Stock Screeners are essential automated tools for traders. They allow traders to wade through thousands of stocks and return a list of stocks for closer analysis. Stock Screeners allow to find the stocks that best meet your trading strategy. They create dynamic lists of stocks that match the technical and fundamental criteria.

Technical stock screeners allow to identify stocks that meet certain technical criteria that usually include the following technical indicators: MACD, Williams %R, RSI, volume, Parabolic System, Bollinger Band, and Moving Average crossover.

Fundamental stock screeners are based on fundamental criteria: price, market capitalization, dividends, trading volume, revenue, P/E ration, price/book ratio, price/sales ratio, price/earnings growth, earnings per share growth.

There are a lot of stock screeners that provide the above technical and fundamental search criteria. Those values are easy to find and calculate, so the related stock screen is easy to implement. On the other hand, the trend analysis and chart patterns search are not easy to automate. That is the reason why very few stock screeners allow to search the trend analysis and pattern recognition related criteria.

A lot of stock screeners allow to search momentum oscillators. The oscillator’s bearish and bullish divergences are considered as most valid trading signals, but it is very difficult to find a stock screener that allows to search for stocks with bullish or bearish divergences. To find a divergence, the stock screener has to analyze the trend waves structure, and this functionality is not easy to implement.

If you are looking for the stock screeners that allow to search for chart patterns and trend analysis related criteria, you may find <a href=http://www.thegreedytrader.com/StockScreener.aspx><b> TheGreedytrader.com  </b></a> very useful. This web site presents the automated trend analysis tools. In addition to the common fundamental and technical search criteria, the advanced stock screener  presents some unique technical criteria which, to our knowledge, are not available in any other stock screening tool. 

Following is the brief list of advanced search criteria available at TheGreedytrader.com :  weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly trend analyses that include chart patterns, trend direction, support and resistance crossover , bullish and bearish divergence for daily and weekly RSI, Williams %R, Lane's Stochastic,  and MACD.

While some stock screeners allow to search for chart patterns, they are usually limited to only one time frame. Combining pattern analysis on several different time frames could provide one of the most valid trading technique. TheGreedytrader.com  <a href=http://www.thegreedytrader.com/StockScreener.aspx> <b>Stock Screener</b></a> allows to select and combine as many indicators as you wish. For example, you can search for stocks that form a falling channel monthly trend and Ascending Triangle weekly trend. Or you can search for stocks that are near the support trend lines for weekly and monthly trends simultaneously.

The trend analysis provides one of the most accurate and reliable trading  signals, especially when they are used in conjunction with other technical indicators. The stock screeners that allow to combine trend analysis search criteria with fundamental and technical indicators will help you to find  the best trading opportunity.

There is a simple rule for successful trading: “Buy low, sell high”. The biggest challenge is to find when price is low enough to buy. Using the downtrend exhausting alerts is a simple way to find the “buy low” entry points. It does not require a rocket sciences and anybody can use it.

Downtrend exhaustion alert is a warning signal that occurs when a downtrend is near the end and the probability of the trend’s reversal is high. Usually this signal coincides with bad news and a company’s gloomy outlook. This is often the time when most people sell the stock at the bottom. The downtrend exhaustion alert presents a good buying opportunity.

The Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) chart below shows the downtrend exhaustion alerts issued by thegreedytrader.com between June 2006 and May 2008. Five downtrend exhaustion alerts were issued between June 17 and July 14, 2006 within price range 8.57 – 7.86. The price hit the major bottom on July 17 at 7.4. Six month later IPG was trading more then 80% higher.

The next downtrend exhaustion alert for IPG was published on January 11, 2008 at 7.4. By May 15 stock is trading up to 10.47 making more then 40% gain.

The next example below shows the downtrend exhaustion alerts for the Hasbro Inc (NYSE: HAS). Four downtrend exhaustion alerts were published between May 26 and June 23, 2006 within price range 18.78 – 18.01. HAS hit three-year low on July 24 at 17.0. During the next twelve month the price had risen almost 86% reaching 33.49 by July 23, 2007.

The next downtrend exhaustion alert for HAS was issued on January 11, 2008 at 22.34. The downtrend made major low on January 22 at 21.57. By May 14 HAS gained almost 68% trading at 37.35.

Using the downtrend exhaustion alert is not always that clear. As any trading technique it involves risk, but this simple approach would warn investors that the bottom might be near, and help prepare for changes in trend direction.

You can find the list of the latest downtrend exhaustion alerts at www.TheGreedyTrader.com

Downtrend exhaustion strategy is more rewarding for the long-term positions.  The stock alerts are ranked using 1-5 stars rating system. For the long-term trade the higher ranked alerts are usually more rewarding. To find a good trade exit point, you can use an uptrend exhaustion alert or a trend resistance alert.