Category: sectors
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5 Sectors to Watch this Week
I will be watching the following sectors closely this week: Industrial Metals recently broke out to new highs and is now consolidating gains. I am looking for low volume weakness in the sector’s strongest stocks, which include FDG, BOOM and BBL.
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2 Great Ways to Play the Agriculture Bull Market
Update: I inadvertently uploaded charts of FLR and FWLT, instead of AGU and MON. I’ll leave the other two charts up since both stocks are on my primary watchlist. Here are the charts for AGU and MON, two of my favorite ag plays: FWLT and FLR charts:
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Sectors Posting Five Days of Gains
The following 15 sectors have posted positive gains 5 days in a row: Sectors that have me interested include: beverages, aerospace/defense, oil & gas and ag chemcicals.
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10 Sectors and Stocks to Watch
The following 10 sectors had a week that rivaled Tom Brady’s week one breakout: I went through the top 10 sectors and picked one or two stocks from each: ABX & AEM (Gold)DVA (Specialized Health Services)LVS & WYNN (Resorts and Casinos)XMSR (Broadcasting Radio)CELG & ILMN (Biotech)JEC & KBR (Technical Services)CEO…
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August Sector Review
It’s a good idea to keep tabs on what’s working and what’s not, so at the end of every month I do a sector review. Here are the top and bottom twenty for August. Bottom 20 Sectors: Top 20 Sectors: Many of the top performing sectors are coming off down…
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Weakening Market?
Only 6 out of 239 sector groups posted positive gains today. While the market did okay today, this breadth reading is not a postive for the market. To make matters worse, I only had 16 candidates to choose from on my breakout scan, which is the lowest I can remember…
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Sector Analysis: Restaurants
The restaurant sector has been on fire over the past two months. On the sector chart below we can see a break out at 775 and made a 50 point rise with limited pullbacks. Finally, we have a pullback to the 20 day MA, making this an attractive entry point.…
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Strong Sector Stocks Watchlist
Here are some stocks on my watchlist. All of these stocks come from the 20 strongest sectors over the past 10 days. I have not included notes because all of the stocks are extended and in need of a pullback. I’m looking for pullbacks to either price support or a…
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Strategy: Under the Radar Sectors (Today it’s Foreign Utilities)
As I’ve discussed before, I like to scan the top and bottom ten peforming sectors over a given time period for charts providing nice looking setups. While this is a good method for providing setups, it can also lead to a lot of “whipsaws” or failed setups, since just about…