PKScreener – stock screening and technical analysis tool

PKScreener is a Python-based stock screening application primarily aimed at traders and investors following India’s National Stock Exchange. It helps identify shares exhibiting particular technical characteristics, including potential breakouts, price consolidation, momentum changes and emerging chart patterns.

The application provides an extensive collection of predefined scanners, together with configurable screening options for investigating individual stocks, market indices and watchlists. Traders can combine different conditions to narrow down potential opportunities instead of examining large numbers of charts manually.

PKScreener operates through an interactive command-line interface on Linux and can also run inside a Docker container. Python package installation and platform-specific executable downloads are available. Its emphasis is on technical analysis and identifying candidates for further research rather than managing long-term investment portfolios.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• More than 40 predefined scanners for price breakouts, consolidation, reversals, volume movements and momentum-based trading opportunities.
• Coverage includes Nifty indices, sectoral indices, newly listed companies, futures and options stocks, and user-defined watchlists.
• Technical indicators include RSI, MACD, CCI, ATR, Aroon, moving averages and Ichimoku-based signals.
• Chart pattern detection identifies configurations such as volatility contraction patterns, double tops and bottoms, inside bars and narrow-range formations.
• Piped scanners let users combine several screening conditions to identify stocks matching multiple technical criteria.
• Intraday monitoring includes price and volume breakout detection, bid-ask activity, momentum indicators and short-term trading signals.
• Backtesting facilities examine the historical performance of screening strategies, including Growth of 10k analysis.
• Portfolio-level summaries help compare the historical performance of different screening filters.
• Telegram integration supports scheduled screening alerts and on-demand scans through a bot.
• Includes screening for dividend opportunities, fair-value candidates, institutional shareholding and changes in stock performance.
• Configurable analysis periods, historical price data downloads and options for saving screening results.

Website: github.com/pkjmesra/PKScreener
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Developer: pkjmesra
License: MIT License

PKScreener is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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