This guide covers the stock-scanner workflow. TradeBeagle also includes Overnight Crypto beta for weekday nights and Saturday. Explore all three scanners and their hours.
A scanner alert is a starting point, not an instruction. This is the workflow TradeBeagle is actually built around — the same four steps, whether the alert came from the Opening Reversal Trade Scanner at 9:35 or the Short Reversion Scanner at 10:15.
The morning splits into two windows, but every alert in either one follows the same four-step workflow.
1. The scanner posts a ranked candidate
Between 9:30 and 10:00 ET, the Opening Reversal Trade Scanner is live, ranking stocks by how far their opening range has moved relative to their own ATR(15). After 10:00, the Short Reversion Scanner takes over, watching for stocks trading above every tracked 50-period moving average at once. Either way, what lands on your dashboard is a ranked shortlist — not a single name to act on, and not an instruction.
2. You open the chart
The ticker in the message is the beginning of the research, not the end of it. Pull up the chart. Look at what's actually happening: where the stock opened relative to the prior close, how volume compares to a normal morning, whether there's an obvious catalyst, and where the stock sits relative to recent support and resistance.
On the Opening Reversal list, the context columns give you a head start. The Catalyst Risk badge shows whether a scheduled earnings report is close by (it doesn't scan news), and RSI, Daily MA Setup, and MACD summarize the short-term, daily, and momentum picture. See Reading the Opening Reversal Dashboard. They're a starting point for this step, not a replacement for it.
3. You confirm the setup yourself
This is the step that separates a scanner shortlist from a trade signal. The scanner tells you a stock is moving unusually — it doesn't tell you the setup is valid. That judgment happens on the chart, using whatever criteria you already trust: price action, volume confirmation, level of the broader market, or anything else in your own process.
Key takeaway: the scanner narrows the field; confirming the setup is still a human judgment made on your own chart, every time.
4. You decide, with your own risk plan
If the setup holds up on the chart, the decision of whether to act, at what size, and with what stop, is entirely yours. TradeBeagle doesn't see your account, your risk tolerance, or your existing positions — it can't make that call responsibly, and it isn't built to try.
Why the workflow matters more than the alert
A shortlist is only useful if it's fed into a process. Traders who treat every alert as something to act on immediately tend to get worse results than traders who treat the alert as a prompt to go look — because the second group is still doing the part of the work that actually determines whether a trade makes sense. The four steps above are that process, and they're the same four steps whether the morning turns out to be a good one or a quiet one.
TradeBeagle provides educational market-scanning tools. Not financial advice. No trade recommendations. Confirm every setup on your own chart and manage your own risk.