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Small-caps and Healthcare Perk Up, TLT Gyrates as 10-yr Trends, Gold Challenges 200-day, Dollar Swings To and Fro (Premium)
The Market Regime remains bullish with SPY and QQQ hitting new highs on Thursday. The S&P MidCap 400 SPDR (MDY) and S&P 500 EW ETF (RSP) hit new highs Monday-Tuesday and then fell back pretty hard on Wednesday, before bouncing on Thursday. New highs are clearly more bullish than bearish. The noise level is

ETF Trends, Patterns and Setups – Tech-related ETF Get Extended, BETZ, BDRY and KRBN Form Short-term Bullish Setups (Premium)
Earnings season is in full swing and this is leading to a little more volatility. Volatility mostly affects individual stocks, but it can also affect market cap weighted ETFs when the big components make big moves. Overall, the market regime remains bullish with fresh new highs in SPY, RSP and MDY. There are not

Get the Jump by Timing the Swing within the Pattern (Free)
The Infrastructure ETF (IFRA) came to life here in October with a six percent surge that could signal the beginning of the end for a long correction. IFRA underperformed from May to mid September, but is now

Weekend Video – Participation Broadens, Old Economy ETF Come to Life, Tech Remains Strong, Biotechs Get Interesting (Premium)
Stocks continued their October run with the S&P 500 SPDR, S&P 500 EW ETF and S&P MidCap 400 SPDR hitting new highs. Participation is clearly broadening and this is reflected in the percentage of S&P 500 stocks above selective moving averages. There were also 17 new uptrend signals via the StochClose indicator.

Biotech SpotLight – Top Stocks, IBB and XBI (Premium)
The Biotech ETF (IBB) is a rather peculiar ETF because of the performance differentials among its components and the changing of the weights. Moderna (7.84%) and BioNTech (3.82%) account for almost

Participation Broadens, Seasonal Patterns are Bullish, TLT Turns Back at Support Break, Oil Hits Another New High (Premium)
The Market Regime remains bullish and participation broadened here in October. The Finance SPDR and Consumer Discretionary SPDR hit new highs in October, and the Technology SPDR ended its correction with a breakout. Broadening participation comes from the Industrials SPDR and

ETF Trends, Patterns and Setups – Metals, Energy and Banks Lead, Industrials and Materials Perk Up, Uptrend Signals in Clean Energy (Premium)
SPY and QQQ ended their corrections with breakouts last week and this is bullish for the broader market. Small-caps (IJR) are also making a breakout bid as strength within the market broadens. In particular, we are seeing leadership from ETFs associated with industrial

Weekend Video – Follow Through with Strong Breadth, Tech ETFs Surge, Industrial Metals Lead (Premium)
Stocks surged again on Thursday, but this week’s surge was different than the Thursday’s surge the prior week. SPY and QQQ followed through after the open and S&P 500 breadth showed broad participation. Small-caps also bounced, but the S&P SmallCap 600 SPDR

Follow Through with A Big Participation Pop (Free)
Stocks surged for the second Thursday in as many weeks, but this Thursday’s surge was a lot different than the previous week. This week’s surge featured a strong open and strong close as well as the strongest breadth in four months. What does it mean going forward? Let’s investigate.

Follow Through with Strong Breadth, Yield Spreads Remain Narrow, Bonds Get a Bounce (Premium)
The S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) followed through on last week’s gap with a gap-surge on Thursday. In contrast to last week’s gap, SPY moved higher after the strong open on Thursday and formed a long white candlestick. The open is near

ETF Trends, Patterns and Setups – Industrial Metals ETF Lead, Tech-related ETF Follow Through, Clean Energy Perks Up (Premium)
Even though breadth during the recent pops was uninspiring, the bulls are not backing down and we are in a bull market environment, as per the Market Regime page. There are really only two trading/investing options in a bull market: long or cash. Short positions are not realistic options. There are

Weekend Video – SPY Attempts to Reverse Pullback, Banks, Insurance and Energy Lead, Rising Rates Weigh (Premium)
Stocks surged on Thursday with SPY and QQQ gapping higher in an attempt to end their pullbacks. The gaps-surges are largely holding, but breadth was lackluster and techs fell back on Friday. Rising Treasury yields are influencing current market dynamics. This creates a headwind for

SPY Goes for Breakout, Breadth Underwhelms, IJR Challenges Triangle Line, Oil and Dollar Remain Strong (Premium)
The S&P 500 and broad market indexes popped on Wednesday-Thursday. We also saw short-term breakouts in a number of ETFs. Are these breakouts enough to end the corrective period that began with the September decline? Or, is this just a short-term head fake that will

ETF Trends, Patterns and Setups – Tech ETFs Firm with Harami, Some Laggards are Showing Short-term Strength (Premium)
There are plenty of ETFs with corrections or downtrends the last few months, but some of these are showing short-term relative strength. Similarly, several tech-related ETFs firmed with hamari on Monday-Tuesday and closed strong on Wednesday.

A Strong Uptrend and Bullish Continuation Pattern for this Agriculture ETF (Free)
Chartists looking to trade in the direction of the bigger trend have two options. First, take trend signals and act when the trend turns up. Once an uptrend is underway, chartists must then rely on