Any sector or business

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $1,000,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on established, sizable companies.
   • Rationale:
     • When you say “businesses that had great articles posted about them,” you’re often talking about companies that attract meaningful media coverage and analyst attention.
     • Larger-cap firms are more likely to be written about by mainstream financial media, making it more probable they had notable “great articles” last night.
     • This also reduces the risk of surfacing tiny, illiquid microcaps that might only get obscure or promotional coverage.

2. Share Price ≥ $5

   • Purpose: Exclude very low-priced / penny stocks.
   • Rationale:
     • Penny stocks can move on low‑quality or promotional news, which may not match your intent of “great articles” (i.e., credible, substantial coverage).
     • A $5+ threshold usually filters out the most speculative names and biases the list toward more established, better‑covered companies.

3. Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $1,000,000

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks are meaningfully traded and not illiquid.
   • Rationale:
     • Stocks that receive serious media coverage usually also have strong trading activity.
     • This filter helps avoid thinly traded names where a single article or small group of traders can distort the price, and instead focuses on companies with sustained investor interest.
     • It also makes any reaction to last night’s news/article more reliable as a signal, since the price move occurs in a liquid market.

4. Price Change % (Today) ≥ 5%

   • Purpose: Capture stocks that reacted strongly to recent news.
   • Rationale:
     • If a “great article” (or any positive news) came out last night, a common way it shows up in a screener is as a meaningful price move the next trading session.
     • A ≥5% daily increase is a practical cutoff to indicate the market is reacting in a clearly positive way, consistent with the idea that the article was favorable or impactful.
     • This doesn’t prove the move was caused by last night’s article, but it strongly increases the chances that something positive and newsworthy just happened.

5. News Driver: Positive

   • Purpose: Restrict results to companies with recent positive news sentiment.
   • Rationale:
     • “Great articles” implies positive tone—favorable writeups, upgrades, good press.
     • A “Positive” news driver setting typically means that recent news headlines and articles about the stock have been assessed as positive in sentiment.
     • This gets you closer to what you asked for: businesses that have recently been talked about in a positive way in the news flow.

Why Results Match Your Request

• The news driver = Positive filter directly targets companies tied to positive articles or news coverage, consistent with your phrase “great articles.”
• The ≥5% price change captures cases where the market noticeably responded, which often happens right after favorable coverage “last night.”
• Market cap, price, and liquidity (dollar volume) filters restrict results to reasonably established, actively traded companies where news is more likely to be meaningful and from credible sources—not obscure microcaps or promotional stories.
• Together, these filters are designed to find about 10 reasonably large, liquid businesses across any sector that have:
  • recent positive news coverage, and
  • a strong positive price reaction,
    which is a practical, screenable proxy for “businesses that had great articles posted about them last night.”