Describe your exact method you use to identify these stocks, when during a trading day you do this, etc. You’ve been fairly vague thus far, hard to fault a knee jerk response in that case.
I'll always fault a thoughtless knee-jerk reaction in a public forum against someone you know nothing about, with disrespect ladled on top. Despite what our ignorant third-grade teachers said, it absolutely matters who "starts it," ...and that's enough about that.
To your more important point, however, the most basic and essential tool of trading, a stock scanner, will show you the "best" stocks throughout the day, however you define that. At various times I have defined that as only the stocks making new monthly highs that are also 10% up from the open, and given my attention to nothing but those. Other times I have decided this would be only stocks up 50% for the week, or stocks that are up 20 for the week, 30 for the past two weeks, and 75% for the month. Or only stocks that have gapped more than a certain percentage, when i was all fired up about gaps. There are many ways, pick what says "quality" loudest to you, and FOCUS on it religiously. My worst problem for years was floundering back and forth, dividing my attention on so many definitions of this, that I could never focus long enough to acquire expertise and skill along one viable path. Today, I've settled on percentage gain from the open, over 50K shares traded, above 2.00 in price (no penny stocks). Very simple.
In fact, after 22 off-and-on years of messing with this too-enticing pile of stink we call the market, I've learned that keeping things as simple as possible is probably one of the best things we can do. Therefore, my tools are now nothing but a stock scanner with the aforementioned simple filters, a simple "most movement" evaluation of "best," no moving averages, no Indicators like RSI or MACD nonsense that are only ever partially useful. Nothing but price action, looking at the daily chart simultaneously with a 1- or 2- minute, and the most basic set of price level/trendline and support/resistance analysis tools that you'll get in the first video you ever watch about "technical trading."
My idea is, waste no time with anything that isn't the very best, refuse to lose significant money, ever (very tight stop losses on entry), never hold a loser that enslaves your attention and mood and keeps you from acting on a new opportunity, and use a very basic set of tools and "git gud" with them, and with "feeling" the price action...which you can't avoid having to do anyway. Experience...trades, and lots of them...is essential to get under your belt.
Finally, the classics work. Here's the most basic "movement==>consolidation==>movement" trendline break into an extension in the world. I've done four of just this pattern in the past two weeks, all for gains over 40% in my cash accounts. Projecting into late 2024, give me my $25K account, again, with 4X margin and as many trades per day as I want, and let's go, baby!
