Why Most Screeners Fail Momentum Traders (And What I Built Instead)
Most stock screeners are built for value investors or day traders. If you run a momentum or CANSLIM-style process — looking for Stage 2 breakouts, VCPs, relative strength leaders, or O'Neil/Minervini setups — generic screeners waste your time.
Here's the problem: they only cover US large-caps. If you trade Japan, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, you're stuck with manual charting across multiple platforms. And none of them understand the specific pattern language momentum traders speak.
I built AlpharvestPro to solve this. It's a single screener that spans US, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong markets. It visualizes the setups that matter:
Relative Strength (RS) — find stocks outperforming their market
Volatility Contraction Patterns (VCP) — Minervini-style tightening bases
Stage 2 Breakouts — Weinstein's framework, automated
OWL Patterns — proprietary pattern recognition across markets
The key insight: momentum works the same everywhere. The best setups in Taipei look identical to the best setups in New York. But until now, there hasn't been a tool that lets you scan all of them from one place.
If you're a swing or position trader who follows these methods, this was built for you.
