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A scanner that labels each stock Buy, Sell, Retracement, Hold or Neutral, with short, medium and long term trend reads beside the price.
Market Trend Signals is a scanner that gives every stock in its table one plain label, such as Buy, Sell or Retracement (Buy the dip), plus a short Interpretation and three separate trend reads for the Short Term, Medium Term and Long Term. EZPZ puts the label, the reads, the price and two EMA values on one row, so you can sort a wide list by trend in seconds.
The label is the summary and the three reads are the evidence. When Short Term, Medium Term and Long Term all agree, the label is a clean Buy or Sell. When they disagree, the label changes to Retracement, Hold or Neutral, and the disagreement itself is the useful part. A stock that is Bullish on the Long Term and Medium Term but Bearish on the Short Term is usually a pullback inside a bigger uptrend, not a broken chart. A stock that is Bearish on the Long Term but Bullish on the Short Term is usually a bounce inside a downtrend. Read the Signal first, read the Interpretation for the plain-language version, then check the three reads and the two EMA columns to see how much of the picture agrees. The exact methodology is proprietary, so this guide covers how to read the page, not how the labels are built. It is a first-pass screen, not a trade instruction.
The page is one purple-framed table under a header card. The header card holds four controls: a Signal dropdown that opens on All Signals, a Search ticker box, a Go button, and a Filter Columns menu. The table has eleven columns and opens sorted by Avg. Vol.(30D) from high to low, so the most heavily traded names come first. It loads when you open the page and again each time you change the dropdown or run a search. A spinner shows while it loads, and it does not refresh on its own, so reload or re-apply a filter if you leave the tab open for a while.
Start with the pill colors. In this capture, Sell rows are red, Retracement rows are amber, Hold rows are blue, and Neutral / Sideways rows are a teal green. The Interpretation pill takes the same color as its Signal pill, so a whole row reads at a glance. No Buy row is visible in the rows shown here, so use the Signal dropdown to pull those up.
Now compare four rows. NVDA is $222.27, up 1.34, labeled Retracement (Buy the dip) with the Interpretation Short-term pullback in uptrend. Its reads are Short Term Bearish, Medium Term Bullish and Long Term Bullish, and its price sits above both EMA 50 (214.94) and EMA 200 (201.99). TSLL is the mirror image: $9.63, labeled Retracement (Sell the rally) with Short-term bounce in downtrend, Short Term Bullish, Medium Term Bearish, Long Term Bearish, and a price below both EMA 50 (9.81) and EMA 200 (12.37). RITR is $0.08 and labeled Sell with Strong aligned downtrend, Bearish on all three reads. SPCX at $152.71 is the interesting one: it is labeled Hold / Early reversal risk with Medium & short turning up against long, Short Term and Medium Term Bullish, Long Term Bearish, yet its price is above EMA 50 (143.08) and EMA 200 (151.48). Price above both EMAs and a Bearish Long Term read can appear on the same row, which is why the columns are worth reading together instead of trusting any one of them.
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Read left to right: the label, the plain-language note, the market data, the three trend reads, then the two EMA values.
| Column or label | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| Symbol | The ticker. It is a link that opens the stock on Retail Trend Navigator in a new tab. This is the only column you cannot hide. |
| Signal | The overall label for the stock, shown as a colored pill. It is always one of six values, listed below. |
| Interpretation | A short plain-language note explaining the Signal, in a pill of the same color. Examples in the capture: Short-term pullback in uptrend, Short-term bounce in downtrend, Strong aligned downtrend, and Mixed short-term fight within long uptrend. |
| Buy Sell | The three timeframe reads generally line up. Buy is the bullish version and Sell is the bearish one. In the capture every Sell row reads Bearish on Short Term, Medium Term and Long Term. |
| Retracement (Buy the dip) | The longer-term trend is still up, but a shorter-term pullback is under way. NVDA in the capture is the example. |
| Retracement (Sell the rally) | The longer-term trend is still down, but a shorter-term bounce is under way. TSLL in the capture is the example. |
| Hold / Early reversal risk | The reads are not fully aligned and a turn may be forming. SPCX and AAL both carry this label in the capture, with opposite leanings: SPCX says medium and short turning up against long, and AAL says medium and short turning down against long. |
| Neutral / Sideways | Mixed reads with no clear trend. INTC and NU carry it in the capture, and their Interpretations describe a short-term fight inside a long uptrend and mixed signals without a trend. |
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| Price | The current price with a dollar sign, in white. |
| Change % | The percentage price change, printed as a bare number with two decimals and no percent sign. Green at zero or above and red below zero. An exact zero prints as a dash. |
| Avg. Vol.(30D) | The 30-day average daily volume, shortened to a compact figure such as 122.9M or 64.5M. The table opens sorted by this column, highest first. |
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| Short Term | The stock's short-term trend read. Bullish is green and Bearish is red. A Neutral read shows in white. |
| Medium Term | The medium-term (intermediate) read. Bullish is green, Bearish is red, and Neutral shows in blue. |
| Long Term | The long-term read, colored the same way as Short Term. |
| EMA 50 EMA 200 | The 50 and 200 exponential moving average values. Each is green when the price is above it and red when the price is below it. Values print as stored, so you may see 5 or 103.6 with no trailing zero. |
Build a trend shortlist
Choose Buy or Sell in the dropdown, then scan the rows where Short Term, Medium Term and Long Term all agree. Those are the cleanest trends on the page.
Spot pullbacks and bounces
Filter to Retracement (Buy the dip) to find stocks whose longer trend is still up, like NVDA in the capture. Retracement (Sell the rally) does the same on the downside.
Find turning points
Hold / Early reversal risk rows show timeframes pulling apart. Read the Interpretation to see which way the shorter reads are leaning, then check the chart.
Check a stock you already own
Type the ticker and read its label, its three reads and where price sits against EMA 50 and EMA 200, all on one row, instead of opening a chart first.