What stock is due to jump today

Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ 20,000,000,000 (≥ $20B)

   • Purpose: Restrict results to large-cap companies.
   • Rationale: ConocoPhillips (COP) is a large-cap stock. Using a ≥$20B market cap filter ensures COP is included and focuses the universe on peers with similar size, liquidity, and institutional coverage—i.e., the kind of stock for which intraday or “today” expectations are typically analyzed.

2. Sector: Energy, Energy - Fossil Fuels

   • Purpose: Limit results to energy companies, specifically fossil-fuel related.
   • Rationale: COP operates in the energy sector and is primarily involved in oil & gas (fossil fuels). This filter both guarantees COP is in the result set and keeps the screening context aligned with its industry, which matters for understanding short-term expectations (since energy names often move together on oil/gas prices, macro headlines, etc.).

3. Exchange: XNYS, XNAS, XASE (NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE American)

   • Purpose: Include only major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale: COP is listed on the NYSE (XNYS). Restricting to these exchanges ensures we’re looking at highly regulated, liquid U.S. listings where intraday expectations and analyst commentary are most available and comparable.

4. Index Component: GSPC (S&P 500)

   • Purpose: Limit to S&P 500 constituents.
   • Rationale: COP is a member of the S&P 500. This filter ensures the screen focuses on large, established, benchmark constituents—exactly the type of stock for which “what is it expected to do today?” can be grounded in analyst coverage, options-implied moves, and broad market flows.

5. Optionable: True

   • Purpose: Only include stocks with listed options.
   • Rationale: COP has liquid options. When discussing what a stock is “expected” to do today, many analysts look at options prices (implied volatility, at-the-money straddles) to gauge the market’s expected move. Requiring optionability ensures we can use this options-based framework for COP and similar names.

Why Results Match

• COP fits all the applied filters: it’s a large-cap, S&P 500, NYSE-listed, optionable energy (fossil fuels) stock.
• These filters tightly define the universe in which COP sits, ensuring the screener correctly identifies COP and comparable peers for analyzing its expected intraday behavior.