Relative Strength

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Watchlist

The watchlist tree

Each symbol is measured against the benchmark you assign it (click the small benchmark label to change it), and benchmarks nest: stock under sector, sector under market. Every level sorts by its own strength, so the leader of each group is its top row.

Columns: RS is basis points vs the benchmark since prior close (green = outperforming); CRVOL is cumulative relative volume — today's volume SO FAR against the median at this same point of day over ~20 sessions; then today's % change. The colored edge bar is RS by hue and CRVOL by intensity — vivid means strong and heavily traded. A CRVOL at 2x or more is shown in orange, and 3x or more is boxed — the same 2x threshold, and the same colour, the volume chart uses for a heavy minute.

Check two or more tickers (up to 10) to switch the chart to Compare mode: one line per ticker, indexed to 100 at prior close, ranked live in the legend. A category heading's compare button (the two crossing trend lines) puts its whole group on the chart in one click — click it again to clear.

Drag a category heading to reorder the groups, use its caret to fold one away, and its + to add a ticker straight into the group — it takes the group's benchmark, no other typing. Inside a category the benchmark sits on top and the stocks sort strongest-first, the same as everywhere else here.

The list re-sorts every 10 seconds (not every tick) and is saved in this browser only.

Adding a symbol

Type the ticker and the benchmark to measure it against — a sector ETF (XLK, SMH), an index ETF (SPY, QQQ), or another symbol on your list. Leave the benchmark blank to track a symbol on its own (% change only, no RS).

If the benchmark isn't on the list yet it's added for you (vs SPY) so the tree stays connected up to the market — retarget it if you disagree. The same symbol can appear twice with different benchmarks. Loops are refused.

Category is optional — type a name to group the symbol under a heading (Crypto, Chips & Semis). A name that is not on the list yet creates the group, taking whatever benchmark you typed alongside it.

A category has its own benchmark, so leaving the Benchmark box empty is the normal case: the symbol is measured against its group's. Type one only when you want that row measured against something else.

Pre-market, a benchmark that isn't trading yet is automatically substituted with the next one up its own chain (shown as e.g. SMH→QQQ) rather than comparing against an hour-old print.

Your watchlists

The list you are looking at saves itself as you edit it, in this browser only. Save keeps a named copy you can come back to, and the dropdown loads one.

NT list replaces what you have with NavigationTrading's published watchlist. Your current list is kept first, as a saved copy, so nothing is lost.

The CRVOL·MED column header is a toggle: click it to switch what CRVOL and the chart’s dashed line divide by. MED is the median session and ignores a single exceptional day; AVG is the mean, which one earnings day in the window lifts. If they disagree sharply, the window holds an outlier.

Save also downloads a .json copy. Keep it, or move it to another computer and open it there with Import — nothing here is stored against your account, so a file is how a list travels.

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Symbol · benchmark RS bps CRVOL·MED % chg

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Reading the panes

Top: the stock (solid) and its benchmark (dashed), both indexed to 100 at prior close — the shaded gap between them is the relative strength: green where the stock leads, red where it lags.

Bottom: each minute's volume against the dashed line of what's normal for that minute (the ~20-session median). Bars at 2x+ their own minute's normal are highlighted.

Compare mode (two or more tickers checked in the watchlist): one solid line per ticker, indexed to 100 at prior close, with the group's benchmark dashed when every checked ticker shares one. The legend is a live scoreboard — each entry carries that line's RS and CRVOL — and hovering ranks every line at that minute. The volume pane steps aside while comparing.

Dashed verticals mark 09:30 and 16:00. Bars cover 4:00am–8:00pm ET and refresh about once a minute; the numbers in this header are live.

Hovering: a dashed crosshair follows the pointer on both panes at once, and one box shows that minute's figures together — price, benchmark, relative strength and volume — rather than a separate tooltip per pane.

Zoom: scroll on either pane to zoom the time axis, drag to pan. Both panes move together so a volume bar always sits under its own minute, and the zoom is kept through the once-a-minute refresh. Reset zoom appears beside the title while you are zoomed in.

Resize: drag the line between the two panes to give either one more height; double-click it to go back. Saved in this browser.

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Time ranges

Every range works the same way: lines indexed to 100 at the official close before the window's first bar, so the gap and the compare read identically at any horizon. 1D is the live intraday view; preset ranges end today, and Cust takes any start and end you pick (up to a year, ending no later than today) — the bar sizes offered narrow as the window grows.

The dropdown sets the bar size for that range (each range remembers its own). ext includes 4:00am–8:00pm bars at minute sizes; daily candles are regular-session by construction.

The volume pane adapts: minute bars are judged against what is normal for that time of day; daily bars against the median of the prior ~20 days — an earnings day glows on a 1Y chart the way a heavy minute does intraday. The replay slider scrubs within any window; the calendar applies to 1D only. CRVOL in the watchlist stays today's figure at every range.

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Replaying a day

Pick a date to load a past session, then drag the slider (or step with the arrows — single is a minute, double is 30) to walk through it. The chart draws only up to the cursor, the hover box will not reveal what comes after it, and the headings above the panes read as of that minute.

LIVE returns to today with the cursor on the newest bar. You can also drag today's own slider backwards to re-watch this morning.

CRVOL on a past day divides by the current ~20-session baseline — exact for recent days, an approximation further back. How far back days are available depends on the minute history of the data source.

Includes extended hours (4:00am–8:00pm ET). Relative strength is measured from prior close. Informational only — not a recommendation to trade.