What tool or website offers list of top performing stocks

Dhanu

Hi,

Is there any tool or website that provides list/data of top performing stocks in the market?
Thank you for your help.

Kevo

Check out the Stock Charts Technical Rank (SCTR) in the middle part of the http://www.stockcharts.com homepage.

Sharptraders

Here's what you can do... Go to http://Finviz.com ...Click SCREENER...In the ORDER box choose a time frame ...1 week, month, year or another period. Then you will get over 6,700 stocks listed by percentage change for the period you selected...However, the info you see will only show the latest day's change even tho they will be listed in order by % change for the time frame you selected....At the bottom right click EXPORT...You will get all the stocks listed in .csv... Copy the first 500 and put them in a List at Stockcharts...then sort them by the same time frame you chose at Finviz...Now some stocks will not be in the Stockcharts database. Also, say you choose one year... AAL will appear at Finviz even though it has not traded for a full year...But at Stockcharts it will say 0 if you choose one year...You can also add some other filters at Finviz before you export to get rid of the garbage stocks if you want to.

Doug

gord

Yes you can do this and more at StockCharts, (this explanation is for subscribers, free members will have some limitations).

Have a look at the Sector Summary link on the home page, look just under the "Today in the Market" table to find the link.

This will give you the nine S&P market sector groups, you can then pick your performance time frame (intra-day up to 1 year), then you can drill down into each industry sector to find the best performing sub sector and then stock over your time period.

Here's a link with explanations, also do a site search for "Sector Summary" and you will find a few other articles and videos with more ideas.

http://stockcharts.com/docs/doku.php?st=sector+summary&id=reports:sector-summary

Another way, independent of market sectors, is to just do a simple market scan. Pick your time frame and scan for percent gain, here's a simple version. The scan looks for US stocks, greater than $1 close today, volume greater than 500,000 shares traded today, 5 day percent change greater than 0 and ranks them by percent change from highest to lowest.

[type = Stock]
and [country is US]
and [ close > 1 ]
and [ volume > 500000 ]
and [PctChange(5,close) > 0 ]
rank by [PctChange(5,close) ]

When you run this scan save the output into a new list and preserve the order. Then just look at the list in summary view, select the matching 5 day period, (1 trading week) and review the percent change results for charts of interest.

On a final note, you need to describe "Best Performing", if its just the highest percent gain over a day, week or month, you will probably need insider information to profit from that. IE betting a guy that is 0 for 1000 on home runs will hit one. Or are you really looking for predictability of outcome, IE a 70% chance this guy will get on base, smaller reward but less risk. One way you win big 1 in a 1000 or less, the other way you win small 7 in 10, just depends on your investment style, goals and individual situation.

mtdyer

Gord: How would I change the scan below to find I am trying to setup a scan that will find stocks that are up 80% plus from a 52 week low.

[type = Stock]
and [country is US]
and [ close > 1 ]
and [ volume > 500000 ]
and [PctChange(5,close) > 0 ]
rank by [PctChange(5,close) ]

gord

This should do it, from the lowest low to todays close up at least 80%. You could also change it to be from the lowest close rather than the low.

[type = Stock]
and [country is US]
and [ close > 1 ]
and [ volume > 500000 ]
and [today's close > yesterday's daily min(253,low) * 1.8]