How You Can Start Using a Swing Trade Scanner in 2025

Learn how swing trade scanners help identify short-term trading opportunities. Discover how Investorean’s intelligent scanning tools simplify your swing trading strategy in 2025.

Yuri Drabik

Oct 23, 2025

What Is a Swing Trade Scanner?

A swing trade scanner is a powerful tool that automatically analyzes stock market data to spot short- to medium-term trading opportunities — typically trades that last from a few days to several weeks. Unlike day traders, swing traders don’t need to monitor the screen every minute. Instead, they rely on scanners to identify potential entry and exit points based on technical indicators, price patterns, and momentum signals.

A good swing trade scanner helps you:

Detect stocks on the verge of a breakout

Track momentum shifts

Identify oversold or overbought conditions

Filter high-volume, high-volatility stocks

Simplify technical analysis using pre-set or custom criteria

Why Swing Traders Need a Scanner in 2025

The market in 2025 is fast-moving — influenced by growth of algorithmic trading, AI-driven analytics, and massive data flow from retail investors. Manual stock scanning is no longer practical.

Here’s why using a modern swing trade scanner is essential:

1. Speed and Efficiency

You can’t manually track 5,000+ tickers daily. A scanner cuts through noise to highlight only actionable setups, saving hours every week.

2. Objectivity

Emotions kill swing trades. A data-driven scanner helps eliminate bias by focusing purely on quantifiable indicators.

3. Early Signals

Scanners can alert you to breakouts before they trend on social media — a major edge in short-term trading.

4. Custom Strategies

Investors can design filters around their preferred setups — RSI, MACD crossovers, moving average alignment, volume spikes, or price channels.

Key Features to Look for in a Swing Trade Scanner

Before you pick a scanner, make sure it offers these essentials:

Feature	Why It Matters
Trusted data sources	Reliable and fresh data is a must-have for any trader.
Technical filters	RSI, MACD, EMA, volume, and price range filters fine-tune results
Chart visualization	See trendlines and patterns instantly without switching tools
Alerts & notifications	Stay informed about breakout conditions via email or app alerts
Integration with broker/platform	Seamless trade execution saves time, you don’t need to check every time if the asset is supported by your broker - Investorean does it for you.

How Investorean’s Scanner Simplifies Swing Trading

Investorean’s swing trade scanner is designed with both beginners and active traders in mind.

It combines pre-built market screeners and insights, powerful charting, and custom filters — all within a clean, responsive interface. The platform helps you navigate and track the markets without getting lost in millions of tables and numbers. Let’s break down main features that can simplify your trading routine:

1. Asset Scanners (Stocks, ETFs, Indices, FOREX, Crypto)

These are relatively advanced screeners for stocks and other asset types, that fit the best traders and investors who have a strategy in mind and are ready to execute. You simply fill in the fields in the form with criteria you have in your strategy and voila - you get a list of assets that match your criteria.

The stock screener has the most fields due to the nature of the stock market and many data points available for analysis, apart from the price. This screener is split into five sections:

Basic - general the most popular metrics

Performance - price change within multiple time ranges from one day to five years

Fundamentals - company’s financial metrics and projections that are not directly connected to the stock price

Technicals - this section is fully dedicated to so-called technical analysis, metrics that are calculated based on the historical asset price and volume.

Dividends - these fields allow you to search companies that pay dividends and filter them by specific dividend criteria

You can also save your screener configuration to re-use it later. So you can build and use your own setup efficiently.

Other assets’ scanners look very similar to the stock scanner, but metrics vary depending on the asset type.

2. Pre-Built Screeners for Trade Discovery

Apart from the general asset screeners, we’ve built some ready-to-go screeners for you to use and get some ideas for trading. Here’s the list of available filters available on Investorean:

Investorean Filter - Proprietary premium screener built on a custom formula that highlights only top-performing companies in the market. Updated daily, it aims to outperform benchmarks like the S&P 500 using a blend of fundamental and performance-based factors.

Warren Buffett Filter - Screens for companies that meet Warren Buffett’s value-investing principles — focusing on strong financial health, durable competitive advantages, consistent profitability, and attractive valuations.

Peter Lynch Filter - Applies Peter Lynch’s growth-at-a-reasonable-price (GARP) methodology to identify companies with strong earnings growth potential and reasonable valuation multiples, balancing growth and value characteristics.

Discounted P/E Filter - Finds stocks trading below their historical average Price-to-Earnings ratios, helping uncover undervalued companies that may be mispriced relative to past performance.

Hedge Funds Tracker - Reveals positions and trades of institutional investors and major hedge funds, based on quarterly 13F filings. Useful for following “smart money” trends.

U.S. Politicians Tracker - Monitors recent stock transactions disclosed by members of the U.S. Senate and Congress, allowing investors to track insider-like political trading activity.

Dividends Growth Filter - Identifies companies with a strong history of consistently increasing dividend payments, signaling financial stability and shareholder-friendly policies.

Upcoming Dividends Filter - Lists companies that are scheduled to pay dividends in the coming weeks, enabling dividend-focused investors to plan short-term income strategies.

3. Charting

Investorean’s charts deliver precise and interactive visualizations. You can zoom, compare, export and analyze the chart with variety of technical indicators without leaving your browser — ideal for identifying swing zones and historical resistance levels.

4. Custom Dashboard

To navigate markets with ease, track your current portfolios and watchlists, and to not get lost in endless data feeds there is your personal dashboard where you see only information relevant to your holdings. Check only related news and monitor all your positions in real-time, with the custom layout that fits your screen. It’s your personal custom trading terminal.

5. Broker Integration

Investorean is the only market screening and analytics platform that is integrated with multiple brokerages (eToro, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers and more). This unique feature allows you to only research assets that are available at your broker to trade. It’s not always the case that you can trade any asset with your broker - and Investorean helps you here. It will automatically hide assets that are not available for you to trade with the selected brokerage. As simple as that. You don’t see them and only research stocks and other assets that are certainly available to you.

6. Portfolio Tracker and Import

Investorean provides a powerful portfolio tracker that gives you immediate overview and insights into the current state. Get your performance snapshot in one click. You can quickly compare performance of different positions within multiple time ranges, get news related to your portfolio items, compare price charts and much more. You can add positions to the portfolio manually or use the portfolio import feature that will process the file exported from your brokerage.

How to Use Investorean’s Swing Trade Scanner: Step-by-Step

Sign in to Investorean.com
Go to the screener for the asset class you want to analyze (for example the stock screener)

Select or create a strategy.
Load your saved screener if you have it or define your custom conditions using technical and fundamental indicators

Run the search
Our system analyzes live data and displays results in seconds, sorted by the metric you have chosen

Analyze the asset
Click any ticker to open its interactive chart view with detailed fundamental information — view RSI, MACD, support/resistance levels, and volume profile. Review recent news and fundamental metrics of the asset.

Add to your watchlist or execute trades at your brokerage
Save your best candidates or use the brokerage integration to navigate to the asset at your broker and take immediate action

Tips to Maximize Swing Trading Success

Limit the number of positions. Quality > quantity. Focus on 3–5 solid setups per week.

Use alerts smartly. Let the scanner notify you; don’t chase signals manually.

Review weekly performance. Learn which setups yield the best risk/reward.

Avoid overlapping indicators. Keep strategies clean and consistent.

Combine fundamentals and technicals. Use Investorean’s data layer to confirm company health before entering trades.

Final Thoughts

A swing trade scanner can transform your trading workflow — turning complex data into clear, actionable insights. Whether you’re identifying breakouts, reversals, or consolidations, automation gives you the edge you need in 2025’s fast-moving markets.

If you’re ready to streamline your trading routine, try Investorean’s Swing Trade Scanner today — and let our AI tools help you trade smarter, not harder.

👉 Start scanning now at Investorean.com — where smart investors discover smarter opportunities.