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The market is closed. These are the last completed session's rankings, kept up so you can study them. Live prices start again at 4:00am ET when pre-market opens.
The fastest moves on the board, measured in minutes.Typical hold: minutes. Each candle on the chart covers this much time, showing the open, high, low and close for that period. Shorter candles show detail; longer ones show the shape of the move. with Moving averages: the blue 9 is the very short-term trend, yellow 50 medium, green 200 long. Price above all three, with the lines stacked in that order, is what traders call an uptrend. Price cutting below them is the opposite.
Relative volume: how much it is trading compared with its OWN normal for this time of day. 10x means ten times its usual, which is the clearest sign something real is happening.How steep the trend is, measured in percent per session so timeframes compare fairly. Steep and rising is a different trade from flat and drifting.How steep the trend is, measured in percent per session so timeframes compare fairly. Steep and rising is a different trade from flat and drifting.Short interest as a share of float. High short interest is fuel, not a signal: it only matters when something forces shorts to cover.
How many of our separate scanners flagged this stock at once (volume, movers, Reddit, trend, and so on). More boards means more independent reasons it stood out. It is a measure of attention, not of whether it will go up.vol 7K
How many times our scanners flagged this stock in the last 30 minutes, not a running total for the day. That is why a leading name can show a single-digit count. Repeated alerts in a short window mean it kept doing things worth flagging, which is the point: the count is about intensity, not how long it has been busy.Upvotes plus comments on this ticker across the trading subreddits, and where that ranks among the names on the board. It measures attention, not direction: the crowd is often loudest at a top.Short interest as a share of float. High short interest is fuel, not a signal: it only matters when something forces shorts to cover.
How many of our separate scanners flagged this stock at once (volume, movers, Reddit, trend, and so on). More boards means more independent reasons it stood out. It is a measure of attention, not of whether it will go up.vol 29K
Relative volume: how much it is trading compared with its OWN normal for this time of day. 10x means ten times its usual, which is the clearest sign something real is happening.How steep the trend is, measured in percent per session so timeframes compare fairly. Steep and rising is a different trade from flat and drifting.Short interest as a share of float. High short interest is fuel, not a signal: it only matters when something forces shorts to cover.
How many of our separate scanners flagged this stock at once (volume, movers, Reddit, trend, and so on). More boards means more independent reasons it stood out. It is a measure of attention, not of whether it will go up.vol 26K
How far it has moved over this board window. Check it against volume: a big move on thin volume reverses easily.One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.
How many of our separate scanners flagged this stock at once (volume, movers, Reddit, trend, and so on). More boards means more independent reasons it stood out. It is a measure of attention, not of whether it will go up.vol 282K
How many times our scanners flagged this stock in the last 30 minutes, not a running total for the day. That is why a leading name can show a single-digit count. Repeated alerts in a short window mean it kept doing things worth flagging, which is the point: the count is about intensity, not how long it has been busy.How far it has moved over this board window. Check it against volume: a big move on thin volume reverses easily.
How many of our separate scanners flagged this stock at once (volume, movers, Reddit, trend, and so on). More boards means more independent reasons it stood out. It is a measure of attention, not of whether it will go up.vol 73K
How far it has moved over this board window. Check it against volume: a big move on thin volume reverses easily.One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.
How many of our separate scanners flagged this stock at once (volume, movers, Reddit, trend, and so on). More boards means more independent reasons it stood out. It is a measure of attention, not of whether it will go up.vol 499
These are the names our scanners flagged on this timeframe, and the reasons they were flagged. They are not recommendations, and ranking #1 is not a prediction that a stock will go up. Always do your own research before trading.
Last session's six
We started recording what this board shows on 2026-08-08. After the next full trading session, this is where you will see the six names that were ranked here and exactly what each one did afterwards, including the ones that went down.
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