Best stock for shor term trade

Screening Filters

1. monthly_average_dollar_volume ≥ 1,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on highly traded, liquid US stocks.
   • Rationale: For short-term trading, you need to get in and out quickly without moving the price too much or suffering large bid–ask spreads. A minimum of $1M in average monthly dollar volume filters out thinly traded, illiquid names that are risky and hard to trade efficiently.

2. moving_average_relationship: PriceAboveMA20

   • Purpose: Select stocks in a short-term uptrend.
   • Rationale: Short-term traders typically favor momentum—stocks already moving up are statistically more likely to continue in that direction in the very near term. Requiring the current price to be above its 20-day moving average is a classic way to capture positive short-term trend and avoid names in downtrends or consolidations.

3. list_exchange: XNYS, XNAS, XASE

   • Purpose: Restrict results to major US exchanges.
   • Rationale: You asked for the US market. New York Stock Exchange (XNYS), Nasdaq (XNAS), and NYSE American (XASE) list the bulk of established US securities, generally with better regulation, transparency, and liquidity than OTC or pink-sheet names. This aligns with a practical, tradable universe for short-term strategies.

4. one_week_rise_prob ≥ 70

   • Purpose: Emphasize stocks with a higher modeled probability of rising over the next week.
   • Rationale: While no model can guarantee gains, this filter tries to tilt the odds in your favor by only including stocks where the statistical or model-based probability of being higher in one week is at least 70%. This directly targets your interest in “best” short-term trading candidates by focusing on higher-probability setups.

5. one_week_predict_return ≥ 8 (percent)

   • Purpose: Ensure the expected upside is meaningful, not just slightly positive.
   • Rationale: A high probability of a tiny move isn’t very attractive after trading costs and risk. By requiring an expected one-week return of at least ~8%, the screen looks for trades that offer both (a) reasonable odds of success and (b) enough potential profit to matter for a short-term trader.

Why Results Match Your Request

• You asked for the best stock for short-term trading in the US market. Instead of one name (which can’t be objectively “best”), the filters construct a high-quality short-term trading universe: US-listed, liquid stocks with positive short-term momentum.
• The one-week rise probability and one-week predicted return constraints directly address your desire for strong, near-term performance potential, while the liquidity and major exchange filters ensure the names are realistically tradable for a short-term strategy.