Learning center
Understand the market concepts behind the scanner.
Follow the relationships that shape momentum-stock discovery—from gaps and float to volume, catalysts, VWAP, breakouts, risk, and review. Each guide connects to the relevant TraderBase scanner or documentation.
Topic clusters
Scanner fundamentals
Learn how changing market data becomes a timestamped scanner event and how continuous scanners differ from point-in-time screeners.
Momentum and breakouts
Connect price change with high-of-day, opening-range, VWAP, volume, liquidity, and failure evidence without treating momentum as a prediction.
Gaps and premarket
Use correct session references, early volume, spread, float, catalysts, and changing opening liquidity to build a provisional watchlist.
Float, volume, and liquidity
Separate reported share supply from executable liquidity, then compare participation using absolute, dollar, recent, and relative volume.
Catalysts and market context
Inspect available news, filings, earnings, offerings, corporate actions, and halt status with source and timestamp context.
Risk, process, and psychology
Treat scanner discovery as one input to a risk-first process built around liquidity, invalidation, position size, routine, journaling, and review.