i wouldn't give up on it just yet....i bet if you had ran it yesterday and started tracking the results for a month it would be much different....hard to judge a shorting scan against a monster move like this stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=$SPX&p=D&yr=0&mn=1&dy=0&i=p84347937328&a=291153665&r=1359593598953