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.
- Nicolas Darvas mentioned in StockBee’s blog post (read more) ↩︎
- 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) ↩︎ - 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) ↩︎