Who Is the Loudest Right Now?
Most scanners are really good at answering one question:
What just triggered?
Price moved X%.
Volume crossed Y.
RVOL exceeded Z.
A condition was met.
DING.
There’s your alert.
And that’s useful.
But lately I’ve been thinking more about a different problem.
What happens after discovery?
Because once you already have four, five, maybe ten interesting stocks on your screen, finding another ticker isn’t necessarily the problem anymore.
The problem becomes:
Which one deserves my attention right now?
That is what I built Signal Pulse for.
Discovery Is Only Half the Job
Imagine the market is active.
You already have several momentum names in play.
One came through NHOD.
Another is showing acceleration.
Another has been trending for the last 15 minutes.
A fourth just had news.
They are all interesting.
But you only have two eyes.
😂
You cannot watch every chart, every Level 2 window and every Time & Sales feed at the same time.
At some point, the job changes from discovery to prioritization.
I want to know:
Who is getting loud?
Which stock is suddenly trading faster?
Where is activity concentrating?
Which side is currently applying pressure?
Is that pressure sticking around, or did it disappear almost immediately?
That’s the idea behind Signal Pulse.
Signal Pulse
Think of It as a Dynamic Watchlist
A normal watchlist is static.
You put a ticker on it.
It stays there.
Signal Pulse is different.
It is constantly trying to surface the names where market activity is strongest right now.
That’s why I’ve started thinking of it as a dynamic watchlist.
Not:
Here are the stocks I decided were interesting 20 minutes ago.
More like:
Here are the stocks currently making the most noise.
And that can change very quickly.
Because the market changes very quickly.
SH/MIN: How Loud Is It?
One of the numbers I’ve become especially interested in is SH/MIN — shares per minute.
It is extremely simple.
How many shares are moving through this ticker right now?
Not total daily volume.
Not how much volume it traded three hours ago.
Right now.
A ticker doing 30,000 shares per minute feels very different from the same ticker suddenly doing 500,000 or 1 million shares per minute.
Something changed.
Attention arrived.
That doesn't mean the price must go up.
It doesn't mean “BUY.”
It simply tells me:
This stock is getting loud.
And sometimes that is exactly what I need to know.
PRESS: Who Is Pushing?
Then there is PRESS.
PRESS gives me a quick view of short-term directional pressure.
Buyers may be pushing.
Sellers may be pushing.
And sometimes it flips quickly.
One subscriber asked me:
How long does PRESS stay green?
My answer was:
I have no idea. 😂
Because that isn't really how I want to read it.
The market isn't obligated to stay green for 30 seconds just because it was green a moment ago.
Pressure changes.
Sometimes buyers hit hard.
One second later, sellers respond even harder.
That's the market.
So I don't think PRESS should be read by itself.
The more useful question is:
What is PRESS doing while SH/MIN is changing?
A little green pressure while hardly anything is trading?
Interesting, maybe.
Strong green pressure while SH/MIN suddenly explodes?
Now I'm paying more attention.
That’s why I think of it this way:
PRESS tells you who is pushing.
SH/MIN tells you how hard the market is moving around them.
And Now: A 15-Second History
The next piece is a tiny recent-history view inside Signal Pulse.
Instead of only seeing what PRESS says at this exact instant, Signal Pulse keeps a short visual history of the recent flow.
That matters because there is a big difference between:
green → red → green → red
and
green → green → green → green
The first may just be a noisy battle.
The second shows persistence.
Again, neither one predicts what happens next.
But now I can see something I couldn't see from a single number:
Was that pressure just a flash, or has it been hanging around?
And I can see it without opening another chart.
A Compressed View of the Tape
One subscriber made a comment that helped me realize what Signal Pulse was becoming.
We were talking about Time & Sales.
Raw Time & Sales gives you everything.
Every print.
Every size.
Every change.
It can be incredibly useful.
It can also move ridiculously fast.
Especially on a low-float stock when everybody suddenly piles in.
Signal Pulse is not trying to replace Time & Sales.
But in a way, it is trying to compress some of that information into something easier to scan.
Instead of watching hundreds of prints fly past, I can glance at Signal Pulse and ask:
Who is active?
How active?
Which side is pressing?
Is that pressure persisting?
That’s enough to tell me where I might want to look next.
This Is Not a Buy/Sell Indicator
I want to make this part very clear.
Signal Pulse does not know what the next candle will do.
Neither do I.
😂
A ticker can show strong buying pressure and flush.
Strong selling pressure can suddenly reverse.
SH/MIN can explode because buyers and sellers are fighting violently at the same price.
That is why I don't want Signal Pulse reduced to:
GREEN = BUY
RED = SELL
That misses the point.
Signal Pulse is an attention tool.
Its job is not to make the decision for the trader.
Its job is to help answer:
Where is the fight happening right now?
Then you look at the chart.
You look at the setup.
You look at the risk.
And you make the decision.
From Discovery to Prioritization
This is increasingly how I think about Matakita as a whole.
NHOD can help discover developing momentum.
BurstROC can show acceleration.
TrendROC provides a longer view of the move.
News provides context.
And once several names are already active...
Signal Pulse helps prioritize attention.
Discovery asks:
What should I look at?
Prioritization asks:
What should I look at first?
Those sound similar.
In a fast market, they are very different problems.
The Market Is Noisy. That's the Point.
One thing I actually like about Signal Pulse is that it doesn't always look clean.
PRESS can flip.
SH/MIN can surge and disappear.
The leader can change.
One stock gets loud.
Then another one takes over.
That's not necessarily a flaw in the widget.
That's the market.
Momentum is not a smooth signal coming out of a laboratory.
It is buyers and sellers changing their minds, reacting to news, chasing price, taking profits, getting stopped out and jumping back in.
Signal Pulse is simply trying to make some of that activity easier to see.
And after using it for a while, I find myself asking the same question over and over:
Who's the loudest right now?
Sometimes that question is more useful than waiting for another alert.
Trading involves substantial risk. Matakita provides market information and analytical tools only — not individualized investment advice, entry signals, or exit signals.
— Matakita
