Multi-Level Scanner

Overview

A real-time watchlist intelligence table that compresses price, volume, trend and key levels into a single dashboard on your chart.

It answers one question:

“Which names deserve my attention right now — and why?”

Twenty-one names, six data points each, one screen. No tab-switching, no scrolling a watchlist.

Think of it as an air-traffic control panel. It doesn’t fly the plane. It tells you which aircraft are moving and where they are relative to everything else, so you spend your chart time on the two or three that matter rather than clicking through twenty.

What it is, and what it isn’t

It is a multi-factor watchlist scanner, a context engine — price plus relative volume plus trend plus levels — and above all a time-saving filter before chart review.

It is not an auto-trader, a signal generator on its own, or a replacement for your execution rules.

The columns

Every column can be switched off if you don’t use it. Fewer columns means a smaller table and larger text.

Trend and RVOL are measured on your chart’s timeframe, not the daily. On a 5-minute chart the Trend arrow reflects those averages of 5-minute bars — roughly two and a half sessions of structure, not the daily 50/200 most people picture. Same for RVOL: on a 5-minute chart it compares the current bar to the recent few hours, so it reads pace rather than a full-day figure. Both behave exactly as you’d want intraday; just know which question you’re asking.

The premarket lock

This is the detail that makes the PreMarket column trustworthy.

Premarket high and low are locked at the regular-session open. Once 09:30 arrives, those two levels are frozen for the rest of the day.

Without that, the levels would drift as the session went on and a “breakout above the premarket high” would keep re-defining itself — the column would repaint and mean nothing by lunchtime. Locking them at the open makes a premarket breakout an actual, durable event.

Session windows are configurable: premarket defaults to 04:00–09:30 ET and regular hours to 09:30–16:00 ET.

The quick scan method

Four steps, in order. The order is the point — it eliminates most of the list before you spend attention on it.

Where it sits in the stack

Context → Filter → Execute. Each one narrows the field for the next.

Plan-Safe mode, and why it exists

Every enabled ticker costs about three data requests. Most TradingView plans cap at roughly forty, which puts the practical ceiling around thirteen tickers — thirteen times three is thirty-nine, just inside the line.

That’s a platform constraint, not a fault in the indicator, and it’s handled openly rather than by failing silently.

Enable more tickers than your cap allows and the scanner suppresses the extras and tells you so, with a warning row naming how many it’s showing out of how many you enabled. Nothing disappears quietly.

The two-table setup

The intended power-user configuration, and it sidesteps the limit entirely:

Add the indicator twice, with different ticker sets and Premium Mode off on both.

• Table A — active, high priority. Eight to thirteen names you might trade today. Position it top left.
• Table B — secondary, context. Eight to thirteen different names — swings, sectors, ETFs. Position it bottom right.

Both stay plan-safe, both stay readable, and you’ve separated what I might trade today from what I’m keeping an eye on — which is a better mental model than one undifferentiated list of twenty-six.

Layout

Size Preset on Auto is the recommendation. It adjusts font and spacing based on how many tickers and columns you have enabled — the table tightens as it grows so it stays inside its corner. Compact, Normal and Large override it; the manual font, row height and column width settings apply when you’re not on a preset.

Left and Top Margin are worth knowing about: they insert blank cells rather than moving the anchor, which lets you slide the table clear of the price axis or a chart legend without giving up the corner.

Common mistakes

• Watching too many tickers in one table. Twenty-one rows is a wall of text, not a dashboard. Two tables of ten beat one of twenty every time.
• Ignoring RVOL. It’s the first filter for a reason. Everything else on the row is theoretical if nobody is trading the name.
• Trading against the Trend column. The arrow is there to stop you doing exactly that.
• Treating it as a signal engine. It tells you where to look. It does not tell you to buy.

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