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Read the market with one simple method
Stage analysis tells a rising stock from a falling one at a glance, and keeps you on the right side of the trend. These short lessons teach it in plain English, with real NSE charts — and show you where to use each idea on this site.
The course
8 lessons, in order, from the basics to your own evening routine. About an hour, start to finish.
- Stage analysis: the four stages every stock goes throughHow to spot each stage in minutes — and why only one is worth buying.
- The 30-week average: the one line that mattersWhy 30 weeks, and the two-glance habit that turns one line into a decision.
- Read the market first: how many stocks are really risingWhy the Nifty isn't the market, and how to check what most stocks are really doing.
- Follow the money: how sector rotation worksStocks rise in groups — find the sectors money is moving into before you pick a stock.
- Pick the leaders: relative strengthWhy stocks beating the market tend to keep beating it — and when that isn't true.
- The entry: breakouts, pullbacks and volumeThe two ways to buy a Stage 2 stock, and how volume tells you whether to trust them.
- The exit: when to sell a stockStage 3 warning signs, where the stop goes, and why you never wait out Stage 4.
- Your 10-minute evening routineThe whole method as a ten-minute check after the close, every evening.
Case studies from real NSE history
The method, tested on the markets and stocks that made headlines — with the numbers read straight from our records.
- Two crashes, two recoveries: what breadth saidThe 2008 and 2020 crashes through breadth — how the turn showed up before the index recovered.
- 2022: the bear market the Nifty hidThe index fell 17%; the typical stock fell a third. How breadth showed the bear the Nifty hid.
- YES BANK 2018–20: the Stage 4 that kept looking cheapTwo failed bases, and why 'cheap' kept getting cheaper — a Stage 4 case study.
- HAL 2022–25: one leader, the whole methodStage 2 in a falling market, an eightfold advance, and the top — every lesson on one stock.
Explainers
Short, practical guides to the tools and ideas you will use most.
- How to find Stage 2 stocks on the NSEFrom hundreds of Stage 2 stocks to the few worth buying — a step-by-step screen.
- The RRG chart, explainedAxes, quadrants, trails — how to read a relative rotation graph, with today's NSE sectors.
- Minervini's Trend Template and stage analysis: how they fitHow Minervini's Trend Template and VCP relate to Weinstein's stages — and how to use both.
The whole idea, in one picture
Every stock is always in one of four stages. Tap a stage to see what it means — the numbers are today's NSE.
Stage 2 — Advancing
Today: 28% of NSE stocks (691)Price breaks out of the base on a surge of volume and the average turns up. Higher highs, higher lows — buyers are in control.
- Price
- Above a rising average
- 30-week average
- Rising
- Volume
- Expands on up-legs, fades on pullbacks
Buy. This is where to own stocks: the breakout, or the first pullbacks toward the average. Our screener hunts here.
Built on real data, not opinions
After every close we give every NSE stock with enough history a stage. Here is the share in Stage 2, week by week since 2007 — through the 2008 crash, the 2020 Covid fall, the 2021 boom and after.
Where it comes from, and where to look things up
See it used every day
The Market Journal applies the method to the NSE after every close.
- 15 Oct 2026Nifty jumps, but yesterday's breadth repair breaksPaper gives back ground, IT loses advancing names, and the rally does not broaden the screening case.
- 14 Oct 2026Breadth repairs on a down day; Paper wakes upMore stocks recover, but advancing participation still shrinks and Energy loses ground.
- 13 Oct 2026Nifty's best day, Stage 2's smallest shareThe index rose 1.6%, but advancing trends shrank to a 30-session low. IT's rally has a breadth problem.
See it in today's market
The methods on this page, run across the NSE after every close.