Institutional Flow Scanner
Institutions leave footprints on the lit tape: volume that runs several times a stock's own average while the price holds near the session's typical price. Our Institutional Flow scan estimates that pattern honestly from lit-exchange data alone. It is an estimate, not dark pool attribution - and every signal links the ticker's real FINRA weekly dark pool totals so you can check the actual numbers, on their weekly delay, any time.
Triggers for institutional flow
- Relative volume at 3x or more of the name's own average, the default spike multiple (save your own scan to change it)
- Price holding within a tight band of the typical price while that volume prints, the pattern block accumulation leaves on the lit tape
- Tiered reads on the chart: a signal on a closed bar, a strong tier when the band is tight, an accumulated tier when signals repeat inside the window
- Every alert-feed hit cross-references the ticker's real FINRA weekly dark pool shares with a link to its dark pool page
- Explicitly NOT included: real-time ATS or TRF print attribution. That data is weekly and delayed at FINRA, and no retail feed carries it live.
Top tickers right now
Live ticker data for this preset streams inside the Tapeboard scanner once you sign in. The public snapshot endpoint covers the six core presets (top gainers, top losers, most active, unusual volume, gap up, gap down), with this preset's snapshot rolling out next.
When this preset earns its keep
A watchlist builder for likely institutional participation, honestly framed. The estimate surfaces names where unusual volume is printing near the anchor; the FINRA weekly cross-reference tells you what the dark pools actually traded that week. Use the scan intraday for candidates, use the tracker for confirmation, and never read the estimate as an attribution claim. For the live scan, open the Scanner and pick Institutional Flow.
How Tapeboard runs this scanner
- Streaming updates, rows update continuously, not a 10-second refresh delay. Free tier runs on standard 15-minute delayed data; real-time on the free Pro trial and Pro.
- Click-through to full research: chart + 134 indicators, L2 book, time & sales, SEC filings, insider transactions, and news recency on every row.
- Paper-trading simulator (Pro tier), size the setup against L2-book-walked sim fills before risking capital.
- AI research briefings summarize news and filings behind a ticker without opening six tabs.
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