Our Methodology
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
The same funnel runs every night, no exceptions and no favorites. Four steps from the whole market to the short list you see.
Scan everything
After the close, the engine reads the whole US market: 12,000+ names, price, volume, options.
Hunt the edges
More than a dozen independent scanners each hunt one setup: dips, turns, breakouts, unusual options money.
Score and rank
Every survivor gets one conviction score out of 100: trend, sector strength, rank, reward-to-risk.
Match your style
The Profiles hand each style its cleanest picks; every name opens a full page with levels and the why.
What we scan for, every night
More than a dozen independent scanners run after every close, each hunting one kind of edge. You see them as the tabs on the Screeners page. Here is what each one looks for, and why it earns a place.
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 buy for one reason only, they expect it to rise.
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 is worth selling to collect income up front.
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.
How each scanner is built, and how they're weighted, stays proprietary.
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 groups names by the story they ride, so you see the whole basket in one place, each with our read on it.
It's how you go from "this one stock looks good" to "this whole corner of the market is waking up," and how you spread risk across a trend instead of betting it all on one ticker.
Commodities: where the option market is leaning
The Commodities tab 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.
Scan for the WATCH and HOT names, then click any ticker for its full page: the gamma profile, the flow, and the council. The radar tells you where positioning is stretched. The trade is still your call.
The Conviction score, explained
Every name carries a Conviction score from 0 to 100:
- A blend, not one signal. The score fuses several independent, validated checks into one figure: how the name ranks against the day's other candidates, how many angles agree, the trend, and the reward-to-risk. The more that line up, the higher it climbs.
- Consistent by design. Because it's built the same way every day, a 90 always means the same thing: a name where the evidence stacks up from several directions at once.
A high score means strong, multi-angle conviction, a starting point for your own read, not a promise. The exact blend stays proprietary.
Validated, not curve-fit
Every signal goes through the same gauntlet before we trust it, and how much we lean on it depends on how it holds up:
- 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.
Hundreds of hours went into this. The checks that hold up across all of it carry the most weight; a name earns real conviction only when several agree, never on one scanner alone.
Honest by default
The point of all this rigor is to tilt the odds in your favor, not to sell certainty. So we hold the system to the same standard you should:
- 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 dashboard, tab by tab
Each tab has one job. Here's where to look for what.
Always current
The engine refreshes after every US close and the dashboard reads it live. Each page shows the data date with a green "Live data" badge; if a run is ever missed it turns red automatically, you never act on stale numbers without knowing.
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.