Stock Market Scanner - Quotes, Analysis & Market Overview

Get real-time stock quotes, technical analysis signals, full market overviews, and symbol search from a single actor — with no brokerage account and no API key required. Stock Market Scanner is built for traders, researchers, and data engineers who need structured US equity data on demand, not a fragile scraper or an expensive data subscription.

What does Stock Market Scanner do?

Stock Market Scanner runs four independent scan modes against live financial data from Yahoo Finance, Financial Modeling Prep, and the CNN Fear & Greed Index. In a single run you can fetch a real-time price quote with fundamentals, generate a complete technical analysis report with buy/sell signals, pull a market-wide snapshot with index levels and sentiment, or search for a company by name to retrieve its ticker and sector.

All four modes return consistent, structured JSON that connects directly to downstream tools — whether that is an Apify dataset, a webhook to your trading dashboard, or a scheduled pipeline feeding a spreadsheet. Multiple symbols can be processed in one run by passing a comma-separated list, making batch monitoring practical without repeated manual triggers.

Key features

• Four modes in one actor: stock quote, technical analysis, market overview, stock search
• Real-time prices with change, volume, market cap, P/E ratio, dividend yield, and 52-week range
• Technical analysis with RSI(14), MACD(12,26,9), Bollinger Bands(20,2), SMA/EMA(20,50,200)
• Golden Cross and Death Cross detection with actionable signals: STRONG BUY / BUY / HOLD / SELL / STRONG SELL
• Market overview with S&P 500, NASDAQ, DOW, Russell 2000, VIX, top gainers, top losers, and CNN Fear & Greed Index
• Batch processing — pass comma-separated symbols to analyze multiple stocks in one run
• Covers all US stocks, ETFs, and major global indices
• No API key required

Use cases

• Day traders: Pull real-time quotes and technical signals before market open to plan entries and exits without logging into a brokerage terminal
• Swing traders: Run technical analysis on a watchlist of tickers to identify RSI oversold conditions, MACD crossovers, and moving average setups
• Long-term investors: Use the market overview mode to assess overall sentiment and identify sectors outperforming the broader index before deploying capital
• Quantitative researchers: Collect structured price and indicator data at scale to backtest strategies or train machine learning models
• Portfolio managers: Monitor multiple positions simultaneously with comma-separated symbol input and automated scheduled runs

How to use Stock Market Scanner

1. Configure input — Choose a mode, enter one or more stock symbols (or a search query), and optionally set any additional parameters
2. Run the actor — Click "Start" on the Apify platform or trigger via the REST API
3. Get structured results — Download JSON from the dataset tab, integrate via the Apify API, or connect to a webhook for automated workflows

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
mode	string	Yes	stock_quote	Scan mode: stock_quote, technical_analysis, market_overview, or stock_search
symbols	string	No	AAPL	Comma-separated ticker symbols (e.g., AAPL,MSFT,GOOGL). Used in stock_quote and technical_analysis modes.
query	string	No	""	Company name to search for. Used in stock_search mode only.

Supported symbol types

• US stocks: AAPL, TSLA, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, NVDA, and thousands more
• ETFs: SPY, QQQ, VTI, VOO, IWM
• Global indices: ^GSPC (S&P 500), ^IXIC (NASDAQ), ^DJI (DOW), ^RUT (Russell 2000)

Output example

{
  "mode": "technical_analysis",
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "price": 198.45,
  "change": 2.15,
  "changePercent": 1.09,
  "signal": "BUY",
  "score": 4,
  "indicators": {
    "rsi": 42.3,
    "macd": {
      "macd": 1.23,
      "signal": 0.89,
      "histogram": 0.34,
      "trending": "Bullish Rising"
    },
    "bollingerBands": {
      "upper": 205.12,
      "middle": 195.30,
      "lower": 185.48,
      "position": 66.2
    },
    "sma": { "sma20": 195.30, "sma50": 192.15, "sma200": 185.60 }
  },
  "signals": [
    "RSI neutral",
    "MACD bullish rising",
    "Above all major MAs (bullish)",
    "EMA bullish stack"
  ]
}

Cost of usage

Pay-per-event at $0.05 per scan.

Usage	Cost
1 scan	$0.05
100 scans	$5.00
1,000 scans	$50.00

New Apify users get $5 in free credits — enough for 100 scans.

Data sources

• Yahoo Finance — Real-time quotes, historical price data, company fundamentals, and 52-week range (free, no API key)
• Financial Modeling Prep — Top market gainers and losers via free demo tier
• CNN Fear & Greed Index — Public market sentiment endpoint

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FAQ

Is an API key required?

No. Stock Market Scanner uses Yahoo Finance's public endpoints, the free demo tier of Financial Modeling Prep, and the public CNN Fear & Greed Index feed. No registration or credentials are needed.

How real-time is the price data?

Yahoo Finance public data is typically delayed by 15 minutes during market hours, consistent with standard public data licensing. For pre-market or after-hours quotes, the actor returns the most recent available price from the Yahoo Finance feed.

Can I analyze multiple stocks in one run?

Yes. Pass a comma-separated list of symbols in the symbols field (e.g., AAPL,MSFT,TSLA,NVDA). The actor processes each symbol and returns an array of results. There is no hard limit on the number of symbols, but very large lists may increase run time.

What does the technical analysis signal score mean?

The score is an integer from 0 to 7 that counts how many individual indicators point bullish. The final signal label (STRONG BUY through STRONG SELL) is derived from this score combined with momentum direction across RSI, MACD, and moving averages.

Limitations

• Price data is sourced from public Yahoo Finance endpoints and is subject to their standard 15-minute delay during market hours
• The market_overview mode uses the Financial Modeling Prep free demo tier, which may have lower rate limits during peak periods
• Options data, earnings calendars, and analyst price targets are not included in the current output
• Non-US exchanges and OTC markets are not fully supported; symbol availability depends on Yahoo Finance coverage
• Technical analysis indicators are calculated from Yahoo Finance historical data and may differ slightly from broker-provided values due to differences in data normalization