The major US markets rallied strongly today with expanding short-term breadth and a further Follow Through Day. However, it's Mega Cap earnings week, and GOOGL and MSFT kicked it off with negatively received earnings reports...

The S&P 500 (shown above via the SPY etf intraday 130 minute chart – 3 bars/day) continued higher towards the top of the October range that's developed as a Stage 1 base structure on the lower intraday timeframes, and is now testing the top of the range...

Part 2 of the regular members weekend video discussing the market, commodities, industry groups and market breadth to determine the weight of evidence.

Part 1 of the weekend video discussing the watchlist stocks from Thursday and the Weekend watchlist posts.

I noted the relative strength in the Nonferrous Metals and Steel groups in the RS rankings blog post on Friday, which have also featured strongly in the watchlist scans this weekend, as well as a number of other areas such as Gold Mining (Gold and Silver stocks) and the strength in some of the Technology groups as money rotated from more defensive groups/sectors into the more speculative areas on Friday...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent improved over the last week with 24 groups (-12%) less in the Stage 4 zone, and 14 groups (+7%) more groups in the neutral Stage 1 / Stage 3 zone and 10 groups (+5%) more moving into the Stage 2 zone...

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...

The S&P 500 and other major stock market indexes pulled back for another day, but remains above the swing low that formed a week ago on heavy volume on the 13th October...

The members midweek video, this week discussing the divergence in Crude Oil Futures and the breakout attempts in the Oil stocks. Then a look at the market indexes, short-term market breadth and Stage Analysis of some of the weeks key earnings results so far...