EDUCATION LIBRARY
Learn the mechanics, not the hype
8 written modules explaining how the scanner works, what the data means, and how to use it responsibly — without income claims, hot picks, or guru promises. The library lives inside the product and is available today.
Trading involves significant risk. Educational content does not constitute financial advice.
FREE WITH ANY ACCOUNT
Scanner literacy and risk fundamentals
Included with a free Rapid Trades account.
Scanner Foundations: How to Read Scanner Events
What a scanner event actually is, how to read the columns on a scanner row, and how to turn a raw event into a research question instead of a reaction.
Full module included with any free account.
Low-Float & Liquidity Risk
Why thin share supply amplifies price action, how liquidity and spread affect what you can actually get filled at, and where low-float names punish size.
Full module included with any free account.
INCLUDED WITH PRO
Research workflows and strategy frameworks
Market context and process modules that build on the free foundations.
Morning Gapper Research Workflow
A structured premarket routine: reviewing gappers, narrowing the list, marking levels, and arriving at the open with a plan rather than a scramble.
Full module included with Pro.
Rapid Spike Alerts: How to Validate Fast Moves
How to read a rapid spike alert in context, what separates a move worth studying from noise, and the checks that keep you out of a late chase.
Full module included with Pro.
VWAP Context: Reclaim, Rejection & Chop
What VWAP tells you intraday, how reclaims and rejections differ from directionless chop, and why VWAP is context rather than a signal.
Full module included with Pro.
- Explore Breakout Conditions →
- Breakouts and reference levels →
- Free primer: VWAP reclaim and rejection →
Risk Management Fundamentals
Position sizing, defining max loss before entry, stop placement, and why capital preservation outranks any individual setup.
Full module included with Pro.
Avoiding Overextended Moves
Recognising when a move has already travelled, the cost of late entries on extended momentum, and criteria for staying out of high-risk chases.
Full module included with Pro.
Trading Strategy Frameworks
Frameworks for studying a setup — what you are observing, what context matters, the risk questions to ask, and the pitfalls that recur. Frameworks, not recommendations.
Full module included with Pro.
FREE TO READ — NO ACCOUNT
Open education articles
Written for anyone, on the concepts that come up most often when reading a live market. No sign-in, no email.
What it means for a stock to be overextended
What extension actually describes, why fast vertical moves resist evaluation, and the questions worth asking about a move that has already run.
Read the article →VWAP reclaim, rejection and chop, explained
What the volume-weighted average price measures, how reclaims and rejections differ from directionless chop, and why VWAP is context rather than a signal.
Read the article →RESEARCH GUIDES
Free research guides on the same workflows
Reading momentum
What a scanner measures, and what separates a move worth researching from noise.
- How momentum scanners workWhat a momentum scanner actually measures, and why most of them surface more than you can use.
- Rapid Spike alertsThe Rapid Trades capability for sudden developing momentum, and what arrives with an event.
- Low float and liquidityWhat public float measures, why thin supply amplifies price action, and why float alone decides nothing.
- Breakouts and reference levelsWhich levels traders watch, why clearing one is not the same as holding it, and what context to read.
Before the open
Working the premarket session down to a short, researched watchlist.
Reading the context
The information that decides what a price move actually means.
- Relative volume, explainedWhy the same share count means different things on different names, and what a baseline is for.
- Catalysts and why a stock is movingHow traders establish the reason behind unusual activity, and what to do when there is not one.
- Trading halts and what they meanWhy trading stops, what the common halt reasons indicate, and what to check before it resumes.
Risk notice: Rapid Trades is educational software, not financial advice. Day trading involves significant risk and can result in substantial losses. Scanner alerts are criteria-based events, not recommendations to buy or sell. Trade responsibly.
Put the modules to work
A free account unlocks the scanner foundations and low-float risk modules. Pro opens the full library alongside the scanner workspace.
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