A 360° view of market health — how many stocks are advancing, which industries money is rotating into, and which names are showing the strongest trends.
Most traders start with a stock and hope the market cooperates. BrkView reverses that: it starts with the market, narrows to the strongest industries, and only then gets to individual names.
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BrkView Analytics is a top-down dashboard. Rather than starting with a stock, it starts with the entire tracked universe and answers three questions in order: is the market healthy, which industries are being bought, and which individual stocks inside those industries are behaving best.
The health question is answered by breadth — the count of stocks in a bullish trend versus a bearish one, the advance-decline ratio, and how many are showing genuinely strong trends rather than drifting. This matters because an index can rise while most stocks fall, and that is a very different market from one where everything is participating.
The rotation question is answered by industry tables that compare performance across one day, one week and one month, so you can see whether an industry is just having a good session or is in a sustained phase of accumulation. The stock question is answered by trend tables listing the names with the cleanest technical condition.
Breadth describes conditions, not timing. A weak-breadth market can still rally for a day; it simply means the odds of a move continuing are lower and position sizes should reflect that.
Trading a great stock inside a collapsing sector is one of the most reliable ways to lose money slowly.
Swing traders
Pick candidates from industries that are gaining strength over weeks rather than hours, which is the timeframe your trade will live in.
Intraday traders
Start the session knowing whether breadth supports risk-taking or argues for smaller positions.
Investors
Track which parts of the market are entering sustained uptrends before that shows up in headlines.
Beginners
Learn the single most useful habit in trading — checking the environment before the idea.
Top-down structure
Market, then industry, then stock. Every step narrows the list for a reason you can explain.
Breadth at a glance
Bullish, bearish and neutral counts show whether a rally is broad or carried by a handful of names.
Rotation patterns
Industry comparisons across day, week and month reveal where money is arriving and where it is leaving.
Strongest names surfaced
Trend tables highlight stocks in clean technical condition, with RSI, ADX, volume and pattern context.
Multiple timeframes
A one-day move can be noise. Seeing it alongside weekly and monthly performance tells you whether it is a trend.
Context for every other tool
Whatever scanner you use next, this dashboard tells you how aggressively to act on it.
The dashboard reads from the widest view down to the narrowest.
Tables scroll horizontally and the health cards stack into a single column, so the market summary is the first thing you see on a phone.
Five minutes with this dashboard before the open changes how you read everything else.
Check the health cards
Compare bullish against bearish counts. A market with three times as many stocks in bullish trends is a different environment from a balanced one.
Note the strong-trend count
How many stocks are in genuinely strong trends rather than drifting? A low number means most breakouts are likely to stall.
Scan industries by rating
Read the industry table and mark the three with the best combination of advancing percentage and average change.
Compare timeframes
Check whether those industries are also strong over the week and month. Agreement across timeframes is what separates rotation from a one-day bounce.
Drop into the trend table
Look for individual stocks from your chosen industries appearing in the top trending list.
Check the technical condition
Use the RSI, ADX, volume and pattern columns to judge whether the name is extended or still has room.
Take the shortlist onward
Carry the two or three best names into a scanner or your watchlist for entry timing. This dashboard tells you what to trade, not exactly when.
Industry and stock columns explained in the order you meet them.
| Field | What it tells you | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Breadth Distribution | The split of advancing versus declining stocks inside an industry. | A rising industry where most members participate is far more dependable than one carried by a single heavyweight. |
| A/D Ratio | Advancing stocks divided by declining stocks. | Above one means more stocks rising than falling. Well above one signals genuine broad demand. |
| Advancing % | The percentage of stocks in the industry that are up. | A quick participation check — the same information as the ratio, easier to compare across industries. |
| Avg Change % | The average move across the industry. | Combine with advancing percentage. High average change with low participation usually means one stock did all the work. |
| Rotation Pattern | The phase the industry appears to be in — gaining, losing or holding sponsorship. | Prefer industries entering strength over those already extended. |
| 1 Day / 1 Week / 1 Month | Performance over three timeframes. | Agreement across all three is a trend. Disagreement is noise, and noise is where most losses happen. |
| Overall Rating | A summary judgement of the industry's condition. | Use it to rank, then verify with the underlying columns rather than trusting the rating alone. |
| RSI | How stretched a stock's recent move is, on a 0–100 scale. | Very high readings suggest waiting for a pause; mid-range readings in a rising trend are usually the most comfortable entries. |
| ADX | How strongly the stock is trending, regardless of direction. | Higher readings favour trend-following entries; low readings warn that breakouts are likely to fail. |
| MACD | Whether momentum is building or fading. | A confirmation column — it should agree with the trend column, not contradict it. |
| Pattern | The candle pattern the stock has just formed. | Useful for timing. A reversal pattern at the end of a pullback is a classic swing entry cue. |
| Stage 2 performers | Stocks in the advancing phase of the four-stage market cycle. | The healthiest hunting ground for swing and positional longs. |
What the dashboard is really telling you, translated into four market states.
Breadth is mildly positive. Two industries that led for the past month now show weak one-day and one-week numbers, while a third industry, quiet until now, shows the highest advancing percentage today and has quietly improved over the past week.
A single strong day in an industry means little. The same industry improving across both the day and the week, while the previous leaders weaken, is the signature of rotation. The practical response is to stop adding to positions in the fading group and start building a shortlist from the emerging one, using the top trending stock table to find the members in the cleanest technical shape.
You are not predicting anything. You are noticing where money has already begun to move and choosing to stand in the same place.
Top-down analysis only works if you actually do it in order.
✅ Do this
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Treating the index as the market. A handful of heavyweight stocks can hold an index up while the majority of stocks fall for weeks. Traders who only watch the index keep wondering why their picks are not working; breadth explains it immediately.
Market breadth measures how many stocks are participating in a move rather than how far the index travelled. If 400 stocks rise and 100 fall, breadth is strong. If the index rises while more stocks fall than rise, the move is narrow and generally less reliable.
It is the number of advancing stocks divided by the number of declining stocks. A reading above one means more stocks are rising than falling. It is one of the simplest and oldest measures of whether a market move is broadly supported.
Sector rotation is money moving from one part of the market to another. You spot it by comparing industry performance across several timeframes: the group losing sponsorship weakens across the week while a new group improves on both the day and the week.
A large share of a stock's movement comes from its sector and the overall market. Choosing a strong stock in a strengthening industry means two of the three forces acting on your position are working for you rather than against you.
It is the advancing phase in the four-stage market cycle: after a long base, price begins making higher highs above a rising long-term average with expanding volume. It is the phase where sustained gains usually occur.
ADX tells you whether a trend is strong; RSI tells you whether the recent move is stretched. A strong ADX with a mid-range RSI often describes the most comfortable entry — a real trend that is not currently overextended.
It is designed for selection rather than timing. Use it to decide what deserves your attention, then move to a scanner or a chart for the actual entry and stop-loss.
A quick look before each session, and a longer review once a week. Breadth changes meaningfully over days, not minutes, so watching it constantly adds nothing.
Fewer stocks are travelling decisively in one direction. Trend-following strategies struggle in that environment, breakouts fail more often, and reducing size is usually more profitable than trying harder.
It is good for long positions in that industry today, but check the monthly column too. An industry that has advanced strongly for a month may be closer to the end of its run than the beginning.
They give timing cues. A reversal pattern appearing at the end of a pullback inside a strong industry is one of the cleaner swing entry signals available.
Yes. Investors use the same rotation view over longer horizons to decide which parts of the market to accumulate and which to leave alone, checking monthly rather than daily.
Every technical term above, written for someone who has never traded before.
How many stocks are participating, not just the index.
An index can rise because five heavyweight stocks rose while three hundred fell. Breadth counts advancers against decliners to reveal whether a move is broad or narrow. Broad participation supports a trend; a narrowing market is a warning even when the headline number looks healthy.
Money moving from one part of the market to another.
Capital rarely leaves the market entirely — it moves. When banks cool off and metals begin to lead, that is rotation. Spotting it early puts you in the group of stocks with a tailwind instead of fighting a sector that has just lost its sponsorship.
How a stock is performing compared to the index.
A stock can rise 1% on a day the index rises 2% — it went up, but it lagged. Relative strength measures that comparison directly. Rising relative strength means money is choosing this stock over the broader market, which is exactly what you want in a swing position, especially when the index itself is flat or falling.
The advancing phase of a stock's life cycle.
The four-stage model popularised by Stan Weinstein describes a stock as basing (Stage 1), advancing (Stage 2), topping (Stage 3), then declining (Stage 4). Stage 2 is where sustained trends live: price above a rising long-term average, higher highs, and volume expanding on up days. Buying in Stage 2 keeps you aligned with the phase where most of the gains happen.
A 0–100 speedometer for how stretched a move is.
RSI compares the size of recent gains to recent losses and squeezes the answer into a 0–100 scale. Above 70 means the stock has risen quickly and may pause; below 30 means it has fallen quickly and may bounce. The common beginner mistake is treating 70 as an automatic sell. In a strong trend a stock can stay above 70 for weeks. Use it to judge timing, not direction.
A strength meter that says how trending the market is.
ADX does not tell you the direction, only the conviction. Low readings, roughly under 20, describe a sideways chop where breakouts tend to fail. Higher readings, roughly above 25, describe a market that is genuinely travelling in one direction. Pairing direction from a trend tool with strength from ADX filters out a lot of false starts.
A momentum tool built from two moving averages.
MACD measures the gap between a fast and a slow moving average. When the gap widens the move is accelerating; when it narrows the move is losing steam. A "crossover" is the moment that gap flips sign, which traders read as momentum changing hands from sellers to buyers or the other way round.
Trading in the direction the market is already going.
Rather than predicting turns, trend following waits for direction to establish itself and then joins it. Entries are less exciting and often feel late, but the approach avoids the most expensive habit in trading: repeatedly buying something because it looks cheap while it continues to fall.
A bar showing open, high, low and close for one period.
The thick body spans the open and close; the thin wicks show how far price travelled and was rejected. A long lower wick means sellers pushed price down and buyers took it all back — often more informative than the closing price alone.
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