A Stock Market Screener is a Searching Tool

A free stock market screener is an inexpensive way to explore your trading ideas

A stock market screener will search a defined database to identify common stocks that meet your criteria. This screening process takes seconds but saves you hours of time.

This page will help you find an internet based stock screener that matches your interests. I have trialled a number of websites that screen for stocks using either technical analysis or fundamental data. All of these sites offer at least some level of free online stock screening service but also offer you the option of paying a fee to obtain a higher level of service.

When you are tired of searching by hand for stocks breaking out to new highs or stocks starting to rebound, then a stock market screener is likely what you need.

Stock Market Screening - Technical Analysis

StockCharts offers a free technical screener which looks at a number of basic technical indicators such as new highs, moving average crossovers, large volume changes, candlestick patterns,  Parabolic SAR Buy Signals or gap ups. Also included are point and figure patterns and candlestick patterns. This service searches for stocks on both the US and Canadian markets. To speed up viewing the results, I like to open two windows at a time: one to view the stocks on a chart and the other which has the results of the screen. I find this faster than clicking on the symbols, viewing the chart then going back to the symbols. You can make your own scans by becoming a member.

Bigcharts Stock Screener offers a basic method to screen for stocks using technical analysis. Offered are most active, Largest % moves and 52 week new highs and lows. These can be run on the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ and Bulletin Board. Members can get access to a more advanced screening system.

One of the more advanced stock market screeners using technical analysis is Stockfetcher, which use to be my preferred online stock screener. You can get more detailed information on my StockFetcher web page. Included in my StockFetcher webpage is a basic code you can use to find which looks for rising stocks between $1.00 and $50.00 where the volume is at least three times above the average volume and above 600000. .

StockFetcher allows you to search for virtually any type of technical event you can think of. All you have to do is input the criteria for your search. The StockFetcher manual explains how to write the filters required to do the searches.

Non-paying members can screen stocks for free using many of the different technical indicators found on their home page. While the data given is a bit old, you can search stocks to try various ideas and see if your ideas work. For a small fee, you can obtain end of day data searching.

Stockscores is another website that offers tiered-based stock searches. To view the free scans, you will need to set up a free account and then sign in to obtain free stock market searches using the Stockscores approach. More advanced searches require a membership. You can also sign up for a free weekly newsletter which will teach you the Stockscores approach as well as give you a number of trading ideas. Many of the stocks that Tyler reviews in his weekly newsletter turn into larger winners.

Screening Stocks using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

TradingView offers a fundamental stock screener. You can use it to identify a number of criteria such as revenue growth, PEG, ROE price, market cap and earnings per share growth. The scan looks at fundamental data. Within the options at the end there is a + button. When you press that one you can add technical screens such as candlestick patterns, bull and bear power or Ichimoku Cloud postion.

Screening for Stocks - Fundamental Analysis

One of the better websites to screen stocks for fundamental analysis is Finvis. This website provides most of the main fundamental screening criteria and be easily used to reduce the number of stocks you are following to ones which have long term potential. Using this screen allows you the comfort of knowing the stocks you are trading are fundamentally sound.

Yahoo Stock Screener offers a basic free screening service.

Morningstar has a number of discussions regarding fundamentally sound companies  You can typically find reports on value stocks, undervalued stocks or stocks with strong moats.

Another free stock screening site is run by the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. As an example you can identify companies which have Wide Moats which makes it difficult for other companies to get into this area. These screeners features searches that find stocks meeting the criteria of a number of well known investors. For instance a wide moat has been discussed by Warren Buffett. Here you will find screens featuring the efforts of Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, Martin Zweig as well as a number of other well known authors and investors. These can be found on their Investing Strategies: Guide for Beginners.

The above websites are a few of the many websites that allow you to screen the stock market using technical and or fundamental analysis. To find out about another common stock market screener, you may want to read the web site review sections in the magazines which this site recommends.

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