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General Discussion · Question on: When to and What filter to use
marine2 msg #113213	5/8/2013 8:03:59 PM Do any of you know what type of filter you would write showing you stocks to use for day trading. For example, would a stock be ripe for day trading if the day previous it's stock price went up significantly? If so how would you write a filter showing that. Or, maybe there is another set of criteria you look for to find a special stock ripe for day trading? Your help on this is always welcome. Thank You!

Filter Exchange · Question on: When to and What filter to use
marine2 msg #113212	5/8/2013 8:01:48 PM Do any of you know what type of filter you would write showing you stocks to use for day trading. For example, would a stock be ripe for day trading if the day previous it's stock price went up significantly? If so how would you write a filter showing that. Or, maybe there is another set of criteria you look for to find a special stock ripe for day trading? Your help on this is always welcome. Thank You!

General Discussion · Insider Trading
marine2 msg #113095	5/2/2013 4:28:56 PM Call it "visual but silent soft insider knowledge". Much like this happens when companies have their timely State of the Business meetings with their employees. Enough is said to give an observant person the knowledge of how well their company is doing and what is planned for the future. I call that being transparent with their employees about their company's business health. Plus, if you wanted to support your company and hope things come out well financially for the company, you the employee, can buy into a mutual fund or ETF that holds your company's stock. Thus eliminating any problem along those unethical lines of misbehavior. Well, as long as you don't buy a million shares of those mutual fund / ETF shares that would throw up a warning flag.

General Discussion · At one point he had about a million dollars
marine2 msg #112215	3/13/2013 3:55:03 PM Yeah, then instead of investing this amount himself he relied on Bernie Madoff and then that figure evaporated. Why, because he didn't believe in himself, and secondly, he was mesmerized by a snake oil salesman telling him how much he would make for him. When it sounds too good to be true, be very careful. Trust your gut, trust your logical judgement when investing your monies, etc.

General Discussion · The best length for a moving average
marine2 msg #112214	3/13/2013 3:48:45 PM I use (but not all the times) the Ma(300) in my filter(s). It gives you stock pickings that are on a good roll. It gives you a few more stock picks than if you used the Ma(200). Therefore, if you are after happy stocks using the Ma(200) or Ma(300) will do that.

Filter Exchange · SF's answer to my question / problem on Long Term Debt
marine2 msg #112154	3/11/2013 12:25:45 PM Have you written to SF about this problem? If not yet, please do. SF always asks for evidence / proof of your claim to stated problem you make with them. It seems you do have the proof SF's fundamental data is old and not reliable for their customers to use in their filters. Write them, and see if they can either fix this fundamental problem or remove all fundamental tools / syntax from their customers library of statements they can use in their filtering.

Filter Exchange · SF's answer to my question / problem on Long Term Debt
marine2 msg #112141	3/11/2013 2:42:53 AM Very good thought on that. If we could get accurate data from these fundies as you say, it would save us all from looking up a company's fundamental health in our personal brokerage accounts. And getting accurate data from the EPS & ROE we wouldn't have to have watch lists saved that had good fundamental companies for our filters we use. Like you said, the key here is getting accurate data coming from SF's data source(s).

Filter Exchange · SF's answer to my question / problem on Long Term Debt
marine2 msg #112128	3/9/2013 4:49:23 PM I have tried SF's two fundamental tools, the EPS and ROE and found them with enough companies meeting my criteria that I then put their statement into my technical filter(s) and made me feel pretty good I was getting companies that were making money. But, if there was the ability to also add in the Long Term Debt statement it would further assure you the filter writer that you were catching companies that were making money as well as having low debt. Time will tell if SF does approach the Long Term Debt fundamental and add it into our tool box of goodies to filter. On our home page go into the section showing "Fundamentals" (shown on the right side) and you will see those EPS and ROE filtering statements you can use.

General Discussion · trend and momentum
marine2 msg #112127	3/9/2013 4:37:42 PM For myself, I keep it simple and aim for the general trend for the SPY (S & P 500) index. If the SPY shows an uptrend has started you now have the green light to play other stocks following these 2 trend filters. The filters I mention below are: and price is above 5 and weekly macd(12,26,9)fast line is crossing above weekly macd(12,26,9)slow line at close This filter will show a trend to the downside now beginning to make its way upward. The pivot point is the cross over action between the weekly Macd(12,26,9)fast line crossing above the slow line. Note, make sure the downside part of the weekly Macd trend has been long enough to produce real upside price action for a longer sustained uptrend. The second filter to use if you want to be a hair early before the weekly Macd (12,26,9) trend upward begins, is to use: and weekly slow stochastic(5,5) %K is crossing above weekly slow stochastic(5,5) %D at close and weekly slow stochastic(5,5) %K is below 65 at close and draw weekly macd(12,26,9) Do your backtests against these two filters with a previous 3 month trend to give you an accurate feel for what those 2 filters will do against a positive stock action environment. I use the 06/01/2012 to 10/01/2012 time frame. The results will be pretty nice giving you assurance those two filters will work as nice upward trend filters. Remember, there must be enough downside trend to create a good upside trend. To exit each filter you: Exit the weekly Macd trend filter you: exit when the weekly Macd(12,26,9)fast line looks like it has run out of gas and is begiinning to begin crossing down below the weekly Macd(12,26,9)slow line. Try and not leave the trend too early. Exit the weekly slow stochastic(5,5) having two options Option 1 (exiting early): when you know the weekly slow stochastic(5,5) %K has now risen high enough and begins to cross below the weekly slow stochastic(5,5) %D Option 2 (exiting later): when you see the weekly Macd(12,26,9) has had a nice run upward and your weekly slow stochastic(5,5) %K has risen to an upper level and looks like it is beginning to decelerate and cross below the slow stochastic(5,5) %D. Or you can exit using at a specific "profit stop" % (ie 3%, or 4%, etc). Note: the higher you go % wise the more "open" accts you will see (meaning stocks still out there trying to hit your high profit stop). So, don't be too greedy. I use these two filters, I like them, they work for me. But, everyone has their favorites these two are mine. I hope you try them out and see for yourself if they are made for you. Goodluck and happy investing!

General Discussion · Long Term Debt accuracy problem
marine2 msg #112122	3/9/2013 1:21:37 AM Your quite welcome Four.

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