𝗤: 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆.
Yeah, I'm just trying to follow price action. When the market is going higher I try to buy strong stocks and when the market goes lower I keep the strongest ones and I sell the weakest ones. I keep the flowers and I pull out the weeds. It's all I'm trying to do.
I used to pick perfect chart patterns in dying sectors and wonder why they never moved, until I learned to follow the money first.
I used to pick stocks in a vacuum. I'd find a beautiful chart pattern, enter with confidence, and watch it go nowhere while stocks in another sector ripped 20%.
That changed when I started treating sector rotation as my primary filter.
Here's a simple process you can follow:
Every Sunday, I review the eleven sector ETFs.
$XLK, $XLF, $XLE, $XLV, $XLY, $XLP, $XLI, $XLC, $XLRE, $XLB, and $XLU.
I'm looking at their weekly charts to see which sectors are absorbing capital and which are bleeding it.
I rank them by relative strength against $SPY and $QQQ over the past 4 and 12 weeks.
The top three get my attention.
The bottom three get blacklisted.
I don't care how pretty an individual stock looks if its sector is getting sold.
Then I drill down to individual stocks within the leading sectors. This is where stage analysis becomes a piece to the puzzle.
I'm hunting for stocks/sectors that have built large, multi month/year stage 1 bases... those long, choppy consolidations where a stock goes sideways after a prior move.
The longer the base, the bigger the potential move when it breaks out. I want to see multiple weeks built out on the weekly chart... but a great weekly base isn't enough.
I rotate down to the daily timeframe to assess if the risk/reward is actually there.
Is the stock coiling tight?
Are the daily candles contracting in range?
Is it riding along a rising 9/21 or 50EMA?
I'm looking for asymmetric setups where I can risk little to make 5-10x my risk. If the daily is too loose or choppy, I pass, even if the weekly looks perfect.
I also watch for the rotation warning signs.
When a leading sector starts making lower highs, or when its top holdings begin breaking support levels, I tighten stops and reduce exposure, because sector leadership doesn't last forever.
For example, within the recent months Technology led, then money rotated into financials and industrials.
The edge is to simply trade with the current, not against it.
When a sector has institutional money pouring in, individual stocks within it get lifted. Your mediocre setup in a hot sector will outperform a perfect setup in a weak one.
With this method, I'm no longer fighting the market's underlying currents.
I'm identifying where capital is flowing, finding stocks with big bases within those leading sectors, and waiting for the daily chart to tighten up before entry.
Keepin' it simple and repeatable!