Snap Trades
The opening range, stocks in play, the alerts
20 questions about Snap Trades
Where is Snap Trades? Is it Snap Trades or Snap Trades Live?The same product. Open Snap Trades in the menu on the left of your members area: Snap Trades Live is the tab with every call of the morning, and the TradingView tab has the indicator and its lessons.
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How do I install the Snap Trades indicator on TradingView?Open Snap Trades → the TradingView tab → Snap Trade Indicator for TradingView, press its install link, add the script to your favorites, then pick it from Indicators → Favorites on a 15-minute chart.
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How does Snap Trades work?It trades the opening range on the 15-minute chart: the first candle (9:30–9:45 New York) sets the Snap Range, and the first close out of it, the way the opening candle went, before noon, on a stock in play, is the call.
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Where are the Snap Trades stop and target? When do I get out?The stop is 1.5 ATR from the entry and the target 3 ATR, twice the risk. Neither reached, the trade closes at the 15:45 candle's close. It is never held overnight.
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What changed in Snap Trades 2.0? My old Snap levels look the sameThe levels are drawn the same way. What changed is which breakouts are called (only stocks in play, the opening candle's side) and how long a trade is held (to the close). The script as written lost a little in every stretch we tested; this version held up on months it never saw.
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How do I get Snap Trades alerts? I am not getting Telegram alertsSnap Trades Alerts posts the best Snap calls of the morning, five at most, each with how it ended, in the Snap Trade Alerts Telegram group and its Discord channel. Open Snap Trades Alerts in your members area and join from its page.
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When do Snap Trades calls show up? Why does a call appear after it fired?Snap Trades Live refreshes every quarter hour from about 10:20 to 11:35 AM New York, again at 12:35 and after the close, once each 15-minute candle is in the data. So a call shows a little after its candle closed.
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Do you trade Snap Trades with options or shares?The call is a stock trade: an entry, a stop and a target the same day. Snap Trades Live gives no options contract. The TradingView tab has a Snap Trades Options Trading Guide and a Cash Account Guide for trading it your way.
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Does Snap Trades call shorts?Yes. Snap Trades calls both sides: the Snap Long when the opening candle closed up and price closes above the range, the Snap Short when it closed down and price closes below it.
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What is a "stock in play", and why was a breakout not called?A stock whose first 15 minutes traded at least 1.5× their usual volume over the last 14 sessions. A breakout on an ordinary open is drawn on the chart but not called: that filter is most of the edge.
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What is Ben's Snap briefing and the 🔥 on Snap Trades Live?The briefing above the countdown is worked out from the market data each morning: SPY against its 50-day, the sectors moving most, and the liquid stocks trading heaviest. 🔥 marks the ones Ben would watch first.
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What does "Getting close" mean on Snap Trades?Charts within half an ATR of the range edge they would break, on the opening candle's side, with no trade yet that day. It fills only in the morning refreshes, before noon.
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What timeframe is Snap Trades? Can I use it on a 5-minute chart?The 15-minute chart: the opening range is the 9:30–9:45 candle. Find Better Charts draws Snap Trades on the 15-minute and 1-hour charts only, since it reads the day's opening range.
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Does Snap Trades work on forex or futures?The TradingView indicator runs on them, and the Snap Trades Forex and Other Assets lesson shows how. Snap Trades Live and the alerts call US stocks and ETFs, where the opening range is the 9:30 New York open.
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What is the VIX filter in the Snap Trades TradingView settings?The TradingView script can skip days when the VIX is under a minimum (15 by default), so it trades only when the market is moving. You can switch it off or change the level in the indicator's settings.
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Where are Snap Trades' results?On Snap Trades Live: the open calls, then every call that ended and how: the target, the stop, or "Closed at the close". Results are in % of the entry. ▶ Replay plays any call candle by candle.
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I saw a Snap call late. Can I still take it?Snap trades are same-day and fast, so a late entry changes the trade: measure from today's price to the stop and the target on the card. After noon there are no new entries, and every trade ends by the close.
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Is Snap Trades on Find Better Charts and the new dashboard?Yes. Snap Trades Live is in your members area now, and on Find Better Charts (in beta) Snap Trades draws on the 15-minute and 1-hour charts with each call's card.
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What is the "Snap zone confirmed" on the Snap Trades chart?Every Snap Trades chart draws the Snap zone, the opening candle's range carried through the morning. The close that breaks it lights up "⚡ Snap zone confirmed".
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Will Snap Trades keep working on TradingView after November 1?Yes. The November 1 rule is about invite-only scripts sold outside TradingView's Marketplace; ours are published scripts. And Snap Trades Live runs on our own platform.
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Still need a hand? Talk to a real person.Members: sign in and open Support, and Micheal and the team answer by email. Or email support@findbettertrades.com.
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