Screening for ideas

[Neversummer]

I am curious what sorts of services do people pay for to screen for ideas and approximate cost Bloomberg is $2k a month and that is pretty steep but I have yet to find a half way decent tool elsewhere for screening that is meaningfully less (if at all).

[mani2304]

Use 52 week lows,Low P/E screens(first two you will get it in valueline weekly  you can get it for free online subscription if you subscribe to local library)

[rb]

If you're looking not to pay for subscriptions the google finance screener is pretty good. It uses reuters data. However it only outputs 30 results a page and doesn't export. So there's a lot of manual copy and pasting. Also I'm pretty sure that it leaves out some results.

[randomep]

 

This questions comes up every 4 months in one form or another.  The most complete cheap source of data I find is ft.com.  They have very detailed info for all international stocks.  The cost for the digital is $300 / yr. I have managed to get away using their free service for detailed mining. I am not sure why but I am not supposed to. If they catch on to me I will probably cough up the $300 / yr.

 

Valueline I find is overrated. I did a trial subscription and their coverage universe is tiny.

 

 

[tooskinneejs]

You may also want to try the free screener and "maps" at finviz.com