Info!! Sector Update For September 7Th

What a difference a calendar week makes. The final sector update institute the bulk of sectors inward small-scale uptrends, amongst testify of sector rotation rather than strong upward trending. Over the by week, money has continued to menstruum out of stocks too most of our sectors stimulate got flipped from small-scale uptrends to small-scale downtrends. What this agency inward utilisation is that I'm viewing the marketplace through ii sets of lenses. One is the lens of the short-term trader, who is seeing the marketplace weaken from solar daytime to day, calendar week to week. (By Friday, for example, nosotros posted over 2400 fresh 20-day lows amidst NYSE, NASDAQ, too ASE issues; a total indicator review volition look tomorrow AM and, equally always, I volition travel updating the indicators prior to each trading solar daytime potentially meaning divergences betwixt the electrical current marketplace activeness too the weakness that nosotros saw at the July lows. In short, we're seeing more fearfulness too selling than inward the by few weeks, precisely fewer stocks are participating inward that selling than at recent marketplace lows.

So basically nosotros stimulate got ii scenarios: the kickoff is that we've begun a fresh leg downwards inward the marketplace too volition decisively accept out the July lows across the major indexes. The 2nd scenario--and, frankly, the 1 I'm leaning toward--is that the July through early on September weakness is business office of a bottoming process, amongst waning participation to the downside.

Here are the Technical Strength (trending) numbers for each of the 8 S&P 500 sectors that I follow, amongst the pct of stocks inside each sector trading higher upward their 50-day moving average (in parentheses):

MATERIALS: -80 (40%)
INDUSTRIAL: -200 (20%)
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY: -100 (57%)
CONSUMER STAPLES: +40 (61%)
ENERGY: -460 (5%)
HEALTH CARE: -240 (30%)
FINANCIAL: +240 (64%)
TECHNOLOGY: -320 (19%)

We tin come across that the unloose energy too technology scientific discipline shares are dramatic underperformers, equally the marketplace is pricing inward the effects of slow/no increase inward the economy. Consumer staples stocks are outperforming equally defensive issues, but--interestingly--we're too seeing underperformance amidst wellness assist shares. That may reverberate renewed concerns nearly cost-cutting inward that expanse inward the wake of the Presidential election. Amazingly, fiscal shares are leading the pack; it volition travel interesting to come across how they response to the regime bailout of FNM too FRE.

Note how the percentages of stocks higher upward the 50-day moving averages is quite discrepant across sectors: in 1 lawsuit again, we're seeing enough of sector rotation. At this point, the percentages are non nigh levels ordinarily associated amongst intermediate-term marketplace bottoms, despite the fact that we're at fresh annual lows inward the NYSE Composite Index too nigh those lows inward the S&P 500 Index. This is however unopen to other reflection of the divergences I'm seeing inward the electrical current market. Either nosotros stimulate got much farther to larn on the downside, or the bulk of shares stimulate got set inward their lows for the electrical current comport cycle. I'll travel tracking the indicators closely to handicap the odds of these really dissimilar scenarios; remain tuned...
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Info!! Sector Update For September 7Th

Last week's sector review noted that Technical Strength, a proprietary mensurate of short-term trending, was bullish across the viii S&P 500 sectors that I follow weekly. It too noted persistent divergences at the marketplace highs, however, together with suggested that nosotros last warning for reversal should the Technical Strength painting demo weaken.

We did, indeed, larn that weakening, equally stocks moved lower inwards the early on portion of the week, bouncing dorsum later. Whereas xxx of the xl stocks that I runway inwards my handbasket were inwards short-term bull trends at the terminate of final week, nosotros come across alone 17 inwards such a style at Friday's close. As the nautical chart inwards a higher house indicates, we're seeing neutral tendency modes for materials shares, healthcare, together with fiscal stocks, amongst alone real weak uptrends for liberate energy together with consumer discretionary shares. Only the defensive consumer staples sector qualifies equally beingness inwards a enterprise uptrend.

Significantly, however, none of the sectors unopen final calendar week inwards short-term downtrends. Despite final week's drop, nosotros proceed to come across a blueprint of higher cost lows inwards the stock market. I am warning to the possibility that the early on calendar week dip together with subsequent bounce are purpose of the market's extended topping process--and peculiarly the possibility of putting inwards a lower, weaker cost high. Should the market's belatedly calendar week rally stall at lower highs, I would last looking to fade that strength. Should the rally demo continued momentum strength, I would facial expression at to the lowest degree i to a greater extent than examination of the bull highs.

Here is how the sectors shaped upwards equally of Friday's close:

MATERIALS: 40
INDUSTRIAL: 240
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY: 180
CONSUMER STAPLES: 300
ENERGY: 140
HEALTH CARE: -60
FINANCIAL: 100
TECHNOLOGY: 180

Note that the commodity-sensitive liberate energy together with materials sectors dropped significantly inwards the final week, reflecting commodity weakness. The alone sector to make forcefulness over the calendar week were those defensive staples shares. In lite of the electrical flow wellness assist debate, it is notable that those stocks dropped significantly inwards their technical forcefulness since final week.

All inwards all, it looks to me equally though nosotros are inwards a weakening bull market. The vigor of the follow through to the rally that started belatedly final calendar week volition render of import clues equally to how whatever possible correction volition unfold. The nigh positive scenario for bulls would last a vigorous bounce toward bull highs, creating weather condition for a relatively apartment corrective period, such equally nosotros had inwards June together with July.

As always, I volition last tracking the tendency status of the stocks inwards my handbasket via Twitter (follow the intraday tweets here) along amongst other primal marketplace indicators to come across how that marketplace follow through unfolds.
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