One year ago, Matakita became officially available to the public.

But the scanner itself is older than that. Behind the screen, it has been evolving for more than three years, starting as nothing more than alerts printed to a console.

It all began with a simple frustration:

Why do I keep finding momentum after the interesting part has already happened?

Most scanners could tell me which stock was already up 50%.

They could list the largest percentage gainers.

They could fire an alert after price, volume, and every other threshold had already been met.

But I wanted to see the progression.

When did the ticker start making new highs?

Was participation increasing?

Was the move becoming more efficient, or needing more volume for less progress?

Did buying pressure hold?

Was the ticker building toward something, or already exhausted?

That frustration became Matakita.

Matakita is still small.

It did not become an overnight success. There was no viral launch, no big ad campaign, no flood of subscribers.

But the product has grown far beyond the original NHOD scanner.

Today, Matakita includes:

These are not ten versions of the same scanner with different filters.

Each widget looks at momentum from a different angle.

NHOD discovers the move.

Attention Zone flags when continuation conditions strengthen.

BurstROC catches renewed acceleration.

Signal Pulse shows where activity is concentrating.

PRESS shows whether buyers or sellers are actually pushing.

TrendROC adds the larger intraday picture.

DensityROC shows where trading activity has built up.

Together, they tell a story that a simple "stock is up 40%" alert or “stock rank #2 with score 80” cannot.

Speed matters, but only up to a point.

A scanner that refreshes every ten seconds, or waits for a completed one-minute candle, is late by design.

But among truly real-time scanners, a few hundred milliseconds rarely decide whether a trader succeeds.

What matters more is what the scanner tells you before and after the alert.

A ticker appears at $3.05.

Now what?

Is it still building?

Is pressure increasing?

Did it make another high five minutes later?

Did it flush immediately?

How hard was the path?

That context has become Matakita's real purpose.

This year also changed how I want to market Matakita.

Scanner ads usually show the destination:

Alerted at $1. Reached $8. 700% move!

What they rarely show is the path between those two prices.

Maybe the stock first ran to $2, collapsed to $0.90, halted several times, reclaimed hours later, and eventually touched $8.

That is very different from a tradable move from $1 to $8.

It is like climbing a mountain.

At the summit, the view is spectacular.

But the hike to the top is dangerous.

You may climb 10 feet up, then slide down 12.

Or you may have to cancel the hike altogether because of bad weather.

Matakita's daily recaps now show the original alert and what happened 5, 10, and 15 minutes later.

Some alerts continue cleanly.

Some stall.

Some fail.

That is intentional.

I would rather show what a trader realistically saw than pick the highest price seven hours later and pretend the whole move was available.

There is one last feature I want to finish: a simple LULD proximity warning.

No fake precision.

No shaky estimate claiming a halt will happen at exactly $4.83.

Just useful context:

Near Halt Up

or

Near Halt Down

After that, Matakita enters a different phase.

Feature development will largely freeze.

The scanner already has enough engines, enough data, and enough ways to examine momentum.

The next job is not to build another widget.

It is to help more traders discover what already exists.

That means:

To everyone who tested Matakita, reported a bug, requested a feature, subscribed, renewed, chipped in coffee money, or simply opened the dashboard this past year:

Thank you.

Many of Matakita's best improvements came straight from real traders using it in live markets.

The product is better because you were willing to say:

"This disappeared too quickly."

"Can I click the whole row?"

"Why did this alert pass my filter?"

"Can Link Bridge send this directly to TradingView?"

"How long has PRESS been green?"

Those questions shaped the product.

Matakita has been public for one year.

It is not finished, but it is no longer an experiment.

It is a real momentum platform, used by real traders, processing the market every day.

And now it is time to help more people find it.

If you already use another scanner, keep it.

Run Matakita next to your current setup for one active session.

Watch the first alerts.

Compare the timestamps.

More importantly, compare the context you have after the alert.

If Matakita does not help you understand the move more clearly, walk away.

The trial is free for seven days, with real-time data and no credit card required.

See you inside, and happy birthday, Matakita.

P.S. Start your 7-day trial here: https://matakita.me