Abnormality is measured stock by stock
A 3% move can be routine for one company and exceptional for another. Price Radar judges each move against its usual range and activity.
Unusual move monitor
Price Radar
Find the moves that are unusual for the stock, not just large on a screen.
Price Radar compares each stock with its own normal movement and trading activity, then ranks the names most worth reviewing across portfolios, watchlists, major companies, and market ETFs.
- Use it when
- A stock or ETF moved far more than is normal for that instrument.
- Start with
- Priority moves
- Leave with
- Abnormality, exposure relevance, range context, and the next check
Inside Price Radar
Separate abnormal moves from ordinary volatility.
Relevance comes first: the move, the stock's usual behavior, your exposure, and the current Vector Range are read together.
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Why Price Radar
Know which market move actually deserves your time.
Price Radar compares every move with the instrument's own normal behavior, then prioritizes names connected to your portfolios and watchlist.
Your holdings and followed names rise to the top
Portfolio, research, and watchlist overlap determine what deserves review before broad-market movers.
Vector Range shows where price sits now
The current range, recent move, market backdrop, trading activity, and latest evidence stay attached to the selected stock.
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Price Radar / Decision architecture
One move. Five questions before you act.
Price Radar is not a conventional percentage-gainers list. It compares each security with its own normal behavior, adjusts the review threshold for the market regime, prioritizes names connected to your work, locates price inside the latest Vector Range, and routes the event into research.
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Priority
Daily queue
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Relevance
Your exposure
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Context
Why it stands out
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Range
Where price sits
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Research
What changed
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Read the market backdrop
The VIX regime changes how selective the radar should be. In calm markets, isolated shocks stand out more; in stressed markets, portfolio risk and broad-market linkage come first.
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Start with the priority count
Priority is the short review queue after abnormality, volume, market regime, and Vector Ridge relevance are combined. It is intentionally much smaller than the monitored universe.
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Choose the relevant universe
Use portfolios and watchlist for owned or followed exposure, major companies for liquid leaders, Market ETFs for broad context, and All moves only for wider discovery.
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Compare the row, not just the return
Read move, normal daily movement, trading activity, why it stands out, and Vector Range position together. A large move can be ordinary; a smaller move can be exceptional.
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Open one move and finish the check
The selected panel turns the row into a review: recent path, sector move, market backdrop, exposure tags, current range, news, research, and a clear next action.
Relevance filters
Choose the question before you choose the stock.
Filters do not alter the measured move. They change which names reach the screen first, so an exposure check, a watchlist review, and broad-market discovery do not compete in one noisy list.
01Priority
What deserves attention first?
- Best use
- Default daily queue
- Includes
- Names clearing the current abnormality threshold, ranked with portfolio, watchlist, liquidity, and market relevance.
- Boundary
- Priority means review first, not buy or sell.
02My portfolios
Did anything I hold move unusually?
- Best use
- Exposure-first triage
- Includes
- Companies and ETFs connected to current Vector Ridge model portfolios.
- Boundary
- A quiet state is a valid result when no holding clears the threshold.
03Watchlist
Did a followed company change enough to revisit?
- Best use
- Research monitoring
- Includes
- Companies the user has deliberately followed across Investor Desk.
- Boundary
- Following a company does not imply an active position or thesis.
04Major companies
Which liquid market leaders are behaving abnormally?
- Best use
- Large-company discovery
- Includes
- Economically important, widely traded companies across major regions and sectors.
- Boundary
- Size and familiarity do not confirm the cause of a move.
05Market ETFs
Is the move visible in the broader market?
- Best use
- Cross-market confirmation
- Includes
- Broad, regional, sector, style, and thematic exchange-traded funds.
- Boundary
- ETF behavior is context; it does not prove the same driver applies to every holding.
06All moves
What else is moving across the monitored universe?
- Best use
- Deliberate broad discovery
- Includes
- The complete surfaced move queue after baseline data-quality checks.
- Boundary
- Use after relevance views; the wider list contains more noise and more names with no active research connection.
Move anatomy
Read eight facts before assigning a story.
The session return is only the first observation. The selected panel explains whether the behavior is unusual, whether participation confirms it, whether the market shares it, and where delayed price sits inside the published range.
- 01Move
- The current session change. It is the observation, not the conclusion.
- 02Usual day
- The security's own typical daily movement, used instead of a universal percentage cutoff.
- 03Vs normal
- How many times larger the current move is than the security's usual behavior.
- 04Trading activity
- Whether volume confirms broad participation or the price move is occurring on lighter activity.
- 05Recent move
- The cumulative short-horizon path, which helps distinguish a one-day shock from an extended move.
- 06Sector today
- The relevant sector or peer backdrop, used to test whether the shock is isolated or shared.
- 07Market backdrop
- The current VIX regime and whether market-wide volatility is amplifying company moves.
- 08Vector Range
- Where delayed price sits relative to the latest published risk low, buy zone, action band, trim zone, and risk high.
Adaptive market threshold
The same stock move means less when everything is moving.
Price Radar uses four VIX regimes to change the abnormality floor and the first review action. The regime does not predict direction; it controls how much broad-market volatility should influence triage.
Regime
VIX range
Priority floor
Market read
Review first
Calm
VIX below 15
Priority starts around 2.5x normal
Company-specific moves stand out more.
Check the company catalyst and stock-specific evidence.
Normal
VIX 15 to below 20
Priority starts around 2.2x normal
Company and market forces both matter.
Compare company news with sector and index behavior.
Elevated
VIX 20 to below 30
Priority starts around 1.8x normal
More stocks are moving together.
Review owned names first and separate broad pressure from company evidence.
Stressed
VIX 30 or higher
Priority starts around 1.5x normal
Market-wide swings are dominating.
Start with portfolio risk, liquidity, and cross-market confirmation.
Vector Range interpretation
Abnormality and range position are separate signals.
Price Radar answers, “Is this move unusual for the security?” Vector Range answers, “Where is delayed price relative to the latest published market map?” Read both before deciding whether the event changes research or exposure.
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Below range
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Buy zone
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In range
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Trim zone
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Above range
01Below range
Below the published outer risk low
- What it says
- The move has pushed price beyond the lower boundary of the current market map.
- What to do next
- Verify the live price and range receipt, then check catalyst, liquidity, corporate actions, and thesis damage.
02Buy zone
Between risk low and action low
- What it says
- Price is below the action band but remains inside the published outer range.
- What to do next
- Treat the label as market context. Confirm the thesis, timing, sizing, and current evidence before any action.
03In range
Between action low and action high
- What it says
- Price remains inside the current action band even if the session move is statistically unusual.
- What to do next
- Investigate the reason and decide whether the event changes the thesis rather than reacting to the percentage alone.
04Trim zone
Between action high and risk high
- What it says
- Price is above the action band but remains inside the published outer range.
- What to do next
- Review sizing, catalysts, and whether the move has pulled forward expected upside.
05Above range
Above the published outer risk high
- What it says
- The move has pushed price beyond the upper boundary of the current market map.
- What to do next
- Verify the receipt and catalyst, then reassess risk, position size, and whether the range has become stale.
Important: “Buy zone” and “Trim zone” are labels in the published daily market map. They are not individualized instructions, fundamental price targets, or substitutes for thesis, risk, liquidity, and sizing work.
Worked interpretations
Similar percentages can require different conclusions.
These patterns show why Price Radar combines security-specific behavior, exposure, market regime, and Vector Range instead of ranking stocks by raw return alone.
Large decline, still in range
- Observed
- The stock is moving several times more than usual, but delayed price remains inside the action band.
- Check
- Confirm the news, compare with sector performance, inspect volume, and read whether the recent path already reflected the concern.
- Conclusion
- The event deserves research, but the dramatic daily percentage has not by itself broken the current market map.
Positive shock in the Buy zone
- Observed
- The stock rallies sharply from below the action low while remaining inside the outer range.
- Check
- Verify whether the catalyst is durable, whether peers confirm it, and whether the fundamental or quant evidence has changed.
- Conclusion
- The move may improve the setup, but the Buy zone label and unusual return are context, not an automatic entry.
Portfolio name outside range
- Observed
- A held company crosses an outer risk boundary on heavy trading.
- Check
- Verify data quality first, then open current research, news, range receipt, and exposure before judging the position.
- Conclusion
- This is a high-priority portfolio review because exposure and market-map breach overlap; the required output is a documented decision, not a reflex trade.
Broad ETF shock in a stressed market
- Observed
- A market ETF and many constituents move together while VIX is above 30.
- Check
- Compare regions, sectors, rates, liquidity, and portfolio concentration before assigning company-specific causes.
- Conclusion
- Treat the event as market-wide risk first. Individual stock moves need stronger evidence before being called idiosyncratic.
The complete review routine
Move from shock to documented decision.
The product is most useful when every surfaced move receives the same evidence sequence. This prevents a red or green percentage, an assumed catalyst, or a stale range from becoming the decision.
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Open Priority and read the market backdrop before interpreting any individual percentage move.
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Switch to My portfolios and Watchlist to clear owned and followed exposure before broad discovery.
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Select the highest-relevance move and compare the session return with the security's usual daily behavior.
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Check trading activity, recent path, sector performance, and broad-market direction to test whether the shock is isolated.
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Read the current Vector Range position and verification date; keep abnormality and range location as separate facts.
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Open company news and research. If no catalyst is confirmed, retain that uncertainty instead of inventing a reason.
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Decide whether the event changes the thesis, position review, watch status, or nothing, then mark the item reviewed.
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Revisit only when price, volume, range position, market regime, or underlying evidence changes materially.
Visual product guide
Nineteen real product captures
See the move, the context, and the next research action.
These are distinct states from the working product: the live priority board, every relevance filter, calm portfolio output, positive and negative shocks, all five Vector Range positions, market-regime context, expanded company research, and the complete mobile workflow.
Start with a ranked market, not an undifferentiated movers list.
Priority compares the size of each move with that security's own normal behavior, then adds trading activity, market regime, product exposure, watchlist relevance, and current Vector Range position.
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Priority board
Scan only the moves that clear the current relevance and abnormality threshold, then open one name without losing the ranked list.
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Market backdrop
Use the current VIX regime to decide whether a move is more likely to be company-specific or part of broad market stress.
Change the question without changing the underlying evidence.
The same move can matter very differently depending on whether the company is held, followed, systemically important, or simply part of broad discovery. Filters change the review queue; they do not change the measured move.
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Watchlist
Limit the queue to companies you explicitly follow and decide whether the move advances an existing research question.
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Major companies
Review economically important names without allowing the entire monitored universe to dominate the screen.
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Market ETFs
Use broad, regional, sector, and thematic funds to test whether the shock is company-specific or visible across the market.
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All moves
Widen discovery only when you deliberately want the broader queue; start with relevance filters for routine review.
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A quiet portfolio is a valid result
Nothing stands out means no held name currently clears the materiality threshold. It is not a missing signal or failed scan.
Turn a headline percentage into a reviewable market event.
The selected panel keeps the move, usual behavior, recent path, trading activity, sector backdrop, market regime, relevance tags, and next research action together. If no catalyst is confirmed, the product says so.
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Positive shock
A large gain receives the same discipline as a decline: compare it with normal behavior, verify volume and sector context, then inspect the range and the news.
The range position changes the question you ask next.
Price Radar measures abnormal behavior; Vector Range locates price inside the current published market map. Reading both prevents a dramatic percentage move from being mistaken for a complete decision.
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Below range
Price is below the outer risk low. Verify the receipt, the catalyst, liquidity, and whether the thesis or market data has changed.
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In range
A move can be statistically unusual while price remains inside the current action band. The two statements answer different questions.
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Trim zone
Price is above the action high but still inside the outer range. Revisit sizing and evidence rather than reacting to the move alone.
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Open the full market map
Inspect risk low, buy zone, action band, trim zone, risk high, verification date, and the current company research in one expanded view.
The full review sequence remains usable on a phone.
Mobile keeps the live board compact, opens a selected move as a focused sheet, and stacks the full Vector Range and company research into a readable vertical path without horizontal scrolling.
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Priority board
Start with the ranked moves and current market regime.
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Watchlist filter
Focus immediately on companies you already follow.
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Quiet portfolio
See clearly when no held company requires review.
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Selected move
Read abnormality, volume, market context, and the next check in one sheet.
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Positive shock
Review upside and downside shocks through the same evidence sequence.
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Market regime
Open the backdrop to understand how broad volatility changes review priority.
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Range and research
Continue from the move into the verified market map and current company evidence.
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How to use it
Triage the move before searching for a story.
Confirm that the move is unusual for this stock, then check exposure, trading activity, range context, and only then the latest evidence.
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Start with Priority
Review the most relevant unusual moves first, with portfolio and watchlist names promoted when appropriate.
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Choose a universe
Switch among portfolios, watchlist, major companies, market ETFs, or all monitored moves.
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Open the selected move
Read the actual move, usual daily behavior, recent move, market backdrop, and why it stands out.
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Check range and research
Use the current Vector Range and stock research to decide whether the move changes anything important.
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Price Radar on mobile
The most relevant move stays on top.
Mobile keeps portfolio and watchlist relevance, unusual-move context, and the current Vector Range attached to each reviewable name.
- Start with PriorityReview the most relevant unusual moves first, with portfolio and watchlist names promoted when appropriate.
- Choose a universeSwitch among portfolios, watchlist, major companies, market ETFs, or all monitored moves.
- Open the selected moveRead the actual move, usual daily behavior, recent move, market backdrop, and why it stands out.
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Example workflow
Example: a portfolio stock drops sharply
Price Radar tells you where to look first; it does not invent a catalyst.
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Confirm the move is abnormal for that stock
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Check trading activity and the market backdrop
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Open the current Vector Range
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Review news and the thesis before changing the position
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Updates and boundaries
Focused on the current session
Price Radar reprioritizes as prices and trading activity change. Counts and rankings are snapshots, so the selected move and displayed timestamp matter.
Move ranking
Refreshes during supported market sessions
Portfolio relevance
Reflects the current product rosters
Watchlist relevance
Reflects the user's followed companies
Vector Range
Uses the latest published range when available
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