Screening Filters
Market cap category: large, mega
- Purpose: Focus on established, liquid companies.
- Rationale: For a 1–3 month swing trade, you want tight spreads, strong institutional participation, and lower single‑headline bankruptcy risk. Large/mega caps provide better liquidity for entering and exiting positions quickly, especially important if the user trades in the $10k–$50k range.
Price: $10 – $1000
- Purpose: Exclude penny stocks and ultra‑high‑priced illiquid names.
- Rationale: Below $10, you tend to see higher manipulation and poor fills, which is not ideal for a “strong” swing setup. Capping at $1000 keeps names tradable for position sizing, both for stock and options.
Relative volume: relative_vol ≥ 1.5
- Purpose: Capture stocks with elevated current trading activity.
- Rationale: Swing trades work best when there is fresh interest and volume behind a move. Relative volume ≥ 1.5 means the stock is trading at least 50% above its average volume, which often aligns with short‑term catalysts and cleaner technical follow‑through.
Beta: ModerateRisk, HighRisk
- Purpose: Focus on stocks that move more than the market.
- Rationale: For a three‑month swing, you need price movement; low‑beta stocks may not move enough to justify the trade. Moderate to high beta tilts you toward names that can deliver meaningful percentage swings, while still staying in the large/mega‑cap universe.
Moving average relationship: PriceAboveMA20, PriceAboveMA200
- Purpose: Ensure the stock is in a confirmed uptrend across short and long horizons.
- Rationale:
- Price above the 200‑day MA = longer‑term uptrend intact (favors “buy the dip” and trend‑following swing trades).
- Price above the 20‑day MA = near‑term bullish structure, indicating the immediate swing is upward, not counter‑trend.
This combination aligns with your request for a strong swing idea rather than a speculative bottom‑fishing play.
MACD: positive, bullish
- Purpose: Confirm momentum is currently turning or already in your favor.
- Rationale: Positive, bullish MACD means the shorter‑term moving average is above the longer‑term one and the histogram is positive. That’s classic swing‑trader confirmation that upside momentum is in play rather than fading.
1‑month price change %: min -10%, max 30%
- Purpose: Avoid both dead names and exhausted parabolic moves.
- Rationale:
- Floor at -10%: includes mild pullbacks and consolidations (good entries) without diving into collapsing charts.
- Cap at +30%: avoids names that have already gone too far too fast, where the risk of a sharp mean‑reversion is high.
This keeps you in the sweet spot of “strong but not blown out” recent performance.
Quarter (3‑month) price change %: min 0%, max 60%
- Purpose: Ensure a positive 3‑month trend without chasing extreme outliers.
- Rationale:
- Minimum 0%: we want at least a flat‑to‑up trend over roughly your desired time horizon, so the stock is not in a larger downtrend.
- Maximum 60%: curbs extreme movers that might be late‑cycle and prone to sharp reversals.
Exchange: XNYS, XNAS
- Purpose: Restrict to major U.S. exchanges (NYSE and NASDAQ).
- Rationale: These venues provide the best liquidity, transparency, and options markets—critical for reliable execution and any options‑based swing strategies.
Region: United States
- Purpose: Focus on U.S.‑listed, U.S.‑region companies.
- Rationale: U.S. stocks typically have robust data, deep options chains, and are most relevant if you’re trading in U.S. hours. It also aligns with the ADBE‑type context (U.S. large cap, options‑rich names).
One‑month rise probability: ≥ 60 (i.e., ≥ 60%)
- Purpose: Tilt toward names with a statistically higher chance of rising over the next month.
- Rationale: Your request is for the next three months, but our predictive signal is one‑month‑based. A ≥60% one‑month rise probability helps front‑load the odds in your favor for the first leg of that 3‑month window. It’s not a guarantee, but it stacks short‑term probability toward the upside for swing trades.
One‑month predicted return: ≥ 5%
- Purpose: Ensure the expected upside is meaningful in the near term.
- Rationale: For swing traders, a projected ≥5% gain over a month is a reasonable target per leg. Even though you’re thinking in terms of three months, requiring positive and non‑trivial expected return over one month helps filter out marginal setups.
Is optionable: True
- Purpose: Only include stocks with listed options.
- Rationale: This maintains flexibility: you can execute the swing using stock or options, use calls for leverage, or buy puts/put spreads for protection. Given your prior ADBE context (options data, sentiment via options), this is consistent with your trading style.
Option IV rank: 20 – 80
- Purpose: Target a moderate implied volatility regime.
- Rationale:
- Above ~20: you avoid very low IV environments where options are cheap but moves might be muted.
- Below ~80: you avoid extreme high‑IV scenarios where options are very expensive and often coincide with elevated event risk and whipsaws.
For swing trading with options, a mid‑range IV rank strikes a balance between cost and expected movement.
Why Results Match
- The screener is explicitly tuned to swing‑trade‑friendly conditions: strong but not overstretched uptrends (MA, MACD, controlled recent returns), plus elevated volume and beta for tradable moves.
- The focus on large/mega caps on major U.S. exchanges with options ensures you get liquid, institutionally followed names, matching the scale and sophistication implied by your previous ADBE question.
- While you asked for a three‑month swing, we do not have a dedicated three‑month predictive indicator. Instead, we:
- Use quarter (3‑month) price change to ensure the prevailing 3‑month trend is positive but not extreme.
- Use one‑month rise probability and predicted return to bias the next portion of that window in your favor.
This is a pragmatic way to approximate your 3‑month objective with the indicators we support.
- The inclusion of options‑related filters (is optionable, IV rank) aligns with your prior use of options data for sentiment and gives you multiple ways to structure the swing (stock only, calls, call spreads, or hedged positions).
So while we cannot screen directly on a “three‑month predicted return,” the combination of trend, momentum, volatility, probability, and options‑availability filters is well‑suited to finding strong swing trade candidates for the next few months.
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