Hi UTB,
What I've described is merely a filtering process looking at weekly charts. The objective is to:
1. Minimise the number of stocks I need to look at as monitoring all 350 members would be too time consuming.
2. Ensure that I'm trading with the prevailing market and sector trend. At the moment, all trades would be long.
To answer your question, I probably won't see the strong stock in the weak sector as I'm only looking at the strongest stocks in the strongest sector (in an uptrend) and the weakest stocks in the weakest sector (in a downtrend).
No, I'm not trading this yet; still very much at the development stage. To be honest, not many of my ideas ever get beyond the development stage! To be doubly honest, I can't claim credit for the mechanics of this process either, the core ideas belong to my mate tomorton, who is trading along these lines and enjoying great success. Once he's selected his strongest stocks from the strongest sector, he looks for an opportunity to 'jump on board' and ride the trend. As for going short, no, not in the current buoyant climate. When the market index loses momentum and reverses or, more likely, goes into a sideways muddle, then the weak sectors (especially ones that were weak when the index was strong) become the focus of attention and then in turn, the weakest stocks within that index.
Cheers,
Tim.