Download software Tutorial videos
Subscription & data-feed pricing Class schedule


New account application Trading resources
Margin rates Stock & option commissions

Attention: Discussion forums are read-only for extended maintenance until further notice.
Welcome Guest, please sign in to participate in a discussion. Search | Active Topics |

Scanning Industry Groups Rate this Topic:
Previous Topic · Next Topic Watch this topic · Print this topic ·
ICanSee4Miles
Posted : Friday, December 9, 2005 10:38:31 PM
Registered User
Joined: 12/8/2004
Posts: 30
How can you scan the Industry Groups to find the leading ones? Or more importantly when they begin to rotate in and out. My belief is that when institutional money moves to a sector and begins buying that sector will begin to move up on the list, that is when you want in, once it actually gets to the top, its basically over. Help please
Doug_H
Posted : Friday, December 9, 2005 10:46:58 PM


Worden Trainer

Joined: 10/1/2004
Posts: 4,308
Change your active watchlist to Media General Industry Groups. Rank the list any way you want...the sort list includes criteria to rank by performance over a number of different time periods. You can also use Custom Date Sort to rank by performance for any other time period you choose.

Here are several videos that I think will help you in your industry analysis:

Uncover the stocks driving the strongest industry groups
Using the Industry Menu to analyze stocks relative to their industries and sub-industries
Use Comparison and Relative Strength graphs to compare a stock to the rest of its industry group
Sorting Stocks by their Absolute or Relative Performance

You also may be interested in the following video:

Dame Learner's scan for stocks with increasing EPS over the last 4 quarters

This video uses flagging techniques to find stocks with increasing EPS. The technique finds stocks that were ranked in the bottom quartile several months ago, then the third quartile, then the second, and finally the top quartile. The very same technique could be adapted to finding industries that were underperforming, and since then have been rising in the rankings.

- Doug
Teaching Online!
Users browsing this topic
Guest-1

Forum Jump
You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.