Screening Filters
Before explaining the filters: a $500 scalping goal on XAUUSD (gold) is not something anyone can guarantee. What we can do is screen for instruments that are more likely to offer short-term momentum, liquidity, and tradable setups similar to what scalpers look for.
- volume: min 1,000,000
- Purpose: Find highly liquid names.
- Rationale: Scalping works best when spreads are tight and entries/exits can be executed quickly. High volume usually means better liquidity and less slippage.
- relative_vol: min 1.5
- Purpose: Capture stocks trading with above-normal activity.
- Rationale: A relative volume threshold helps find instruments with unusual interest and short-term movement, which is important for quick profit opportunities.
- ema_5: min 0
- Purpose: Include names where the short-term trend is not deeply negative.
- Rationale: The 5-day EMA helps identify very recent momentum. For scalping, you generally want price behavior that is at least stable or improving on the short-term trend.
- ema_20: min 0
- Purpose: Favor names not in a strong short-term downtrend.
- Rationale: The 20-day EMA is a common trend reference. Keeping it non-negative helps filter for instruments that are more likely to be tradable on the long side.
- support_resistance_relationship: PriceBreakResistance, PriceAroundSupport, PriceAroundResistance
- Purpose: Target key price-action locations.
- Rationale: Scalpers often trade breakouts or bounces near support/resistance.
- PriceBreakResistance: breakout continuation setups
- PriceAroundSupport: bounce setups
- PriceAroundResistance: rejection or breakout confirmation setups
- min5_price_change_pct: min 0
- Purpose: Avoid names with immediate negative 5-minute momentum.
- Rationale: For a fast trade, you want the very short-term move to be neutral or positive, which is more aligned with scalp entries.
- price_change_pct: min 0
- Purpose: Focus on instruments with positive daily momentum.
- Rationale: A positive overall price change suggests the market is already attracting buyers, which improves the odds of a clean scalp setup.
- themes: Gold Mining and Precious Metals
- Purpose: Match the user’s gold-related request.
- Rationale: Since the user asked about XAUUSD / gold, gold miners and precious metals are the closest stock-market theme to that idea. They often move in sympathy with gold and can provide tradable exposure.
- is_optionable: True
- Purpose: Restrict results to optionable stocks.
- Rationale: Optionable names are usually more liquid and actively traded, which often goes along with cleaner price action and stronger participation.
Why Results Match:
- The filters are designed for short-term scalping, not long-term investing.
- They prioritize liquidity, momentum, and price-action triggers that matter for quick trades.
- The gold/precious metals theme aligns the screen with the user’s gold-related intent.
- By focusing on support/resistance and recent trend strength, the screen aims to find setups where a fast move is more plausible.
- The optionable + high-volume requirement helps reduce the chance of thin, hard-to-trade names.
If you want, I can also help turn this into a true XAUUSD scalp plan with:
- key entry zones,
- stop-loss placement,
- take-profit targets,
- and a risk plan for a $500 account.
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