The fourth quarter starts next week, with investors scrambling to find stocks that pay the bills into year end. Relative strength cycles provide a reliable alternative when traditional stock analysis fails to work, concentrating solely on issues that have hit deeply oversold technical readings on long-term charts. “Bullish crossovers” in these often-depressed plays set off strong buying signals that predict at least six to nine months of relative strength, a perfect time frame for the run-up into the first quarter of 2020.