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# TradingView Stock Screener for Day Trading: A Free Setup
- URL: https://www.daytraderincome.com/tradingview-stock-screener-for-day-trading/
- Published: 2026-10-27T22:29:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-31T23:10:33.000Z
- Description: How to use the free TradingView stock screener to find stocks in play before the open: the four filters I would start with, how to read the results, and what to skip.
- Author: Indy Karveli
- Tags: Tools

**Short answer:** open the TradingView stock screener, filter for price above $10, average volume above 1 million shares, a pre-market move of 3% or more and relative volume above 1.5, then sort by pre-market change. Check the news on the top names and keep three to five.

## Open the screener

In [TradingView](https://www.tradingview.com/?aff%5Fid=1173482&ref=daytraderincome.com) (affiliate link), go to **Products**, then **Screeners**, then **Stocks**. To add a filter, click **+** on the top panel or press **Shift + F**, then type the filter's name. Click a filter to set its value.

## The four filters to start with

- **Price above $10.** Cheap stocks come with wide spreads and wild moves. Not the place to learn.
- **Average volume above 1 million shares.** Busy stocks fill your orders near the price you see.
- **Pre-market change of 3% or more, up or down.** Something happened overnight.
- **Relative volume above 1.5.** At least half again more volume than normal for this time of day.

These are starting points, not magic numbers. Filter names can change; if one doesn't come up, type a word like "volume" or "pre-market" after clicking +.

## Read the results

1. Sort by pre-market change or relative volume.
2. For each of the top names, ask **why is it moving?** Earnings, news and big analyst changes are real reasons. A big move on tiny volume with no news is a skip.
3. Keep three to five and add them to your [watchlist](https://www.daytraderincome.com/tradingview-watchlist-setup/).
4. After the open, watch which one is [strongest against the market](https://www.daytraderincome.com/relative-strength-day-trading/).

## When to run it

Between about 8:45 and 9:15 a.m. Eastern, before the open. Run it again around 10:00 if you want a second look. Make sure the numbers have refreshed before you decide.

## Free plan notes

- The screener works on the free Basic plan. Extras like auto-refresh come with paid plans.
- On the free plan, US stock quotes come from a Cboe feed in real time. It isn't every exchange's volume, so pre-market volume can look lower than other sources show. Compare stocks with each other rather than with a number you saw elsewhere.

## Turn it into a routine

A screener is only useful if you run it the same way every day. Save your filters if your plan lets you, or write them down; it takes a minute to rebuild. Then practice picking stocks for a few weeks on paper. [the Paper Route](https://www.daytraderincome.com/paper-route/), my free course, covers the screener in lesson 6 and gives you 30 paper sessions to practice on. New to all of this? Start with [how to find stocks to day trade](https://www.daytraderincome.com/how-to-find-stocks-to-day-trade/).

*Education only, not investment advice. The stocks named here are examples, not recommendations. Most people who day trade lose money.*