Custom Scans: Learn How to Find the Best Stocks to Trade

Learn to locate the best stocks to trade using custom scans with Tc2000, keeping a simple, data-driven process focused on daily opportunity and profitability.

Identify the three main conditions used in scans: price, volume, and average true range (ATR)—and keep your approach simple to avoid distractions and focus on core trading signals.

Discover institutional ownership as a value metric in scans, learn six custom scans plus bonuses for after market and pre-market setups, including no resistance and no support plays, using Tc2000.

Explore the key features of a stock scan in TC2000, including basic price and volume conditions, custom conditions, my indicators, fundamentals, and pre-built scans to start.

Open the Tc2000 easy scan feature, then create a new condition and build your stock scans from basic options such as price, volume, and other criteria.

Learn to use the custom formula feature to narrow scans with a string of code, balancing precision with breadth and staying self-sufficient.

Master candlestick coding to scan stocks by open, high, low, and close prices across days, filtering data by time frames while keeping formulas simple and precise.

Create an aftermarket up 3% stock scan to identify upside continuation using price history up 3%, price between 20 and 120, ATR 14, and volume over 2 million.

Learn to set up aftermarket stock scans with simple formulas, requiring a ten-day average volume of at least 2 million and elevated current volume to reveal institutional activity.

Learn to use the aftermarket scan, after hours plus 3%, to identify stocks up 3%, then filter with technical analysis, supply and demand, and support and resistance.

Run a live after market up 3% scan to demonstrate filters in Tc2000, including price up 3%, price between 20 and 120, atr above 2, and volume over 2 million.

Use a directional after-market scan to find stocks that closed down at least 3%. The filter combines price history, average true range above $2, and volume over 2 million.

Use the directional aftermarket formula to screen stocks with aftermarket up or down 3%, average volume over 2 million in ten days, and current volume above average, signaling institutional interest.

Drill down the directional aftermarket scan to filter after-hours stocks with a 3% drop, applying technical analysis, supply and demand, and plotted support and resistance to pick 3–5 top trades.

Explore directional aftermarket live with a price history scan, setting a negative 3% move, price between 20 and 120, average true range over $2, and volume above 2 million.

Use the new highs scan to find stocks breaking out across pre-market and after-hours. Set price history to new highs and apply the average true range greater than 2.

Apply the NHS formula to filter stocks with average volume above 1.5 million, using AVG and V; set bars in a row to five and drill down the results.

Review the live and new highs scan results, filter stocks that meet the custom scan conditions, and apply your technical analysis and playbook to identify the best opportunities.

Run the NHS live scan to spot stocks making new highs by analyzing price history, average true range, and volume criteria for breakout opportunities.

Discover a custom scan for stocks making new lows, using price history, 250-bar low, price between $20 and $120, and average true range above $2 across sessions.

Use the NLS formula to filter stocks with an average volume of 1.5 million or more over ten sessions, then set five bars in a row and run the scan.

Construct a new low scan in Tc2000 using price history, min-max ranges, average true range, and a 1.5 million volume threshold across five bars, exemplified by Amazon.

Explore custom pre-market up 3% scan to identify stocks that gap up before the session, using price history and 14-day average true range.

Apply the pre-market formula: average volume over 2 million for the last ten trading sessions, then run a scan to see which stocks meet the condition.

Drill down the pre-market scan to filter stocks that meet all conditions of the custom scan, focusing on those up 3% and showing positive intraday changing fundamentals.

Run a pre-market live scan in Tc2000 by setting a 3% price move, filtering $20–$120, average true range above $2, and average volume above 2 million.

Utilize the directional pre-market down 3% scan to identify stocks that gap down more than 3% in pre-market trading, using price history and average true range conditions.

Explore the directional premarket formula, filtering stocks with an average volume above 2 million over the past ten sessions, and run a scan to identify tradable opportunities.

Conduct a directional pre-market scan with Tc2000 to identify stocks meeting the -3% pre-market condition, then filter them with technical analysis to select the best opportunities.

perform directional pre-market live scan down 3%, using price history, ATR 14, and average volume over the past ten sessions to identify stocks meeting the criteria; after-market context noted.

Identify stocks making significant breakout moves with institutional activity using the golden scan, across after hours, pre-market, and regular sessions, filtered by price history and average volume of 600,000.

Apply the golden formula to build a breakout condition and an average day range condition, filtering stocks breaking out and trading above a 5% range for the last 20 sessions.

Drill into the golden breakout scan by integrating technicals and recent fundamental changes to filter stocks that meet all conditions, revealing best opportunities driven by institutional traders.

Learn to configure the breakout live scan with the easy scan box, setting price history between $20 and $300 and filters for average volume 90 and average true range.