How to Find Equities Worth Watching: Most Active Stocks Screener
A simple walkthrough of how to use a stock screener and advanced filtering to find liquid, high-cap equities.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of stocks trade across global markets. Finding the ones worth paying attention to is the real challenge.
A common starting point is to look at two basic characteristics: market capitalization and trading volume. Larger, more actively traded stocks are generally considered more accessible for analysis — there’s more data, more coverage, and typically more price transparency.
The Most Active Stocks screener in FinImpulse is built around this idea. It’s a quick way to go from an overwhelming list of global securities to a focused shortlist — a starting point for your own research.
Most Active Stocks
This screener highlights the stocks with the highest trading volume of the day, reflecting strong liquidity and market interest.
Key filters:
- Quote Type: Stock
- Market Cap USD: Over 2 billion
- Volume: 5 million or more
In addition to the predefined criteria, you can apply any other available filters.
Real-World Example
Say you want to focus on markets outside the U.S.
FinImpulse provides a dedicated “Country” filter for this. To add it, press Add Filters, select Market Data, then Country, and exclude the United States — either by typing it in or selecting it from the list.
The system updates the results automatically — we receive nearly 2,000 stocks, sorted by Volume in descending order.
The sorting in FinImpulse works just like in Excel:
- Press on a column title to sort the data A–Z (ascending).
- A second click on the same column will reverse the order to Z–A (descending).
- If you need to remove the sorting, simply click the column title again.
This allows you to quickly switch between metrics and analyze the data from different perspectives.
To explore further, remove the Volume sorting and sort by, for example, Dividends (descending) — the results will show which markets currently offer the highest yields. Based on the current data, the top positions are held by companies from Brazil, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan.
Once you’ve configured the filters and sorting, save the setup as a custom screener. It will store all applied filters and sorting parameters, allowing you to return to the same view at any time without reconfiguring.
To learn more about custom screeners and all available features, check out the User Manual.
The Takeaway
The hardest part of finding good stocks isn’t access to data — it’s knowing where to look first. Volume and market cap don’t tell you what to buy. They tell you where the market is already paying attention.
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