[isatrader]

The solar ETF TAN is attempting to make a Stage 2 continuation move today.

[gbarbs]

ALSK pulling back. It touched its 50 dma today. Not safe enough for me yet, but I am watching it. Just thinking it might bounce off the 50 day here and continue up. We'll see.

   
   

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The solar ETF TAN is attempting to make a Stage 2 continuation move today.

JKS has been advancing which is a solar company. I guess solar is making a comeback...

   

[theory6453]

Did you like RMTI? If not, could you explain why. I know, it did not form a base for long.

It had a very big volume move from it's lows (possible short squeeze) and has formed a new swing high near 6, so that would be the Stage 2A breakout point to watch imo. But currently the 30 week MA is strongly declining and relative performance is still well below the zero line, as well as being under a fair amount of resistance from the 2012 price action. So I only rate it as Stage 1A personally.

*** Here's the 2nd comment I was trying to post last night.

RMTI's big volume move was b/c they received Stage 1 FDA approval on one of their new dialysis drugs. I was actually long in it at the time and turned a nice little profit. That being said, I agree that it's still in a Stage 1, however look for another pop if the Stage 2 FDA approval comes thru in the near future.

RTMI is up 30% this week as we speak as the 2nd study on their new kidney failure drug came back positive yesterday (it wasn't an FDA approval like I had originally thought). IMO RMTI has moved from a Stage 1 to a Stage 2a/2. I will likely wait a month or so for a pullback and then will jump in on this one as the technicals continue to improve.

[gbarbs]

One other I was looking at....has wide swings in the base, MA has turned up, and volume has increased. Although the volume actually decreased when it broke through that trendline giving me some concern - I am not sure how to interpret the volume other than it has been higher than average recently.

   

[goodtyneguy]

ALSK pulling back. It touched its 50 dma today. Not safe enough for me yet, but I am watching it. Just thinking it might bounce off the 50 day here and continue up. We'll see.

Careful with this one my friend, the DJ US Fixed Line Telecom Index looks to me to be in a stage 4A http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$DJUSFC (You'll need to take the linked daily chart up to the weekly, it will only link to the daily chart for some reason unknown to me)

[gbarbs]

Good catch goodtyne. I had a handful on my watchlist from broadcasting and a few of those have "communications" in the name. EVC,GTC, SGA,. SBGI...so need to be careful about making the assumption of sector from the company name.

[goodtyneguy]

Good catch goodtyne. I had a handful on my watchlist from broadcasting and a few of those have "communications" in the name. EVC,GTC, SGA,. SBGI...so need to be careful about making the assumption of sector from the company name.

I created a downloadable spread sheet in the Elite members area showing all the current stages for the S&P DJ US Indices. In order to find which DJ US index a stock belongs to I enter the ticker symbol into stockcharts.com to bring up the chart of the stock then tick the "full quote" box below the chart before updating. This then shows the sector and index above the chart to reference to the index listings in the spread sheet. You do not need to be a paid member of stockcharts.com to do this. It would be easier if those that post charts from stockcharts up here were to show this information on their charts

Talking about Stockcharts.com, I emailed them today pointing out that they had wrongly categorised a stock. Within a short space of time they emailed me back thanking me and telling me that it had been corrected. Excellent CS considering I'm not a customer!

When I get time I am going to have a look at how Chartmill categorises stocks and see how it compares with the DJ US Indices. I think getting the grouping right of stocks is one of the most important aspects of stage analysis and probably one of the main reasons I have not being getting the results I desire. That now appears to be changing.

[isatrader]

For anyone that's interested I posted the Chartmill sectors relative strength list in the main thread last weekend here: http://stageanalysis.net/forum/showthrea...40#pid1440 of which it has 212 sectors and ordered them by the strongest to the weakest.

You can do this yourself on chartmills site at: http://www.chartmill.com/sectorrankings....1&t=C2&s=0 if you want to check if the stock you are looking at is in a strong or weak group, but the chartmill makes up it's own sectors and has almost double the amount than the Dow Jones Indexes, so it can be hard to find them sometimes I've found, and there are no sector charts to view. But it is a useful free tool none the less.

To order the list by the Average Relative Strength of each sector you need to select the drop down menu on the top right called "Order by" and select Average Relative Strength (DESC), or click on the ARS column in the table. 100 is the strongest and 0 is the weakest.