TECHNICAL STOCK SCREENING AND ANALYSIS USING STOCKFETCHER User Guide and Reference Manual (Release 2.0) StockFetcher Usage Guide Table of Contents Page PREFACE ........................................................................................................VI What’s Inside ................................................................................................................ vii Document Conventions................................................................................................. vii Comments and Suggestions .........................................................................................viii CHAPTER 1. SCREENING ON STOCKFETCHER ............................................... 1 Description through Implementation .............................................................................. 2 Convenience vs. Control................................................................................................. 2 Verify Syntax.................................................................................................................. 3 Trading Stocks ................................................................................................................ 3 Basic Elements of a StockFetcher Screen....................................................................... 3 Building Your First Screen ............................................................................................. 4 CHAPTER 2. ACTIONS ..................................................................................... 7 Above / Below / Between ............................................................................................... 8 Approaching from above/below ................................................................................... 12 Converging/Diverging .................................................................................................. 13 Crossed Above/Below .................................................................................................. 14 Dropped/Gained............................................................................................................ 18 Increasing/Decreasing for the last…............................................................................. 20 Near............................................................................................................................... 21 Record Highs and Lows................................................................................................ 22 Slope of ......................................................................................................................... 25 Touching ....................................................................................................................... 28 CHAPTER 3. INDICATORS AND MEASURES................................................... 29 Absolute Price Oscillator (APO) .................................................................................. 30 Absolute Volume Oscillator (AVO) ............................................................................. 31 Acceleration Bands ....................................................................................................... 32 Aroon Up/Down/Oscillator........................................................................................... 33 Average True Range ..................................................................................................... 35 Average Volume ........................................................................................................... 36 Bollinger Bands (upper, lower, median)....................................................................... 37 Bollinger Oscillator....................................................................................................... 38 Bollinger %B ................................................................................................................ 39 Bollinger Width ............................................................................................................ 40 Center of Gravity .......................................................................................................... 41 Chaikin’s Money Flow ................................................................................................. 42 Chaikin's Volatility ....................................................................................................... 43 Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO) ......................................................................... 44 Chandelier Exit ............................................................................................................. 45 Close-to-open Gap ........................................................................................................ 46 ii Contents Commodity Channel Index (CCI)................................................................................. 47 Comparative Relative Strength ..................................................................................... 48 Day Change / Absolute Day Change ............................................................................ 49 Day Position.................................................................................................................. 50 Day Range / Average Day Range / Day Point Range................................................... 51 Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO) ................................................................................ 52 Directional Movement Indicators +DI, -DI, ADX........................................................ 53 Donchian Channels (Upper/Lower/Middle) ................................................................. 54 ERSI.............................................................................................................................. 55 Ease of Movement (EMV)............................................................................................ 56 Ergodic Candlestick Oscillator (ECO).......................................................................... 57 Fibonacci Retracement Lines........................................................................................ 58 Force Index ................................................................................................................... 60 Inertia ............................................................................................................................ 61 Intraday Intensity .......................................................................................................... 62 Intraday Momentum Index (IMI).................................................................................. 63 Inverse Fisher Transform (IFT) .................................................................................... 64 Historical Volatility ...................................................................................................... 65 KST............................................................................................................................... 66 Keltner Channels........................................................................................................... 67 Linear Regression Channels ......................................................................................... 68 Linear Regression Indicator.......................................................................................... 69 Linear Regression Slope ............................................................................................... 70 MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) .................................................. 71 MACD (Volume Weighted) ......................................................................................... 72 Mass Index.................................................................................................................... 73 Momentum.................................................................................................................... 74 Money Flow Index........................................................................................................ 75 Moving Average (Displaced)........................................................................................ 76 Moving Average (Exponential) .................................................................................... 77 Moving Average (Simple) ............................................................................................ 78 Moving Average (Volume Weighted) .......................................................................... 79 Moving Average Envelopes.......................................................................................... 80 Negative Volume Index (NVI) ..................................................................................... 81 Positive Volume Index (PVI)........................................................................................ 82 On Balance Volume(OBV)........................................................................................... 83 Open, High, Low, Close ............................................................................................... 84 Optionable..................................................................................................................... 85 P/E Ratio ....................................................................................................................... 86 Parabolic 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