Returns the most active stocks for the day. This includes the symbol, the name, the price, the change and the change percentage.

Returns: pd.DataFrame: A dataframe with the most active stocks for the day.

Most Active in Python

get_most_active_stocks is part of the Discovery module of the open-source Finance Toolkit. Install it with:

pip install financetoolkit -U

Then call get_most_active_stocks as shown below.

from financetoolkit import Discovery

discovery = Discovery(api_key="FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_KEY")

most_active_stocks = discovery.get_most_active_stocks()

most_active_stocks.head(10)

Which returns:

Symbol Name Change Price Change %
AAPL Apple Inc. -1.05 192.53 -0.5424
ADTX Aditxt, Inc. 1.81 6.63 37.5519
AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. -1.35 147.41 -0.9075
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. -1.44 151.94 -0.9388
BAC Bank of America Corporation -0.21 33.67 -0.6198
BITF Bitfarms Ltd. -0.41 2.91 -12.3494
BITO ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF -0.33 20.49 -1.585
CAN Canaan Inc. -0.5 2.31 -17.7936
CLSK CleanSpark, Inc. -2.08 11.03 -15.8657
DISH DISH Network Corporation 0.11 5.77 1.9435
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