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...

For the watchlist from Tuesdays scans...

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 Healthcare sector dominated the weekend watchlist scans and there's multiple stocks from the sector in the final cut. But many are short term extended, after earnings gaps, or just moving strongly with the group theme. So most are on pullback / consolidation base watch...

Biotechnology stocks group ETFs (XBI and IBB) made a continuation breakout today after a three week consolidation / shallow pullback within their early weekly Stage 1 advance – which has been one of the strongest group moves since the markets June swing low...

For the watchlist from Wednesdays scans...

It was a negative day for all the major US stock market indexes today with the S&P 500 closing down -0.67%, while the Nasdaq showed the best relative strength closing down -0.16%...

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...

For the watchlist from the weekend scans...

Today was a big day for earnings results, with over 300+ stocks reporting including more mega caps that have greater influence on the US stock market, with AAPL (Apple) and AMZN (Amazon) both reporting and moving higher in the after hours trade.