Guides

Long-form explainers for the screens QM Screener runs. Each one is written for a reader arriving cold, and every threshold quoted in them is interpolated from the code that enforces it, so a guide cannot drift from the screen it describes.

• Momentum Trading and How to Screen for Momentum Stocks: Criteria, Setups and a Daily Routine — the criteria, the default thresholds, the setup tags and an end-of-day routine.
• Trend Template stock screener: the 8-point checklist explained — the 8-point trend-confirmation checklist, the threshold each point is tested at, and what the passing list means.
• Setup tags explained: what BASE, TIGHT, TRENDING, EXTENDED and PARABOLIC mean — what BASE, TIGHT, TRENDING, EXTENDED and PARABOLIC are measured from, and what each one says about the chart.
• VCP stock screener: the volatility contraction criteria this screen applies — what counts as a contraction here, how tight the final range has to be, and why the list is sorted tightest first.
• Average daily range (ADR%): the volatility floor momentum screens use — what average daily range measures, the floor each screen applies, and why the setup score caps it.
• Momentum screening when the market is weak: the Defensive Strength screen — what it tests for, why the bullish lists thin out in a weak tape, and how to read a list sorted by beta.
• How to connect Claude or ChatGPT to a daily momentum screener over MCP — what an AI assistant can read from the screens, which tools need a subscriber token, and the limits.
• Export a momentum screener watchlist to TradingView: find, save, send — the watchlist file the dashboard writes, the CSV columns beside it, and the end-of-day routine that produces them.
• Market breadth and how to read the passing count — how many stocks pass each screen every day, how to read that count and how to get the history.
• The Momentum Pullback screen: momentum leaders back near their 20-day average — the momentum continuation list narrowed to names that ran and came back to their short averages, and the backtest behind the cut.
• What Is Swing Trading? — the days-to-weeks horizon, daily and weekly charts, how liquidity and volatility are measured, and where an end-of-day screen fits.
• Swing Trading Strategies: Comparing Screening Approaches — four screening approaches compared: what each measures, the chart it tends to show and the screen that applies it.

The product these describe is at https://qmscreener.com/: seven screens (six published methods and one pullback cut of the first) over the full US equity universe, rerun once per trading day after the US close. Not financial advice.