Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $300M ('market_cap': {'min': '300000000'})
- Purpose: Focus on established, more liquid companies rather than tiny micro-caps.
- Rationale:
- The “best-performing stock” on a raw % basis is often an illiquid micro-cap that moved on a single trade or news spike, which may not be investable or relevant.
- By setting a minimum market cap, we tilt the search toward companies where big moves reflect broader market interest, not just random price jumps.
Share Price ≥ $1 ('price': {'min': '1'})
- Purpose: Exclude penny stocks and distressed names.
- Rationale:
- Stocks under $1 are often at risk of delisting, highly speculative, and can show extreme percentage moves on tiny price changes (e.g., $0.20 → $0.30 is +50%).
- Filtering out sub-$1 shares helps ensure the “best-performing” names are more meaningful, not just technical penny stock fluctuations.
Average Daily Volume ≥ 500,000 ('volume': {'min': '500000'})
- Purpose: Ensure results are liquid and actively traded.
- Rationale:
- A “best-performing” stock that trades only a few thousand shares is not very actionable; spreads can be wide and prices easy to manipulate.
- A 500k+ volume floor focuses on names with strong trading interest, where today’s move is backed by real participation.
US Major Exchanges Only ('list_exchange': ['XNYS', 'XNAS', 'XASE'])
- Purpose: Limit the universe to primary US listed stocks.
- Rationale:
- Your question is about the “US market,” which typically means NYSE (XNYS), Nasdaq (XNAS), and NYSE American (XASE).
- Excluding OTC and foreign minor exchanges keeps the search aligned with mainstream US-listed equities, where data quality and regulation are stronger.
Today’s Price Change ≥ +10% ('price_change_pct': {'min': '10'})
- Purpose: Capture top gainers for today’s session.
- Rationale:
- “Best-performing” in a daily context is usually interpreted as the largest positive percentage price change today.
- A 10% minimum price jump is a high bar that isolates strong movers; from this set, you can then rank by highest % gain to find the single top performer or top few.
Why Results Match Your Question
- The exchange filter ensures we’re only looking at US-listed stocks, directly matching your “US market” requirement.
- The price change ≥ 10% filter targets stocks that are clearly among today’s strongest performers by percentage gain.
- The market cap, price, and volume filters refine the list so that the “best-performing” stocks are:
- Large enough to be meaningful (not micro-caps),
- Out of penny-stock territory,
- And liquid enough to be realistically tradable.
Together, these filters produce a focused list of credible, actively traded US stocks that are among the top performers today, from which the actual “best-performing” (highest % gainer) can be identified.
This list is generated based on data from one or more third party data providers. It is provided for informational purposes only by Intellectia.AI, and is not investment advice or a recommendation. Intellectia does not make any warranty or guarantee relating to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any third-party information, and the provision of this information does not constitute a recommendation.