Here is what I need someone to find for me:  An application that will
search for stocks that have gained/lost a specific % in a certain time
period.  For example.  If I want to know which stocks lost 3.45%
yesterday, then I would want this program/application to find all of
the stocks in the various U.S. markets that lost exactly 3.45%
yesterday and list them out for me.  I'm not sure if it exists, but
that's why I'm willing to pay!

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 18 May 2004 17:14 PDT

Hello bbetc-ga,


I found a tool (available for free!) that can do almost everything
you're asking.  You can input a precise percent (loss or gain) and
also select from a choice of time periods -- percent change today, or
for the week, month, quarter, six months, year, or year to date.



Searching -- for example -- for all stocks that increased in value by
3.45% from a week ago until today turned up...NONE.  However,
adjusting the value slightly to 3.4% returned 19 matches, including:

ANSS
AVAN
BDR
BUTL
CRD.B
FISV
GTW
LNBB
etc...

So, you can't input an arbitrary time period (e.g. -- past 23 days!),
but you do get a broad range of preset dates to choose from.



Would this tool meet your needs?  Let me know.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by bb27792-ga on 18 May 2004 19:21 PDT

pafalafa-ga, Thanks for your interest in my question. My example is a
little misleading.  What I'm looking for is a tool that can do the
very same thing you provided, but for any date, or range of dates
(i.e.- march 25, 2002, or march 25- march 30 2002) and an added bonus
would be the intraday(sp?) day info for that particular days stocks. 
I'm very much looking forward to what you dig up. THANKs!

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 18 May 2004 19:28 PDT

Whew!  I don't know if there is such a thing as what you're asking for.

But if there is...I'm fixing on finding it!

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by bb27792-ga on 19 May 2004 04:11 PDT

That's the spirit pafalafa-ga! You're the Man!!..... or/ the Woman....
 I don't know what you are :)

At least for just one day price changes, I think you will find a nice
free stock screener will meet your needs rather well, and at a price
that just can't be beat, FREE! Just go to Yahoo! Finance,
http://finance.yahoo.com, and bring up their Java Yahoo! Finance Stock
Screener. Once it loads, for the first Criteria use: Share
Performance>Price gainer/loser(%)>Price % Gain vs. Previous Close and
enter in >= 3.45%. Once it finishes scanner, sort the price change
column lowest to highest, and the first few stocks will be the ones
that match you price change exactly. You can do this for a gain or a
loss. For more than one day price changes - hopefully the Expert
Researchers can help.

Pafalafa --

They exist, which is how business school students do detailed security
analyses.  The problem is that you're dealing with proprietary
databases and database tools.  I'd suggest CRSP at the University of
Chicago:
Center for Research in Security Prices
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/research/crsp/

This Google Answer deals with sources:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=292735

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Hah!  I contacted the CRSP one time, and they wanted something like
$10,000 for two month's worth of data points.  Yikes.

But omnivourous' point correct -- there are a number of high-priced
financial services databases that could certainly provide the data in
question.

A Bloomberg terminal could do this.  But if you want to save several
thousand try out the Bloomberg Market Monitor on their website:
http://www.bloomberg.com/analysis/monitor/

There are a select few tools that will do this for you. They are all
expensive. I have used Metastock with very good results. The price is
$2,400 a year (unless you have a portfolio of $400,000 or more forget
it).

http://finance.lycos.com/qc/subs/qmetastock.aspx?page=2

You could even search something like May 12 3PM to May 17 2PM.
However, you would have to learn the script language that comes with
the software. For technical analysis I think Metastock is the best out
there.

I know of no service that will do what you are asking for free
continuously. There is, however, a shareware program called Wealth Lab
which will do what you want, and much more for, for free for 30 days. 
It can be downloaded at http://www.wealth-lab.com.

The program is called  Wealth Lab Developer. You will need to create a
script to search a data base for a specified period using the criteria
that you wish to screen for.  The program is built for backtesting
stock trading strategies using technical indicators and it IS able to
import data from Yahoo Finance and MSN Money, with very little effort
on the part of the user, I might add.  This basically gives you access
to any technical indicator, for any stock, for ANY period you might
wish to evaluate for.

You may be able to find a script that has already been written by
someone else on the Wealth Lab site to do something similar to what
you want - and then you can modify it to do exactly what you want. 
There is a virtual cornucopia of other technical analysis methods
coded in usable free scripts as well - some good, some not so good,
and many interesting.

If your analysis is not coded into a script then you can write your
own - Wealth Lab uses a variant of Pascal to create scripts.  This
feature make the analytical capability of the program highly versatile
and extensible.  It would be fairly simple to code up the criterion
you have specified.

After 30 days I think they want $600 for the program, but it is fully
functional for the evaluation period.

The program is fairly complex and takes some time to master, though
you should be able to perform the analysis you described without a
very steep learning curve.

Best of luck

http://www.daytradingstocks.com/resources/stockscreeners.html

The two highest quality products for real-time scanning, imho, are
www.insight-trading.com and First Alert from www.neovest.com.  I have
used both.  They are expensive, but they work well with real-time
intraday scans.

You can probably find what you seek with a free scanner, however.

Happy trading.  As Stuart on the old Ameritrade commercial once said,
"Let's light this candle!"