Most scanners show you their wins.
We publish the base rate.
DawnScan scans 6,000+ NASDAQ/NYSE stocks every day for technical pre-breakout setups — not stocks that already surged, but stocks showing volatility contraction, quiet accumulation, and relative strength before a move. Every pick is logged and tracked forward, win or lose, against a full-universe base rate so you can judge whether the signal actually beats chance.
The problem with most stock-scanner marketing
A screenshot of one winning pick proves nothing. The question that actually matters is: out of everything the scanner looked at, how often did the "buy signal" outperform just picking stocks at random? Most services never publish that number, because most signals, tested honestly, are closer to a coin flip than a strategy.
What DawnScan does differently
Every stock the scanner evaluates — not just the ones it picks — gets snapshotted into a base-rate dataset. That includes stocks that later got delisted or went quiet, so the numbers aren't survivorship-biased. The published base rate uses Wilson confidence intervals, not a bare percentage that looks better than it statistically is.
What the scanner actually looks for
Full technical breakdown on the methodology page, and every signal explained individually in the Learn hub. In short, it's a rule-based score (not an AI stock-picker) built from signals like:
- Volatility contractionBollinger Band width in the bottom 20–25% of its 1-year range
- Quiet accumulationOBV rising while price is flat — volume leading price
- Relative strengthoutperforming SPY before the move shows up on a chart
- Consolidation below resistancetight range within 6% of a prior high
A lightweight LLM adds plain-language rationale on top of the rule-based score — it does not choose or rank the picks.