What stock screeners do people use?

[StuC]

Interested to learn what stock screeners people are using.

I personally use stockfetcher and find it pretty useful, not tried screening with NS itself yet, anyone do that?

 

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[Nate]

Hey Stu,

I typically use the Finviz web application to profile tickers based on the late Steve Ward’s words of wisdom “Pick an instrument that is rising and falling because of trading, not fundamental factors, if you want to try to predict with technical indicators.”

I use the following filtering variables to achieve an expanded ticker-list:

<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Item</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Type</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Value</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Notes</p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Beta</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Technical</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>< 1</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Uncorrelated with market</p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Price</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Descriptive</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>> $10</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Avoid Penny Stocks</p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Volatility (mo)</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Technical</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>> 2%</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Indicates consistent movement</p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Market Cap</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Descriptive</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>> $50m</p>	<p style=”margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;”>Micro size company or bigger</p>

Regards,

Nate

[Sarah Hamilton]

A stock screener has three parts: a database of organizations, a lot of factors and a screening motor that finds the organizations that fulfill those factors and produces a rundown of matches.