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Stock Screening Strategy: Why No Condition Works Alone Every real setup is a blend: a technical trigger on a liquid name in a cooperating sector with no earnings print inside the hold. That is correct, and it is also why most traders can never tell which part of their stock screen is doing the work. Here is how to separate the bet from the guardrails, and how to backtest which of your screening filters actually earn their place.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
August 14, 2026 6 min read
Finviz Elite Alternatives in 2026: NineThirty Compared Finviz Elite is $39.50 a month and it is genuinely good at what it does. This comparison covers what Elite actually includes in 2026, why it no longer has a backtester, why news sentiment and insider deals cannot join your screening logic, and where NineThirty is built differently at $19.99 a month.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
September 1, 2026 5 min read
Stock Market Seasonality: The Best and Worst Months for the S&P 500 We calculated S&P 500 monthly returns across 75 years, from 1951 to 2025, to find the best and worst months for stocks. November and December led, September was the weakest month by a clear margin, and February was weaker than almost anyone says. Here is what held up, what faded, and why seasonality belongs in your research rather than in your entry rules.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
September 4, 2026 11 min read
Trade Ideas Review 2026: Is Holly AI Worth the Price? Trade Ideas Premium now runs $2,136 a year and Holly AI is locked to that tier. This review covers what Holly actually does, where the platform falls short on catalyst awareness and news sentiment, the Windows-only constraint, and how the 2026 pricing compares against TrendSpider, Finviz Elite and NineThirty.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
September 1, 2026 6 min read
How Do Oil Prices Affect the Stock Market? Three Channels, Not One Crude is up about 78 percent year to date through a war at the Strait of Hormuz, and the S&P 500 is up 11 percent. An oil shock reaches equities through revenue, input costs and interest rates, and the first two channels largely cancel before they reach the index.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
September 15, 2026 9 min read
How to Find Breakout Stocks Before They Break Out Breakouts are telegraphed by compression, volume and a catalyst. Here is how to screen for all three in one query, what is not screenable, and how to backtest it.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
September 14, 2026 5 min read
How to Screen Stocks for Swing Trading Without Drowning in Filters A swing screen is a funnel, not a wall of filters. Universe first, setup second, catalyst third, plus what the screener will not express and what to do instead.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
September 15, 2026 6 min read
Best AI for Equity Analysis: How to Compare AI Stock Research Tools The label sits on four different products: a chat window, a score between one and ten, an agentic research system and a metered add-on inside a charting package. Here is what separates them, what each AI layer actually costs, and which one fits how you already work.
Written by Ritvik Dashora
September 18, 2026 6 min read
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