Radar overview

Five tabs (Describe, Library, Saved, Focus, Builder) and multiple ways to launch a scan, demystified.

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Radar is the hub of Tradient — it’s where you go to find and analyze trades. There are five tabs (Describe, Library, Saved, Focus, and Builder). They all funnel into the same pricing and scoring engine; they just expose it from different starting points.

The five tabs

Describe — pick by intent

The default tab. Six illustrated cards framed by what you want the trade to do for you, not by which Greek you want to be long: Generate income, I have a thesis, Hedge what I own, Bet on a big move, Bet on calm, Trade an earnings event. Each card opens a wizard that asks for a risk profile (conservative / balanced / aggressive) and a ticker scope, then runs a scan with strategy and parameters that match that intent.

Starter can run three of the six goals; Trader and Pro unlock all six. See The goal wizard.

Library — pick by strategy

The deeper catalog. 56pre-tuned scans across six categories (income, volatility, directional, event, hedging, advanced). Every entry is named by what it does — “Wheel candidates,” “Earnings IV crush,” “Bullish debit spreads,” “Protective put screen.”

Starter can run 11 templates; Trader adds 23 more (34 total); Pro unlocks the full 56. See the catalog in Scan library.

Saved — your scans

Anything you save from Goals or Library lands here. Saved scans are reusable — one click reruns them with current data — and can have alerts attached so they fire on a schedule. Starter is capped at 2 saved scans; Trader and Pro are unlimited.

Focus — single-ticker deep analysis

Enter a single ticker, pick a strategy, and run a focused scan that returns the full P&L profile, Greeks, Monte Carlo distribution (Trader+), regime context, and the score breakdown for that one trade. You can also open Focus via /radar?focus=1.

See Focus mode deep analysis for the complete guide.

Builder — custom structure

The Structure Builder (Trader+) lets you assemble arbitrary multi-leg options structures, evaluate them with Black-Scholes POP and Monte Carlo, and view the expiration P&L profile before you paper or route an order. See Structure Builder.

The natural-language input

Above the tabs there’s a single text input (Trader+). Type in plain English — “sell 30-delta puts on tech with 30+ days” — and Tradient’s NL translator turns it into filters and runs a scan. See Natural-language scanner.

What every scan returns

Regardless of which surface you started from, the result table is the same shape. Every row carries:

  • Tradient Score (0–100): composite quality metric, default sort.
  • Trade Edge ($): expected dollar value.
  • POP, Max P/L, R:R, IV Rank, Annualized return, Volume.
  • Capital sizing: contracts × collateral × % of capital, if you’ve set an account size.
  • IV regime, Conviction, Regime fit in the expanded row detail.
After-hours quotes
Outside regular trading hours, option quotes can be sparse. Tradient may fall back to the day’s last trade or close rather than inventing a mid from the session high/low, and results are tagged so you know the market wasn’t open. Prefer confirming prices when the session is live before sizing a live order.
Tip
The result table is identical across surfaces by design — see how the score works.

Filter chips — universal override

After any scan runs, the chip bar above the results shows every active filter as a removable pill. Edit or remove a chip and the scan reruns. See filter chips reference.

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