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Top Gainers and Losers
Two tabs that rank stocks by percent change from the prior close, the biggest gainers on one and the biggest losers on the other.
How do you read a top gainers and losers list?
A top gainers and losers list ranks stocks by percent change from the prior close, with the biggest winners on one side and the biggest decliners on the other. Sorting by percent instead of price puts a $2 stock and a $200 stock on equal footing. It shows what has already moved, not why, and not what happens next.
A raw percent ranking fills up with thin, low priced names that can post huge moves on almost no money, which is why most screens filter on price and volume first. Then read each row as three questions. How much did it move in total? Did the move come from the gap at the open or from trading during the session? Was there enough volume, and how much of it printed off exchange, to take the move seriously? A stock that gapped and then faded reads differently from one that kept going. None of it says what comes next. On EZPZ, Top Gainers and Top Losers are two tabs of one table layout: the same columns, sorted by Total Change % in opposite directions. Start with Market Dashboard if you want the whole tape before you pick names.
How Top Gainers and Losers works on EZPZ
Two tabs sit above the table. Top Gainers sorts Total Change % from highest to lowest. Top Losers sorts it the other way, so the biggest decliner is first. The active tab is highlighted, and the rest of the layout does not change.
The screenshot shows why the columns matter together. XME opened at $111.74 and Gap % prints 0.38% in green. It then sold off to $102.15 and Total Change % prints -8.24%. That is a stock that opened flat and lost ground through the session. SID prints -6.78% on 10.5M Volume, with 320.1K Dark Pool Volume and a 3.05% DarkVol Ratio %. MYGN prints -6.76% on 3.5M Volume with a 15.03% DarkVol Ratio %.
How Top Gainers and Losers differs from the rest of stocks-data
This page ranks by percent move. Market Dashboard is the one-screen overview of indices, breadth, and Market Direction lights, with a compact gainers and losers table. Volume Leaderboard ranks by how much traded against normal. Gap Up and Down ranks the overnight gap alone. Extended Hours Leaders covers pre market and after hours. Range Change Leaders ranks the move from today's open to now, up or down. Use this page when the question is who moved most, up or down. For one name after you have picked it, Ticker Explorer is the one-symbol dashboard.
Filters
Two checkboxes in the header card control what the table includes. Both are on by default.
- Volume above 1M: keeps only stocks that have traded more than 1M shares today.
- Price above $1: drops sub-dollar stocks.
Uncheck either one to widen the list. Expect more thin names and larger percent moves when you do, because a small dollar amount can move a cheap or quiet stock a long way.
Reading the columns
Read a row left to right: where it trades and how it opened, how it moved, then how much traded and where.
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| Symbol Price | The ticker and its last price. |
| Gap % | The jump from the prior close to today's open. Green is a gap up, red is a gap down. |
| Open High Low | Today's regular session open, high, and low. |
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| RTH Change % | Percent change during regular trading hours only. |
| Total Change $ | Dollar change from the prior close. |
| Total Change % | Percent change from the prior close, including the gap. This is the sort column, and an arrow in the header shows the direction. |
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| Volume | Shares traded today. |
| Dark Pool Volume | Shares that traded on dark, off-exchange venues. A dash means none. |
| DarkVol Ratio % | Dark Pool Volume as a percent of total Volume. Higher means more of the day traded off the public order book. |
How people actually use it
Scan both ends
Check Top Gainers and Top Losers back to back for a quick read on strength and weakness, and for which themes are leading the tape.
Gap versus total
Compare Gap % with Total Change %. A gap that kept going shows follow-through. A gap that faded shows the early move losing steam.
Weigh the volume
A large percent move on heavy Volume has more participation behind it than the same move on a thin tape. Keep Volume above 1M on when you want liquid names.
Pick a name to research
Treat the list as a starting point. Open the chart and the news for a name that stands out, or check Volume Leaderboard to see whether its volume is unusual for that stock.