      Stocks that fade a bullish (bearish) trend will fall (rise) thefastest when the trend reverses. This is not written in stone but iswritten in very hard wood. Strong surges in sectors and broad marketindices are great forecasting tools. Watch very closely when this happens,and you will see strength and weakness in the market. In the July 25, 1997story that I described in the Homework chapter, this is what I was lookingfor. On the days before July 25 when I was not trading, I was looking forstocks that caved with the Dow. My strategy was confirmed all week long.Every time the Dow shook, either to the upside or the downside in a rapidswing, I watched and then whittled down my group of possible stocks. Inother words, I benched the weak players and sent the weakest players downto the minors.