Systematic Inquiry & Scan Filter Architecture
ScanQuestion Workbook was built to bridge the gap between abstract market intuition and quantifiable scanning filters, emphasizing falsifiable hypotheses and thorough manual post-scan audits.
From indicator chaos to hypothesis-driven market scans
ScanQuestion Workbook was founded as an independent open study environment to solve a universal structural error: formulating market screening filters before defining the underlying inquiry. Most technical screenings fail not due to mathematical flaws in screener software, but because the investigator has not established what behavioral phenomenon they are attempting to isolate.
Our curriculum dismantles the habit of stacking uncoordinated oscillators. Instead, we structure research into four verifiable layers: crisp natural-language hypotheses, quantifiable universe boundaries, rigorous multi-timeframe filter syntax, and manual chart audit routines. We operate without brokerage sponsorships, advisory programs, or promotional affiliations.
The laboratory methodology & inquiry rules
Every scanning routine cataloged in this workbook adheres to repeatable empirical benchmarks designed to eliminate ambiguous queries and false sample inflation.
Precise Phrasing
Transform vague intuition into an explicit conditional statement before writing a single formula or selecting screening parameters.
Mathematical Sanity
Enforce strict normalization across price ranges, true liquidity thresholds, and minimum participant volume to prevent erratic outlier reads.
Multi-Timeframe Order
Harmonize primary trend conditions on weekly frames with tactical compression checks on daily bars without introducing lookahead bias.
Manual Review Protocol
Audit raw scanner cohorts item by item against historical distribution curves to identify anomalous corporate actions or volume spikes.
A valid research question must be testable through binary truth criteria across past historical cohorts without relying on hindsight parameter optimization.
Operational Boundary
ScanQuestion Workbook functions exclusively as a pedagogical resource dedicated to relational filter logic, dataset parameterization, and scanner construction principles.
- Independent pedagogical framework
- No commercial software or platform ties
- Strict non-advisory educational scope
"The purpose of market scanning is not to predict direction, but to systematically reduce an unmanageable universe of thousands of securities to an audited cohort that satisfies explicit, falsifiable structural parameters."