(For those playing along at home, it’s on p.6 of the ProphetScan, “Intraday Activity” under “Gap Up/Down”. Choose “Gap Up: Today’s open price is at least XX % greater than Previous High”) … I use -2 “%” for this figure, looks like this is where em uses -.01 “$”, if I’m not mistaken.

Brad - thanks for the comment, and the links. Also have “del.icio.us’d” your Stock Operator site and look forward to visiting it often

Declan - thanks for the great info and the tips!

Just to add my 2 cents. Everyone needs to find their comfort level for trading/investing; there are so many free tools available on the internet (and with the boom of the blog, personal opinion too) it is now much easier and most certainly better to tinker and identify the strategies which work best for you before rushing off to subscribe to a stock picking service or buy an overpriced black box system. For many, a couple of moving averages and support/resistance lines are as much information needed to make profitable trades. The public Stockchart list is a great free resource if you have an interest in Technical Analysis (I keep a list there too). On my blog I do a weekly summary of the leading public lists, showing what some of the most popular posters are saying about the market.

As Will noted I offer a stock pick service and endeavor to keep it as honest as possible (as the information I provide is a tool I use for myself first and foremost). It certainly as its ups and downs and it is interesting to see how some of my scans which work well under one set of conditions, can utterly fail when conditions change (the unwritten curse of black box systems). I wish more service providers would keep record of their true performance (bloggers included); the problem of course is that [1] its not fun to write about the losers and [2] one tends to have more losers than winners, which would be enough even to make an optimist cry!

Anyhow,
Time for my bed..
Best wishes,
Declan

I also use quotetracker and prophet.net, both of which are excellent. I agree with other posters that perhaps there are better (and more expensive) tools available, but I find that for my style these are more than good enough. I can also recommend a couple of other free sites that are good for finding stocks on the move (I think trader-x also had a post about this):

http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/dynamic/premarketma.stm
http://quote.com/qc/research/hotlist.aspx?hotlist=

By the way, these sites and others can be found at my trading blog (www.cutyourlosses.blogspot.com). I use this blog mostly for my own purposes (i.e. as a trading journal and as a one-stop shop for links to on-line scans such as those mentioned above), but if anyone finds it useful, feel free to check it out.

Oh… I am a Gold subscriber to prophet because I use them for charting (which I may change because of Quotetracker), but a big issue I have with Prophet is sometimes their feeds are incorrect or very different than what I see in my trading platform. Volume is always about 1% lower in prophet and their data sometimes varies as well. For instance, prophet may have a different high or low or open or close. This is important especially if you rely on candles (which I do). I currently have to confirm every trade in my trading platform (which takes times). I need to look for a reliable data feed for Quotetracker - suggestions are welcome!!!!

Glenn - So far AMTD seems to pretty much leave their “annexed” software alone, for better or worse. I think they hired the MedVed team to continue updates and development, so all should be well.

Lloyd - Morpheus, eh? That’s a nice compliment- thanks. I tend to think of myself more like the guy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, saying “Bring out your dead!” (ding) “Bring out your dead!” (ding)