# Need help finding a certain type of stock quote tool!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-certain-type-of-stock-quote-tool/174384>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 10, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-certain-type-of-stock-quote-tool/174384 "2003-05-10T20:48:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-certain-type-of-stock-quote-tool/174384/1 "2003-05-10T20:48:07Z")

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I don’t know where to post this, since it’s kind of a factual question and kind of not.

I’m looking for a tool that will give me the biggest stock percentage gainers for the NASDAQ market for any particular day, just like this:  
[http://finance.yahoo.com/mnpg?e=o](http://finance.yahoo.com/mnpg?e=o)

The problem is, I haven’t been able to find a site which will show historical data, only the biggest gainers for the current (previous) day. All I want is a site which has the ability to show a list like in in the link above, for any day in the recent past. For example, I want to be able to go to a site and find the “top gainers” for the NASDAQ for last Monday.

Oh, and one other thing. I prefer “free”.

At the very least, it would be useful if someone could point me to a reliable message board where I could get an answer to the above question. Most stock boards talk about individual stocks, not research tools.

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**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-certain-type-of-stock-quote-tool/174384/2 "2003-05-10T20:53:35Z")

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Will [this](http://www.stockz.com/history.asp?index=NASDAQCOMPOSITE&indexview=NASDAQ%20COMPOSITE) do?

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**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-certain-type-of-stock-quote-tool/174384/3 "2003-05-10T21:24:19Z")

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Thanks for trying, I don’t see a list of top gainer stocks (which is what I’m looking for) on this site, and the window at the bottow shows a java language error.