Selection of Stocks for Monitoring

[TheBramble]

I know most of you active traders use a scanning product to keep an eye on promising stocks, but how do you decide which stocks to scan?

I assume most scanners have some limitation on the number of symbols it can dynamically scan, so how do you select, on a general basis, which exchanges and stocks to enter?

Do you have another tool (a meta-scanner???) to do this or do you just look for which stocks have been most active today/last week etc.?

 

[Rognvald]

You could try sifting by sector first and then sifting what this produces

The abilty to scan a database of instruments for the required conditions exists in most of the more sophisticated charting packages. The selection of criteria and market place is a matter for u