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You keep a free account: your watchlist, with each stock's Quality Score, 15 minutes behind. Nothing is charged, because we never took a card, and there is nothing to cancel. Pro members get real-time prices, every reason behind each score and all 14 chart checks, the full scanner, and alerts. If you want those, choose a plan on the billing page in your dashboard and pay there. Your alerts and saved scans are kept, and come back the moment you do.

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Only on the public pages, which run at least 15 minutes behind. Pro members, and anyone on a guest pass, see real-time prices: the scanner refreshes every 15 seconds, and your watchlist every few seconds, pre-market and after hours included.

No. It is a screening tool that scores stocks on the chart, the company's results, and the news and filings. It does not know your situation and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.

Breakaway scores every US stock that trades enough shares each day. The list refreshes every 15 seconds and puts the highest scores first. Each card carries two numbers. The check count, shown as 8/14, is how many of the 14 chart checks are firing. Those checks sit in four groups: trend, volume, tight range, and buying. A check on a price line holds once lit until the price clears a wider line, so a small dip does not flip it, and the checks that read the day's bar count on the finished day: during the session they keep the last close's answer. The Quality Score is the badge on every card, and it is what the grid ranks by.

It starts from the check count and then adds or subtracts points. Long-term trend is worth minus three to plus four. Run-up, meaning the gain the stock has already made, adds up to two. Size adds two points for a company worth $200 billion and one at $10 billion. A company under $300 million loses a point. Profit over the last four quarters adds a point, two when it grew 20% on the four before, and a loss takes one away, straight from the SEC filings. A company with no quarterly filings is read on its last full year. Growing sales and widening margins add points. Heavy share dilution, big daily swings the business does not back, and cash burn take points off. News, read together with the 8-K filings a company sends to the SEC, is worth up to three points either way. Insider trades and government filings count too. So does persistence, meaning how long the score has held up, worth up to two points.

The ticker page adds it all up part by part and puts a plain word on the total. Exceptional is 20 and up, Excellent is 15 to 19, Above Average is 11 to 14, Average is 6 to 10, Below Average is 0 to 5, and Poor is below zero. The badge itself changes with the band: 20 and up glows bright green, 15 to 19 is deep green, 11 to 14 a green outline, 6 to 10 gray, and anything under 6 fades. When two stocks tie on the Quality Score, the one that scored higher the session before goes first, so a stock that slips a point lands right under the stocks it was tied with. Next comes the one that held its score more firmly at the last close: how far each lit price line sat past the line that would turn it off, and how close each unlit one was to lighting. After that come the long-term trend, the six-month gain, the checks in motion, company size, then the symbol. Every page, your watchlist included, uses that one order. You never have to read an earnings report, work through a balance sheet, or learn an indicator to use the number. Breakaway does that reading and prints the evidence behind every point, and the decision is still yours.

Persistence is the part of the Quality Score that asks how long a stock has scored well. Has it held up for weeks, or only since this morning? The scanner writes down each stock's score once per trading day. Persistence takes the median, or middle value, of the last twenty days on record. Each of those scores has its persistence points taken back out first. That way this part of the score cannot build on itself. A median of 12 or more earns two points, and 9 or more earns one. With fewer than ten days on record it pays nothing. It is never negative, so a stock that broke out today is not docked for being new.

Every ticker page charts the Quality Score in a pane under the price chart, as far back as five years. A strip of bars shows the check count for the last sixty sessions, one bar per session. Each reading is the score as it was recorded that day, once per day. Days before the September 2026 scoring update were restated on the current formula, using only the filings public on each day. Days before the October 2026 update were restated on its rules from each day's prices, and the chart marks the day it changed as Scoring updated. Persistence reads from that same record.

It is a green reading on the card and on the stock page. A stock earns it when three things are true. It is up over the quarter. It is at least five points ahead of the S&P 500 over the last 63 trading days. And it is above its 200-day average price. All three have to be true. So a bounce inside a downtrend that edges past the index does not get it. It is context only. It does not feed the Quality Score.

Yes, while the market is open, which here means 4 AM to 8 PM Eastern. The details refresh every 15 seconds. The intraday, 3-day, and 1-week charts refresh every 30 seconds. The price flashes green or red on each new trade. You never have to reload the page. When the market is closed, the page holds the last day's figures.

It is fourteen segments, one for each chart check, lit from the left for how many are firing right now, with the count and the trend word beside it. One glance tells you whether a stock is firing on most of them or on a few. You never have to read fourteen labels to find that out. Two of the checks are opposites (heavy volume and quiet volume), so at most 13 fire at once. Hover the bar to see which checks are lit. The stock's page splits the same count into a meter for each group and lists every check with what it measures.

Big companies have earnings, analyst coverage, index money, and real institutional ownership. A breakout in one of those has earnings and big buyers behind it that the same chart on a small company few people trade does not. So the Quality Score pays for a lasting long-term trend, real size, and a profitable business. Those points sit on top of the chart checks. Large companies that are really moving rise to the top, and one-day spikes do not. Small companies are still scored. They still rank when their trend and signals earn it. A Small caps toggle narrows the grid to them.

It is a short list of fund managers whose holdings traders actually follow: Berkshire Hathaway, Duquesne (Druckenmiller), Scion (Burry), Pershing Square, Appaloosa, Bridgewater, Third Point, Greenlight, Soros, Coatue, Tiger Global, Baupost, Icahn, Lone Pine, and Viking. Their positions come from 13F filings on EDGAR, the SEC's public filing site. Those filings arrive up to 45 days after a quarter ends. So the page always shows the quarter and the filing date. New positions, adds, cuts, and exits are marked against the quarter before. Treat it as context. A stake reported months ago is not a momentum signal, and it never counts in the Quality Score.

Insiders are a company's officers, directors, and owners of ten percent or more. This score covers the shares they buy and sell on the open market. It comes from SEC Form 4 filings, picked up within a day of the filing. Buys count for more when the dollar amount is large and the buyer is senior. A buy fades over about a month. Three or more insiders buying together earns a bonus. Sales count at a quarter of the weight and can cost at most one point. Where the trade happens matters. A sale within a few percent of the 52-week low counts against the stock much harder than routine selling near a high. A buy near the low counts for more. When an officer or director sells into the 52-week low, this part of the score is held at minus one or worse. The ticker page says so in plain words, because a chosen sale at the low means the insider has lost faith. Sales under a 10b5-1 plan, which is set up months in advance, are ignored. Stock grants, option exercises, and shares held back for taxes never count.

Most insider selling means nothing. People sell to pay taxes, buy a house, or spread their money around. So a sale counts at a quarter of the weight of a buy, and a sale near the 52-week high counts for even less than that. One place is different. When an officer or a director chooses to sell into the 52-week low, they are taking the year's worst price for their own company. That is the person running the business getting out. Breakaway takes the discount off that sale, holds this part of the score at minus one or worse, and says so on the card in plain words, like "The CEO is selling into the 52-week low". Two sellers, or one large sale, cost more. Sales set up months ahead under a 10b5-1 plan never reach the score at all, because nobody chose the day. Grants, option exercises, and shares held back for taxes never count either.

Report dates come from the 8-K each company files with the SEC, so the date is the one the company set, not a guess from a calendar. Before a report, the card shows the date and whether it lands before the open or after the close, and an optional alert can tell you when a stock reports within three days. After a report, the Earnings tab lists it with the gap it opened on, where it closed that session against the close before, where it stood five sessions later, and the catalyst the news rules scored. A company expected to report is checked on EDGAR every ten minutes through the filing windows, 4:00 to 8:30 PM and 6:00 to 9:30 AM Eastern, so its report usually shows on the tab and the stock page within about 10 minutes of the SEC filing. Other reports arrive with the regular pass, every six hours. On the chart an amber E sits under every session the company reported.

From the filings themselves. Senate trades come from the Senate's electronic filing site, and House trades from the Clerk of the House disclosure site. Breakaway reads the reports those offices publish, so no data vendor sits in the middle. In the account, every row on the Insiders and Congress page and on the stock page links back to the filing it came from, so you can open the document and read it yourself. Members of Congress have up to 45 days to report a trade under the STOCK Act, so a disclosure is often weeks behind the trade. Both dates are shown. Executive-branch officials file the same kind of report with the Office of Government Ethics, and those are read too. Disclosures give a dollar range, never an exact amount, so the range is what you see. The feed is checked every hour, so a new filing shows up the same day it is posted. Form 4 insider filings are checked every three hours. A new earnings report usually shows within about 10 minutes of the company's SEC filing when the company was expected to report that day, and with the regular six-hour pass otherwise. The scan itself is a different clock: it rebuilds every 15 seconds while the market is open. Filings move on the filing calendar, not on the tape.

Yes. Executive-branch officials file a periodic transaction report with the Office of Government Ethics, the OGE Form 278-T, and the president's reported trades are carried in that feed. Each row gives the stock, whether it was a buy, a sale, or a holding the filing says is still held, the dollar range disclosed, the date, and a link to the source, so you can read the report yourself. The same feed carries a short list of members whose trades people follow closely: Pelosi, Tuberville, Khanna, and Gottheimer. These reports are periodic, so they land weeks or months after the trade. Amounts come as ranges, never exact figures. Breakaway reports what was filed and nothing more. It says nothing about how any of these trades turned out, and a disclosure is not a reason to buy or sell.

Members of Congress have to report their trades within 45 days under the STOCK Act. Executive-branch officials file the same kind of report with the Office of Government Ethics. Each reported purchase in the last 60 days is weighted by the dollar range disclosed, from the smallest ranges under $15,000 up to anything over $500,000. Older trades count for less, and a month after the trade the weight is down to about a third. Trades by a short list of closely followed filers count for a little more. Sales subtract. A disclosed holding counts as a small standing bonus. The whole government leg is capped at two points either way, or three when a closely followed filer such as Pelosi or the president is among the filings, so no single filing ever carries a stock. A filer who moves more than 40 names in the window is rebalancing a portfolio, not picking a stock, so each of those trades counts only a sliver. Every trade is listed on the ticker page with a link to the filing. It is a signal with a lag, not a reason to buy or sell.

Every headline is matched against a list of event types, and each type has a weight. An FDA approval or a takeover offer sits at the top. A share offering that dilutes owners or a failed drug trial sits at the bottom. The score is then cut for age and for the source. The 8-K filings a company sends to the SEC are read the same way. How long an event counts depends on what it is. An analyst note counts for five days and fades within a couple. An earnings report, a contract win, a partnership, an approval, a takeover offer, or a dilutive share offering keeps counting for twenty days. Those fade more slowly, because they change the story for weeks. An earnings beat or a raised forecast is also scaled by how the stock reacted. A beat that jumped the stock 20 percent is worth far more than one the market sold. Law-firm investor alerts and general opinion pieces score zero. An event only counts when the company is the subject of the headline. A supplier announcing a rollout at Microsoft is news about the supplier. A company buying NVIDIA hardware is not news for NVIDIA. A summary that says insider buying was nonexistent is not insider buying. Every ticker page shows you which headline moved the score. Headlines that only mention the company are listed separately and left unscored.

It is market context, so you know what kind of day you are trading into. It carries the S&P 500 index level, the number the headlines quote, with its move for the day in points and percent. The last close comes from Cboe's free delayed quote, and during the session the level moves with the S&P 500 fund every 15 seconds, so it is an estimate within a point or two of the exchange print. It also shows the fund's pre-market or after-hours price when there is one. Then comes breadth, which means how many stocks are rising against how many are falling. You get how many scored stocks are up against down. You get how many sit at 52-week highs and lows. And you get how many are above their 20-, 50-, and 200-day average prices. The line also flags the next scheduled event that moves everything at once. That could be a Federal Reserve rate decision, an inflation report, or the jobs report. It turns amber on the day. Market-wide headlines sit on the same line, each with a short tag: the Fed, inflation, jobs, tariffs, yields, and the sector moving that morning, tech, chips, energy, banks, or small caps, with the article one tap away.

Yes. From 4 AM Eastern, every card shows the extended-hours price. You also get its move against the last regular-session price and the shares traded. A Pre-market movers list ranks the biggest moves. An optional gap alert can tell you when a watchlist stock, or any stock, moves more than a set amount before the open. After the close that list becomes After-hours movers. Scores and chart checks keep using completed regular-session bars. So a pre-market trade on light volume never changes a setup.

The scan only scores stocks that trade enough shares each day, because the chart checks need real volume to mean anything. The day's biggest movers across the whole market show up elsewhere. You will find them on the Movers page. That includes penny stocks and companies with very few shares available to trade. Each one shows price, move, volume, and company size. Each is tagged with the event the news rules found, or with its latest headline, read from the vendor's feed and, when that has nothing on a small company, from the public headline feed for its ticker. The only floor there is ten cents a share, 100,000 shares and $250,000 traded. So a real move is never hidden for being cheap. Leveraged and inverse funds are left out, because a 2x fund is not a company. On a weekend or a holiday, the page shows the last trading day's movers.

Alerts are optional. Turn any of them off in one tap. With a watchlist, a few come on for you: a change in a stock's verdict, major news about it, and its group's news when its industry or theme moves together, like the chip stocks the day the FT reported on OpenAI's revenue. Those arrive the moment we find them, at any hour. Set any other condition on one stock, on your watchlist, or on everything. You can alert on a score crossing a level, an insider buy, a news event, or a government trade. You can also alert on a new 52-week high, a price level, or a move of a given size. Indicator alerts cover RSI, a MACD cross, and earnings coming within a few days. There is an alert for a squeeze setup too, which is a heavily shorted stock that is starting to move. A rule fires once when the condition becomes true. It fires again only after the condition resets, and there is a cooldown for each stock. Each rule sends at most eight alerts a day. Past that, the extra stocks arrive as one summary in the app instead of a stream of pushes. Alerts arrive in the app, by push on any phone or computer you turn on (iPhones need the site on the Home Screen first), and by email. A morning digest at 9:35 Eastern is optional.

The alerts page keeps a record of your alerts. When one fires, Breakaway notes the price, the score, and the setup at that moment. Then it fills in what the stock did 5, 10, and 20 trading days later. You get how often the stock was higher at each of those points, with the count behind it, plus the average and median move. You get a table of recent setups with their results, and a figure for each rule. So a rule that does not work is easy to see. There is no trade journal here and no profit and loss. It answers one question. Were the alerts worth acting on? It answers with your own numbers rather than a marketing figure.

Short sellers borrow shares and sell them, hoping to buy them back cheaper. A squeeze setup is a stock where many shares are sold short and the price is already moving. Breakaway flags one when at least 15 percent of the shares outstanding are sold short. It also flags one when it would take five or more days of normal volume for short sellers to buy back. Either way, at least seven checks have to be firing. When a crowded short trade starts to run, short sellers are forced to buy. It is a toggle and a badge. It stays out of the Quality Score, because short interest is only published twice a month. Percent short is short interest divided by shares outstanding. Every card says which settlement date the figure comes from.

It is a heat map of the whole scan. Box size is company size, and it opens colored by Quality Score. You can color it by the return over a day, a month, three months, the year to date, or a year instead. Boxes are grouped by sector. Under the map sits a sector table. For each sector it shows the median return, which is the middle stock's return. You get that over a day, a month, three months, the year to date, and a year. It also shows the share of stocks above their 50-day average price and the average Quality Score. Because these are medians, one extreme return cannot skew a row. Tap a sector to open it in the scanner.

Yes. Every filter you set lives in the web address, so a filtered scan is a link you can send, and Saved scans keeps your sets under a name. The Insiders and Congress page works the same way: save a filter set as a scan, come back to it from a menu, download the filtered list as a spreadsheet, or turn it into an alert that fires when a new filing matches it.

No. Breakaway covers stocks listed in the US, foreign companies' US shares (ADRs) included, and nothing else. Options flow is not part of the product, and neither are futures, crypto, or listings outside the US.

Daily bars, quotes, reference data, headlines, and short interest come from Massive, formerly Polygon, a licensed market data vendor. The age of the quotes is shown at the top of every page. Insider trades, notable holders, and profits come straight from the SEC. That means Form 4 filings, 13F filings, and XBRL financial data on EDGAR. Where a company's SEC figures leave the Quality Score's sales, share count, or cash flow line empty, the score reads that figure from Massive's statements, and the Score tab says so. A foreign company that files its quarters on Form 6-K has them read from those filings' statements, every figure as the filing prints it. Government filings come from the public STOCK Act and Office of Government Ethics disclosures. The market-wide headlines on the market line also come from the public headline feeds CNBC, MarketWatch, and Yahoo Finance publish, shown as the headline, the source, and a link to the article. Splits, dividends, and the financial statements on each ticker page come from the vendor's reference data. The 8-K filings on EDGAR are read for the items that move a price. Five years of history is loaded for every stock. So the 200-day and 52-week checks rest on real history. Options flow is not part of the product.

Every US-listed stock above one dollar a share, foreign companies' US shares (ADRs) included. It also needs 300 thousand shares of average daily volume and 50 million dollars of company value. That comes to 3,179 stocks today, across NYSE, Nasdaq, and NYSE American. The list is rebuilt weekly from the vendor's reference data, and an IPO joins it within a day or two of its first trade. Stocks are grouped as large, mid, small, and micro cap by company size. A new listing is scored from its second trading day. Each check waits until the stock has the history its rule needs, and the stock's page says how many are waiting, so nothing is scored on history it does not have. Industries come from each company's SIC code, and a Biotech toggle narrows the list to that industry. Search reaches every covered stock whatever it scores, negative scores included. A ticker you type is never quietly filtered out.

The scan rebuilds every 15 seconds while the market is open, and every five minutes when it is closed. An open scanner tab picks up each rebuild without a refresh. Prices, scores, the ranking, and the market line update in place. Nothing flickers when nothing has changed. The whole-market movers refresh every 15 seconds too. News sweeps the whole list every few minutes. Congress filings are checked every hour and insider filings every three hours. A company expected to report that evening or morning is checked every ten minutes through the filing windows, so its report usually shows within about 10 minutes of the SEC filing; other reports arrive with the regular pass, every six hours. Short interest, holders, and profits refresh on separate schedules. The ticker page states each schedule beside the figure.

It is the Quality Score's record, kept in the open. Every session, Breakaway writes down the ten stocks with the highest Quality Score. The history lists every recorded session, newest first, with that day's ten names and the Quality Score each one ended the day on. Each name carries the company's logo, and a tap opens the stock. The ten are written down every session, the sessions that went badly included. Scores from before the September 2026 scoring update were restated on the current formula, using only the filings public on each day, and scores from before the October 2026 update were restated on its rules, from each day's prices. Nothing is picked with hindsight. You reach it from Top 10 in the header. This is past behavior, not a prediction, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

Yes. The Account tab in your dashboard has a button that downloads everything Breakaway holds about you as a file. The same tab lists every device signed in to your account, and you can sign any of them out from there.

Yes, and it works well. Breakaway was designed for a phone screen first. You get one column of cards under your watchlist. The map's tables scroll sideways. Every control sits within reach of a thumb. Alerts arrive as push notifications on the phone itself. On an iPhone, add Breakaway to your Home Screen first and push notifications work from there. The whole ticker page works one-handed, the chart included. Nothing overflows and nothing needs pinching.

Yes, in the way that matters. Add getbreakaway.com to your Home Screen and it opens full screen like an app, with push alerts. On an iPhone tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android tap the menu, then Add to Home screen. Nothing to install and it updates itself.