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This page is dedicated to my powerful share price screener. It is still in progress and being tested, but results are starting to work. This screener takes the prices of the FTSE 350, screens them, looking for highs and lows over a period of your choice such as 6, 9 or ideally 12 months.
Currently, my screener performs 32 different tests and then ranks the results. With further due diligence, I can find cheap and undervalued shares.
There are screeners out there already that, in my opinion, are more complicated, but mine is a simple but effective way of looking for what I call 'value'.
The screener is not available to readers due to no patent, but this site will publish data.
Important: Data can be screened anytime such as when there is a sharp correction, but screening tends to take place once a month, ideally the 1st working day of every month.
Start of February 2026
January saw the trend continue with the FTSE going up. What was more interesting what was going on with commodities and notably Gold and Silver. More research needed on this subject.
Running the screener at the start of February shows that we have 54 stocks trading at a low point, which is higher than last month.
I also run share notifications on stocks I am watching, and we had 46 go off in January, which is the highest since April with Trump and his tariffs, so this suggests more and more stocks are hitting their highs and lows.
Shares hitting a low include:
Auto Trader (AUTO) RSI 27
Burberry (BRBY) RSI 28
Dunelm Group (DNLM) RSI 25
Experian (EXPN) RSI 18
Sage (SGE) RSI 28
In regards to risers, there are 164 trading at a high which is almost half the index. Is the market overheating?
Examples include:
Centrica (CNA) RSI 73
Currys (CURY) RSI 73
Glencore (GLEN) RSI 71
Greencore (GNC) RSI 78
Inchcape (INCH) RSI 74
Jupiter (JUP) RSI 75
Three biggest fallers are:
Experian (EXPN) -23%
Entain (ENT) -22%
RELX (REL) -21%
Drops not as bad as last month. All three have an RSI of less than 20, and all have a buy score of above 6. Worth having a look.
Three biggest risers:
Beazley (BEZ) +39%
Ashmore (ASHM) +38%
Hochschild Mining (HOC) +34%
Ashmore is interesting. It was my client at Barclays and I had always monitored the share price. It seemed a company with little going for it, but it has just exploded.
Beazley was on my buy list at 750p but not now after the rise. It has a sell score of 8 and RSI of 80, so I hope the price drops because it does look like a good stock.
Going into February, I am getting more and more share alert notifications, so clearly something is going on. Watch this space.
Start of January 2026
On the first day of trading, the FTSE broke the 10,000 mark before falling back. Funnny that Rachael Reeves tried to take credit for it.
Now got 8 months of data, so really able to start making better decisions. My screner showed:
50 at a low point which is smaller than last month. Given the FTSE performance in December, this is of no surprise.
Some examples include:
AJ Bell (AJB) RSI 30
Compass Group (CPG) RSI 33
Marks & Spencer (MKS) RSI 34
Paypoint (PAY) RSI 39
Rightmove (RMV) RSI 34
At the top, we have 104 at their 8-month high. This is actually lower than last month which is really strange given the FTSE 100 has gone up. Is this a significant statistic?
Examples include:
Antofagasta ANTO) RSI 72
Balfour Beatty (BBY) RSI 70
CMC Markets (CMCX) RSI 86
Applied Nutrition (APN) RSI 80
Apart from the dividend yield of 4.7%, CMC Markets looks really overvalued. This is not in my portfolio but I wouldn’t hold this at present.
Three biggest fallers are:
Syncona (SYNC) -50%
Ceres Power (CWR) -43%
Card Factory (CARD) -31%
The five biggest risers:
SSP Group (SSPG) 36%
Applied Nutrition (APN) 36%
RTW Biotech (RTW) 28%
Ocado (OCDO) 28%
Fresnillo (FRES) 27%
Hochschild Mining (HOC) 27%
The gold rush seems to be losing no sleep and I regret not buying Fresnillo.
Applied Nutrition looks interesting. It debuted on the LSE 24th October 2024 at around 135p and is now up 90%. It does not yet pay a dividend. Personally, this looks overvalued and so don’t plan to touch it.
Start Of December 2025
November nearly saw the FTSE 100 smash through the magic 10,000 mark before a mini sell-off killed off any hope of this happening. Even the budget didn’t send the markets into meltdown which was a good outcome given all the negative news I’ve been reading over the past month. It will get there though in 2026.
Still seems there is a little more room for the FTSE to go up, but still a lot of signals that the FTSE is possibly starting to peak and more professional investors are selling up.
Now with 7 months of data, my screener shows:
76 stocks at a 7-month low which is higher than last months 70. With more data to select the low point from, you might expect the number to keep falling but given it has gone up and could suggest that share prices are falling. Both the FTSE 100 and 250 did drop slightly after month-on-month.
Examples include:
Auto Trader (AUTO) 639p
First Group (FGP) 177p
QinetiQ Group (QQ) 415p
Sage Group (SGE) 1075p
Trainline (TRN) 236p
Notice that three of the above are related to transport. Is this a coincidence or is something going on here?
In regards to the shares going up, 112 are at a 7-month high, which is significantly lower than last month which justifies my concerns that we could be near a peak.
Examples include:
BP PLC (BP.) 454p
Drax Group (DRX) 743p
GSK (GSK) 1791p
IP Group (IPO) 65p
Pennon Group (PNN) 552p
The three biggest fallers in November were:
Paypoint (PAY) -30%
3I Group (III) -28%
Hilton Food Group (HFG) -21%
A quick look at 3I would suggest it’s very undervalued and plan to do some more investigation on this.
The three biggest risers in November were:
Ceres Power (CWR) 38%
CMC Markets (CMCX) 35%
PPHE Hotel Group Ltd (PPH) 34%
Thanks to my screener, I owned two of these and have a pretty big smile on my face as I type this. My screener works a treat.
Start Of November 2025
Another historically difficult month (October) turned out to be anything but difficult with more highs across the FTSE and US markets. With the budget approaching, I might take it easy in November to pause and gauge what is going to be a month of speculation.
I now have 6 months of data and data shows:
70 stocks at a 6-month low. Some examples include:
ASOS (ASC) – 254p
BT Group (BT.A) – 186p
Experian PLC (EXPN) – 3547p
Rank (RNK) – 119p
Train Line (TRN) – 252p
On the positive side, 144 out of 300 are at a 6-month high. That’s almost half. This is up on last month but then again, the FTSE has gone up over 200 points in a month. Time to take profits?
Examples include:
Airtel Africa (AAF) – 277p
AO World (AO.) – 106p
Big Yellow Group (BYG) – 1112p
Energean (ENOG) – 964p
Next (NXT) – 14300p
The three biggest fallers in October were:
B&M European Value Retail SA - BME -32%
Playtech plc - PTEC -28%
Aston Martin Lagonda - AML -26%
The three biggest risers in October were:
Ceres Power Holdings - CWR +90%
Goodwin plc - GDWN +62%
THG plc - THG +25%
Notice, GDWN was on this list last month rising by 41% to then rise by another 62%. Fair play if you own that stock. It has doubled in less than two months.
Ceres Power
A case of blink and you miss it. This stock was added to my watchlist a few months ago based on a broker upgrade I read but never invested. 90% in a month is very impressive. As you can see, the rise was gradual and not even in one go. Where will this go?
START OF OCTOBER 2025
September saw new all-time highs for both the FTSE 100 and 250 in what is usually a bad month for markets. The markets in the US also saw records.
The screener for my 5-month data shows:
5-month lows for 73 stocks. Some examples include:
Coca-Cola HBC AG (CCH)
EasyJet (EZJ)
Games Workshop Group (GAW)
Premier Foods (PFD)
Softcat (SCT)
On the positive side, there are 131 stocks trading at their 5-month highs. You would expect this with the FTSE being at a record high. These include:
AJ Bell (AJB)
Balfour Beatty (BBY)
Dr Martens (DOCS)
Informa (INF)
Tesco (TSCO)
The three biggest fallers in September were:
OCADO (OCDO) -33%
Tate & Lyle (TATE) -23%
Hilton Food Group (HFG) -20%
The three biggest risers in September were:
Goodwin (GDWN) +41%
Kainos Group (KNOS) +35%
Fresnillo (FRES) +33%
I note that Hilton Food Group (HFG) -20% has an RSI of 25 moving to 33 suggesting it might have been oversold, so a bit of research on it might is required. Big drops can often signal more long-term problems in the months ahead.
WH Smith (SMWH) and WPP (WPP) both appear on my screener as being of highest risk. I have a small holding in WPP and sitting on a loss, but the dividend is fine and happy to hold. Not keen on buying either for the time being.
Auction Technology Group plc (ATG) looks like it is suffering after a significant drop and still appears to be of high risk. I have no intention of buying this stock until more information becomes available.
Meanwhile, Fresinillo (FRES) just goes from strength to strength on the back of the Gold price. Where will this end and is it too late to invest?
START OF SEPTEMBER 2025
Over the last month, the FTSE 100 went up but the FTSE 250 went down. The screener shows there are 110 of about 350 stocks at their 4-month highs compared with 126 at their 4-month lows.
Interesting that there are so many house builders and real estate companies at their lows, like:
Barratt Redrow 360p 4.9%
Bellway 2330p 2.6%
Berkeley Group 3600p 1.9%
British Land 335p 7%
Crest Nicholson 150p 1.7%
Land Securities 554p 7.6%
Persimmon 1063p 5.7%
Taylor Wimpey 96p 9.8%
There seems to be a lot of negative media on house prices and the upcoming budget might be spooking investors. Are these bargains or a sign that the property market is in a mess? There are some good dividend yields shown in purple to be had if you are happy to buy & hold but surely that TW. dividend yield is not sustainable. Beware.
Three biggest FTSE 350 fallers in August:
Auction Technology Group plc -31%
PPHE Hotel Group Ltd -22%
WH Smith Plc -33%
Three biggest FTSE 350 risers in August:
Fresnillo 28%
Ithaca Energy plc 33%
JTC Plc 24%
On another positive note, the screener shows stocks like Aviva (AV.) have shown four consecutive months of growth.
START OF AUGUST 2025
The screener was run at the start of August 2025. It picked up that 57 out of the FTSE 100 were near their data range highs. These include Barclays, Aviva and Prudential. An investor looking at this site holding these stocks might consider taking profits.
Alternatively, the screener picked up 29 out of the FTSE 100 were close to a data range low point. These include WPP and Bunzl. An investor looking for cheap stocks might consider this good value or 'value trap' stocks. Again, the screener can filter further on data to further identify data that the investor is keen on.
Just because a stock is at a low doesn't mean it might drop further. More research is required.
The screener hopes to pick up patterns in stock movements. For example, more shares hitting their highs show confidence. The number is initially 50, then month by month it drops to, let's say, 45, 30, 20 etc, the screener picks up the market is dropping. This is where bargains and value start to become apparent.
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