Scanner alert types - what each Strategy means
The Strategy column tells you which alert put a stock on the board. There are only a handful, and each one means something precise, from a plain scanner hit on your filters to a squeeze, a new high of the day or a jump in relative volume.
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Why is it on the board?
The Strategy column tells you which alert put a stock on the board. There are a handful of them, and each one means something precise. Here they are, one by one.
Scanner hit
Scanner hit, desk filters: the stock passed every filter on your filters row. It is announced once per stock, per session, which makes it the alert the scanner-hit entry rules are built on.
Squeeze alerts
Squeeze, up five percent in five minutes: the price rose five percent or more in five minutes, on real volume. Squeeze, up ten percent in ten minutes, is the same idea, over a longer stretch.
Volume and new highs
High Rel Vol, five minutes, five times: volume over the last five minutes is at least five times the normal pace for that time of day. New High of Day: a new high for the day, on a stock that has gapped up. Former Momo Stock: a stock that was a mover on an earlier day is active again.
Halts always show
And HALTED, or RESUMED, when a stock is halted, or trading comes back. Halts are always shown, whatever your filters say.
Read it at a glance
Together with the time, the gap and the relative volume, the Strategy column tells the story of each row in one look: what happened, how strong it was, and how long ago.
Which alert, which rule
In the full desk, these alerts also feed the entry rules. Buy on scanner hit takes the first scanner hit on a stock, once per session, and Buy on high rel vol hit takes the first High Rel Vol alert. So the column on the board is also the language the automation speaks.
Filters still rule
Every alert except a halt still needs the stock to pass your filters first, so the board only ever shows the alerts you asked to see.