Can a stock show RS above 90 and still fail the eight-condition screen? Yes: these measures answer different questions. This original analysis freezes 7,245 rows from the site's confirmed 2026-10-02 output to measure how frequently the disagreement occurred. It does not test subsequent returns or win rates.
Inputs and reproduction
The sample has 4,809 U.S. and 2,436 Korean analyzed stocks, excluding pending listings. It stores identities, industries, close, daily change, RS, pass count, 50-day average volume, SMA20 extension and ADR. These are not all listed securities. Underlying price/volume sources are Yahoo Finance for the U.S. and Naver Finance for Korea; the site's filters and history rules are documented in the methodology.
Save the frozen JSON and Python aggregation script together, then run python analyze_signal_snapshot.py 2026-10-02-screener.json. The input reproduces displayed-indicator aggregates, not RS scores recomputed from complete price histories.
Three filters create different lists
| 2026-10-02 | U.S. | Korea |
|---|---|---|
| Analyzed stocks | 4,809 | 2,436 |
| Eight-condition passers | 523 (10.88%) | 90 (3.69%) |
| RS ≥ 90 | 448 | 227 |
| RS ≥ 90, below eight conditions | 218 (48.66%) | 171 (75.33%) |
| Passers, average volume ≥ 500,000 | 282 | 21 |
| Passers, daily change below zero | 95 | 43 |
| Passers, SMA20 extension > 10% | 85 | 29 |
The disagreement percentages use RS-90 stocks as denominator: 218/448 and 171/227. Pass rates use all analyzed rows. Neither is a trading success rate.
Observation one: performance and alignment differ
RS weights returns over 5, 21, 63 and 126 sessions. The eight conditions also test 50/150/200-day average alignment and distance from 252-session extremes. A formerly strong stock in a correction or a recent jump can have high RS without full qualification. This export stores counts rather than individual condition flags; it cannot identify exactly which conditions those 218 stocks failed. That requires a separate price-history investigation.
Observation two: qualification and liquidity differ
Adding average volume of 500,000 shares reduces U.S. passers from 523 to 282 and Korean passers from 90 to 21. This is a share-count comparison, not one normalized for turnover, spread or order size. An RS-only list and a qualified-plus-volume list start with different samples.
Observation three: trend and daily direction differ
Among passers, 95 U.S. stocks (18.16%) and 43 Korean stocks (47.78%) fell that day. Qualification did not imply even same-day gains. Extension above SMA20 exceeded 10% for 85/523 U.S. passers (16.25%) and 29/90 Korean passers (32.22%). The pass list was not uniformly near a short moving average. Ten percent is an analytical bin, not a validated risk threshold.
Observation four: pass rate and TSS rank markets differently
The U.S. pass rate was higher, but its TSS of 36.2 was below Korea's 48.1. TSS combines breadth with industry flow and index trend. One number cannot substitute for the other. Median ADR among passers was 3.47% in the U.S. and 5.75% in Korea, compared with full-sample medians of 3.53% and 4.95%.
Industry concentration needs another denominator
U.S. passers included 55 regional banks, 30 biotechnology stocks and 28 infrastructure-software stocks. Korea included 12 semiconductor-equipment stocks, eight refining/chemicals stocks and six semiconductor-materials stocks. Regional banks' 55/523=10.52% measures concentration within passers, not that industry's pass rate. More candidates in one industry do not establish diversification.
What this study does not establish
This is one date's displayed output, without a delisting sample, future returns, costs or fills. It cannot determine profitable qualifications, superior national-market strategies or ADR-based target probabilities. It demonstrates that filters produce materially different lists and helps frame additional chart-review questions. The fixed snapshot does not describe today's market.
Data and corrections
Read next: RS denominators and ranks · eight-condition screening · breadth and TSS.