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Given the market action this week, and the fact that the list has been poorly positioned, I am accelerating the report by a day. Despite losses this week, performance for the month remains positive.
Meanwhile, there were a few clear setups from the screen output for the week. During the week ended Thursday, November 20, out of 1899 stocks meeting institutional price and volume criteria, the screens produced the following results :
Setups:
Cumulative lists of longer-term setups:
214 resting big gainers up from 211 last week, and
308 sleeping dogs, up from 268.
I also look for breakout and breakdown stocks from the last 6 months. The buy side still outnumbers the sells, 133 to 110.
Tactics
For actionable trades, I visually review charts that triggered short term signals from the prescreened structural candidates. Among these there were just 5 new sell setups and 14 new buys. Of those, I selected two on each side to add to the list. New picks are shown on the table below and their charts follow.
I also review the existing issues on the list for whether to close, hold, or add or adjust stops. Here are the results of my final review for this week.
Trade Selections and Adjustments
- 6 new picks.1 buy, 5 shorts
- 5 existing picks hit stops or were previously designated to be covered or sold last week (See table)
- 5 prior picks will be considered sold at today’s open. 12 will remain open of which 3 are short and 9 are buys
- 9 picks with stops. 3 will ride without stops.
Performance Recap – Currently open picks have an average gain of 1.0% on an average holding period of 11 calendar days.
Picks closed so far in November have an average gain of 5.2% with an average holding period of 19calendar days. This compares with a loss of 4.4% in the S&P 500 over the last 19 calendar days through November 20. Charts below.
11/10/25 Picks closed in October showed an average gain of 2.6% on an average holding period of 26 calendar days. Picks closed in September had an average gain of 6.1% on an average holding period of 37 calendar days.