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- About 2,500 US stocks that trade enough each day, small and micro caps included, refreshed every 15 seconds while the market is open
- 13 momentum traits in four groups, with a meter for each group on every card
- A quality score on top of the traits: trend, company size, the run-up so far, profit, staying power and outside signals
- Cards, a sortable table, a sector map, and a Fresh list of what changed today
- Lists for gainers, losers, unusual volume, new highs, most volatile, gap ups, pre-market movers and squeeze setups, plus Small caps and Biotech toggles and a minimum quality score
- Saved scans, a watchlist pinned to the top with a note on each stock, and search that finds any stock, negative scores included
- Every filtered scan is a link you can send, and the filters follow your account to your phone
- The S&P 500, how many stocks are rising, and the Fed, CPI, and jobs calendar right above the grid, with the inflation and jobs numbers read in plain words the morning they land
- Whole-market movers with the multiple of average volume and the reason for each move, penny stocks included, refreshed every 15 seconds
- Industries ranked by the average quality score of their stocks, and a sector table under the market map
- Top ten history: every session's ten highest scores, written down at the close and kept
Signals and filings
- News catalysts scored and linked, with 8-K filings read the day they land at the SEC
- Insider buying and selling from SEC Form 4, marked right on the chart
- Government trades from Congress and executive-branch filings, with what those officials hold, and one official's trades on their own, Pelosi and Trump pinned
- The Signals page: every filing across the market on three tabs, filtered by role, party, size, cluster buys and more, grouped by stock, sorted by any column, downloadable as CSV
- Saved Signals views, and an optional alert when a new filing matches one
- The big funds that own each stock, from 13F filings: Berkshire, Duquesne, Pershing Square and more
- Short interest, the shares bet against a stock, days to cover and a squeeze-setup flag
- Earnings dates, earnings reactions and a filter for who reports this week
- Financials from the latest filing, plus splits and ex-dividend dates
Ticker pages and alerts
- Nine chart timeframes and four chart styles, line, candles, hollow and Heikin Ashi, a log axis and extended hours, with the price, the bid and ask and the chart live while the market is open
- Moving averages, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, anchored VWAP, Fibonacci, RSI, MACD, Stochastic, ATR, and strength against the S&P 500, plus key levels, insider markers and an E on every earnings session
- Drag across the chart to measure any span: the percent, the dollars, the sessions and the high and low inside it
- Score history: the quality score and trait count over the last 60 trading days
- Peers ranked inside the industry, plus the related companies tied to the stock
- Setup odds: what the stock did the last times it scored this high, with the sample size
- A trade plan on every stock with a starting buy price, stop, targets, and share count, all of it editable
- Optional push and email alerts on one stock, your watchlist, or the whole market: scores, price levels, moves, and gaps, volume, RSI, a MACD cross, a break of the prior high, a squeeze setup, insider buys, government trades, news catalysts, and a name entering a saved scan
- Your alert record: how the setups you were alerted to behaved 5, 10 and 20 trading days later, so you can see which rules earn their keep
- A morning digest, and the whole scanner in one thumb-friendly column on your phone. Add it to your Home Screen and it opens like an app, with optional push alerts
Straight Answers
What exactly is the score?
Breakaway scores every US stock that trades enough shares each day. The list refreshes every 15 seconds and puts the best setups first. Each card carries two numbers. The trait count, shown as 8/13, is how many of the 13 momentum traits are firing right now. Those traits sit in four groups: trend, participation, compression, and accumulation. The Quality Score is the badge on every card, and it is what the grid ranks by. It starts from the trait 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 fiscal year adds a point and a loss takes one away, straight from the SEC filing. 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 trades 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 18 and up, Strong is 14, Above average is 10, Average is 5, Weak is 0, and Poor is below zero. The badge itself changes with the band: 18 and up glows bright green, 14 to 17 is deep green, 10 to 13 a green outline, 5 to 9 gray, and anything under 5 fades. When two stocks tie on the Quality Score, the higher trait count goes first. After that comes relative strength, then company size, then the symbol. 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.
What is Persistence?
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 own 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.
What is the score history strip?
It is a row of bars on every ticker page. There is one bar per trading day for the Quality Score over the last sixty days. A matching strip for the trait count sits beside it. Each bar is the score as it was recorded that day, once per day. Persistence reads from that same record.
What does MARKET OUTPERFORM mean?
It is a green line on the card. 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 the line. The line is context only. It does not feed the Quality Score and it is not a rank.
Does the ticker page update live?
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.
What are the four meters on a card?
There is one meter for each trait group. Each segment is one trait, lit when that trait is firing, with the count beside it. One glance tells you a stock is strong on trend and quiet on compression. You never have to read thirteen labels to find that out. There are fourteen chips, but the count is out of thirteen. Volume expansion and volume dry-up are opposites, so only one of that pair can ever be lit. Tap All traits on a card to open the individual chips. Hover over a meter to see which traits are lit. The ticker page lists every trait and what it measures.
Why does it rank names like NVDA, DELL and BAC so high?
Big companies have earnings, analyst coverage, index money and real institutional ownership. A breakout in one of those follows through far more often than the same chart on a small company few people trade. So the Quality Score pays for a lasting long-term trend, real size and a profitable business. Those points sit on top of the momentum traits. 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.
Who counts as a notable holder?
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 gets added to the rank.
What is the insider buying 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.
Why does insider selling lower a score?
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.
How do you handle earnings?
Report dates come from the 8-K each company files with the SEC, so the date is the company's own, 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 tonight is checked every five minutes until the filing lands, so it is on the tab before the next open. On the chart an amber E sits under every session the company reported.
Where do the Congress trades come from?
From the filings themselves. Senate trades come from the Senate's own 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. Every row on the Signals 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 and earnings every six. 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.
Do you track the president's trades?
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.
What is the government trades score?
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 three points either way, so one filing never carries a stock on its own. 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.
How is the news score decided?
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.
What is the line above the grid with the S&P 500 on it?
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.
Does it cover the pre-market?
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 traits keep using completed regular-session bars. So a pre-market trade on light volume never changes a setup.
What are setup odds?
Setup odds show what a stock did the last times it reached a given score. The scanner rebuilds each stock's daily score over five years of history. It marks every day the score first reached a level. For each level it reports how often the stock was higher 5, 10 and 20 trading days later. It also reports the average and median move, and the best and worst point over the next ten days. Beside those you get the same figures pooled across every stock. You get the base rate too, meaning how often any stock is up on any given day. The numbers come from that one stock's own past behavior. They are rebuilt every night. They only appear once there are enough past cases to mean something. It is the backtest most people never run, done for you, with the sample size printed beside it. Past behavior is not a prediction. A setup that was up six times in ten can still fail this time, and nothing here is a recommendation to trade.
Why do some big movers not show up in the scan?
The scan only scores stocks that trade enough shares each day, because the traits need real volume to mean anything. The day's biggest movers across the whole market show up elsewhere. You will find them in the Top gainers strip on the scanner and 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 strip shows the last trading day's movers.
How do alerts work?
They are optional, and off until you set one. Set a 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. As you set a score level, the form shows what that level has been worth across every stock. So you can judge it before you save it. 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.
Do the alerts actually work?
The alerts page keeps your own record. When an alert 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.
What is a squeeze setup?
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 of the thirteen traits 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 rank, 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.
What is the Map?
It is a heat map of the whole scan. Box size is company size, and color is the return over the period you pick. You can color by Quality Score 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.
Can I save a scan or share one?
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 own sets under a name. The Signals page works the same way: save a filter as a view, 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.
Do you cover options, crypto or stocks outside the US?
No. Breakaway covers US-listed common stocks and nothing else. Options flow is not part of the product, and neither are futures, crypto or foreign listings.
Where does the data come from?
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. Government trades come from the public STOCK Act and Office of Government Ethics filings. 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 traits and the setup odds rest on real history. Options flow is not part of the product.
Which stocks are covered?
Every listed US common stock above one dollar a share. It also needs 300 thousand shares of average daily volume and 50 million dollars of company value. That comes to about 2,500 stocks across NYSE, Nasdaq and NYSE American. The list is rebuilt weekly from the vendor's reference data. Stocks are grouped as large, mid, small, and micro cap by company size. New listings without enough history to score are counted at the top of the page. They are not shown with a made-up score. 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.
How often does it update?
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, insider filings every three hours and earnings every six, and a company expected to report tonight or this morning is checked every five minutes until its filing lands. Short interest, holders, and profits refresh on their own schedules. The ticker page states each schedule beside the figure.
What is the top ten history?
It is the Quality Score's own 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 were recorded while the session was still current, so nothing is picked after the fact and nothing is edited later, including the sessions that went badly. You reach it from Top ten history in your account menu, or from your dashboard. This is past behavior, not a prediction, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
Is this investment advice?
No. It is a screening tool that ranks technical and news conditions. It does not know your situation and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.
How does the free trial work?
Seven days, no card. Sign up with your email and you are in; the trial starts that moment, and confirming the address turns on alerts by email and receipts. Everything in the plan is open for the seven days. When it ends the scanner locks until you subscribe, and your watchlist, alerts, and saved scans are kept and come back the moment you do. One trial per person, so a second email or a second device does not start another.
What does it cost?
One plan with everything in it: $29 a month, $69 for three months or $249 a year. The first 100 yearly members pay $199 a year and keep that price. You pick the billing period when the trial ends, and payments go through Stripe, so Breakaway never sees your card.
Can I cancel?
Yes, from the billing page in your dashboard, in two clicks. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
Can I get my data out, or see where I am signed in?
Yes. Your profile page has a button that downloads everything Breakaway holds about you as a file. Your security page lists every device signed in to your account, and you can sign any of them out from there.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, and it works well. Breakaway was designed for a phone screen first. You get one column of cards. The movers and your watchlist are strips you swipe. 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, chart and trade plan included. Nothing overflows and nothing needs pinching.
Is there an app?
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.
Questions? Start the trial and see for yourself.