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Alpha Stock Scanner

What is Alpha within portfolio theory?

Simply it is the excess return of the portfolio (selected stocks) over a benchmark (selected index). By example if the SP500 returns 10% for the year, and your portfolio returns 15% then you have achieved 5% 'alpha'. This calculation can get more complicated when adjusting it for inflation and 10yr note yields, we will leave that to the professionals.

If we roll back a few years, the term was 'relative strength'. This methodology of stock selection has been around since Adam was a boy, Richard Wyckoff compared stocks to his 'Wyckoff Wave' index to find market leaders based on relative strength, Gann and Hurst did similar exercises.

In even cruder terms high alpha stocks are those that are index leaders, the ones that attract the smart money, and those that will lead the index markup process (IE higher prices for the index).

We believe the best approach to manage stock selection is to concentrate on a small basket of stocks, that being a basket of 5 to 100 count. Learn as much about them as you can (chart technicals, fundamentals, EPS, Management, etc) monitor opportunities for trading decisions during periods of price volatility. Your basket of stocks may change over time, but only when other stocks have met your strict stock selection criteria. We also make available a stock watch list that matches the top 100 Benjamin Graham (ak Warren Buffet method) style stocks, so you can scan the best undervalued stocks for great alpha to add strength to your portfolio.

We use our 'Alpha Stock Scanner' to see what is going within an index, to see if there any new shining stars or trends that should be noted.

So lets have a look...

First we select our desired index to seek 'Alpha'. Note that you will see within the index selection list 'custom index builds'. Details of each index are available to members.

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Alpha Scanner Select benchmark Index


Then when can monitor stocks/ETFs within the index percentage over/under simple moving averages of either 50,100 or 200 days. We can see divergences, trends and participation. 
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Alpha Scanner Main Chart

Finally review the individual stocks/ETFs within the index. Sort, filter and rank selections on current date or previous date (back as far as two years only). You can view an individual 'Alpha Chart' for each symbol (click the symbol) and review further symbol information (click name).

The 'Alpha Trend Meter' is a graphical view of the stock's alpha performance over the previous 20 days and six months (subject to RunDate entered).

1) Green is positive alpha.
2) Dark green is very strong positive alpha. *
3) Red is negative alpha.
4) Dark red is very strong negative alpha. *
5) Gray is no measure recorded.

* Note: An RTT Indicators membership is required for the Alpha Scanner Full version. Otherwise you will be presented with the Alpha Scanner Lite version.

The alpha trend is NOT a price trend determination, it is solely as a measure of how the selected security is performing against a selected index. Price trend can be best judged by the use of the 'RTT TrendStatus' (subject to your subscription level). The 'Alpha Chart' displays the alpha trend in more detail. The 'Alpha Trend Meter' is the best tool on the web to gain a higher alpha for a selected stock over a selected index.

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Alpha Scanner Tools

Clicking the symbol will produce an 'Alpha Chart'. One of the hardest tasks with investing is letting your profits run, and run and run! Monitoring the alpha of your stock portfolio will assist you greatly in this quest. Do you see any reason to sell AAPL in the chart below? AAPL alpha versus the SP100 index is a strong upward trend, and as yet to abate. BUY on dips and HOLD for more gains (Note: Combine alpha studies with other tools to watch for a market top).

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Alpha Scanner Apple Computers AAPL

The above is all you will ever need to build a portfolio to secure positive alpha!




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Investing Quote...

...“Losing money is the least of my troubles.  A loss never troubles me after I take it.  I forget it overnight.  But being wrong – not taking the loss – that is what does the damage to the pocket book and to the soul.”...

Jesse Livermore


.."It's easier to fool people, than to convince them they have been fooled"..

Mark Twain


..."There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide"...


Ayn Rand

..."I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second"..

Paul Tudor Jones


."Buying stuff people hate, that's the business we are in, right!"..."you may need to have a longer time horizon"..."be patient"..

Mark Yusko




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