Stocks with sudden price increases (surges) & volume changes, stocks starting new trends, breakouts through overhead resistance, selling climaxes, reversal patterns, and "watch list" candidates.  There is an introductory video on setups and alerts on the home page (the third video below the green lettering).

Go to List of Surging Stocks

Sudden Increases in Price & Volume (Surges, Spikes, & Gaps)  

Why monitor price and volume surges?  Consider the following.  When traders believe their indicators suggest a stock is about to break through a line of resistance some will act in anticipation of the event (buying pressure will increase).  Other traders will buy when they notice, even before the breakout, the increase in volume on price increases and diminishing volume on price declines.  When a stock actually breaks to the upside through resistance, other traders will notice and buy, causing the price and volume to surge.  These conditions often precede the beginning of a significant price move.  It is only logical that if a company has just developed a new cure or treatment, people will hear about it and act accordingly.  The price of its stock will surge and its trading volume will increase (the stock price will pick up momentum).  High-powered professional traders have systems that flash an "alert" or "signal" when a stock has an unusual price and volume surge.  When they note it, they will buy and the price/volume surge will be magnified.  Whenever a stock starts a new trend, it draws attention.  Traders like to buy at the beginning of a trend.  Therefore, when the price spikes up and the volume surges, momentum for the new trend builds.  When a stock has been declining and the last holdouts give up, their selling will cause the stock to decline even more as the volume surges.  Traders will notice the stock's behavior and buy the "bargain."  Volume will increase even more as the price reverses direction.  In this scenario, the stock has just had a selling climax and a price reversal.  More traders will then notice that there has been a "selling climax" and begin to accumulate.  Others add the stock to their "watch list" so they can buy as soon as the new trend takes on more definition.  Most of the time, the surges highlighted on an alert list will not be particularly attractive to a trader because the stock's pattern will be compromised by nearby overhead resistance.  However, the alerts sometimes present an opportunity to get in at the beginning of a nice move.  A stock's closing price relative to the day's price action and overall price pattern, and its volume at the close (and the percentage change in volume for the day) are important when the stock has had a price surge, gap or spike.  These lists are presented so that you can see where the day's action was and evaluate the situation for yourself. 

The free lists of surging stocks provided daily here focuses on 1-day surges.  For information regarding surges associated with breakout thrusts, new trends, and other important price surges, use the "Breakouts" tab of the navigation menu on the left side of the screen.  There is also a list of stocks that have surged at least 2% in price with a volume surge of at least 50% on the "Market Review" page.  The stocks listed there are found by scanning our general database of several thousand stocks. 

 On average, the stocks listed here are of generally higher quality than the average stock in the lists of the previous paragraph.  Those stocks are from a large general list of thousands of stocks.  These, on the other hand, are all from the Valuator's master list that our company traders use as a primary source of trading ideas.  The stocks reported on here have just had some unusual action.  The percentage change in price (% Ch) is in the column to the right of the closing price.  The next columns show the volume (Volume) and the 1-day percentage change in volume  (Vol % Ch) respectively.  The final column is the 12-day momentum (12d Mom).  A daily review of the charts of stocks listed here can uncover stocks that have recently started out on new trends, stocks breaking out of a consolidation pattern, or stocks that have had unusual market activity for some other reason.  We review these stocks to see if they have a "setup pattern" that is of sufficient interest to warrant inclusion of the stock on our "watch list."  If we decide to include a stock on our watch list, we monitor it while waiting for a good entry point.  For example, we might wait for a pullback to a rising trendline.  Perhaps we will also wait for some sign that the trendline is holding or that the stock is responding to it in a positive way.  Waiting for such a pullback also helps us optimize our stop-loss placement.  The buy price is then only slightly above support.  Therefore, when the stop is placed a little below the expected support (the trendline), any decline that triggers the stop will be relatively small (and so will any consequential loss if the unexpected happens).  

For the list on this page, all stocks in The Valuator (about 500 stocks) are ranked in the order of their percentage change in price for the day.  The stocks with the greatest positive and negative changes are listed here (arranged in order of price change).  The most positive change may not be positive (it just may be the least negative).  The most negative change may not be negative (it may be the least positive).  Approximately 30 stocks with the most extreme moves at each end of the spectrum are listed regardless of the actual direction of the move (the total number listed is always about 60).  Therefore, on days when there is a strong move to the downside, there may be stocks above the black bar that declined.  That is, the most positive stocks may be negative.  That's where the percentage change comes into play.  We prefer to focus on stocks that have had at least a 1-day price increase of 1%, but we will sometimes check out stocks that have had a price increase a little less than that.  Remember that volume changes are important.  A price increase of 1% combined with a 50% volume decrease is not particularly noteworthy.  However,  a price increase of 1% combined with a 50% increase in volume will generate some interest.   The numbers reported are percent changes for price and volume respectively.  Short-sellers will be interested in stocks with large negative surges on heavy volume.
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Here's an alert!
The Valuator does not report PE and PEG ratios based on last year's obsolete data.   Nor does it try to look ahead a full year (analysts are notoriously inaccurate when they try to estimate a year ahead).  Instead, the 1-year earnings estimates it uses for computing PE & PEG ratios look ahead only about 6 months (6 months past + 6 months future).  We believe this is far more accurate.  Also, the market tends to look ahead about six months. · The Stops tool computes trailing volatility-adjusted stop losses that can be adjusted to match your tolerance for risk and investment time-horizon.  Let the stock have just enough room for its "normal" fluctuations as it climbs (each stock is different), but cut losses quickly when it declines more than is "normal" for that stock. · StockAlerts can help you find stocks for your watchlist that are more likely to surge within a few days.    

 Data Updated For Next Market Opening as shown in Table
(Tuesday's after-market updates are usually delayed.  See the "Notes" page for timing of updates)
Stocks above the Black bar were the most positive.  Stocks below the black bar were the most negative.
Volume figures should be multipied by 100