Stock Screens

I’m looking for high volume and trade setups offering ideal swing-trading opportunities For today’s screen, I ran through my volume buzz screen on stocks that are trading on higher than usual volume, not just today, but in recent days, and then identifying those trade setups that offer actual opportunities for swing-trading.  You see, when you

One thing I love to do when we get multiple days of selling like we saw prior to today, is to run a screen and see what kind of stocks are bucking the trend and rising against a clear wave of selling.  And what I found were six quality setups that are gaining momentum against

I run the Stocks That Only Go Up screen about once a month – so it’s that time again to find the most dependable, most consistent stocks of all the stocks out there.  Personally, stocks like Abbott Laboratories (ABT) continues to amaze me – a near perfect uptrend with little deviation from the norm.  Home Depot (HD)

This stock market in recent weeks has no doubt scared some bulls and a lot of traders are really tentative about adding new positions to their portfolio. So that sent me on a quest to find those stocks that, despite the recent weakness we’ve been seeing in general, is managing to still trade near its

Its easy to ignore short opportunities in markets like these. But it is important to continue to scan for them even if you have no intention of shorting them. Market conditions can change overnight without warning and in times like these, there’s no shortage of news events that can completely change the trading climate overnight. 

It has been a while since I ran this particular screen but it is a great way to determine which stocks are showing increased amount of interest from the street. Often times these are the stocks that  are also being upgraded on a regular basis.  What you’ll notice below is that the predominant industry represented

This particular scan here evaluates stocks that are trading well below traditional book value – and in this case trading at less than half of book value and then I combine it with favorable technical analysis and ideal trade setups. Essentially its Benjamin Graham meets Online trading (strange bedfellows I’d say!). Nonetheless, you may be

I run this stock screen about once a month and it is by far my most popular screen, or at least the one I get the most feedback on. There are some on this list like TJX Companies (TJX) that have been on there for years and rightfully so – the company is a beast

The market continues to struggle to break and close above the 1422 highs on the S&P 500 established back in April. As a result, there’s reason for some concern, and if the bulls continue to squander the opportunity, you’ll likely want to move your portfolio from the high-beta plays to more defensive plays.  As a

With this market having such a low-volume reading, I’ve diverted my attention primarily to those stocks that are trading with higher than usual volume, and in particular I prefer it to be on a multi-day basis (not some news driven event that lasts only one day).  As a result, I’ve put together six stocks that