The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent continued to improve over the last week, crossing the mid point of the bell curve and pushing further into the Stage 1 zone (40% to 60% range). With an additional 9.5% of groups leaving the Stage 4 zone (below 40%).

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...

Todays Stage Analysis Members midweek video is a special feature on the Software group, which has been rising up the relative strength rankings over the last month, and has seen many stocks from the group appearing in the watchlist, due to the large number of stocks bases transitioning towards Stage 1, as well as a smaller number of stronger stocks in the group making the move into early Stage 2...

With the increased interest in Stan Weinstein's Stage Analysis method recently, I thought it would be useful to begin this weekends video with an educational feature on the Stage 2A entry point, using the example of AAPL from May 2003...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent further improved over the last week, moving further into the Stage 1 zone (40% to 60% range), with an additional +10.5% of groups moving out of the Stage 4 zone (below 40%), and an additional +8% of groups moving into the Stage 2 zone (above 60%)...

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...

The Stage Analysis members weekend video begins with a focus on the Solar Group following this weeks climate spending deal, plus earnings results in multiple stocks in the group which caused a Stage 2 breakout attempt in the group on strong relative volume...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent continued to improve with more groups leaving the Stage 4 zone and shifting to the Stage 1 zone, as well as an additional 5.5% of groups moving into the Stage 2 zone. The average distribution stands at 44.06%, and so the improvements have moved it out from the Stage 4 zone and back into the Stage 1 zone (between 40% and 60%).

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...

The Stage Analysis members weekend video starts this week with a focus on the Semiconductors group, as around 1/4 of the group are reporting earnings in the coming week, and have shown strong relative strength since the start of the month, rising back up the relative strength rankings and and industry group bell curve.