Our Methodologyi
A proprietary system, built and stress-tested over hundreds of hours. Here's what stands behind every name: the discipline, not the recipe.
Institutional-grade data, the whole market
We run on premium, paid market-data feeds, not free, delayed numbers. Every trading day after the close, the engine scans the whole US market, 12,000+ names, and ranks the ones liquid enough to actually trade. The whole market, filtered to what you can trade, not a hand-picked short list.
How a pick is born
Tonight's run, as of 2026-11-06. The same funnel runs after every close.
Every name then opens a full page with its PI Score, its levels and the why. See tonight's Lineup.
What we scan for, every night
26 scanners run after every close, each hunting one kind of setup. Each one is a tab of the Screeners page. The main families:
Buy the dip
Pullback
Strong stocks pulling back to support.
Why it matters: you buy a proven leader at a discount instead of chasing it higher.
Bottom
Beaten-down names showing the first real signs of a turn.
Why it matters: an entry near the low is where the reward-to-risk is widest.
Strength & breakouts
Breakout
Stocks clearing a key ceiling on heavy volume.
Why it matters: a clean breakout often starts the next leg up.
Momentum
The strongest, steadiest uptrends in the market.
Why it matters: winners tend to keep winning, so you ride established strength.
Golden Cross
Names just flipping into a fresh uptrend.
Why it matters: you catch the turn early, as momentum shifts up.
Follow the money
Unusual Flow
Large, early options bets from big players, bullish and bearish.
Why it matters: big option buyers often move before the crowd catches on.
Insider Buys
Company insiders buying their own stock.
Why it matters: insiders often buy when they see value the market has missed. A clue, not a guarantee: insiders can be wrong too.
Short Squeeze
Heavily shorted names at risk of a sharp pop.
Why it matters: when shorts get trapped, the move turns fast and large.
Vol Premium
Stocks where options cost more than usual.
Why it matters: rich premium means the market expects a big move. Option sellers collect it up front, and they carry the risk of that move: a short option can lose far more than the premium.
Gamma Levels
Where dealers are pinned: the call and put walls.
Why it matters: those walls often act as magnets and brakes on the price.
Where not to chase
Extended
Avoid / fadeNames that have run too far, too fast.
Why it matters: it shows you where to take profits, and where not to buy.
Confluence: where the evidence stacks up
Most names trip a single scanner. The few that show up on several at once carry the highest conviction, and the conviction score weighs that overlap directly. A stock caught by the Pullback, Unusual Flow, and Momentum scans together is telling you the same story from three directions. That overlap, not any single flag, is what we trust most. Sort any tab by conviction to put those names on top.
Themes: the stories behind the names
Markets move in stories: AI infrastructure, nuclear power, quantum computing, defense, rare-earth minerals. The Themes tab of Sectors & industries groups names by the story they ride, so you see the whole basket in one place, each with our read on it.
Commodities: where the option market is leaning
The Commodities tab of Macro is a radar over the macro and commodity ETFs: oil, gold, silver, rates, and the dollar. It is not a price ranker. It reads where the option market is paying up for a move, which often shows up before the move does. The lean in oil calls, for one, ran ahead of the last spike.
How to read each column
- How pricey ranks today's option prices against their own last three months, 0 to 100. A high number means the market is paying for a bigger move than usual.
- Options lean is the tilt between upside-call and downside-put pricing, in vol points. ▲ upside means the market is paying up for a rise, the kind of lean that runs ahead of a spike; ▼ downside means it is paying for protection.
- Flow is whether the day's option premium leaned to calls or puts.
- Gamma is the dealer regime: whether their hedging amplifies a move or dampens it.
- Attention is a stress level, NORMAL, WATCH, or HOT. It flags where to look first. It is not a buy signal.
Questions, answered plainly
- How do you read unusual options activity?
- What is the difference between a sweep and a block in options flow?
- What is dealer gamma exposure, and why does it move the market?
- What is the difference between negative gamma and positive gamma?
- What are the call wall and the put wall in options?
- How do you track stock trades by members of Congress?
- What is the STOCK Act, and how does the 45-day disclosure rule work?
- How do you read insider buying, and when does it matter?
- What is a follow-through day, and how do you spot one?
- What is a distribution day, and how many is too many?
- What is a gamma squeeze, and how does it happen?
- How do you read the put/call ratio?
- What is the difference between open interest and volume in options?
- What are 0DTE options, and what does that flow do to the market?
- Do stock trades by members of Congress beat the market?
- What is an insider buying cluster, and why does it matter?
- What is market breadth, and why does it matter?
- What is max pain, and does price really get pulled to it?
- What is IV crush, and why do options lose value after earnings?
- What is dark pool volume, and what does it tell you?
The PI Score, explained
Every name page leads with one PI Score from 0 to 100. It blends four reads, each shown on the page with its own score on the same scale:
- Technical. Trend, momentum, volatility and volume. It weighs the most.
- Fundamentals. Quality and value.
- Momentum vs market. How the last month ranks against every other stock.
- Smart money. Fund filings, insider trades and the options tape.
A part with no data drops out and the rest is reweighted. On the boards, names sort by conviction: how a name ranks against the day's other candidates on that board.
Validated, not curve-fit
- Years of history, the full universe. Tested across multiple market cycles, not a lucky window.
- Out-of-sample. Checked on data it was never tuned on, the only test that counts.
- Thousands of randomized simulations. We re-run each signal against shuffled markets to prove the edge isn't chance, not a pattern that happened to work once.
- Stress-tested against past crashes. If it falls apart when markets break, it doesn't make the cut.
Honest by default
- Graded against the simplest benchmark. Every approach is measured against simply buying the S&P 500, on the same terms, wins and losses both.
- What it leaves out, said plainly. A high score is a strong starting point, not a position. It says nothing about your size, your timing, or the one headline nobody saw coming.
- Odds, not promises. The edge is real and tested, and it still misses on plenty of names. That's exactly why every idea leads with where it's wrong.
The three rules behind everything
- Confluence over noise. Names show up when several checks agree, never on a single blip.
- Risk first. Every idea is framed around where you're wrong and the reward-to-risk, before the upside.
- Aware of the weather. A setup is judged against whether the market is risk-on or defensive.
How to use it, in three steps
Start with the shortlist
Open the Screeners and sort by conviction for the strongest names, or pick a single setup tab when you want one kind of trade. The work of scanning the whole market is already done.
Open the name and read it
Click any ticker for the full picture: the chart, support and resistance, how many angles agree, and a plain-English "how to play it." This is where conviction meets your own eyes.
Size it for your own risk
Every idea is framed around where it's wrong first. Decide your stop and your size before the upside, and let the reward-to-risk, not the story, set the position.
The app, menu by menu
More to read
A tool to think with, not a signal to follow blindly. Nothing here is personalized investment advice. Always check the chart and size for your own risk.