Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Criteria For IBD 200

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A reader asked today what the criteria for IBD 200 was and how stocks showed up on that list. The IBD 200 is a list of stocks that are ranked by the SmartSelect Composite rating. This is the IBD's own rating that they have created. It combines several factors all of which are not exactly known or else anybody could create it. What it is though is a summation of the rest of the stocks ratings like the EPS and RS ratings among others.

Every Thursday, they run a list of stocks called IBD's Top 200 Composite Stocks. These are the top rated stocks by SmartSelect rating. They typically contain stocks ranked 96 or higher. The great thing about this list is that it does provide many trading opportunities as I discussed in my posts called Stockbee's IBD 200 Strategy and Stock Market Investing For Beginners Using The IBD 200 which will outline some IBD 200 rules if you want to start trading this screen.

Even though it is only published on Thursday's, you can access the list daily by subscribing to the eTables service. The top 300 composite stocks comprise their main table in that service. You can then in turn download these stocks to excel which is pretty handy to have the IBD 200 in excel.

I find this much easier than either writing them down or copy and pasting them. I like to put them in the My Stocks List feature on investors.com because I like the information they provide.

The stocks in the IBD 200 change as the market changes. Just like any other screen, the stocks will come and go. Sometimes, the newest entrants might be the best to look at according to Stockbee. Like any other screen though, just because it appears here doesn't mean it will be a winner.

Always research every stock further.

Good luck with your stock market investing!

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