Runners

Runners answers one question, live: what is moving right now? It’s the page day traders keep open — a ranked, self-updating list of the market’s biggest movers in every session.

Pick a session and a direction

• Session — Pre-Market, Regular or After-Hours. A dot marks the session that’s live now. Each session has its own list, so a 5 AM mover isn’t lost among yesterday’s names.
• Direction — Top Gainers, Top Losers or Most Active (the busiest movers either way).
• Data from — look back at a recent trading day’s full list.

The cards above the list sum up the day: how many stocks are running, how many have news, the average move, and how many stocks are up versus down across the whole market.

The table

Each row shows the price, the move against the previous close, and the volume. An H badge means trading is halted. Cells flash green or red as prices tick — that’s the live feed working. Stocks / Warrants chooses what the list includes.

One more column is there from your first visit: Dilution Risk, which answers whether the company can sell more shares. Four others are one tick away in Column Filters and answer what a day trader asks before chasing a move: how crowded is the short side, and how few shares are there?

• SI % — short interest: the share of the float that has been sold short.
• Float — the shares free to trade. The smaller the float, the further the same buying or selling moves the price. Where a company’s float isn’t published, the figure is our estimate.
• Float Rot × — how many times the float has changed hands this session. It turns orange once the whole float has traded.
• Squeeze Fuel — 0–100: how loaded the short side is. It’s fuel, not a buy signal — hover the number to see what went into it.
• Dilution Risk — a shield that names what the company has on file to sell new shares — ATM, S-1, S-3 or shelf (a shelf registration), warrants — or none. For a company based abroad the same forms read F-1 and F-3. When more than two are on file it names two and counts the rest (+1); hover the shield for all of them and their detail. Its colour is the company’s dilution risk (green, orange or red), so it can be orange or red even at none when cash is running short. It comes from our last read of the company’s filings, so a filing made today may not be in it yet.

A dash means we don’t have that figure. Column Filters turns any of these on or off and has more: RTH Chg, Mkt Cap, CTB %, Avail, Shares Out and Intraday Patterns. Your choice is remembered in this browser. A Runners window on the Desk keeps its own choice: it starts with the columns you chose here — none if you never chose — and what you tick there stays there.

The chart

Chart draws the day’s top movers as lines — each one’s move since the previous close, through the day — so you can see who ran first and who’s fading. Click a line to focus it (the volume bars below follow it), scroll to zoom in on a stretch of time, and use Stocks to choose which lines show. Hover the (i) beside the chart’s heading for how to read it and every way to zoom. The cards underneath explain each move in a sentence, or show the release or filing behind it.

The heat grid: where the money is flowing

Switch to Heat for a bird’s-eye view. Each column is one of the board’s stocks and each row is a slice of time — one minute or five — so you can see at a glance which names are getting busier, and when it started.

• Colour — how heavy the trading was in that box. vs normal compares it with the stock’s usual pace, so a quiet stock waking up stands out; $ volume shows dollars traded per minute on one scale for every stock. Blues are quiet, oranges and deep reds are a crowd — the legend shows each step.
• The number — how much the price moved inside that box, in points of the day’s % change. Green is up, red is down.
• The top box — fills live while the minute is still trading, warming into the next colour as volume comes in.
• Which stocks — the board’s names that have traded real money in the session shown (at least $50K), so a stock up big on a handful of shares doesn’t take a column.
• Striped columns — a stock too new to have a normal pace yet (in vs normal mode).

Turn on POC for two extra reads. The POC (point of control) is the price where the most shares have changed hands today. Under each ticker you’ll see how far the price sits above or below it. And a yellow ring marks a minute that opened below the POC and closed at or above it — buyers taking the day’s busiest price back. A five-minute box keeps its ring once any minute inside it did.