Top moving

Quick Note on “Should Buy”

No screen can guarantee which stocks you should buy or which will be the “best movers” going forward. What these filters do is identify penny stocks that are:

• Very low-priced (under $0.25),
• Actively traded,
• Moving sharply in price today,

so you can then do your own deeper analysis.

Screening Filters

1. Price: min 0.01, max 0.25

   • Purpose: Restrict results to very low-priced penny stocks under $0.25.
   • Rationale: Your core requirement is “penny stocks under $0.25.”
     • The lower bound of $0.01 excludes defunct/zero-priced tickers.
     • The upper bound of $0.25 directly matches your “under $0.25” condition.

2. Monthly Average Dollar Volume: min 500,000

   • Purpose: Ensure a minimum liquidity level.
   • Rationale: Penny stocks often suffer from extremely low liquidity, making it hard to enter/exit without big slippage.
     • Requiring at least $500k in average dollar volume per month filters out the most illiquid names.
     • This makes the “top movers” more tradable and less likely to be random prints on a few shares.

3. Price Change % (Today): min 5

   • Purpose: Capture stocks that are actually “top movers” today.
   • Rationale: “Top movers” usually means stocks with unusually large price moves intraday or on the day.
     • Using a minimum daily percentage price change of 5% ensures we exclude flat or barely-moving names.
     • This surfaces stocks that are meaningfully up or down today, aligning with your request for top movers.
     • Note: This filter doesn’t force only gainers; it can also include strong decliners (both are “movers”).

4. List Exchange: XNYS, XNAS, XASE (NYSE, NASDAQ, NYSE American)

   • Purpose: Limit results to major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale:
     • You asked about penny stocks and previously specified U.S. market.
     • Focusing on NYSE/Nasdaq/AMEX avoids most OTC and pink-sheet stocks, which can be extremely opaque, illiquid, and risky.
     • Major exchanges generally have stricter listing standards and better data quality.

5. Region: United States

   • Purpose: Restrict to U.S.-listed companies.
   • Rationale: Directly aligns with your prior clarification “us market” and keeps the universe consistent with U.S. trading hours, regulations, and reporting.

Why Results Match Your Request

• “Penny stocks under $0.25”

  • The price filter (0.01–0.25) is tailored exactly to this requirement.

• “Top movers today”

  • The price_change_pct ≥ 5% condition targets stocks with significant price movement on the current trading day, which is how “top movers” are typically defined in screeners.
  • Combining this with a liquidity filter (≥ $500k monthly dollar volume) ensures those movers are actively traded, not just thinly traded anomalies.

• U.S. focus

  • The region = United States and major U.S. exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX) match your U.S. market focus and improve the quality and tradability of the results.

So while we can’t guarantee which of these you should buy, these filters are well-aligned with your request for U.S. penny stocks under $0.25 that are moving sharply today and have enough liquidity to be practical to trade.