MSN Stock Screener

I must say that I’m impressed with MSNs FREE!!! stock screener.  It covers a wide selection of criteria, and is very flexible.  I only wish it could screen on the Zacks rating.

Here’s my current screen, for interest’s sake.  Note I temporariliy tweaked down the % Price Change for the Last 6 Mos, otherwise almost all the stocks fell of the list.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/finder/finderx.asp?Query=SV1QS1F227Z00F234Z04L1000ZF136Z04F314ZF181Z04F314ZF114Z04L70000ZF151Z04L25ZF154Z04L25ZS10F406Z00S10F412Z00S10F410Z00S10F408Z00S98F98Z07F9998ZF154Z04F151ZS6F226Z04%22Hold%22F157Z04L25ZF106Z04L1Z&Name=StockScreen&Tickers=25

Industry Name    Display Only

Market Cap    >=    1bil

ROE              >=    Industry Avg

ROE 5yr        >=     Industry Avg

Avg vol last 2 weeks     >=    70k

Rev Growth Year vs Year    >= 25%

EPS Growth Year vs Year    >= 25%

Fundamental Grade    Display

Valuation Grade    Display

Technical Grade    Display

Ownership Grade    Display

EPS Growth Year vs Year  >=    Rev Growth Year vs Year

Mean Recommendation     >=    Hold

%Price Change Last Qtr    >= 25%

%Price Change Last 6mos >= 25%

New strategy update.

Some input from a friend of mine finally gave me the push to get into options spread trading.  The plan is to exercise my optionsXpress virtual trading account for the next 4 months to get the hang of the various spread trading strategies, and get a sample of what I can expect.  If I’m doing good, then I’ll risk 20k in my real-money account.

In parallel, the I’m going to stick with trading off my stock screen/macd/stochastic strategy, which holds up pretty good.  I was up about 10% in January, but lost most of my gains shortly after I peaked.  I’m now up about 2% from the beginning of the year, which is pretty lame.   Most of my losses have come from holding a good trade too long, and trying to get more out of it than it had.  On more than a couple of occassions I’ve been up between 5-15%, then had the stock drop, either suddenly, or take a long dip into negative territory, due to either industry trend change, or oftentimes I’m blindsided by an earnings event.  Both of these can be remedied by reading the news a little better.

New strategy update.

Some input from a friend of mine finally gave me the push to get into options spread trading.  The plan is to exercise my optionsXpress virtual trading account for the next 4 months to get the hang of the various spread trading strategies, and get a sample of what I can expect.  If I’m doing good, then I’ll risk 20k in my real-money account.

In parallel, the I’m going to stick with trading off my stock screen/macd/stochastic strategy, which holds up pretty good.  I was up about 10% in January, but lost most of my gains shortly after I peaked.  I’m now up about 2% from the beginning of the year, which is pretty lame.   Most of my losses have come from holding a good trade too long, and trying to get more out of it than it had.  On more than a couple of occassions I’ve been up between 5-15%, then had the stock drop, either suddenly, or take a long dip into negative territory, due to either industry trend change, or oftentimes I’m blindsided by an earnings event.  Both of these can be remedied by reading the news a little better.