Big Money Stock Flow
Big Money Stock Flow takes each stock's large trades today - $50,000 or more each by default - and splits them into support, traded at or below the current price, and resistance, traded above it, with the VWAP, dollar value and price range of each side. A Bullish or Bearish indicator shows when those levels crossed the previous day's. Members of any Premium plan see the full list; everyone else sees the three largest companies.
What is Big Money Stock Flow?
Big Money Stock Flow shows where large stock trades are happening. It takes today's big trades in each stock we track - $50,000 or more each by default - and splits them into two groups: trades at or below the current price, which it treats as support, and trades above it, treated as resistance. Each side gets an average price, a dollar total and a price range, and a comparison with the previous trading day shows whether those levels moved up or down.
How the levels are worked out
- Big trades only. Each trade must be worth at least the Trade Notional setting: $50,000 by default; members of any Premium plan can choose $100,000, $250,000, $500,000, $1 million or $5 million. Regular-hours trades with standard sale conditions count, including intermarket sweeps; cancelled trades and trades reported with special conditions, such as extended-hours or average-price trades, are left out. The Trade Condition setting can keep sweeps only.
- Support and resistance. Big trades at or below the stock's current price are support; trades above it are resistance. Each side shows the number of trades, their volume-weighted average price (VWAP), their dollar value, and the Near and Far prices - the trade prices closest to and farthest from the current price.
- Support/Resistance $ Value Ratio. Support dollars divided by resistance dollars, kept between 0.1 and 10: 10 when there are no resistance trades, 0.1 when there are no support trades.
- Position Rank. Where the current price sits between the support VWAP (0%) and the resistance VWAP (100%). A price below the support VWAP shows 0%, above the resistance VWAP 100%.
- Indicator. Bullish when today's support VWAP is above the previous trading day's resistance VWAP and the support trades add up to more dollars than the resistance trades; Bearish when today's resistance VWAP is below the previous day's support VWAP and resistance has more dollars. The previous day's prices are adjusted for stock splits.
- Notional. Current is today's dollar total of qualifying trades, 30-Day Avg the stock's average daily total for trades of the same size on days it had them, and Relative one divided by the other.
- Which day. Until shortly after the 9:30 AM ET open, and on weekends and holidays, the screener shows the last trading day, with that date above the table. Today's list is rebuilt about every 6 minutes.
Support and resistance here are the prices where big trades happened, not levels a stock has to respect. The indicator describes trading, not a buy or sell signal.
What you can find out
Where are big trades happening below the current price?
The Support columns show the big trades at or below the current price: how many there were, their VWAP, their dollar value and the nearest and farthest prices. Sort by Support $ Value to see the heaviest first. See support levels
Where are big trades happening above the current price?
The Resistance columns show the same for big trades above the current price. The Support/Resistance $ Value Ratio filter picks out stocks where one side has far more dollars than the other. See resistance levels
Which stocks' big money flow turned bullish or bearish today?
The Indicator column marks stocks whose big-trade levels crossed the previous day's - support moving above yesterday's resistance, or resistance below yesterday's support - with more dollars on that side. Members of any Premium plan can filter on it. See the indicator
Is the stock trading closer to support or resistance?
Position Rank puts the current price on a 0% to 100% scale between the support VWAP and the resistance VWAP: below 10% is closest to support, above 90% closest to resistance. See the position rank
Which stocks have more big-trade dollars than usual today?
Relative divides today's dollar total of qualifying trades by the stock's average: 2.0 means twice its usual amount. For heavy trading measured minute by minute instead, see the Volume Burst Screener. How the Volume Burst Screener works
Where to find it
Menu: Stocks › For Premium Users › Screeners › Big Money Stock Flow, or go straight to /Screeners/BigMoneyStockFlow. The table opens sorted by symbol, 25 to a page; the Change Report switch at the top leads to the Stock Block Trades Screener.
Members of any Premium plan see every stock, can load any of the last five trading days, change the trade size and condition, filter by watchlist, sector, ETF, market cap, stock type, indicator, ratio and position rank, turn on a 5-minute auto refresh, save presets and download the table. Everyone else sees the current day with the three largest companies in full and the rest blurred.
What the columns mean
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Current Price, Pct Chg | The latest price and its change from the previous close |
| Indicator | Bullish or Bearish when big-trade levels crossed the previous day's in that direction, with more dollars on that side |
| Position Rank | Where the price sits between the support VWAP (0%) and the resistance VWAP (100%) |
| Num. Trades, VWAP, $ Value | For each side, the number of big trades, their volume-weighted average price and their dollar total |
| Near, Far | The trade prices closest to and farthest from the current price on that side |
| Current, 30-Day Avg, Relative | Today's dollar total of qualifying trades, the stock's average daily total, and today against it |
FAQ
- What counts as a big money trade?
- One stock trade worth at least $50,000 by default, in the regular session with standard sale conditions. Members of any Premium plan can raise the minimum to as much as $5 million or keep only intermarket sweeps.
- How are support and resistance worked out?
- Big trades at or below the stock's current price count as support and trades above it as resistance. Each side's level is the volume-weighted average price (VWAP) of those trades.
- What does the Bullish indicator mean?
- Today's support VWAP is above the previous trading day's resistance VWAP, and today's support trades add up to more dollars than the resistance trades. Bearish is the reverse.
- Can I see an earlier day?
- Members of any Premium plan can load any of the last five trading days. Everyone else sees the current day, or the last one before the open and on weekends and holidays.
- Who can use Big Money Stock Flow?
- Members of any Premium plan see every stock, the filters, the earlier days and the download. Everyone else sees the three largest companies in full and the rest of the list blurred.
- Is a Bullish indicator a buy signal?
- No. It describes where big trades happened today against the previous day, not where the stock goes next.
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