Tile View Sizes

Tile View is available in 3 sizes on the Market or Watch Tabs.

Scans and Earnings/Dividends Calendar under the Find tab offer 4 Tile View sizes:  Extra Small to Large.

The platform’s adaptive and responsive technology will automatically adjust the number of tiles shown based upon the available space as well as allow continual scrolling for large lists.


Dynamic Scan Information

The scan results provide relevant information for that scan.   For example: Dividends will show Yield, Covered Calls will show the options position, potential return, net cost and more.

This allows you to quickly pick stock candidates and bypass others for high-probability trades.  For example, you may wish to eliminate stocks priced too high or low, those with low volume, etc.   Use the Navigational tools (Action Icon, The Score Icon, Send to Watchlist or Research for example) to dive deeper in selecting the best stock.


Filter Scan Icon

The Filter icon  – located in the upper left area of the scan page – allows you to narrow candidates of an initial scan by applying additional parameters.
You can adjust the criteria at any time to further narrow or increase the number of results by eliminating, adding or adjusting entries.
This Smart Search feature filters data unique to the scan.  Ex:  Covered Calls Filtering offers Net Entry Cost, $ Return with no Movement, $ Return if Called out, etc.

Use drop-down box to select parameters and enter criteria in boxes.
Add rows if needed by clicking on ‘+’
If you need more space, click and drag the arrow in the bottom, right corner.
Click “Find”.

Click ‘Reset’ to start over.  The “Query” button displays the criteria at the top of the Filter page.  Click again to remove.

Give it a try!


Smart Action Icon

The Smart Action Icon  adjusts available features depending upon where you are in the trading platform.

For Stocks you can ‘Buy’, ‘Sell’, view ‘Options’, etc.  

Any Strategy-specific options scan will have ‘Analyze’ and ‘Trade’ in the Action Icon Menu. You can click ‘Analyze’ to see the trade in the options chain. From there, you can Edit the structure or click ‘Trade’ to submit the trade to your to Brokerage Account and Journal.


Scan - Smart search

The search box  is found at the top of Find.  It performs ‘smart searches’ by pulling all scans related to what is typed in.  If you don’t know the name of the specific scan, but know it is related to Earning  announcements, type “earning” and a list will populate showing scans that are about Earning.  Typing  “Bull” or  “Bear” will bring up scans with  “Bull or Bullish” or “Bear or Bearish” in their names, respectively.

Of course, you can also elect to search by clicking the arrow for a complete list of available scans in a drop-down search.


Save your Favorite Scans

Create your Customized Scan List

Star any scan to have it show in Feature > My Favorite Scans.

There are two ways to do this:

Simply click the star  on the Tile View of the scans or on the header in the results view of any scan.

Favorites will be easily access from the Scan main page


Past Scan Results

When viewing scan results, you can select a past date by clicking on the Calendar Icon, then the back arrow until you get to the month you want to search from.  Click on the date you wish to view & the appropriate stocks will populate the screen.

The date you are searching will be displayed in the header

Note:  Past Scans availability dates vary.   When a new scan is  added, the history is available from the day it was added to the platform going forward.


Heat Map & Spectrum Overview

Broad Market Insight that allows you to drill down

The Heat Maps are accessible in the Market tab and under Find>Explore and provide powerful visual views of market performance.  This feature is designed to  adapt to a variety of strategies and outlooks according to your portfolio needs.  Select Index and Time Frame using the Action Icons.  These can be changed going forward in any map screen.
In the Map view, each box represents either an industry group (default) or a stock when you drill down. The size of the box represents the market cap.  By hovering your cursor over each box, an info box appears with info on that group within that industry, including the the number of companies, Market Cap, % Change in selected time frame.

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Earnings Per Share Performance

Once a date has past and earnings have been announced, Earning Per Share (EPS) is color-coded based on how much the company beat (or missed) Expectations.

Go to Find>Calendar, select “Earnings” and view any past date, where earning have been announce, to view the results.

Dark Green/Dark Red is considered surprise, and indicate the company beat/missed estimates by more than 10%

Light Green/Light Red indicate the company beat/missed estimates by 10% or less


Calendars

Under the “Find” Tab, Calendar allows one to search for company’s Dividends, Earnings or Splits.

Select “DIV”, “EPS”, “SPL” by calendar date.   Use the drop-down menu on the upper left corner to select S & P 500 stocks,  All Equities, Optionable, etc.

Use the navigational buttons on the upper right, above the calendar to move the time period forward or back.

Once selected, the stock symbols will automatically populate the right side of the screen.  The navigational icons, allow you to perform such functions as select/adding/managing icons to send to a Watchlist or to Research,  you can also further Filter candidates.