Relative Strength Analysis

Relative strength answers a simple question: is this stock outperforming the market, or lagging it? TradersLab's Relative Strength filters rank each stock against the market using single-timeframe RS Ratings over 1-month, 3-month, 6-month and 1-year windows, plus a Composite RS Rating that blends those four horizons into one score.

For a more opinionated read, Alex's proprietary RS Rank combines the multi-timeframe ratings with how far a stock sits from its 52-week high and low, so names that are both strong and pushing toward new highs rise to the top. It shows up as a dedicated RS Rank column in the screener, so screening for a high Composite RS Rating or RS Rank surfaces the market's outperformers instead of leaving you to eyeball hundreds of charts.

The Relative Strength Racing Chart turns the rankings into an animated bar race: it ranks stocks by their relative-strength percentile and plays the ranking forward over time, so you literally watch names climb and fall through the Top-N — a Top 10, for example — as leadership rotates.

Because it animates the percentile ranking rather than freezing a single day, the racing chart makes emerging leaders and fading names obvious at a glance, then hands off to the screener and the Sectors view for the detailed follow-up.

Relative strength isn't only a stock-by-stock metric. The Sectors and Sub Markets dashboard ranks whole groups — broad sectors like Technology and Energy, and market-cap sub-markets from Mega-Cap down to Micro-Cap — using a volatility-adjusted relative-strength ranking, so a steadier group isn't outranked by a more erratic one purely on raw performance. A radar chart on each group shows its relative-strength rank across several timeframes at a glance. For narrower, narrative-driven groups — like AI Infrastructure or Memory — Themes Lab applies the same relative-strength ranking one level more granular than sectors.

That top-down view keeps you on the right side of rotation: strong groups rise to the top of the rankings and weak groups sink, and the leader lists point straight to the individual names carrying each strong group. A return-distribution visual confirms whether strength is broad across a group's members or concentrated in a single stock.

Relative strength is most useful when it feeds the screener. Stack an RS filter on top of your other criteria — trend, market cap, sector, volatility — so every match is already a market outperformer, then watch the results counter to keep the list actionable.

From there, review matches as mini-charts or a table, and send the strongest candidates straight to a watchlist for ongoing tracking. The result is a focused list built around leadership rather than a broad, undifferentiated scan.