Radar overview

Four tabs (Describe, Library, Saved, Focus) 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 four tabs (Describe, Library, Saved, and Focus). They all funnel into the same scan engine; they just expose it from different starting points.

The four 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, Bet on a big move, Bet on calm, Hedge, Trade earnings, I have a thesis. 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.

Use Goals when you want to start from “what am I trying to accomplish” instead of “which strategy should I run.”It’s also the best on-ramp for new users — you don’t need to know what an iron condor is to bet on calm.

Library — pick by strategy

The deeper catalog. ~15 pre-tuned scans across six categories (income, volatility, directional, event, hedging, advanced). Every entry is named by what it does, not by an internal identifier — “Wheel candidates,” “Earnings IV crush,” “Bullish debit spreads,” “Protective put screen.”

Use Library when you already know roughly what you’re looking for and want to skip the goal wizard. See the full 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. You can also tag them and filter the list by tag once you have more than a handful.

Focus — single-ticker deep analysis

The Focus tab is Radar’s deep-analysis mode. Enter a single ticker, pick a strategy, and run a focused scan that returns the full P&L profile, Greeks, Monte Carlo distribution, regime context, and the score breakdown for that one trade. This is where you decide whether a trade is actually right for you, not just statistically attractive. You can also reach Focus mode directly via /radar?focus=1.

See Focus mode deep analysis for the complete guide to what the analysis surface shows you.

The natural-language input

Above the tabs there’s a single text input labeled Describe a scan. Type in plain English — “sell 30-delta puts on tech with 30+ days” or “iron condors expiring before earnings on names with IV rank above 50” — and Tradient’s NL translator turns it into a fully-populated filter object and runs it.

It’s the fastest way to express a custom scan without clicking through filter chips. See Natural-language scanner for what the translator understands and where it falls back.

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. The traditional columns, all live.
Capital sizing: contracts × collateral × % of capital, if you’ve set an account size.
IV regime, Conviction, Regime fit. Surfaced in the expanded row detail panel.

Tip

The result table is identical across surfaces by design — it means whatever you learn about reading scores in one context carries over instantly to another. 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. Click any pill to edit it (the input becomes editable inline) or click the X to remove it. The scan reruns instantly. This is the fast path for “the goal card was close but I want a tighter delta band.”

See filter chips reference for the full list of recognized filters.