Daily Routine
Here's my daily routine in the general order that I do it in.
Before The Market Opens
The first thing I look at before the market opens is the futures to get a sense of if the day might be up or down. This of course can and will change as the market is very dynamic.
I use MarketSurge which is a premium product from Investors Business Daily. In it I have 2 screens the first of which I call "All" that lists all the stocks in the database and I download it as a comma seperated file. This file contains the proprietary IBD ratings along with a few other values and I process these IBD ratings into a binary format that I can graph using AMIbroker. Further details on this will be contained in another page TBD.
I also have a screen "All With All Data" that contains virtually all data available but I yet to have a purpose for this mainly just saving it "just in case".
Still within MarketSurge I have 5 screens I call A, B, C, D, and E which only looks for stocks trading above $5 and the A/D particular rating. The numbers for each are saved in a text file and then imported into AMIbroker to get a sense of if there is acculumation or distribution in the market. IBD lists these values daily but are 1 day delayed from what I understand.