The index screener: 13 barometers of world markets
From the S&P 500 to the Nikkei 225 via the VIX, apply your technical rules to the major indices to read the underlying market trend.
Before screening a stock or an ETF, you need to know the environment you are in: bull market, bear market or no trend at all? Indices provide that big-picture read. The screener tracks 13 major world indices via Yahoo Finance and applies the same technical rules to them as to any asset: Ichimoku, ADX, moving averages, RSI… At a glance, you know which markets are trending and which are consolidating.
What you can screen
- United States: S&P 500 (^GSPC), Nasdaq 100 (^NDX), Dow Jones (^DJI), Russell 2000 (^RUT) and the VIX (^VIX), the volatility index.
- Europe: CAC 40 (^FCHI), DAX (^GDAXI), FTSE 100 (^FTSE), Euro Stoxx 50 (^STOXX50E), IBEX 35 (^IBEX) and SMI (^SSMI).
- Asia: Nikkei 225 (^N225) and Hang Seng (^HSI).
Possible strategies
- Ichimoku trend following: “price above the cloud on the daily” plus “Tenkan above the Kijun” to identify indices in an established uptrend.
- Regime filter: “daily ADX above 25” to separate directional markets from ranging ones before applying your strategies to them.
- Stress barometer: “VIX above 25” as an alert condition : a volatility spike on the ^VIX often accompanies stress phases in equities.
Market specifics
Each index follows its exchange hours: Tokyo opens the day, Europe takes over, then Wall Street closes it. By combining the three zones in a single scan, you follow the hand-off from one session to the next. One technical specific: indices publish no volume data : volume and VWAP-based rules do not apply to them, unlike price, moving averages, RSI or Ichimoku. Finally, you cannot buy an index directly: you observe it, and trade it through ETFs or derivatives.
Use indices as a context filter: a “^GSPC above its 200 SMA” rule in your stock scans keeps you from hunting for longs when the broad market is bearish.
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- FeatureCharts built for technical analysis13 stackable indicators, a full drawing toolkit and annotations that are still there every time you come back to a symbol.
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- IndicatorPrice: the raw data behind all technical analysisBefore any indicator, there is price. The close, open, high and low of each candle are the building blocks of your screener rules.
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- GlossaryTimeframeA timeframe is the duration each candle on a chart represents (from one minute to several months) and sets the horizon of the analysis.
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