Category Archives: Scanning For Things To Trade

FINDING THINGS TO TRADE

Stock-Screen-A-Palooza

October 20, 2007 – 10:35 pm

I generally like spreading these screener runs out over the course of a month, but the vacation time has resulted in these being stacked near the end of the month. Oh, bother.
The GARP acronym stands for “growth at a reasonable price.” In order to weed out the list, I insist on a high […]

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Asset Allocations for October 2007

October 18, 2007 – 6:56 pm

It’s been well over a month since I did my most recent purchases, and two of them have hit their trailing stops. I think it’s about time to revisit what I should be long based on a simple model of trend-following applied to asset allocations using ETFs.
One tidbit, it appears that, in […]

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Fantastic Resource for Back-Testing Stock Ideas

September 26, 2007 – 8:43 pm

I have found an excellent resource for computerized back-testing of trading systems based on the AAII weekly database, and that resource is Keelix.com. For those capable of understanding pseudo code and aping unfamiliar syntax, it should be relatively self-explanatory. If one is additionally familiar with the data available from AAII, then doing the […]

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Breakout + Pullback = Good Risk/Reward

September 26, 2007 – 6:09 am

There are roughly similar patterns in USO, IEZ, and OIH. I am currently long a 15% approx. weight in IEZ.

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The World According to GARP, September Edition

September 19, 2007 – 6:26 pm

The GARP acronym stands for “growth at a reasonable price.” In order to weed out the list, I insist on a high level of growth in this screen, and actual acceleration in earnings and revenue growth. The screen now looks like this:
Exchange: Non OTC,
P/E (TTM Intraday): Less than or Equal to 20,
EPS Gwth. […]

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