 What's up guys it's Stas here and in today's video we're going to be talking about Finviz and how to scan for stocks using Finviz whether it's a short-term play like a day trade or a swing trade or it's a long-term play like maybe a three-year hold a five-year hold a 10-year hold whatever it may be Finviz is a very good tool for you to use and just to get this out here guys this is not a sponsored video by any means I wouldn't show and share with you guys a platform that I don't personally use I personally love Finviz and use it all the time and the cool thing is you can actually have filtered criteria to pull up stocks that you are interested in potentially investing in or trading you know you can sift through PE ratio you know dividend yield industry sector volume you know beta there's a bunch of different stuff you know moving averages whether it's 10% below this average 20% whatever it may be and that's what I want to get to in this video so you can find your investments and trades a bit easier if you do decide to use Finviz and by the way this is the paid platform which is why you're not seeing ads you can actually use this for free but the annoying thing is a bunch of ads pop up every couple of seconds so I decided for me I'm paying the $35-40 per month whatever it may be to have access to this platform so if you find value in this video guys if you enjoy the content feel free to go down below and smash that like button consider subscribing if you want to see further content involving trading and investing and let's get right into it guys so once you go on to Finviz.com this is what you see on the top you have news screener maps groups portfolio you can also do futures forex and crypto but that's for a whole nother video and on the bottom here you have the DAO the NASDAQ the S&P it's performance for that day and you have some stocks down here right you have some stocks that are the top gainers for the day in terms of percent some that have hit new highs some that are seeing unusual volume some that have some insider buying and on the other side you have some top losers stocks that have lost a lot of value that day in terms of percent right some that have hit new lows some that are oversold and some that have insider selling so right off the bat you can use this to sift through these stocks and see maybe it's time to look deeper into the stock maybe it's time to invest in or potentially short-term trade the stock so right off the bat you can see you know top movers top gainers which is very valuable one thing that I want to show you guys here that's very interesting about Finviz that I love about it is this maps feature let's take a look at this if you click on maps you can see pretty much all of the top stocks in industries and sectors out there you can see technology stocks right here and all the different ones broken down right services basic materials financials consumer goods industrial goods utilities if we scroll down a bit you can see more and this is awesome guys I love this because it gives you a visual of how many stocks out there are green for the day how many stocks are red how down are they in terms of percentage right and you can also sift through different months of performance and different weeks right if you want to see the last week of performance you can see that you can see google's down 0.14 percent apple's down 0.38 in the past week if you want to do three months that's very cool you can see all the red ones over the past three months the green ones microsoft standing out here at 10 you know pfe right now down 14.47 you can do the year performance as well apple in the past year is down 9 percent bank of america 12 percent so again this is just a very awesome way to get a visual on what's been going on over the past couple of months maybe the past six months year in the stock market broken down in individual industries and sectors which again is just awesome so now that we got that cool feature out of the way let's go to the screener so once you get to the screener tab of finviz this is what you see you have descriptive you have fundamental and you have technical this is a very awesome thing about finviz you can break and filter through stocks using some basic descriptive values of those stocks like the exchange market cap earnings date index dividend average volume ipo date etc you can break down stocks using fundamentals right and you can filter through stocks using these fundamentals pe ratio price to cash eps growth in the next five years sales growth the past five years right p slash s you know the price to uh earnings to growth ratio right you can do pb earnings per share growth past five years there's just so much stuff you can do right insider transactions institutional ownership there's just so many things you can filter through and that's awesome right technical right you can do technical ones like i mentioned the beginning of the video 20 day simple moving average price below 40 percent price 50 percent below 10 percent below etc you can do beta which is pretty much how volatile the stock is you know 20 day high low 52 week high low these are awesome things you can do are a side gap change from open candlestick right what type of candlestick it is there you know volatility these are the things you can use and now let me show you guys how to find stocks whether it's long term short term using these filters so i want to show you guys filters that i use in real time right i want to show you guys what i personally do and what i would do for particular stocks that i'm looking for so let's say hypothetically now we're on descriptive and i want to find a stock that is a potential dividend payer what am i going to do here so market cap i want my market cap 10 billion to 200 billion and again you can do whatever you want based on your criteria but for me i like blue chip companies with larger market caps for dividend plays that's just how i do it i know there's a bunch of ones that are under 10 billion market cap that offer great yields but for me this is what i want to sift through right 10 billion to 200 billion i want a dividend yield of over 3 percent i want at least a 3 percent um dividend yield in terms of average volume i want to do at least over 1 million for average volume here so contrary i'm going to do the united states usa and here for price i want to do over 50 dollars per share so let's see if i can find over 50 boom over 50 dollars per share so now a bunch of stocks are pulled up and one thing to mention here guys you know just by using a filter it doesn't mean like okay i pick a stock at random and then i invest in it no the filter is for you to see potential stocks that fit your criteria and then for you to pick those stocks and go deeper into them look at their balance sheet financial statements cash flow you know income statements all the annual reports whatever it may be a bunch of other research goes into it right so we can see here based on this basic criteria 10 100 billion or 200 billion whatever it was over 3 percent average volume in terms of dividend average volume of over 1 million country usa price 50 dollars a bunch of these pop up you have dominion energy cvs ab v right which is a very high paying dividend i know that for a fact because i've been doing research on ab v uh after this recent drop it's had um dupont day nemore's right we have you know let's see some other ones here kelloch right if we go to the next one too you have a bunch of other ones realty income philip 66 right let me see what other ones 3m here go to the next one we have let's see wall greens i know that's a high dividend payer win resorts you have united parcel service right that's ups so now let's say i was like okay i want to invest in cvs i would click on cvs and then i'd do a lot more research on it i'd break down at cps i'd break down its sales as you guys can see here i'd break down balance sheets net income all of these different things to determine whether or not i want to invest in cvs so looking at the fundamental portion of this scanner this is where you can get very nitty gritty with the ratios and with the specific numbers and metrics that you want your companies to have right that you want the scanner to pull out again like i said in the beginning of the video you can look at p e ratio earnings growth debt to equity return on equity return on investment whatever it may be right there's a bunch of nitty gritty stuff that you can get in here so let's say hypothetically i want to find a growth stock a stock that's growing its revenues its earnings its return on equities great you know i don't want to invest in a company that's slow at that i don't want to invest in let's say maybe a coca-cola j&j a 3m that's growing their revenues very slowly i want to invest in a growth stock what would i personally do well me personally i want to see eps growth this year over 10 percent and i'm doing over 10 percent because this is going to bring in all of the companies that are over 10 percent so if there's a company that's 15 percent it'll pull that in the scanner i'll be able to see that and analyze it myself if it's a company growing at 25 percent it'll pull those in as well because let's say we only did over 30 percent it's not going to pull in all of these stocks that are doing 25 growth which could be very good investments right so i'm doing over 10 percent eps growth this year eps growth quarter over quarter um i might just leave that one honestly return on equity i want over 10 percent on return on equity return on investment over 10 percent pe maybe under a 40 maybe uh under 40 because if we're doing pe's that are extremely high the companies could be overvalued although growth stocks do have higher pe's maybe let's just say under 45 right under 45 that's a pretty high pe but again growth stocks have higher pe's that's just how they're uh evaluated to be honest guys so under 45 we'll do that forward pe let's say maybe under 40 i don't know we'll just keep it at that sales growth past five years let's do over 10 percent so this is going to bring in a bunch of companies that have these specific criterias and if we want to get even deeper with this we can go to the all section here as you can see from my cursor and we can actually do market cap right let's say we want these companies to be within um let's say two to ten billion some smaller companies that have a lot more upside due to the small market cap um you know you can do that you can do let's say the exchange no we don't want to touch that you know dividend yield none of these are really going to be paying dividend yields for the most part because they're growth companies so let's just leave it at that so you can see here this is what's popping up we have four different you know slides here four different pages worth of stock so now again our goal is to sift through these look at them and do deeper research into them annual reports financial statements income statements whatever it may be to understand whether or not this is worth putting money in right we have to look at a bunch of different things so taking a look at a couple here you can see these are smaller companies you have a merris band corp i'll be honest i don't know a lot of these but a lot of them you're not going to know either which is why research is essential right you can see your own net worldwide you know columbia sportswear company if we go a bit over here to the next tab you know we have glacier bank corp five below that's one a lot of people probably know flag star bank corp um land star system and the list goes on guys so looking through all these is super key and then fiddling with these filters because i can't fiddle with them on here too much because the video is going to be extremely long but let's say let's do one more very quickly here you know let's say we want to do large cap instead 10 billion to 200 billion let's see how many come up we have two pages worth of stocks now and these might be companies that you know a bit more we have biogen here activision blizzard we all know that one TD Ameritrade holding you know aligned technology that's the one that's a lot that a lot of people are talking about right now if we go over here to page two let's see some other ones in video right sky works solutions twitter wall greens these are just a bunch of companies that are pulled up by this filter and again you just have to go into them do deeper research and understand whether or not it fits your investment strategy and whether or not you want to put your hard-earned money into this company so now that we talked about scanning for dividend investments scanning for potential growth stock investments let's talk about short-term plays day trades swing trades how do i usually do this what are my basic scanners let's get into that right now so my strategy entails buying stocks that are more on the oversold side right so let's go to the rsi first and type in let's say a 40 oversold right that's what i want my first filter to be because remember the rsi the scale that i use is from 30 to 70 anything above 70 close to 70 is overbought anything close to 40 and below 40 is oversold so i kind of want it to be right at that oversold cusp at 40 and now i want to see some action with the moving averages so i'll go here to the 20 day simple moving average and i want that to be crossing above the 50 smas you can see here sma 20 crossed sma 50 above so let's see what pops up and you can see it's not that many results so what i would do now is i'd go and click some of these stocks put it in my thinkorswim platform which is a charting software or whatever charting software you guys are using and then i'd further break down my technical analysis from there and the whole idea here guys is to continue playing with these filters so let's say now i want one with the higher beta let's see if anything pops up probably nothing right yet nothing pops up here let's say i want to move my overbought up and now you can see or my rsi up to overbought 60 now you can see some stocks that may be running a bit which is why they're overbought so you can potentially catch a momentum play here so let's say we want to take the beta off let's not mess with the beta here more stocks are going to roll in right a lot of these are more to the overbought side maybe because the markets have been up recently a lot of these stocks are pushing to the more overbought side that does make sense right that does make sense at this point so let's say you want to pop in some other data we can go back to all here and let's say we want to do market cap of 10 to 20 billion let's say we want to do volume where is the volume now this is a lot of different filters here i can't really see it current volume boom let's say we want to do over 500k in volume let's see what's starting to pop up now we have one page here target we have PepsiCo realty income kroger duke energy dollar general so these are stocks that i throw in so the thinkorswim charting software or again whatever charting software i'm using and i'd sift through these and see if there's any opportunities so let's go back to oversold see if anything comes up nope and uh that's pretty cool right guys there's a bunch of different things you can do here and again i can't do everything in this video i can't show you a bunch of different stuff because the video is going to be very long the whole idea of this video is to kind of spark your mind and for you to go out there and put a bunch of different things in for yourself and start to break down stocks and you might find new stocks to invest in or trade you might find a bunch of old ones that you're like oh wow this one's looking pretty good right now you know it's just an awesome way to spark um really just your mind and for you to just find a bunch of new stocks so that's it for this video guys honestly if you enjoyed it feel free to go down below and hit that like button consider subscribing if you want to see further content for me and drop a comment guys let me know what you thought about this video what do you think about finn vis and let me know what are your thoughts on scanning for stocks in general i'd love to know your opinions on that so i'll catch you all in the next video thanks again for watching peace out