How to read the dashboard.

Every chart and filter here exists to answer one question: where is momentum building, and is the timing on your side? Below is a plain- English guide to each tool and the indicators behind it.

Seasonality

Seasonality shows how a ticker has tended to perform in each calendar month, averaged across many years of history. The bars are the average return for that month - green when the asset has historically risen, red when it has historically fallen.

The idea is simple: some patterns repeat. Retailers are strong into the holidays, energy names move with the seasons, and the broad market has its own “sell in May” rhythm. Seasonality tells you whether the calendar is a tailwind or a headwind before you take a setup.

• Type any Yahoo ticker, or use the category tabs for quick lists.
• A tall green July means the stock has usually risen in July - not a guarantee, a tendency.
• Use it as confluence: a clean technical setup with a strong seasonal month is a higher-conviction trade.

Momentum Burst Scanner

The scanner sweeps the universe of US equities and flags stocks that are coiled for a move. A name passes only when three conditions line up at once:

• Squeeze on - volatility is compressed (see TTM Squeeze).
• Volume surge - recent volume is running above its average.
• EMA alignment - price is holding above its short EMAs.

Full matches (3/3) are the cleanest setups; partial matches (2/3) are shown as “closest setups” so nothing on the edge slips past. You can also tune the market-cap range, ADR floor and sectors to fit your style.

Top performers

The Top Performers panel ranks the strongest movers across all sectors over your chosen window - 30, 60 or 90 days. It surfaces where money is already flowing so you can hunt for continuation or pullback entries in the leaders.

Each row shows price, ADR%, the gain over the selected period and average volume. Click any row to open that ticker on TradingView in a new tab for a deeper look. The list refreshes automatically while the page is open.

TTM Squeeze

The TTM Squeeze measures volatility compression. When the Bollinger Bands contract inside the Keltner Channels, the market is quiet and energy is building - a “squeeze.” Squeezes don't tell you direction, only that a sharp move is more likely once price breaks out.

• Squeeze dots along the zero line mark how tight the compression is (low / mid / high).
• A green dot = no squeeze (volatility has expanded, the move may already be underway).
• The momentum histogram shows the direction and strength of the building pressure - rising bars favour upside, falling bars favour downside.

On the dashboard you can adjust the length and Bollinger Band multiplier to make the squeeze stricter or looser.

ADR% - Average Daily Range

ADR% is the average distance between a stock's daily high and low, as a percentage of price, over the last ~20 days. It is a quick read on how much a stock moves.

• A 7% ADR means the stock typically swings ~7% intraday - plenty of room for a trade to work (or hurt).
• Higher ADR = more opportunity and more risk; size positions accordingly.
• The scanner uses an ADR floor so you only see names with enough range to be worth trading.

Volume surge

Volume is the fuel behind a move. The dashboard flags unusual volume when a day's volume runs roughly 1.5× above its 20-day average. A breakout on heavy volume is far more trustworthy than one on thin volume.

• The volume chart highlights unusual days against the 20-day average line.
• Surging volume + a squeeze firing is the classic momentum-burst signature.

EMA alignment (10 / 20)

An EMA (exponential moving average) tracks the recent trend, weighting newer prices more heavily. The dashboard plots the EMA10 and EMA20.

• Price above both, with EMA10 over EMA20, is a clean uptrend.
• The scanner requires price to hold above these short EMAs - a filter against catching falling knives.

Signal line & derivative

On the per-ticker view, the raw price is smoothed into a clean signal line (using SSA or an EMA). The dashboard then takes the derivative - the slope of that line - and marks where it crosses zero.

• A zero crossing from negative to positive = momentum turning up (a buy marker).
• A crossing the other way = momentum rolling over (a sell marker).
• Gold diamonds (◆) flag bars where the full scanner conditions were met.

DCA simulator

The Dollar-Cost-Average panel answers “what if I had bought a fixed amount on a schedule?” Set an amount and a frequency (daily / weekly / monthly) and it simulates those buys at the closing price across roughly the last three years of history.

• Invested - total cash you would have put in.
• Shares & average cost accumulated.
• Current value and return % at today's price.
• A lump-sum benchmark shows how the same total invested on day one would have done instead.

Economic data & SPX / Gold

The Economic page pulls macro series from the Federal Reserve (FRED) - rates, inflation, employment and more - so you can read the backdrop the whole market trades against.

The SPX / Gold ratio is a quick risk-on vs risk-off gauge: when stocks outperform gold the ratio rises (appetite for risk); when gold leads it falls (defensive, fear). It's a fast way to sense the market's mood before drilling into individual names.

Still stuck or have a suggestion? Reach out at thesignumlab@gmail.com.

Nothing here is investment advice. These tools surface context - the decisions, and the risk, are yours.