Theme Solar System

The planets are scanr’s market themes: groups of stocks that trade together, found by clustering how they move. A planet’s size is the money traded in its stocks each day, averaged over three months.

A small theme is an asteroid, a mid-sized one a rocky world, and the biggest become gas giants in the theme’s color. Moons go from asteroid to rocky world. Watch AI Datacenter Hosts swell from an asteroid in 2022 to a gas giant.

The moons are each theme’s most-traded stocks. A moon orbits closer the more its last six months beat the S&P 500. It glows green while it is ahead and red while it is behind. Tap a moon to fly to it and see the stock’s basics.

The spacecraft are satellite members: stocks that belong to a theme without being one of its core members, often because they are core to another. Each planet carries up to five, the most-traded first. They orbit on their own tilted ring by the same rules as moons: closer the more they beat the S&P 500, bigger the more they trade. A stock appears as a moon of its core theme and as a spacecraft around the others. Tap one to see where it is core.

Big months leave a mark as the timeline plays. A solar flare hits a planet whose daily dollar volume grows 1.6× or more in a month. UFOs beam down on a moon or spacecraft whose trading grows 3× or more in a month. An asteroid strikes a stock whose standing against the S&P 500 falls by 60% or more in a month, and knocks it out to a wider orbit. And a gas giant that tripled in the year up to its peak, then loses 45% of it, collapses into a neutron star: a pulsar inside a nebula the size of the planet it was. It stays one until it is back to 80% of that peak.

Drag the timeline from January 2022 to today, or jump to a theme of the year: the planet that grew the most that year.