Scanners: How to Load & Use Them in the Chat Room | WT

The Warrior Trading Scanners are real-time, pre-configured scanners designed by Ross Cameron and his team to help members make the leap from studying to trading by helping them find the right stocks to trade each morning.

Learn more about the scanners below, or click from the outline to skip to a section:

About the Scanners
How to Access the Scanners
Scanner List
Arranging Scanner Windows
Adjusting Scanners & Understanding Columns & Colors
Setting Audio Alerts
- To set audio alerts for the scanner
- To adjust the volume of alerts
News Indicator
- News Indicator Colors
Reasons a Stock Might Not Appear on the HOD Momo Scanner

About the Scanners

Our scanners are built into our live trading room platform with real-time market data. They are pre-configured to match Ross Cameron's personal settings, which means that members who prefer to have a 100% customizable scanner can still benefit from a subscription to a separate third-party scanning software of their choice.

Members in our chat rooms who use our screen share for trade ideas or who trade strategies taught in our Pro classes can benefit from these pre-configured settings. Our scanners allow members to:

View scanners as early as 4 AM EST
Continue viewing full scanner settings while our traders show charts or share a trading recap on screen share.
Customize audio alerts for the HOD Momo and Halt scanners
Sort scanners by traits such as float or volume
Find news using tickers that are linked directly to our quote pages
Save on costs for news and scanners

Learn more about the scanners in Ross' video below!

How to Access the Scanners

System requirements for using the WT Scanners will match those for our chat room, which can be viewed here. In order to use the scanners, every member must sign market data agreements for the scanner platform specifically (signing them for the WT Sim will be separate). You can see how to sign scanner data agreements here.

To access the scanners after your signature has been processed, simply sign into the Warrior Trading live trading & chat room platform and click the button for scanners on the left-hand side of the platform. (For instructions on signing into the chat room, please go here.)

After clicking the Scanners button, you can then choose which scanner windows you'd like to open within your chat room dashboard.

The Scanners button on the left-hand menu should have a green dot, which indicates that there is live market data going to the scanners. If this ever turns red, it would indicate there is a market data issue with the scanners and that the scanners might not be up to date. Our team will be troubleshooting during these times, so an announcement will likely be posted in the chat room.

Keep in mind that some scanner lists update every 30 seconds, and stop updating at certain times of the day, such as our Top Gapper scanners. The Top Gainer/Loser scanners continue to update throughout the day. Learn more from the Scanner List section below.

You can see if the scanner is offline or online from the top of the scanner, as shown in this example:

Scanner List

We are often developing new scanners for the community. Current scanners include:

Scanner Top Lists

These scanners update every 30 seconds.

Top Gappers: Top 100 of highest % gappers +/- compared to yesterday's close (These stop updating at 9:30 am ET)
- Penny-Top Gappers: Filtered for penny stocks under $5.00
- Ross' Top Gappers: Filtered for small caps and momentum
- Large Cap: Filtered for large caps and momentum
- Top Gappers: Minimal filtering, has a view of all three gap scanners above up to 100 of the top gappers
- Large Cap Earnings with Gap: Stocks that have recently had earnings and have a gap in price from the previous day's close
Top Gainers/Losers: (These continue updating even after 9:30 am ET)
- Top Gainers: Continually updates throughout the day for a list of stocks that have had the largest moves up for the day.
- Low Float Top Gainers: Same as the Top Gainers scanner, except stocks are filtered for only low float.
- Penny-Top Gainers: Continually updates throughout the day for a list of stocks that have had the largest moves up for the day, priced under $3.00
- After Hours Top Gainers: A Top Gainers scanner for the hours of 4 pm to 8 pm EST
- Top Losers: Continually updates throughout the day for a list of stocks that have had the largest moves down for the day
Recent IPO Top Moving: This scanner finds recent IPO and uplisted stocks that have held up from their opening price.
Change Since Open: This is very similar to the Top gainers and Gappers, except that it only considers the percentage change from 9:30 a.m. EST onward.
Top of Trend: This scanner tracks stocks that are showing strength and momentum while being near the top of their daily range. It can be used to anticipate a new break of the day's high, or simply see what stock has had a very strong move for the whole day. This scanner is great to have up later in the day during Power Hour from 3-4 p.m. EST.
Continuation scanner: Stocks that have had the biggest Range and have kept above that range over the last two weeks
Top RSI Trend: Stocks that have the highest 1-minute RSI strength or weakness
- Note that the actual 1-minute RSI might not match 100% to the actual 1-minute RSI, but it still helps to showcase the short-term strength or weakness of the RSI.
Top Relative Volume: Stocks with the highest relative volume
Top Volume 5 Minutes: Stocks that have had the highest 5-minute volume

Alert Scanners

These scanners update every second and have an optional alert chime for each new scanner. Learn about audio alerts for scanners later on this page.

Small-Cap - High of Day Momentum (also known as HOD Momo): Scans for New HOD price alerts on above-average momentum and certain criteria in the sub-scanners below
- Low Float - Med Rel Vol
- Low Float - High Rel Vol
- Low Float - High Rel Vol - Price $20+
- Low Float Volatility Hunter- HOD breakout
- Former Momo Scanner
- Medium Float - Med Rel Vol - Price $20+
- Medium Float - High Rel Vol - Price $20+
- Medium Float - High Rel Vol - Price under $20
- Squeeze Alert - Up 10% in 10min
- Squeeze Alert - Up 5% in 5min
- Squeeze Alert - 52wk Breakout
Running Up Alert scanner: This scanner triggers quick % price moves that are going Up with our momentum criteria. This can alert quicker than the HOD momo scanner since it does not need to wait for a new HOD price to be hit. Ross likes to watch this during the news release hours (7am, 8 am, 9 am ET).
Running Down Alert scanner: Opposite of the Running Up scanner, this scanner triggers quick % price moves that are going Down with our momentum criteria.
Reversal Scanner: Stocks that are coming back from a major turn in price
Large Cap - High of Day Momentum (also known as HOD Momo): Scans for New HOD price alerts on above-average momentum.
Halt Scanner: Displays current and past halted stocks for the day

Scanner Alert Consolidation

Note that all of the alert scanners now have a consolidated view of the alerts, in which they are aggregated if there are multiple alerts during a short period of time.You can see from the image above how alerts are shown over time. If you click on the arrow, it will show the details of the past alerts. Otherwise, it will only display the details of the last alert. In this example, it shows that two alerts were triggered within 3 seconds of each other and then grouped.

Arranging Scanner Windows

Once you have chosen which scanners to add to your chat room window, you can position the scanner widgets the same way as the chat widgets. See the video here for a demonstration of adding, moving, and adjusting windows and how to save your layouts after you have set your widgets to a layout you'd like to preserve.

After you have added scanner windows, you may decide you'd like to put them elsewhere on your monitor or move them to another monitor. To do so, click the icon in the upper right-hand corner to pop it out to start a new window group. Save this as a new layout to pop out later as a group. Refer to the video linked above for information on saving layouts.

Please keep in mind that you are currently limited to 3 separate browser windows at one time, with as many widgets within the main window.

Adjusting Scanners & Understanding Columns & Colors

All scanners will have the columns listed below, sorted in a particular order to help traders identify stocks according to the scanner name. Not all scanners have the same columns, Here are a few to help get you acquainted with

Symbol ( doubles as News)
Price: Last traded price at time of alert
Volume Today
Relative Volume (Daily)
Relative Volume (5 min)
Gap (%)
ATR
Change From Close (%)
Short Interest
Short Ratio: How many shares have been sold short ( from short Interest) Divided by the average daily volume of the stock.

Click the links above for a definition of the terms. For more on how to read the scanners, see below and refer to the Warrior Pro classes.

The Volume Today, Float, and Gap (%) columns are colored in gradients, with the exact color determined by value, as demonstrated in the images below. The higher the Volume, for example, the darker the gradient. The bigger the float, the brighter the color. The bigger the gap percentage, the deeper the red or green, depending on the direction of the gap.

The HOD scanner also has a Strategy column. Each strategy has a different color. The list below shows the color for each strategy. For more on these strategies, please refer to Ross' Day Trading: Strategies & Scaling course (part of the Warrior Pro membership).

Setting Audio Alerts

Audio alerts are currently available for only the Alert scanners. Not the List scanners

Follow the steps below to turn audio alerts on or off for scanners and select the sound effect.

On the scanners listed above, there is a bell icon at the top of the Strategy Name column. You may need to scroll to the right to see the column.

When the alert is off, it the icon will appear as a bell that is crossed out.

When alerts are on, they will no longer be crossed out.

To set audio alerts for the scanner:

Click the bell. A list of strategies will pop up.
Check the boxes for the individual strategies you'd like to hear alerts for when a new stock fits that criteria. Or, select the first box to easily and quickly select or unselect all strategies (see image below).

Want to set the same alerts that Ross has on the Small Cap - High of Day Momentum scanner? Select all strategies except the Medium Float scanners as shown below:
To adjust the sound effect for this scanner's alert, click the music note on the top right.
Click on any sound effect to hear it.
Click "OK" to save your selection.
Click anywhere on the Strategy Name column (or anywhere else on the screen) to close the list of strategies. You should see that the bell is no longer crossed out, indicating alerts are on.

To adjust the volume of alerts:

Use the "Alert Volume" button that appears on the left-hand menu. Keep in mind this changes the alert volume for all notifications in your chatroom. Learn more about adjusting chat room alerts on this page here.

If you cannot hear any audio alerts at all, please follow our full guide here to troubleshoot further for browser issues.

News Indicator

Under the Symbol/News column in the scanners will be an area that can populate a news indicator to help traders easily identify if there is recent news on the stock within the last 24 hours.

News Indicator Functions:

Hovering your cursor over the indicator will allow you to see the news headline in a smaller text box on top of your screen:
- If viewing a previous days news, you will see the date within the timestamp:
Clicking on the indicator will pop out the latest news article for you to read on a new browser window:
As usual, if you want to click on the ticker symbol to the left of the indicator, that will lead you to the quote widget or ask you to connect a quote widget. From there, you can directly see all the news and fundamental data from the quote widget without needing to hover or pop out an article. Please read more about that here.

For the alert scanners, the news indicators can update up to 5 minutes after the alert has already been madeThis means you might not see the news indicator on the first alert, or you will see the news indicator refresh to a different color up to 5 minutes after the first alert 

For the List scanners you see the news indicator update every 30 seconds along side the scanner updating.

News Indicator Colors:

You can determine the recentness of the news by the color of the indicator

Indicator	Age of Headline
red flame	0 to 2 hours old
orange flame	2 to 12 hours old
yellow flame	12 to 24 hours old
no indicator	over 24 hours old

Reasons a Stock Might Not Appear on the HOD Momo Scanner:

A High of Day Momentum Scanner may also be referred to as a "HOD Momo" Scanner. Ours are not traditional HOD scanners, as they do not alert each time stocks hit their high of day. A traditional HOD scanner operating in this way could possibly produce thousands of alerts within the first few minutes of the trading day, which would wash out more actionable trade ideas.

Instead, our HOD Momo scanners have high-of-day criteria and momentum criteria as well. In the Scanner List section of this article, you can see the full list of different momentum scanners that are listed as subsets of our Small Cap HOD Momo scanner.

This design helps our HOD Momo scanners catch price moves with above-average volume and momentum.

Therefore, not all of the alerts on this scanner will be triggered at the exact HOD point. If a stock hitting the high-of-day does not appear on the HOD Momo scanner, it is likely because it has not hit our momentum threshold over a certain period of time yet; it might instead appear on the scanner within the next minute's close.

This also means that fewer alerts can be expected to trigger the HOD scanner outside of market-open hours (such as pre- and post-market) when trading volume is typically lower.

If you prefer to be alerted only with a new high of day, you might find it more beneficial to create a watchlist of stocks that already have made large moves or have above-average volume. You can create such a watchlist using scanners like our Top Gainers, Top Relative Volume - 5 min, or Continuation scanners. After creating the watchlist, monitor it to see if further opportunities line up with your strategy, such as the stock hitting a new high of day. Click here to read about how to create a watchlist in the platform.