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7/10 MWL Recap - 2018 Midyear Review - Bottom Feeders

Erin Swenlin

Erin Swenlin

Co-Founder, DecisionPoint.com

 

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What Happened Today?

 

2018 Midyear Review by Tom Bowley (0:20:55):

 

Ten in Ten Before One (0:52:09): 

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Bottom Feeders (1:09:56): 

Per your request, here's the scan language for each of Tom and Erin's "bottom picking" scans. Note that Erin's below has a few lines "commented out" with "//" in the front. Those can be added back into the scan code by deleting those that are before the code line you want to include or not include.


// Narrows down the universe to stocks with decent volume and from the US
[type = stock] AND [Daily SMA(20,Daily Volume) > 100000]
AND [country is US]

// Keeps the penny stocks and high volatility stocks out of your results
AND [Close > 10]

// This identifies a PMO that hasn't yet had a positive crossover its signal line
//AND[today's PMO Line(35,20,10) < today's PMO Signal(35,20,10)]
AND[today's PMO Line(35,20,10) < 0]

// This identifies a PMO rising for three days
AND [today's PMO Line(35,20,10) > yesterday's PMO Line(35,20,10)]
AND [yesterday's PMO Line(35,20,10) > 2 days ago PMO Line(35,20,10)] 
AND [2 days ago PMO Line(35,20,10) > 3 days ago PMO Line(35,20,10)]

//This ensures we get a positive IT and LT Trend Model configuration
AND [today's ema(20,close) < today's ema(50,close)]
AND [today's ema(5,close) > today's ema(20,close)]
AND [today's ema(50,close) < today's ema(200,close)]

//This identifies stocks with SCTRs greater than 75 or in the "hot zone"
//AND [SCTR < 75]
AND [SCTR > 20]


Tom's Scan:

[type = stock] AND [Daily Volume(50,Daily Volume) > 500000]

AND [group is CyclicalsSector]

AND [SCTR.small < 40]


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Erin Swenlin
About the author: is a co-founder of the DecisionPoint.com website along with her father, Carl Swenlin. She launched the DecisionPoint daily blog in 2009 alongside Carl and now serves as a consulting technical analyst and blog contributor at StockCharts.com. Erin is an active Member of the CMT Association. She holds a Master's degree in Information Resource Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology as well as a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Southern California. Learn More