DotScout — Daily Scout Report

Today's verdict · 2026-08-13

1 A-grade setup today.

DotScout checked 1,521 stocks tonight and found 1 whose exact signal pattern has historically risen more often than chance. That is not a guarantee — it means favorable odds. The Scout Report tab has the full plan for each one, including the price to exit at if it goes wrong. That exit is what makes this beginner-safe: a wrong pick costs a small, known amount.

Since the last scanNew: AEPNew: CNPNew: HLTNew: WULFDropped: ALNYDropped: DKNGDropped: MODDropped: RBLXDropped: STRL

51green dots

41trim flags

1A-grade

0crypto signals

1,521scanned

The daily routine — 30 seconds

1Read the verdictIt tells you if today is a buy day, a watch day, or a do-nothing day.

2Open the Scout ReportOnly setups that passed every test appear there, with every price worked out.

3Decide your amountPick a budget where hitting the safety exit only costs what you can shrug off.

4Set the safety exitThe moment you buy, set the sell order at the safety-exit price. Never skip this.

All green dots — the full list51 stocks

Everything that flashed a buy dot, best first. This is the raw feed — the Scout Report tab is the filtered, actionable version. Grade C = watching only.

Stock	Grade	Price	Signal	How stretched?	Bigger trend	Daily move	Score	Why it's here
HLT	A	$323.45	dot 08-12	Very oversold — strong	Falling	~2.19%/day	3.5	fired from very oversold (proven edge); second momentum gauge (MACD) turned up
AEP	B	$124.77	STRONG dot 08-13	Deeply oversold — strongest	Falling	~1.97%/day	3.0	strongest buy dot — fired from deeply oversold (best odds in backtest); still below its long-term average (bounce play)
CNP	B	$40.69	dot 08-13	Very oversold — strong	Falling	~2.11%/day	2.5	fired from very oversold (proven edge); still below its long-term average (bounce play)
WULF SMALL/INTL	B	$17.19	dot 08-13	Very oversold — strong	Falling	~9.68%/day	2.5	fired from very oversold (proven edge); still below its long-term average (bounce play)
MDLZ	C	$63.13	dot 08-13	Middle — weak	Rising	~2.46%/day	2.0	weekly chart flashed a buy dot too; second momentum gauge (MACD) turned up
ABBV	C	$252.08	dot 08-13	Middle — weak	Falling	~2.36%/day	1.5
AKAM	C	$125.62	dot 08-12	Middle — weak	Falling	~4.87%/day	1.5
COST	C	$951.82	dot 08-13	Middle — weak	Rising	~1.77%/day	1.5	weekly chart flashed a buy dot too; still below its long-term average (bounce play); bought by member(s) of Congress (Dan Newhouse)
CL	C	$93.49	dot 08-13	Middle — weak	Rising	~2.27%/day	1.5	weekly chart flashed a buy dot too
EQIX	C	$1071.51	dot 08-12	Middle — weak	Falling	~2.57%/day	1.5
FIX	C	$1730.76	dot 08-12	Middle — weak	Falling	~5.47%/day	1.5
GS	C	$1048.05	dot 08-13	Middle — weak	Falling	~2.87%/day	1.5

"Think about selling" warnings41 stocks

If you OWN one of these, it may be a good moment to take some profit. These are NOT bets against a stock — history shows betting against them loses money.

Stock	Grade	Price	Signal	How stretched?	Bigger trend	Daily move	Score	Why it's here
ADSK	—	$249.82	STRONG dot 08-13	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~3.24%/day	2.5	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
AMGN	—	$417.87	STRONG dot 08-12	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~2.48%/day	2.5	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
BKNG	—	$212.96	STRONG dot 08-12	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~3.29%/day	2.5	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
CTSH	—	$59.24	STRONG dot 08-12	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~4.02%/day	2.5	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
PH	—	$1056.69	STRONG dot 08-13	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~2.29%/day	2.5	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
REGN	—	$807.74	STRONG dot 08-12	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~2.27%/day	2.5	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
SNOW SMALL/INTL	—	$333.67	STRONG dot 08-12	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~3.75%/day	2.5	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
ADBE	—	$262.74	STRONG dot 08-12	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~3.99%/day	2.25	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
BKR	—	$62.88	STRONG dot 08-13	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~2.76%/day	2.25	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
COR	—	$313.75	STRONG dot 08-12	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~2.79%/day	2.25	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated
CSCO	—	$115.25	dot 08-13	Very overheated	Falling	~3.58%/day	2.25	weekly momentum falling; weekly chart overheated
PFE	—	$26.68	STRONG dot 08-13	Overheated — strongest warning	Rising	~2.0%/day	2.25	strongest warning dot — fired from overheated

Crypto dots0 pairs

Same signals for major cryptocurrencies (these trade 24/7).

Pair	Price	Signal	How stretched?	Bigger trend	Daily move

Scout Report — what to do today

This page is the whole point. Only setups that passed every test appear here — the story, the four prices, a worked example in real dollars, and the receipt (the actual historical numbers for this exact kind of signal). If a card doesn't convince you, skipping is always allowed.

HLT $323.45 A

fired from very oversold (proven edge); second momentum gauge (MACD) turned up.

last 30 days — the dip the dot fired from

1 · Safety exit$312.82

2 · Sell half at$330.53

3 · Then trail by$10.63

4 · Deadlineday 10

Example with $1,000 (not a recommendation — scale to your budget)

≈ 3 shares ($970)worst case at safety exit: −$31.88first target banks ≈ +$14.17 on half

Receipt: 3,516 past signals like this one — 54.1% rose within 10 trading days (avg +0.67%) vs 54.4% on any random day.

The four numbers, in plain words

1Safety exitIf it falls here, sell everything. No debate, no hoping. This keeps every mistake small.

2Sell halfIf it rises here, sell HALF. Profit is banked; the trade can barely hurt you now.

3Trail the restLet the other half run. Keep a sell level trailing below its highest price — raise it, never lower it.

4Day-10 deadlineTarget never came? Sell anyway. The signal's edge is historically used up by then.

Whales — follow the big money

Some people act before the charts move: executives buying their own stock, politicians with better briefings, funds quietly accumulating. All of it is public data — it's just scattered and hard to read. DotScout gathers it nightly and ranks who's being bought by people who know something. One informed group can be wrong; several agreeing on the same stock is the signal.

Company insidersExecutives buying their OWN company's stock with their own money — the single best-documented bullish signal in finance. They know the business; they don't buy to lose.

CongressMembers of Congress must disclose their personal stock trades. They sit in briefings the public never sees. We track their buys.

Government contractsA $50M+ federal contract lands months before it shows up in the company's earnings. The stock often catches up later.

Lobbying surgesWhen a company suddenly spends big money on lobbying, it's betting on a policy outcome worth far more. Follow the spend.

Hedge funds (13F)Every quarter, big funds must reveal what they bought. It's ~45 days delayed — slow context, not a trigger — but shows where the whales are accumulating.

Dark poolsLarge trades executed away from public exchanges. Unusual off-exchange buying can hint at quiet accumulation. Experimental — we label it that way.

Today's whale standouts

Ranked by how many independent informed groups are acting at once. Research ideas, not buy orders — always check WHY a stock fell before acting. When a name here ALSO has a buy dot, it gets the CONFLUENCE badge — the rarest and most interesting event in the app. Fund (13F) data is quarterly and ~45 days delayed.

Stock	Price	Off 52w high	Score	Why the whales are here
TSM	$435.42	-8.8%	10	31 insiders bought $1.21M incl. an officer; $970k lobbying spend (30d) — policy bet; OVERLAP: 2 independent informed-money sources; big funds net BUYING: 1444 added/new vs 1017 cut/closed last quarter (13F, lagged) · held by FMR LLC, Capital World Investors
BSX	$52.09	-51.8%	9	3 insiders bought $9.39M incl. an officer; $782k lobbying spend (30d) — policy bet; OVERLAP: 2 independent informed-money sources; -52% off its 52w high (conviction into weakness) · held by VANGUARD GROUP INC, BlackRock, Inc.
ACI	$12.27	-37.8%	9	3 insiders bought $2.52M incl. an officer; $570k lobbying spend (30d) — policy bet; OVERLAP: 2 independent informed-money sources; -38% off its 52w high (conviction into weakness) · held by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., FEINBERG STEPHEN
CC	$15.21	-45.6%	9	5 insiders bought $0.41M incl. an officer; $570k lobbying spend (30d) — policy bet; OVERLAP: 2 independent informed-money sources; -46% off its 52w high (conviction into weakness); funds mildly net positive: 128 vs 105 (13F, lagged) · held by BlackRock, Inc., VANGUARD GROUP INC
ELV	$404.08	-6.1%	9	2 insiders bought $1.37M incl. an officer; $2745k lobbying spend (30d) — policy bet; OVERLAP: 2 independent informed-money sources; big funds net BUYING: 617 added/new vs 448 cut/closed last quarter (13F, lagged) · held by VANGUARD GROUP INC, BlackRock, Inc.
APTV	$48.56	-45.3%	6	3 insiders bought $8.06M incl. an officer; -45% off its 52w high (conviction into weakness) · held by VANGUARD GROUP INC, BlackRock, Inc.
CLBK	$11.54	-52.8%	6	16 insiders bought $4.78M incl. an officer; -53% off its 52w high (conviction into weakness)
KR	$56.78	-24.9%	6	2 congressional buy(s) (David J. Taylor); $520k lobbying spend (30d) — policy bet; OVERLAP: 2 independent informed-money sources; -25% off its 52w high (conviction into weakness)

Scoreboard — we grade ourselves in public

DotScout trades its own signals on a simulated (paper) account, live, and shows every position and every result here — losers included, always. No cherry-picking, no screenshots of winners only. If the system is good, this page will show it; if it stops being good, this page will show that too. Judge it over months, not days.

Public receipts page — anyone can see it, no account needed: dotscout.app/receipts.html. Next time someone brags about their guru, send them our losers.

Account value — last month $50,104 (+0.21%)

11open positions

0closed trades

—win rate (closed)

$+0.00realized P&L

Stock	Status	Bought at	Now	Safety exit	Half-off target	Open P&L
RBLX	stop + target armed	$36.37	$37.70	$31.69	$39.27	$+35.78
STRL	stop + target armed	$553.30	$551.84	$458.33	$582.78	$-1.46
DKNG	stop + target armed	$25.30	$25.43	$23.53	$26.54	$+4.88
ALNY	stop + target armed	$221.70	$226.99	$199.89	$235.09	$+21.15
MOD	stop + target armed	$209.82	$204.65	$176.42	$213.25	$-25.85
TSM	stop + target armed	$428.32	$433.05	$405.23	$443.25	$+9.46
BSX	stop + target armed	$51.38	$51.80	$48.8	$53.0	$+7.88
ACI	stop + target armed	$12.15	$12.43	$11.37	$12.68	$+22.55
CC	stop + target armed	$15.03	$15.25	$13.52	$16.08	$+14.52
ELV	stop + target armed	$395.45	$398.39	$378.69	$406.87	$+5.88
HLT	stop + target armed	$325.72	$320.18	$311.61	$330.16	$-16.63

Picks, 10 days later — the automatic report card3 picks tracked

The scorecard is young — verdicts land as each pick reaches its target, its safety exit, or day 10. Nothing is ever deleted from this table.

Signal date	Stock	Grade	Entry (signal close)	Outcome	Result
08-13	HLT	A	$323.45	signal day — starts tomorrow	—
08-12	RBLX	A	$36.24	in progress — day 1/10	+4.0%
08-11	RBLX	A	$36.24	in progress — day 2/10	+4.0%

Measured from the signal close using daily prices; real fills differ slightly. A day that touches both prices counts as the safety exit — we grade ourselves pessimistically, not generously.

Hype Check — scout it before you buy it

Someone pitching you a stock — a friend, a TikTok, a "can't-miss" tip? Type the ticker. DotScout checks its momentum, whale activity, volatility, and history in one second — and tells you in plain English whether the data backs the hype. Built for the moment right before you spend a dollar.

What it checks

1Is it overheated?Hype usually arrives AFTER the move. We check if the excitement already happened.

2Are whales in it?Insiders, Congress, contracts, funds. Hype with no informed money behind it is the classic pump pattern.

3How wild is it?Typical daily swing, distance off its high — how much pain a wrong buy could bring.

4Is it even visible?Too small for our ~6,000-stock scanner = exactly where pump-and-dumps live.

Learn — how DotScout works, in plain English

DotScout exists for regular people — the ones usually sold hype, jargon, and guaranteed-riches promises, then left holding the bag. Here there are no promises: just evidence, exits, and plain English. Five minutes on this page and the whole app makes sense. No finance degree required.

The big idea (30 seconds)

When lots of people panic-sell a stock, it gets "oversold" — stretched down like a spring. A green dot fires when a stretched-down stock starts turning back up. We tested this on 3 years of market history (55,000+ signals): dots that fired from deeply oversold went on to rise over the next 1–2 weeks noticeably more often than normal days. Dots from the "middle" zone were no better than chance — so we grade everything, and every card shows its receipt: the real historical numbers for that exact flavor of signal.

Tip: every ticker (underlined, with a ↗) links to a live chart on TradingView so you can see exactly what the stock is doing right now. On your phone, tap any dotted word to see what it means.

What the grades mean

A — the proven signal PLUS extra good things stacked on top (whale activity, a rising weekly tide). The Scout Report is built from these.
B — decent; reasonable if you go smaller.
C — watching only. Not a trade idea, shown for completeness.
MID / SMALL-INTL / WATCH — company size tags. Smaller companies move more in both directions; our own full-year replay showed small-cap signals were harder to profit from, so treat those with extra care.
CONFLUENCE — a buy dot AND whale activity on the same stock at the same time. Rare, and worth a closer look when it happens.

Why the exits matter more than the picks

Beginners don't lose money because their picks are bad — they lose it by having no plan for when a pick goes wrong. Every DotScout setup ships with the plan attached: the safety exit caps the damage, selling half at the first target banks profit early, the trailing stop lets winners keep running, and the day-10 deadline stops zombie trades from eating your attention. Follow the four numbers and no single trade can hurt you badly. That discipline — not any single pick — is the whole edge.

How much money to use

Decide your amount so that hitting the safety exit costs only what you can shrug off. Many people risk about 1% of their account per trade — with a $5,000 account, that means sizing each position so the safety exit loses about $50. The worked example on each card shows the math at $1,000 so you can scale it to your own number. Never trade money you may need soon, and practice on a paper (pretend-money) account first.

The honest fine print

3y (2023–2026) · 55,870 dot events — STRONG oversold dots: 56.6% win / +0.98% avg over 10 days vs 54.4% / +0.66% baseline. Mid-range dots: no edge. Red dots: no short edge — exit flags only. (A longer 5.5y test incl. the 2022 bear market is archived — the oversold-bounce edge holds in both.)

Universe: every S&P 500/400 company plus a nightly sweep of liquid US-listed small caps and international names (ADRs included). Stocks trading only on foreign exchanges with no US listing aren't visible to it.

Is this financial advice?

No. DotScout is a research and education tool — the same screening a professional desk does, made readable. It never knows your situation, and it never tells YOU what to do. It shows what the data says, with the evidence attached, and every decision stays yours.

Can it guarantee I make money?

No, and run from anything that says otherwise. An edge means better odds over many trades, not certainty on any single one. Plenty of A-grade setups still lose — the safety exit is what keeps those losses small. Past results never guarantee future returns.

Why show your losing trades?

Because a track record with the losers removed is a lie. The Scoreboard is the app grading itself in public, and it's the only honest way to earn trust.

What should a beginner do first?

Read this page, watch the app for a week or two without buying anything, then practice the routine on a paper-trading account until the four numbers feel automatic. Only then use real money, starting small.