The Squeeze Scanner for crypto
and tokenized equities.

What volatility compression actually signals

Markets alternate between expansion and contraction. A squeeze is the contraction phase — a period where realized volatility collapses and price trades in an unusually tight range. The classic signature is the Bollinger Bands narrowing until they sit entirely inside the Keltner Channel. When that happens, the market is storing energy. Compression is not a directional signal on its own; it is a timing signal that tells you a decisive move is becoming statistically more likely.

Ballad's scanner quantifies this state continuously. Instead of eyeballing hundreds of charts, you see exactly which crypto pairs and tokenized equities are in compression, how long they have been coiled, and how tightly — so you can prepare before the range resolves.

Bollinger Band + Keltner squeeze, quantified

The engine measures the relationship between the Bollinger Bands (standard-deviation based) and the Keltner Channel (ATR based). When the upper Bollinger Band drops below the upper Keltner band and the lower Bollinger Band rises above the lower Keltner band, the pair is flagged as "in squeeze." The longer and tighter the squeeze, the more potential energy is being wound up.

• ›BB inside KC. The core compression condition — standard deviation contracting below ATR-derived bands.
• ›Squeeze duration. How many candles the pair has stayed coiled. Longer compression often means a larger release.
• ›Compression depth. How tightly the bands are nested — a proxy for stored volatility.

Why declining ATR precedes breakouts

Average True Range (ATR) is a direct measure of how much an asset moves per candle. A steadily declining ATR means each successive bar is smaller — participation is thinning, orders are stacking near the range, and liquidity is being engineered around obvious levels. Historically, sustained ATR decline inside a squeeze is one of the most reliable precursors to a volatility expansion. The breakout detector watches for the moment ATR turns back up as the bands release, separating a genuine momentum thrust from a short-lived fakeout.

Scanning 650+ pairs and tokenized equities, continuously

A dedicated worker runs the full Binance USDⓈ-M Futures and MEXC Futures universe — over 650 pairs — plus tokenized stock markets, on a tight refresh cycle. Every result is persisted, ranked, and exposed through the dashboard with a clean state machine: watching, trigger-pending, triggered, invalidated. This is a crypto momentum scanner designed to run as institutional infrastructure, not a single browser tab.