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Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ 10,000,000 (USD)

   • Purpose: Focus on companies of at least micro-cap size, avoiding the most speculative “shells” and ultra-tiny firms.
   • Rationale: You’re looking for very low-priced stocks (under $0.20). Many of these are extremely small, risky companies. A minimum market cap helps filter out the most fragile, illiquid, or non-operational entities, giving you names that, while still speculative, are somewhat more established.

2. Price Between $0.01 and $0.20

   • Purpose: Match your request for “stocks under 20 cents.”
   • Rationale:
     • Max = 0.20 directly captures your “under 20 cents” condition.
     • Min = 0.01 excludes sub-penny quotes (e.g., $0.0005), which are often extremely illiquid and highly speculative, and sometimes subject to wide spreads and manipulation.

3. Volume ≥ 300,000 Shares

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks have active trading and are reasonably liquid.
   • Rationale: For very low-priced stocks, you can get a lot of “dead” tickers that barely trade. A minimum daily volume filter of 300k shares aims to:
     • Help you find names you can realistically enter and exit.
     • Reduce the influence of random prints or single small trades on the price.

4. Price Change % ≥ 2.01% (for the current trading day)

   • Purpose: Capture stocks that are “going up” on the day you run the scan (e.g., Monday).
   • Rationale:
     • Positive daily price change reflects upward movement.
     • Setting a threshold of 2.01% filters out essentially flat or barely moving stocks and focuses on those with a meaningful intraday or daily gain.
     • When you run this on a Monday, this condition is applied to Monday’s price action, which is how the screener interprets “going up on Monday.”

5. Region: United States

   • Purpose: Limit results to U.S.-based listings, matching your request for “US stocks.”
   • Rationale: Ensures the companies are traded in U.S. markets, with U.S. regulatory and reporting standards, and aligns with your geographic focus.

6. Exchange: XNYS, XNAS, XASE (NYSE, NASDAQ, NYSE American)

   • Purpose: Restrict to major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale:
     • Keeps the scan to better-regulated venues, excluding most OTC/pink sheet stocks, which tend to dominate the sub-$0.20 space and are often extremely high risk.
     • This improves data quality and typically gives you names with more reliable reporting and somewhat better liquidity.

Why Results Match Your Request

• The price range filter ($0.01–$0.20) directly addresses “under 20 cents.”
• The price change % ≥ 2.01% filter operationalizes “going up,” by requiring a noticeable positive move on the day (Monday, when you run it).
• The region = United States and major exchange list filters together ensure you’re only seeing U.S. stocks on primary U.S. exchanges.
• The volume and market cap filters improve practicality and quality: they focus on low-priced stocks that are actively traded and not the tiniest, most illiquid entities, making the results more tradable and relevant.