Predicting low-float runners

[jeff46902]

Over the last several months in other forums, message boards, etc., people have posted messages to the effect of, "Stock XXXX will be the next one to fly".  For example, I saw such messages about MAHI back in November and NYER about a month or so ago.  What do you suppose people are using to predict these huge gainers?  Is there any kind of stock screener that checks low-float stocks gaining momentum?

[kinsley]

I don't think there is a predefined screener to get that, but you can easely make a database of all low float stocks, ans then use some kind of stock screener like metastock or tradestation to search your stocks.

[David Randolph]

... any technical screener that could predict the kind of moves you're describing on MAHI and NYER.

I say this because there was no pre warning. The volume and the moves came out of nothing. These things look like managed pump and runs from websites.