Screening Filters
market_cap ≥ $5,000,000,000
market_cap_category: ['large', 'mega']
pre_market_dollar_volume ≥ $500,000
Purpose: Ensure the stocks are actively traded outside regular hours.
Rationale: You’re interested in what you can buy at an unusual time (2 AM). While U.S. “pre-market” officially starts later (commonly 4:00 AM ET), pre-market dollar volume is a practical proxy for:
By requiring at least $500k in pre-market dollar volume, the screener filters out names that technically trade off-hours but with negligible activity, which would be hard or expensive to trade at 2 AM.
list_exchange: ['XNYS', 'XNAS', 'XASE']
Purpose: Limit the universe to major U.S. exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, NYSE American).
Rationale: Most brokers that offer extended-hours or 24/5 trading focus on U.S.-listed large caps. By limiting to:
the screener targets:
Why Results Match Your Question (“What financial assets can I buy tomorrow at 2 AM?”)
Your core constraint is time: 2 AM is outside normal U.S. trading hours. The filters collectively focus on stocks that are:
This combination doesn’t guarantee a specific stock will have good liquidity exactly at 2 AM or that your particular broker will allow trading in it at that moment—those depend on:
But it does narrow the list to the most likely candidates to be tradable and liquid at very off-peak times like 2 AM, which is the practical way to approximate “what can I buy at 2 AM?” using a stock screener.
This is a natural language screener issue. Our AI identifies and quantifies criteria, auto-filters ranges to match intent, and displays conditions, parameters, and results below, with 103 candidates fitting the screener.
The list includes top performers like Tesla Inc (TSLA), NVIDIA Corp (NVDA), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN), Micron Technology Inc (MU), among others. These stocks are representative examples from the screener results.