Moving up... and down

Keen readers of the Momentum Monday piece would have noticed a new inclusion in the report. 

Titled “ Momentum Movers,” as is the case with the other lists in the report, they are not intended to be replicated as a portfolio. Rather they are designed to generate ideas for further investigation and then for you to overlay whatever metrics you prefer to whittle the list down.

In this piece I will explore the rationale of the two tables and how one may apply it within their own total strategy.

First, a bit of history. As you know Stockopedia is a tool… not a tip sheet. The power in Stockopedia is the TIME it saves me by standing on the shoulders of investing giants and benchmarking businesses against one another. The relative nature of the StockRanks means I am not just trying “to find a good stock”. Rather “I am trying to find a good stock compared to others.”

Further, I am NOT reinventing the Momentum Rank. To learn more about that measure and the factors that go into (including analysts revisions if available) click here to read it in detail.

To that end, when I look at...