Percentage Change Stock Screener
Find stock gainers and losers across timeframes with ChartsWatcher. Filter percentage price change from short intraday windows to longer-term periods.
Understand the metric
What is Percentage change (%)?
Percentage change expresses the price difference over the selected period relative to the starting price. ChartsWatcher offers intraday windows such as 1, 5 and 30 minutes, together with longer periods including 5 days, 20 days and 1 year. The percentage format helps compare moves across stocks with different prices while keeping the selected horizon explicit.
An illustrative example
Percentage change (%) in practice
A move from $20 to $21 is +5%, while a move from $100 to $105 is also +5%. A 5-minute percentage-change condition above 4% would include both if those moves occurred in that window. A 5-day condition evaluates a different horizon.
Make it part of your workflow
A more deliberate stock screen.
Create a ChartsWatcher movers toplist around the timeframe that matches your research question. Add absolute volume or relative volume to assess participation separately, and compare percentage change with position in range to see whether the current price remains near the period’s upper or lower area.
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 Percentage change (%) in ChartsWatcher?
Open or create a toplist and add Percentage change (%) 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?
Net percentage change uses endpoints and can conceal a volatile path between them. Identical percentage moves over different timeframes should not be treated as equivalent activity.
From an idea to your own scan.
Use Percentage change (%) with the other conditions that define your setup. Keep matching stocks, charts, and news together, with a configuration you can refine as you go.