Name That Screen - Trading Candidates

December 4, 2007 at 3:07 pm by Will

Below is a list of today’s Top 30 Stocks from a screen I developed based on the recommendations of a well-known trader. They are ordered by the screen’s ranking of their significance as good candidates (not necessarily as longs or shorts, but as tradable movers).

[And anyone know an XHTML-friendly way to split an ordered list into columns?]

  1. SPWR
  2. STP
  3. BIDU
  4. APOL
  5. CF
  6. AAPL
  7. PBR
  8. MA
  9. POT
  10. APA
  11. RIMM
  12. STT
  13. SU
  14. MBT
  15. ICE
  16. FSLR
  17. WFR
  18. MON
  19. DRYS
  20. CHL
  21. UBB
  22. CAM
  23. DO
  24. BHP
  25. FCX
  26. PCU
  27. FWLT
  28. FLR
  29. MGM
  30. WYNN

Doesn’t this look like an interesting and high quality list! Quite different than our normal daily gappers scan, although it contains some of the “usual suspects.”

Here’s the challenge: Anyone have a guess as to where this list came from, and who that famous trader is? Want a clue?

11 Comments

  1. LP said,

    December 4, 2007 @ 4:17 pm

    Hmm dunno if he is famous but maybe The Rumpled One or Wallstreet Warrior or maybe William Fisher…I hear the last one is pretty darn good ;)

  2. Will said,

    December 4, 2007 @ 6:33 pm

    Nah, that last one just thinks he’s good. He’s full of enough hot air to fly Steve Fossett across the Atlantic, MHRIP.

    The trader I’m referring to is a well-known professional, at least to the web community.

  3. Subtrader said,

    December 4, 2007 @ 7:29 pm

    How about the Screen Machine himself, Charles Kirk?

  4. andrew said,

    December 4, 2007 @ 7:45 pm

    if not Dan Zanger, then someone whose trading style is very similar, like Gary Kaltbaum. I’m not sure who’s more famous, although I’m inclined to think Zanger. Golman Sachs sends his nightly report to wealthy subscribers, and I won’t be surprised if GS’ traders themselves follow Dan’s report closely.

  5. QUIKTDR said,

    December 4, 2007 @ 9:04 pm

    I don’t know who you attribute this too but I also use a very similar list that I designate Average Daily Range >$4 last three trading days.

  6. LP said,

    December 4, 2007 @ 10:50 pm

    Dave Landry

  7. LP said,

    December 4, 2007 @ 10:51 pm

    hey is this your way for increasing ad revenue :)

    muhehahaha… On meeeellion dollars

  8. bl said,

    December 5, 2007 @ 1:22 am

    Looks like a beta list from Trade Ideas

  9. OBAT said,

    December 5, 2007 @ 5:42 am

    Looks like the stocks that Pinoy Trader plays back then when he was day trading.

  10. Will said,

    December 5, 2007 @ 9:22 am

    Great guesses! Now for the surprise answer. It’s pure coincidence that I made this post on the same day that MoveTHEmarkets put up the 2007 Trading Pimp post referring to her, but it’s Teresa Lo.

    I was reading some of the stuff on her old Powerswings site, and in one of the posts she listed how she screens for good trading stocks. (Her new site is Invivo Analytics).

    She included 1) price > 75, 2) 20-day avg volume > 1.5m, 3) sort by ATR from one month ago, 4) re-sort by ROC from one month ago

    The guys over at MTM seem to be big fans of her trading course. If I get a couple million to throw around in the futures market like Richard has, I think I’ll sign up for it as well :-)

  11. Teresa Lo said,

    December 7, 2007 @ 10:23 am

    Nah, it’s not my list. “Dummy” = Chairman Maoxian. :)

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