The market pulled back today at key resistance, with multiple market indexes testing their Stage 2 levels at the end of last week. The Fed meeting looms over the market this week, which will be a key driver as to whether the market breaks out into a potential early Stage 2 environment or fails once more and reverses lower – which was the pattern through 2022. So it could be a pivotal week...

The week had a strong start with the Semiconductors group ETF SMH breaking out into potential Stage 2, with many stocks from the group doing the same. NVDA, AMAT, MPWR, TER to name a few...

The Percentage of US Stocks Above Their 150 day Moving Averages in the 11 major sectors has shown continued improvement over the last two weeks since the previous post of the 9th January 2023, increasing by a further +9.07% to 58.47% overall, which puts it at the top of the middle range (Neutral+), which is the Stage 1 zone.

The Stage Analysis members weekend video featuring analysis of the early Stage breakout attempt in Bitcoin, and then 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 had a slight gain over the week of +1.56%. The amount of groups in Stage 4 decreased by -10 (-5%), and the amount of groups in Stage 2 increased by +9 (+4.5%), while the amount groups in Stage 1 or Stage 3 decreased by -1 (-0.5%).

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 were 35 stocks highlighted from the US stocks watchlist scans today...

Special feature video, focusing mainly on IPO stocks from the last three years that are either developing in the Stage 1 basing phase or already early in the Stage 2 advancing phase. As if the US market manages to move into early Stage 2 in the coming weeks/months, then the more speculative areas of the market, such as the IPO stocks, would start to get some interest...