Todays top stocks

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $500,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on established, reasonably sized companies.
   • Rationale:
     • “Top-performing” usually implies not just big price moves, but moves in companies that are significant enough to matter to most investors.
     • A minimum market cap of $500M avoids the very smallest micro-caps where big percentage moves are common but often driven by illiquidity, promotion, or extreme risk rather than genuine performance.

2. Price between $2 and $500

   • Purpose: Exclude ultra-penny stocks and extremely high-priced outliers.
   • Rationale:
     • Stocks under $2 are frequently very speculative and can have wild swings that don’t necessarily represent sustainable or investable “performance.”
     • Capping at $500 removes a few extremely expensive names where small percentage changes still look huge in dollar terms and can skew lists without adding much value for a typical investor.

3. Average Daily Volume ≥ 300,000 shares

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks are actively traded and more easily tradable.
   • Rationale:
     • “Top-performing” in a practical sense usually refers to stocks where investors can realistically enter and exit positions.
     • A 300k volume floor filters out illiquid names where a few trades can move the price a lot, making them appear to “perform” but in reality just reflecting low liquidity.

4. Relative Volume ≥ 1.5

   • Purpose: Highlight stocks that are trading with significantly higher activity than usual today.
   • Rationale:
     • Relative volume compares today’s volume to a typical day. A value ≥ 1.5 means the stock is trading at least 50% more volume than normal.
     • Strong price moves with elevated volume suggest genuine interest and momentum, which better fits the notion of “top-performing” today, rather than random or easily reversible blips.

5. Today’s Price Change ≥ +7%

   • Purpose: Directly capture strong positive performance in today’s session.
   • Rationale:
     • A 7% or higher gain in a single day is a substantial move for most established stocks and aligns with what most people mean by “top-performing.”
     • This ensures the list is focused on clear winners for the day, not marginal outperformers.

Why Results Match “Today’s Top-Performing Stocks”

• The price change ≥ 7% filter directly targets strong positive performance today.
• The relative volume and volume filters ensure those moves are backed by meaningful trading activity, not thin, easily manipulated markets.
• The market cap and price range filters keep the list in a zone that’s more relevant and investable for most users, rather than dominated by micro-cap penny stocks whose extreme moves are less representative of quality performance.

Taken together, these filters surface stocks that are:

• Up strongly today,
• Experiencing unusual interest (high relative volume),
• Tradable and reasonably established companies,
  which matches a practical, investor-focused definition of “today’s top-performing stocks.”