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Caught Early
TheDesperateTrader.com· What our free scanner flagged before it ran
Real receipts from our free real-time scanner. For each stock, this is the exact price and time of our earliest alert versus how high it ran the same session. Every ticker links to its live chart, where you can see the alert markers for yourself. This is evidence the scanner is early, not a promise every alert runs.
Biggest catches · last 30 days
The “high” is the session peak after our first alert, not a realized trade, an entry/exit, or a recommendation. Unusual volume flags interest, not direction, and no scanner catches only winners. Nothing here is investment advice.
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What our free scanner has caught early, and how to read it honestly.
- What is “caught early”?
- These are stocks our free real-time scanner flagged on unusual volume, shown with the exact price and time of our earliest alert versus how high the stock ran that same session. It is proof of what unusual-volume scanning surfaces early, before the crowd notices.
- Are these cherry-picked?
- No individual trades are cherry-picked: each row is our first alert on that name for that day, and the "high" is the real session peak that followed. Naturally this page highlights the names that ran the most, no scanner catches only winners, and unusual volume flags interest, not direction. Use it as evidence the scanner is early, not as a promise every alert runs.
- Is the “high” a trade I could have made?
- No. The high is the session peak after our first alert, not a realized trade or an entry/exit recommendation. It shows how much room the move had, not a guaranteed result. Nothing here is investment advice.
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