Time-of-Day Stock Screener: Minutes Since Market Open
Focus a ChartsWatcher screen on a part of the trading session. Filter minutes since market open and combine time-of-day criteria with stock activity.
Understand the metric
What is Minutes in market?
Minutes in market records how many minutes have elapsed since the market opened. It is a session-timing condition, rather than a company-specific indicator. Adding it to a ChartsWatcher configuration lets you relate other filters to a defined portion of the session, such as early activity after the bell or a later monitoring window.
An illustrative example
Minutes in market in practice
With a 09:30 open, 09:45 corresponds to 15 minutes in market. A condition from 15 to 60 selects that portion of the session for the configuration. It does not mean that an individual stock began trading exactly 15 minutes ago.
Make it part of your workflow
A more deliberate stock screen.
Combine minutes in market with change from open and volume in ChartsWatcher to organize a time-specific research workflow. For example, review an early-session movers configuration during its selected window and compare it with a separate view intended for activity later in the day.
ChartsWatcher lets you combine this filter with other criteria in a toplist and rank the results by the columns you care about. Keep the shortlist beside charts, stock news, and watchlists in your own layout.
Explore the screener / toplistBefore you build
A little more detail.
How do I add Minutes in market in ChartsWatcher?
Open or create a toplist and add Minutes in market to its filter configuration. Choose the available options and the bounds that fit your screen. Combine it with other metrics to narrow the results. Filters can also refine which stocks qualify for an alert.
What should I check when interpreting this filter?
This is time since the market opened, not time since a symbol’s first trade, a trading halt or a news release.
From an idea to your own scan.
Use Minutes in market with the other conditions that define your setup. Keep matching stocks, charts, and news together, with a configuration you can refine as you go.