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Re: SEARCH SCREEN (HOOVERS)



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Fernand,

I've used the Hoovers site. At first I thought it was a real find, but
after further evaluation I found it lacking basic and critical
functionality. I love searching by earnings growth rate and operating
margin--those are critical fundamental metrics. But searching by these
and other fundamental indicators don't seem to narrow my prospects much.
For example, I created a screen for earnings growth over 100% and
operating margin greater than 30%. Even with stocks showing earnings
growth greater than 900%, current or even recent performance seemed
completely random. There is no way to screen with respect to how a stock
has performed lately--for that you need a variety of price and volume
metrics to screen by.

Jim Greening on this forum uses Telescan to screen for fundamental
indicators and then takes stocks meeting those criteria  through
Metastock to uncover price/volume derivative indicators such as
channeling. Jim's method is somewhat laborious and expensive. But
expense is relative to your tools' ability to minimize losses and
maximizing gains. I'm looking for a less laborious more affordable
solution, but I haven't found one yet.

Michael Smith

Fernand Levesque wrote:

> All,
>
> Did anyone use this site before.Sure is a great tool for fundamental
> search.And its free, would appreciate your comments.
> http://www.stockscreener.com
>
> Can anyone help with a formula for the explorer,
> I would like to find stocks that have a H/L var. let say 20%
> by 10 times in a 200 times period.
>
> Fernand