Module 9: Screener Craft

The US market lists thousands of companies, and nobody can read them all. A screener is the sieve that turns ten thousand names into a shortlist you can actually study, and the first rule of screen craft is that a sieve answers one question at a time, so you must know which question you are asking. In this module you will learn to build that sieve well, dodge its traps, and verify every survivor in the real filings, and you will see the order The Microcap Minute itself works in: money moving first, business second.

1. What a screener does: a filter for ten thousand stocks - how a screener shrinks a giant market into a small pile of candidates, and why one screen answers only one question at a time.
2. Value filters, quality filters, growth filters, in plain words - the three big filter families, explained with a kirana store, and the question none of them can answer.
3. Building a watchlist and a checklist you actually follow - a short list with written reasons, plus the five questions you ask every single time.
4. Screen traps: cheap is not the same as good - value traps, hidden debt, one-time profits, cyclicals at the top, and the hole in every one-question screen.
5. From screen to filing: every candidate gets verified on EDGAR before it earns your time - the fifteen-minute routine that checks every candidate against the company’s own reports.
6. Try it: a quality-at-a-fair-price screen over the S&P 500 - build the full screen yourself, run one survivor through the whole loop, and learn what your recipe cannot tell you.

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