Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $4,000,000,000 (Large / Mid Cap Focus)
- Purpose: Limit results to larger, more established U.S. companies.
- Rationale:
- When someone asks for “bullish stocks this week,” they’re usually interested in names where the move is meaningful but not purely speculative.
- A minimum $4B market cap filters out micro- and small‑cap names that can be extremely volatile or move on low-quality signals (chat rooms, single trades, etc.).
- Larger caps tend to have more institutional coverage, better disclosure, and more stable trading patterns, making “bullish” signals more reliable.
Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $1,000,000
- Purpose: Ensure stocks are sufficiently liquid.
- Rationale:
- Bullish ideas are only useful if you can realistically trade in and out.
- A minimum dollar volume of $1M/day (on average over a month) screens out illiquid tickers where spreads are wide and a single order can distort the price.
- This improves execution quality and makes the “bullish” pattern more trustworthy, since price action reflects real supply/demand, not random illiquidity.
PriceAboveMA20 (Price above 20‑day Moving Average)
- Purpose: Identify stocks currently in short‑term uptrends.
- Rationale:
- A key definition of “bullish” in technical analysis is price trading above its moving averages, especially short-term ones like the 20‑day.
- Price > 20‑day MA suggests recent buying pressure and positive momentum rather than a one‑day spike against a broader downtrend.
- This filter aligns directly with your request for stocks considered bullish “this week” (short-term timeframe), rather than just fundamentally strong.
Week Price Change % ≥ 10%
- Purpose: Find stocks that have already shown strong bullish performance in the last week.
- Rationale:
- A gain of at least 10% over one week is a clear sign of strong short‑term momentum.
- This matches “bullish this week” by requiring actual recent upside, not just theoretical potential.
- Combining this with PriceAboveMA20 helps highlight names in ongoing short-term uptrends, not random gap-ups that immediately faded.
Region: United States
- Purpose: Restrict the universe to U.S. companies.
- Rationale:
- You specifically asked about the US stock market, so foreign listings and ADRs outside the US are excluded.
- This ensures the list reflects the U.S. trading session, U.S. macro backdrop, and U.S. regulatory environment.
Exchange: XNYS (NYSE), XNAS (NASDAQ), XASE (AMEX)
- Purpose: Focus on major U.S. exchanges.
- Rationale:
- These are the primary U.S. equity venues where most investors look for opportunities.
- Excluding OTC/pink-sheet securities helps avoid extremely illiquid or lightly regulated names where “bullish” moves can be misleading or risky.
- This further refines the results to mainstream, tradable stocks.
Why Results Match Your Request
- The timeframe (“this week”) is captured by requiring ≥ 10% price gain over the last week plus price above the 20‑day moving average, both short-term momentum indicators.
- The market (“US stock market”) is reflected via the region = United States and major U.S. exchanges only (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX).
- The quality and tradability of ideas are improved by the market cap and dollar volume thresholds, focusing on liquid, established names where bullish signals are more actionable and less likely to be noise.
Together, these filters narrow the universe to U.S.-listed, reasonably large, liquid stocks that have already shown strong, measurable bullish behavior over the last week and are technically in short-term uptrends, which is exactly what your question is targeting.
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