Tonights Stage Analysis Members midweek video begins with a look at the Sector Rotation Model that suggests the sectors that tend to lead the market at the different points in the market cycle and economic cycle. Followed by a brief chat of the recent article on the Top 5 Books To Learn the Wyckoff Method, before discussing the Major Index charts...

The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 Small Caps all managed to close above their 50 day moving averages for the first time in many months. However, they are all still in the range of the recent minor swing highs and testing their +1x ATR levels, and so could easily flip back below their 50 day MAs again if follow through action fails to materialise in the coming days.

This website is focused on Stan Weinstein's Stage Analysis method. However, as with any method there's a huge amount of crossover with other methods, and one of the most important to learn in order to master Stage Analysis is the Wyckoff method, which was originally created by Richard D. Wyckoff in the early part of the 20th century, and has been expanded by numerous traders over the last 100 years...

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...

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...