Stock Screener, Screens, Breakout, Tops, Bottoms, Trade, Profit (2024)

Stock Screener

Topics

• Get/Set Screen String
• Set Up a Basic Breakout Screen
• Set Up a Basic Momentum (with Trend) Long Screen
• Screen For Intraday Moves
• Profit Expectations on Screens
• Preset High Quality Screens
• Custom Screens Using Screen String
• Screener List Options
• Screener Output Styles

Get/Set Screen String

• Screen String link allows one to get and set screener strings in the format below:
  

  #0,345,00!0!!0!,124789abd,0, 12,,12,,24, 000000000000,234,,2345,000008#

• To set a screen string, click on the "Set" link, then copy and paste the complete string (including the#'s) into the pop up box.
• To get a screen string, click on the "Get" link, then copy the complete string (including the #'s) shown inthe pop up box to a text file or share with other members.
• Save/backup extra screens besides the 25 screens allowed under the "Save Screen as User Preset" pulldown.

Set Up a Basic Breakout Screen

• Make sure to save any previous screens.
• Click on the Screener "Reset Screen" link to clear the current screen.
• Set up a basic breakout screen with the following parameters:
  • Stock price: 5 and greater
  • Typical volume: 300K and greater daily typical volume
  • 1 day change: flat, up
  • Short term direction: flat,up
  • Overbought/sold: all values except Overbought, Extreme Overbought
  • 1 month trend: flat,up
  • Intermediate trend: all trends except Unsustainable uptrend
  • Breakout: watch, confirmed
  • Breakout profit: 5% and greater
  • Sort by: Breakout Profit, highest profit listed first
• The screen string for this breakout screen is listed, below, to set, copy and paste the string (includingthe #') into the Screen String "Set" link pop up box.

  #,23456,,345,00!0!!0!, 124789abcd,,1234579,,12, ,12,,12,000000000000, 24,,2345,000008#

• Screener with breakout screen

  

• Click the "Screen!" button to execute the breakout screen.
• To save this screen, select one of the 25 open slots available under the "Save Screen as User Preset" pull down.

Set Up a Basic Momentum (with Trend) Long Screen

• Make sure to save any previous screens.
• Click on the Screener "Reset Screen" link to clear the screener.
• Set up a basic long screen with the following parameters:
  • Stock price: 5 and greater
  • Typical volume: 300K and greater daily typical volume
  • 1 day change: flat, up
  • Overbought/sold: all values except Overbought, Extreme Overbought
  • 1 month trend: up
  • Intermediate trend: Uptrend turned sideways, Uptrend with recent pullback, Mild uptrend, Uptrend
  • Support/res: at support
  • Target 1 profit: 5% and greater
  • Profit/Loss: 2.5:1 and greater
  • Target 1 Potential: good, excellent
  • Sort by: Long Target 1 Profit, highest profit listed first
• The screener string for this long screen is listed below, to set, copy and paste the string (including the #'s) into the Screen String "Set" link pop up box.

  #,23456,,345,00!0!!0!, 479b,,1234579,20,12, 100000000,2345,,34,, 456,00000004#

• Screener with long screen

  

• Click the "Screen!" button to execute the long screen.
• To save this screen, select one of the 25 open slots available under the "Save Screen as User Preset" pull down.

Screen For Intraday Moves

• Convert breakout or long screens to find strong intraday moves, make the change below:

  

Profit Expectations on Screens

• When setting the screener Price and Typ Volume range see below for the profit expectations on large cap (price 25+, volume > 1Mil), mid cap (price 12+, volume 300k-1Mil) and small cap (price <12, at any volume) stocks. Notice certain industry/sectors show up more frequently for each size/profit. You may want to make separate screens for each type.

  

Preset High Quality Screens

• Use Screener buttons (above) to screen for high quality Long, Breakout, Short and Breakdown trades.

  

Custom Screens Using Screen String

• To set a screen string, click on the "Set" link, then copy and paste the complete string (including the #'s) into the pop up box.
• A good general breakout screen for momentum and bottoming stocks:

  #0,345,00!0!!0!,124789abd,0,12,,12,,24,000000000000,234,,2345,000008#

• Adding high volume to the above good general breakout screen and increasing the range of volume to 100k+ daily:

  #0,2345,00!0!!0!,124789abd,0,12,,12,,24,0000002,45,0000,234,,2345,000008#

• A member requested a high volume stock screen. Use the Screener 1 Day Money Flow (bullish) and Money Flow Strength (strong/extreme) to find stocks with high volume. Set the 1 Day Change to control how big a move occurs on that volume, from flat with high volume to strong up/extreme up with high volume.

  

  #,23456,,345,00!0!!0!000020000002,5,000000000004#

• To find the latest requested and custom screens search Twitter for #scscreens

Screener List Options

• Click on the link above for the pop up below

  

• Screener list options:
  • Change the number of stocks displayed per results page from 1 to 35 charts/data (some mobile, tablet and older IE browsers may be sluggish with more than 10-20 charts).
  • Choose between both charts and data, or data only output.
  • Turn on/off Rally Bands/MA (moving average) indicators to increase speed on Internet Explorer browsers.
  • Portfolio and Screener list options are independent, you may want different output indicators for each tool.

Screener Output Styles

• The "Output Style" pull down sets what indicators will be shown in the table results for each stock. For example, the "Fixed Breakout" output style is listed below.

  

• Selecting one of the User Adj 1-4 styles and clicking on "Edit" allows one to change the name and output indicators listed in the table.

  

• For preset screens, the output styles will default to one of the fixed styles (Long, Breakout, Short, Breakdown).
• There are four user adjustable output styles(5-9). The names and indicators can be changed and will be saved and used with the current portfolio or screen.

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