This is how
the system works.
Five minutes reading this page is worth more than six months of guessing. Here is the exact logic behind every grade the scanner produces.
Data without a framework
is just noise.
Most scanners show you numbers. RSI, volume, price. They don’t tell you what those numbers mean together, whether the trend is healthy, or whether this is actually a setup worth your time.
The Odd Lot scanner runs every stock through a documented grading framework before it shows up on your screen. If a stock doesn’t pass the full criteria, it doesn’t appear. You only see setups that qualify — graded against the same rubric every single time.
Quality grade. Entry grade.
Both matter.
How strong is the stock and setup overall?
The quality grade evaluates the stock itself — its fundamental health, trend structure, relative strength versus the market, and technical momentum. A high quality grade means this is the right type of stock to be watching. It does not mean buy now. It means this setup passed the full rubric and belongs on your radar.
Is right now the right moment to act?
The entry grade evaluates current timing independently from quality. A great stock at the wrong moment is still the wrong trade. The entry grade scores how close the stock is to its ideal entry zone, whether momentum is constructive or overextended, and whether volume behavior supports a new position. Quality and entry must both be strong before a setup is actionable.
Eight criteria.
All must pass.
No exceptions.
Before a stock receives any grade, it runs through an 8-criteria trend filter. This is non-negotiable — a single failure means an automatic F regardless of how strong the fundamentals look.
The criteria confirm the stock is in a confirmed institutional uptrend: price above key moving averages, moving averages stacked in the correct order, the 200-day moving average trending upward, price within a defined range of its 52-week high, and relative strength above the minimum threshold.
This isn’t about predicting where a stock goes. It’s about only considering stocks that are already behaving the way winning stocks behave before their major moves.
Growth rate, revenue,
margins. In that order.
Once a stock passes the trend filter, it gets scored on fundamentals. Earnings growth rate is the primary signal — the scanner requires a minimum threshold and rewards accelerating growth. Elite growth scores at the top of the range. Growth below the minimum threshold gets flagged as a warning regardless of other signals.
Revenue growth must accompany earnings growth. Decelerating revenue with rising earnings is a red flag, not a green light. Net profit margin scores quality of earnings. The strongest fundamental setups show all three accelerating simultaneously — earnings, revenue, and margins moving in the same direction.
Relative strength, momentum,
volume, entry zone.
The technical score covers six dimensions scored independently: relative strength rank versus the S&P 500, RSI in the constructive entry zone, volume behavior relative to the 20-day average, distance from the 20-day moving average entry zone, position relative to the 52-week range, and 5-day momentum. Each is scored against documented thresholds — not discretionary judgment.
Extended stocks get penalized. Stocks near their entry zone get rewarded. Overbought RSI reduces the score regardless of how strong the other signals look. The combined technical score out of 70 points determines whether the timing grades A, B, or below.
Eight signals.
Every threshold documented.
The data tells you what.
The Read tells you what it means.
Every expanded scanner card generates a plain-English summary of the data — written to explain what the numbers mean in context, what the entry risk looks like as a percentage of downside to the stop level, and what to watch to confirm or invalidate the setup.
It is not a signal. It does not tell you to buy. It translates the framework into language that makes the decision clearer — for a trader who knows the patterns and wants to understand the structure before acting.
One loop. Four layers.
Everything connects.
We trade what we grade.
In public.
Every paper trade logged by the Odd Lot scanner is documented publicly — entry, stop, target, grade, thesis, and outcome. Not a backtest. Not a hypothetical. Live calls made in real time, tracked from entry through post-mortem.
The track record either validates the framework or it doesn’t. Either way, you see the data before you pay a dollar.
The framework is documented.
The track record is public.
The scanner is free to access.
You’ve seen how the grading works. Now see it applied to live setups.
Discipline over hype · Process over prediction · Data over emotion · You don’t get signals. You get structure.