Technical analysis scanner — trend, momentum & strike ranges
Type a ticker for a transparent technical read — trend, momentum, participation, location and volatility scored separately — plus a ranked support/resistance map and technically-derived strike ranges for covered calls and cash-secured puts. All indicators are computed in your browser.
Watch: How to use the Technical Analysis Scanner (7-min walkthrough) Click to expand
Video walkthrough covers every panel on this page — the composite Edge Score and its eight sub-factors, the options-aware support/resistance map, the SPY market-regime banner (Markov 2.0), the Nasdaq-100 / S&P 500 universe scan, the trend/mean-reversion split (Hurst-based), the trade framing panel (stops · targets · R-multiples · vol-targeted size), the confluence setups view, the TA-aligned CC + CSP income tables, and the daily Paper Trader that grades the signals against real market data. No signup required.
Prefer to read? Written feature tour (5-min read)
1. Single-ticker analysis. Type a ticker, click Analyze. The composite Edge Score (0–100) is the headline. The chip next to it shows the percentile across today's S&P 500 so you know how strong the score is relative to the tape.
2. The 8 sub-scores. The composite is built from Trend, Momentum, Participation (breadth in the sector), Location (position in 52-week range), Volatility structure, and options-side Flow, Skew, and Term-structure. Each factor has a color chip so you can see which ones are pulling the score up and which are dragging.
3. Support/resistance & strike ranges. The S/R map is options-aware — it clusters high-open-interest strikes, anchored VWAP, and prior swing levels. Below the map, the scanner turns those levels into ready-to-sell strike ranges for covered calls (above resistance) and cash-secured puts (below support).
4. SPY Regime banner (new). The top-of-page banner reports the market state — BULL / SIDEWAYS / BEAR — from a Markov transition matrix on SPY. Days-in-regime and stickiness tell you how likely the state is to hold. The scanner also re-weights its factors based on the regime — momentum-heavy in bull, balanced in sideways. Expand the Diagnostics chevron to see the honest stride-sampled matrix side-by-side with the biased rolling matrix.
5. Universe scan. Click Scan Nasdaq-100 or Scan S&P 500 to run the same engine across the whole list. You get Top-30 upside and Top-30 downside with per-row micro-visualizations — dials and bars — so patterns jump out without reading numbers.
6. Trend vs Mean-reversion split (new). Not every stock trends. Some mean-revert. The scanner uses the Hurst exponent to split its Top 30 into two mutually-exclusive playbooks. Hurst > 0.55 = trending, buy dips. Hurst < 0.45 = mean-reverting, fade extremes. The middle band is excluded from both lists because neither playbook works there.
7. Trade framing (new). For a chosen ticker: a suggested stop (from ATR), a target ladder at 1R / 2R / 3R (where R is your risk unit), historical expectancy on similar tags, and a vol-targeted position size so a stop-out equals a fixed % of your capital. This is how a proprietary desk sizes trades.
8. Confluence Setups (new). The rarest, highest-conviction panel — names where multiple independent signals agree simultaneously. Example: Stage-2 trend × Rich VRP × Strong support cluster under short strike. When three unrelated systems all say "yes," that's a real edge. Typically 3–5 names per day. Fewer when nothing is aligned — that's the feature.
9. TA-aligned income tables. Click the CC or CSP button to get 10 income candidates that are yield-ranked and Edge-filtered. Puts on downtrending names are dropped entirely (they'd get assigned into a falling stock); calls that would cap a strong breakout are dropped too. The footer tells you how many were replaced.
10. Paper Trader (new). The honest test. Every weekday at 8am ET we record the scanner's Top-30 bullish + Top-30 bearish and note a hypothetical 30-DTE ATM option per name. Thirty days later they're graded against the actual close. Charts and hit rates live at /paper/ta-scan/.
Full math + honesty caveats: Methodology §10c (TA E1–E12), §10f (Paper Trader).
📐 Trade framing · stops · targets · R-multiples Educational framing — not a trade recommendation
🎯 Confluence Setups Stage-2 trend × Rich VRP × Strong support cluster under short strike
What goes into the ranking? (Edge score)
- Momentum quality — 25%: Clenow exponential-regression slope × R² (how steep and smooth the trend is; choppy trends are penalised).
- 12−1 momentum — 13%: 12-month return skipping the last month (Jegadeesh–Titman).
- 52-week-high proximity — 13%: how close price is to its yearly high (George–Hwang).
- Relative strength vs S&P 500 — 13%: 6-month outperformance vs SPY, percentile-ranked.
- Trend template — 13%: Minervini 8-point Stage-2 uptrend checklist (above 50/150/200-day MAs, 200-day rising, etc.).
- Options flow — 12%: call-vs-put premium tilt + unusual activity (volume > open interest) from the live options chain.
- ADX trend strength — 6% & volatility quality — 5%: directional strength and a penalty for blow-off volatility.
Enter a ticker and press Analyze.
Methodology: RSI, MACD, EMA/SMA, Bollinger Bands, ATR, OBV, Stochastic, Ichimoku, Fibonacci and relative volume are computed locally from price/volume bars; support/resistance is clustered from pivots, swing highs/lows, Fibonacci zones, moving-average clusters and volume-by-price. See the methodology and disclaimer.