As we come to the end of October, it's worth zooming out from your regular chart timescales and taking a look at the bigger picture across different areas of the markets for some perspective.

Part 3 of the regular members weekend video discussing the market breadth to determine the weight of evidence.

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

Part 1 of the weekend video discussing the US watchlist stocks in detail.

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent moved strongly higher over the last week with a +13.25% improvement, with 57 Groups (-28.5%) moving out of the Stage 4 zone, and 34 Groups (+17%) moved into the Stage 1 zone, and 23 Groups (+11.5%) moved 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 members midweek video this week begins with a special group focus on the Software group, which I've talked about in the Stage Analysis videos a number of times over the summer months, as the stocks in the group have gradually moved towards Stage 1 type behaviour...

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...