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We all know the situation. We are just looking for a good opportunity but nothing is available searching our usual research sites. So we need to fire up a stockscreener and screen the market universe for ourselves. The problem is we like to screen for institutional ownership, that is for the percentage of outstanding shares held by institutional investors. This is a bit special and not every stockscreener will let us do this search - but this one does

Volatility can be really bad for your long time performance. Before you can think, the market hits your stop only to bounce back a few minutes later.
The flash crash on May 6th was an awful example for this.
If your stop is close, you will surely get kicked out in one volatile move. But if you enlarge your stop too much, you hurt your Riskmanagement. A loss that’s too high for your account.
But how can our positions survive a volatile phase?

This weeks winner makes things a lot easier. Most of the times it is dreadful to find an exchange rate. You have to jump over to your favorite financial homepage, then click through to see all exchange rates and most of the times those are not live. This ends now there is a one stop site and the best thing is, this site has it all live…