Jim Roppel: 20/20 Screen

Buys from Jim Roppel’s 20/20 screen, which hunts for the “elite of the elite” — market leaders with high growth and high relative strength. The filter asks for a price above 20 dollars, more than 30 million dollars of stock traded per day, more than 20 cents of profit on every dollar of revenue, more volume on up days than on down days, high relative strength over one, three, six and twelve months, a price above the average of the last 50 and the last 200 trading days, growth above 20 percent in revenue and in earnings per share (the latter for the coming quarter as well), reported earnings more than 20 percent above the analyst estimate, and accelerating earnings and revenue across three quarters. Only shares our own deep-dive analysis rates green are bought — yellow or no analysis at all is not enough. New positions are added once a month; a share is sold as soon as one of these conditions breaks or it is no longer rated green. If the list holds no green-rated share, the portfolio stays in cash.

This portfolio buys shares.