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Heat Map Profiles

Heat Map profiles work just like screener profiles: a profile saves your complete map setup — categories, box size and color metrics, ranges, markets, and display of missing data — so any view you build is one click away.

The Heat Map with the Profiles sidebar open, showing folders of ready-made profiles like Market Breadth, Momentum, and Alpha RatingsThe Heat Map with the Profiles sidebar open, showing folders of ready-made profiles like Market Breadth, Momentum, and Alpha Ratings

Saving a Profile​

  1. Configure the map the way you want it (see Customizing the Heat Map)
  2. Click Save in the toolbar
  3. Save over the current profile or save your setup as a new one

An unsaved change to the current profile is marked with a * next to its name, so you always know when your view has drifted from what's saved.

The Profiles Dropdown and Sidebar​

  • The profiles dropdown in the toolbar lists your profiles and the MarketAlpha community profiles, grouped by folder — from here you can also rename, duplicate, favorite, or delete a profile
  • The Heat Map Profiles sidebar gives you the full folder view for browsing and organizing everything in one place

Favorites​

Mark the profiles you use most as favorites to pin them for quick access — including directly from the main navigation, so your go-to map is always one click away. New accounts start with a curated set of favorites already in place.

Ready-Made Profile Library​

Heat Maps ships with a full library of community profiles, organized into folders such as:

  • Market Breadth
  • 52 Week Highs/Lows
  • Momentum
  • Performance
  • Volume & Short Interest
  • Alpha Ratings
  • AI Setups
  • Earnings
  • Corporate Events
  • Explorations

They're the fastest way to learn what the Heat Map can do — open one, see how it's configured, and duplicate it as a starting point for your own view.

Automatic Session Switching​

Like the screeners, Heat Maps adapts to the market session automatically: opening the page loads the default profile for the current session — Pre-Market, Regular Hours, Post-Market, or Market Closed — so the map always highlights what's relevant right now.

Summary​

Profiles make every Heat Map view repeatable: build it once, save it, favorite it, and it's there whenever you need it — with ready-made setups to start from and session-aware defaults that keep the map in step with the trading day.