Ciation as in appre·ciation, which is what you want to see happening to the balance in your stock portfolio. Let us be your guide through the stock market maze.
Actual closing price performance of all of our raw stock grades are displayed here, (not just the grades with the best looking performance). Therefore our stock grades are effective for evaluating both strong and weak stocks for devising both long and short strategies.
When using our Stock Screeners you are given other screening criteria to be used along with the raw stock grades (to provide context and meaning). Criteria that will for instance identify whether the price of a stock with a high grade is reaching the point of exhaustion, or whether a stock with a poor grade is due for a turn around. (See our Training section for further explanation of screening filters).
Things To Consider Along With Our Stock Grades Time frame Why would results for the different time frames vary from monitoring
period to monitoring period? As stocks fall into or out of favor with the market, movement into or
out of a class of stocks can cause dramatic price movements even for stocks with good fundamentals (or good grades in our case). So market sentiment can have a good or bad effect on a good or bad stock. Cyclical stocks can have steady price movements, up
or down, over their normal trading cycle. Depending on the movement direction stocks with a temporarily weak grade can move up before indicators merit an upgrade, or stocks with a strong grade can move down before all of their indicators merit a downgrade. Thus the time frame matters along with a stock's grade (other indicators also matter-such as over bought and over sold ). Our Sortable Stock Grade Performance Data page provides the ability to sort by time frame (Elapsed Days). Entry and Exit points Shouldn't the best stocks always be the ones with a grade of B+ or better? Not necessarily. Panicked markets can quickly drive down the price of even a
good stock temporarily. But if it really is a good stock it will
recover. Since even under normal circumstances stocks trade in ranges investors want to buy when a stock is close to the bottom of its range and sell when it is at or near the top of its range. If it breaks out of its range at the top there may be a little "money left on the table". Then a new entry position can be determined as the stock establishes a new range. Or, a new position in a different stock at the bottom of its established range can identified and be entered.
