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Momentum Stocks List — Top 30 Right Now by 5-Day Move + Score
Momentum without score confirmation is a coin flip. Pure 'biggest 5-day movers' lists are dominated by news pops, short squeezes, and reversals that fail in the next session. The list below filters to composite 60+ before sorting by 5-day change — the move PLUS the underlying factor confluence. Trend, relative strength, smart money: if those agree with the recent momentum, you've got a structural runner. If they don't, you've got a name to fade.
Updated August 3, 2026. 10 stocks currently make today's Momentum Trading list (composite 60+ on Tapeline's public 6-factor formula). At the top of the list right now: AVTM, PGNY, CARG, OKTA, CASS — live composites across the list currently range from 61 to 80 out of 100.
Scores are a descriptive reading of six weighted factors, not a forecast or a buy call. Every daily top-10 pick is published — wins and losses — on the public scorecard, which currently trails SPY.
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| # | Ticker | Name | Score | Signal | Price | 1d |
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| 1 | AVTM | Avantis Total Equity Markets ETF | 61 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $54.59 | +1.15% |
| 2 | PGNY | PGNY | 73 | STRONG SETUP | $31.53 | +1.28% |
| 3 | CARG | CarGurus, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 64 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $36.93 | +1.90% |
| 4 | OKTA | OKTA | 77 | STRONG SETUP | $141.57 | -0.25% |
| 5 | CASS | Cass Information Systems Inc | 79 | STRONG SETUP | $56.51 | +1.05% |
| 6 | BBH | VanEck Biotech ETF | 72 | STRONG SETUP | $204.28 | -0.62% |
| 7 | AMBQ | Ambiq Micro, Inc. | 73 | STRONG SETUP | $66.20 | +4.10% |
| 8 | CLMT | Calumet, Inc. Common Stock | 80 | STRONG SETUP | $42.37 | -4.12% |
| 9 | CBNK | Capital Bancorp, Inc. | 74 | STRONG SETUP | $37.62 | +0.78% |
| 10 | CORT | Corcept Therapeutics Inc. | 80 | STRONG SETUP | $112.80 | -1.48% |
Signal key: HIGH CONVICTION 85–100 · STRONG SETUP 70–84 · CONSTRUCTIVE 55–69 · NEUTRAL 40–54 · CAUTION 25–39 · WEAK 0–24. Labels describe where the six factors sit today — they are not buy or sell recommendations.
How the Momentum Trading ranking works
The Tapeline composite is a transparent weighted blend of six named factors: Trend, Relative Strength, Fundamentals, Smart Money, Macro, and Momentum — weighted most toward Trend and Relative Strength, and least toward Momentum. For the momentum trading view, the emphasis is on momentum + trend + RS — but the composite is the better summary signal than any single factor in isolation.
Read the full methodology on /how-it-works, or see how today's picks have performed historically on the public scorecard.
Browse every scored US name in the full stock directory, or see how a scanner differs from a screener in screener vs scanner.
Questions about momentum trading on Tapeline
Why filter to a minimum composite before sorting by 5-day move?
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Because raw '5-day winners' is mostly noise. A stock can be up 30% in 5 days because of an earnings beat with strong fundamentals (real momentum) or because of a short squeeze on broken fundamentals (failed momentum). The composite filter keeps the first category and removes the second. The score IS the noise filter.
What's the Tapeline 'Momentum' factor specifically?
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Momentum captures short-horizon price acceleration and breakout posture. It's deliberately the smallest of the six factors — weighted well below Trend and Relative Strength — because pure momentum without longer-timeframe trend tends to mean-revert. The composite balances all six.
How long do momentum setups typically run?
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Tapeline's scorecard back-checks each daily top-10 pick against next-day return and keeps the full record — winners and losers — public at /scorecard. It's an unedited track record versus SPY, which it currently trails; it is not a claim about how long any setup runs or how it will perform.
Should I trade pure momentum or wait for confluence?
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Confluence. Pure-momentum scans (e.g. 'top 10 by 5-day return') surface names where much of the move is already priced in by the time the screen catches it. Filtering to score 60+ surfaces names where momentum is corroborated by trend + RS + macro rather than momentum alone — a descriptive confluence read, not a hit-rate or continuation claim.
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