How to use Rally Radar

Rally Radar ranks 200+ Binance USDC spot pairs on the 1-hour chart and refreshes the ranking every 15 minutes. It is a candidate list, not a buy list: the board tells you which coins are worth a look right now and why, and leaves the decision to you. Whether the ranking actually finds movers is measured separately and published, warts and all, on the track record.

• Reading one row
• Stage
• Setup type
• Rally, Risk and Net
• Reason
• Controls
• Accumulation
• Performance panels
• A five-minute routine

Reading one row

Every row on the board is one coin as the scanner saw it at the last scan. Here is a made-up row with what each cell means written underneath it. The values are illustrative; the columns are the real ones.

Stage

Stage is a label derived from the scores. The four ordinary stages are bands of Net score; the fifth, CHASE WARNING, overrides them when a coin looks strong but already stretched. COOLING is not a stage the scanner assigns; it is the board keeping a recently active coin visible after its score dropped, so signals do not vanish silently.

Setup type

The setup is the single pattern the scanner thinks best describes the row. It is a description, not a grade: the scoring gives every setup the same weight, because when setups were weighted by past results the weights turned out to point the wrong way. The track record explains that decision.

Rally, Risk and Net

Rally adds up bullish conditions: a volume spike against the 72-hour median, a breakout above the recent range on volume, short moving averages stacked above long ones, an expanding MACD histogram, RSI in the 55 to 70 zone, a higher-lows structure, a Bollinger squeeze releasing, and a stochastic RSI reversal from oversold. Each is worth a fixed number of points, and hovering the Rally cell shows which ones fired for that coin.

Risk adds up warnings: a sharp dump in the last one or four hours, no meaningful volume, price stretched more than a quarter above its 25-period average, RSI above 82, a long upper wick with a weak close, a volume spike that failed at resistance, stochastic RSI above 85, volume fading after a spike, and price below the 50-period average. Hover the Risk cell for the active penalties.

Net is Rally minus Risk and is what the board is sorted by. A Net of 68 with Risk 10 and a Net of 68 with Risk 30 are different rows: the second has more going right and more going wrong at the same time. Look at both parts, not just the difference.

Three more cells carry context. Vol is current volume divided by the rolling 72-hour median; volume often moves a candle or two before price. RSI is the standard 14-period reading, useful but not sufficient on its own for altcoins, where a trend can hold 60 to 80 for days. EMA summarises the moving-average stack: ALIGNED when the 9, 25, 50 and 200 period averages sit in order, PARTIAL when all but the 200 do, MIXED when the structure is incomplete, INVERTED when short-term momentum is below medium-term.

Reason

The Reason cell lists the most significant conditions in a fixed order of priority: first the pattern conditions that triggered the setup, then scoring highlights such as volume, moving averages, MACD or a squeeze, then forward-looking notes, then the top risk warnings. The board shows the first one or two; hover the cell for the full list, capped at six or seven entries.

The forward-looking notes are the most useful part for a reader. WATCH: names a level or condition that would confirm the move. WAIT: names what has to reset before the setup is worth acting on. If a row's Reason says WAIT, the scanner itself is telling you not to act yet.

Min Score and Sticky Window

Min Score hides every row whose Net is below the number. The default is 45, which shows EARLY SIGNAL and above and hides most of the watchlist. If the board is empty, nothing cleared the bar at the last scan; lower the number to see what is stirring underneath, or accept that a quiet market is a quiet board.

Sticky Window is how many hours a coin stays visible as COOLING after its score falls below Min Score. The default is six. A longer window shows you what faded during the day; a shorter one keeps the board to what is live right now.

The scanner runs on the server every 15 minutes and the board refreshes itself. There is nothing for you to run.

Accumulation candidates

The second table on the page looks for the opposite of a breakout: coins in quiet, sustained accumulation before any obvious move. These rows have a Net score below 50 by design, because nothing loud has happened yet. To qualify at all, a coin needs volume running at roughly twice its seven-day baseline for at least three of the last four hours while price stays inside a range of under three percent over twelve hours: steady buying without a price move. Qualifying coins then collect a pump score out of eight for higher lows, a Bollinger squeeze, RSI in the 40 to 58 zone, price above its 50-period average, and a very tight range. Five or more makes the list. The Confirmation column shows the first supporting condition that fired, so you can see what kind of accumulation it is at a glance.

Treat this list as the earliest and least certain thing on the page. It is where to look for ideas, not where to find decisions.

The two performance panels

Below the tables, Signal Performance and Pump Candidate Performance show what happened to past rows after they appeared, over a window you choose. They are descriptive counts: no stop loss, no exit rule and no trading costs are applied, so a high rate there is not evidence that trading the board would have made money. It is the same information a rear-view mirror gives you.

The question you probably have, whether this works, is answered properly on the track record: an out-of-sample test with a fair baseline, confidence intervals, and the parts that failed left in.

A five-minute routine

1. Skim the top rows. Sort is by Net already. Note which stages dominate: a board full of CHASE WARNING is a market that has already moved.
2. Hover Rally and Risk on anything interesting. Three solid conditions beat six marginal ones, and one big penalty can explain a middling Net.
3. Click the symbol to open the coin's page: its recent signals and how they resolved, so you can see whether this coin trips the scanner constantly or rarely.
4. Read Reason to the end. A WAIT note means the scanner wants a reset first. A WATCH level gives you something concrete to check on a chart.
5. Do your own research. Open the chart, check the news, check liquidity. The board found the candidate; it cannot tell you whether to act.
6. Follow on Telegram if you would rather be told when something new ranks than keep the tab open.

Want the mechanics behind the score itself? What makes a good crypto setup breaks down the points and penalties, and Do crypto scanners actually work? is the honest answer to the question this page keeps pointing at.