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Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $100,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on companies that are large enough to be more established and less prone to extreme manipulation.
   • Rationale:
     • Very small “micro-cap” stocks can be thinly traded and more easily influenced by hype or single large orders.
     • A $100M floor still allows many smaller, potentially more volatile names (useful for trading), but avoids the very riskiest, least transparent part of the market.

2. Price Between $1 and $200

   • Purpose: Exclude extremely low-priced penny stocks while keeping the list to stocks that are tradable for a wide range of account sizes.
   • Rationale:
     • Stocks under $1 often have very wide bid–ask spreads, low quality disclosures, and are frequent targets of pump‑and‑dump schemes—bad characteristics for most traders.
     • Capping at $200 keeps out extremely high-priced names (e.g., $500+), which can be less convenient for smaller accounts and can make position sizing for short-term trades harder.
     • The $1–$200 band is a practical range for active trading: accessible, but not the most speculative.

3. Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $100,000

   • Purpose: Ensure a minimum level of liquidity so you can get in and out of trades more easily.
   • Rationale:
     • “Dollar volume” measures how much money (price × shares traded) moves through the stock, not just how many shares. This is a better gauge of how easy it is to trade meaningful position sizes.
     • A $100k/month minimum filters out the most illiquid names where you might move the price just by placing an order and where slippage and spreads can quickly eat into profits.
     • While this is a relatively modest threshold (less strict than your previous screen with multi‑million dollar volumes), it still improves tradeability compared to the full universe of listed stocks.

Why Results Match Your Question (“What stocks should I trade today?”)

• These filters narrow the universe to tradable stocks: reasonably liquid, not ultra‑tiny microcaps, and not ultra‑penny stocks—conditions that matter for day or short‑term trading.
• The criteria are broad and neutral: they don’t lock you into a specific sector or style, so you still get a wide range of candidates to choose from based on your own strategy or any additional signals (momentum, news, technical setups, etc.).
• By prioritizing liquidity and basic quality thresholds, the results are more aligned with stocks that a typical active trader can realistically trade today, instead of illiquid or highly speculative names that are difficult to enter and exit.