Stock Screener

How the Screener Works

The ChartingLens Stock Screener runs entirely server-side. When you set your filters and hit search, the query is processed on our servers against live market data, and the matching results are returned to your browser. This architecture means you get fast, reliable results regardless of how many filters you apply or how many stocks match your criteria.

Unlike client-side screeners that download entire datasets to your browser and filter locally (which is slow and limited), our server-side approach can scan the full universe of stocks. Free accounts see the top 10 results from each screen; Premium and Pro accounts get unlimited results with automatic pagination — so you never hit a wall or run out of results.

Fundamental Filters

The screener includes 12 fundamental filters that cover the most important metrics for evaluating a company's financial health, valuation, and growth characteristics. You can use any combination of these filters simultaneously.

• Sector — filter by Technology, Healthcare, Financials, Energy, Consumer Discretionary, Industrials, and more. Useful for sector-specific strategies or avoiding certain industries.
• Market Cap — set minimum and maximum market capitalization to focus on large caps, mid caps, small caps, or micro caps. Great for traders who specialize in a particular size category.
• P/E Ratio — price-to-earnings ratio filters help you find undervalued stocks (low P/E) or screen out overvalued ones. Set a range to target specific valuation bands.
• EPS Growth — earnings per share growth rate filters for companies with accelerating earnings. Set a minimum to find high-growth companies or filter for positive-only growth.
• Dividend Yield — find income-producing stocks by setting a minimum dividend yield, or exclude dividend payers entirely for growth-focused strategies.
• Beta — volatility relative to the market. High-beta stocks move more than the market (good for active traders), while low-beta stocks are more stable (good for conservative portfolios).
• P/B Ratio — price-to-book ratio helps identify stocks trading near or below their book value, a classic value investing metric.
• ROE — return on equity measures how efficiently a company generates profit from shareholders' equity. High ROE typically indicates a competitive advantage.
• Debt/Equity — the debt-to-equity ratio reveals how leveraged a company is. Low values indicate conservative financing; high values may signal risk or aggressive growth.
• Profit Margin — net profit margin shows what percentage of revenue becomes profit. Higher margins generally indicate pricing power and operational efficiency.
• PEG Ratio — the price/earnings-to-growth ratio adjusts P/E for the company's growth rate. A PEG below 1.0 is often considered undervalued relative to growth.
• Average Volume — filter by minimum average daily trading volume to ensure adequate liquidity. Essential for day traders and swing traders who need clean entries and exits.

Momentum & Small-Cap Filters

Day traders and small-cap specialists get a dedicated set of momentum filters built for finding stocks in play right now. These filters focus on the supply and demand mechanics that drive explosive intraday moves.

• Float — filter by the number of shares actually available to trade. Low-float stocks move faster and further on the same buying pressure, making float one of the most important filters for momentum traders.
• Shares Outstanding — the total share count, useful alongside float for understanding a stock's structure and dilution.
• Short Float % — the percentage of the float sold short. High short float sets up squeeze potential when buyers step in.
• RVOL (Relative Volume) — today's volume relative to the average. RVOL above 2-3x tells you a stock is trading with unusual interest — the fuel behind sustained moves.
• Dollar Volume — price times volume, a cleaner liquidity measure than share volume alone when comparing stocks at different price levels.
• % Change — today's percentage move, for isolating the day's biggest gainers and losers.
• Gap % — the gap between today's open and yesterday's close, essential for gap-and-go and gap-fill strategies.
• Pre-market % — the pre-market move, so you can build your list of stocks in play before the opening bell.
• Max Spread % — cap the bid/ask spread to filter out illiquid names where slippage would eat your edge.
• Earnings Today — restrict results to stocks reporting earnings today, when volume and volatility are at their highest.

Technical Indicator Filters

Beyond fundamentals and momentum, the screener includes a full suite of technical filters that find stocks with specific chart conditions. These filters can be applied in single timeframe or dual timeframe mode for more precise signals.

MACD

Filter for stocks where the MACD line has recently crossed above or below the signal line. A bullish MACD crossover is one of the most widely followed momentum signals, and screening for it across the entire market surfaces fresh opportunities you might otherwise miss.

Stochastic

Find stocks where the Stochastic oscillator is in oversold territory (below 20) or overbought territory (above 80), or where a bullish or bearish crossover has just occurred. Stochastic filters are particularly useful for mean-reversion strategies and swing trade entries.

ADX

The Average Directional Index measures trend strength regardless of direction. Filter for stocks with ADX above a threshold (e.g., 25) to find strongly trending stocks, or below a threshold to find range-bound stocks ripe for a breakout.

RSI

Screen for stocks where RSI is above or below your chosen level — classic oversold (below 30) and overbought (above 70) scans, or any custom threshold that fits your strategy. RSI screening is the fastest way to surface market-wide mean-reversion candidates.

Moving Average Filters

Find stocks where a faster moving average has just crossed a slower one, where price is trading above or below a key moving average, or where the 20, 50, and 200-period moving averages are stacked in bullish or bearish order — the textbook definition of an established trend. When you screen with a moving average condition, the relevant MAs are automatically overlaid on the chart when you click through to a result, so you can verify the setup instantly.

Price Action & Volatility Filters

A further set of technical filters covers the price action conditions traders scan for every day:

• Bollinger Bands — stocks touching or breaking the upper or lower band, for squeeze and mean-reversion setups
• 52-Week High/Low — stocks breaking out to new 52-week highs or washing out at new lows
• Volume Surge — unusual volume expansion versus the recent average, often the first footprint of institutional interest
• Gap Up / Gap Down — stocks that opened significantly above or below the prior close
• ATR Volatility — filter by Average True Range to target stocks with enough daily range to trade, or screen out names that move too much
• Price Change — minimum or maximum price change over your chosen window
• Candlestick Patterns — scan for recognized candlestick patterns forming on the latest bars
• Pullback in Uptrend — stocks in an established uptrend pulling back toward support, the classic swing-trade entry
• 1-Month / 1-Quarter Performance — relative strength over the past month or quarter, for momentum and rotation strategies
• Current-Day Volume — a minimum volume threshold for today's session specifically

One-Click Curated Presets

Not sure where to start? The screener ships with seven curated presets — proven filter combinations you can run with a single click. Each preset loads a complete setup instantly, and you can tweak any filter before running it.

Presets include setups like "$3-10 High RVOL Gappers" — low-priced stocks gapping up on heavy relative volume, the classic day-trading hunting ground — and "Short Squeeze Candidates", which surfaces high short float names showing fresh buying pressure. The rest of the lineup covers momentum breakouts, oversold bounces, and trend-following setups.

Presets are also the fastest way to learn the screener: run one, study the filters it sets, then adapt it into your own strategy.

Screener Loadouts

Once you have dialed in a filter combination that works, save it as a Loadout. A loadout captures your entire screener setup — every fundamental, momentum, and technical filter — under a name you choose, so you can re-run your favorite scans in one click instead of rebuilding them every session.

• Save any setup — snapshot the full filter state as a named, reusable loadout
• Edit and rename — loadouts are fully editable; refine the filters or rename them as your strategy evolves
• Synced to your account — loadouts follow you across devices, so your Monday-morning scan is ready wherever you log in

Result Cards

Each stock that matches your screen is displayed as a result card with the essential information you need to decide whether it is worth further analysis.

• Ticker and Company Name — instantly identify the stock
• Sector Badge — color-coded sector label for quick visual categorization
• Key Metrics — the primary metrics you filtered on (P/E, Market Cap, Dividend Yield, etc.) are shown directly on the card so you can compare results without clicking into each one
• Price and Change — current price and daily percentage change, color-coded green or red
• Click-to-Chart — click any result card to immediately load that stock's full chart with all your saved indicators and drawing tools

Results can be sorted by any metric — Market Cap, P/E Ratio, Dividend Yield, Price Change, Volume, RVOL, and more. Your filters persist between sessions, so the screener reopens exactly as you left it, and a Reset button clears everything back to defaults when you want a clean slate. Free accounts see the top 10 results from each screen; Premium and Pro accounts get unlimited results with automatic pagination.

Screener Strategies

The screener is a flexible tool that supports many different trading and investing approaches. Here are some popular screening strategies to get you started.

Value Investing Screen

Set P/E below 15, P/B below 1.5, ROE above 15%, and Debt/Equity below 0.5. This classic value screen finds profitable companies trading at reasonable valuations with conservative balance sheets — the kind of stocks Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett look for.

Growth Momentum Screen

Set EPS Growth above 20%, Market Cap above $1B, and add a bullish MACD crossover on the daily chart. This finds mid-to-large cap companies with strong earnings growth that are also showing fresh technical momentum — a combination of fundamental quality and chart timing.

Dividend Income Screen

Set Dividend Yield above 3%, Profit Margin above 10%, and Debt/Equity below 1.0. This finds reliable dividend payers with healthy margins and manageable debt — companies more likely to sustain and grow their dividends over time.

Swing Trade Setup Screen

Set Average Volume above 500,000, Beta above 1.2, and add a Stochastic oversold condition on the daily chart with ADX above 20 on the weekly. This finds liquid, volatile stocks that are pulling back within an established trend — ideal mean-reversion swing trade candidates.

Free vs Premium vs Pro

Feature	Free	Premium	Pro
Fundamental filters	All 12 filters	All 12 filters	All 12 filters
Momentum & small-cap filters	Free	Free	Free
Technical indicator filters	Single timeframe	Single + dual timeframe	Single + dual timeframe
Results per screen	Top 10 results	Unlimited (pagination)	Unlimited (pagination)
Curated presets	Free	Free	Free
Screener loadouts	Free	Free	Free
Sort by any metric	Free	Free	Free
Click-to-chart	Free	Free	Free
Sector badges & key metrics	Free	Free	Free