How to Use Squeeze Radar
A quick guide to what the alerts mean, how to read the dashboard, and how to get the most out of the daily recap.
The Idea
Squeeze Radar watches the whole small-cap market for you and flags the moment a stock starts spiking on price and volume. Its job is to get your attention on a move early. Your job is to look at the chart, decide whether it is worth trading, and manage the trade yourself. It is a radar, not a set of buy and sell instructions.
Reading an Alert
Each alert shows you, at a glance:
- Ticker and price at the moment it fired.
- % change on the day so far.
- Alert type (see the tiers below).
- ๐ first alert vs ๐ re-alert: whether this is the first time the stock has triggered today, or a later follow-up as it keeps moving.
Alert Types
๐ HOD Break on a 30%+ Gainer
A stock already up at least 30% just made a new high of day. It is showing strength.
๐ฅ HOD + Volume Surge
A big gainer broke its high of day on heavier volume than its recent average. Volume behind the move is what tends to separate real runs from fades.
๐ Momentum Pulse
Price jumped more than 2% in a single minute on at least 1.5 times its recent average volume. A sudden burst.
The Dashboards
- Live Screener: the real-time list of movers, refreshed every near real-time.
- Pre-Market: what moved during the pre-market session.
- Normal Hours: the regular-session view.
- Daily Recap: the end-of-day summary of everything the radar caught.
The Daily Recap (and Why It Is Honest)
Every evening, the recap logs every alert from the day. For each one it shows the price when it fired, the peak it reached afterward, how long the peak took, and where it ended up. It shows the winners and the ones that went nowhere, because a track record is only worth anything if it includes the misses.
The recap also runs a fixed, stated rule over the day's alerts and reports how that rule would have done, losses included. This is a hypothetical measured before fees and slippage, not a promise of returns. It is there so you can judge the radar honestly over time, not so we can show you a highlight reel.
Getting Set Up
- Add your Finviz Elite token in Account settings (this is your data source).
- Set up your Discord channel so alerts reach your phone (step-by-step guide).
- Watch the Live Screener during market hours and let the alerts come to you.
- Check the Daily Recap each evening to see how the day played out.
Squeeze Radar provides market information, not investment advice. Trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. You are responsible for your own trading decisions.