Scanner Settings Vault
Every scan here is copied number for number from an educator's own screen, dated, and linked to the moment they show it. No averaging, no "inspired by." Copy a scan, rebuild it on the platform you already pay for, and run it for a week before you trust it.
4 scans
Ross Cameron · Premarket from about 7:00 a.m. ET
Market cap, sector, and short interest cutoffs are not public. Float data on foreign stocks can be stale, so Ross double-checks it by hand.
Humbled Trader · Premarket
Saved as its own scan, separate from the large-cap version. A scan is a candidate list, not a buy signal.
Humbled Trader · Premarket
The lower gap threshold is the point: large caps move less, so 3% on a $1 billion company is a real move.
Humbled Trader · During the session
Shown as a tutorial example, not confirmed as part of her daily routine.
3 screens
Humbled Trader · About 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
She calls the volume floor low on purpose. The daily chart review does the real filtering: 8 EMA, 200 SMA, volume, and multi-month resistance.
Humbled Trader · Morning prep
From her AI-assisted morning report. The day-trade version uses a gap above 3%, price above $3, and market cap of at least $1 billion.
Dr. Thomas Carr, Investor's Business Daily · Weekly
One presenter's screen, not an IBD-wide default. The ratings are IBD's own and only exist inside MarketSurge or IBD products; a free screener cannot reproduce them.
TraderTV Live
Cut noise with relative volume, price, and ATR first. Only then look at chart structure and news, and map the trade levels. Exact cutoffs were not given in the lesson.
STEP 01
Gap, change from close, premarket volume, and day volume are different fields. Find the one your platform calls by the educator's meaning.
STEP 02
Save the small-cap and large-cap versions as two scans. Merging them blurs both.
STEP 03
Relative volume is calculated differently by each vendor. Compare your list with the educator's picks before you trade from it.
r/Daytrading
5 points · a trader on Reddit
“I use Trade Ideas. It alerts me as soon as a stock starts moving up and they have external linking so as soon as it alerts me, i click the ticker and it fills my chart platform and trading platform with that ticker and im ready to trade straight away”
r/Daytrading
9 points · a trader on Reddit
“I just use thinkorswim with top daily % gainers and a relative volume filter, it's free and works fine never had a prob”
r/Daytrading
1 point · a trader on Reddit
“TC2000 has a great Scanner. I've been using it for a few years. It's similar to Trades ideas, but it's a $100 cheaper.”
r/options
5 points · a trader on Reddit
“Most of these SAAS-products offer so much additional functions to fake value of their products just to justify the price. I usually find myself just wanting one or two functionalities and do not like the price I would have to pay for.”
Quoted word for word, typos included. Usernames left off. Threads checked live Oct 11, 2026. Opinions are the posters' own, not FullStack Alpha's.
Ross Cameron's five filters for small-cap momentum stocks: up at least 10% on the day, relative volume at least 5x the 50-day average, a price between $2 and $20, a float under 20 million shares, and news today as the catalyst.
He runs them in Day Trade Dash from about 7:00 a.m. ET. Market cap, sector, and short interest cutoffs are not public.
A gap scanner lists stocks trading well above or below the prior close before or at the open. Humbled Trader runs two: a small-cap gap scan (up 10% or more from the close, $1 and up, at least 20,000 premarket shares, market cap $1 billion or less) and a large-cap version that drops the gap to 3% and requires a $1 billion market cap. thinkorswim's Stock Hacker can run a basic gap scan for $0 if you are an eligible Schwab client.
Start from Ross Cameron's filters and pick the closest Finviz options: change up 10% or more, relative volume over 5, a float under 20 million shares, and a price range that covers $2 to $20. Finviz uses preset ranges, so the match is close, not exact. The free version is delayed, so premarket scanning needs Finviz Elite at $39.50 a month.
A screen built on IBD's CAN SLIM rules. Dr. Thomas Carr's Smart Money screen in MarketSurge filters for a price above $15, 50-day average volume above 500,000 shares, industry group and Accumulation/Distribution ratings of A, weekly volume up more than 10% versus the 10-week average, and a Composite Rating above 85. The IBD ratings exist only inside MarketSurge ($149.95 a month) and IBD's own products.
Vendors define fields differently. Gap, change from close, premarket volume, and total-day volume are separate fields, and relative volume is calculated differently by each vendor. Keep each educator's scan as its own saved scan, check the field definitions on your platform, and compare the first week of results side by side.
See the full tool comparison on the premarket scanners page.
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