Why not scan every market?
At first glance, a scanner that covers more markets sounds better. More stocks, more exchanges and more filters can look like more opportunity.
The problem is that markets are not identical. Different exchanges contain different mixes of companies, liquidity profiles, price behaviour and technical characteristics. A rule that produces useful breakout candidates in one universe may create noise in another.
For breakout research, that matters. The scanner is not simply looking for a stock that went up today. It is trying to interpret structure: resistance, support, higher lows, consolidation, liquidity, breakout confirmation and how far price has already moved from the base.
General-purpose screeners solve a different problem
An all-in-one screener is often designed to be flexible. It may let a user filter by exchange, market capitalisation, price, volume, valuation, sector or dozens of other variables. That can be useful when the user already knows exactly which filters to build.
But breakout traders often need something more specific than a giant filter menu. They need the scanner itself to understand the setup being researched.
If the underlying system treats every market in the same way, the burden shifts back to the user: manually adjust filters, inspect large result lists and decide whether the technical structure is actually relevant. That is the problem EdgeBreak was designed to reduce.
