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Our proprietary cycle screens returned 1031 charts that met ideal major trend buy setup criteria last week. That’s out of 1480 that met minimum price and volume criteria. It is an enormous number but it doesn’t necessarily imply that a big bull move is coming. It merely means that most stocks had fallen to test major support and rebounded to finish above those support levels. That’s typically a short term bullish setup. After a long bull run, the first pullback to support almost never results in a major reversal, but it could be the start of a topping process that could ultimately result in a subsequent breakdown.
Drilling down, there were only 108 stocks that met intermediate buy side criteria and just 70 hit short term buy triggers over the course of the week.
There were 108 that met ideal major sell criteria on the week. That means that they rose to long term resistance and were rebuffed. 165 had intermediate term sell setups, which is significantly more than intermediate buys. 131 hit short term sell triggers, nearly double the short term buy triggers.
Looking at just Friday’s data, there were 30 short term buy signals and 52 on the sell side.
Among the major and intermediate buy setups, 21 short term buys triggered versus 4 sells on Friday. So it is a mixed bag overall, not a picture that suggests easy pickings.
On visual review I liked just one of the buys and none of the shorts as shown on the table in the subscriber report.
Two existing picks hit stop prices during the week and one short had been noted to be covered as of the opening price last week. I have designated 1 sell and 1 short cover as of Monday’s opening prices. I am adding stops to the remaining picks. Last week the list showed an average gain of 7.9% on an average holding period of 13 calendar days versus 5.4% with an average holding period of 11 calendar days the previous week. This week the list starts with 18 open picks of which 6 are longs and 12 are shorts. Last week there were 17 open picks to start, of which 9 were longs and 8 were shorts.