Find High Quality Trading Opportunities with a Market Scanner.

Quickly spot ideas, opportunities, and market inefficiencies that fit your specific criteria

Search the market for breakouts, volume spikes, chart patterns, gaps and more with built-in Alert and Top List windows. Mix and match technical filters, Window Specific Filters and Channel Bar themes. PiP charts show a second timeframe while your alerts keep updating.

• Alerts and filters — combine them any way you like. They scan the whole market and refresh on their own.
• Mix technical and trading filters — use price, volume, float, relative volume, market trend and time of day, whatever your strategy needs.
• Multi-timeframe in one view — PiP shows the bigger trend next to live alerts on the stock you trade.
• Channel Bar expert layouts — 40+ preconfigured channels so day one is not a blank canvas.

Use AI to search the market with Holly

Describe what you’re looking for in plain English. Holly AI Assistant helps set up live Alert windows and Top Lists. You get a working scan.

• Plain English to Alert or Top List — speak or type, and Holly drafts the scan.
• Refine it yourself — tweak filters, copy windows and add conditions in one place.
• Find more like this — Idea Surfing rotates Top List stocks onto your charts so new ideas keep coming.
• Go deeper — Holly AI Assistant shows how plain-English scan building works.

Use AI to create market scanners and conditions from natural language

Set up custom scanner conditions by asking Holly in plain English or with the point-and-click Alert and Top List editors. No programming required. Tweak and copy windows to fit any strategy, then test it with OddsMaker.

• No code required — build scans from alerts and filters, not programming.
• Clone & stack — copy a working window before you change it. Window Specific Filters keep the results clean.
• Any live market event as a condition — use patterns, buying pressure, volume, gaps or support and resistance breaks.
• OddsMaker next — find out when the idea has worked in the past with event-based testing.

Scan the market using simple conditions or entire trading strategies

Instead of hunting for entries after the move, run your strategy as live Alert windows and ranked Top Lists. See which stocks match your rules now. Widen the search with MultiStrategy and Channel Bar themes, all running on premium exchange data.

• Find where the strategy is firing — see live matches as they happen, not in an email after the move.
• Scan with the whole strategy — entry conditions, filters and quality checks in one window.
• The whole market, live — events stream in from every listed stock Trade Ideas covers.
• Machine learning — Holly already runs machine learning on those events. See the AI Strategy Lab.

Discover opportunity visually with Stock Race & Market Explorer

Heat maps are fine for a quick look. Trade Ideas goes further with Stock Race, where leaders pull ahead and laggards fall behind, and Market Explorer, a treemap-style view of the market. Both use the same Top Lists and Alerts you already run.

Find timely trading ideas you can jump on right now

Scan for breakouts, crosses, volume surges and chart patterns as they happen. Trade Ideas streams live market events all session. Unusual buying or selling shows up as an alert right away, not in a delayed sidebar.

• Breakouts & crosses live — conditions fire into Alert windows without a manual refresh click.
• News / catalyst themes — Channel Bar themes and filters for the sessions and regimes you trade.
• Match scanners to strategies — the same windows can feed Brokerage Plus and Autotrading (Money Machine) when you’re ready to trade.
• No refresh button — results update on their own, so you see the move right now.

Spot a setup early, then get alerted when it triggers

Keep setups you like in Top Lists and Alert windows. Live alerts tell you the moment one of them triggers, so you don’t miss the entry.

• Watch the setup live — live windows beat waiting for tomorrow’s emailed scan.
• Multi-factor alerts — combine volume, pattern, market trend and time of day to filter out false signals.
• Into execution — when timing matters: Trade Timing & Execution.
• How it Helps — see how the Channel Bar helps you act in time: Data Difference.

Be the first to spot fast-moving momentum or breakout charts

Search live market data for fast-moving stocks using relative volume, range and breakout alerts. Keep smart Top Lists of what’s breaking out now. Idea Surfing rotates them onto your charts so you see what your scans are finding.

• Momentum as alerts — buying pressure, volume spikes and gaps each trigger their own alert.
• Smart lists — Top Lists update every 15 seconds, and Stock Race shows who’s leading.
• CPR on the same hunt — real-time chart pattern recognition spots patterns as they form.
• Premium data — events from premium exchange data, not a thinner last-sale feed.

Scan the market with live filters

Trade Ideas gives you flexibility without writing code. Combine alerts and filters, let Holly set them up from plain English, and test them with OddsMaker.

• Turn any market view into a window — add conditions, save it and share Channel Bar layouts.
• Signals from live market events — entries and exits you can act on, including Holly signals with a statistical edge.
• Thousands of tickers continuously — Trade Ideas does the searching, so you do not have to write code.
• Charting — chart AI and standard studies are on Analyze & Chart.

Follow aggressive buying and selling on the tape

Trade Ideas also monitors unusual options activity across all stocks, with a dedicated channel available in TI Pro and the Web Dashboard.

For “smart money” questions, Trade Ideas offers unusual buying and selling as it happens. Unusual buying and selling shows up as live alerts for pressure, volume and breakouts, and in the Compare Count pulse. Stock Info covers fundamentals.

Keep an eye on context

The context active traders need is already on the desk: Stock Information, Channel Bar news and catalyst channels, live market events, and Trade Ideas Trading Room people who Really Know Trade Ideas.

Discover new tickers with live Top Lists & expert channels

Trade Ideas gives you live Top Lists that update every 15 seconds. Channel Bar expert layouts fit day trader, swing trader and investor styles. MultiStrategy windows and session themes round it out, and every list stays live.

• Top Lists are smart lists — stocks join as they match your rules, ranked and sorted live.
• Expert channels — pick the channel that fits your style; see which names are really moving.
• Industry / float / liquidity filters — quality gates on every window.
• Halts & special situations — desk filters and channels flag them as they happen.

Automate scanning with windows that stay live

Trade Ideas keeps your Alert and Top List windows live all session. Email and SMS notifications are there when you step away, but the live windows come first.

• Always-on windows — your scans keep running and updating all session.
• Notifications when you need them — Email and SMS options are covered in the Users Guide.
• Any combination of conditions — mix technical conditions and filters, or ask Holly in plain English.

More on the data behind your live windows: Data Difference · Nasdaq Basic vs Trade Ideas live market data.

Build a custom monitoring screen for what you care about

Build a command center with the Channel Bar, Alerts, Top Lists, charts, Stock Race, Market Explorer, Holly and OddsMaker. Open as many windows as you need, then save or share your layout to the cloud.

• Channel Bar left rail — browse market themes in rows, like picking a show on Netflix.
• Idea Surfing — Top List stocks rotate onto your charts about every 7 seconds.
• Alert events on charts — play-by-play from the same live market data.
• Privacy & focus — Window Specific Filters keep your eyes on what matters.

Import and share scanner layouts

Start from expert Channel Bar layouts and proven Alerts and Top Lists, then copy them and make them yours. To share with others, use Save/Share to Cloud.

Search the market for opportunity the way you search the web

If you can describe a setup to a fellow trader, you can describe it to Holly, or build it in the Alert and Top List editors. Search any mix of conditions across the whole market, live. Then dig in fast with Idea Surfing, the in-chart AI Assistant, pattern recognition and OddsMaker.

Trade Ideas live market data: A live stream of market events built on premium exchange data, so you see moves as they happen. Data Difference →

Users Guide and Trading Room