Market/ETF Video – 200-day SMAs Coming into Play, Big Sectors are Split, Oil Holds Support, Copper Challenges 200-day (Premium)

The Market Regime for stocks remains bearish with the Composite Breadth Model at -5, yields spreads at elevated levels and the Fed balance sheet contracting. Even though SPY surged the last five weeks, the big picture items remain the same and I have yet to see enough strength to change these

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Market and ETF Report – Macro Moves Dominate, SPY Stays Overbought, Biotechs and Water Lead, Oil Lags (Premium)

There were some big moves over the last three days as the markets reacted to lower-than-expected inflation numbers. Stocks have been moving higher since mid October with many ETFs sporting double digit gains the last five weeks. Many of these big moves

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Market and ETF Report – Large-cap Techs Lead New Low List, ITB Forms Bearish Wedges, Metals Make some Big Moves (Premium)

The broad market environment remains bearish for stocks and not exactly bullish for stock alternatives. Most commodity, bond, currency and country ETFs are in downtrends. There are some isolated uptrends within these groups, but the vast majority of ETFs in the

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Market/ETF Video – Bear Market Bounce, Key Groups Leading Lower, Weak Dollar Spurs Rally in Metals (Premium)

The Market Regime for stocks remains bearish with the Composite Breadth Model at -5, yields spreads at elevated levels and the Fed balance sheet contracting. Stocks bounced off their October lows, but this bounce is deemed a counter-trend bounce within a bigger uptrend and there are signs

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Market and ETF Report – 90% Down Day, High Beta Sectors Lead Lower, Oil Bucks the Selling Pressure, Soybeans Pop (Premium)

Stocks answered the Fed policy statement with a big sell off on Wednesday afternoon. All eleven sectors were down with the Consumer Discretionary SPDR (XLY) and Technology SPDR (XLK) leading the way lower by falling more than 3.5%. XLK represents tech, while XLY represents consumer spending,

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Market/ETF Video – Bounce within Bear Market, New Trend Composite in Several ETFs,  Trading Ranges equate to Relative Strength (Premium)

The S&P 500 is in the midst of a modest oversold bounce within a bigger downtrend. The Composite Breadth Model remains bearish, yield spreads are elevated and the overall environment for stocks is bearish. Counter-trend bounces are part of the process and I have yet to see enough strength to suggest that

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Market and ETF Report – Bouncers vs Leaders, SPY Remains Overbought, More Trend Composite Signals, Measuring Relative Performance (Premium)

Almost everything is bouncing, but not everything is leading. Stocks forged a massive one day reversal on October 13th as SPY opened around 349 and closed near 366 for a 2.6% gain on the day. The move from open to close was +4.8%. Stocks followed through on this reversal day with further

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Market and ETF Report – Bear Market vs Seasonality and Up Swing, Getting Overbought, UUP Hits Support, Metals Bounce (Premium)

The S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) is up around 7% the last two weeks and we are starting to see short-term overbought indications. Overbought, keep in mind, is a double-edged sword. Overbought suggests that the advance is getting over extended and the bigger downtrend could take over soon

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Market/ETF Video – Breadth Becomes Overbought in Downtrend, Healthcare, Energy and Defense Lead, Ag and Industrial Metals Stall Out (Premium)

The Composite Breadth Model remains bearish, yield spreads are elevated and the overall environment for stocks is bearish. SPY became quite oversold in late September and early October, and then turned choppy in October. The latest October swing is

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Market and ETF Report – Volatility within a Downtrend, Energy Leads, Healthcare Holds Up Better, Defense Pops, Metals Sink with China (Premium)

It’s a bit of a mess out there, both fundamentally and technically. Technically, we have new lows in Chinese stock indexes after sharp declines on Monday, and the major US and European indexes are in downtrends. The major index ETFs here in the US became oversold in late September

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Market and ETF Report – Firming within Downtrend, Economically Sensitive Lead Lower, Energy ETFs Outperforming, Metals Sink (Premium)

Stocks are attempting to firm here in October, but any firmness would be a consolidation within a bigger downtrend and any bounce would be considered a counter-trend bounce within a bigger downtrend.

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Market/ETF Video – Volatile Price Action with Downtrend, TLT Hits New Low, Only A Handful of Uptrends in the ETF Universe (Premium)

The Composite Breadth Model remains bearish, yield spreads remain elevated and the overall environment for stocks remains bearish. Price action in the major index ETFs turned choppy and volatile the last few weeks, but this is considered noise within a larger downtrend. September and October

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Market and ETF Report – Bounce within Bigger Downtrend, A Few ETFs Showing Relative Strength, Energy ETFs Hit Moment of truth (Premium)

The S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) is in a long-term downtrend, but in the midst of a oversold bounce, which started with the outside reversal day on Thursday. SPY started this bounce after a 52-week low so this is still considered a counter-trend bounce within a bigger downtrend. Stocks

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Market and ETF Report – Downtrend Overpowers 2-day Pop, Energy ETFs Hit Short-term Resistance, Wheat and Ag Hold Uptrends (Premium)

Stocks did the old pop and drop with the market surging Monday-Tuesday last week and then falling the next four days. Many ETFs moved to new lows, but some managed to hold above last week’s lows. Several tech and bond related ETFs hit fresh 52-week lows, which

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Market/ETF Video – Yields Spreads Continue to Widen, Oversold Bounces within Downtrends, A Handful of ETFs Bounce within Uptrends (Premium)

Stocks got a big bounce the last two days, but this is still considered an oversold bounce within a bigger downtrend. SPY, QQQ and IWM fell sharply the last two weeks of September and were ripe for such a bounce. Overall, the

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Market and ETF Report – Dollar and Yields Pullback, Stocks Bounce, From Oversold Setup to Short-term Momentum Pop (Premium)

The Dollar finally took a breather from its rapid ascent with a four day pullback and we also saw the 10-yr Treasury Yield fall from around 4% to 3.6%. The Dollar represents the risk-off trade so the pullback facilitated a bounce in

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