Farmer @ Johnsongrass, TX said:

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XOM,...one ten before month end.

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Boy Named Sue said:

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What app is that you're using?

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Philip J Fry said:

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Boy Named Sue said:

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What app is that you're using?

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It's a custom built MATLab script that grabs the EOD data for all equities of the major American indexes. From there, I calculate 5ema, 10ema, and 120ema. I also calculate RSI, MACD, and volatility. From here, it's just a matter of attempting to filter down to a handful of stocks to watch for the week.

My strategy early on was to only buy stocks whose price was above its 120ema, but as the market crashed, I'd find weeks where there were no good stocks to buy. That's mostly when I got myself in trouble and offered a pretty quick reminder that cash is a position.

I looked for stocks whose pattern suggested a 20% gain. Mostly stocks at the lower end of the channel. I would buy at the channel and set a tight stop loss. As the price went up, I forced myself to exit at my target price and not look back. Stringing singles together instead of 10 baggers with a bunch of losers really adds up. I just wish I was as proactive with my 401K as I was my brokerage account.

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bmoochie said:

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FJ43 said:

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FWIW if we get a good dead cat bounce in the next week into the 390 range I will go short out to Jan or maybe even Feb monthly expiry.

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FJ,

We aren't there yet but assuming we get to $390 in the next day or so, are you looking at it as a model T play for retracement back down? Assuming it doesn't venture much higher than $390, that put it roughly around $384. Just curious on your thoughts.

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Philip J Fry said:

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I looked for stocks that had been below 30 RSI within a given number of days…usually 3-5, and has an increasingly bullish crossover, but still negative on the histograph.. Add in a minimum volume requirement.

From here I would have a list of stocks to sort through and I would just have plot each one to find a good one to watch. Most the ones with extremely low RSI were dogs that had huge gaps down because of bad news.

Another indicator I came up with was #days positive vs SPX. I tended to try to choose stocks that had a history of winning or showed that they tended to bounce off the 120ema.

I'll say the stock that frustrated me the most was STNG. No idea how I missed that one. If only I could write a script that would find stocks about to quadruple in value…

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Quote:

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for k = 1:numstocks
stocks=char(stocktickers{1}(k,1));
number_per_minute=number_per_minute+1;
if number_per_minute==1000
pause(30);
number_per_minute=0;
end

stock=sprintf('curl -o %s.csv "https://eodhistoricaldata.com/api/eod/%s.US?from=2021-10-12&to=2022-12-21&period=d&api_token=XXXX"', stocks,stocks)

system(stock);
end

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wanderer said:

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Only thing you find underground in Idaho is potatoes

(I have no idea, just trying to make a spud joke)

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