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Catch the move
before the move catches you.

A self-hosted trading cockpit that scans pre-market gappers, intraday breakouts, HOD/LOD reversals and short-side edge — then sizes, executes and protects every position with broker-side stops. Backtested. Auditable. Yours.

Gap Scanner· Edge Short Data· HOD / LOD· Green-to-Red· Volume Climax· Auto Stop-Loss· Backtest Engine· Telegram Alerts
Track record

Numbers, not narratives.

Pulled directly from the live trade journal. Nothing curated, nothing hidden.

Total trades logged
Win rate
Gross P&L (paper)
Profit factor
Avg winner
Avg loser
Best single trade
Top strategy
What it does

Eight scanners. One cockpit.

Every signal flows from real-time data → ranked list → position size → order → broker-side stop → journal entry. No spreadsheets. No copy-paste.

Gap Scanner

Pre-market gappers ranked by gap %, dollar volume, float, and short interest. Surfaces the names worth watching at the open.

Gap Breakouts

Intraday continuation breakouts above pre-market high — entry rules, stop levels, and risk-adjusted size already calculated.

Edge Short Data

Quantified short-selling edge: hold-time bands, entry-hour heatmaps, and price-range performance from 4 years of historical fills.

HOD / LOD Scanners

Stocks printing fresh highs of the day or lows of the day, filtered by relative volume and proximity to the level.

Green-to-Red Fade

Names that opened green and rolled negative — the classic morning fade setup, automated and ranked by velocity.

Volume Climax

Detects unusual relative-volume spikes and previous-day-low breaks the moment they print, not five minutes later.

Auto Stop-Loss Guard

Every working position gets a GTC broker-side stop. If a stop ever goes missing, StopGuard places one automatically.

Backtest Engine

Replay 4 years of intraday data through every strategy. Equity curve, drawdown, hold-time and entry-hour analytics.

How it flows

From scan to fill in seconds.

  1. 1

    Scanners watch the tape

    Eight independent strategies poll live data on a sub-minute cadence and stream candidates to the cockpit.

  2. 2

    Risk engine sizes the trade

    1 % account-risk model picks share count from your stop distance — the size you'd have set anyway, computed instantly.

  3. 3

    Order routes to Alpaca

    Paper or live, your choice. Market entry, GTC stop attached on fill. Everything logged to the trade journal.

  4. 4

    Position monitor manages it

    Scale-out at 1R/2R, trail the runner, and a Telegram ping on every fill, stop, and target.

  5. 5

    Journal closes the loop

    P&L, hold time, strategy attribution and exit reason — automatically. Review the day in one screen.

Strategy library

Edge that's been measured, not guessed.

LONG

First Pullback

Gap-up names that hold the open and offer a clean retest of pre-market high. Median hold ~12 min.

  • Gap ≥ 4 %
  • Pullback to PMH or VWAP
  • Stop = pullback low
LONG

Breakout Continuation

Range expansion above HOD with relative volume confirmation. Trail behind the 5-min low.

  • RVOL > 3×
  • Break of 5-min consolidation
  • Target 2R, runner trail
SHORT

Late Fade

Parabolic small caps rolling over after exhaustion volume. The bread-and-butter of the short book.

  • +50 % intraday move
  • Lower-high after climax candle
  • Stop = climax high
SHORT

Green-to-Red Roll

Opening green that loses the prior close and accelerates — momentum traders flip into trapped longs.

  • Cross below prev close
  • Volume confirms break
  • Cover at PDL or 2R
"The market is never wrong — opinions often are."
— Jesse Livermore, embedded on every dashboard screen
"Anything can happen. Embrace uncertainty."
— Mark Douglas
FAQ

Questions worth answering.

Is this a signal service?

No. Market Alerts is software you run yourself. Scanners stream candidates, the risk engine sizes them, and orders route to your own Alpaca account. We never touch your money or your fills.

Do I need a brokerage account?

An Alpaca account (paper or live) — free to create, free to use. The cockpit talks to Alpaca's REST + Trading API. Live trading is gated behind a kill switch and a daily loss limit.

What about data? Is real-time included?

Yes. The product ships with the Alpaca data client and supports IEX (free) or SIP (paid). 5-min bars are cached locally to keep the dashboard responsive.

Can I add my own strategy?

Each scanner is a Python class with a single scan() method. Drop a new one into scanners/, wire it into the dashboard menu, and it gets the same risk-engine + executor for free.

Is this financial advice?

No. Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. The track record on this page reflects backtested + paper-traded results from a personal research account. Trade your own money at your own risk.

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