Market Monitor

Market Monitor counts how many stocks moved, not how much the index moved.

That difference matters more than it sounds. An index can grind to new highs on a handful of giant companies while the average stock goes nowhere, and in that market far fewer moves carry. The counts on this page tell you which of the two you are looking at.

Reading it in order

Four questions, top to bottom. About thirty seconds once you know where to look.

1. Did anything move today? Read the 4% panel. Big on one side is thrust, big on both is churn, small on both is a dead tape.
2. Which side has the week? Read the 5-day ratio against 1. Above 1 the up side has been winning.
3. Which way has the quarter been running? Read the quarter panel for which side leads.
4. How much room is left? Read participation, the share of stocks above their own 40-day line. Low leaves room, high does not.

Two ways to draw it

• Grid gives every metric its own panel. Better for following what one count has been doing.
• Timeline stacks every metric on one shared time axis with the S&P underneath, so a single date is one straight line down the page. Drag across it to read the whole board on the day the index turned. Arrow keys step a session at a time, Home and End jump to either end, Escape returns to the latest day.

Set the range with 3M, 6M, 1Y or Max. Charts turns the panels off and leaves the page as numbers. Both choices save to your account, so it opens the way you left it on any device.

The table underneath is one row per session, newest first, shaded by where each day ranks inside the range on screen. Change the range and the shading rescales to it.

The stocks behind a count

Click any count and it opens the stocks that produced it, grouped by industry and ordered biggest group first. The underlined figures - the tiles at the top, and the ones beside each chart title - open the latest session; any count in the table opens the session on its row; and clicking inside a chart opens the day under the pointer, so you can ask who was behind a spike three weeks ago. A chart draws both halves of a pair, so the panel opens on one side with a switch to the other beside its title. That is where the day stops being a number: 300 names down 4% is one market when the selling sits in semiconductors and another when it sits in gold miners.

Open a group to see its stocks, biggest move first, with what each one did. From there you can screen the whole group, copy its tickers, or click a ticker to open the stock.

Things worth knowing

• End of day. The numbers are calculated after the close, so the newest row is the last completed session. Nothing here updates intraday.
• No calls. The page reports what the tape has been doing. It does not tell you what to do about it, and none of it is advice. The same washed-out reading is a warning to one trader and an opportunity to another.
• Where the numbers come from. For the dates it covers, these are the Stockbee Market Monitor figures from the published sheet. Older dates fall back to our own calculation, built to the scan definitions Stockbee publishes. The credit at the bottom of the page says which is which for the range you are looking at, and links the original.

Every signed-in user can open Market Monitor. The ? button on the page opens a fuller guide that walks each panel one at a time.