Price increased by at least 2% in the last bar.
The filter measures the percentage change between the current 1-hour bar's close and the immediately prior 1-hour bar's close. A 2% gain means a $100 stock gained at least $2 in a single hour. on the 1-Hour timeframe, each bar captures an hour of price action — a 2% hourly close represents a sustained move, not a momentary spike. There is no volume, indicator, or trend filter — it is a pure price velocity threshold. The 15-stock count reflects how many top US equities experienced this magnitude of hourly gain on the most recent bar, which is a moderate level of signal frequency suggesting genuine intraday momentum events rather than broad market noise.
A 2% hourly gain is most actionable when it occurs on expanding volume, breaks a meaningful technical level (prior day's high, VWAP, multi-week resistance), and appears in the first two hours of the session when institutional flow is active. Midday 2% hourly gains on thin volume carry less weight — they often fade as the next session opens. Failure modes: (1) the gain reverses within the next 1-2 hours because it was driven by a single large buyer program that exhausted itself; (2) broad market rally pulls every stock up 2%+ on the same bar, making the signal non-selective; (3) the stock was already extended and the 2% hour is the final exhaustion move before a pullback. For daily-timeframe momentum, Gain > 5% captures the more extreme single-session moves. The ORB 15m + VWAP Breakout screen identifies the structural context that often drives the early-session hourly gains that appear in this screener.
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This screen finds stocks that gained more than 2% on the current 1-hour bar relative to the prior hourly close. A 2% move in a single hour is a strong intraday momentum signal — it typically reflects a catalyst event, a major technical level breaking upward, or concentrated buying by institutional participants. Currently 15 stocks match. Swing traders use it to identify potential long entries or momentum continuation setups. Intraday traders watch it as an alert for stocks experiencing accelerating intraday strength. Search phrases: stock up 2 percent hourly, 1 hour momentum gain screener, intraday price jump 2 percent. For daily-timeframe gains, see Gain > 5%.