The Trend Ranking Database Tables are the core subscription offering where all the important trend and data analasys are held, including links to real-time charts.
Each of the 154 ETFs in the data tables has 12 columns of unique trend data that is updated weekly on Sundays at 6pm EST.
The main data table:
There is a lot of data presented in the ranking tables so it will be good to take some time to understand how to read and interpret the trend data tables.
The 2 key trend ranking (Power Score & Long Trend) columns are always color-coded to give you an “at-a-glance” easy view of top trending ETFs. Here are some of the core trend analytics from each table:
If you spend some time to understand these key parts to the tables you will be doing well. You can read more about all the trend data columns in Interpreting the Trend Data Tables.
The Investing “Green Zone” is the top 2 quintiles of ETF Power Score trend rankings as well as the top 2 quintiles of individual trend direction and velocity. These ETFs have exhibited trend strength that are outperforming the broad stock market index.
The Power Score is the overall measure of an ETF’s trend strength and combines a weighted average over multiple time periods of both the absolute trend momentum strength (Momo Score) and relative trend strength in relation to the Wilshire 5,000 stock market index (Edge Score) for an ETF.
Power score is also color-coded into 5 quintile colors of trend performance:
The 1st and 2nd Quintile are the top 40% of a ranking list and are collectively referred to as the “Green Zone”.
The overall market average performance would be the middle-most point of this list at 50%. The worst performing ETF segments are in the bottom quartiles of the list.
The Long Trend is a measure of an individual ETF’s trend direction and velocity. The higher the value, the greater the velocity and slope of the ETF’s trend movement over the last several months.
Long Trend is also color-coded into quintiles because of its important status in the ETF selection process. By selecting ETFs in the “Green Zone” you will be selecting ETFs that have greater individual positive trend direction and velocity than the market average.
The Green Zone is a composite ranking measure of the two color-coded columns. Staying invested in ETFs with the green zone of both columns is a winning trade over time as you can be sure the trend direction, velocity and strength on both an absolute momentum basis, and a relative momentum basis is outperforming the broad market index.
We will be publishing more documentation and videos taking you through how we use this powerful data to trade our long-term ETF portfolio. Let me give you a few basic approaches that can provide downside protection while enjoying most of the upside in the markets:
This trend data tables are sortable and are updated 50 times per year each Sunday by 5pm New York Time. There will be 2 times per year it is not updated due to regular server maintenance schedules and you will receive advance notice of these server maintenance dates.
The real-time charts always give you real-time access to the latest pricing action and are available 24/7. You will also receive real-time charts for each ETF.
This is a personal choice you must make and should be related to your investment planning horizons, we do not provide e-mail alerts.
It is important to remember that all of the trend data analytics is built from long-term trend pricing data – so it makes no sense to set a short-term portfolio review or trading frequency with this service.
Many of our long-term focused investors typically have a quarterly or bi-monthly review of their portfolio holdings to check-in with changes in the trend tables. More active investors that are still trading long term trends will check in monthly or even weekly in some cases – the choice is yours.
It only takes a few minutes per week to check the weekly update and most weeks you have no changes so should take no more than 15-20 minutes per month even with a weekly check.