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Start Here5 Live Alerts8 Scanners and Signals12 Movers and Rankings15 Stock Screens by Type10 Charts and Per-Stock Research10 The Watcher8 Where the Money Is9 Calendars and Events7 Community and Social13 Calculators13 Learn12 Your Account, Tools and Support16

Start Here5 pages

If you open one page a day, make it one of these. They answer "what is worth my attention right now".

Home

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What you see: The live front page: what is moving right now, the biggest movers, halts, unusual volume and the newest scanner alerts, all on one screen.
How to use it: Use it as your first look of the session. If nothing on the home page is moving, there is usually no trade worth forcing.
Reading the numbers: One screen for the whole session: movers, halts, unusual volume and the newest alerts.
Use it as the first look of the day. If nothing here is moving, there is usually no trade worth forcing, and that is a valid read rather than a failure of the page.

Top Stocks Today

/top-stocks

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What you see: Six ranked stocks with live charts, on five timeframe toggles (Scalping, Day, Swing, Position, Investing). Each card shows the boards that flagged the name and the news catalyst behind the move.
How to use it: The simplest place to start. Pick the timeframe that matches how long you actually hold, then read the badges: a name on four boards has more going for it than a name on one. Refreshes every 30 seconds.
Reading the numbers: The rank badge (1 to 6): position on that timeframe, not a prediction of size of move.
Price with two percentages: the top one is the regular session, AH or PM below it is after-hours or pre-market, measured against the last 4pm close.
Coloured badges: each is one board that flagged the name. Orange is volume and attention, rose is social, emerald is real dollars, sky is trend, violet is supply.
N boards, bottom left: how many independent boards agree. Four beats one.
Day range bar: where the current price sits between the session low and high. Near 100% means it is at the top of its range, which cuts both ways.
WHY card: the filing or headline behind the move, with a link to the original. If it says no recent filing or news, the move is coming from the boards, not a headline.

Stock Market Today

/stock-market-today

What you see: The full dashboard behind Top Stocks Today: every leader board (most alerted, movers, RVOL, momentum, EMA trend), a market pulse summary and the Top Play hero, on the same five timeframes.
How to use it: Go here when the six-stock view is not enough and you want the whole board. The Top Play here is the same name ranked number one on Top Stocks Today.
Reading the numbers: RVOL: relative volume against this stock at this time of day. 1x is a normal day; 5x and up means something is actually happening.
15-min: the move over the last quarter hour, which is what separates a stock moving now from one that moved at the open.
Vol accel: whether volume is still building or fading. Building is what you want before an entry.
Above 200-min EMA: a trend filter. Below it, most upside setups on this site historically do worse.
30m slope per session: how steep the climb is, normalised so timeframes compare fairly.
Buzz and searches: Reddit engagement and Google search volume, shown as a rank among the board so the number has a scale.
Added, N funds: fresh institutional buying from 13F filings. Slow data, so treat it as research and not a trigger.

The Pulse

/pulse

What you see: A live stream of everything at once: unusual-volume alerts, trending tickers, market news and the trader community reacting in real time.
How to use it: Leave it open on a second screen during the session. It is the fastest way to notice a name catching fire before it reaches the ranked boards.
Reading the numbers: Live chip: the stream is connected and updating. If it stops saying Live, you are looking at frozen data.
Bullish and Bearish counts: the balance of what is being flagged right now, a quick read on whether the tape is broadly buying or selling.
Reading the Pulse panel: explains each stream type on the page itself.

Alerts

/alerts

What you see: The real-time alert feed: every stock our scanners flag as it happens, with the level, the reason and the price at the moment of the alert.
How to use it: This is the raw signal everything else is built from. Filter to the alert levels you care about, then click a symbol to open its chart before deciding anything.
Reading the numbers: Every alert carries the LEVEL, the reason it fired, and the price AT THAT MOMENT. The price is the number to compare against later, not the current one.
This is the raw feed everything else on the site is built from, so it is noisier than the ranked boards by design.
Filter to the levels you care about first, then open the chart before deciding anything. An alert is a reason to look, never a reason to buy.
Some filter chips are named AIs rather than alert types. Each is a separate automated strategy, and its chip shows only the alerts that strategy raised.
The Watcher is the main one: it buys the pullback on a name our scanners already flagged, then trails the move.
Thoth trades intraday breakouts. Ra trades swing momentum. Ragnar farms a range, buying near the floor and exiting at the ceiling.
Cloud buys a long consolidation breaking its ceiling. Solomon is a peak strategy. Osiris is the only short seller, and it trades on paper.
Turning a name OFF hides that strategy from the feed. If the feed looks quiet, check you have not switched one of them off.

Live Alerts8 pages

Alerts are the engine of the site. These pages are the different ways to receive and review them.

RVOL Alerts

/alerts/rvol

What you see: Relative-volume alerts: stocks trading far more volume than they normally do at this time of day, across pre-market, regular hours and after hours.
How to use it: RVOL is the single best early tell that something is happening. A stock at 10x its normal volume has real participation behind the move, not one buyer.
Reading the numbers: RVOL compares a stock against ITS OWN normal for that minute of the day, not against other stocks. 1x is an ordinary day for that name; 5x and up means something changed.
The baseline is built per symbol per minute from historical volume, so 9:31am is compared with other 9:31ams. That is why a quiet stock can hit 20x on volume a large cap would not notice.
A high RVOL with a small price move means people are trading it heavily without agreeing on direction. That is often the state just before it picks one.
Pre-market and after-hours RVOL is measured against those sessions, not the regular one. It is real, but the liquidity behind it is far thinner.

Mover Alerts

/alerts/movers

What you see: The biggest gainers, biggest losers and most active high-volume stocks, updating live across all three sessions.
How to use it: Cross-check a mover against its RVOL. A big percentage move on thin volume is far easier to reverse than the same move on heavy volume.
Reading the numbers: Gainers and losers are ranked by PERCENT, so a $2 stock outranks a $200 one on the same dollar move. Read the price column before reacting to a big number.
Most active is ranked by VOLUME, which is the honest measure of participation: a 40% move on 80,000 shares is one buyer, not a trend.
Cross-check any mover against its RVOL. The same percentage move means something very different on 1x volume than on 15x.
All three sessions are shown. Pre-market and after-hours moves are real but thin, and they reverse far more often at the open.

Price Alerts

/alerts/price

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What you see: Set a price on any stock and get notified the moment it crosses, on desktop or phone.
How to use it: Better than watching. Set alerts at the levels that would actually change your mind, then go do something else until one fires.
Reading the numbers: Alerts fire on the crossing, not on the close, so a level touched intraday and rejected still counts.
Set levels that would CHANGE YOUR MIND, not levels you hope for: the price that says the idea is wrong is the one worth being told about.
Delivery is browser push, so it reaches you with the tab closed only if you allowed notifications. On iPhone that requires adding the site to your home screen first.

Alert History

/alerts/history

What you see: Every alert that has fired, searchable after the fact.
How to use it: Use it to review. Pull up yesterday, find the names that ran, and look at what their alerts said at the time. That is how you learn which alert patterns matter.
Reading the numbers: Every alert is stamped with its price AT THE MOMENT IT FIRED, which is the number to compare against, not the price now.
The point of this page is review, not discovery. Pull up a day you traded, find the names that ran, and read what their alerts said at the time.
If an alert type keeps appearing before moves you missed, that is the filter worth adding. If it keeps appearing before nothing, that is one worth ignoring.

Previous Day Alerts Review

/previousdayalerts

What you see: Every alert from the most recent completed session (4 AM to 8 PM ET) in one ranked list, each with a 0 to 100 quality score built from its signal strength.
How to use it: The review page for the session you just traded. Sort by score and check the top alerts against what the names actually did: that comparison, repeated, is what tells you which alert types are worth acting on and which you should let go past.
Reading the numbers: The 0 to 100 quality score is built from the signal strength behind each alert, so it ranks them rather than just listing them.
Sort by score, then check the top alerts against what those names actually did. That comparison, repeated across sessions, is what tells you which alert types are worth acting on.
Covers 4:00am to 8:00pm ET of the last completed session, so pre-market and after-hours alerts are included rather than dropped.

Caught Early

/caught-early

What you see: Receipts: the exact price and time we first alerted a stock, next to how high it ran the same session.
How to use it: The honest scoreboard for the scanner. Read it to calibrate what an alert is actually worth, rather than assuming.
Reading the numbers: The first-alert price is the entry a real reader could have had, not a back-fitted best case.
Read the gap between first alert and session high as the room that existed, not the room you would have captured. Nobody exits at the top.
A short gap means we flagged it late. That is the honest failure mode this page exists to show.

Feeds

/feeds

What you see: Per-ticker feeds combining real-time volume alerts, momentum moves and trader discussion for the most active names.
How to use it: When one name is the story of the day, its feed is where the alerts and the conversation sit together.
Reading the numbers: Each feed is per ticker, so it answers "what is happening with THIS name" rather than "what is happening overall".
Volume alerts and discussion sit side by side deliberately: the tape tells you something changed, the chatter often tells you what people think it was.
Treat discussion as a lead to verify against a filing or the chart, never as the reason itself.

Stream

/stream

What you see: A raw continuous stream of scanner output.
How to use it: For when you want everything unfiltered. Most traders will prefer Alerts or The Pulse.
Reading the numbers: This is the unfiltered firehose. Everything the scanners emit, in order, with no ranking applied.
Useful for watching the tape build during a busy open. If it is scrolling faster than you can read, that IS the signal that the session is active.
For anything you intend to act on, use the ranked boards instead. Raw order of arrival is not order of importance.

Scanners and Signals12 pages

Purpose-built scans. Each one answers a single specific question about the market.

All Scanners

/stock-scanners

What you see: The index of every free scanner on the site, grouped by what they look for: volume and momentum, volatility and halts, RSI extremes, movers and leaders, and a custom screener.
How to use it: Pick the scan that matches the question you actually have. Unusual volume means RVOL, a stock stopped dead means the halt scanner, a big overnight move means gaps. If you are not sure, RVOL is the one most day traders open first, because volume moves before price does.
Reading the numbers: Grouped by the QUESTION you have, not by data source. Volume and momentum for "what is active", volatility and halts for "what is violent", RSI for "what is stretched".
If you do not know which to open, RVOL is the one most day traders start with, because volume moves before price does.

RVOL Scanner

/rvol-scanner

What you see: Relative volume across all US stocks in real time, with level filters and 200 EMA context.
How to use it: Sort by RVOL, then ignore anything you cannot get in and out of. High RVOL on an illiquid name is a trap, not an opportunity.
Reading the numbers: RVOL is measured against the stock’s own baseline for that minute of the session, so it is comparable across a $2 microcap and a mega cap.
Check dollar volume before anything else. RVOL tells you something is unusual; dollar volume tells you whether you can actually get out of it.
The 200 EMA column is context, not a signal: above it the name is in an uptrend on that timeframe, below it most upside setups on this site historically do worse.

Halt Scanner

/halt-scanner

What you see: Live trading halts and resumes, including LULD and circuit-breaker halts.
How to use it: Halts mark violent moves. The resume is the tradeable moment, and it is fast. Know the halt code before you touch it.
Reading the numbers: LULD means the price moved outside its allowed band and trading paused. It is mechanical, not a judgement about the company.
T1 and news-pending halts are different: those mean the company is about to say something, and the resume is where the real move happens.
The resume time is the number to watch. Price discovery on a resume is violent and spreads are wide, which is why most people should watch rather than trade the first minute.

Halts Today

/stock-halts-today

What you see: Every stock halted today with the reason, LULD code, halt and resume times, price and day move.
How to use it: The after-the-fact record. Reviewing halts is one of the fastest ways to find names with real volatility.
Reading the numbers: The halt CODE tells you why: LULD is volatility, T1 is news pending, T12 is a longer news halt. Volatility halts often resume near where they stopped; news halts frequently do not.
Compare the halt price against the day move. A stock halted up 40% that resumes flat gave the whole move back while nobody could trade it.
Multiple halts on one name in a session means the price is unstable, not that it is trending.

Gap Scanner

/gap-scanner

What you see: The biggest opening gaps against the prior close, with fill status showing whether the gap filled or held.
How to use it: Fill status is the useful column. A gap that holds through the first hour behaves very differently from one that fills immediately.
Reading the numbers: The gap is measured against the PRIOR CLOSE, so an overnight move is visible before the session has traded a single share.
Fill status is the whole point: FILLED means price returned to the prior close, HELD means it did not. A gap that holds through the first hour behaves very differently from one that fills immediately.
Gap size without volume is noise. A 20% gap on light pre-market volume is a quote, not a market.

Opening Range Breakout

/orb-scanner

What you see: Stocks that broke above their first 15-minute range this session, and whether that breakout held or failed.
How to use it: The hold-or-fail column is the reason to open it. A breakout that fails is the more common outcome, and seeing both together is what stops the board reading as a list of winners.
Reading the numbers: The range is the FIRST 15 MINUTES of the session, so nothing appears here until that window has closed.
Held versus failed is tracked after the break, not at it. A name can appear as a breakout and then show as failed later in the same session.
It is evergreen: live during market hours, and off-hours it shows the LAST session rather than an empty board.
The explainer at /guides/what-is-an-opening-range-breakout covers the setup itself and links here.

200 EMA Signals

/signals/ema-200

What you see: Real-time 200 EMA cross and reclaim alerts, plus proximity signals showing which stocks are testing the line.
How to use it: The 200 EMA is where a lot of traders place their line between trend and no trend. Reclaims off it are a cleaner setup than chasing extended names.
Reading the numbers: A CROSS is price moving through the line; a RECLAIM is price returning above it after being below. The second is the one traders watch for trend repair.
Proximity signals list names TESTING the line but not through it yet, which is where the decision actually happens.
The 200 EMA is a trend reference, not a trigger. Above it, upside setups on this site historically do better; below it they do worse. That is context, not permission.

EMA Slope Rankings

/ema-slope

What you see: The market ranked by how steep its trend is, on 5-minute, 30-minute, 4-hour, daily and weekly charts. Slope is measured in percent per session so timeframes compare fairly.
How to use it: Slope tells you the strength of a trend, not just its direction. Steep and rising is a different trade from flat and drifting.
Reading the numbers: Slope is normalised to PERCENT PER SESSION, so a 5-minute reading and a weekly reading can be compared on the same scale. That is the reason the number is not just a chart angle.
Steep and rising is a different trade from flat and drifting, even when both are technically uptrends.
Check the timeframe against your hold time. A steep 5-minute slope says nothing about tomorrow.

Under Accumulation

/accumulation

What you see: Liquid stocks ranked 0 to 100 by how hard they are being bought while still quiet, scored from seven daily price-and-volume signals: OBV, the A/D line, Chaikin Money Flow, accumulation days, volume-on-strength, price structure and relative strength.
How to use it: Treat a high score as a place to start digging, not a buy signal. The board describes what has already happened in the tape, it does not forecast what happens next.
Reading the numbers: Accumulation here means buying pressure that builds BEFORE the move is obvious: volume showing up more on up days than down, price holding its ground or carving higher lows.
The score is DESCRIPTIVE, not predictive. Heavy recent accumulation can cool off just as easily as it can continue, and the page says so on its face.
The methodology panel lists all seven signals with their real weights and band cutoffs, imported from the scoring engine itself so the panel cannot drift from the number on the board.
Open any name to see the same indicators plotted on its chart, which is usually faster than reading the score alone.

Stock Screener

/screener

What you see: Filter the whole market by price, day percentage change, relative volume and market cap, with one-click preset scans.
How to use it: Build the scan that matches your strategy and save it as your daily routine. Start from a preset and adjust.
Reading the numbers: Filters combine, so start wide and narrow one at a time. Stacking four filters at once usually returns nothing and tells you nothing about why.
Market cap and price together are the liquidity check. A great-looking filter result you cannot exit is not a result.
Presets exist to show useful combinations. Open one, then change a single value to see what that filter actually controls.

Stocks to Watch

/next-session

What you see: The names worth having on your list for the next session.
How to use it: Read it the night before or pre-market. Deciding what you will trade before the open beats reacting after it.
Reading the numbers: Built from the session that just finished, so it is a preparation tool, not a live one. The list is stable overnight by design.
Use it to write your levels down before the open, when you are calm. The worst time to decide what a stock is worth is while it is moving.

Why Stocks Are Moving

/why-are-stocks-moving-today

What you see: The biggest gainers and losers, each paired with the news or SEC filing behind the move.
How to use it: The "why" changes the trade. A move on an earnings beat behaves differently from one on a dilution filing.
Reading the numbers: Each mover is paired with the filing or headline behind it, with a link to the original so the claim is checkable.
A big move with NO catalyst attached is a real and useful answer: it means the move is coming from flow rather than news, which tends to be less durable.
An SEC filing beats a news article as an explanation. The filing is the event; the article is somebody describing it.

Movers and Rankings15 pages

The same market, sorted different ways. Pick the sort that matches what you are hunting.

Low Float Movers

/low-float-movers

What you see: The movers of the session ranked by float, the number of shares actually available to trade, rather than by size of move.
How to use it: A small float means ordinary buying pressure moves price much further than it would in a large cap. That cuts both ways and the reversals are just as fast, so treat a high rank as a volatility warning as much as an opportunity.

Biggest Gainers

/biggest-gainers-today

What you see: Today's largest percentage gainers from the latest session with live prices.
How to use it: Check volume before acting. A gainer with no volume behind it is a move without participation.
Reading the numbers: Ranked by PERCENT, so a $2 stock outranks a $200 one on the same dollar move. Read the price column before reacting to the number.
Volume is the check that matters. A 60% gainer on 90,000 shares is one buyer, not a trend, and you will not get out at the printed price.
By the time a name is top of this list, most of the move has already happened. Use it to learn what today rewarded, not as an entry.

Biggest Losers

/biggest-losers-today

What you see: Today's largest percentage decliners.
How to use it: Useful for finding capitulation and for avoiding falling knives. Do not buy a stock only because it is down.
Reading the numbers: A stock being down is not a reason to buy it. Falling knives keep falling, and this list is full of them mid-fall.
Look for a catalyst first. A decliner with an offering or a guidance cut is repriced, not oversold.
Capitulation looks like a huge move on huge volume. Steady bleeding on ordinary volume is just a downtrend.

Most Active

/most-active-stocks

What you see: The most active stocks by dollar volume.
How to use it: Dollar volume, not share volume, is the right liquidity measure. This is where you can actually size a position.
Reading the numbers: Ranked by DOLLAR volume, not share count, which is the honest liquidity measure: 10M shares of a $1 stock is $10M, and 200k shares of a $400 stock is $80M.
This is where size can actually get in and out. If you trade more than a few thousand dollars, start here rather than on the percentage lists.
High dollar volume with a small percentage move means heavy two-way trading, not agreement.

Pre-Market Movers

/premarket-movers

What you see: The biggest movers before the open.
How to use it: Pre-market volume is thin and prices can be misleading. Use it to build your list, not to set your entry.
Reading the numbers: Pre-market runs 4:00am to 9:30am ET and trades on a fraction of normal volume, so the price is a quote from few participants.
Use it to build the list, not to set the entry. Gaps frequently reprice in the first fifteen minutes once real volume arrives.
Check the volume column, not just the percentage. A 30% pre-market move on 20,000 shares is not a market.

After-Hours Movers

/after-hours-movers

What you see: The biggest gainers, losers and most active names against the 4 PM close.
How to use it: Mostly earnings reactions. Overnight moves frequently reverse at the open, so treat them as information rather than entries.
Reading the numbers: Measured against the 4:00pm close, and after hours runs to 8:00pm ET.
Mostly earnings reactions. The first print after a release is often the worst price of the night in either direction.
Overnight moves frequently reverse at the open, so treat this as information about what happened, not a decision about tomorrow.

Weekly Movers

/weekly-movers

What you see: The biggest moves over the week rather than the day.
How to use it: Good for swing candidates. A name leading the week is in a real trend, not a one-day spike.
Reading the numbers: The five-session move rather than the day, which filters out one-day spikes that mean nothing by Friday.
A name leading the week is in a real trend with sustained participation, which is what a swing setup needs.
Compare the weekly move against the daily one. Most of the week in a single day is a spike wearing a trend costume.

52-Week Highs and Lows

/52-week-highs

What you see: Stocks printing new 52-week highs and lows, ranked by dollar volume.
How to use it: New highs mean no overhead supply: nobody who bought is underwater. That is a genuinely different tape from a stock trading into old resistance.
Reading the numbers: A new high means NO OVERHEAD SUPPLY: nobody who owns it is underwater and waiting to sell at breakeven. That is a genuinely different tape.
New lows are the mirror image and the reason knife-catching fails: every rally meets someone relieved to get out.
Ranked by dollar volume so the list is tradeable rather than a roll call of illiquid names touching highs on no turnover.

Most Volatile

/most-volatile-stocks

What you see: Stocks ranked by ATR percentage, the average size of their daily range.
How to use it: Size positions against volatility, not share count. A 12% ATR name needs a much wider stop and a much smaller position than a 2% one.
Reading the numbers: ATR percentage is the average size of the daily range, so 12% means this name routinely travels 12% between its high and low.
Size against volatility, not share count. The same dollar risk needs a much smaller position in a 12% ATR name than a 2% one.
A tight stop on a high-ATR stock is not risk control, it is a guarantee of being stopped out by normal noise.

Trending Stocks

/trending

What you see: Names ranked by a blend of price move, unusual volume, scanner alerts and Reddit buzz.
How to use it: A composite view. Useful when you want attention and price action in one ranking.
Reading the numbers: A composite of price move, unusual volume, scanner alerts and Reddit buzz, so it answers what is getting attention AND moving.
Attention is not direction. The crowd is loudest at tops as often as at bottoms.
Cross-check anything here against its chart before acting. A name can trend on this board while its price does nothing.

Leaderboards

/rankings

What you see: Site-wide leaderboards for the trading game and community activity, ranked by account value with realised and unrealised profit shown separately.
How to use it: Read the split, not the rank. A leader carried by unrealised profit has not closed anything yet, which is a very different thing from one who banked it. Consistency over many trades says more than a single large win.
Reading the numbers: Ranked by account value, with realised and unrealised profit shown separately.
Read the split, not the rank. A leader carried by unrealised profit has not closed anything yet, which is a different thing from one who banked it.
Consistency across many trades says more than a single large win, and the leaderboard cannot distinguish skill from one lucky position.

Market Recaps

/recap

What you see: Daily recaps: the biggest gainers and losers, unusual volume, and most-alerted names for every trading day.
How to use it: The single best review habit. Read yesterday's recap before today's open and you start seeing repeat behaviour.
Reading the numbers: Covers the completed session: biggest gainers and losers, unusual volume and the most-alerted names, all in one place.
The single best review habit on the site. Read yesterday before today opens and repeat behaviour starts becoming visible.
Look specifically at names that alerted early and ran. That pattern is what you are trying to recognise live.

Recap by Date

/recap/[date]

What you see: The full recap for any specific past trading day.
How to use it: Go back to a day you traded badly and reconstruct what the tape actually looked like.
Reading the numbers: Any past trading day, reconstructed as it looked at the time.
Go back to a day you traded badly. Reading the tape without the money on the line is where the lesson actually lands.

Performance

/performance

What you see: How the scanners and calls have performed.
How to use it: Read it before trusting any signal on the site, including ours.
Reading the numbers: How the scanners and calls have actually done, published rather than claimed.
Read it before trusting any signal on this site, including ours. A tool that cannot show you its record is asking for faith.

Session Replay

/replay/[symbol]

What you see: An animated replay of a stock's session.
How to use it: Replay a name that ran and watch where the alerts fired against the move. This is the closest thing to practising a day you missed.
Reading the numbers: An animated replay of one stock's session, with the alerts placed against the move.
Watch WHERE the alert fired relative to the run. That gap is the honest measure of how much warning you would really have had.
The closest thing to practising a day you missed, without risking anything on it.

Stock Screens by Type10 pages

Pre-built lists for specific kinds of stock. Each is a scan someone asked for often enough to deserve its own page.

Penny Stocks

/penny-stocks

What you see: The most active stocks under $5.
How to use it: High volatility, high risk, frequent dilution. Check the float and any recent filings before trading one.
Reading the numbers: Under $5 is where dilution lives. Check recent filings for an offering or an ATM before anything else: a company funding itself by selling shares is selling them to you.
Check the float too. Small float plus heavy volume is how a penny stock doubles, and how it round-trips the same day.
Spreads are a real cost here. A 2 cent spread on a 40 cent stock is 5% before the trade even starts working.

Stocks Under $1

/stocks-under-1

What you see: The most active sub-$1 names.
How to use it: Spreads are wide and moves are violent. Position size accordingly, if at all.
Reading the numbers: Sub-$1 names are frequently in compliance trouble. A listing below $1 for 30 days starts an exchange deficiency clock, which often ends in a reverse split.
A reverse split does not change what the company is worth, and the chart afterwards is not comparable to the chart before.
Spreads and slippage dominate at this price. Position size on what you can EXIT, not what you can buy.

Stocks Under $10

/stocks-under-10

What you see: The most active names under $10.
How to use it: A common day-trading range: enough movement to matter, enough liquidity to exit.
Reading the numbers: The common day-trading band: enough range to be worth trading, enough liquidity to leave.
Percentage moves look large here because the base is small. A 50 cent move on a $5 stock is 10%.
Still check dollar volume. Price range does not guarantee participation.

Low Float Stocks

/low-float-stocks

What you see: Stocks with a small number of shares actually available to trade.
How to use it: Low float is why some stocks move 100% in a day: small supply, so any real demand moves price hard. It cuts both ways.
Reading the numbers: Float is the shares actually available to trade, which is not the same as shares outstanding: insider and locked-up stock does not trade.
Under about 10 million shares is where moves turn violent, because ordinary demand meets almost no supply.
It cuts both ways and it cuts faster downward. The same thin supply that gaps a stock up leaves nobody to sell into on the way out.

Most Shorted

/most-shorted-stocks

What you see: Stocks with the highest short interest as a percentage of float.
How to use it: High short interest is fuel, not a signal. It matters only when something forces shorts to cover.
Reading the numbers: Short interest is shown as a percentage of FLOAT, which is the meaningful denominator. 30% of float short is a crowded trade; 3% is background noise.
High short interest is fuel, not ignition. It matters only when something forces covering, and most heavily shorted stocks simply stay heavily shorted.
Shorts are frequently right. A stock is usually heavily shorted for a reason worth reading before betting against them.

Short Squeeze Candidates

/short-squeeze-stocks

What you see: Heavily shorted names showing the price and volume conditions that can force covering.
How to use it: Wait for the squeeze to start rather than predicting it. Most heavily shorted stocks simply stay heavily shorted.
Reading the numbers: Combines heavy short interest with the price and volume conditions that actually force covering, rather than listing short interest alone.
Wait for it to START. A squeeze is visible in the tape as violent upside on expanding volume, and joining after it begins is far safer than predicting it.
Squeezes end faster than they start. The exit plan matters more here than the entry.

Oversold (RSI Under 30)

/oversold-stocks

What you see: Stocks with RSI below 30.
How to use it: Oversold means "fell fast", not "about to bounce". Look for the reversal to actually begin before acting.
Reading the numbers: RSI below 30 means it FELL FAST relative to its own recent range. It is a speed measurement, not a valuation.
In a downtrend RSI can sit under 30 for weeks. Oversold is not a floor, it is a description.
Wait for the reversal to actually begin. Buying because a number is low is how people catch knives.

Overbought (RSI Over 70)

/overbought-stocks

What you see: Stocks with RSI above 70.
How to use it: Strong trends stay overbought for a long time. This is a list to watch, not a short list.
Reading the numbers: RSI above 70 means it ROSE FAST, and the strongest trends live above 70 for extended stretches.
This is a watch list, not a short list. Shorting strength because RSI is high is one of the most reliably expensive habits in trading.
Useful for spotting names that are extended and may need to rest, which matters if you are chasing an entry.

Post-Earnings Movers

/stocks-moving-after-earnings

What you see: Stocks moving on their earnings reaction.
How to use it: The first move is often not the real one. Earnings gaps frequently reverse in the first hour.
Reading the numbers: The FIRST move is often not the real one. Earnings gaps frequently reverse within the first hour once the report is actually read.
Guidance moves stocks more than the reported quarter. A beat with weak guidance usually sells off.
Volume is what separates a repricing from a knee-jerk. A gap that holds on heavy volume is the market agreeing.

Store Closure Watch

/store-closures

What you see: Live prices for retailers and restaurant chains in the store-closure spotlight.
How to use it: A themed watchlist for a slow-moving news cycle that affects a whole group at once.
Reading the numbers: A themed watchlist: retailers and chains in the closure news cycle, with live prices.
Store closures are a slow story that moves a whole group at once, so read it as sector context rather than a single-name trigger.

Charts and Per-Stock Research10 pages

Everything about one company, once a name has your attention.

Charts

/chart

What you see: Full charting for any ticker, with indicators, recent SEC filings and the due diligence for that name on one screen.
How to use it: The page to open once a scanner has given you a name. Check the chart and the filings together: a move with a filing behind it and a move with nothing behind it are different trades.

Due Diligence

/due-diligence

What you see: Deep dives on single tickers, researched from primary sources and written on request. Free to read.
How to use it: Read one before taking a position you intend to hold. It is the slow counterweight to the scanners, which are all built for speed.

Chart

/chart/[symbol]

What you see: The full chart for any symbol: minute and daily views, indicators, alert markers plotted on the price, and news markers.
How to use it: The alert markers are the point. You can see exactly where each alert fired against what price did next, on the same chart.
Reading the numbers: Alert markers are plotted ON the price at the moment they fired, so you can see exactly what the tape looked like when the scanner spoke.
News markers sit on the bar where the story landed. A move that starts BEFORE its marker was not caused by that news.
Minute view is for today, daily view is for context. Most bad entries come from reading a minute chart without knowing where price sits on the daily.
The 9, 50 and 200 EMAs are the standard reference set: price above all three and stacked in that order is what traders call an uptrend.

Trade Dashboard

/chart/[symbol]/trades

What you see: Every trade the Watcher has taken on that symbol: setup used, entry, exit, hold time, capture, size guards and the exit reason.
How to use it: Where you investigate a symbol properly. If a name keeps losing, this shows whether it was the entry, the exit or the size.
Reading the numbers: Capture is the part of the available move actually kept, which is the number that matters, not whether the trade was green.
Hold time next to result is the honest pairing: a strategy whose winners are held longer than its losers is working; the reverse is a strategy cutting winners early.
Exit reason tells you WHY it closed (stop, target, time, guard). Repeated stop-outs on the same setup is a sizing or level problem, not bad luck.
Size guards show where the system deliberately traded smaller. Those are risk decisions, not missed opportunity.

Stock Page

/stocks/[symbol]

What you see: The overview for one ticker: live chart, real-time alerts, key stats and the trader conversation.
How to use it: The general-purpose landing page for a symbol. Start here, then open the chart.
Reading the numbers: One ticker, everything at once: chart, live alerts on that name, key stats and the conversation.
Start with the alert history for the name before reading anything else. It tells you whether today is unusual for this stock or normal behaviour.

Why Is It Moving

/stocks/[symbol]/why

What you see: The likely catalyst behind today's move for a single stock, with volume and alert context.
How to use it: Answer "why" before you decide anything. A move with no explanation is a move you cannot judge.
Reading the numbers: Pairs today's move with the most likely catalyst, linked to the original filing or article so the claim is checkable.
No catalyst found is a real answer, not a gap. It means the move is coming from flow rather than news, which historically holds up less well.
An SEC filing outranks a news article: the filing is the event, the article is somebody describing it.

Catch

/catch/[symbol]

What you see: For one symbol: when our scanners first flagged it, at what price, and what the stock did in the hours and days afterwards.
How to use it: The honesty check on an alert. If a name is being talked about now, look at when it was first flagged and how much has already happened, because most of a move is often gone by the time it is obvious.
Reading the numbers: The first-alert price is what a reader could actually have acted on, not a back-fitted best entry.
Read the gap between first alert and the high as the room that EXISTED, not the room you would have captured. Nobody exits at the top.
A short gap means we flagged it late, which is the honest failure this page is designed to expose.

Compare Stocks

/compare

What you see: Two or more stocks side by side on price, performance and fundamentals.
How to use it: Use it when picking between two names in the same theme. Usually one is clearly leading.
Reading the numbers: Side by side on price, performance and fundamentals, which is the fastest way to settle a choice between two names in the same theme.
Compare relative strength over the same window. In a real theme one name usually leads and the other follows, and the leader is normally the better trade.

News and Analysis

/news

What you see: Plain-English breakdowns of earnings, SEC filings and the catalysts behind the biggest moves.
How to use it: Read the filing coverage in particular. Dilution and offerings are the most common reason a hot stock suddenly stops working.
Reading the numbers: Read the FILINGS coverage first. Dilution, offerings and going-concern language are the most common reasons a hot stock suddenly stops working.
Earnings coverage separates the reported quarter from guidance. Guidance moves stocks more.

Indicator Guide

/guide

What you see: What each chart indicator does and how to trade with it: structure, volume, trend, momentum and volatility.
How to use it: If any indicator on the chart page is unfamiliar, this explains it in trading terms rather than maths.
Reading the numbers: Organised by what an indicator is FOR: structure, volume, trend, momentum, volatility. That grouping is more useful than an alphabetical list.
If an indicator on the chart page is unfamiliar, read it here before trading with it. An indicator you do not understand is a source of false confidence.

The Watcher8 pages

Our automated trader. It runs live on real market data and publishes every decision, wins and losses alike. Right now it is placing no broker orders.

Watcher Watchlist

/watcher

What you see: What the Watcher is tracking right now, per timeframe, with the setup it is waiting for and its entry plan.
How to use it: Read the entry plan rather than the ticker. Seeing a stated target and stop before the trade is the useful part.
Reading the numbers: Shows the setup it is WAITING for, not just what it holds, so you can see the plan before the entry rather than after.
Per timeframe, because the same symbol can be a valid swing candidate and a terrible scalp at the same moment.
Right now the Watcher is making and recording decisions without placing any broker orders, so the results you see are its own tracked entries and exits rather than filled trades. Read it to study decision-making, not to copy positions.

Live Radar

/radar

What you see: The stocks the Watcher is flagging right now, ranked by how many independent signals line up, with the move since each was flagged. Live for subscribers, delayed on the free plan.
How to use it: Read the since-flagged column before the ranking. It is the only part of the page that scores the flag rather than describing it.
Reading the numbers: Ranked by how many independent signals agree, not by how big the move already is. More agreement is the claim; the since-flagged number is the evidence.
The Watcher reads PRICE and volume. It does not read news or fundamentals, so a flag says the tape is unusual, never why - and the why is the half that decides whether the move continues.
A name can be flagged and go nowhere. That is the normal case and the since-flagged column is there so you can see it rather than remembering only the ones that ran.

Watcher Lab

/watcher-lab

What you see: The research surface: every setup, its measured performance, and the deploys that changed it.
How to use it: For understanding why the system does what it does. Setup pages show what has actually been tested rather than assumed.
Reading the numbers: Every setup with its MEASURED performance, plus the deploys that changed it, so a result can be traced to the change that caused it.
Judge a setup on the per-day sign count, not the pooled total. A single strong day can carry a pooled number and hide four losing ones.
A setup with few trades has a result that is mostly noise. Check the sample before believing the percentage.

Setup Detail

/watcher-lab/setup/[setup]

What you see: One trading setup in depth: its rules, results and history.
How to use it: Read a setup before copying it. Most setups look better in description than in their numbers.
Reading the numbers: One setup in depth: the rules it follows, its results, and how it has changed over time.
Read the rules before the results. A setup that only works when you already know the outcome is not a setup.

AI Trade Journal

/ai-journal

What you see: The Watcher's trade-by-trade journal with its reasoning at entry and exit.
How to use it: The reasoning is the value. Compare what it expected with what happened.
Reading the numbers: The reasoning at entry AND at exit, which is the part worth reading. The result is public elsewhere; the thinking is only here.
Look for entries where the reasoning was sound and the trade still lost. Those are the ones that teach the difference between process and outcome.

Trades

/trades

What you see: The full record of trades taken, with entry, exit, size and result, filterable by symbol and outcome.
How to use it: Filter to losses first. Wins teach less, because a win can hide a bad entry that happened to work. Look for the same mistake repeating across different symbols, which is the one worth fixing.
Reading the numbers: Entry, exit, size and result per trade, filterable by symbol and outcome.
Filter to LOSSES first. Wins teach less, because a win can hide a bad entry that happened to work.
Look for the same mistake repeating across different symbols. That is the one worth fixing, and it is invisible trade by trade.

Our Call Record

/call-record

What you see: Every name we posted publicly, timestamped, with the best and worst move it made in the hour after. The losers are in there too.
How to use it: Read the "worst" column, not the "best" one. These are volatile names and most of them move hard in BOTH directions inside the hour, so a big best-case number on its own tells you about volatility, not about direction. If you are going to follow a call, size it for the drawdown shown beside it.
Reading the numbers: Priced at the first print available AFTER the post went out, so it is what a reader could actually have paid, not the price at the moment we decided.
Nothing is selected after the fact. Every published call appears, in the order it was published.
Measured over 60 minutes from one-minute bars, and frozen once, while the intraday tape still exists. Outcomes are never recalculated.
The headline sentence is generated from the same rows in the table, so it cannot flatter the record. When more names hit -3% than +3%, it says exactly that.

AI Config

/ai-config

What you see: The current configuration of the trading algorithm.
How to use it: For readers who want the exact parameters rather than a description of them.
Reading the numbers: The exact live parameters rather than a description of them, so what you read is what is running.
Useful for checking whether a change you heard about actually shipped, which is not the same as it having been written.

Where the Money Is9 pages

Follow institutional and insider flow. Slower than a scanner, and often far more informative.

Betting Against

/betting-against

What you see: Where the money is positioned against a stock: short interest and the names carrying the heaviest bets on a fall.
How to use it: Heavy short interest is not a buy signal on its own, it is fuel. It matters when something forces those positions to close. Pair it with a catalyst rather than trading the number.

The Money Map

/money-map

What you see: A live map of where market capitalization was added or wiped today, broken down by sector.
How to use it: Zoom out with it. Knowing which sector is being bought stops you fighting the whole tape.
Reading the numbers: Shows market capitalisation added or wiped today, so a 2% move in a mega cap outweighs a 40% move in a microcap.
This is where the money actually went, which is often a very different story from the percentage leaderboards.
Useful for spotting a sector rotating as a group rather than one name moving alone.

Smart Money

/smart-money

What you see: New 5%+ stakes and fresh 13F equity positions from major funds and corporates, pulled from SEC filings.
How to use it: 13F data is delayed by up to 45 days, so treat it as research rather than a trade trigger. New 5% stakes are timelier.
Reading the numbers: Two different things on one page: 5%+ stakes (SC 13D/13G) are filed within days, while 13F positions are quarterly and arrive up to 45 days late.
A 13D signals intent to influence the company; a 13G is passive. The distinction matters more than the size.
A giant taking a stake in a small company is the highest-signal item here, because it can move the smaller name on its own.

Filer Detail

/smart-money/[filer]

What you see: Every position for a single institutional filer.
How to use it: Follow one manager you respect rather than skimming all of them.
Reading the numbers: One filer's complete reported book, ranked by position size.
Read the CHANGES rather than the holdings. What they bought and sold last quarter says more than what they have held for years.
Everything here lags by up to 45 days, so treat it as research rather than a trigger.

Super Portfolio

/super-portfolio

What you see: One combined view of what the biggest funds and companies own, across 13F positions and disclosed corporate stakes, plus what changed between the last two quarterly filings.
How to use it: Shows crowding. A name held by everyone has less room to surprise than one held by nobody.
Reading the numbers: The rotation table is sorted by MONEY MOVED, the dollars behind the share change, not by the size of the position. The biggest decision of the quarter is the top row.
Action pill: New means they did not hold it at all last quarter, Added means they bought more, Trimmed means they sold some, Closed means they sold all of it.
Share change is measured in SHARES, not value, so a stock that simply rose in price does not read as buying.
Most widely held ranks by NUMBER of holders, not dollars, because one enormous position is still one opinion.
No listing matched, on a corporate stake: we could not match that business to a US ticker. Most of those are genuinely private, but it means unmatched, not confirmed private.
Everything here lags. 13F filings are quarterly and arrive up to 45 days after the quarter ends, so treat it as research rather than a trigger.

Famous Investors

/investors

What you see: Every position Buffett, Wood, Burry, Ackman and other well-known managers reported.
How to use it: Interesting, and slow. Use it for ideas to research, never as a reason to buy today.
Reading the numbers: Positions reported by well-known managers, which is public record rather than insight.
Slow data. By the time a 13F is public the manager may have already exited, and famous names are frequently wrong.
Use it for ideas to research, never as a reason to buy today.

Insider Buying

/insider-buying

What you see: Fresh open-market insider buys from SEC Form 4 filings, ranked by dollars and by cluster.
How to use it: Cluster buying is the signal worth noticing: several insiders buying in the same window says more than one large purchase.
Reading the numbers: Open-market BUYS from Form 4, which is the meaningful kind: insiders sell for many reasons and buy for one.
Cluster buying is the signal worth noticing. Several insiders buying in the same window says considerably more than one large purchase.
Check the size against the person's salary. A director buying a token amount is optics, not conviction.

Dividends

/dividends

What you see: Upcoming ex-dividend dates, the buy-by date to qualify, cash amount, forward yield and payout history.
How to use it: Note that a stock drops by roughly the dividend on the ex-date. The yield is not free money.
Reading the numbers: The BUY-BY date is the actionable one: you must own the stock before the ex-date to receive the payment.
The stock drops by roughly the dividend on the ex-date. The yield is not free money and there is no edge in buying just before it.
Forward yield assumes the payout continues. A very high yield is often the market pricing in a cut.

IPO Calendar

/ipos

What you see: Upcoming IPOs and stocks that just listed, with offer price, deal size and exchange.
How to use it: New listings have no chart history and no established levels, which makes them unusually hard to trade. Watch a few before trading one.
Reading the numbers: Offer price and deal size are the reference points. Trading well above the offer on day one means demand exceeded supply.
New listings have NO chart history and no established levels, which removes most of what technical trading relies on.
Watch a few before trading one. Lockup expiries months later are a separate and predictable supply event.

Calendars and Events7 pages

What is scheduled to move the market, so nothing catches you mid-position.

Market Calendar

/calendar

What you see: Everything in one place: economic releases, earnings and ex-dividend dates.
How to use it: Check it before the open every day. Most avoidable losses come from being in a position through an event you forgot about.
Reading the numbers: Economic releases, earnings and ex-dividend dates in one view, which is the point: they collide more often than people expect.
Check it before planning any hold through a session. Most avoidable surprises are on a calendar somebody could have read.

Economic Calendar

/economic-calendar

What you see: US releases that move the whole market: FOMC, CPI, PPI, jobs, GDP, retail sales and PCE.
How to use it: These move everything at once. Size down into them, or stand aside.
Reading the numbers: These move the WHOLE market, so they override individual stock setups on the day they land.
FOMC, CPI and jobs are the three that reliably reprice everything. Position size into them or stand aside.
The release time matters as much as the number. Volatility around 8:30am and 2:00pm ET is scheduled, not random.

Earnings Calendar

/earnings-calendar

What you see: Who reports this week, before the open or after the close, with consensus estimates.
How to use it: Holding through earnings is a coin flip on a gap, not a trade. Know the date before you enter.
Reading the numbers: Before the open or after the close is the critical column: it tells you whether the gap happens while you can trade it or while you cannot.
Holding through earnings is a coin flip with your position size as the stake. Most day traders should be flat into the print.
The reaction matters more than the result. A beat that sells off is telling you what was already priced in.

Earnings Next Week

/earnings-next-week

What you see: Every notable company reporting next week.
How to use it: Plan ahead. It is also how you find names that will be volatile in a few days.
Reading the numbers: A week of forward warning, which is enough time to plan rather than react.
Use it to mark which of your names report, then decide the position size BEFORE the week starts.

Stock Themes

/themes

What you see: Stocks grouped by sector and theme: AI, semiconductors, crypto, energy, dividends, banks, biotech, EV, meme, gaming and more.
How to use it: When a theme moves, it usually moves together. Find the leader of the group rather than the laggard.
Reading the numbers: Grouped by theme rather than by exchange sector, because money rotates by story (AI, uranium, crypto) faster than it rotates by GICS classification.
When a theme moves, the leader usually moves first and the laggards follow. Identify which one is leading before choosing.

Theme Detail

/theme/[slug]

What you see: Live prices and day moves for every stock in one theme, plus the biggest movers and why the group is moving.
How to use it: Confirms whether a move is company-specific or the whole group.
Reading the numbers: Every name in one theme with live prices and day moves, plus the best performer highlighted.
If one name is up and the rest are flat, that is a company story. If the whole group moves, that is a theme, and themes last longer.

Sector Performance

/sector-performance

What you see: How every sector is performing today, ranked by the median stock, drillable into industries.
How to use it: Trade with the sector where you can. A good setup in a sector being sold has the tape against it.
Reading the numbers: Sectors ranked by the median move of their members, so one huge outlier cannot drag a whole sector up the list.
Read it for rotation. Money leaving one sector and arriving in another is a bigger signal than any single stock in either.

Community and Social13 pages

What other traders are doing and saying, plus your own presence on the site.

Reddit Radar

/reddit-radar

What you see: The most-mentioned tickers across WallStreetBets, r/stocks, r/investing and more, ranked by mention volume.
How to use it: Retail attention is real and it is early on small caps. It is also frequently wrong about direction. Use it to find names, not opinions.

Reddit Posts

/reddit-radar/posts

What you see: The top stock posts right now, sortable by hot, most upvoted and most commented.
How to use it: Read the comments rather than the headline. Sentiment shifts show up there first.

Google Searches

/google-searches

What you see: The stocks and finance topics people are searching for right now, windowed from 4 hours to 7 days.
How to use it: Search interest often precedes retail buying. A spike with no news attached is worth investigating.

Chat

/chat

What you see: Live chat with other traders on the site, with symbol mentions linked to their charts.
How to use it: The fastest way to find out why something is moving when no filing or headline explains it. Treat what you read as a lead to check, never as a reason to enter: nobody in a chat room is accountable for your position.

Discover

/discover

What you see: The feed of what everyone on the site is doing: trades logged, watchlists changed, posts and comments, plus a directory of members you can follow.
How to use it: This finds PEOPLE, not stocks. Use it to work out whose activity is worth following, then follow them so their moves show up in your own feed. If you want to find stocks, the scanners and boards are the pages you want.
Reading the numbers: The activity feed: every logged action on the site, newest first. It is a record of what members did, not a recommendation.
The members tab: browse traders directly, with their tier and level.
Follow someone and their activity joins your following feed, which is the point of the page.

Messages

/messages

sign-in

What you see: Direct messages with other users.
How to use it: Private conversation.

Your Profile

/profile

sign-in

What you see: Your public profile, trades and stats.
How to use it: Publishing your trades is a strong discipline. It changes what you are willing to enter.

User Profile

/profile/[username]

What you see: Another trader's public profile and record.
How to use it: Look at hold times and consistency, not just the wins.

Trading Game

/game

What you see: A paper-trading competition with seasons and rankings.
How to use it: The right place to test a strategy you are unsure about. Same decisions, none of the money.

Game Rankings

/game/rankings

What you see: The trading game leaderboard: every player ranked by account value, with realised and unrealised profit split out.
How to use it: Read the split, not the rank. A leader carried by unrealised profit has not closed anything yet, which is a different thing from a leader who banked it.

Game Trade Feed

/game/feed

What you see: A live feed of every trade players are making in the game, with symbol, side, size, price and realised profit.
How to use it: The fastest way to see what other people are actually doing rather than what they say they are doing. Watch which symbols repeat.

Supporters

/donor-ranking

What you see: The people who fund the site.
How to use it: Recognition for the people keeping it free.

Content Creators

/stock-content-creators

What you see: A directory of stock-market YouTube channels, subreddits and X accounts worth following.
How to use it: Curated so you can skip the search. Judge any of them by their losing trades, not their winners.

Calculators13 pages

Free, instant, no sign-up. The first two are the ones that actually change results.

All Calculators

/calculators

What you see: Every calculator on the site: position size, risk and reward, profit, breakeven recovery, averaging down, dollar cost averaging, compounding and dividends.
How to use it: The position size and risk-reward ones are the two that change outcomes. Work out what you are risking BEFORE you enter, not after, because the size you choose is the part of a trade you fully control.
Reading the numbers: Position size and risk-reward are the two that change outcomes. The rest answer questions rather than decisions.
Work out what you are risking BEFORE you enter, not after. Size is the part of a trade you fully control.
Breakeven recovery is worth reading once even if you never use it again: a 50% loss needs a 100% gain to get back.

Trading Taxes Explained

/taxes

What you see: A plain-English reference for how trading is taxed: when you actually owe, short versus long term, the wash sale rule, Trader Tax Status and the Section 475 election, tax-loss harvesting, account types, quarterly payments and the forms you will see.
How to use it: Read the wash sale section before you harvest a single loss, and the Section 475 section before the filing deadline rather than after. Those two catch active traders more than anything else on the page.
Reading the numbers: Education, not tax advice. It explains how the rules work and deliberately does not tell you what to do.
The wash sale window is 61 days, not 30: it covers 30 days BEFORE the sale as well as 30 after.
Repurchasing inside an IRA after harvesting a loss in a taxable account can destroy the deduction rather than defer it.
The Section 475 election is generally made BEFORE the year it applies to, so missing the date costs a full year.
You cannot move a gain you already made into a Roth to avoid the tax on it. The shelter has to exist before the gain does.
Figures that change every year are deliberately left out. Check current brackets and limits at irs.gov.

Position Size

/position-size-calculator

What you see: Enter account size, risk per trade, entry and stop to get the exact share count and position value.
How to use it: The single most valuable page on this list. Deciding size from your stop, instead of guessing, is what keeps one trade from ending your account.
Reading the numbers: The one calculator that changes outcomes. Size is the part of a trade you fully control; the price is not.
Work from RISK PER TRADE, not from how much you want to own. Decide the dollars you are willing to lose, then let the stop distance decide the share count.
A wider stop means a SMALLER position for the same risk. That relationship is the whole point, and it is why high-volatility names need less size, not more.

Risk / Reward

/risk-reward-calculator

What you see: Entry, stop and target give you the reward-to-risk ratio, the breakeven win rate it implies, and expectancy.
How to use it: The breakeven win rate is the number to internalise. At 3:1 you can be wrong most of the time and still make money.
Reading the numbers: Reward divided by risk, measured to your actual stop and target rather than to hopes.
Below about 2:1 the win rate has to be high to survive costs. Above 3:1 you can be wrong more often than right and still come out ahead.
Compute it BEFORE entering. Recalculating after the trade moves against you is how a stop turns into a hope.

Stock Profit

/stock-profit-calculator

What you see: Buy price, sell price, shares and fees give dollar profit or loss and total return.
How to use it: Run it before entering, not after exiting. Seeing the real payoff often kills a mediocre trade.
Reading the numbers: Shows profit in dollars AND percent, which are different decisions: a 40% gain on a tiny position rarely matters to an account.
Include fees and the spread if you trade small or often. On a low-priced stock the spread can exceed the commission.

Breakeven Recovery

/breakeven-recovery-calculator

What you see: How large a gain you need to recover a given loss, with a table of common drawdowns.
How to use it: A 50% loss needs a 100% gain to get back. Look at this once and your stop discipline improves.
Reading the numbers: The asymmetry that ends accounts: a 50% loss needs a 100% gain to recover, and an 80% loss needs 400%.
Read it once before deciding to hold a loser. The maths does not care about conviction.
This is the strongest argument for cutting losses early that exists, and it is arithmetic rather than opinion.

Average Down

/average-down-calculator

What you see: Two buys give your new average cost, total position and unrealized P/L.
How to use it: Use it to see the true cost of adding to a loser before you do it, not after.
Reading the numbers: Shows your new average price and how far the stock must move to get back to flat.
Averaging down turns a small loss into a large position in something that is already going the wrong way. It works right up until it does not.
If you would not open the position fresh at this price, adding to it is not a strategy.

Dollar Cost Average

/dollar-cost-average-calculator

What you see: A fixed amount per buy across several prices gives total shares, invested and blended cost.
How to use it: For building a position deliberately over time rather than in one decision.
Reading the numbers: A long-term investing tool, not a trading one: fixed amounts on a schedule regardless of price.
It works because it removes the timing decision, which is the part most people get wrong. That logic does not transfer to a losing day trade.

Compounding

/compounding-calculator

What you see: Projects account growth from starting balance, risk per trade, win rate and reward-to-risk.
How to use it: Shows how much small consistent edges matter, and how quickly overtrading undoes them.
Reading the numbers: Shows how a return compounds over time, which is where the surprising numbers come from.
Try it with a drawdown included. A single large loss resets more compounding than most people expect, which is the real argument for consistency over big wins.

Dividend

/dividend-calculator

What you see: Projects a dividend portfolio with reinvestment, dividend growth, price appreciation and contributions.
How to use it: For long-term income planning rather than trading.
Reading the numbers: Projects income from a holding at the current yield.
Yield assumes the payout continues. A very high yield is usually the market pricing in a cut, not a bargain.

Mortgage Rates

/mortgage-rates

What you see: Current Freddie Mac 30-year and 15-year fixed rates with weekly change and a 12-month trend.
How to use it: Rates drive housing, banks and the broader risk mood. Useful macro context.
Reading the numbers: Current rates, which move with the same bond market that moves rate-sensitive stocks.
Useful as macro context: when mortgage rates jump, homebuilders and REITs generally feel it the same day.

Currency Converter

/currency

What you see: Live exchange rates against the US dollar.
How to use it: Useful when trading foreign-listed names or ADRs.
Reading the numbers: Live rates, useful when trading foreign-listed names or ADRs.
An ADR can move purely on the exchange rate even when the underlying stock did nothing. Check the currency before assuming the company moved.

Crypto Prices

/crypto

What you see: Live prices for Bitcoin, Ethereum and the top 50 coins with 24-hour and 7-day change.
How to use it: Crypto often leads risk appetite. Bitcoin selling off overnight frequently shows up in small caps the next morning.
Reading the numbers: Live crypto prices, which trade 24/7 and often lead risk appetite into the equity open.
A heavy overnight move in crypto frequently shows up in crypto-adjacent stocks at 9:30, which is the practical reason it is here.

Learn12 pages

Plain-English explanations. Read these before trusting any scanner, including ours.

Quick Start Guide

/user-guide

What you see: The short version: find an alert, open the chart, analyse, decide.
How to use it: Fifteen minutes. Read it first if you are new.

All Guides

/guides

What you see: The written explainers: what RVOL is, what a halt means, how to read the alert levels, chart analysis and strategy basics.
How to use it: Read What Is RVOL first if you are new. Relative volume is the number most of this site is built on, and every scanner reads differently once you know what it measures.

Site Guide

/site-guide

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What you see: This page: every public page on the site, what it displays and how to use it when you trade, with search and a section index.
How to use it: Press / to search it. If you ever wonder whether the site already does something, look here before assuming it does not.

What Is RVOL

/guides/what-is-rvol

What you see: What relative volume means, how it is calculated and why it matters in day trading.
How to use it: RVOL underpins most of this site. Understanding it makes every scanner more useful.

What Is a Stock Halt

/guides/what-is-a-stock-halt

What you see: Why stocks halt, how long halts last, and what every halt code means (LULD, T1, T12, M, H).
How to use it: Read it before trading a halt resume. The code tells you what kind of move you are stepping into.

Alert Levels

/guides/alert-levels

What you see: What each alert level means and how they are assigned.
How to use it: Lets you filter the alert feed to only what you care about.

Using Live Alerts

/guides/live-alerts

What you see: How to work the real-time feed without drowning in it.
How to use it: The practical companion to the Alerts page.

Chart Analysis

/guides/chart-analysis

What you see: How to read the chart page: structure, levels and confirmation.
How to use it: Pairs with the Indicator Guide.

Trading Strategy

/guides/trading-strategy

What you see: Building a repeatable strategy rather than trading on impulse.
How to use it: Read alongside the position size and risk/reward calculators. Strategy without sizing is not a strategy.

How It Works

/how-it-works

What you see: Our data sources, and exactly how RVOL, halt detection and the news-catalyst engine are calculated.
How to use it: Read this to know the limits of the data before you rely on it.

Roadmap

/roadmap

What you see: What is being built next.
How to use it: Tells you where the site is going.

System Status

/status

What you see: Live status of the scanners, data feeds and alerts.
How to use it: Check here first if alerts look quiet. Quiet is sometimes broken.

Your Account, Tools and Support16 pages

Your watchlist, your strategies, your settings, and how to get help.

My Watchlist

/watchlist

sign-in

What you see: Your stocks with live prices, mini-charts, unusual-volume alerts and one-click price alerts.
How to use it: Keep it short. A watchlist of forty names is a list you cannot actually watch.

Strategies

/strategy

sign-in

What you see: Build, save and manage your own trading strategies.
How to use it: Writing a strategy down is what makes it testable. Undocumented rules drift.

New Strategy

/strategy/new

sign-in

What you see: The builder for a new saved strategy: the conditions that put a name on your list, and the entry, exit and sizing rules you intend to trade it with.
How to use it: Write the exit and the size before the entry. An entry rule on its own is a way to find stocks, not a strategy, and it is the half most people stop at.

Trading Account

/alpaca

sign-in

What you see: Your connected brokerage account: balance and equity curve, open positions, order history and account activity, plus the Watcher trade log and its scorecard.
How to use it: This is where paper results stop being theoretical. Compare the equity curve against the scorecard: a rising curve with a falling win rate means the size is doing the work, not the edge.

Settings

/settings

sign-in

What you see: Account settings, notification preferences and alert delivery.
How to use it: Set notification preferences deliberately. Too many alerts is the same as none.

/subscribe

What you see: Subscription management.
How to use it: Plans and billing.

Pricing

/subscription-info

What you see: What each plan includes.
How to use it: Most of the site is free. Check here before assuming you need to pay for something.

API Docs

/api-docs

What you see: Developer documentation for the Partner API: one authenticated endpoint returning the symbols our scanner surfaced and which boards flagged them.
How to use it: For building on top of the scanner. The list, not the feed.

Developer Portal

/developers

sign-in

What you see: Your Partner API account: your key prefix, your rate limit and your usage against it.
How to use it: Where you check your own key and how much of the limit you have used. Read /api-docs for how to call it, come here for what your key is allowed to do.