RE: Stan Weinstein's Stage Analysis
I have been in contact with Chartmill, and they have informed me that the sector charts they use haven't been updated for a long time and that the sector/industry data came from yahoo finance originally. If you do use those sectors then there is a way on the individual charts to find what sector a stock is in by going to the view drop down menu and using the "Technical" view. Here's a quick link: http://www.chartmill.com/stockcharts.php...5&s=25&p=0
The technical view also helpfully shows the Weekly Mansfield RS reading and the Effective Volume ratio's which are for seeing the institutional volume flow.
After searching the internet I've found that a similar screener Finviz.com uses the same sector classifications and has more up to date data, which can be seen here: http://finviz.com/groups.ashx?g=industry&v=110&o=name. However, it's doesn't have the necessary Mansfield RS and other indicators for the method, so I don't think I'm going to keep following these each week in their current state, and will come up with another solution for the sectors.
My initial thoughts are to simply track the weekly changes in the Dow Jones US Sectors on stockcharts, as that data is available here: http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/indust...ECTOR_SPDR, but we wouldn't know the relative performance overall - only the weekly and monthly percentage changes etc. But that might be enough for what we need for the method, and at least we know it is accurate and the sectors are all kept up to date with properly adjusted data. So I think that's the best solution for the time being unless anyone has any other suggestions?
P.S. Another source I've found for checking individual stocks sectors is Bloomberg, as these will very likely be correct, as the Bloomberg terminals are what the pros use. So to check an individual stock go to http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/AAPL:US/profile and change the ticker in url to whatever stock you want to look at.
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