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Sizing Up the S&P 500
- S&P 500 maintains steady uptrend as breadth improves and rate of change stays positive
- Potential support: 5111 (2/11 high)
- Next major catalyst could be Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, 3/20
- Advance/Decline Line shows positive breadth as index pushes new highs
- Nasdaq-100’s A/D Line has stopped rising in the last month
Energy / Metals In Focus
- Crude-oil futures (@CL):
- Non-commercial net long positions rising since December as institutional investors look for upside
- OPEC sticks with oil-demand growth forecast despite IEA doubts
- Ukraine attacks on Russian refineries remind traders of geopolitical risk
- Crude oil inventories -1.5mln barrels vs +900K estimate
- Energy Select Sector Index approaches potential “golden cross” after four-month base
- Note: @CL daily chart has the tightest Bollinger Bandwidth since March 2017
- Goldman Sachs predicted 2/21 copper and gold would benefit most from Fed rate cuts
- Copper futures (@HG):
- Prices challenge highs from August
- Gold futures (@GC):
- Above weekly closing highs of 2021-2023
Sector Watch
- Energy, Materials leading in the last 1-2 weeks
- Global stocks outperforming
- Precious metals outperforming
- Homebuilders outperforming
- Biotechnology, banks, semiconductors lagging in the past week
- “Value” outperforming “growth” in the last month
Key News:
- February CPI slightly higher than expected
- February non-farm payrolls beat, but unemployment higher than expected and wages lower than expected.
- Deutsche Bank expects Tesla (TSLA) deliveries to miss estimates amid weak demand, Cybertruck slowness
- CNBC: “EV euphoria is dead.”
- Oppenheimer on Netflix (NFLX): Password crackdown boosting revenue per user
- Goldman Sachs raises 2024 buybacks growth forecast for S&P 500 from +4% to +13%. Sees +16% in 2025.
- Megacap tech earnings growth driving trend
- CNBC: Silver could outperform gold on rate cuts, industrial demand
- Reuters: China unexpectedly cuts copper production
- Bally’s (BALY) jumps on takeover offer for casino operator
Signals Scan
- Russell 2000 tries to hold December high
- S&P 400 Midcap index clear 2021 peak
- Microsoft (MSFT): Potential trendline breakout
- $SOX: Bearish engulfing Friday menaces Philadelphia Semiconductor Index
- Goldman Sachs (GS): Will tight consolidation resolve to upside?
- InterDigital (IDCC) holding above 2017 high
- Celldex Therapeutics (CLDX) retraces 50% of 2/26 rally, tries to hold 2023 highs, 21-day EMA
- Greenbrier (GBX) pulls back to 21-day EMA, above 2023 high
- 1/5: Earnings beat on margins, multiyear business turnaround plan
Upcoming Events
- Fri 3/15: Industrial production, consumer sentiment
- Mon 3/18: NAHB housing index, Nvidia’s GTC conference (March 18-21)
- Tues 3/19: Housing starts, building permits
- Wed 3/20: Crude oil inventories, FOMC with Dot Plot
- Thu 3/21: Initial jobless claims, Microsoft New Era of Work conference
Using the Platform
- “Bollinger Bandwidth Range” custom indicator added to zip file above
- Readings of 0-100 show tightest to widest distance between Bollinger Bands.
- Bollinger Bandwidth Range works on Chart Analysis, RadarScreen, Scanner
- It can be combined with “Bollinger %B” (>1) in Scanner to find stocks with tight bandwidth breaking the top of their bands
- This shows whether current movement is significant relative to history.
- Bollinger Bandwidth Range compares each stock to its own historical norms.
- (Simple Bollinger Bandwidth varies based on the different volatilities of various symbols. This makes it less useful for comparing stocks to each other.)
Standardized Performances for ETF mentioned above
| ETF | 1 Year | 5 Years | 10 Years |
| SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) | +28.22% | +82.32% | +172.74% |
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