Actual 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).
Best Performing Stock Grade:
C
Number of stocks:
5,999
Average Gain% Over All Time Frames:
1.6%
<Best Stock Grades For The Period Monitored.*
Shouldn't the best grade always be a B+ or better? Not necessarily. Panicked markets can drive down even the price of a good stock temporarily. But if it really is a good stock it will recover.
Best Performing Time Frame:
22 Days
Average Gain%:
5.4%
<Best Time Frame For Holding A Stock For The Period Monitored.*
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 movement over a short period of time. Or cyclical stocks can have steady price movements, up or down, over a somewhat longer period of time. So market sentiment can be either fast moving or more steady in movement. Thus stock prices will reflect good or bad results in varied time frames.