Darvas

Nicolas Darvas Stock Selection Criteria1:

  • Stocks that doubled from 52 week low.
  • Near All Time High
  • Consolidation: Box Range or Range near recent high
  • Infant Sector
  • Current earnings growth or expected growth

Column Definition:

  • BO (Days | Weeks | Months): Where the current price is at Darvas Box (Daily | Weekly | Monthly). 0: not within the box. 1: within the box. box 2: breakout the high of the box.
  • Price to (UBD | UBW | UBM) Pct: How far the current price in percentage is above or below the Upper Bound of the box in (Daily | Weekly | Monthly)
  • Box Boundary (Days | Weeks | Months): The darvas box upper and lower bounds in (Daily | Weekly | Monthly)
  • AD Rating: the relative degree of institutional buying (accumulation) and selling (distribution) in a particular stock over the last 13 weeks. Updated daily, stocks are rated on an A+ to E scale.2
  • Ind Group RS: 3 An “A+” rating indicates the best performing group; an “E” rating indicates the poorest price performing group.

  1. Nicolas Darvas mentioned in StockBee’s blog post (read more) ↩︎
  2. Accumulation/Distribution (Acc/DisTM) Rating

    Exclusive rating in Investor’s Business Daily. One of the IBD SmartSelect® Corporate Ratings, it tracks the relative degree of institutional buying (accumulation) and selling (distribution) in a particular stock over the last 13 weeks. Updated daily, stocks are rated on an A+ to E scale.
    A = Heavy buying
    B = Moderate buying
    C = Equal amount of buying and selling
    D = Moderate selling
    E = Heavy selling
    The rating is enhanced by “+” and “-” signs to show additional detail on institutional activity; a “B+” indicates greater accumulation than a “B” rating, whereas a “B-” indicates less accumulation than a “B” rating, and so on. (source: IBD) ↩︎
  3. A measurement of a stock’s industry group performance over the past six months utilizing an A+ to E scale. All 197 groups are compared and distributed into 13 rating groupings: 12 of near equal size and one comprised of industry groups with “E” ratings. An “A+” rating indicates the best performing group; an “E” rating indicates the poorest price performing group. (Source: IBD) ↩︎