Channel up daily stocks

Screening Filters

1. Region = United States

   • Purpose: Limit results strictly to U.S. companies.
   • Rationale: Your request is specifically about “daily stock updates for the US stock market.” This filter ensures that only U.S.-domiciled stocks are included, excluding foreign listings and ADRs so the updates truly reflect the U.S. market.

2. List Exchange = XNYS, XNAS, XASE (NYSE, NASDAQ, NYSE American)

   • Purpose: Focus on major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale: These are the primary, most regulated U.S. stock exchanges. Restricting to them:
     • Avoids OTC and pink-sheet names, which often have poor liquidity and unreliable pricing.
     • Makes daily moves more meaningful and trustworthy for analysis and news flow.

3. Market Cap ≥ $1,000,000,000 (≥ $1B)

   • Purpose: Emphasize mid- and large-cap stocks.
   • Rationale: For daily updates, you generally want:
     • Companies with better disclosure, analyst coverage, and news.
     • More stable, less easily manipulated stocks than tiny micro-caps.
       Using a $1B floor filters out the smallest firms and centers the list on widely followed, investable names.

4. Price Between $3 and $300

   • Purpose: Exclude very low-priced penny stocks and extremely high-priced outliers.
   • Rationale:
     • Stocks under ~$3 are often highly speculative, thinly traded, and prone to extreme, non-informative daily swings.
     • Very high-priced shares (e.g., many hundreds or thousands of dollars) can dominate nominal move rankings but are less accessible for smaller portfolios and often less “traded around” daily.
       This range keeps the focus on mainstream, tradable stocks where daily price moves are more practical to monitor.

5. Average Daily Volume ≥ 1,000,000 Shares

   • Purpose: Include only highly liquid stocks.
   • Rationale:
     • High volume indicates strong investor interest and tight bid-ask spreads.
     • Daily percentage moves are more reliable signals when plenty of shares trade; illiquid names can move on just a few small orders.
       For “daily updates,” liquid stocks make the updates more actionable—what you see moving is actually tradable.

6. Daily Price Change % Between +3% and +100%

   • Purpose: Highlight stocks with notable positive moves on the day.
   • Rationale:
     • A minimum move of +3% filters for stocks that are doing something noteworthy today, rather than tiny, routine fluctuations.
     • The upper cap at +100% avoids extreme anomalies often caused by data errors, trading halts, reverse splits, or other special events rather than normal market trading.
       This makes the “daily update” list focus on genuine movers likely driven by earnings, news, or strong demand.

Why Results Match Your Request

• The region and exchange filters ensure the list is purely U.S. stocks traded on major U.S. markets—exactly the segment you’re interested in.
• The market cap, price, and volume filters narrow the field to liquid, mainstream, investable names where daily updates are meaningful and actionable, not dominated by obscure penny stocks or illiquid micro-caps.
• The price_change_pct filter tailors the results to stocks with significant daily movement, which are the ones most relevant for “daily stock updates” (i.e., what actually moved and mattered today in the U.S. market).