Hi All, I am a newbie at Day Trading and have been actively...

Hi All,

I am a newbie at Day Trading and have been actively watching the market over the last 3-4 months, poised to make my first true day trade. But whilst I have developed my skills in the Technical Analysis (but much more to come) I am more struggling with the ability to even be looking at the right stocks in the first place.

I believe that is where some of the scanning techniques come in. From what I can see perhaps there are 2 types of scanning;
1) pre-market - based on the previous days action / announcement etc I might be able to develop a short list of stocks potentially 'in-play'
2) in-market - based on the action in the current day, probably using a live data feed on movement, volume or both

So hopefully in this thread some of would be share both the tools and techniques (characteristics of the scan) that you use.