I'll give you my answer, although I dont trade stocks anymore. When I did trade stocks, I focused on a core list that covered several sectors. If the sector or particular stock happened to be in the news that day, I still traded it but I usually didnt search the news for stocks to play. That core list I learned like the back of my hand by watching them day in and day out. Alot of guys prefer to play the biggest action of the day but I rather enjoyed the steady and predictability associated with the stocks I traded rather than the wild swings of the news stocks. Not to mention that most everyone else was trying to trade all the same news stocks so they got crowded. To each his own though.