Small-cap filters that matter

• Price bands under $1, under $2, under $3, and under $5 for low-priced discovery workflows.
• Relative volume, volume acceleration, dollar volume, float and share-structure context, and stale-symbol rejection.
• Catalyst, reverse split, offering, dilution, halt, spread, and liquidity warnings where source data supports them.

Why the scanner stays paper-first

• Small-cap liquidity can change fast, so paper planning must include invalidation, spread, position sizing assumptions, and session eligibility.
• The product avoids certainty-based or top-pick language and instead shows evidence strength, missing data, and limitations.
• Historical replay and journal review are used to evaluate methodology rather than claim future returns.