Scanner Track Record

How this record is kept

The picks are written down before the outcome is known. At 16:15 ET each weekday the top five rows of that morning’s scan — ordered exactly as the page ordered them, at the shipped default filters — are appended to a permanent record with their score, every component of it, and the closing price. At 16:20 ET a second job fills in what the close did one, three and five trading sessions later for every past entry.

Nothing is ever removed, and nothing is recomputed. There is no code path that deletes an entry and no filter on the table above — not by date, not by score, not by outcome. A horizon that has been filled in is finished, whatever it says. The losers are in the table, in red, in the same type as everything else, and the average return counts every single pick.

The record starts the day the job first ran, and is not backfilled. Working out which names the scanner would have picked on past mornings means choosing them with the benefit of knowing what happened next. Every such reconstruction flatters the thing being reconstructed, so this one is simply not done. The window above is the whole history there is.

What this page cannot tell you. Whether the scanner is any good. Not yet, and not for a long while — the picks are highly correlated with each other and with the market, and no sample this site can accumulate in months will separate a real edge from a market that went up. A five-day return says what happened next, not what the ranking caused.