As the coronavirus spreads and shares fall, we have launched new parameters to help users navigate the bear market and find the best bargains. These new screener parameters are currently free for all users:

Buy Zone: Stocks that trade above their current Price to Earnings (PE) or Price to Book Value (P/BV) at least 75% of the time (in trading days)

Sell Zone: Stocks that trade below their current PE or P/BV at least 75% of the time (in trading days)

Neutral Zone: Stocks that trade at their current PE or P/BV most of the time (in trading days)

You can also check out these prebuilt screeners with the new parameters: Stocks in the Buy Zone, Stocks in the Sell Zone, Stocks in the Neutral Zone. 

How are these useful?

Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to Book Value (P/BV) are valuation numbers widely used to check whether stocks are cheap or expensive at their current prices. There are 3 ways to compare these valuation ratios:

1. Compare with peers in the same industry, as is available in the peer group section of fundamental pages. 

2. Compare present value with averages. For example, this screener on Trendlyne chooses stocks which are trading below their 3Yr, 5Yr and 10Yr PE averages.

3. However, experts recommed looking at how many days the stock trades above or below a certain valuation. The frequency distribution of the valuation helps investors put money in a stock only when the stock is in the buy zone of the distribution. So if the stock trades only 10% of days below the current value of PE or P/BV, then it is in the Buy Zone.

If you prefer, you can customize this further and narrow the buy/sell window using the following parameters :

%Days traded below current PE Price to Earnings (example query: %Days traded below current PE Price to Earnings < 20)

%Days traded below current Price to Book Value (example query: %Days traded below current Price to Book Value < 20)

Keep in mind that markets may continue to fall further on coronavirus news, and prices may not find their bottom for a while. 

Stay safe in volatile markets.

New launches this week include a powerful new Portfolio Analyzer for your portfolio. This gives you a quick Health Check for your portfolio. You can now calculate the true value of your portfolio with the Portfolio NAV, analyze your buy/sell/hold decisions, and get insights on your best and worst investments. 

New Technical Screeners have been added for users interested in technical analysis. These are the following:

Positive Breakout First Resistance

Positive Breakout Second Resistance

Positive Breakout Third Resistance

Negative Breakdown First Support

Negative Breakdown Second Support

Negative Breakdown Third Support

Users can also modify these parameters by writing their own queries here.

A new feature now available on every Trendlyne stock page - users can check the buy/sell zone of a stock based on historical PE and Price to Book Value. Users can see if the stock they are considering buying or selling, is in its sell zone or buy zone relative to its price, earnings and book value ratios. 

This link will now be visible for all users, across stock pages. So far PE data is available from 2017, and more history will be added over the next couple of weeks. Happy browsing. 

We are constantly working to improve our products, and we have just launched some new features at the request of users. 

- A performance update: Despite volatile markets, our DVM screeners have been on the upswing. Four stocks were added in recent weeks to our Long Term Select screener, and all four have delivered positive returns. 

Feature updates:

- Now run backtests starting from 2007 to check returns on screeners! That's six more years added to backtesting. This brings the backtest period to 12 years. 

- New Futures and Options Screeners:  We have added 24 Futures and Options parameters to our screener system! You can now build screeners combining multiple factors such as Open Interest change %, Volume Change and more. 

Happy investing!

On popular demand (and we always listen to popular demand, so you can write to us at contact@trendlyne.com!), we have launched the YOUR LIST feature on every table. Do you have a preferred list of parameters? You can now add these to each table for your own analysis. All signed in users can create one list of their preferred parameters for free. Subscribers can create unlimited lists with premium parameters. 

Every table on Trendlyne shows you a Your Lists* tab.

Click on it, and you will see a "Add a New List" option:

You can then choose multiple parameters to use in your view:

Once you save your list, you will then have your own custom parameter view on every table:

This will be visible on every table you visit across Trendlyne.

We have seen users request 1) a way to sort screeners by a specific parameter, and 2) Assign maximum weightage to stocks in a backtest. Both of these features are now live on Trendlyne. 

You can now sort any screener you own. Make a copy of an existing system screener, or create your own screener. After that, click on the Edit screener button, and you will see 'Advanced'. This lets you sort the screener by any parameter:

You can also now do something similar on backtests. You have more control over your backtest results by doing a 'Sort by", where you are limiting the number of stocks in a backtest per period using a particular parameter. You can limit total number of stocks, and also give a maximum weightage for each stock:

User feedback has been the way Trendlyne has moved forward, and a powerful new feature we have introduced today is F&O charts with five minute candlesticks and detailed technical chart analysis that you can plot on the chart. See the Nifty50 futures chart.  

The F&O chart now has multiple time periods available for analysis, and you can toggle between line charts and candlesticks. Once you add five minute candlestick data, you can hover over the chart to see detailed data points. 

You can also add more technicals using the Technicals drop down menu:

Chart users can plot SMA, EMA, Bollinger Bands and MACD using their own time periods. In this case for example, we added the SMA 30 and SMA 35 line: 

Once you choose specific time periods, the drop down menu saves these until the page is refreshed. So now I have SMA30 and SMA35 in my drop down to select or deselect. 

 For the first time in India, we have NAV for your portfolio. This calculates the NAV for your portfolio stocks, which you can then compare to the Nifty 50 and other indices, and compare with Mutual Funds. You can also see your portfolio rolling returns which  calculates the excess rolling returns for your stocks compared to other indices. 

Finally, a big one - we have launched Insider Trading data! Now track all share buys, sells and pledges by company insiders: promoters, senior management, employees, and other people with inside knowhow of the company. All in one place. Happy investing. 

One of the key metrics investors use today to shortlist stocks is the Price to Earnings ratio. In essence, this tells you the sum of money you are ready to pay for each rupee worth of the earnings of the company. The PE becomes especially useful when you also know the hisotrical PE values of companies, which till now has been hard to get. Now, Trendlyne has made available 3 new metrics in the Create Screener tool for subscribers - PE 3Year Average, PE 5Year Average and PE 10Year Average. 

This allows you to create screeners such as this screener, which looks for companies with PE TTM lower than its 3 year, 5 year and 10 year averages and current PE less than 35. You can edit or clone this screener or make your own using these metrics.

Note that in some cases 3 Year and other PE averages can be skewed on the higher or lower side by one year of unusual performance.