Mongoose Days: A Backtested Confluence Signal for Honey Badger Day
Mongoose Days is a BigShort Elite signal from the same community "animal" naming family as Honey Badger Day — but it is its own, separate, backtested indicator, not another name for HBD.
📝 A note on names: Mongoose Days is also not the same thing as Quantum Badger — a differently-named, unrelated Elite chart indicator drawn on the UF Chart. Both happen to sit inside BigShort's broader animal-naming convention, but they measure different things. This article covers Mongoose Days only.
What Is a Mongoose Day?
BigShort's community and staff use a set of named "animal" signals to talk about recurring setups. As BigShort community member hobotae listed the full cast: "badger, beaver, pelican, orangutan, crab, dragonfly, mongoose... and cobra." Mongoose Days is one of these — a distinct signal with its own backtest, sitting alongside Honey Badger Day rather than inside it.
As hobotae put it, "mongoose is also a good backtested indicator, works best when paired with honey badger days."
That framing matters: Mongoose Days isn't presented as a standalone replacement for HBD. It's a separate, backtested read that the community treats as a companion to HBD — a confluence check, not a competing signal.
How the Community Uses It
hobotae has also noted, informally, that Mongoose and Honey Badger Day "become weaker when they happen without the other" — in other words, community members watch for the two to line up together, treating the pairing as a stronger version of the setup than either one firing alone. This is a community observation about how the two are watched together, not a guaranteed rule, and it isn't a backtested claim in its own right.
📝 Note: The exact scale/scoring used for Mongoose Days, and exactly where it's surfaced in the BigShort app, aren't yet confirmed for this guide. We'll update this article with those details once they're documented — this is a deliberate, honest gap rather than an oversight.
Why It's Ranked Where It Is
Mongoose Days appears near the top of BigShort's indicator importance list, alongside Honey Badger Day — reflecting its role as a backtested signal best read as confluence for HBD rather than in isolation.
- Honey Badger Day — the signal Mongoose Days most often pairs with
- Honey Badger Years — the rarer, longer-cycle member of the Honey Badger family
- Squeeze Meter Tab — where Honey Badger Day is scored