Leading Stocks That Reported Earnings 1/16

January 17, 2013

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By Geoff Bysshe


The stocks that make big volume moves when they report earnings are often a great source of day trades and swing trades in the weeks that follow. So I like to have a quick way to identify the stocks that had big volume and big moves a result of earnings.

As earnings season heats up it can be difficult to keep track of which stocks reacted in an very positive or negative way to their earnings. I take the list of stocks that reported and just put them in a HotScans portfolio. The result is that I easily answer some basic yet very powerful questions like...

  • Which moved up or down the most?
  • Which gap up then sold off or vice versa?
  • Which moved big after they opened?
  • Which closed near their high or low of the day?
  • Which broke major levels like 52-week highs or lows?
  • And a lot more.

Below you'll find a screen shot of one view in HotScans that will answer almost all of these questions above at a glance. I've also posted a video that will walk you through how all these questions are answered by this one table.

I'll be posting more screenshots like this throughout earnings season so you might also be able to find some good stocks to trade over the next several weeks.

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This screenshot is the trading for Wednesday 1/16 for stocks that reported sometime between after the close on Tuesday to the close on Wednesday.

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Here's a quick video that will explain how to get the most information out of the screenshot above.