[R-SIG-Finance] Grouping of stocks

[Krishna Kumar]

"rising" is a broad word do you mean something that went up or something 
that has momentum??
There are many momentum indicators that can show you if something has 
been going up and you
could use that to rank the stocks in your universe.


Ravi S. Shankar wrote:
> Hi R,
>
> I am trying to find the number of stocks rising and number of stocks
> falling each month. What I had in mind was I would compare the price of
> each stock with the previous month's price and then group the stocks. Is
> there a better way of doing this? An apology if this seems a very basic
> question!
> I have about 1500 stocks in my universe. 
>
> Ravi
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