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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 13, 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: OXY, CNS, DAL, CGMM, AVIV — live composites across the list currently range from 61 to 76 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 | OXY | Occidental Petroleum | 62 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $57.83 | -1.23% |
| 2 | CNS | Cohen & Steers Inc. | 63 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $85.10 | +0.33% |
| 3 | DAL | Delta Air Lines, Inc. | 74 | STRONG SETUP | $91.40 | +1.64% |
| 4 | CGMM | Capital Group U.S. Small and Mid Cap ETF | 65 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $33.62 | +0.31% |
| 5 | AVIV | Avantis International Large Cap Value ETF | 62 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $82.82 | -0.10% |
| 6 | OKTA | OKTA | 73 | STRONG SETUP | $149.34 | +1.39% |
| 7 | NDSN | NDSN | 65 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $307.88 | -1.09% |
| 8 | CRBG | Corebridge Financial, Inc. | 70 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $33.63 | -0.44% |
| 9 | BOF | BranchOut Food Inc. Common Stock | 61 | CONSTRUCTIVE | $4.65 | +5.92% |
| 10 | CDNA | CareDx, Inc. | 76 | STRONG SETUP | $47.06 | -0.52% |
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.
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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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