# Finding downward-trending stocks **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800 "2012-09-05T22:32:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800/1 "2012-09-05T22:32:12Z")
Is there some easy free way online one can go search for stocks for which the price has been falling on average for several weeks or so? ---
**Author:** ![allotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@allotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allotrope)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800/2 "2012-09-06T09:34:03Z")
Google finance, Yahoo finance, CNBC, a host of other sites. Any particular reason? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800/3 "2012-09-06T10:27:51Z")
[Google finance](http://www.google.com/finance). How do I do what I described using that site? This is for a play money stock investing game. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800/4 "2012-09-06T10:33:24Z")
It looks like [this](http://www.google.com/finance#stockscreener) is the page I want, but when I make changes to the criteria, nothing changes in the list. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![allotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@allotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allotrope)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800/5 "2012-09-06T11:02:29Z")
If you want to do what is call “paper trading” where no money is involved, but you are using real market data, then I would suggest one of the sites that is geared to that sort of thing. [Marketwatch](http://www.marketwatch.com/game/) seems to be popular but I’ve never tried it. Go to the link and click on ‘created a game.’ From there you should be able to set up a private party for you and your friends to do your trading. If you want to investigate other, search on ‘paper trading sites’ or something similar. CNBC I think lets you do something like that. Also most brokerage firms let you set up paper accts like [this one](https://www.thinkorswim.com/tos/displayPage.tos?webpage=paperMoney) at Think or Swim (now owned by TD Ameritrade, but still the premier options trading platform). ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800/6 "2012-09-06T11:17:15Z")
Yes, I’m on the website [weseed.com](http://weseed.com) already. I can check to see if the other sites have the kind of search option I was asking for, but google finance appears sufficient–if I can figure out how to use it. Like I said, changing the search criteria doesn’t seem to actually change the search results so there’s some big button somewhere I’m just not seeing… ---
**Author:** ![allotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@allotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allotrope)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-downward-trending-stocks/633800/7 "2012-09-06T11:33:23Z")
You’re probably just maxing out the possible hits. I changed the lower end for 52wk price change from -99 to -50 and it went from 2040 or 2045 to 2030 I think. Seems to work fine.