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In fact, some stocks skip the major stages as well, as for example you don't always get a Stage 1 base, as a sharp short covering rally can sometimes get momentum and just make a V shape bottom and move straight from Stage 4 into a Stage 2 advancing phase.

Thanks isatrader, does make sense but I have mistakenly been looking for the Stage 1 base on all the stocks but now that you have correctly explain, some stocks will form a V shape bottom and not necessary form that base.

So think about the A and B stages in a different way. "A" is early in the Stage, and "B" is late in the Stage -

One thing I battle with is telling whether it is a Stage 2 or Stage 2B, when we say late in the stage, is there a certain upward trend period you use to define late?