Skiracer's stock slopes

[skiracer]

I'm trying to learn Excel and found another site that is just terrific if you are a novice at it and don't know anything about using the program, like myself, and need to start from the beginning then this is the site for you. I had no idea of where to begin and after two days, about 3 hrs., I'm working with spreadsheets and making charts like I've been doing it for awhile. Not exactly an expert yet but this program will lead you through it from start to finish at your own pace. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pages. It's a program developed by a woman from Iowa State University an quite good. Plus it will always be there for future reference if you get stoned, drunk, or both and forget what you learned yesterday.

[IIC]

Ed...I clicked it...But it said...You are not authorized to view this page.

???...Doug(IIC)

[skiracer]

Ed...I clicked it...But it said...You are not authorized to view this page.

???...Doug(IIC)

Doug,
Sorry about that. I just clicked it on my post and got the same thing. Google Excel and about the 6/7th title down you'll see, "Learning Excel, ISUE Instructional Excel Manuals". If you click on the main title it will take you right there.

[Lyehopper]

Hey Ski.... Seems like every time you get pissed off and leave I get bored here. Why is that dude?

HEY! If I insulted you, would you fight with me just for old times sake?

[skiracer]

Hey Ski.... Seems like every time you get pissed off and leave I get bored here. Why is that dude?

HEY! If I insulted you, would you fight with me just for old times sake?

It's love an also like your "Goji" I'm just the right blend of something to get you high enough but not to far out that you can't function. I wouldn't fight with you on a bet if you gave me the money.

I'm sitting here in my air conditioned office/trailer with the curtains wide open an watching the splendid young hard bodies go by, in a constant stream in their ever shrinking bikinis, to the beach. My jobsite is a block off the ocean. Almost all of both guys and girls alike have tatoos or multiple tatoos. The computer is on with the realtime quotes going on one laptop and Briefing.com on the other screen. Life is hard. I'm leaving early today around 2:30 to catch the incoming tide for an hour or two of surf fishing.

[Websman]

It's love an also like your "Goji" I'm just the right blend of something to get you high enough but not to far out that you can't function. I wouldn't fight with you on a bet if you gave me the money.

I'm sitting here in my air conditioned office/trailer with the curtains wide open an watching the splendid young hard bodies go by, in a constant stream in their ever shrinking bikinis, to the beach. My jobsite is a block off the ocean. Almost all of both guys and girls alike have tatoos or multiple tatoos. The computer is on with the realtime quotes going on one laptop and Briefing.com on the other screen. Life is hard. I'm leaving early today around 2:30 to catch the incoming tide for an hour or two of surf fishing.

Dude...What a life! You got any job openings?

[skiracer]

Awhile back someone, I think it was Rob, mentioned Businessweek.com's financial section as pretty good. So I took a look expecially at the screening and scanning tools. They are excellent and free. There is the regular and advanced screener available. Almost 70 variations on three sections of options to plug into your screens. The three sections are stocks, valuations, and company fundamentals. Like I mentioned there are 70 variables that you can plug into any screen or scan. It's great to play around with. Anyway I've been messing around with it the last couple of weeks an have developed some pretty neat screens just messing around. I also read a real good article today in a magazine I get called Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. Great mag with real good articles on technical stuff mostly but alot of good fundamental stuff there also. Here is a nice screen that I picked up from the mag today and just ran it for the first time. Came up with 5 nice stocks with pretty good potential. Here are the criteria that I plugged in to run the screen and if you have a Stockcharts.com subscription you can set up your watchlist (screen results) in their candleglance setup. The criteria are in this order and terminology:

* Price Range: $2 to $80 ; low as possible
* Market Capitalization: micro - to mid-range $50 million to $500 million;
low as possible
* High/Low Breakout 52 weeks: between 1 to 3 days
* Institutional Holdings % : 1 - 70%
* Volume 30 Day Average: 200; high as possible
* Valuation: price/cash flow; minimum 5; high as possible
* Cash - Flow Growth One Year: minimum 1 year; high as possible
* Debt/Equity Ratio: low as possible

I ran the screen the first time with all the criteria an only got one stock, but when I ran it without the last two criteria ( cash-flow growth one year, and debt/equity ratio) I got 5 nice stocks. Here is the screen and the candleglance capture of the 5 stocks. This is a great screener for anyone, especially for the novice, who is not that well versed in screening techniques. It's totally easy and a great list of plug in variables for running screens off of. Very easy to play around with. Here is the link directly to the advanced screener. http:/prosearch.businessweek.com/businessweek/general_free_search.html?mode=advanced. And here is how the screen should look and the Stockcharts.com candleglance setup of the 5 charts for the stocks.

[Lyehopper]

Thanks Ski.... Nice work dude!

[skiracer]

Here's another group that was basically the same scan but I changed one of the criteria. I changed the volume 30 day average to: 200 minimum; high as possible. Originally it was 200 maximum; high as possible. See the difference in the number of stocks and the list of stocks themselves. This scan returned some nice stocks for a watchlist.

[billyjoe]

ski,
Interesting stuff. Lots of the experts are saying that large caps will be the first to move when the market recovers . What do you think ?
------billyjoe

[skiracer]

ski,
Interesting stuff. Lots of the experts are saying that large caps will be the first to move when the market recovers . What do you think ?
------billyjoe

Well I think that most everything that is sound will go off to the upside if and when we get a reversal. I've just been messing around with Businessweek's advanced screener. I thought it was quite good in it's simplicity, ease of use, and the number of variables you could plug in to the screens. I was reading this article today an used the criteria from the guy who wrote the article to run the scan and came up with these stocks. I thought all of them were decent stocks with nice charts going on. As far as what stocks are going to be the first to move I think the strongest stocks in the strongest sectors at that time will be the ones I would be looking for. This Businessweek site has a pretty good menu on the left side of the home page. You have to play around with it some to get used to all of what it has to offer. There is an area that deals entirely with sectors and which ones are the strongest or leading ones. I would look to what sectors are the strongest and find a basket of stocks within that sector to start with. I think playing around with these screens is real easy an a great way to turn up some gems quickly and easily without taking up to much time to do it especially if you're not used to using screens or to setting them up. But you have to play around with them to get used to using them so it does take some time to do that.

[Lyehopper]

Hey Ski.... Here's Vector-Vest's current "Model Portfolio" just in case you're interested. Notice the date they went long on these. They were short for about two weeks prior (but not short these particular stocks).

[Rob]

Skiracer, I'm glad you took the time to check out all that stuff you can find on businessweek.com. It really does offer a lot. And as I've said before, it's the only site I know of that will actually give you a chart of option prices.

There are a few bugs in their software, which can cause you to get a wrong screen sometimes, but overall I give it an 8.75.

[skiracer]

Skiracer, I'm glad you took the time to check out all that stuff you can find on businessweek.com. It really does offer a lot. And as I've said before, it's the only site I know of that will actually give you a chart of option prices.

There are a few bugs in their software, which can cause you to get a wrong screen sometimes, but overall I give it an 8.75.

Rob,
They've been up an running on that site for awhile. I read about them coming online with it months ago but never followed up on it. Your post on it made me go an check it out. It's got alot of great info plus, can you guess, I love their advanced screener. I think you can get charts on options from Options Express but Businessweek.com is still a very good one. Thanks Rob.

Lye,
I noticed that your list has several of the ones that came up in my screen. They would definitely be worth keeping on a watchlist. I'll be watching these and the ones from your list over the next few days for possible plays.

[Runner]

Ski, thanks for this awesome link. Being a complete idiot with FA stuff this scanner thing may help me. Now I’ll just need to enter the right criteria ..lol…