Squeeze Scanner

Start here — a plain-English primer

What can you trade, and what moves the price?

New to markets? Before we get to the tool, here's the groundwork. "Trading" means betting on whether a price will go up or down. There are four main kinds of thing whose prices you can follow — and each is pushed around by different forces. Understanding those forces is what makes a price move predictable.

The four types of instrument

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Shares (equities)

A tiny slice of ownership in a single company — Apple, Shell, Volkswagen. You profit if the company becomes more valuable.

What moves the price: profits and sales growth, new products, the level of interest rates (cheap money lifts shares), competition, and plain crowd sentiment. Company news can move one share while the rest of the market sits still.
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Indices

A single number that tracks a whole basket of shares at once — the FTSE 100 (biggest UK firms), S&P 500 (biggest US firms), DAX (Germany). It's the market's "temperature".

What moves the price: the economy as a whole — interest rates, inflation, jobs, growth (GDP), politics and global events. One company barely matters; the mood of the entire market does.
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Currencies (FX)

The exchange rate between two currencies — how many US dollars a pound (GBP/USD) or a euro buys. You bet one currency will strengthen against another.

What moves the price: the gap between countries' interest rates (money flows to where it earns more), inflation, central-bank decisions, trade balances and confidence in a country.
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Commodities

Physical raw materials — gold, oil, natural gas, copper, wheat. Real things with real supply and demand.

What moves the price: how much is produced vs. how much is needed, weather and harvests, wars and geopolitics, and the US dollar (most are priced in dollars, so a stronger dollar tends to push them down). Gold also rises when investors are fearful.

(There's also a fifth, newer type — crypto like Bitcoin — driven by adoption, sentiment and liquidity. We cover a handful of the largest.)

Where this tool fits in

Whatever the instrument, prices don't crawl steadily — they go quiet, coil tighter and tighter, then break out and move fast. This tool watches over 1,300 instruments across every asset type, spots those coils early, and tells you the exact levels to act on. You don't need to understand every force above — the scanner does the watching. When you're ready for the detail, the How it works tab explains the pattern, and the Appendix defines every term.

A research tool — not financial advice. Prices can fall as well as rise.

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Scanner Report

Every instrument we scan across shares, indices, FX and commodities — squeezes spotted early, with the exact levels to act on. Use the charts or Filters to narrow; click a row for full detail.

This is a live list of what's actionable right now, not a history — a squeeze that has gone stale or already resolved drops off here even though it's still recorded. For the full historical record, see Squeeze History or Performance.

NameDir RVOLVWAPATR Vol R:RQuality Dist→EntryStatus TriggeredDays since Now To target MarketX posts Since trig P/EInsider %TF LocationLev SectorTickerIn Pre-orders?