There were 44 stocks for the US stocks watchlist today. ASC, ACHC, GFI, LAC + 40 more...

Declines across the entire US stock market this week with the overall average dropping back to 43.93%, which as you can see from the sector data is being propped up by the lingering strength in Energy, Utilities, and Basic Materials. While the rest of the market is lagging, especially the Consumer Discretionary and Technology sectors – which have less than 20% of stocks in each above their medium term 150 day (30 week) moving averages...

Custom Percentage of Stocks Above Their 50 Day, 150 Day & 200 Day Moving Averages Combined Market Breadth Charts for the Overall US Market, NYSE and Nasdaq for Market Timing and Strategy.

The purpose of the Relative Strength (RS) tables is to track the short, medium and long term RS changes of the individual groups to find the new leadership earlier than the crowd...

Strong relative volume came into the Uranium stocks & ETFs today, with multiple stocks from the group testing the highs of their recent ranges, with closes near the highs of the day and the majority moving greater than 5% including the group ETFs. So there's potential for a new Stage 2 breakout "attempt". But as always – and especially in the current market environment – be on alert for signs of failure on any breakout attempt, as failed breakouts can quickly turn into an Upthrust...

Updated exclusive graphic of the 104 Dow Jones Industry Groups showing the Percentage of Stocks Above 30 week MA in each group visualised as a Bell Curve chart – inspired by the Sector Bell Curve work by Tom Dorsey in his Point & Figure book....

This weeks Members Midweek Video focuses on some of the recent areas of weakness, like the Semiconductors groups, plus brief reviews of some of other featured groups in the last few months – as well as the regular midweek features on the indexes, short term market breadth charts and the watchlist stocks in focus.

The major US stock markets continued to pullback sharply today, with strong follow through on the downside in laggard groups, such as Semiconductors that I mentioned previously. Most of the indexes remain in the upper half of the recent trading range though, and are testing both their short and long term MAs, with closes below the 21 day EMA in the Nasdaq and Russell 2000...

Semiconductor group was hit again today with many stocks in the group dropping back below their 50 day MAs again. So the group is in danger of falling into Stage 4 if the weakness persists, as the weekly chart failed at the now declining 30 week MA last week and the relative strength versus the S&P 500 is making new lows ahead of the price action...

The laggard groups were in control again today with strong moves in the majority of the weak RS groups lead by the Communication Services, Consumer Discretionary and Technology sectors, which helped the Nasdaq Indexes to move back towards the top of the range...