Scanz is a real-time scanning and decision-support platform built for active US equity traders, and it earns that description on speed and depth rather than breadth. The fit is narrow and deliberate: momentum, small-cap, OTC, and news-driven traders who work the pre-market and intraday sessions. The version a serious trader will actually use runs $199 a month, and the one rule to understand before paying is that Scanz issues no refunds on any charge, including renewals.
What Scanz Is and Who It’s For
Scanz is the current form of EquityFeed, a scanning product with close to two decades behind it. That lineage shows in the design, which assumes its user already knows what relative volume, float, and Level 2 are, then gets out of the way. This is not a learn-to-trade product with a chatroom attached. Scanz states plainly that it is a tool, not an advisory service, and it makes no trade calls.
The target trader is specific. Someone hunting gap-ups on low-float names at 7:00 AM, or watching an SEC filing hit the wire on a small-cap before the news services catch it, is exactly who the platform is built around. The wrong fit is just as clear. Scanz covers US equities and nothing else, so options traders, crypto traders, and anyone who needs to scan the FTSE, TSX, or ASX should look elsewhere. International traders can use it to trade US markets, but it will not scan their home exchanges.
Scanning Engines
Two scanners sit at the center of the platform, and they serve different temperaments.
Pro Scanner
Pro Scanner is the build-it-yourself engine. A trader can combine more than 100 price, volume, technical, and fundamental variables into custom scans, or start from a library of over 70 prebuilt scans covering gappers, momentum, crossovers, and similar setups. Scans run in real time from 4:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET, which means the same scan that surfaces a pre-market gapper keeps working into the after-hours session. Results export to CSV for anyone who wants to crunch them outside the app.
The depth is the selling point and also the learning curve. A trader who never moves past the prebuilt scans is leaving most of the engine unused, while one willing to layer float, short interest, and relative volume into a single scan gets something genuinely tuned to a strategy.
Easy Scanner
Easy Scanner is the opposite approach: one window showing the whole US market sorted by what is moving. It is built for traders who want the action surfaced rather than defined, with auto-ranking by volatility, liquidity, or momentum and ready-made views for short squeeze candidates, ETFs, sectors, and indices. Setup takes under a minute, which makes it the faster path for a trader who would rather react to the market than pre-specify it.
Decision Support and Execution
Finding a stock is only half the job. The rest of the platform exists to help a trader decide what to do once a ticker is on the screen.
Montage
Montage is the all-in-one window: charts, Level 1 and Level 2, time and sales, fundamentals, and news for a single ticker, with tabbed views so several names stay open at once. Pre-market, regular, and post-market data all live here. It is the screen a trader parks on once a scan flags something worth a closer look, and consolidating that many data types into one window is a real workflow advantage over juggling separate tools.
Level 2 and the Market Maker Activity Log
The Level 2 window is color-coded by price level with an order book summary that groups orders so supply and demand read at a glance. The standout piece is the Market Maker Activity Log, which has no obvious equivalent in most retail tools. It flags when a market maker adds, pulls, or resizes an order on the book, the kind of order-flow change a trader would otherwise have to catch by staring at the depth. For anyone who trades thin, fast-moving names, that is a meaningful edge.
Charting
Charts stream in real time with the indicators active traders expect, including VWAP, RSI, MACD, and moving averages, plus drawing tools for trendlines and Fibonacci retracements. The charting is capable rather than category-leading, and traders who already run a dedicated charting package may keep it. As a decision tool sitting next to the scanner and Level 2, it does the job.
Signals, News, and Alerts
Beyond manual scanning, Scanz pushes events to the trader. The Breakouts module streams real-time signals for new highs and lows, price and volume breakouts, and block trades, and it counts how many times a stock has triggered during the day so the most active names rise to the top. The News Scanner pulls SEC filings alongside the major press-release wires, including Newsfile, PR Newswire, Globe Newswire, AccessWire, and BusinessWire, with keyword filtering, audio alerts, and search by ticker. Custom Alerts cover price, volume, technical, news, and filing conditions, delivered on the desktop or by email, with SMS noted as planned.
One filter mechanic is worth flagging because it shapes how scans get built. Filters combine with AND logic only, meaning a stock must satisfy every condition to appear in results. Any OR condition, such as wanting either a volume spike or a new high, requires building and running a second scan. It is not a dealbreaker, but it does mean complex either-or strategies take more setup than they would on a tool with native OR logic.
Markets, Data, and Coverage Limits
Scanz covers US equities across NYSE, Nasdaq, AMEX, and OTC. Scans on the paid plans refresh every 500ms, twice a second, which is the speed that justifies the real-time label for intraday work. Pre-market from 4:00 AM ET and after-hours to 8:00 PM ET are treated as full sessions throughout the platform, not bolt-ons.
The coverage gaps are firm and worth stating before anyone subscribes. There is no options scanning, no live crypto data, and no international market data. Mobile access is a touch-optimized web app rather than a native iOS or Android build, so a trader expecting a real phone app will not find one yet. Broker execution is on the roadmap, with Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade named as first, but it has not shipped: orders still go through a separate broker platform for now.
Pricing
Scanz runs four tiers, all billed month-to-month with no annual option.
| Plan | Price | Data | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | 30-minute delayed, Nasdaq only | Full feature set, no credit card required |
| Starter | $89/month | Real-time, all 4 exchanges | 1 saved scan of each type, 1 watchlist (20 symbols), web and mobile |
| Pro | $199/month | Real-time, all 4 exchanges | Unlimited saved scans, alerts, and watchlists; desktop app; custom layouts; multi-monitor; custom data columns |
| Ultra | $999/month | Real-time | Concierge scan building, API access, automated trading hooks, dedicated success rep, white-glove onboarding |
The gap between Starter and Pro is the part that matters. Starter at $89 caps a trader at one saved scan per type and a single 20-symbol watchlist, which is enough to evaluate the platform but not enough to trade on. An active trader needs several scans saved and running at once, more than one watchlist, and on a real desktop setup the multi-monitor support, all of which live on Pro. The practical entry price for serious use is therefore $199, not $89. Ultra is a contact-us enterprise tier most individual traders can ignore; its API access and automated trading hooks are aimed at users building custom systems.
The Trial and Refund Rules
This is the section to read twice, because the billing model is unusually unforgiving and it is where a trader is most likely to get burned.
Starter and Pro both come with a 7-day free trial of real-time data, and a valid credit card is required to start it. At the end of the seven days the subscription converts on its own to the paid monthly rate unless the trader cancels first. That part is common. What is not common is the refund stance: Scanz issues no refunds on any charge, initial or renewal, and explicitly will not refund a trader who forgot to cancel, believes a cancellation did not go through, or did not realize billing was automatic. All sales are final.
The practical implication is straightforward. The trial is the only no-cost window to test real-time data, so a trader taking it should set a calendar reminder for day six and cancel through the account dashboard or by emailing support, keeping a screenshot of any email as proof. Cancellation stops future billing but does not claw back a charge already made. For anyone who only wants to see the interface and workflow without that pressure, the permanent Free plan does the job at zero risk, with the catch that its 30-minute delayed data makes it useless for actual intraday trading.
Bottom Line
Scanz is a fast, deep real-time scanner that knows exactly who it serves. For an active US day or swing trader who will live on the Pro plan, the scanning depth, 500ms refresh, full pre-market and after-hours coverage, and the Market Maker Activity Log add up to a platform that competes on substance. The reservations are real but mostly about fit and fine print rather than capability. A trader who wants options or crypto, a native mobile app, in-platform execution today, or a forgiving refund policy should weigh those gaps seriously before handing over a card.
Pros
- Scans refresh every 500ms across all four US exchanges, fast enough for intraday momentum trading
- Deep custom scanning with more than 100 price, volume, technical, and fundamental variables, plus over 70 prebuilt scans
- Pre-market from 4:00 AM ET and after-hours to 8:00 PM ET run as full sessions, not afterthoughts
- The Market Maker Activity Log surfaces order-book changes most retail Level 2 tools leave the trader to spot manually
- A permanent Free tier allows a no-cost look at the interface before any payment
Cons
- No refunds on any charge, including automatic renewals, paired with a card-required trial that converts on its own. By policy, forgetting to cancel means the money is gone.
- Starter at $89 is too limited to trade on, so the real cost of a working setup is the $199 Pro plan
- No in-platform trade execution yet; orders still route through a separate broker
- No options, crypto, or international coverage, and no native mobile app
- Filters use AND logic only, so any either-or condition requires building a second scan