Another way to think of rotations is to consider not the stocks in the same industry moving, but stocks in the same pattern moving: Pattern Rotations.

Consider $GLD and $SLV: Both seem interesting to the long side recently. Rather than consider the entire metals sector as a destination for your capital, think of the pattern these stocks and others in any sector are sharing. It’s possible with a tool like Trade-Ideas’ Stocks Like This. Trading ETFs like $XLF and XHB? The same logic applies: find stocks that mirror the same pattern as the sector ETF.

It works like this: given the filter and alert characteristics of $GLD during a recent day in the market (from today to at least a week back), then find me other stocks like it – right now.

Simply indicate which filter characteristics and alert trigger(s) that we reported for $GLD by putting a check in the box and copying the chosen indicators into a new strategy that we already name for you: “Stocks Like $GLD”.

We think it’s a great on-ramp to the Trade-Ideas superhighway and its a great way to reverse engineer into a strategy given a stock you know you want to emulate.