About Stockdar
Built for people who want a faster read on the market than manually parsing volume charts.
What it is
Stockdar is a market participation radar. It combines trading volume and price movement into a single, plain-English signal for each stock, so you can quickly tell where real conviction is building and where it's fading, instead of staring at raw volume charts trying to spot it yourself.
Who it's for
Retail investors and professionals who are evaluating positions over a medium-to-long horizon, roughly a week to a couple of months out, and want a faster way to screen for shifts in participation than manually cross-referencing volume and price for every ticker on a watchlist.
How to use it
Add tickers to your Dashboard to compare them side by side on the chart and table, keep an eye on the ones you care about from your Watchlist, and set up Alerts so Stockdar tells you the moment something changes, rather than you having to keep checking back.
How Stockdar Signals work
What each metric measures, and one way to read it. Not the only way.
Stockdar Signal categories
Each category crosses two things: how many of the three volume indicators agree on a direction (all three / a majority / neither), and which way price moved over the same 4 weeks. Confirmed categories additionally require the Participation Score to back up the volume consensus. Some categories describe a move that's already broadly confirmed, while others describe an earlier, partial stage of the same pattern. Which is which is noted below, again as description rather than guidance to act on.
Confirmed Breakout
All three volume indicators point up, price is up over 4 weeks, and the Participation Score is high for that day. One way to read it: broad, ranked-near-the-top volume agreement behind a rising price, the strongest "many indicators agree" case this screen can show for an upward move.
Because this needs the broadest possible agreement, it tends to show up later in a move than Building Momentum does. Some traders read it as confirmation that a trend is real, while others point out that a lot of the move may have already happened by the time all three indicators and the score line up.
Building Momentum
A majority (but not necessarily all) of the volume indicators point up, and price is up. Volume agreement here is real but not unanimous, and the score didn't confirm a top-of-the-pack reading. One way to read it is as an upward move with partial, not universal, volume support.
Some traders watch this category because it can show up before a ticker builds the fuller agreement needed for Confirmed Breakout. That earlier timing cuts both ways, though: the fuller agreement might never actually arrive.
Unconfirmed Rally
A majority of volume indicators point down, but price is up. Price rose without broad volume agreement behind it. One way to read it is a move some traders would want to see confirmed by volume before treating it as durable.
Even though price is already up here, this is the one upward category where the volume indicators point the other way. Some traders take the "unconfirmed" label literally and see this as the category most likely to fade without later volume support, rather than as an early entry into a new move.
Confirmed Breakdown
The mirror image: all three volume indicators point down, price is down over 4 weeks, and the Participation Score is low for that day. The strongest "many indicators agree" case this screen can show for a downward move.
Fading Support
A majority of volume indicators point up, but price is down. One way to read it: trading activity is picking up while price falls, sometimes described as distribution, though the data here can't tell you whether that's what's actually happening.
Price hasn't turned up here, so this category describes rising participation during a decline, not an upward move in progress. Some traders treat that combination as a caution flag on the stock's current direction rather than as an early sign of a turn.
Unconfirmed Decline
A majority of volume indicators point down, and price is down too, but not with enough unanimous agreement (or score confirmation) to be a Confirmed Breakdown. A declining price without the strongest level of volume agreement behind it.
Neutral
None of the above conditions were met. Volume indicators are mixed or roughly split, or price didn't move enough to register a clear direction. Not a prediction of "nothing will happen," just that this screen doesn't see a clear volume/price pattern right now.
The underlying metrics
4-Week Volume Momentum (4WVM)
% change in total dollar volume (price × shares traded) over the last 4 weeks compared to the 4 weeks before that. A positive number means more money is changing hands in this stock lately than recently; a negative number means trading has cooled off.
One way to read it: rising volume alongside a move often means more participants agree with the direction of that move, since it took more shares trading to produce it. Rising volume with little price change can mean the market is undecided, or that a large position is being built or unwound quietly.
8-Week Volume Momentum (8WVM)
Same calculation as 4WVM, over an 8-week window instead of 4. A slower, less noisy read on the same question, used mainly to confirm whether a 4WVM move is part of a longer build-up or just a short burst.
Short-Term Spike (ST Spike)
The most recent week's average daily dollar volume compared to the trailing 12-week average. Designed to catch sudden acceleration that a 4-week window would still be diluting. A single very active week shows up here well before it moves 4WVM or 8WVM much.
One way to read it: a large spike often coincides with news, earnings, or a broader sector move. It's descriptive of "something changed recently," not of what changed or whether it's a durable shift.
4-Week Price Change (4W-Price)
% change in closing price over the last 4 weeks. The one indicator here that measures price directly rather than volume; everything else on this page describes how much trading activity accompanied that price move, not the move itself.
Participation Score
A single 0-100 composite number combining dollar volume metrics. Each component is first converted to a percentile rank against every other ticker in that day's scan, so a score near 100 means this ticker's volume metrics are near the top of the whole universe that day, not that its raw % numbers hit some fixed threshold. A score near 0 means the opposite: this ticker's volume activity is near the bottom of the pack that day.
Because it's a same-day percentile rank, a ticker's score can move even if its own volume didn't change much, simply because the rest of the market did. It answers "how does this compare to everything else today," not "is this historically unusual for this stock."