Traders,

Here's a thread where I'll post charts for both intraday and swing traders that show some of the current market's best-volatility trading charts.

General scanning criteria:

Day trading stocks:
I like charts that are over $30/share, at least 1.5 million shares/day average volume and at least a 2 point range in the
prior day's high/low.

Swing trading stocks:
When I scan for stocks for swing trading, I like new 52-week highs/lows for stocks that are >$30/share, at least 1.0M shares/day average volume, and a 10-day high/low range of at least 10% of the stock's price or better (eg a $50 stock needs to have a 10-day range of 5 points or more to be considered).


Free chart sites I like:
http://www.stockcharts.com
http://www.bigcharts.com

Professional chart software I use (and have fulltime since 2000):
http://www.esignal.com

Feel free to post comments, thoughts and/or trading questions!


To profit,

Ken

Here's some of the most volatile "high-flyer" (high priced) day trading stocks :













I'll be posting many more in the weeks ahead, traders - this is just a first post with some "familiar favorites" I'm
sure most of you have followed, to get the ball rolling.

Got questions? Just ask - I've got answers.

Ken

hi,ken

I want to know what scan tool you use can find them?

Hi - I manually scan through hundreds of charts to find those with the best volatility. Occasionally you can look at each day's percent gain/loss lists in the NASDAQ/NYSE to spot gaps and wide-range stocks (I use the one in esignal.com, Ctrl-L). I also look at cnbc tickers premarket each morning to see where the gaps are.

Most of this is manual work, which is needed for trading.

Ken

good Work Zen,

Basically i go through all the news for my trading strategies. The biggest news that is hitting the financial market is that the dollar lost ground against the yen, thus retreating from its 7-month high achieved due to the fall of oil prices to a 3-month low. Most of the traders preferred to sell on the profits of the previous day, in which the oil's drop beneath $120 a barrel supported stock gains and investors are willing to take more risks after yesterday's new found support in the dollar.

Hope to see some corrections now.

this news source: http://www.finexo.com/docs/tech_analysis/emc.pdf