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US Stock Market Breadth Update. Shakeout or Not? Improvements in a Number of Indicators

This week saw a huge shakeout in the leadership stocks with numerous tech and healthcare stocks dropping up to -20% in a just a few days from their highs. However, there is a chance that it was just a shakeout by the markets in order to let the larger players load up on the stronger stocks at a lower price. But this opinion now needs confirmation, as although some traders jumped back in immediately on the assumption of a shakeout. The price action of many stocks that got hit failed to recover with much strength, and still closed the week significantly lower than the previous week, even though they recovered half or more of the drop.
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US Breakout Stocks Watchlist - 27 May 2020

A wild day in the market with multiple stocks running stop losses before reversing into the end of the day. So a potential shakeout day. But it will need confirmation of a higher close than todays high in those stocks that were hit in tomorrows trading, or the recent weakness in them could resume.
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US Breakout Stocks Watchlist - 26 May 2020

Another big gap up at the open day that then spent the rest of the day grinding sideways and lower. The Nasdaq 100 even went negative by the close. There was a lot of rotation with small caps leading in all the sectors that have been underperforming, while the leading sectors such as gold miners and growth stocks took a beating.
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