About Heat Map Profiles
Learn how and when to use each Heat Map profile to read market breadth, sector rotation, momentum, volume, earnings activity, and AI setups on a single screen.
Default
Session-based Heat Maps that activate automatically for the Pre Market, Regular Market, Post Market, and Market Closed periods. All four show the market by sector and industry, sized by market capitalization, with a color metric matched to the current session.
Market Breadth
Heat Maps that split the market into two camps, advancing versus declining or above versus below a key moving average, so you can judge how broad a move really is. Sized by average turnover to keep the most actively traded names in focus.
52 Week Highs/Lows
Heat Maps showing only stocks making new 52-week highs or lows, with every box the same size so you can count names rather than weigh them. Available for the pre-market, regular, and post-market sessions.
Performance
Return-focused Heat Maps colored by year-to-date performance or the day's change, grouped by sector and industry or by theme. The fastest way to see which parts of the market lead and lag.
Momentum
Heat Maps built on Relative Strength ratings, gaps, and range compression. They highlight leadership over one day or one year, across sectors and themes, and surface coiled setups before they expand.
Volume & Short Interest
Activity-focused Heat Maps showing where trading volume concentrates, which stocks trade far above their normal levels, and where heavy short positioning creates squeeze potential.
Alpha Ratings
Heat Maps colored by MarketAlpha's proprietary ratings: the composite MarketAlpha Rating, the EPS, Sales, and Profit Ratings, and the Accumulation/Distribution Score. They show where quality and institutional support cluster across the market.
AI Setups
Heat Maps built on MarketAlpha's AI signals. One shows only the AI-detected Top Alpha Setups, the other groups the whole market by its current Alpha Strategy, so you can see trade-ready structure across the market at once.
Earnings
Event-driven Heat Maps for the earnings calendar: companies about to report, companies that just reported, and everything reporting within the next five days. Built for catalyst preparation and reaction tracking.
Corporate Events
Heat Maps for structural corporate events. Recent IPOs shows companies within 60 trading days of their listing, where volatility and early leadership often form.
Explorations
Discovery Heat Maps that slice the market in less common ways, like grouping non-US stocks by their home country to show how each foreign market is trading.