Using
the ChartFilter StockScreener
Fundamentals
& Technicals
You can screen securities based on
either fundamental or technical criteria,
or both together.
Fundamental
criteria
Fundamental
criteria are used to try and detect
incorrectly valued securities through
an analysis of the firm's business
prospects. Research often focuses
on earnings, dividend prospects, expectations
for future interest rates, and risk
evaluation of the firm.
Using fundamental
criteria you can uncover companies
that are poised to grow in value over
time. One strategy, for example, would
be to search for stocks that are making
new 52-week highs, on the premise
that these stocks are in a strong
uptrend that can be expected to continue.
Another
strategy might be to search for undervalued
growth stocks - those stocks with
high expected earnings growth and
low price-to-earnings ratios that
have a good chance of rising.
Technical
criteria
Technical indicators provide you
with excellent tools for timing your
trades based on market actions. For
example, you might be interested in
catching a stock that has just switched
from negative to positive MACD, indicating
the possible beginning of a new uptrend.
Or you could be looking for oversold
stocks based on oscillators such as
CCI, RSI, or stochastics.
