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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...

NFLX (Netflix) from the Earnings Watchlist is the strongest mover of todays earnings results, breaking out of its six-month base structure in the after-hours trading and approaching the still declining 200 day MA...

The heavy volume Spring attempt from last Thursday remains in play as a potential swing low, with a further reclaiming of the 5-day MA in the S&P 500 today – which marks Day 3 of a rally attempt from the swing low. So the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are both potentially in position for another CAN SLIM method Follow Through Day (FTD) attempt on Day 4 or later...

The regular members weekend video discussing the market, industry groups, market breadth and individual stocks from the watchlist in more detail.

Earnings season begins to ramp up this coming week with hundreds of stocks reporting earnings, the bulk of which are in the Bank group and Financials sector. In todays post I've cut the list down to 48 of the stocks reporting to give a reasonably broad overview...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent declined by -1.19% this week to close the week at 22.51% overall, which is deep in the Stage 4 zone (below 40%) still. However, even though the overall average dropped and remains near to the lowest levels of the year. There was some minor positive shifts with slightly more groups moving from Stage 4 into the Stage 1 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 major market indexes had a major shakeout today with a greater than 5% range on the daily bar in the S&P 500 for example, as it opened sharply lower with a Stage 4 continuation breakdown attempt in the pre-market / early European session...