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Screening Filters

1. Market Cap ≥ $20,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on companies of at least small institutional interest and avoid ultra-tiny, highly speculative microcaps.
   • Rationale:
     • When people say “trending,” they usually mean names that are being actively talked about, traded, and watched by more than just a handful of retail traders.
     • Setting a minimum market cap of $20M removes the very smallest, illiquid names that can appear “trendy” due to a few random trades but don’t reflect broad market attention.
     • This threshold still allows smaller growth and niche names to appear, but filters out shell companies and the thinnest OTC-style stocks that can distort “trending” signals.

2. Price ≥ $0.50

   • Purpose: Exclude most penny stocks and extremely low-priced securities where price moves can be misleading.
   • Rationale:
     • Ultra-low-priced stocks can show big percentage moves on tiny absolute price changes (e.g., $0.05 to $0.06 is +20%), which can make them look “hot” without real underlying interest.
     • Many “sub-50 cent” names are distressed, manipulated, or subject to promotional activity rather than genuine market-driven trends.
     • A floor at $0.50 helps keep results to securities that are more likely to be tradable and relevant to a typical investor looking for what’s truly trending.

3. Daily Volume ≥ 10,000 Shares

   • Purpose: Ensure the assets are actually being traded with some regularity, which is a direct proxy for “trending” or “active” interest.
   • Rationale:
     • A stock cannot realistically be considered trending if almost no one is trading it.
     • Minimum volume weeds out illiquid names where a few small trades can create misleading price spikes but don’t reflect real interest.
     • 10,000 shares is a modest but meaningful floor that allows both smaller and larger stocks to qualify, while focusing on genuine trading activity.

Why Results Match Your Request

• Aligns with the idea of “trending”:

  • Trending assets typically have real investor attention and sufficient liquidity. The volume filter directly targets that, while the market cap and price filters avoid the extreme fringes where movements are more noise than signal.

• Improves relevance and practicality:

  • By excluding ultra-illiquid microcaps and sub-penny-type names, the screen surfaces securities that are more realistically investable or tradable for most users, and whose “trend” reflects broader market sentiment rather than isolated spikes.

Together, these filters narrow the universe to stocks where price moves and volume are more likely to represent genuine market trends, making the resulting list more aligned with what most investors mean by “currently trending in the market.”