What compainies should i look at

Screening Filters

1. Price max $5

   • Purpose: Find low-priced stocks.
   • Rationale: The user asked for “low money stocks,” which usually means lower share prices. Capping price at $5 keeps the screen focused on affordable names with potentially larger percentage moves on small absolute dollar changes.

2. Market cap max $2 billion

   • Purpose: Focus on small-cap companies.
   • Rationale: The user wants quick-return candidates, and smaller companies often move more sharply than large caps. Limiting market cap helps exclude slower, more established names and keeps attention on stocks with higher momentum potential.

3. Relative volume min 1.5

   • Purpose: Identify stocks trading with above-normal activity.
   • Rationale: Strong relative volume often signals increased investor interest, news flow, or momentum. For short-term trading, volume confirmation is important because price moves are more credible when participation is elevated.

4. Price above / crossing above the 5-day moving average

   • Purpose: Capture short-term upward price momentum.
   • Rationale: This filter looks for stocks already trending up or just beginning to break higher. For quick-return setups, price strength near the short-term average is a common sign that momentum is building.

5. Week price change pct min 0

   • Purpose: Keep stocks that are already flat-to-positive over the past week.
   • Rationale: This helps avoid stocks still in clear short-term decline. Since the user is looking for quick returns, positive weekly performance is a simple way to bias toward names with recent upward movement.

6. US region

   • Purpose: Limit results to U.S.-listed stocks.
   • Rationale: This keeps the screen relevant to the user’s likely trading universe and ensures the stocks are generally easier to access, research, and trade for U.S. investors.

7. One-week predicted return min 0

   • Purpose: Favor stocks with positive short-term forecasted upside.
   • Rationale: Since the user wants a quick return, this filter adds an expected-return component to the momentum setup. It helps prioritize names where the model sees at least some near-term upside.

8. Exclude user watchlist = False

   • Purpose: Avoid limiting the screen to only stocks already on the user’s watchlist.
   • Rationale: This broadens the search so the screen can surface fresh opportunities among low-priced, high-momentum small caps rather than only names the user already follows.

Why Results Match

• The full filter set is designed for low-priced, small-cap stocks with active trading, recent upward momentum, and near-term upside potential.
• That combination is well suited to a short-term momentum screen, which matches the user’s request for stocks that might offer a quick return.
• The selected names like CXAI, SPHL, XRX, ACCL, and BFLY fit this framework because they are relatively low-priced, have characteristics consistent with short-term trading interest, and meet the momentum/volume conditions the screen is looking for.