April 17th Utilities Collapse Intraday Breadth Update and Stock Scan

What a difference a day makes! In yesterday’s mid-day update, I highlighted a broader bullish signal from breadth, namely from weakness in utilities and strength in all other sectors.  The suggestion was that price would likely continue higher. With today’s session another gap-up and trend event (so far), we saw that signal fulfilled; however, on…

Utilities and Stocks Breaking to New 52 Week Highs

Sometimes the simplest things are effective for finding candidates to trade on a short-term or intraday basis. For example, if you want to identify strong stocks that are likely uptrending – and may continue to do so – scan for stocks bursting to new 52-week highs in an uptrending market (particularly in strong sectors). Let’s…

April 16 Bullish Sector Breadth and Trending Stocks

We finally have broad bullish sector breadth for today’s bullish bounce session. Let’s take a look at S&P 500 Sector Breadth and the current trending stock candidates: In the previous bullish bounce sessions, we’ve seen “caution” signs coming from sector strength in Utilities and Energy. This time, we see broad bullish breadth where Industrials ($XLI)…

Seven New 52 Week Highs and One New Low for April 14

Following-up on this morning’s intraday Breadth and Trending Stock Scan update, let’s take a quick look at the seven stocks pushing to new 52-week highs and the one lonely stock breaking to a new 52-week low on today’s bullish support bounce intraday session. The following stocks pushed to new 52-week highs today, as seen on…

Bullish Sector Breadth with Caution and Trending Stock Scan for April 14

While the broader US Stock Market rallies sharply off an inflection low today, the Sector Breadth performance sends caution signals despite broader bullish price action. Let’s see what’s going on under the market and identify our key trending stocks for today’s session. Despite across the board bullish price action where 90% of Dow Jones and…

April 11 Breakdown Sector Breadth and Trending Update

With the broader market breaking a key support level this morning, let’s take a quick look at mid-day Sector Breadth and view the results of our Trending Stock Scan candidates. Here’s current Bearish/Breakdown Sector Breadth: We’re seeing another clear example of Bearish Breadth where the strongest sector is Utilities ($XLU) followed by Energy ($XLE). All…

Essential April Fibonacci Retracement Levels for Dow NASDAQ and SPX

With the US Equity Markets correcting lower against recent highs, let’s take a moment to update our short-term Fibonacci Retracement Reference levels and note something very interesting about how far the NASDAQ has fallen. We’ll start with the S&P 500 levels: The S&P 500 is stair-stepping lower, starting with the 38.2% Fibonacci Retracement level which…

April 10 Another Collapsing Breadth and Downtrending Stock Update

We’re seeing another sharp rotation of money flow out of stocks as seen by price itself and the rotation into defensive sectors again. Let’s start with our mid-day Sector Breadth Grid to assess the damage (and opportunity): If we go back to intraday updates from “April 7th Collapsing Breadth” along with “April 4th Reversal Day,”…

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Gaps and Traps with Breaks and Fakes for ISRG

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) is the weakest performing stock today (largest percentage loser) in the S&P 500 which prompted me to investigate more about this stock and its chart. A quick glance at the Daily Chart shows a “Break and Fake-out” situation along with a sudden reversal back to the breakout price. April 1st triggered an…