Stock Screener

Volume Spikes

Signals

  • > 1.5 times
    Volume is more than 50% higher than the 50-day moving average.
  • > 2.0 times
    Volume is more than double the 50-day moving average.
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To Set the Volume Spike Screen:

  1. Select the Volume filter
  2. Then select the Spikes filter
  3. Choose the amount of times the volume exceeds 50-Day VMA
  4. Select the number of days within which the spike must have occurred or exclude
  5. Click on the Add button to add the filter.
Colin Twiggs

Author: Colin Twiggs is a former investment banker with almost 40 years of experience in financial markets. He co-founded Incredible Charts and writes the popular Trading Diary and Patient Investor newsletters.

Using a top-down approach, Colin identifies key macro trends in the global economy before evaluating selected opportunities using a combination of fundamental and technical analysis.

Focusing on interest rates and financial market liquidity as primary drivers of the economic cycle, he warned of the 2008/2009 and 2020 bear markets well ahead of actual events.

He founded PVT Capital (AFSL No. 546090) in May 2023, which offers investment strategy and advice to wholesale clients.