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Active Screen - CANSLIM: Top 8 for August 11th

Market selling shuffled the deck on top-8 qualifying stocks. Since the last update in July we have seen Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) and Silver Wheaton Corporation (SLW) fall from the list and...

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How to Use Zignals Trading Signals

If you are a subscriber to a Zignals trading strategy there are a number of different signal categories to consider. This post will tell you how to utilise them.Buy SignalsWhen a position is initiated...

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Active Screen: CANSLIM v2 - Aug 25th

I picked up on a comment left on a previous CANSLIM article in March 2011.CANSLIM/William O'Neil does not use any YTD to Last YTD comparisions. I suspect, you used these as the site lacks a Q to last...

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Low Extremes in the S&P

As the market takes another step higher I took a quick look at S&P price low extremes relative to its 200-day MA. The data covers the period of 1950 to the present day, so it does leave out the...

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Getting Started with Zignals Free Stock Charts

Download PDF document View this on issuu View this in Magazine Format Getting Started With Zignals Charts----------- Why not start your Zignals Trading Strategy Business with us today? Learn How to...

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S&P - Not So Extreme...

A couple of weeks ago, extreme extensions of the S&P to its 200-day MA were examined dating back to 1950. The simple conclusion was such extremes were rare, even for a relatively modest 15% move...

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Active Screen: CANSLIM August 13th

With our updated screen criteria there were a couple of changes in qualifying stocks. Our active stock screen used the following criteria:Of the stocks in this scan there was only one change from last...

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Active Screen: CANSLIM September 23rd

With the shaken-and-stirred action of the past few few days fresh in the memory, how has it panned out for our top-8 Active Screen stocks over the past couple of weeks. Our active stock screen used the...

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Netflix: From Top to Bottom

While scouring the news for links I came across a chart posted by Blain over at TraderMike showing the extent of Netflix's plunge. His chart neatly shows how quickly yesterday's hero can turn into...

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Engineering a Trading Strategy

Strategies can be designed and built using Trade Timer or the backtest feature of the Strategy Builder. For an individual indicator, Trade Timer is the way to go, but if you are looking to compare a...

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Portfolio Manager Metrics

I really like the portfolio manager but am unclear how the metrics are computed/what they really mean. Is this documented anywhere?...

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Active Stock Screen: October 19th

The past month has seen a down-and-up which has taken markets back to where they started. At the end of the September the usual suspects topped the leading eight stocks ranked by Market Cap. What...

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Active Stock Screen: November 2nd

The previous running of this scan on October 19th was closely associated with the last swing high in the markets. The past couple of days have seen the bulk of these gains erased, but not to the extent...

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Create a Managed Trading Strategy (aka Public Strategy) in Portfolio

In addition to creating trading strategies with StrategyStudio, you can take a more hands-on approach by creating a managed portfolio using the Public Strategy feature of Portfolio. Whereas...

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What next for the S&P?

At the end of August I signed off with the following:The S&P may yet take another turn lower, particularly when we enter the seasonally weak September/October period. But should it turn into (or...

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Creating a Zignals Chart Profile

Here is a request from a Member on saving chart settings and applying them to multiple stocks. All I want to do is design a chart setup with certain indicators and a particular time frame and use that...

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Active Stock Screen: November 30th

Since the last update in November the S&P was trading at 1,262 and stocks were still enjoying the fruits of the October rally. Since then, markets have eased, although some of these losses have...

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Active Screening: Apple Leads

It has been a couple of months since the results of this screen were last looked at, but a fresh run of the screen has seen very little change in the top ranked stocks (as ranked by Market Cap).The...

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Active Screening: Apple Keeps Top Spot

Apple kept its hold on top spot, as it did in January.  With a $0.5+ Trillion market cap it feels like the stock is carrying the entire market rally on its back.  But what of the 'also rans'?  This...

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What Next for the S&P? Bullish Outlook

The past few months have been very good for bulls with the S&P adding 22% since the 2011 November swing low.  When analysis on projections for the S&P was done a couple of days after the...

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Active Screening: August 3rd

Back in March, our Active Screen had kept Apple in top spot. Has this situation changed over the course of a scrappy summer?The Active Stock Screen used the following parameters: • % Chg EPS; Q to last...

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What Next For The S&P?

When I last ran this piece in March, the S&P was trading at 1,412, and the mean six month projection based on relative position of the index to its key moving averages was around 1,518 (95%...

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Acitve Stock Screening: October 9th

This screen was last run in August, but even during this short period there were a number of changes in qualifying stocks. Dropping from the top-8, as ranked by Market Cap, was CF Industries and...

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What will the S&P offer in 2013?

Last March, the S&P was performing very strongly and traded at 1,416.  The 1-year S&P projection, based on historic matches of its relative position to 20-day, 50-day and 200-day MAs at this...

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Buying the Bull

The following infographic by InvesTech Research (and sourced on The Big Picture) neatly shows the duration of all bull markets dating back to 1932.  The current bull market is running to form, having...

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