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Notes on screeners and market data
Walkthroughs, screener diaries and user interviews from StockMarketScan.
10 posts
August 27, 2026
Interviews
Interview: "The Alerts Keep Me Informed Without Constant Checking"
Leonie works full time and invests on the side. She uses screener alerts instead of open browser tabs and treats each alert as a reason to look.
August 24, 2026
Case studies
Palantir: The Volume Screens Flagged It First
Palantir appeared on Strong Volume Gains and J Pattern on August 3, one session before a 29% overnight gap. The timeline, straight from the screener data.
August 21, 2026
Case studies
Ten Weeks on Income & Growth: The Microsoft Stress Test
Microsoft stayed on the Income & Growth screener through an 11.7% drop and closed 20.4% higher ten weeks later. Here is the full path.
August 19, 2026
Case studies
Energy on the Trend Watch List: XOM and OXY
Exxon and Occidental joined the Trend Watch screener in mid-July, one day apart. A month later they were up 11.6% and 8.4%. What the listings showed early.
August 17, 2026
Case studies
BMNR Through Three Screeners
Bitmine Immersion appeared on Day 3 Bounce in early July, Trend Watch two weeks later and Upward Consolidation in August. Six weeks, three lists.
August 14, 2026
Interviews
Interview: "With Dividends, the Yield Is Only One Number"
Markus, a dividend investor, on using the free Income & Growth screener to look past yield, exporting hits to CSV and doing the analysis himself.
August 13, 2026
Case studies
Two Golden Crosses, Two Weeks Later
AST SpaceMobile and Hims & Hers hit the Golden Cross screener in late July. Two weeks later one was up 40.1%, the other 10.8%. The full data.
August 10, 2026
Case studies
MicroStrategy: An RSI Oversold Case Study
MicroStrategy appeared on the RSI Oversold screener in late June at $85.33 and closed at $100.01 six weeks later. Here is what happened in between.
August 5, 2026
Case studies
Etsy's Seven-Week Run Across Four Screeners
Etsy showed up on four different StockMarketScan screeners between mid-June and early August and gained 17.8%. Here is the sequence, date by date.
August 3, 2026
Interviews
Interview: "I Spend Less Time Sorting"
Nina, a private swing trader, on swapping evening spreadsheet work for named screener setups, the Strong Volume Gains screener and the Chart Flip Book.