Screener

The Screener is a real-time sortable table showing every asset in your active list alongside its key metrics. Think of it as your market radar — a single view that lets you cut through hundreds of assets in seconds and zero in on exactly what's worth your attention right now. Rather than scanning charts one by one, you let the Screener surface the setups. You define the conditions; it does the filtering.

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Last updated About 2 months ago

Core Filters

These are the primary metrics the Screener is built around. Each one can be used independently or layered with others to narrow down your focus.

EMA — Shows whether an asset is currently trading above or below its moving average. Green means above, red means below. At a glance, this tells you the directional bias of every asset in your list across whatever timeframe you're looking at.

DP (Deviation Power) — Sorts assets by how far they've deviated from their MA, expressed as a percentage. High positive DP means the asset is running hard above its average — extended, potentially overheated. Deep negative DP means it's well below — oversold, or in distribution. This is your momentum gauge at the individual asset level.

DUR (Duration) — Shows how many consecutive closes an asset has spent above or below its MA. A high DUR reading means the trend has been holding for a while — it's not a spike, it's a sustained move. Low DUR on a large DP move often means the deviation just started. High DUR with moderate DP often means a well-established, grinding trend.

DP + DUR (Power + Duration) — The combined filter. This finds assets that have both a strong deviation and have been holding it. In practice, this is the filter for identifying the highest-conviction, most structurally clean trends in your list — the ones that have moved hard and stayed there, as opposed to ones that briefly spiked and are already reverting.


Reading a Row

Each row in the Screener shows the asset's status across your configured timeframes. Here's what the numbers mean:

A row showing Red / –7.97% / 25 tells you:

  • The asset is currently trading below its MA (red negative value)

  • It is 7.97% below its MA on the 30-minute timeframe

  • It has had 25 consecutive closes below its MA

That combination — a meaningful deviation that has been holding for 25 candles — is a very different signal from an asset that just crossed below its MA two candles ago. Duration is what separates noise from structure.

The Average row at the top of each column shows the weighted-average value for that entire metric across your full list. This is your market-wide baseline — useful for quickly gauging whether the overall market is extended, neutral, or oversold relative to its own averages.


Interface Controls

  1. Resume / Stop: Pauses or resumes live data updates across all metrics. Use Pause when you want to examine a snapshot of the market without the table shifting as values update in real time.

  2. Lock / Unlock: Freezes the sort order of the rows. Data continues updating — you'll still see the numbers changing — but assets won't jump around and re-rank themselves while you're trying to read the table. Useful when you've found a setup and need the list to stay stable while you work through it.

  3. Clear: Resets all active filters and returns the list to its default state.

  4. Volume: Sorts the list by 24-hour trading volume. Useful for quickly orienting yourself to where the market's attention is — or for filtering out low-liquidity assets before applying other criteria.

  5. Groups: Sorts assets by their pre-defined sector or category — Meme, DeFi, Layer 2, and so on. Use this when you want to analyze a specific corner of the market or compare sector-level strength and weakness.

  6. Color Tag: Filters the list to show only assets you've manually tagged with a specific color. Color tags are your own organizational layer — useful for flagging watchlist items, active setups, or assets you're monitoring for a specific reason.

  7. Pin / Unpin: Pins selected tickers to the top of the list so they stay visible regardless of how the rest of the table is sorted. Handy for keeping a handful of priority assets in view while you scan the broader list.

  8. Block: Excludes a specific asset from being included in group orders. The asset remains visible in the Screener for analysis purposes — it just won't be eligible for automated group or single order placement.

Pro tip: To select multiple tickers at once, hold Shift and click the first and last asset in the range you want. Everything between them will be selected.


Opening a Chart from the Screener

Click on any asset in the list and its chart opens directly — no need to navigate away from the Screener. The chart view gives you access to the asset across all your configured timeframes, so you can move from a macro read (is it trending on the daily?) to a micro read (where's the structure on the 5-minute?) without leaving the workflow.

From this window you can also assign a color tag to the asset, adding it to your color-sorted list for later reference.

To move between assets without closing and reopening the chart, use the Up and Down arrow keys — you'll step through the Screener list in order, one asset at a time.

This window also gives you direct access to the Orders function for placing trades, which is covered in the Terminal article.


Filtering in Practice: Finding Pullbacks Within an Uptrend

Here's a concrete example of how to layer filters to find a specific, high-quality setup type — a local pullback inside a larger uptrend.

Step 1: On your higher timeframes — 12h, 4h, 2h — filter for assets trading above their MA (green EMA). This confirms the primary trend is up on the timeframes that matter structurally.

Step 2: On a lower timeframe — say, 5 minutes — apply a red DP filter. This flags assets that are currently showing weakness on the short-term timeframe, trading below their short-term MA.

The overlap between those two conditions gives you assets that are in a confirmed uptrend on the macro but pulling back on the micro. That's a classic higher-timeframe pullback setup — one of the cleanest ways to enter in the direction of the dominant trend at a structurally favorable point, rather than chasing an already-extended move.

Click through the filtered results, open the charts, and look for a structure that gives you a clean, defined entry with a logical stop. The Screener narrows the universe; the chart tells you whether the setup is actually there.