{"id":2177,"date":"2012-10-29T05:28:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T09:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:00:38","slug":"how-to-find-best-stocks-for-short-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/how-to-find-best-stocks-for-short-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Find The Best Stocks For Short Selling With MTG Stock Screener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 25, we summarized <a title=\"How To Find The Best Entry Points For Short Selling Stocks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/blog\/best-entry-short-selling-stocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our basic strategy for finding the best entry points for short selling stocks and ETFs<\/a>. It was the first time we had discussed our swing trading strategy for the short side of the market in quite a while because our market timing model only shifted to a new &#8220;sell&#8221; signal on October 12.\u00a0Since the first and most important element of our rule-based trading system is to trade in the same direction of the dominant market trend, we simply were not interested in looking for short selling candidates when the broad market was previously in a steady uptrend.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog post, we follow-up our previous October 25 post with a short (3-minute) trading strategy video that shows you how to easily and instantly find the best stocks that meet our strict technical criteria as short selling candidates (ie. weak stocks bouncing into resistance, <em>after<\/em> breaking down below obvious levels of support).\u00a0Press the play button to watch the video below (click the icon on the bottom right of the video player window to view in full screen mode for best detail):<\/p>\n<p>httpvh:\/\/youtu.be\/euMJzOcbpqk<br \/>\n<strong><em><a title=\"Test drive our free stocks screener\" href=\"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/services\/swing-trade-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to test drive the free MTG Stock Screener today<\/em>\u00a0<em>(be sure to watch the video tutorials as well)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have neither the will nor inclination to scan the stock market on your own, but would still like to receive preset, detailed entry and exit points for our best stock and ETF picks for short selling, sign up for your risk-free 30-day subscription to our <a title=\"Sign up for The Wagner Daily newsletter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/services\/swing-trade-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wagner Daily<\/em> short-term trading newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Enjoying the stock screener? Have any questions on how it works? Feel free to drop us a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 25, we summarized our basic strategy for finding the best entry points for short selling stocks and ETFs. It was the first time we had discussed our swing trading strategy for the short side of the market in quite a while because our market timing model only shifted to a new &#8220;sell&#8221; signal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stock-trading-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10772,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/10772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}