The Healthcare sector dominated the weekend watchlist scans and there's multiple stocks from the sector in the final cut. But many are short term extended, after earnings gaps, or just moving strongly with the group theme. So most are on pullback / consolidation base watch...

There has been steady improvement in the Percentage of US Stocks Above Their 150 day Moving Averages over the last 5 weeks since I produced the sector breadth diagram and table, with a +15.91% improvement over the period and a few more sectors moving into the Stage 1 zone (40% to 60% range), and one sector moving into the Stage 2 zone (above 60%)...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent further improved over the last week, moving further into the Stage 1 zone (40% to 60% range), with an additional +10.5% of groups moving out of the Stage 4 zone (below 40%), and an additional +8% of groups moving into the Stage 2 zone (above 60%)...

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...

Biotechnology stocks group ETFs (XBI and IBB) made a continuation breakout today after a three week consolidation / shallow pullback within their early weekly Stage 1 advance – which has been one of the strongest group moves since the markets June swing low...

For the watchlist from Wednesdays scans...

It was a negative day for all the major US stock market indexes today with the S&P 500 closing down -0.67%, while the Nasdaq showed the best relative strength closing down -0.16%...

The Stage Analysis members weekend video begins with a focus on the Solar Group following this weeks climate spending deal, plus earnings results in multiple stocks in the group which caused a Stage 2 breakout attempt in the group on strong relative volume...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent continued to improve with more groups leaving the Stage 4 zone and shifting to the Stage 1 zone, as well as an additional 5.5% of groups moving into the Stage 2 zone. The average distribution stands at 44.06%, and so the improvements have moved it out from the Stage 4 zone and back into the Stage 1 zone (between 40% and 60%).