The Stage Analysis method this website is based upon comes from Stan Weinstein's classic book, which is called Stan Weinstein's Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets. The method has stood the test of time through multiple extremes of both bull and bear markets over the last 30+ years; and to this day Stan Weinstein still runs his institutional investment service called the Global Trend Alert – which he launched in the early 1990s.*

The Stage Analysis Members weekend video starts with a look at US Stocks Industry Groups Relative Strength Rankings and some of the groups on the move and stocks from those groups. Then in the members only content first a review of the Major Indexes – S&P 500, Nasdaq, Russell 2000 as well as chart analysis of Oil, Copper, Treasuries, Gold and the VIX...

For the watchlist from the weekend scans...

Custom Percentage of Stocks Above Their 50 Day, 150 Day & 200 Day Moving Averages Combined Market Breadth Charts for the Overall US Market, NYSE and Nasdaq for Market Timing and Strategy.

The purpose of the Relative Strength (RS) tables is to track the short, medium and long term RS changes of the individual groups to find the new leadership earlier than the crowd...

A second day of the market gapping lower at the open and then spending the rest of the day attempting to gain back the declines with ended with a mildly postive close in the Nasdaq 100 at +0.34%. But the majority of other markets failed to regain positive territory with the NYSE one of the biggest decliners at -1.18%...

The Stage Analysis members midweek video begins this week with a further discussion on How Stocks Transition From the Stage 4 Declining Phase to the Stage 1 Basing Phase using an early Stage 1 example from the Global Trend Alert to help to explain some of the characteristics to look for...

The stock market continues to drift back below the short term moving averages in a flag type pattern ahead of the beginning of earning season, which gets underway on this week with some major financials reporting on Thursday and Friday...

One of the hardest aspects of Stan Weinstein's Stage Analysis method is identifying when a stock / etf / index etc is transitioning from one Stage to another. The Stage Analysis Investor method entry points are at the Stage 2 breakout point, and on a successful backup to the Stage 2 breakout following the breakout...

In this weeks Stage Analysis Members video we look at the in-focus group – Biotechnology, which has been showing a lot of relative strength in the short term as it attempts to rebound from a deep Stage 4 decline back into potential Stage 1, and look at a few of the strongest stocks from the group...