133 tickers. Analyzed, staged, and grouped in under a minute. One button in Google Sheets replaced an hour of manual charting every week.
The Money Flow Trading System works. But staging 133+ tickers by hand before you can even start selecting trades is the kind of friction that kills consistency.
Pull up TradingView for ticker one. Check price structure, moving averages, volume behavior. Build a mental picture of where it sits in the cycle.
Apply Gerald Peters' framework manually. Is this Stage 1 accumulation, Stage 2 markup, Stage 3 distribution, or Stage 4 markdown? Each call requires real chart judgment.
Record the stage assignment. Update whatever tracking system you're using. One ticker at a time.
Move the ticker to the correct bucket in your watchlist. Stage 1 column. Stage 2 column. Stage 3. Stage 4. Manual drag-and-drop, copy-paste, row by row.
Do the same thing 133 times. By the time you finish, an hour is gone. The watchlist is ready but you haven't selected a single trade yet.
"I was spending an hour just organizing tickers before I could even start selecting trades."
The watchlist lives in Google Sheets. A single button triggers the script. Under a minute later, every ticker is sorted into its Money Flow stage.
133+ ticker watchlist ready in Google Sheets
One click triggers the Apps Script automation
Price structure checked against Money Flow stage criteria
Each ticker gets Stage 1, 2, 3, or 4 based on the framework
Watchlist reorganized. Ready for trade selection.
Gerald Peters' framework maps where a stock is in its price cycle. Every ticker in the watchlist gets assigned one of these four stages automatically.
Price consolidating near lows. Smart money building positions quietly before the next move up.
Price trending up with expanding volume. The stage where most trading opportunities appear.
Price topping out. Volume erratic. Smart money selling into strength while retail buys.
Price trending down. Stage to avoid on the long side. Can be opportunity for puts.
Three honest cards from the build — what I started with, what changed, and where it goes next.
I was doing the same manual analysis for 133+ tickers every week. Same charts, same framework, same staging. When I realized I'd done the exact same thing 50+ times, the question wasn't whether to automate it — it was why I hadn't already. Built the first version in Google Sheets with Apps Script in an afternoon.
Removing the staging work didn't just save time — it raised the quality of what came after. When you spend zero time on organization, all your energy goes to trade selection. The watchlist is the same size, but the signal is clearer because you get there faster and fresher. That was the outcome I didn't fully anticipate.
Current version shows what stage a ticker is in today. What matters more is when it changes. Next version flags every Stage 1 to Stage 2 transition — those are the setups. Eventually it cross-references the options watchlist so the output becomes a direct action list, not just an organized view.
30 seconds. 133 tickers staged and grouped before the video ends.
Demo recording coming soon.
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