Labor Day weekend usually means sales.

20% off.

30% off.

LIMITED TIME ONLY!!!

I'm going to do something slightly different.

If you're curious about Matakita, don't take my word for it.

Run it beside the scanner you already use.

Seriously.

Keep your current scanner open. Open Matakita beside it. Trade exactly the way you normally trade.

Then watch what happens when momentum starts.

Look at the first alert.

Look at the price.

Look at the timestamp.

That's the challenge.

Scanner websites love feature lists.

50 filters.

Charts.

AI scoring.

Custom layouts.

Heatmaps.

News feeds.

And probably another 37 things buried somewhere in the settings menu.

Some of those features are useful.

But as a momentum trader, there is one question I care about before almost everything else:

When a stock starts moving, when did the scanner show it to me?

Because a beautiful dashboard doesn't help much if I discover the ticker after the move has already gone from $6 to $20.

That's why I think the simplest way to evaluate Matakita isn't by reading my landing page.

It's by putting it next to whatever you're already using.

Same market.

Same ticker.

Same moment.

Different scanners.

Then compare.

This week gave us one of those ridiculous small-cap moves that makes momentum trading both fascinating and slightly insane.

SGLD was a new IPO.

During regular hours, there wasn't much excitement.

Then after hours, things changed very quickly.

The stock went from around $6 to nearly $68 in roughly seven minutes.

Yes.

About +1,000%.

At that point, everybody eventually notices SGLD.

You don't need a scanner to tell you that something trading at $40, $50 or $60 after starting around $6 is moving.

The interesting part is what happened before that.

When did your scanner start paying attention?

That is where scanner design starts to matter.

Most scanners use some combination of volume, relative volume, float, price, percentage change and other thresholds to reduce noise.

That makes sense.

Nobody wants 5,000 alerts.

But there is a tradeoff.

If the rules become too rigid, an unusual ticker can start moving before it satisfies the scanner's definition of what a "good" momentum stock is supposed to look like.

A newly listed stock is a great example.

It may not have normal historical data.

It may not have an established relative-volume baseline.

Free-float data may be missing or delayed.

And if your scanner universe was built earlier in the day, the ticker might not even be in it.

By the time every filter finally gives the green light...

the stock may already be several hundred percent higher.

I've never tried to make Matakita produce only alerts that become trades.

That would be nice.

Unfortunately, the market didn't give me the source code. 😂

Instead, the goal is to identify developing momentum early and give the trader enough context to decide whether it deserves attention.

That means Matakita sometimes allows its momentum logic to override things like a strict delta-volume condition.

It also means I don't use RVOL as a hard gate.

If relative volume is useful, I'll show it to you.

But I don't want the absence of a clean RVOL number on a brand-new IPO to make the ticker invisible.

Same idea with the ticker universe.

I've been working on making Matakita's universe increasingly lightweight and dynamic, including better awareness of:

What Matakita scans today doesn't necessarily have to be exactly what it scanned yesterday.

The market changes.

The scanner should be able to change with it.

Another thing I've been working on lately is reducing the distance between:

"Something is happening."

and

"Show me the chart."

That's where Matakita Link Bridge comes in.

See the alert.

Click the ticker.

Send it directly to TradingView, Webull, IBKR, Fidelity, Thinkorswim, E*TRADE or your supported trading setup.

I'm even continuing to improve that workflow because, as I've mentioned before, I don't really want Matakita to become another charting platform.

TradingView already makes great charts.

Your broker already has charts.

I want Matakita focused on what I originally built it to do:

Find momentum.

Then get out of the way so you can evaluate and trade it.

If you're already happy with your scanner, don't replace it.

At least not yet.

Instead:

Run Matakita beside your current setup for one active trading session.

Watch the first alerts.

Compare the timestamps.

Compare the prices.

See which ticker appeared first.

See whether Matakita showed you something your normal setup didn't.

And most importantly, decide whether having Matakita beside you actually made your trading workflow better.

Don't compare marketing pages.

Don't compare how many checkboxes each scanner has.

Don't take screenshots from me as proof.

Watch them live.

If Matakita doesn't help?

Walk away.

That's exactly why the trial is free for 7 days and doesn't require a credit card.

No trap.

No obligation.

Just test the water.

And if you're a momentum trader, I suspect one active session will tell you a lot more than any sales page ever could.

Happy Labor Day.

And enjoy the long weekend — because on Tuesday, the market goes back to doing ridiculous things again.

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