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Built by a trader, for traders.

Signum Lab is a momentum scanner and macro dashboard for active traders. Every filter on it earns its place. If it doesn't show up in a real trading day, it doesn't ship.

12Stock sectors screened
171Crypto assets
8Crypto categories
4Core filters
What it does

Momentum setups, sector by sector, with the context on one screen.

It screens the US market for momentum setups sector by sector, and a 171-asset crypto universe across 8 categories, then puts the supporting context (price structure, volume, fundamentals, seasonality and macro) on a single screen.

Stock scans are pulled live from NASDAQ's screener rather than a frozen ticker list, filtered by the 12 sectors and the market-cap range you pick, up to 600 names per scan. That way newly listed names appear and delisted ones drop out on their own. Crypto scans iterate a fixed universe of 171 coins, because no equivalent screener exists for that market.

The premise is narrow on purpose. Most scanners fail by offering forty indicators and no opinion about which matter. Four filters do the heavy lifting here: squeeze, volume, trend, range.

The four filters

Four readings, not forty indicators.

Illustrative - a name that clears all four
01

TTM Squeeze

Bollinger Bands compressing inside Keltner Channels, marking volatility coiling before it expands. Explained in the squeeze guide.

02

Volume surge

Current volume measured against the 20-day average, to find where participation is arriving.

03

EMA alignment

Price against the 10 and 20-day exponential moving averages, daily and weekly, for trend state.

04

ADR (average daily range)

The volatility budget, which decides how large a move an instrument can even produce.

The modules

Four tools, each doing one job.

In practice

Scan wide, judge one at a time.

Run the scanner to narrow a sector down to the handful of names that meet your filters. Open the survivors on the dashboard to judge them individually. Star the ones worth watching, and they persist to your watchlist. Check the macro page when you want to know whether the broader tape is rewarding risk.

Two worked examples of the filters finding real moves: FCUV +508% on a post-split microcap squeeze and Dolby +12.55% off a 52-week low. Read them together, they show the same setup at two very different volatility profiles.

The data

Public sources, proxied server-side.

Yahoo Finance
Prices, OHLCV history
NASDAQ
Screener, fundamentals
CoinGecko
Crypto universe
FRED
Macro series

Requests are proxied server-side, so your browser never talks to those providers directly. Price data is daily resolution, and scans refresh through the session rather than streaming tick by tick. That makes this a tool for swing and position trading, not for scalping.

Scope

What it deliberately is not.

Not a signal service
There is no trade idea feed and no chat room.
Not a broker
It does not execute, and it never touches your money.
Not an intraday terminal
Wrong data resolution for order flow trading.
Not an options platform
No greeks, no implied volatility surfaces.
Not a portfolio tracker
No P&L, positions or tax lots.

A fuller breakdown of who gets value from it, and who should skip it, is on the pricing page.

The story

It started with being tired of bad scanners.

It started in 2025, built by a swing trader tired of bad scanners. The goal was simple: rebuild the stack used to scan the market every morning so it is actually usable. Fast, honest and free of noise.

That origin explains the design decisions. Four filters instead of forty because that is what gets used at 9am. Daily data because swing setups do not need tick data. A scanner that funnels into a dashboard because finding a name and judging it are two different jobs.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

What is Signum Lab?

Signum Lab is a stock momentum scanner and macro dashboard for active traders. It screens US equities sector by sector, plus a 171-asset crypto universe, for technical setups (TTM Squeeze, volume surges, EMA alignment and average daily range), then shows each ticker's price signals, fundamentals, seasonality and macro context on one screen.

Who is Signum Lab for?

Traders and investors who make their own decisions and hold positions for days to months. It suits swing traders, part-time traders with limited screen time, crypto momentum traders and macro-aware investors. It is not a signal service and does not tell you what to buy.

What filters does the scanner use?

Four core filters do the work: the TTM Squeeze (Bollinger Bands compressing inside Keltner Channels), unusual volume against the 20-day average, EMA alignment on the 10 and 20-day exponential moving averages, and average daily range (ADR) as a volatility budget. Weekly-timeframe columns provide higher-timeframe confirmation.

Where does the data come from?

Public market data providers: Yahoo Finance for prices and OHLCV history, NASDAQ for the stock screener and fundamentals, CoinGecko for crypto, and the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API for macro series. The browser never calls those providers directly, requests are proxied server-side.

Is Signum Lab real-time?

No. Price history is daily-resolution data, and scans refresh through the session, roughly every 30 minutes on paid plans. It is built for swing and position trading, not for scalping or intraday execution.

Is Signum Lab free?

There is a free tier (Scout) covering two sectors, the squeeze filter and manual refresh. Paid tiers add every filter, all 12 stock sectors and 8 crypto categories, auto-refresh, the full dashboard and macro tooling.

Does Signum Lab give financial advice?

No. It presents public market data and technical calculations for research and education. Every trading decision, and the risk that comes with it, is yours.

Get in touch

Open the scanner, or just ask.

Questions, feedback or a bug: reach out at thesignumlab@gmail.com. The blog covers setups, case studies and market mechanics.

Signum Lab is for research and education. Nothing on it is investment advice, and you are responsible for your own trading decisions.