ticker5 is a screening terminal for individual US equities. Every session it runs your watchlist through five gates and reports what survived. When one name clears all five you get a single idea with fixed levels. When nothing clears — which is most mornings — it says so, names the gate that closed on every candidate, and stops.
Watchlist with a five-square gate register per name, the verdict with fixed levels, and the three-month structure the decision was measured against.
Sample data for illustration — not live prices, not a real scan, and not an idea to act on.
The cheap deterministic checks run first across the whole list. Only what survives is worth a research pass. Every threshold is published, and every rejection names the gate that closed.
A name reporting today, or before the intended exit, is a binary event rather than a directional read.
hard blockThin names carry spreads wide enough to consume a 3% edge before it exists.
≥ $50M/dayMeasured rather than assumed: what share of the last 62 sessions actually produced an intraday range covering 3%.
≥ 40% of daysHigh, Low and Mid across 63 sessions. Two independent reads — drift and slope — must agree before a direction is called. Long only, so a downtrend closes the gate.
not downtrendMention volume across the finance subreddits against each name's own 30-day baseline. A spike raises scrutiny; it is never treated as a reason to buy.
contrarianThere is no third state, no shortlist of maybes, no consolation pick. A session that produces nothing is a complete result, and it is the common one.
Nothing cleared all five gates. The scan names the gate that closed on each candidate.
142.60 → 146.88 · stop 138.33
One name, one direction, both levels fixed at the moment of issue.
ticker5 suits a narrow kind of trader. If you are not that trader, it will frustrate you, and we would rather say so before you subscribe.
A single position, entered deliberately, with the exit decided before the entry. ticker5 issues at most one idea per session and nothing about it accommodates a basket.
The terminal screens names you chose. It is not a discovery engine, does not sweep the market, and will not surface a ticker you have never heard of.
The most common output is no output. If an empty morning reads as a wasted subscription rather than a filter working, this is the wrong instrument.
There is no broker connection and no execution path. If you want signals wired into an order router, ticker5 is deliberately the wrong shape.
Every item here is a deliberate decision rather than a roadmap gap. On a trading decision, a tool that overstates its reach is worse than no tool at all.
No broker integration, no stored credentials, no order code path anywhere in the system. ticker5 cannot place, size, modify or cancel anything. You trade in your own account, by hand.
It does not record outcomes, so it holds no track record to quote and will never display one. Any signal service advertising a hit rate is asking you to trust a number you cannot audit.
No balance, buying power, settled cash or positions. It cannot count your day trades or confirm a trade is permitted under PDT and T+1 settlement. Those remain yours to track.
The 3% target describes the strategy's shape, not a forecast. Stocks gap through stops overnight, halt mid-move, and ignore every gate on this page.
A symmetric +3% / −3% strategy compounds to nothing unless the win rate holds above roughly 51% — and above the low-to-mid 50s once spread and slippage are real. Ten points of win rate separates a rounding error from a life change, which is why the terminal would rather reject a marginal setup than fill a quota.
| Win rate | Growth / trade | $500 after 480 trades |
|---|---|---|
| 50% | −0.05% | ≈ $400 |
| 55% | +0.26% | ≈ $1,700 |
| 60% | +0.56% | ≈ $7,200 |
| 65% | +0.86% | ≈ $30,000 |
| 70% | +1.16% | ≈ $128,000 |
Illustrative compounding of a single pot at ±3%. Not a projection, not achievable in practice, and not a claim this product makes. Sustaining a win rate above ~55–60% on daily directional bets is extraordinarily difficult.
The scan runs once each session on every tier. What changes is how many names it covers, how deep the research pass goes, and whether the output can leave the terminal.
ticker5.com — a morning screening terminal for individual US equities.
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