1. Money Flows and Sector Analysis The Ranking Table provides a macro overview of the market showing which sectors are bid and which are offered.
2. Stock Selection When a sector or index is isolated the component issues that are driving the strength or weakness, are presented in ranked order.
3. Matched Pairs Trading The Ranking Table breaks down a sector from strength to weakness, quickly isolating potential matched pairs spreading opportunities.
4. Option Volatility Strategies An MC Value Rank of (0) on the table shows the sectors and component stocks that are in a neutral position. These directionless stocks are good candidates of short premium strategies alone or covered.
5. Extreme/Reversal Stocks or sectors at the upper and lower extremes of the Ranking Table can show good reversal or exhaustion opportunity.
6. Basket Trading The Ranking Table enables a quick creation of "smart baskets". Traders who use broad-based or sector indices as a momentum indicator to trade stocks in those sectors can create "smart" bid baskets and "smart" sell baskets. Bid baskets contain positively ranked stocks and sell baskets contain negatively ranked stocks.
7. Spread Trading Interest rate strip and yield curve spread trading are available using the Interest Rate Ranking Tables. Currency cross-rate spreading opportunities can be found in the Foreign Currency Ranking Tables. Commodity calendar and inter-market spreads can be created using the Commodity Ranking tables.