GlossaryBy Sverre MoeUpdated 2026-07-21
What is the TickerStance Universe?
What is the TickerStance Universe?
The universe is TickerStance's eligible stock pool: the set of tickers broad enough to matter for breadth and relative-strength math, filtered down from every US common stock and ADR. Every version of the filter starts from a closing price of at least $5, to exclude penny stocks. It exists to keep breadth counts and leadership boards from being distorted by illiquid microcaps that can move 20% on a few hundred dollars of volume.
Beyond that $5 floor, pages differ on whether, and how, they also filter on dollar volume, price times shares traded. "Today's dollar volume" and "the 50-day average dollar volume" are two different numbers for the same stock on the same day, and TickerStance's pages don't all use the same one. One surface applies no dollar-volume filter at all.
Why the count differs by page
TickerStance's own pages report the universe two different ways under the same nominal "$5 / $1M" label. The /shortlists hub and /data both require a close at or above $5 and that same day's dollar volume, no averaging, at or above $1M; as of the July 20, 2026 close, /data's count was 3,278. The Volume Surge shortlist asks a stricter question: a close at or above $5 and a 50-day average dollar volume at or above $1M, restricted to common stock and ADR ticker types, which reported 3,296 that same day.
Same nominal label, two different questions behind it: a same-day dollar-volume floor versus a 50-day average dollar-volume floor restricted to common stock and ADRs. The hub previously applied no dollar-volume clause at all, which inflated its count well past /data's; it now uses the identical same-day gate /data does.
Related
- 50-Day Average Dollar Volume
The stricter, sustained-liquidity version of the dollar-volume filter.
- Breadth
The subscore whose signals are computed against this universe.
- Shortlists
The eight curated rosters drawn from today's eligible universe.