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Stocks Breaking Out Today — Top 30 by 1-Day Move + Score
Breakout scans live or die on the score filter. A pure 'biggest 1-day movers' list is mostly noise — small-caps spiking on news, short squeezes, low-quality penny stocks. The list below ranks today's biggest US movers, filtered to composite 70+ (STRONG SETUP and above). That's the breakout-with-confluence cluster: the move plus the trend, relative strength, and fundamentals confirming it. Real breakouts, not head-fakes.
Updated September 18, 2026. 30 stocks currently make today's Breakout Stocks list (composite 70+ on Tapeline's published six-factor methodology). At the top of the list right now: RMAX, XBP, LUXE, TRMD, CIX — composites across the list range from 70 to 78 out of 100.
Scores are a descriptive reading of six weighted factors, not a forecast or a buy call. Each recorded 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 | RMAX | Re/Max Holdings Inc | 72 | STRONG SETUP | $13.40 | +8.41% |
| 2 | XBP | XBP Global Holdings, Inc. Common Stock | 71 | STRONG SETUP | $3.43 | +7.86% |
| 3 | LUXE | LuxExperience B.V. American Depositary Shares, each representing one Ordinary Share | 71 | STRONG SETUP | $9.93 | +4.75% |
| 4 | TRMD | Torm PLC | 74 | STRONG SETUP | $38.27 | +4.48% |
| 5 | CIX | Comp X International Inc. | 71 | STRONG SETUP | $39.03 | +3.39% |
| 6 | UROY | Uranium Royalty Corp | 72 | STRONG SETUP | $4.62 | +3.24% |
| 7 | BWET | Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF | 77 | STRONG SETUP | $809.68 | +3.01% |
| 8 | LIFE | Ethos Technologies Inc. Class A Common Stock | 71 | STRONG SETUP | $37.46 | +2.91% |
| 9 | UVIX | 2x Long VIX Futures ETF | 71 | STRONG SETUP | $38.46 | +2.86% |
| 10 | OESX | Orion Energy Systems, Inc. | 72 | STRONG SETUP | $27.75 | +2.82% |
| 11 | INMB | INmune Bio Inc. Common stock | 74 | STRONG SETUP | $2.24 | +2.76% |
| 12 | AGEN | Agenus Inc. | 77 | STRONG SETUP | $7.39 | +2.42% |
| 13 | HAFN | Hafnia Limited | 75 | STRONG SETUP | $9.92 | +2.04% |
| 14 | SIXG | SIXG | 70 | STRONG SETUP | $81.28 | +1.91% |
| 15 | HQI | HireQuest, Inc. Common Stock (DE) | 75 | STRONG SETUP | $17.14 | +1.81% |
| 16 | PLSE | Pulse Biosciences Inc | 75 | STRONG SETUP | $51.48 | +1.72% |
| 17 | ACFN | Acorn Energy, Inc. Common Stock | 77 | STRONG SETUP | $21.65 | +1.59% |
| 18 | GMAB | Genmab A/S | 72 | STRONG SETUP | $35.08 | +1.58% |
| 19 | HAE | Haemonetics Corporation | 76 | STRONG SETUP | $109.09 | +1.39% |
| 20 | XNCR | Xencor Inc | 70 | STRONG SETUP | $24.93 | +1.38% |
| 21 | PXS | Pyxis Tankers Inc. Common Stock | 76 | STRONG SETUP | $7.44 | +1.36% |
| 22 | DBO | Invesco DB Oil Fund | 72 | STRONG SETUP | $25.64 | +1.34% |
| 23 | LAZR | Tema Photonics & Optical ETF | 73 | STRONG SETUP | $43.76 | +1.30% |
| 24 | USO | United States Oil | 76 | STRONG SETUP | $157.30 | +1.28% |
| 25 | REPX | Riley Exploration Permian Inc | 70 | STRONG SETUP | $43.84 | +1.22% |
| 26 | SBLK | Star Bulk Carriers Corp | 73 | STRONG SETUP | $32.13 | +1.18% |
| 27 | INSW | International Seaways, Inc. Common Stock | 75 | STRONG SETUP | $111.75 | +1.11% |
| 28 | SBC | SBC Medical Group Holdings Inc | 73 | STRONG SETUP | $4.74 | +1.07% |
| 29 | UCO | ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil | 75 | STRONG SETUP | $52.78 | +1.02% |
| 30 | SB | Safe Bulkers Inc | 78 | STRONG SETUP | $9.10 | +1.00% |
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 Breakout Stocks 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 breakout stocks view, the emphasis is on momentum + confluence — 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 breakout stocks on Tapeline
What makes a 'real' breakout vs a head-fake?
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Real breakouts have confluence: the 1-day move is supported by the longer-term trend (Trend factor), the stock is outperforming the broad-market benchmark (Relative Strength), and short-horizon rate of change is still positive (Momentum factor). Head-fakes have the 1-day move but the score is low — meaning trend and RS aren't agreeing with the spike. The filter to score 70+ removes most head-fakes.
How is this different from Day Traders?
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/best-stocks-for/day-traders uses score 60+ (lower floor, broader list). This Breakouts list uses 70+ (tighter, higher-conviction). Day traders want a wider candidate pool to work through; breakout-focused traders want only the cleanest setups. Same data, different filter intensity.
What time of day is best to scan?
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Late morning (US ET) is typically the sweet spot — early-day moves driven by overnight news have settled, and the names showing 1-day moves backed by score confluence are the ones likely to continue. Tapeline's prices are delayed about 15 minutes and this page is a saved snapshot that can be an hour old or more, so treat the list as a starting point to check, not an intraday feed.
Do I need to act intraday or can I act on a daily-close breakout?
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Both work. The 1-day move column changes during the session (from prices delayed about 15 minutes) and is final at close. Tapeline's scorecard back-checks against next-session return — so the model is built around next-session continuation, not intraday continuation. Daily-close breakouts that the model picks up tend to extend in the next 1-3 sessions; intraday breakouts often mean-revert by end of day.
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