Friday, February 11, 2011

BB

This could be an abbreviation or shortcut for several things like Basketball, Bolling Bands, BB gun. But let's talk about stock scans. What I would like to share here is a scan I use to try to find Bollinger Band squeezes.

Using http://www.stockfetcher.com/ put in the following filter:

Show stocks where lower bollinger band(30) has been increasing over the last 8 days
and upper bollinger band(10) has been decreasing over the last 8 days
and Average Volume(90) is above 500000
and close is between 5 and 250

I would suggest that you modify the band(xx) settings to see a variety of results. There are likely other ways to accomplish a resulting list, but this works well for me.

Happy Hunting



4 comments:

  1. Great scan. I use StockCharts.com and used your example to build a similar scan using their engine and thought I'd share it for your readers.

    My stockcharts.com scan is:

    [type = stock] and [country = us] and [daily sma(90,daily volume) > 500000] and [daily sma(60,daily close) > 5] and [daily sma(60,daily close) < 250] and [daily lower bb(30,2.0,daily close) > 8 days ago daily lower bb(30,2.0,daily close)] and [daily upper bb(10,2.0,daily close) < 8 days ago daily upper bb(10,2.0,daily close)]

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  2. Thanks for taking the time to read the post. Your feedback here is awesome! Does it produce good results for you on StockCharts.com ?

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  3. I ran the scan last night and I see a lot of results...much more than on stockfetcher (more than 200 on stockcharts vs about 10 on stockfetcher). Not sure why there is such a large discrepancy there...might be that the stockcharts scan needs to be tweaked a bit.

    A quick scan of the results shows some very good BB squeeze candidates though.

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  4. Certainly tweaking will get those results narrowed down for sure. Glad to see that it does yields some good candidates for you. I try to have a 1/2 dozen or so each week. When they launch, one way or the other, it really is a nice move.

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