Momentum Continuation
Liquid US stocks in the top 15% of relative strength (above the 85th percentile), trading above the 50-day moving average, with an average daily range above 2.50%.
01The list
Each row shows the numbers it passed on
Each row shows price, relative-strength rank, average daily range, dollar volume and distance from the 50-day moving average. RS is where the stock's three-month return ranks against the rest of the US market, from 0 to 100. ADR is how far the stock moves on a typical day. A setup tag on each row says whether the stock is basing or trading far above its averages. The sector strength strip ranks sector, industry and theme ETFs against SPY. Filter by sector, RS or setup tag, then switch to Chart view and page through the list.
// Table view · one screen's passing list
02Charts
Mark your levels
Daily or weekly candles, with the exponential moving averages (EMAs) you trade. Lines, rays, vertical lines, notes, trendlines, rectangles, Fibonacci retracements, anchored VWAP, long and short positions and price and date ranges are saved per ticker, so the chart opens the way you left it. It is drawn from the same end-of-day bars the screen used.
// Daily candles · EMA 9 / 50 · SMA 50 · a trendline and a price line
03Saved chart layouts
Your indicator setups, saved by name
A chart layout is a named set of the chart's indicator settings: which of the volume, MACD, KD (stochastic), RSI and ADR panes are on, the volume profile (the volume traded at each price in view), the five moving averages and their periods, and the order and height of each pane. The Layouts button beside Indicators saves the chart as a new layout. One press on a saved layout sets the chart to it. A dot on the button means the chart differs from that layout, and from there you can update the layout, rename it or delete it.
A layout leaves the interval, the range, the candle type, the log axis, the grid and every colour as they are. You can keep up to 20 layouts, and they follow your account to every device. Free accounts have them too. On a phone, Layouts is the top row of the Indicators sheet.
// Chart view · Layouts open · RSI + ADR on the chart · volume, RSI and ADR panes
04Multiple Charts
Many charts, one view
Multiple Charts sits between Chart and Table and shows up to sixteen charts at once, in ten layouts. Fill the grid from your filtered list or from any sector, industry or theme and page through it, or open a group you saved. One range covers every chart, and the moving averages are the ones you set in Chart view. Save named groups that follow your account to every device, and copy or download the grid as one PNG.
// Multiple Charts · 3 × 3 · Technology, passing only · sorted by $Vol 50d · 3M
05Setups & sectors
Where each strong name sits on its chart
Every row is tagged BASE, TIGHT, TREND, EXT or PARA. The tag is scored against the stock's own average daily range, so a fast mover and a slow one are each measured by their own normal day. The sector strength strip shows which groups are leading before you open a chart.
// Market tab · 30 sector, industry and theme ETFs against SPY
06Market breadth
How many stocks pass each screen, day by day
Market breadth is how many stocks are taking part in a move. QM Screener counts it directly: after every close it records how many stocks passed each screen, and the share of the stocks it measured that closed above their 20-, 50- and 200-day moving averages (the 200-day share comes from the screens that load a year of prices).
The Breadth card shows today's count for your screen and how it compares with recent sessions. Its history chart plots that count session by session, with SPY, QQQ or IWM on a second axis, and opens on the last six months. Sessions from before the card launched were replayed later against today's list of stocks, so stocks that have since been delisted are missing from them. Free accounts see the card and its history too.
// Breadth card and history · one screen · SPY
The guide on reading market breadth explains the average, the percentile and the index arrows.
07Heat map
The market after the close, on one map
On a wide screen the Market tab ends with a heat map. Every stock QM Screener sorts into a sector gets one tile, grouped with its sector and sized by its 50-day dollar volume, so the most traded names take the most room. The tiles are coloured by the day's change, in the up and down colours you chose. A switch above the map recolours them by RS percentile (relative strength: each stock's three-month return ranked against every stock screened, drawn on a blue scale because it is a rank) or by the 1- or 3-month return.
Press a tile to open that stock's chart, and move from tile to tile with the arrow keys. Free accounts see the names from their free preview on the map, with one line saying the rest comes with a subscription.
// Market tab · heat map · coloured by Day % · sized by $Vol 50d
08Workflow
From the list to TradingView
Look up any US stock, bookmark the ones you want to see again, and export the list, filtered or whole.
01Find
Type a few letters of a ticker or company name to jump to any US stock, whether it passed a screen today or not.
02Save
Bookmark a name into your watchlist. It stays with your account across days and devices, and the table can filter down to it.
03Send
Export a TradingView watchlist, a CSV, a PNG of the table or share text, from the filtered list or the full one.
09Daily digest
One email after the close
Subscribers get a digest each trading day after the close. It opens with the three stocks that passed the most screens, each with its numbers and a chart of its 10, 20 and 50-day EMAs. Every issue has an unsubscribe link.
10The seven screens
Seven screens you don't have to build
Six screens follow a published trend or momentum method and the seventh is a pullback cut of the first; all of them rerun after every US close. A stock can pass one screen and fail the others.
// Screens
Momentum ContinuationTrend TemplateVCPGappersDefensive StrengthSwing MomentumMomentum Pullback
Trend Template
A published eight-point trend checklist. Price is above the 50-, 150- and 200-day simple moving averages (SMA), the averages are stacked 50 over 150 over 200, the 200-day is rising, price is within 25% of its 52-week high and at least 30% above its 52-week low, and the RS rank is 70 or better.
VCP (Volatility Contraction Pattern)
The price range tightens from 30 days to 15 to 5 while volume dries up, with price above the 50-day moving average.
Gappers
Stocks that opened at least 4% above the prior close on at least twice their 50-day average volume, while already above the 50-day moving average.
Swing Momentum
Liquid stocks above both the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, with an RS rank of 70 or better and an average daily range between 3% and 8%.
Defensive Strength
Staples, healthcare and utility stocks above the 200-day moving average that swing less than the market (one-year beta against SPY under 1.0).
Momentum Pullback
The Momentum Continuation list, narrowed to names that closed at least 15% above the 50-day moving average in the last 20 sessions and now sit within one average daily range of the 20-day exponential moving average (EMA), or inside the 10/20/50-day EMA band.
11What the screens test
What a momentum stock screener looks for
Five measurements decide almost every row on this site.
Relative strength comes first. Each stock's three-month return is ranked against the whole screened universe and reported as a percentile. A reading of 97 means the stock outran 97 percent of the market that quarter.
Average daily range, written ADR%, is the mean of each day's high divided by its low, minus one, over the last 20 sessions, as a percent. A name that travels half a percent a day cannot pay for a swing trade's risk, so a floor sits under it. Dollar volume is the liquidity check: price times volume, averaged over 50 days and over 20 days, keeps out names you can get into and not out of.
Then the trend itself. Price above the 50-day moving average, with the shorter averages stacked above the longer ones, separates a stock in an advance from one bouncing inside a downtrend.
The fifth is distance from the highs. Near its 52-week high a stock has no overhead supply left, which is why momentum traders look there. The Trend Template screen tests it outright: price within 25 percent of the 52-week high and at least 30 percent above the 52-week low.
Two stocks can be equally strong while one sits 60 percent above its 50-day average and the other moves sideways on top of its averages. The setup tag on each row says which kind you are looking at. The long version is in the guide on how to screen for momentum stocks.
12For agents
Plug the screens into your AI assistant
Add one URL to Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that supports remote MCP servers. It can then read today's setups and the sector ranking, and on a subscriber account every passing name and its chart data. Scripts can use the REST API, which serves the same data. See /docs.
13Pricing
Everything for $10 a month.
Free screeners like Finviz give you a filter builder. You set up the scans and keep them working. Here the seven screens are built and rerun for you, with a setup tag and a chart on every row. What you pay for is the hour each evening you would otherwise spend building scans and paging through charts. One paid tier: $10 monthly or $84 annually after the 7-day trial. A free account (verified email, no card) shows the top 5 names on each screen, with their charts.
Monthly
$10 / month
Billed monthly after a 7-day free trial.
- Every passing name on all seven screens
- Charts, Multiple Charts, the heat map, drawing tools, watchlist and exports
- Refreshed after every US close
- Daily digest email and MCP for AI assistants
- Cancel anytime
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Annual
$84 / year
$7/month, billed yearly. 7-day free trial.
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14How we compare
How it compares with other screeners
One page per tool, on what it takes to get from the close to a watchlist for the next session.
15FAQ
Questions before you start
What is a momentum stock screener?
A momentum stock screener ranks stocks by how strongly they have been moving and filters the market down to the ones in an active advance. QM Screener does that once per trading day over the full US market. Each stock's three-month return is ranked into a percentile against every other screened stock, then checked against a floor on average daily range, a floor on dollar volume, and its position against the 50-day moving average. The names that pass open as charts built from the same end-of-day bars the screen used.
What criteria does a momentum stock screener use?
Five things: relative strength against the rest of the market, a floor on average daily range, enough dollar volume to get in and out, price above the 50-day moving average, and distance from the recent highs. The momentum continuation screen here uses an RS percentile above 85, ADR above 2.50%, 50-day dollar volume above $20M, 20-day dollar volume above $10M, and price above the 50-day SMA, with pharmaceuticals and biotechnology excluded. Every comparison is strictly greater-than. The full method is in the guide.
Is there a free momentum stock screener?
Yes. A free account needs a verified email and no card. It shows the top 5 names on each of the seven screens every day, with their charts. The daily top-setups preview and the sector strength ranking are public and need no account at all. The full passing lists, the near-miss list, charts for any other symbol, symbol search, the watchlist, and the CSV and TradingView exports are $10 a month after a 7-day free trial. See what a free account includes.
How is a momentum screener different from Finviz or TrendSpider screeners?
Finviz and TrendSpider give you a filter builder: you pick the fields, set the thresholds and keep the scan working yourself. QM Screener runs seven finished end-of-day screens: six published methods and one pullback cut of the first, every rule written down. Every row comes with a chart drawn from the same bars the screen used, and a setup tag that says whether the stock is basing or far above its averages. You give up flexibility and get a shorter path from the close to a watchlist. See the Finviz comparison and the TrendSpider comparison.
Who can use QM Screener?
Anyone. Enter your email and we'll send you a link to set a password, or sign in with Google. A free account needs a verified email and no card, and shows the top 5 names on each screen with their charts. The full lists need a subscription or a running 7-day free trial.
How does the 7-day free trial work?
Both plans start with a 7-day free trial on a new account, with full dashboard access from the start. Stripe takes your card when you start the trial but does not charge it until the trial ends. Cancel during the trial and you pay nothing.
How do I cancel my subscription?
In the dashboard, open the account menu at the foot of the left rail (the ⋯ button on a phone or in a narrow window) and choose “Manage billing”. That opens the Stripe Customer Portal, where cancelling takes one click. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then.
Do you offer refunds?
No. The 7-day free trial is the time to decide. Once a paid period starts, charges are non-refundable for any reason. You can cancel anytime to stop the next renewal. The Terms of Use have the full refund policy.
Where does the market data come from?
A commercial US equities data API delivers daily OHLCV bars and basic reference data. Results are persisted between runs so each screen stays reproducible.
How often does it refresh?
A scheduled job re-runs every screen once per trading day after the US close. The dashboard shows when the data was last updated, and on a wide screen the bar along the bottom also says which session's close the list comes from.
Does QM Screener include charts?
Yes. Click any ticker to open a candlestick chart drawn from the same end-of-day bars the screen used: daily or weekly candles, volume, a log axis, SMA 50 and 200, and three EMAs (9 / 21 / 50 by default; the periods are editable). Chart view docks the chart beside the result list so you can step through every passing name with the arrow keys, and the URL carries the open chart, so any view can be shared as a link. Your chart settings are remembered between visits. The chart's indicators, moving averages and pane heights can also be saved as named chart layouts, up to 20 of them, and applied with one press. Multiple Charts, a third view between Chart and Table, shows up to sixteen charts at once in ten layouts. Fill it from your filtered list or from any sector, industry or theme and page through it, or open a group you saved. On a wide screen the Market tab ends with a heat map of every stock the screener sorts into a sector, sized by 50-day dollar volume and coloured by the day's change, the RS percentile or the 1- or 3-month return. Press a tile to open that stock's chart.
Is QM Screener financial advice?
No. It lists tickers that pass published momentum filters. It does not recommend trades or size positions, and it knows nothing about your risk tolerance. Use the output as a starting point for your own research.
What's the difference between the seven screens?
Each one follows a different published trend or momentum method, except Momentum Pullback, which narrows Momentum Continuation to the names that closed well above their 50-day average in the last 20 sessions and are now back near their 20-day EMA. A stock can pass one screen and fail the others. Some stocks pass several screens at once, and the daily digest leads with the ones that pass the most, counting Momentum Continuation and Momentum Pullback as one.
Is QM Screener affiliated with any trader or publisher?
No. QM Screener is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any trader, author, or firm. Each screen implements trend and momentum criteria that are publicly documented. The exact rules are listed in the docs, and each row shows the numbers it passed on, so you can check it yourself.
Can I export results?
Yes. Export any list as a TradingView watchlist (one click, ready to import), CSV, a PNG of the table, or share text for a chat or a post. Multiple Charts copies or downloads every chart on screen as one PNG. Bookmark names into a per-account watchlist to carry them across days. Programmatically, each screen's full result set is served as JSON over the REST API.
Can AI agents or scripts use QM Screener?
Yes. An MCP server at /mcp exposes the screens as tools for Claude, ChatGPT and any other assistant that supports remote MCP servers. Add the URL, approve it, and the assistant can read the screens for you. Scripts get a REST API, described by an OpenAPI 3.1 document at /openapi.json and versioned at /api/v1. /llms.txt summarises the site for language models, and an agent acting for a subscriber authenticates with OAuth 2.1. The daily top-setups preview, the sector strength ranking and the market breadth history are public and need no account at all.