February 17 Strong Trending Market Update and Scan

Trend Days!  Bullish Price Action!  That’s what we’ve been seeing the last few trading sessions.

Let’s update our levels for the S&P 500 Index and note the big trending stocks today:

We were looking for upside action “away from” 1,825 “toward” 1,900, then higher on a breakout above 1,900.

See yesterday’s post:  “February 16 Price Planning for the S&P 500” for additional commentary.

When price breaks through a key level, it often trends as short-sellers rush to cover their positions.

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Let’s see what our Breadth Chart reveals about current market strength (or weakness):

We’re seeing across-the-board bullishness except in Utilities.

Combined with price action, the expectation is for additional bullish action in this money flow environment.

Here’s a top-level or full-perspective view of today’s S&P 500 stock performance (courtesy of FinViz.com).

Here are today’s strongest trending (intraday) names – candidates for pro-trend continuation:

TransUnion (TRU), Priceline (PCLN), Helmerich & Payne (HP), and Harley-Davidson (HOG).

Bearish downtrending candidates include the following stocks from our “weakness” scan:

NONE!  No stocks should be sold short today.

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Corey Rosenbloom, CMT
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