Best strong buy for today

Screening Filters

1. monthly_average_dollar_volume ≥ 500,000

   • Purpose: Ensure the stocks are sufficiently liquid and practical to trade.
   • Rationale:
     • “Best strong buy stocks” usually implies names where you can realistically enter and exit positions without excessive slippage.
     • A minimum monthly average dollar volume of $500k filters out illiquid microcaps and very thinly traded stocks that might move sharply on small orders or be hard to trade at fair prices.

2. moving_average_relationship: PriceAboveMA20

   • Purpose: Focus on stocks with a positive short-term technical trend.
   • Rationale:
     • The user wants ideas “for today”; that leans toward names with favorable near-term price action.
     • Price above the 20-day moving average suggests the stock is in a short-term uptrend or recovery phase, rather than clearly downtrending.
     • This helps avoid many names that might be “Strong Buy” fundamentally but are still technically weak or sliding.

3. list_exchange: XNYS, XNAS, XASE

   • Purpose: Restrict results to major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale:
     • The user asked about the US stock market, which is primarily NYSE (XNYS), Nasdaq (XNAS), and NYSE American / AMEX (XASE).
     • This excludes OTC, pink sheets, and foreign exchanges, which might be less regulated, less liquid, or outside the user’s intended universe.

4. one_day_rise_prob ≥ 55

   • Purpose: Tilt toward stocks with a higher modeled probability of rising in the next trading day.
   • Rationale:
     • “For today” suggests a short-term performance focus rather than just long-term fundamentals.
     • A minimum 55% probability of a one-day rise (based on a model or historical/quantitative signal) is not a guarantee, but it biases the list toward names with a statistical edge for near-term upside relative to a 50/50 baseline.
     • This helps align the screen with the user’s time frame (today) instead of only long-term outlook.

5. analyst_consensus: Strong Buy

   • Purpose: Capture only stocks that the analyst community is very bullish on.
   • Rationale:
     • The user explicitly asked for “best strong buy stocks”, which clearly maps to the analyst rating scale where “Strong Buy” is the highest conviction category.
     • This filter ensures that multiple analysts, on average, have high confidence in the stock’s prospects (earnings growth, business quality, valuation, etc.).
     • It also excludes mere “Buy” or “Hold” names to keep the list focused on top-rated ideas.

6. target_price_upside_potential: MoreAbovePrice

   • Purpose: Ensure analysts’ target prices imply meaningful upside from the current price.
   • Rationale:
     • “Best” strong buys generally should not just be highly rated, but also have room to run according to analyst targets.
     • Requiring the target price to be above the current market price (and by more than a trivial amount) helps avoid cases where the stock is already at or above its consensus target.
     • This aligns with the idea of attractive risk–reward: analysts see further upside rather than the move already being “priced in.”

Why Results Match the User’s Request

• The “Strong Buy” analyst consensus and upside target price filter directly address the desire for “best strong buy stocks,” capturing high-conviction, high-upside names.
• The U.S. exchange filter ensures all results are from the US stock market, as requested.
• The liquidity (dollar volume) and PriceAboveMA20 filters refine the list to stocks that are both practical to trade and currently in a favorable short-term technical posture.
• The one_day_rise_prob constraint adds a short-term, probabilistic edge appropriate for ideas “for today,” complementing the longer-term analyst views.

Together, these filters narrow the universe to U.S.-listed, liquid stocks that analysts rate as strong buys, see further upside in, and that currently show supportive technicals and a higher-than-average probability of near-term gain.