Hi. I need a website that has FREE lists of the 10 biggest gainers and
10 biggest losers (biggest gainers and losers in percentage terms, not
in dollar terms) on the U.S. stock-markets for every day of the past 2
years or more. i.e. For any given day, say April 6 2004, the website
should have the 10 most up stocks and the 10 most down stocks in that
particular day.

Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by adiloren-ga on 27 May 2005 16:46 PDT

While an archive like this may exist, I doubt that it will be free. I
wasn't able to find one.

I did, however, find an archive that lists the top gainers and losers
(S&P) by month going back many years.

Would you be interested in this?

I also have found a few websites that offer daily gainers and losers
(but not historical data) but I'm guessing you have found those for
yourself.

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Clarification of Question by khaldoun82-ga on 27 May 2005 17:33 PDT

Hi, thank you for your interest. I will settle for a pay website that
has the information that I requested, if the subscribtion fees needed
to access these information are relatively low (below $100), and if
the website doesn't require a special trading software to extract
these information.

As for the archive that lists the top gainers and losers
(S&P) by month, I have no use for that at all for 2 reasons: 
2) I need the top 10 gainers and 10 losers among the entire US stocks,
not just a subgroup like S&P 500 or Nasdaq 100. and 2) I need that
information for every trading day of the past 2 years or more.

As you indicated, most major financial websites (MSN money, Yahoo
Finance, MarketWatch..etc) provide daily lists of top 10
gainers/losers among all US stocks, however they only provide them for
today, they don't have the list of top gainer/losers for, say, March
18, 2005.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 27 May 2005 19:23 PDT

khaldoun82-ga,

The only way I can see to do this would be to pull up full-page images
from online newspaper archives and view the top gainers/losers lists
on the stock pages for the days of interest to you.  This would be a
tedious, but affordable approach.

I didn't think it would meet your needs -- it sounds like you're
looking for downloadable data -- but I wanted to mention it just the
same.

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Clarification of Question by khaldoun82-ga on 28 May 2005 15:43 PDT

pafalafa-ga 

About pulling up full page images for everyday: other than the process
itself being too much hassle and potentially very expensive (I would
need to do it more than 500 times, one for every trading-day of the
past 2 years), full-page images of major newspapers are not easily
available online. Images of full pages from the NewYork Times for
example only reach into the mid 90s, so there are no full-page images
from NYT available online for the past 2 years.

I don't necessarily need "downlaodable" format, I am not going to
download it to any special software. It would be enough for me to have
it on a web page so that I can simply read it or cut-and-paste it.

It's strange. Lists of the top gainer/losers in the stock market are
readily available on many website every day, one would think that some
website or some service would have collected an archive of those lists
that are being posted for free, day-after-day, on virtually every
financial-news site.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 29 May 2005 13:38 PDT

This is beginning to REALLY bug me, because I agree with you...the
information has to be out there someplace.

There are sites with up-to-date as well as archived page-images of
newspapers, so the page by page approach is still a possibility.  But
of course, it would be awfully tedious.

You haven't said anything about why you need such information. 
Perhaps with a bit more context, a researcher could suggest an
alternative approach for getting useful data.

Let us know what you think.

paf

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Clarification of Question by khaldoun82-ga on 30 May 2005 11:06 PDT

Well, I am doing a research pertaining to volatility and efficiency of
the stock market since the tech bubble finished bursting (for all we
know) and the market bottomed out in late '02. It involves several
aspects, one of them is sorting out the stocks that had gigantic
one-day moves (over 20%) either to upside or to the downside; what
percentage of them were based on actuall earning/merge/product
announcements, what percentage were based on rumors or unconfirmed
news, and how did they fare since then, i.e. did these big swings turn
out to be justified in light of later price action; in other words,
how "efficient" were the markets in swinging them up or down...etc.
All the information needed for all that (like news, announcements,
insider selling/buyingm, price action for any stock) are available
online.. the only thing I need is to know which stocks had gigantic
one-day swings on any day of the past two years or so..

As for the newspapers, I think you're right. But if it came to that
(mining the data from old newspapers) then I would probably use a
public library to sort through the papers, rather than pay online $1
or $1.5 a pop for everypage I pull (which would come to about $600 or
$900 for all the pages that I need).

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 01 Jun 2005 04:46 PDT

WOW!

Did you see the comments (below) from agoodwater-ga?  He/she found a
very nice tool at bigcharts which looks like it will get you pretty
much exactly what you want (with some limits, e.g., share price of $12
or higher).

Don't know how I missed it myself, but since it came from a commenter,
there is no charge to you for the information.

If you have what you need, I suggest you cancel your question at this
point.  But if there's anything more we can do for you -- that is, if
you'd still like a formal answer with any additional information --
then let us know.

All the best,

paf

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Clarification of Question by khaldoun82-ga on 01 Jun 2005 16:44 PDT

Paf,

Yeah, I saw it, it's great. You're right about the limitation of only
stocks with price above 12 but I think this is as close as you can
get. It will be quite helpful in my research.

I want to thank for your effort, sorry you didn't find it, as a great
intellectual once said: "It's always in the last place you look"
-Homer Simpson.

Regarding cancelling the question, I will await agoodwater's reply
before I cancel it.

Thank you and all the best.

Khaldoun.

Try :

http://www.pcinvestor.com/premiumtrial.htm

http://www.pcinvestor.com/best-earnings.htm

thanks, but that service only provides the most advancers/decliners
for today's trading session only, which is not hard to obtain (most
portals and financial websites have daily lists of the 10 most up
stocks and the 10 most down stocks for today) but what I need is
effectively an archive of these lists going back 2 years or more. i.e.
I need a service that would provide that 10 most up stocks and the 10
most down stocks for any day of the past two years.

Ok. I found one for you which historicaly shows you the winners of S&P.

So you can get it in the Forbes Stock Scorecard Archive.

Link is below.

http://www.forbes.com/search/storyTypeResults.jhtml?storyType=Stock+Scorecard

Sorry when I said you can find here winners I meant you can find
historicaly winners and loosers of S&P in Forbes.com link:

http://www.forbes.com/search/storyTypeResults.jhtml?storyType=Stock+Scorecard

hi,

Well, the Forbs links provide list of the top gainers and loser on
monthly basis, not on a daily basis which is what I need. And they
only cover the top gainer and losers among the 500 stocks that make up
the S&P...

Fair enough.

At least I tried to help.

Take care and good luck.

beziboy-ga

I know, and I appreciate your interest.

Sorry if my previous comment came off as somewhat abrupt, didn't mean it to.

Not a problem khaldoun82,

to be honest I am looking forward for that link as well.

Cheers.

Cheers..

How about this: A daily record of gainers and losers by changes in
price or volume, for the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX.  Additionally, DJIA,
DJTA, and DJUA if needed.

1) Follow this link:  http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/reports/
2) Select the indicator tha that you want (Stocks with the largest %
gain in price, Stocks with the largest % loss in price, etc).
3) Click the exchange that you are looking for: NYSE, AMEX. 
4) The page defaults to the current date, such as the following link
for May 27th 2005: http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/reports/bigmovers.asp?date=20050527&data=1&start=1&report=1&report_country_code=us
5) All you have to do to get the data from different dates is change
the date code in the URL.  For example, above the date is 20050527
(May 27th 2005).  You can change this to say, April 7, 2003 (20030407)
to get the data from that date.

I found data from as far back as January 3, 2000: 

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/reports/bigmovers.asp?date=20000103&data=1&start=1&report=1&report_country_code=us

Best of all, it is all free. 

Hope this helps!

agoodwater,

Yes, it helps a lot. Thank you very much. It's terrific, it's almost
exactly what I need.

Thanks again,

Khaldoun.