USER GUIDE · for first-time visitors
User Guide
A screen-by-screen walkthrough of Trend Screener's three tools — Screener · Industry Rankings · Market Environment — so even a first-time visitor can start in five minutes.
CORE IDEA
In one sentence: we isolate the leaders in strong trends
Trend Screener picks out, every day, the stocks that pass all 8 of Mark Minervini's Trend Template criteria, then ranks them within that group by weighted Relative Strength (RS). Every calculation runs on confirmed daily bars (the closing price after the market closes), free of intraday quote noise, so every U.S. name is measured by the same yardstick.
TOOL 01 · SCREENER
① Screener — find today's passing stocks
The core tool you'll use most. After each close, every stock is recomputed and the ones that pass are shown in a single table. Narrow the range with the filter bar at the top, then read the names in the table.
- 1Search — type part of a ticker or company name to filter instantly.
- 2Industry — check as many industries as you like and see them together. The list is ordered by Industry Ranking (Industry Score) and has its own search box; with nothing checked you get every industry.
- 3RS — set a floor for weighted Relative Strength (90 / 80 / 70+). At 90+ you keep only the top decile of momentum. The floor starts at 70 because the eight conditions already require RS 70 or better.
- 4ADR — set a floor for the average daily range (3% / 3.5% / 4% / 4.5% / 5%+). It measures how much higher the high was than the low on an average day over the last 20 sessions — in short, how far this stock travels in a day. A low reading means the trend can be intact yet slow to pay; a high one means bigger moves but a wider stop.
- 5Passed only (8/8) — only names satisfying all 8 criteria. On by default; turn it off to also see names that passed only some criteria.
- 6Volume — set a floor for 50-day average volume. An optional filter, separate from the pass criteria, for screening out names that trade too thin.
- 7Copy for TradingView — copies every row currently shown as
NASDAQ:AAPL,NYSE:JPM(KRX:005930on the KR screener). Paste it straight into a TradingView watchlist and each symbol lands on the right exchange. - 8Reset — return all filters to their defaults.
| Stock 1 | Industry 2 | Close 3 | Chg 4 | ADR 5 | RS 6 | Last month 7 | TREND TEMPLATE 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEADLead Electronics (sample) | Semiconductors | $184.20 | +2.4% | 5.80% | 99 | 8/8 | |
| MOVEMove Bio (sample) | Biotechnology | $57.10 | −1.1% | 4.15% | 94 | 8/8 |
- 1Stock — the ticker on top, the company name in small text below.
- 2Industry — the specific industry the stock belongs to. Click the industry name to show only that industry.
- 3Close — the confirmed daily (closing) price.
- 4Chg — change vs. the prior day. Red is up, blue is down.
- 5ADR — average daily range over the last 20 sessions (%), i.e. how far the high and the low sit apart on a typical day.
- 6RS — weighted Relative Strength, 1–99. Higher is stronger.
- 7Last month — the past month's closing trend as a tiny line (sparkline).
- 8Trend Template — the 8 cells are the 8 criteria. When all are filled it's a 8/8 pass.
▸ Click a column header (Stock · Close · Chg · ADR · RS · Trend Template) to sort by it. Click again to flip ascending/descending.
▸ Click a stock's industry name in the table to set the industry filter to it and show only stocks in that industry.
- Look as-is. On first open, "Passed only (8/8)" is on, so today's leadership candidates that passed every criterion are sorted from highest RS down.
- Narrow it down. Tick as many industries as you like and raise the RS floor to 90 to keep only the top decile of momentum. The industry list is ordered by industry rank, so picking from the top gives you strong names inside strong groups.
- Match the range. Raise the ADR floor through 3–5% to keep only names whose daily range fits the stop distance and holding period you actually trade — a stock that moves 1–2% a day and one that moves over 5% cannot be handled the same way.
- Check the trend. Gauge the recent trend with the sparkline and change, relative strength within the market with RS, and daily range with ADR.
TOOL 01 · CHART
Stock chart — your clicked stock, drawn instantly
Click any stock in the table and its daily chart appears in the chart area above the filters. The chart splits top-to-bottom into four panes: index · RS line · candles (with moving averages) · volume. The 1M · 3M · 6M buttons next to the title set the visible window (6M by default; your choice is remembered). RS and the index are always rebased to 100 on the left-most bar on screen, so the base follows the view whether you press a button, drag, or zoom — "did this beat the market over what I'm looking at" is always answered by the RS 100 line alone. Once you pick a stock the chart pins to the top, so you can scroll the list and click stocks one by one to compare them fast.
▸ Hover the crosshair over the candles to read that day's index, RS, moving-average and volume values in the legend above the chart. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan.
Index · top pane
The KOSPI for Korea and the S&P 500 for the U.S., rebased to 100 on the left-most bar on screen. Check here first whether the market itself is in an advancing phase before judging any single stock — looking at six months, a reading of 120 means the index is up 20% over those six months.
Candles · log scale · middle pane
Daily candlesticks (red up · blue down) on a log scale, so equal percentage moves look the same regardless of price level.
Moving averages 10·20·50·200
The two short ones are exponential (EMA), the two long ones simple (SMA): EMA 10·EMA 20·SMA 50·SMA 200. The EMAs weight recent prices more heavily and react faster to dips and bounces; the SMAs act as the trend's baseline. When the shorter ones stack above the longer ones (a proper alignment), the trend is healthy.
RS line · its own pane under the index
Plots the stock's close divided by the index, rebased to 100 on the left-most bar on screen. It sits in its own pane directly under the index and uses that pane's price axis, so you can read the 100 it starts from straight off the scale. Sitting flush against the index pane, the same window reads across the two at a glance. When the line trends up, the stock is outperforming the market.
Ahead or behind is read off the 100 level. RS is the stock's return divided by the index's, times 100, so 100 is dead level with the market: above it the stock is ahead of the market over the visible window, below it behind.
Volume · bottom pane
Daily volume bars, colored up/down. Check whether volume expands on breakouts or trend changes.
- Click a stock and it's drawn in the chart above.
- Click another and the chart switches instantly.
- The chart stays pinned while only the list scrolls, so you can click through many names quickly.
HOW TO READ
How to read the metrics in the tables
The four key metrics you'll meet again and again in the Screener, Industry Rankings, and detail tables.
RS Rating 99 42
Returns over several windows are summed with heavier weight on more recent ones, then converted to a percentile (1–99) against the whole market. RS 99 = top 1% performance; 70+ is the leadership candidate pool. Weights: 3 months 40% · 1 month 30% · 6 months 20% · 1 week 10%.
Trend Template gates
Each of the 8 cells maps to one trend criterion. When all are lit it's an 8/8 pass (shown in the table); when only some are lit, the stock hasn't met every criterion yet.
Sparkline
A mini chart condensing roughly the last month of closing prices. An upward slope signals the short-term trend is alive.
Change colors
Up is red and down is blue (the reverse of the usual U.S. convention). The change is vs. the prior trading day.
The 8 trend criteria that decide a pass
Minervini's Trend Template. All 8 must be satisfied for a "pass (8/8)." Liquidity is not a pass criterion but an optional filter.
- Price above mid/long-term MAs
Price > SMA150 && SMA200 - Mid/long-term MAs aligned
SMA150 > SMA200 - 200-day MA itself rising
SMA200 ↑ ≥ 1 month - Short/mid-term MAs aligned
SMA50 > SMA150 && SMA200 - Price above the 50-day MA
Price > SMA50 - +30% above the 52-week low
Price ≥ 52W Low × 1.30 - Near the 52-week high
Price ≥ 52W High × 0.75 - RS Rating of 70 or higher
Weighted RS ≥ 70 - Sufficient liquidity (optional filter)
50D Avg Vol ≥ 500,000
TOOL 02 · INDUSTRY RANKINGS
② Industry Rankings — start with the strong industries
Before looking at individual stocks, first identify the industries money is flowing into. Every industry is ranked by a 0–100 Industry Score built from the cap-weighted composite return of its members (3M 40% · 1M 30% · 6M 20% · 1W 10%), The table lines up this week's, 3-week-old and 6-week-old ranks so rotation reads in one row, and the four cards on top are sector ranks #1–#4 (U.S. from the SPDR sector ETFs such as XLK, Korea from cap-weighted member baskets). The screener's industry filter is ordered by this same Industry Score and lets you check several industries at once, so the top names you see here are exactly what you tick there.
- ASector cards — the top four are sector ranks #1–#4, each with its Sector RS (1–99), composite return and rank change. Sector RS is the same yardstick as a stock's RS, so an RS 85 stock inside an RS 40 sector climbed against the wind rather than with it.
- BIndustry Score — the cross-industry percentile of the cap-weighted composite return, 0–100. Score, composite%, this week, 3 weeks ago and 6 weeks ago are all sortable headers.
- CThis week · 3 weeks ago · 6 weeks ago — the industry's rank at each point, left to right. 54 → 30 → 11 is a group climbing steadily for two months; 3 → 5 → 28 is a leader breaking down. Leadership handoffs show up in rank changes before the top spot changes.
- DClick a row — it expands in place. Score breakdown (how much each of the 1W / 1M / 3M / 6M windows contributed), the 60-session rank path, six stats (composite return, members, above 50DMA, above 200DMA, near 52-week high, RS85+), leader chips, and every constituent sorted by RS with close, change, RS and 20DMA extension. The parent sector's RS and rank print next to the industry name. Click the same row again to collapse it.
- EAnalytics — the rank-trend charts and the momentum heatmap below visualize capital rotation at a glance.
TOOL 03 · MARKET ENVIRONMENT
③ Market Environment — is this a market worth buying in?
However good an individual stock looks, a weak overall market is a headwind. Market Environment answers whether the current tape favors trend-following and breakout trading with a single number — the TSS (Trend Strength Score), 0–100 — and shows the trailing 60-trading-day series of the metrics behind it below.
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