Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $5B (market_cap: {'min': '5000000000'})
- Purpose: Focus on larger, more established companies.
- Rationale: For short‑term trades, you generally want to avoid tiny or very speculative names that can move wildly on low volume or single headlines. Large- and mid-cap stocks tend to have:
- Tighter bid/ask spreads (lower trading cost)
- More stable price behavior
- Better information flow and analyst coverage
This supports more predictable short‑term trading versus “lottery ticket” micro-caps.
Monthly Average Dollar Volume ≥ $2M (monthly_average_dollar_volume: {'min': '2000000'})
- Purpose: Ensure good liquidity so you can enter and exit quickly.
- Rationale: Short‑term investors need to be able to trade without moving the price too much. A minimum dollar volume:
- Reduces slippage (getting worse prices than expected)
- Makes it easier to size positions and exit in a hurry
- Filters out illiquid stocks that can get “stuck”
This is critical for short holding periods, where execution quality can make or break returns.
Price Above 20-Day Moving Average (moving_average_relationship: ['PriceAboveMA20'])
- Purpose: Select stocks in a short-term uptrend.
- Rationale: The 20-day moving average is a common short-term trend indicator. Requiring price to be above the 20-day MA:
- Targets stocks already showing positive momentum
- Avoids names in clear downtrends, which are less suitable for bullish short-term trades
- Aligns with “trend-following” logic: rising stocks are statistically more likely to continue rising over short windows than falling ones
1-Week Price Change Between +3% and +15% (week_price_change_pct: {'min': '3', 'max': '15'})
- Purpose: Focus on stocks with recent, but not extreme, positive momentum.
- Rationale: For short-term ideas, you want:
- Some strength: At least +3% in the last week shows active buying and interest.
- But not too stretched: Capping at +15% helps avoid “blow-off” moves that may already be overextended and at risk of a quick reversal.
This zone aims for “healthy momentum” rather than either laggards or parabolic spikes.
High Modelled Probability of Rising Next Week (one_week_rise_prob: {'min': '70'})
- Purpose: Tilt toward stocks with a statistically higher chance of near-term gains.
- Rationale: This filter uses a quantitative/ML-style probability estimate that the stock’s price will be higher one week from now. By insisting on at least a 70% probability:
- You focus on names where recent patterns, volatility, and other factors historically skew toward short-term upside
- It aligns directly with your “short-term” goal, since the metric is explicitly 1-week oriented
It doesn’t guarantee gains, but it systematically favors higher-probability setups.
Why These Results Match “Best Stocks for Short-Term Investment”
- They are liquid, sizable companies, so you can trade in and out efficiently—crucial for short holding periods.
- The technical setup favors short-term upside: price is above a short-term moving average and has already shown recent positive movement, but not to an unsustainable extreme.
- The probability filter is explicitly short-horizon (1-week rise probability ≥ 70%), directly targeting the kind of near-term performance you’re asking about.
- Combined, the filters aim for practical short-term candidates: tradable, trending, and statistically tilted toward gains over the next week, rather than risky illiquid names or long-term value plays.
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