What stocks will 10x

Important note: No screener can guarantee a stock will “10x.” What I can do is explain how these filters are designed to find stocks with a higher speculative upside potential and the right setup for a possible large move.

Screening Filters

1. Market cap max: $5B

• Purpose: Focus on smaller companies with more room to grow.
• Rationale: A stock generally needs to start from a relatively small valuation to have a realistic chance of a multi-bagger move. Large-cap stocks can still rise, but 10x gains are much harder to achieve from a big base.

2. Price max: $30

• Purpose: Keep the screen on lower-priced stocks.
• Rationale: Lower-priced names are often earlier-stage, smaller, or more volatile, which can create sharper percentage moves. This does not guarantee upside, but it helps isolate stocks that can move dramatically on news, momentum, or speculation.

3. Beta: HighRisk

• Purpose: Select stocks with higher volatility than the overall market.
• Rationale: If the goal is a potential explosive move, you want stocks that already exhibit large price swings. High-beta stocks tend to react more strongly to catalysts, which increases the chance of outsized gains — and also outsized losses.

4. Moving average relationship: PriceAboveMA20 / PriceCrossAboveMA20

• Purpose: Find stocks with improving short-term price momentum.
• Rationale: A stock trading above its 20-day moving average, or just crossing above it, may be beginning a bullish trend or rebound. This is useful when looking for names that could be transitioning from base-building into a momentum phase.

5. Region: US

• Purpose: Limit results to U.S.-listed stocks.
• Rationale: This keeps the screen within a familiar market structure, with better liquidity, easier access to news/catalysts, and more standardized disclosures. That’s especially helpful when searching for speculative momentum candidates.

6. Option unusual activity: True

• Purpose: Identify stocks attracting unusual options trading.
• Rationale: Heavy or unusual options activity can signal that traders are positioning for a major move, often due to expected news, a catalyst, or rising speculation. It doesn’t prove the stock will surge, but it can help spot names with accelerating attention.

Why Results Match

• Small-cap + low-priced + high-risk stocks are the most plausible candidates for large percentage gains, which is necessary if you’re looking for a possible 10x move.
• Price above the 20-day moving average helps filter for stocks that are already showing momentum instead of fading or breaking down.
• Unusual options activity adds a catalyst/attention layer, which can be important for explosive moves.
• U.S. market restriction keeps the universe more liquid and easier to analyze.

Bottom line

Taken together, these filters are built to find speculative U.S. stocks with high volatility, improving momentum, and signs of trader interest — the kind of setup that could potentially produce outsized gains. They do not identify guaranteed 10x stocks, but they do help narrow the search toward the most plausible candidates for very large upside.