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Which trading session is running. Regular hours are 9:30am to 4pm ET. Pre-market (4am) and after hours (to 8pm) have far less volume, so prices there move more easily and are less reliable.live
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.
Multi-day moves off the daily chart. The easiest place to start.Typical hold: days. 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.
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 steep the trend is, measured in percent per session so timeframes compare fairly. Steep and rising is a different trade from flat and drifting.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 19.2M
One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.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 7.8M
One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.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.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 34.6M
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 steep the trend is, measured in percent per session so timeframes compare fairly. Steep and rising is a different trade from flat and drifting.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 20.1M
One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.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 15.9M
One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.One of our scanner boards flagged this stock. The number is its reading on that board.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 227.2M
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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