Theme Radar
Which group the market is trading right now — the theme, the names in it, and when it started.
Answers one question all session: what group is the money in right now? Instead of one ticker at a time, the radar reads the whole market every two minutes, finds the stocks moving together, and names the group — uranium, quantum computing, cybersecurity, Chinese small caps.
This is a read of the tape, not a trade signal. It tells you where the money is, not what to buy. Measured over its first ten alerts, the names kept going about as often as they faded — the value is knowing which group is in play, not a prediction about the next hour.
What you get
Theme alert
Fires when a group crosses from "a couple of names" into "this is the trade today" — and only once per theme per session, at most three a day.
| Element | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Author | Theme Radar + which tier it came from |
| Heading | The theme, how many of its names are moving, and how unusual that is for a normal day |
| Subline | When the theme lit up, and the name that led it |
| What is moving | Each stock: change, price, volume versus normal, dollar volume |
| Typical move | The median move across the theme — one name at +300% cannot fake it |
| Volume vs normal | How fast the theme is trading against the market's own pace right now |
| Money above normal | Dollar volume beyond what those names usually do by this hour |
Session snapshot
Seven times a day — 04:00, 07:00, 09:35, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00 and 16:05 ET — a ranking of what is standing out, with how many names each theme has moving and whether it is gaining or fading. A snapshot with nothing standing out is not sent.
Session summary
At 16:05 ET: where every theme peaked, who led it, how long it held, and which alerts fired — with where each of those themes actually ended up in the day's ranking.
Two tiers
| Tier | Universe | Why it is separate |
|---|---|---|
| Liquid Names | Above $2, real dollar volume | Sector rotation — the cybersecurity or uranium move |
| Low Float | Under $2 | Small-cap momentum, which runs on its own rhythm |
They are different feeds for a reason: mixed together, the low-float tape drowns everything else and every day reads the same. You can send each tier to its own channel.
How a theme is found
A theme counts when enough of its names are moving at the same time and that is unusual for the group — measured against how often those names normally show up among the day's movers. A big group like biotech needs more names moving than a small one like quantum computing, which is why a three-name quantum move ranks above a three-name biotech move.
Every number compares against the market's current pace, not against a full day, so a reading at 10:00 means the same thing as one at 15:00.