I know of no screener for stocks that hold up well when the market corrects like it did. I prefer to focus efforts otherwise (why try and lose less when I can gain or tread water?)
This site below has a daily scan of strong up-trending stocks for long, medium and short term with industry/sector information. It has down-trending scan too, useful if you're interested in shorting stocks. http://www.turtlezilla.com/stock_scans
Ive just been looking for exactly the same thing. The Scanner on MSN Money seems to do a pretty good job. I noticed Fidelity have a pretty useful research area too. You cna rank sectors and industries by performance. Comparing the 3 month and the 1 month is a good idea. and add min market cap and min average volume limits to weed out the small guys and that should give you a pretty good starting point.
I wrote my own that does all that and quite a lot more - pretty much a complete set of technicals and fundamentals including sector and industry composition, composite charts, blah blah. All daily data and fundies downloaded or screen scraped from Yahoo finance. As previously said relative strength in a bull market is usually a winner. I find that the sharpe ratio of a stock is possibly a little better than raw relative strength. I'm curently adding some John Ehlers type cycle analysis to the code, but I'm not yet convinced there is any real benefit. As for finding stocks that will withstand something like the recent decline - well, good luck with that one. One of the more interesting and usefull "fundamental" screening criteria is the percent by which a stock exceeded (or failed to meet) forecasts. Haven't been able to find a lot of use for ordinary valuation or growth measures suchas P/E or PEG. Price/Sales and Price/Cash Flow including Price/Cap Ex may be of some use. IMHO, this exercise has taught me more about stock trading than I could have possibly gleaned from any other soucre. It also has undelined the truth that in stock screen (as in all trading) there is no holy grail - you need to adapt to the broad market conditions, and have reasonable market timing to be where you want. Furthermore screens that work fabulously well for extended periods, don't continue to do so indefinately. In fact they can become disasters.
I am interested in this also, mainly for a daytrading perspective. To me, it seems by the time you trade the stock in motion, it is too late. (which is why a realtime scanner of 200% volume breakouts really doesnt work that well IMO.) I would be really interested in how people collecty and narrow down a list of good daytrading candidates.