Pre-Market Gappers Experienced traders are sensitive to being in the right stocks at the right time. As I mentioned, traders are only as good as the stocks they trade. I and the traders in our community use a scanner every morning that is programmed to find Stocks in Play based on the following criteria: Stocks that in the pre-market gapped up or down at least 2% Stocks that have traded at least 50,000 shares in the pre-market Stocks that have an average daily volume of over 500,000 shares