1 per ticker). Pro is $49 a month for 50k credits plus webhooks. Only successful responses are charged; unknown tickers and outages are free.

FOR THE CLAUDE USERS HERE

uvx vanoe-intelligence-mcp turns every endpoint into a tool. It's on the official MCP registry.

https://api.vanoe.ai (docs at /docs). I'd genuinely like to hear where the methods are wrong or which factor you'd weight differently.

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