how to search for most active stocks

[johnnymustard]

hello & good day. is there a way to search for the 50 most active NYSE stocks by volume? would this be possible with a data feed like kinetick? do a new search for the same say every 15 mins, whether it's the same 50 stocks or not? or similarly, search for the 50 most active stocks of s&p? thank you for your help, jm

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello johnnymustard,
Thanks for your note.
Unfortunately you wont be able to do it.

You can create a custom stock list and add it to a Market Analyzer and sort the volume from that stock list. However all the query will be limited to stocks listed in the market analyzer only.

[johnnymustard]

follow up to original post

based on your reply: if i added all the stocks on the NYSE or S&P 500 to the market analyzer and sorted by volume, in theory, wouldn't that give me the data i'm looking for? would i be able to take only the 50 most active from that list to use for a custom indicator and disregard all other stocks on that list?

secondly: let's say i get the 50 most active stocks from google finance. would i then be able to manually add the symbols via indicator parameters to manipulate the data within a custom indicator? what i want to do is take the 50 most active stocks and separate them by increasing price and decreasing price. then a simple indicator to to subtract the decreasing stocks sum losses from increasing stocks sum gains for a net pos/neg value. then plot that value as a line on the chart. will that work?
(sum most active gains - sum most active losses) = my custom indicator
thanks in advance. jm

[ayush001]

It is depend on your searching phrases that how you search.

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

based on your reply: if i added all the stocks on the NYSE or S&P 500 to the market analyzer and sorted by volume, in theory, wouldn't that give me the data i'm looking for? would i be able to take only the 50 most active from that list to use for a custom indicator and disregard all other stocks on that list?

If the criteria which satisfies your search is volume, yes you could use the Market Analyzer volume column to sort through a list of stocks.

secondly: let's say i get the 50 most active stocks from google finance. would i then be able to manually add the symbols via indicator parameters to manipulate the data within a custom indicator? what i want to do is take the 50 most active stocks and separate them by increasing price and decreasing price. then a simple indicator to to subtract the decreasing stocks sum losses from increasing stocks sum gains for a net pos/neg value. then plot that value as a line on the chart. will that work?
(sum most active gains - sum most active losses) = my custom indicator
thanks in advance. jm

This would be technically possible. Please see one of the following "spread" indicators which demonstrates how you can use a symbol name as an input variable:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links_search.php?s=&action=show&page=1&pp=15&search=spread&literal=1&desc=1&sort=n&doit=Go

[johnnymustard]

thank you matthew. i will try this. jm

[peterevanson]

how to search for most active stocks

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