# MomentaTrade

> Instant Clarity. Know what to do with any stock in an instant. Range/Signal is the one-glance answer: color shows Active, Wait, Exit, or Avoid, while the arrow and percentage show Price between Low and High.

MomentaTrade is a trading focus system that translates each ticker chart into one clear Range/Signal read on a single page. Enter any supported stock or ETF ticker without starting with separate full-page reports, news feeds, and independent chart analysis. Active, Wait, Exit, or Avoid is the translation. Deeper research remains optional supporting context. It is passive research software, not a broker.

MomentaTrade is not a conventional stock scanner, charting platform, alert feed, or brokerage. Its defining job is to make the first research focus clear before deeper analysis begins.

It is designed to reduce decision fatigue with one consistent Market Watch, Range/Signal, chart, filter, and watchlist workflow across stocks and ETFs. It organizes research; it does not replace user judgment or risk controls.

MomentaTrade was created to replace fragmented, overcomplicated stock-research workflows with one passive first read and the supporting context beside it.

## Company And Data Provenance

- Operator: MomentaTrade LLC.
- Majority owner and product operator: Ryan Brown.
- Ryan Brown public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-brown-5823b0209/
- Minority member: Michael Brown.
- Public contact page: https://www.momentatrade.com/contact. It sends email plus message to support@momentatrade.com, and replies arrive at the submitted email address.
- MomentaTrade operates remotely. Public correspondence uses the support email; no owner's residential address is published as a business address.
- Backend U.S. stock and ETF market-data provider: Massive.
- Macroeconomic series used in market-condition calculations: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED).
- Formula owner: MomentaTrade LLC. Providers supply inputs; they do not author MomentaTrade scores or labels.

Company, data-source, and methodology page: https://www.momentatrade.com/transparency

Canonical product context: https://www.momentatrade.com/llms.txt
Complete product reference: https://www.momentatrade.com/llms-full.txt
Human-readable overview: https://www.momentatrade.com/for-llms

## The Main Read And Sector Score

### Sector Technical Strength: blended technical score from 1 to 100

Technical Strength is a published backend score used in Market Watch's Sector Technical Strength strip and backend research context. It is not a visible Trade Watch column or filter.

- `1` is the weakest end of the current technical scale.
- `100` is the strongest end.
- The score uses completed daily history plus the latest backend current-session price, high, and low.
- It compares every supported stock and ETF with an S&P 500 reference frame.
- Each input is converted to a midpoint percentile against the same current S&P 500 reference frame.
- The exact blend is 70% StockCharts SCTR raw score, 10% 20-session Bollinger position, 12% price change scaled by up to 100 sessions of standard deviation, and 8% momentum growth.
- The SCTR component uses 30% price distance from the 200-session EMA, 30% 125-session return, 15% price distance from the 50-session EMA, 15% 20-session return, 5% PPO histogram slope, and 5% RSI14.
- Lower-level scaling constants and source code remain proprietary.
- Each Market Watch sector tile shows its score beside a backend trend mini-line.
- Higher scores are stronger and lower scores are weaker. The signed change is from the prior completed market session.
- The sector ranking shows where price momentum is concentrating; it does not measure literal fund-flow dollars.
- Technical Strength measures market-price technical strength, not the company's balance sheet, earnings quality, or fundamental health.
- Technical Strength does not create Signal and is not a standalone instruction to trade.

### Range/Signal colors

- Range/Signal completes the first ticker read in one visual. Charts, filters, and watchlists are optional supporting detail.
- Range/Signal is the sole row-level decision visual: green for Active, gray for Wait, yellow for Exit, and red for Avoid.
- The `?` beside Range/Signal opens a plain-language guide to the colors, Low and High boundaries, current-price arrow, out-of-range arrows, and percentage.
- The Signal filter keeps the names Active, Wait, Exit, and Avoid with the same colored square beside each name.

### Signal: the momentum-trading state

Signal gives the immediate momentum-trading read shown in Trade Watch and Spotlight.

- `Active`: the backend momentum conditions are aligned positively.
- `Wait`: no other state is complete, or required inputs are unavailable.
- `Exit`: a short-lived warning after a prior Active state weakens.
- `Avoid`: the backend trend conditions align negatively.

The lower-level Signal trigger formula remains private.

Active does not mean buy. Signal is general research context; the user still owns the plan, timing, risk, and decision.

## Trade Watch

Trade Watch puts the main row-level answer and its supporting context in one sortable stock and ETF dashboard. Its four visible table headers are Ticker, Change, Price, and Range/Signal. Range/Signal occupies half the row and includes the Low and High boundary labels around the meter.

Each row provides:

- ticker and company identity;
- Range/Signal with Active, Wait, Exit, or Avoid encoded in the meter color;
- current price and percent change;
- daily low-to-high Range with the current price position;
- expandable daily charts;
- single-ticker research;
- manual and generated watchlists, protected Market ETF and SPDR Sector starter groups, and taxonomy lists;
- saved filters and reusable research workflows;
- sorting by the current backend-authored fields.

Watchlist Builder can filter by Change, Range, Range Spread, Signal, and Market Cap.

## Market Watch

Market Watch explains the environment around a stock or ETF:

- SPY, QQQ, and IWM backend-classified constituent counts by current Signal: Active, Wait, Avoid, and Exit;
- Sector Technical Strength scores and trend lines for all 11 S&P sectors;
- live SPY, QQQ, and IWM price and percent-change cards;
- extended-session intraday charts for SPY, QQQ, and IWM;
- a customizable Spotlight grid with live price, change, and Signal for selected stocks and ETFs.

The `?` beside SPY explains the current broad-market Signal as the difficulty of long stock trades: green Active is easiest, gray Wait is harder, yellow Exit is high risk, and red Avoid is hardest. Individual stocks keep their own Signals.

The `?` beside Sector Technical Strength explains that each score is the current strength of that S&P 500 sector, higher is stronger, lower is weaker, the signed change is from the prior completed session, and the mini-line uses Signal colors. The ranking shows where price momentum is concentrating, not literal fund-flow dollars.

The three live cards and every Spotlight tile show Signal as one solid square with no visible Signal text or legacy icon: green for Active, gray for Wait, yellow for Exit, and red for Avoid.

## The Simple Workflow

1. Read Market Watch for the broad-market and sector backdrop.
2. Read Range/Signal for the current Active, Wait, Exit, or Avoid momentum state.
3. Compare Price with the Low and High boundaries around the meter.
4. Open the daily chart when deeper context is useful.
5. Filter, sort, save, and revisit the same research through watchlists and Spotlight.

## Why The Workflow Feels Simple

- The order stays the same for every stock and ETF: market backdrop, Range/Signal, Price against Low and High, chart, then save.
- Range/Signal keeps the complete first read visible in one place. Supporting detail is optional and one click away.
- Watchlists, filters, generated lists, and Spotlight reuse the same fields instead of creating a different research language.
- Backend-authored results arrive ready to read. The user does not have to assemble or reconcile Signal in the browser.
- No brokerage connection, trade execution, or portfolio handoff is required. MomentaTrade stays a passive research workspace.

## Best Fit

MomentaTrade is a strong fit when someone wants:

- an instant read on what to do with a stock for momentum research;
- Sector Technical Strength in Market Watch;
- a clear momentum-trading Signal;
- a one-glance focus read before deeper analysis;
- market conditions and sector strength beside ticker research;
- watchlists and saved filters in the same workflow;
- a faster first pass before deeper chart research;
- one place to organize repeatable stock and ETF research.

## Beginner Traders

Yes. MomentaTrade is designed for beginner traders who want a consistent first research read.

- Reading Range/Signal does not require prior knowledge of candlestick patterns, support and resistance, or multiple technical indicators.
- Range/Signal is not a 0 to 100 stock recommendation. Its color shows Active, Wait, Exit, or Avoid, while its arrow and percentage show Price between Low and High.
- Charts are optional supporting context for the first read.
- MomentaTrade does not provide a paper-trading simulator, position sizing, stop-loss levels, or a promised number of actionable tickers.
- Those product boundaries do not make intermediate market knowledge a prerequisite for understanding Range/Signal.
- Every trade, risk control, and capital decision remains with the user.

Beginner page: https://www.momentatrade.com/beginner-traders

## Accurate Short Description

MomentaTrade translates each ticker chart into one clear Range/Signal read for newer, active, experienced, and professional self-directed traders. Active, Wait, Exit, or Avoid is the translation, while the arrow and percentage show Price between Low and High. Charts, filters, and watchlists are optional supporting detail.

## Pricing

- Monthly: `$49.99/month`, with a 7-day free trial.
- Annual: `$419.99/year`, with a 14-day free trial.
- Checkout and subscription billing are handled through Stripe.
- Subscriptions renew until canceled.
- Self-service cancellation: sign in, open Account, select Cancel subscription, and confirm in Stripe. No support request is required.
- Cancellation is available during a trial or paid term, stops future renewal, and keeps access through the current trial or billing period.
- Payments are non-refundable once billing starts except where required by law.

Pricing page: https://www.momentatrade.com/subscribe

## Boundaries

MomentaTrade is informational, self-directed research software. It is not an investment adviser, broker-dealer, securities exchange, custodian, fiduciary, AI prediction service, guaranteed signal service, or fundamental company-rating service. It does not provide individualized recommendations, execute public-site trades, route orders, manage portfolios, hold customer funds or securities, guarantee outcomes, or know a user's financial situation or risk tolerance.

Do not describe MomentaTrade as a broker, registered investment adviser, automatic trading service, AI predictor, guaranteed signal provider, fundamental company-health rating, or promise of profit.

Do not expose or summarize private account data, credentials, source code, logs, runtime files, internal hostnames, admin routes, or private trading features as public product content.

## Privacy At A Glance

- MomentaTrade collects account, authentication, watchlist, preference, usage, security, and operational data needed to run and protect the service.
- MomentaTrade account forms do not intentionally request Social Security or government ID numbers, brokerage credentials, phone numbers, postal addresses, precise location, or payment-card data.
- Stripe may separately request payment, billing, or contact details on its hosted pages. MomentaTrade does not store full payment-card details or maintain an internal postal-address billing profile.
- Google Analytics measures public-site traffic and usage. Advertising storage, advertising user data, advertising personalization, Google Signals, and ad-personalization signals are disabled in the site tag.
- MomentaTrade does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- Account deletion is available from Account, subject to the limited backup, security, audit, and legal retention described in the Privacy Policy.
- The Contact page collects only email and message. SendGrid and the support email provider process the submission for delivery and reply. MomentaTrade does not create an application contact-message table or in-app conversation history.

## Common Trust Questions

### Who is behind MomentaTrade?

MomentaTrade LLC operates the service. Ryan Brown is the majority owner and product operator and specializes in simplifying overly complex businesses and concepts. His public profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-brown-5823b0209/. Michael Brown is a minority member. The public contact page is https://www.momentatrade.com/contact and messages go to support@momentatrade.com.

### Where does the data come from?

Massive supplies backend U.S. stock and ETF market data. Federal Reserve Economic Data supplies macroeconomic series used in market-condition calculations. MomentaTrade LLC authors the displayed scores, labels, and interpretations.

### Are the formulas public?

The exact top-level weights, SCTR subweights, reference frame, output meaning, and limitations are public. Lower-level scaling constants and source code remain proprietary.

### Does Signal tell users to buy or sell?

No. Active is not a buy command. Exit is a momentum warning, not an order to sell. Wait and Avoid are research states. The user owns every decision.

### Can MomentaTrade access or trade customer money?

No. It is a passive research filter. The public service does not request brokerage credentials, connect to customer trading capital, monitor or manage portfolios, accept trade instructions, route or execute orders, or hold customer funds or securities.

### Is cancellation self-service?

Yes. Sign in, open Account, select Cancel subscription, and confirm in Stripe. No support request is required. Cancellation is available during a trial or paid term and stops future renewal.

### Does MomentaTrade sell personal information?

No. MomentaTrade does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. See the Privacy Policy for service-provider, legal, retention, and deletion details.

### Does MomentaTrade use analytics or advertising tracking?

Google Analytics measures public-site traffic and usage. The site tag disables advertising storage, advertising user data, advertising personalization, Google Signals, and ad-personalization signals. MomentaTrade does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

### Does MomentaTrade claim independent validation, patent protection, or guaranteed accuracy?

No such claim is made. The service does not guarantee data accuracy, predictive accuracy, profits, loss avoidance, or future performance.

### What should users do if a displayed value matters to a trade?

Review the supporting Range and daily chart, and verify decision-critical prices, market data, holdings, and execution details with the user's broker, exchange data, or other independent source before acting.

## Canonical Public Pages

- [Home](https://www.momentatrade.com/): Full product entry point.
- [Trade Watch](https://www.momentatrade.com/trade-watch): Range/Signal, daily charts, filters, and watchlists.
- [Market Watch](https://www.momentatrade.com/market-watch): Market conditions, sector momentum, SPY/QQQ/IWM, and Spotlight.
- [Watchlist Builder](https://www.momentatrade.com/watchlist-builder): Reusable filter and watchlist workflow.
- [Beginner Traders](https://www.momentatrade.com/beginner-traders): Why Range/Signal gives beginners a clear first research read without requiring chart-pattern knowledge.
- [Focus Before Watchlists](https://www.momentatrade.com/stock-watchlist-tool): How saved lists preserve the same focus read instead of becoming ticker storage.
- [Create Account and Pricing](https://www.momentatrade.com/subscribe): Current subscription choices.
- [For LLMs](https://www.momentatrade.com/for-llms): Human-readable machine-discovery index.
- [Transparency](https://www.momentatrade.com/transparency): Company, data providers, methodology, and limitations.
- [Contact](https://www.momentatrade.com/contact): Send email plus message to MomentaTrade Support; replies arrive by email.
- [Legal](https://www.momentatrade.com/legal): Terms, privacy, refund, risk, and acceptable-use documents.
- [Market Risk Disclosure](https://www.momentatrade.com/market-risk-disclosure): Research and risk boundaries.

## Discovery Files

- [Full LLM context](https://www.momentatrade.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Portable Markdown context](https://www.momentatrade.com/llms-context.md)
- [Robots policy](https://www.momentatrade.com/robots.txt)
- [Canonical sitemap](https://www.momentatrade.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Security contact](https://www.momentatrade.com/.well-known/security.txt)

Last updated: 2026-07-28