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Most Active Pre Market

Overview​

The Most Active Pre Market profile highlights industries and themes with strong early-session participation before the regular market opens. It focuses on groups where total volume is elevated and where activity is spread across a meaningful percentage of companies, which helps separate true pre-market clusters from isolated single-name spikes.

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This profile updates in real time and applies filters automatically to highlight groups with heavy pre-market activity and broad constituent participation. It is useful for spotting where liquidity, momentum, and early attention are clustering before the open.

Strategy Focus​

  • Detect pre-market leadership groups attracting strong early flow
  • Focus on broad participation, not just isolated movers inside a group
  • Track gap-related activity alongside volume and participation
  • Spot pre-market breakouts, breakdowns, and reversals with stronger confirmation
  • Compare early volume with group structure to prepare for the open
  • Build workflows around pre-market watchlists, gap analysis, and early rotation

Filters Applied​

This profile applies both total-volume and participation filters:

  • Volume 100k+ (%) > 30: Requires at least 30% of companies in the group to be trading more than 100,000 shares
  • Total Volume (%) > 2: Requires the group to represent more than 2% of total market volume

A group appears only when both conditions are met, which helps confirm that the activity is broad and meaningful.

Metrics Used​

Volume Activity and Participation​

  • Total Volume (%): The main ranking metric. It shows how much of total market volume is currently coming from the group.
  • Volume 100k+ (%): Shows the percentage of companies in the group trading more than 100,000 shares, helping confirm broad participation.
  • Relative Volume: Shows whether the group’s current activity is above or below its normal pace for this time of day.

Group Structure​

  • Industry / Theme: Identifies the group so you can compare early activity across industries and themes.
  • Tickers: Shows the number of companies in the group, helping you interpret the breadth of participation.

Pre-Market Price Movement​

  • Change Pre (%): Tracks group-level pre-market movement and helps connect early price action with early volume.

Group Ratings and Trend Context​

  • Group Rating 1 Day: Adds real-time strength context and helps show whether the early activity is aligning with stronger intraday positioning.
  • Group Rating 1 Year: Adds longer-term trend context and helps separate established leaders from newer bursts of activity.

Relative Strength Breadth​

  • Rel. Strength 1 Day 90+ (%): Shows the percentage of companies with strong short-term relative strength.
  • Rel. Strength 1 Year 90+ (%): Shows the percentage of companies with stronger long-term relative strength.

Return Context​

  • Return Year to Date (%): Helps compare the pre-market move with the group’s broader yearly trend.

Setup and Structural Behavior​

  • Gap Over Prev High (%): Shows how many companies are gapping above previous highs, which can support early breakout analysis.
  • Gap Under Prev Low (%): Shows how many companies are gapping below previous lows, which can support early downside analysis.
  • Gap Over Resistance (%): Helps confirm pre-market breaks above structural resistance.
  • Gap Under Support (%): Helps confirm pre-market breaks below structural support.
  • Tight Range (%): Shows where recent compression may be resolving on early volume.

Confirmation and Opportunity Signals​

  • Accumulation/Distribution Score: Adds institutional-behavior context and helps judge whether stronger participation may have broader support.
  • Reports Earnings Within 1 Week: Highlights near-term catalysts that may be driving early activity.
  • Top Alpha Setups: Shows whether pre-market activity is also producing concentrated setup opportunities inside the group.

Default Sorting Logic​

Results are sorted by Total Volume (%) in descending order, so the most active pre-market groups appear first.

Practical Use Cases​

  • Monitor active pre-market groups before the open
  • Build pre-market watchlists around broad participation and strong early flow
  • Use Ticker Screener to isolate the companies driving pre-market activity
  • Open Multi-Charts to compare gap behavior and early structure across active groups
  • Confirm pre-market moves with both total volume and participation breadth
  • Track early rotation and follow-through potential into the opening session