Blog Posts Tagged with Site Updates
Check Out the New 'Articles & Podcasts' Section
I've added a new "Articles & Podcasts" section to the site. Throughout the day it pulls in new content from several sources I've selected (some of my favorite sites and podcasts). It'll will contain a mix of stock-specific comentary as well as more general trading information / education. I'll also be manually posting links from time to time. (You can find the link to it in the site's navigation menu under Research > Resources > Articles & Podcasts)
Read More ➞Now Accepting PayPal for Annual Subscriptions
Recently I've had an increase in people asking me if they could pay for a subscription with PayPal. These requests have increased since I started the non-USA versions of the site and folks from around the world are subscribing. In some cases people don't feel comfortable entering their credit card info and in other cases their banks won't allow them to pay in USD.
So to address those concerns I've decided to start accepting PayPal for annual subscriptions. It's just annual subscriptions for now because this will be a manual process until I can get some time to fully integrate PayPal with the automated subscription handling built into the site. Instructions for paying via PayPal are on the subscriptions pricing page.
P.S. I've also started rolling out plans priced in local currencies (and currencies other than USD). Those plans will allow people to use the site's Stripe credit card form to subscribe and they'll be charged in the currency of their preference. I'll write more about those plans in the next several days.
Read More ➞A Big Change to Alerts / Scans...
You may notice today that you're seeing more alerts listed for a stock than before. That's because I've made a pretty significant change to some things behind the scenes. By sort of an accident of evolution (let's call it), there have always been two classes of alerts (scans / signals) on the site. Old timers will remember that they were listed separately. They used to be called "Individual Pattern Scans" and "Advanced Scans".
Read More ➞Introducing Routines: A Better Way to Bookmark / Save Scans
I've just released a new feature called "Routines". Routines will allow you to organize your scanning & stock research workflow. They are essentially to-do lists. These lists can contain saved scans, URLs or plain text notes.
Each item in a routine has a checkbox to indicate whether it's been completed. You can simply click the boxes to toggle them between completed and incomplete. Each trading day, in the morning, the system will reset all of your items to incomplete.
Here are some situations in which these routines may be helpful:
Read More ➞Site Updates from the Last Several Months
Here's are several changes I've made to the site over the last several months:
A New Dashboard Page
I've added a dashboard page, where you can get a quick overview of what your stocks have done. You can reach that page via the "My Stocks" menu. I'll be adding more sections to the dashboard in the coming weeks. Please let me know if you have ideas for things you'd like to see there.
Read More ➞New Scan Option: Filter Only *Your* Stocks
The other day somebody asked me if there was a way to run a scan and only see results from his watchlists. There was not, but after discussing it for a while I saw how it could be useful to those who like to trade from a specific set of stocks.
So I've now added the ability to run scans against just the stocks which are in your watchlists and portfolios. Just check the box next to "Only My Stocks" in the form where you enter your scan criteria.
Read More ➞Market Cap Scan Filter Plus More Fundamental Data
I have some good news for the many people who have asked me for a market cap scan filter. As of today you can finally filter by that piece of fundamental data, You'll see a couple of new parameters in the form where you enter your scan criteria. Those news parameters allow you to choose values for a minimum and a maximum market cap.
Read More ➞Streamlined Adding of Stocks to Portfolios
I just made it a little easier to add stocks to portfolio lists in the app. Before you were required to enter the number of shares and the entry price. Those values are still required but they now get automatically set to default values (100 shares & the average price from the latest full trading day). So now you can just click the "Add to Portfolio" button without making any other adjustments.
This should come in handy for those who don't particularly want to track actual P&L within SwingTradeBot but, instead, want to track more stocks in order to get alerts/signals on them. This makes it easier to use a portfolio as an additional watchlist.
Read More ➞SwingTradeBot Expands to Seven More Global Stock Markets
Shortly after SwingTradeBot went live (with coverage of US listed stocks -- NYSE, Nasdaq & AMEX) a few years ago people started asking me if I could add coverage of various foreign (to me) markets. My answer was always "yes, I just need a data source for those markets". I also needed to make some changes to the "engine" to make it a bit more generic and to be capable of hadling other markets.
Well I've been tweaking things over the last few months and I'm happy to announce the launch of seven more sites covering the following markets:
Read More ➞New Scans: Most Alerts, Most Bullish Alerts & Most Bearish Alerts
By popular demand, I'm releasing three new scans today They are:
Read More ➞New Scan: Stocks Making a Three-Weeks-Tight Pattern
I just added a scan to find stocks making a 3-Weeks-Tight pattern. This is a pattern that Investor's Business Daily / William O'Neil likes a lot. As they describe it:
Read More ➞New Scan: Percentage Change Between Two Dates
Here's another new scan: Percentage Change Between Two Dates
You can choose whether you want to see the best or worst performers over the previous 5, 10, 30, 90 or 365 days.
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New Stock Scans: Upper & Lower Bollinger Band Touches
Here are two new scans I released the other day:
These should be useful to combine with other scans when using the Combination Scan.
Read More ➞New Stock Scans: Oversold & Overbought Stochastic
I've added a couple of new scans to the site. They are:
Read More ➞New Scan: Trends in Multiple Timeframes
I just added another new scan thanks to Rick, who pointed out to me that this functionality was missing. As I told him, I guess I was too close to the forest to see the trees. I should have had this scan a long time ago, given that I've had the trend tables on the stocks since day one. So this scan allows you to find stocks based on what appears in the trend table on the individual stock pages. For example, BERY, which yesterday had this trend table:
- Long-Term Trend: Up
- Intermediate-Term Trend: Up
- Short-Term Trend: Down
New Feature: Sort the All Stocks Page... Plus Volatility
By popular demand, you can now sort the stocks in the "All Stocks" page! When I first created that page I never thought people would actually use it -- I really made it so that search engines could index the site easily. But, increasingly over time, people have been asking for the ability to sort the list of stocks, mainly because they wanted to sort by the letter grades.
Well I've enabled that plus sorting by other columns as well. You can simply click on the column header you wish to sort by. The first click will sort ascending and a subsequent click will reverse the sort.
A New Coat of Paint for the Site
You may notice that the site looks a little different today. I've been wanting to change the site's theme (template) for a long time and I finally got around to doing it. Things are pretty much in the same location as before, so hopefully you'll still be able to find your way around. Please let me know (leave a comment below or email me at swingtradebot-at-gmail-dot-com) if you run into something strange and/or broken.
There were a couple of technical issues with that old theme that have always bothered me -- like when the menu would get finicky about staying open -- plus it was starting to build up a good bit of technical debt. So I'm glad to have the shiny new theme in place. I have a few more things to tweak but then I'll be able to turn my focus back to feature development and adding more help/educational content to the site.
Read More ➞New Feature: Define Your Tradable Universe of Stocks
People who are subscribed to one of the Pro plans can now specify the default search criteria for all of the scans on this site. I think of this as defining your "tradable universe" of stocks. Until now, by default the scan pages loaded with some settings that I chose -- minimum average volume of 250,000, minimum price of $10/share, stocks only -- no ETFs... If you wanted something different, you had to adjust the settings every time you ran a scan. This new feature will allow you to narrow the scan results down to exactly the type of stocks (and/or ETFs) that match what you're comfortable trading.
Well now you can set your own default values once and have them applied whenever you load a scan with no parameters. You can reach the 'Scan Preferences' page via the main menu. Go to Account -> Settings -> Scan Filter Settings. You'll be presented with the form below.
Just choose the values you want and click save. From then on the scan result pages will only show stocks which are in you 'tradable universe'. (Unless you click a link which has different parameters embedded into itself. Some of the links on the site are like that.) You will still be able to manually adjust the parameters if you so choose, just like before.
Read More ➞New Feature: Hover Charts for Even Quicker Stock Screen Analysis
Update: Now there's an even faster way to view the charts.
I've just implemented a feature I've wanted since I launched the site. You can now hover your cursor (mouse pointer) over a stock ticker to get a pop up of the chart. (Similar to how FinViz.com pop-up charts work.) Here's an example:
For now this works on all of the stock scan result pages as well as your portfolio and watchlist pages (and one of my favorite pages, the list of recent IPOs). My primary goal with this site is to make my nightly analysis process more efficient and this has already boosted my productivity a lot.
Read More ➞New Scans: Strong, Oversold Stocks and Weak, Overbought Stocks
I added a few new scans to the site last night. They are:
- Strong stocks which are in oversold territory.
- Stong stocks which are in oversold territory AND made a bullish reversal pattern for the day being scanned.
- Weak stocks which are in overbought territory.
- Weak stocks which are in overbought territory AND made a bearish reversal pattern for the day being scanned.
Some definitions:
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