Your first morning

Ten minutes before the US open, start to finish.

Before you begin

The sweep lands at 07:00 CET, an hour and a half before European lunch and long before New York wakes up. Every page carries a line under its title saying when the last sweep arrived and when the next one is due, so you never have to guess whether you are looking at today.

1. Start on the dashboard (1 minute)

The top of the page tells you three things: how many calls have proven out and out of how many, how many sweep days are behind the record, and what is on your watchlist. Read the denominator before the numerator — it is the honest measure of how much this record can carry.

2. Look at what the sweep found (3 minutes)

Found today is the top of the ranking. Each row is a ticker, a price, a score and one sentence explaining the score in words.

Read the sentence before the number. "No insider or analyst coverage — possibly limited, low forward P/E" tells you the score rests on one pillar, and that is a different stock from one where three pillars agree.

3. Open one (3 minutes)

Click through and the page opens on Overview: the chart, what the company does, and the score with its reasoning. Two things are worth your attention:

• The rings — insider, analyst, market. A dashed ring is no data, not bad data. An amber dot means the evidence is thin.
• `pillarsUsed` in the score explanation. Three of three is a different proposition from one of three, and the tier alone will not tell you which you are holding.

Then the Signals tab for the full reasoning behind each pillar.

4. Decide what to do with it (2 minutes)

Three honest options, in increasing order of commitment:

• Nothing. Most mornings this is right, and the score is a sorting mechanism rather than a reason to act.
• Bookmark it. The watchlist freezes the signals at this moment, so in a month you can see what actually changed rather than what you remember changing.
• Write it down. Trade setup gives a rule-derived entry, stop and target, and — this is the number to look at — how often that stop would have been hit in the past year. A paper trade records what your decision would have done, without money.

5. Come back tomorrow

The point of a daily sweep is the series, not any one morning. The track record only becomes worth something once there is enough of it, and that takes the kind of patience nobody's landing page mentions.

If you have five minutes instead of ten

Read the daily email. Three gems, what became of earlier calls, and the denominator. It arrives at 09:00 CET, before the US open.