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Every morning before the opening bell, thousands of stocks are up for grabs — and only two or three of them are actually worth a day trader’s attention.

That’s the premise behind Connor Pollifrone’s “How To Find The Best Stocks To Trade Everyday!,” a 14-minute-28-second walkthrough posted to his Boiler Room Trading YouTube channel. Rather than dispensing generic investing wisdom, Pollifrone opens up his own scanner setup and shows, screen by screen, how he narrows the entire market down to a short list of “stocks in play” before the open. The video is built for active traders, not buy-and-hold investors — it’s a tactical screening tutorial, not a market outlook.

• Pollifrone runs his scans primarily through TD Ameritrade’s ThinkorSwim platform, supplementing it with market screeners like Finviz and Trade Ideas.
• He targets pre-market gainers and losers moving roughly 3% to 5% or more, treating that threshold as the first filter for tickers worth watching.
• His checklist layers in relative volume (RVOL), float size, and Level 2 order-book depth before he’ll commit a ticker to his daily watchlist.

Finding Stocks In Play

Pollifrone’s whole method hinges on a phrase he repeats throughout the video: stocks “in play.” These are tickers with a real catalyst behind them — earnings, news, an analyst call, a sector move — that’s already generating unusual pre-market attention. He walks through setting up a gap scanner that isolates the top percentage gainers and losers before 9:30 a.m., arguing that price movement in the 3% to 5% range or higher is the minimum bar for a stock to earn a second look that morning.

It’s a filter, not a forecast. Pollifrone isn’t predicting which way a stock will break — he’s simply using the gap scan to shrink a universe of thousands of tickers down to a manageable handful before he does any deeper work on them.

Volume, Liquidity, and Float

Once a ticker clears the gap filter, Pollifrone checks relative volume, comparing how much a stock is trading against its typical pace for that time of day. Heavy early RVOL matters for a practical reason: it keeps bid-ask spreads tight and order execution clean when he’s watching Level 2 market depth for entries and exits.

Float size is the other half of that equation. Pollifrone favors lower-to-medium float names specifically because they can expand fast on heavy volume — a smaller pool of tradable shares means new buying or selling pressure moves the price more violently, which is exactly what a momentum day trader is hunting for.

Two or three actionable tickers a morning — that’s the whole goal of the scan, according to Pollifrone.

Mapping the Chart Before the Open

The last piece of Pollifrone’s process happens before he ever places a trade: plotting support, resistance, prior-day highs and lows, and key moving averages on the chart of each candidate. He uses those levels to sketch out entries and risk-to-reward ratios in advance, so decisions during the session are executed off a plan rather than made on the fly once the volatility hits.

That prep work is what separates his approach from simply chasing a green pre-market number. A stock can gap 5% and still be a poor trade if there’s no clean technical level nearby to define risk — which is why Pollifrone treats the chart-mapping step as non-negotiable, no matter how loud the gap scanner is flashing.

Building the Daily Watchlist

By the time Pollifrone finishes his routine, the process has gone from thousands of listed equities to a scanner shortlist to a final watchlist of just two or three names — the ones with a catalyst, real volume, a workable float, and technical levels that make sense for the day’s plan. It’s a repeatable, mechanical filter he applies fresh every single morning rather than a one-time stock pick.

Traders looking to build out this kind of process further can find more angles on reading market moves and trading information in How to Get Insider Trading Info for Free and 3 Ways to REALLY Make Money in The Stock Market (Insider Tips).