How to open the TradingView stock screener

On the TradingView website, open Products, then Screeners, then Stocks, or click Screeners in the top menu where it is shown. From a chart, the Products menu in the right-hand toolbar leads to the same screener. Set the market to the USA so the list holds US-listed stocks only. You can use the screener on the free plan; check TradingView’s plan comparison for which extras depend on your plan.

The screen is a table: one row per stock, with column sets such as Overview, Performance, Technicals and Extended hours. Click a column header to sort by it and a symbol to open its chart. The drawing at the top shows the idea: filters narrow the whole market down to a watchlist.

Which stock screener filters matter for traders?

Click + (or press Shift + F) to open the filter menu, then pick a filter or start typing its name; it applies at once. The ones most traders start with:

  • Market cap: the company’s size. A floor such as $2 billion removes most thinly traded small caps; see market cap.
  • Price: a floor such as $5 or $10 removes very low-priced shares, which often have wide spreads.
  • Volume and average volume: enough shares change hands each day for you to get in and out.
  • Relative volume: today’s volume against its own average; above 1 means busier than usual. See relative volume.
  • Change % and gap %: how far the stock has moved today, and how far it opened from the previous close.
  • Sector: keep or exclude groups such as technology or energy; see stock market sectors.
  • Technical rating: TradingView’s summary of several moving averages and oscillators, from strong sell to strong buy. It describes those indicators, not the future.

Example screens: gap-ups on volume and stocks near 52-week highs

Two illustrative filter sets, drawn as cards below. The thresholds are starting points to adjust, not recommendations, and neither screen says whether a stock will rise.

Gap-ups with relative volume, for day traders, run soon after the open: price above $5, average volume above 1 million shares, gap above 4% and relative volume above 2. Before 9:30 a.m. ET, use the pre-market filters and the Extended hours columns instead, since the regular-session gap is not known yet. What to do with the list is covered in our gap trading strategy and pre-market trading guides.

Stocks near 52-week highs, for swing traders: market cap above $2 billion, price within about 5% of its 52-week high, price above its 50-day moving average and average volume above 500,000 shares. Look for the 52-week high fields under Market data and a moving-average filter under Technicals. These are the names a breakout trading strategy starts from; for a growth screen with earnings filters, see how to pick growth stocks.

Turn your phone sideways to read the drawing. Tap to close.

Two hand-drawn filter cards labeled as examples, not recommendations. Gap-ups on volume: price above $5, average volume above 1M, gap above 4% and relative volume above 2. Near the 52-week high: market cap above $2B, price within 5% of the 52-week high, price above the 50-day average and average volume above 500K.

How to save a screen and open it again

When the filters and columns look right, click Save and give the screen a name, such as Gap-ups RVOL. To reopen it, click the current screen name at the top left and choose Open screen; the same menu holds recent screens and options to copy or rename. A saved screen reruns on fresh data each time you open it, and the screener settings let you choose an auto-refresh interval.

Keep one screen per idea instead of one huge screen. If a screen returns 200 names, tighten a threshold; if it returns none, loosen one. Change one filter at a time so you know which one did it.

How to build a watchlist from a screen

A screen changes every time the data does; a watchlist is the short list you actually follow. The steps at the time of writing:

  1. Sort the results by the column that matters for the idea, such as relative volume.
  2. Hold Shift or Ctrl and click the rows you want to keep.
  3. Right-click and choose to add the selected symbols to a watchlist. Flagging a symbol in the screener also adds it to your flagged list.
  4. Open each name on its chart, mark the levels and decide where your setup would trigger.
  5. Set alerts at those levels so you do not have to watch every chart; see TradingView alerts.

Turn your phone sideways to read the drawing. Tap to close.

A hand-drawn flow in four steps: a table of screener results with three rows highlighted and ticked, a right-click menu reading add to watchlist, a watchlist panel holding the three symbols, and a chart with a level line and an alert bell.

Stock screener mistakes to avoid

The chart step is where a tool like UpTickFlow, our invite-only TradingView indicator, fits, so weigh this accordingly: it marks levels and draws a plan on the chart of a stock you already chose. It does not screen the market or pick stocks. The common screener mistakes:

  • Treating the list as a buy list. A screen finds candidates; the chart, your plan and your risk decide the trade.
  • Too many filters. Conditions tuned until a few past winners appear rarely find the next one.
  • Ignoring liquidity. A thin stock can pass a change % filter and still be hard to trade at a fair price; see bid-ask spread.
  • Missing events. Check the earnings date before holding a name overnight.
  • Trusting stale data. Fundamental fields update after company filings; confirm key numbers before acting.