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01What is in the post
A dated header, then five ranked lines. Each line is the symbol, its pre-market percent change, and the number of shares that traded in the pre-market session to produce it.
Only rank one carries a cashtag, because X permits one per post, so it goes to the name the post leads with. The closing line varies, so the post does not read identically every morning.
02What is being ranked
The whole US market, not just OTC. This is the one weekday asset on the calendar that covers listed exchanges. The five are the largest pre-market percentage gainers, subject to a minimum amount of pre-market trading, so a name that changed hands a couple of hundred times at a silly print cannot top the list.
The data is TradingView's US market data, read at the time stamped on the post.
03Why the volume column matters more than the percent
Read the two numbers together, always. A 74% pre-market move on 238 million shares and a 24% move on 223 thousand shares are not the same event, and the list does not rank them by how real they are. It ranks them by percent, which is why the shares traded sits on the same line.
Pre-market percentage is measured against the previous session's close on a thin book. A wide spread and a handful of aggressive orders can produce a large number that the opening auction erases in the first minute.
04What it does not mean
- It is not a screen for quality. It screens on the size of the move and on there being real trading behind it, nothing else. Nothing about the company, the news, the float or the filing history enters into it.
- It is not a list of both sides. It is a gainers list by design. Names down hard pre-market are absent from it.
- It does not survive the open. It is a snapshot at roughly 9:15 AM ET. By 9:31 the ranking is usually different.
- It is not a watchlist. Appearing here is a description of the last two hours, not a claim about the next six.