Growth / momentum

WideRadar for growth and momentum traders

By WideRadar · Published August 17, 2026

Growth and momentum work is not “buy whatever is up.” It is a sequence: find where money is already concentrating, confirm that the individual name still looks like a leader on the chart and in the numbers, then decide whether the rest of the market will support follow-through. WideRadar is built for that sequence — relative-strength leaders first, a real chart second, breadth when you are about to size.

Who this is for

You would rather own names that are already leading than hope a laggard “catches up.” You care about relative strength, clean setups, and whether earnings quality (EPS, sales growth, margins) agrees with the price. You may or may not follow a named school of growth investing — that is optional. The desk still has to answer the same three questions every morning.

• You start with strength. Sector RS, then stock RS — not a social-media list and not a random watchlist from last quarter.
• You confirm on the chart. Trend, volume, and a rules-based verdict sit next to EPS, sales, and margins so price and fundamentals are not arguing.
• You respect the tape. A leader in expanding participation is a different trade than the same leader when the tape is thinning.

This is not a mean-reversion product, not a tips channel, and not an options-flow terminal. If your edge is fading strength or copying someone else’s alerts, you will feel out of place. If your edge is finding leaders and timing them on a serious chart, this is the door.

What “good” looks like in this workflow

A useful growth morning is short and repeatable. You are not trying to read 5,000+ listed stocks. You are trying to know, in a few minutes, which groups have the wind, which names inside those groups still look like leaders, and whether the environment will pay you for taking risk today.

• The pond first. A breakout in a leading sector has a better chance of follow-through than the same pattern in a lagging group. Rank the 11 SPDR sector ETFs before you fall in love with a ticker.
• Then the fish. Stock leaders are filtered to names in a confirmed uptrend (50-day SMA above 200-day). Inside that list, Leadership Score (0–100) blends relative strength versus SPY, trend quality, and volume — the same score you will see on Charting and Gainers/Losers.
• Then the tape. Indexes can print green while most stocks are already breaking. Full-tape breadth — 4% movers, advance-decline, new highs versus lows, percent above key moving averages — tells you if participation is expanding or narrowing.

How WideRadar is built for this

Leaders tab — where the morning starts

Open Leaders. Read sector relative-strength scores (0–100, normalised versus SPY over a rolling month) so you always know which group is strongest right now — even in a market where everything is falling. Then scan the stock list. Click a name; you should be on the chart without rebuilding a workspace.

Charting — confirm, don’t admire

The Charting workstation keeps the live candle tip updating while heavy indicator math stays off the UI thread, so ticker switches stay snappy. Built-in screens (RS Leaders, Tight Setups, today’s gainers) sit next to your own watchlists. A buy / partial / hold / sell verdict is a structured checklist — trend versus the 50- and 200-day, RSI, ATR extension, volume — not a text message telling you what to buy.

Data panel — earnings quality beside the candle

Growth work is incomplete if you only have a pretty breakout. Open the data panel on the same chart: EPS, sales growth, and margins. You are looking for agreement, not a second website. If price is running and the last few prints are deteriorating, that is information — size down or wait.

Breadth — supporting context, not the product

WideRadar is not a breadth-only dashboard. Breadth is the last check before you size. Coverage is the full US tape (~5,000+ listed stocks; the active breadth universe is names above $3 with at least 100k average daily volume). When up-4% counts dwarf down-4% and new highs lead new lows, you have cover. When the index holds up and those columns roll over, you treat today’s “leader” as a tighter, smaller trade — or no trade.

A morning on the desk

1. Sector RS (1–2 minutes). Note the top two or three groups and whether money is in cyclicals/growth or in defensives. Defensives on top is a different hunting day.
2. Stock leaders (2–3 minutes). Stay inside leading groups when you can. Sort by Leadership Score. Hover a few names; click the one that still looks like a leader, not the one that already went vertical for a week.
3. Chart + data panel (2–4 minutes). Is the trend intact? Is volume confirming or dying? Do EPS, sales, and margins support the story? Read the verdict as a prompt, then make your own call.
4. Tape before you size (1–2 minutes). Open Breadth. Market Tone is a shortcut — still glance at 4% up/down, the ratio, and new highs/lows. If participation is thrusting, you have room. If it is narrowing, you wait.

That is enough to know whether today is a hunting day. You do not need a new ritual every session. You need the same order, most mornings, until it is muscle memory.

Mistakes this desk is meant to catch

• Treating RS as a buy signal. A high Leadership Score means the name is acting like a leader. It does not mean “market order here.” Confirm structure and earnings, then the tape.
• Buying strength into a thinning market. The most expensive growth trades are leaders that keep working on the index while the rest of the tape has already rolled. Breadth is there so you see that before you press.
• Skipping the sector. A tight setup in a last-place group is swimming upstream. Rank the pond first.
• Chasing the most extended name. Tight Setups exist because the better growth entries are often pullbacks and compressions after a trend, not the candle that already ran.