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Best source for lists of most active stocks

  • #1
  • First Post: Jun 9, 2014 9:07am Jun 9, 2014 9:07am
I'm looking for a large list of stocks I can scroll through daily and weekly, that have a high daily percentage change. I seem to be having trouble finding a good source for this. There's plenty that sort by today's % change, but I am more concerned about looking at stocks that have a high % of daily movement on a regular basis. Any recommendations would be much appreciated. Thanks
  • #2
  • Jun 12, 2014 5:10am Jun 12, 2014 5:10am
You might want to try the "Leaderboard". Its free for a two week trial:

http://leaderboard.investors.com/pro...st&src=A422BC5
  • #3
  • Jun 21, 2014 10:24am Jun 21, 2014 10:24am
My own favorite stock is wynn but you can try the screener at finviz.com and do a scan on volatility.
  • #4
  • Jun 21, 2014 10:46am Jun 21, 2014 10:46am
When I traded stocks I used the Investools platform. To me, it is by far and beyond the best tool. It has many built in search engines that can find exactly what you are looking for. I have not used it for years now, but at that time, the results were the Top 25 stocks based on your search criteria and the fundamentals. From there, you merely click on a stock and have everything you want to know right there in front of you. All fundamentals, all the technicals, all the quarterly reports, all the news, and all the trading by members of the board. Everything.

My personal favorite method, of which I never lost, was to search for insider trading on positive stocks. This would kick back the stocks with the highest number of buys from members of the board. That is always a good sign something good is about to happen. Then simply review the news, look for a technical entry, and for me, I just bought the options and then sold them for profit in few days/weeks later.

Back then, Investools required you to attend their seminar for 8 hours of training before providing you the platform. Not sure how it works now. There was a cost for membership and it was recurring. Again, I am not familiar with the current pricing, but it was well worth it to me.
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  • #5
  • Jun 21, 2014 12:28pm Jun 21, 2014 12:28pm
Thanks guys for the input, I will check out these sites. I also found a couple more in the last couple of days, stock fetcher and Market Club.
  • #6
  • Jun 21, 2014 12:32pm Jun 21, 2014 12:32pm
Quoting dkrock
When I traded stocks I used the Investools platform. To me, it is by far and beyond the best tool. It has many built in search engines that can find exactly what you are looking for. I have not used it for years now, but at that time, the results were the Top 25 stocks based on your search criteria and the fundamentals. From there, you merely click on a stock and have everything you want to know right there in front of you. All fundamentals, all the technicals, all the quarterly reports, all the news, and all the trading by members of the board....
Thanks DKrock, interesting approach. I too have been trading options again recently, a great way to actually minimize risk if you don't over do it. My approach has been purely technical so far, but checking out your source as an additional too certainly won't hurt.
  • #7
  • Jun 21, 2014 2:40pm Jun 21, 2014 2:40pm
Quoting Jcp
{quote} Thanks DKrock, interesting approach. I too have been trading options again recently, a great way to actually minimize risk if you don't over do it. My approach has been purely technical so far, but checking out your source as an additional too certainly won't hurt.
Their search engine also shows you every available option to buy for the next 2 years, I think, maybe longer. It is a really good tool, if it is still available, and you can afford it.
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  • #8
  • Jun 21, 2014 6:57pm Jun 21, 2014 6:57pm
Quoting dkrock
{quote} Their search engine also shows you every available option to buy for the next 2 years, I think, maybe longer. It is a really good tool, if it is still available, and you can afford it.
Investools was bought by TDAmeritrade. I'm not sure if they have integrated it into their trading platforms or to what extent. I have been looking at the FinViz site and that is the best free stock data site I have seen. Really good and thanks to the poster above for mentioning it. You can filter buy and sell actions by Company insiders on the Insider tab and see lots of interesting data there. And it's a free site.

Even Yahoo Finance has an Options Center, though, where you can look at all available options chains for US stocks, just a typical (15min) delay. Yahoo Finance has most of what anybody would like to see, including a Historical Prices tab where you can download daily returns data (O,H,L,C,Vol) for a customized period - useful if you'd like to do your own volatility calcs...(see the "Download to Spreadsheet" tab at the bottom of the Historical Prices page).

Another good site is StockWatch, which will cost you $20/month and up, depending on what level of subscription you buy. That's cheap, though, compared to something like DTN IQFeed.

For options traders, also check out IVolatility.com, which has very useful options trading specific rankers and tools....
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  • #9
  • Edited 7:37pm Jun 21, 2014 7:22pm | Edited 7:37pm
Quoting The Fool
{quote} I have been looking at the FinViz site and that is the best free stock data site I have seen. Really good and thanks to the poster above for mentioning it. You can filter buy and sell actions by Company insiders on the Insider tab and see lots of interesting data there. And it's a free site.....
For instance, you can see that Wilbur Ross is ranked as having the biggest insider trade recently, where he sold his entire stake in IRE to DeutscheBank. IRE sitting at a 6-month low....

http://www.finviz.com/insidertrading...ansactionvalue

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101747052?__s...:+It+is+too+ea

I probably won't touch IRE, but might look to catch a bounce on it if it keeps falling. Another I saw there in the insider list is SN, which I'd bet will fall back...
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  • #10
  • Last Post: Jun 24, 2014 11:36am Jun 24, 2014 11:36am
netdania is good for data for stocks on the major US indices and its free - DJ, S&P, Nasdaq etc..
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