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Today saw strong moves in the more depressed areas of the market with leadership from beaten down areas such as Growth, Consumer Discretionary, Communication Services, Technology, Software, Semiconductors and IPOs and more. Which triggered yet another Follow Through Day (FTD) attempt – the fourth this year – and IBD declaring a Confirmed Uptrend again. However...

Stage 4 / Stage 1 stocks building base structures for the watchlist from the IPO stocks that have come public in the last year...

Todays Stage Analysis members video includes a special feature focusing on the IPO stocks that listed in the last year and are attempting to build bases. The has been a huge decline in the IPO stocks since November, with a more than -60% decline in the IPO etf for example that covers the group. But some of those younger stocks that have listed could recover and become future leading stocks once the Stage 4 decline ends and starts to transition into Stage 1.

Oil stocks remain in focus with many in the sector tightening up near the highs of their current base structures...

SNAP made another massive continuation breakdown on earnings in the after hours trade in its late Stage 4 decline, and has now given back the entire 2020 Stage 2 advance, and joins the likes of PTON, ROKU, PYPL, SQ, PINS and many more former 2020 leading stocks that have come full circle and given it all back again since breaking down into Stage 4 during various points over the course of the last year...

This weekends Stage Analysis Members Video features Stage Analysis of the mega caps $AAPL and $TLSA as they test major levels in early Stage 4, plus the Major Indexes Review. Then a look at the US Stocks Industry Groups Relative Strength tables and groups of interest. The Market Breadth Charts to determine The Weight of Evidence and the US Stocks Watchlist in Detail, with marked up charts of what I'm watching for on the long and short side.

Friday produced a potential shakeout move in the major US stock markets (i.e. the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Russell 2000) with a failed breakdown attempt and monthly options expiry potentially playing a role, with the price action closing between the maximum pain levels for both puts and calls...

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...

Gold and Miners are coming back into focus today, with a move by the Gold continuous futures back through the 200 day MA on increased volume, and so a potential spring type event at the moving average – which has also been showing up in the individual gold miners and some of the silver miners too over the last week or so...