Stock Scanners: Every Scanner, One Engine

All 54 scanner pages, by type

Every scanner below runs on the same Trade Ideas engine. Each one is a ready-made set of real alerts and filters for one job. Pick the one that matches how you trade.

• Momentum and Day Trading
• Gaps and Premarket
• Volume and News
• Chart Patterns
• Indicators
• Swing Trading
• Best-of Guides

Momentum and Day Trading

• Day Trading Scanner Momentum, gap, volume and breakout alerts on every US stock from the open.
• Momentum Stock Scanner Stocks running right now, with Top Lists (Screeners) that refresh every 15 seconds.
• High of Day Momentum Scanner Alerts when a stock breaks to a new intraday high on real volume.
• Top Gainers Scanner The biggest gainers and losers today, this week and year to date.
• Small Cap Stock Scanner Small caps running up, making new highs or getting halted.
• AI Stock Scanner Describe a scan in plain English and the AI Assistant builds a live alert window. Standard and Premium.
• Low Float Stock Scanner Low float stocks trading heavy volume, with float rotation alerts.
• Penny Stock Scanner Liquid stocks under $5 moving on volume, thin names filtered out.
• Halt Scanner Halted stocks today and the moment they resume.
• Trade Scanner Guide How a scanner that fires on every trade differs from candle-close scans.

Gaps and Premarket

• Premarket Scanner Premarket movers, gappers and volume ranked before the bell.
• Gap Scanner Gap up and gap down stocks, with alerts when a gap holds or fills.
• Gap Up Scanner Gap ups by percent or dollars, with volume, float and follow-through.
• Gap Down Scanner Gap downs that keep falling, and the ones that reverse.
• Premarket Gap Scanner Premarket gaps re-ranked on every print until the bell.
• Gap Up Stocks Today Today’s morning gappers, and which ones held the gap.
• Overnight Gap Scanner Close-to-open gaps sized against each stock’s volatility.
• Gap and Go Scanner Gaps that dip, hold above the close and push on.
• Gap Fill Scanner Alerts the first time a gap trades back through the close.
• Opening Range Breakout Scanner 1 to 60-minute opening range breakouts and breakdowns.
• After Hours Scanner After hours movers and earnings reactions as they happen.

Volume and News

• Unusual Volume Scanner Stocks trading far above their normal pace, premarket to after hours.
• Unusual Options Volume Scanner Stocks trading far more option contracts than normal today.
• Breaking News Stock Scanner Stocks moving on volume and options activity before the headline.
• Earnings Scanner Stocks reporting earnings today and this week, and the ones moving on it.

Chart Patterns

• Breakout Scanner Range, channel and resistance breakouts with volume confirmation.
• Support and Resistance Scanner Breaks of support, resistance and multi-day highs and lows.
• Candlestick Pattern Scanner Doji, hammer and engulfing patterns on 2 to 60-minute charts.
• Double Bottom Scanner Double bottoms and double tops as they complete.
• Head and Shoulders Scanner Regular and inverse head and shoulders patterns, live.
• Triangle Pattern Scanner Triangles, rectangles and broadening patterns as they form.
• Squeeze Scanner Tight, coiled ranges, with an alert on the breakout.

Indicators

• Technical Analysis Scanner MACD, Stochastic, moving averages and support/resistance in one place.
• RSI Scanner Overbought and oversold stocks on 1-minute to daily RSI.
• MACD Scanner Signal-line and zero-line crosses on 5 to 60-minute charts.
• VWAP Scanner VWAP reclaims, breaks and stretched moves.
• Bollinger Band Scanner Band squeezes, band breakouts and stretched stocks.
• Moving Average Crossover Scanner 5/8, 8/20 and 20/200 SMA crosses and 50/200-day breaks.
• Golden Cross Scanner Stocks with the 50-day above the 200-day, and live 200-day breaks.
• Fibonacci Scanner Pullbacks to 38.2%, 50%, 61.8% and 78.6% retracements.
• Stock Scanner Scripting Write your own scan formulas and test them in OddsMaker.

Swing Trading

• Swing Trading Scanner Pullbacks, moving average crosses and 52-week highs, daily.
• Pullback Scanner Strong stocks pulling back from the high or to Fibonacci levels.
• 52-Week High Scanner New 52-week highs and lows the instant they print.

Best-of Guides

• Best Stock Scanners Trade Ideas, TradingView, Finviz and 7 more compared.
• Best Free Stock Scanners The free tiers compared on limits and upgrades.
• Best Premarket Scanners Premarket data, gap filters and alerts compared.
• Best Gap Up Scanner Trade Ideas, TradingView and thinkorswim on gap ups.
• TradingView Gap Scanner Alternative Keep TradingView charts, add live gap alerts.
• thinkorswim Gap Scanner Alternative Stock Hacker next to Trade Ideas gap alerts.
• Best Scanners for Day Trading Speed, halt alerts and small-cap filters compared.
• Best Scanner for Beginners Ease of use, free options and training compared.
• Best Scanner for Swing Trading Multi-day setups and backtesting compared.
• Best Unusual Options Activity Scanner Flow data, alerts and price compared.

Alerts and filters to look at

• High Relative Volume Stocks
• 5 Minute High
• Halt
• Float
• Volume Today (%)
• Stocks Moving Fast Right Now
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