The Semiconductors group has featured heavily over the last few months. So the midweek video focuses on the group and some of the leading stocks within it.

There were 44 stocks highlighted from the US stocks watchlist scans today...

The Stage Analysis members weekend video featuring the regular content with the major US Indexes, the futures charts, US Industry Groups RS Rankings, IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve - Bullish Percent, the Market Breadth Update to help to determine the Weight of Evidence and finishing with the US Stocks Watchlist in detail on multiple timeframes.

For the watchlist from the weekend scans...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve continued to expand past the middle over the last week by a further +5.80%, ending the week at 60.62%. The amount of groups in Stage 4 decreased by -14 (-7%), and the amount of groups in Stage 2 increased by +23 (+11.5%), while the amount groups in Stage 1 or Stage 3 decreased by -9 (-4.5%).

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...

There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of Stage 2 breakout attempts over the last few weeks, with more and more areas of the market attempting to move into early Stage 2, with many showing both strength and volume, which has caused the indexes to also attempt to move into early Stage 2, as highlighted in the last few days posts.

Stage Analysis Members midweek video discussing the Stage 2 breakout attempts in some of the major indexes, a look at the some of the key market breadth data, recent watchlist stocks and more on the small caps from yesterdays post.

Todays post is a special feature looking at the Small Caps, as ahead of the FOMC on Wednesday, the Russell 2000 Small Caps ETF (IWM) is attempting to breakout into early Stage 2 (see above weekly and daily charts). Hence, with Stage Analysis its the perfect time to drill down into this area of the market, looking at the Small Cap sector Relative Strength, leading Small Cap stocks already in early Stage 2 or testing their Stage 2 level, and some of the market breadth stats from the group to get a broader picture of their internal health...