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On this quiet Sunday afternoon, here are a couple of interesting charts. One of them shows how the music business is actually just a shadow of its former self. The old days of people buying CDs at Tower Records are long gone. I guess this makes total sense, because you’re never going to get people to spend $18 on a few songs when the cost of materials is $0.
There is a new feature on Slope, presently available to everyone, and it’s in beta form now, ready for testing. I encourage you to try it out and let me know any issues you find or feedback you’ve got. Slope of Hope’s Power Screener allows you to quickly and easily discover the stocks which meet parameters you define. The page itself is located here.
The page is exceptionally easy to use. You establish what parameters you want to use in your quest for a trading opportunity. The parameters can be oriented to the stock’s liquidity, its dividend yield, its recent price action or the behavior of its moving averages. As you can changing the parameters, the number of results updates in real time so you can create enough filters to establish a manageable size of securities to examine.
(more…)Here’s a new position for me: Charles Schwab (SCHW) with has a nice gap-close and shooting star on Friday. Beneath is the longer view, showing the stock’s tendency to top out.
