Screening Stocks with Short-Term MACD and Auction Activity

Summary

The post outlines a Chinese equities screen combining three conditions: rank stocks by capital strength, select the top five by the day’s auction amount, and require the 15-minute MACD histogram’s negative bars to be shrinking. It interprets these filters as signs of investor attention, activity, and potentially improving short-term momentum. The suggested refinements include reviewing valuation measures and filtering by market capitalization or industry.

The post warns that the screen may miss smaller companies, chase stocks that have already risen, or mistake a weakening MACD histogram for a reliable reversal signal. It gives no backtest, performance data, or precise definitions for capital strength and auction amount. Its included Python fragment only retrieves quote data and does not implement the full screening logic, so the strategy remains a high-level proposal rather than a reproducible system.

Key ideas

• The proposed screen ranks stocks by capital strength and keeps the five with the largest auction amounts that day.
• It also requires shrinking negative bars on the 15-minute MACD histogram.
• The author suggests adding valuation, market-capitalization, and industry filters.
• The post provides no performance test, and the sample code does not implement the complete strategy.

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