How to find the top 10 performing stock in the S&P 500 in 2023

How to find the top 10 performing stock in the S&P 500 in 2023

When I first started to trade stocks or options, I was always trading stocks with low volume. When a stock has low volume, the price of option contracts or the stock price action may move really slow. And one of the top indicators before getting into any trade, is that volume has to be healthy. So, the question is, how do I find the top performing stocks S&P 500, so I may trade them?

The answer is actually quite simple! Finviz has a visual map for you to quickly spot out the largest holdings in the S&P 500.

Simplest answer: Finviz.com map (https://finviz.com/map.ashx)

The beautiful part about this web page, is that the top stocks for each sector and how they’re performing throughout the day.

Right off the bat you can see the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500:

  1. Apple – $AAPL
  2. Microsoft – $MSFT
  3. Amazon – $AMZN
  4. Google – $GOOGL
  5. Tesla – $TSLA
  6. Berkshire Hathaway Inc – $BRK.B
  7. UnitedHealth Group – $UNH
  8. Johnson & Johnson – $JNJ
  9. NVIDIA – $NVDA
  10. Meta – $META
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