Stocks low float high volume today

Screening Filters

1. floating_shares (max: 50,000,000)

   • Purpose: Capture low-float stocks by limiting the maximum number of shares available for public trading.
   • Rationale:
     • “Float” refers to the number of shares available to be traded by the public (excluding insider/locked-up shares).
     • A maximum of 50 million floating shares is a common cutoff used by traders to define low-float names.
     • The lower the float, the more impact buying/selling pressure can have on price, which is exactly what people usually look for when they ask for “low float” stocks.

2. relative_vol (min: 1.5)

   • Purpose: Identify stocks with high trading volume today compared with their normal activity.
   • Rationale:
     • Relative volume compares today’s trading volume to the stock’s average volume over a prior period (e.g., 30 days).
     • A value of 1.5 means the stock is trading at least 50% more volume today than its usual average.
     • This is an effective way to flag names that have “unusually high volume today,” not just stocks that are always heavily traded.

Why Results Match:

• The floating_shares ≤ 50M filter directly targets the “low float” part of your request by restricting the universe to stocks with relatively few tradable shares.
• The relative_vol ≥ 1.5 filter operationalizes “high volume today” by requiring that today’s volume is significantly above normal, which is typically what traders mean when they look for high-volume movers.

We may not be filtering on absolute raw volume (e.g., “at least 5M shares traded today”), but using relative volume is a robust and widely used way to find stocks that are experiencing unusually high trading activity right now, which closely matches your intent.