Quantic for momentum investors
A price-trend score computed for every stock and ETF we cover — and a frank account of why it is not a trading tool.
Momentum asks a simpler question than value: is this price already going up, and has it been for a while? It is the one lens that works on anything with a price — a company that pays no dividend, an index fund, a commodity ETF.
Quantic scores momentum 0–10 from five signals: the trailing twelve-month return, the trailing six-month return, price against the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, and where the price sits inside its 52-week range. Note the deliberate inversion — for the dividend rating, trading below the 200-day average is a point in a stock's favour; for momentum, trading above it is. That disagreement is the point of having both. The score is recomputed nightly for the whole covered universe, so it is there before you go looking.
Quantic is not a trading tool and does not pretend to be. Prices refresh hourly during market hours, not in real time, and the trailing returns are built from monthly closing prices — so there is no daily volatility, no beta, and nothing intraday. The screener also still covers dividend payers only, so a momentum screen of the entire market is not something Quantic can do today.
How to start
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Open the momentum list to see the strongest trends among the names Quantic covers.
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On a stock page, read the momentum badge next to the quality score — when the two disagree, that is the interesting case.
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Check the maximum drawdown before you trust a strong trend: it tells you how far this name has fallen before.
Key terms
- Momentum
- How strongly a stock's price is trending up — trading above its moving averages, high in its 52-week range, with positive recent returns. A trend read, not a valuation: a stock can have strong momentum and still be expensive.
- 200-day average
- The average closing price over the last 200 trading days — a slow gauge of trend. A price below it is often read as a relative discount.
- Moving average
- The average closing price over a rolling window — a smoothed line that cuts through day-to-day noise to show the trend. A shorter window (say 50 days) reacts quickly; a longer one (200 days, or 12 months) is slower and steadier. Price above its average is often read as strength, below as a relative discount.
- 52-week position
- Where today's price sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Near 100% means the stock is trading close to its yearly high — a momentum signal.
- Maximum drawdown
- The worst peak-to-trough drop in the share price over the available history — how much you'd have been down if you had bought at the high and held through the low. A plain gauge of how bumpy the ride has been.
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