Monday, January 6, 2025

Factory Orders ... Momentum Trading DOW Stocks & ETFs … Stock Market Analysis ...

 
“Trade what you see; not what you think.” – The Old Fool, Richard McCranie, trader extraordinaire.
 
“Far more money has been lost by investors in preparing for corrections, or anticipating corrections, than has been lost in the corrections themselves.” - Peter Lynch, former manager of Fidelity’s Magellan® fund.
 
"Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines, the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never happened? Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you. Remember how you sent a mob to our Capitol and then watched the violence on television and refused for hours to instruct the mob to leave? Remember how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic? We remember." – Liz  Cheney.
 
“...[Democrats] often say, when they lose elections, ‘We didn’t get our message out.’ Yes you did. They just didn’t like it. You got it out loud and clear.’ People say she [VP Harris] only had a hundred days. It didn’t matter. You get your message out in five. Other countries have elections that take two weeks... ‘You had too much time... ‘You lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person. Congratulations.’” – Bill Maher
 
How is it possible to lose to Trump? Answer: Trump got 2-million more votes [about 3%] in 2024 than he got in 2020 when he lost to Biden.  The difference was that Harris got 7-million fewer votes than Biden. In other words, 5-million Democrats and Independents stayed home rather than vote for Harris or Trump. – NTSM. (I think these are the final numbers.) I just laugh when I hear the Trumpers claim they have a mandate due to their massive electoral college win. Trump only got a few more votes than he got in 2020. He lucked out that the Dems ran such a weak candidate.
 
HOW CHINESE HACKERS GRADUATED FROM CLUMSY CORPORATE THIEVES TO MILITARY WEAPONS (WSJ)
“The message from President Biden’s national security adviser was startling. Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of U.S. ports, power grids and other infrastructure targets at will, Jake Sullivan told telecommunications and technology executives at a secret meeting at the White House in the fall of 2023... China’s hackers were once thought to be interested chiefly in business secrets and huge sets of private consumer data. But the latest hacks make clear they are now soldiers on the front lines of potential geopolitical conflict between the U.S. and China, in which cyber warfare tools are expected to be powerful weapons.” Story at...
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/typhoon-china-hackers-military-weapons-97d4ef95?mod=djem10point
 
FACTORY ORDERS (Yahoo Finance)
“Factory orders dropped 0.4% after an upwardly revised 0.5% gain in October... Factory production rebounded after contracting for months...” Story at...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-factory-orders-fall-november-153209796.html
 
MARKET REPORT / ANALYSIS AS OF 1PM FRIDAY
-Monday the S&P 500 rose about 0.6% to 5975.
-VIX fell about 0.6% to 16.04.
-The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose (compared to about this time, prior trading day) to 4.624%.
 
MY TRADING POSITIONS:
XLK – Holding since the October 2022 lows.  Added more 9/20.
 
SSO – added 12/20. (IRA acct.)
SPY – added 12/20. (IRA acct.)
QLD – added 12/20. (IRA acct.)
NVDA – added 1/6/2025
 
CURRENT SUMMARY OF APPROXIMATELY 50 INDICATORS:
Today, of the 50-Indicators I track, 11 gave Bear-signs and 11 were Bullish. The rest are neutral. (It is normal to have a lot of neutral indicators since many of the indicators are top or bottom indicators that will signal only at extremes.)
 
The daily Bull/Bear, 50-Indicator spread (Bull Indicators minus Bear Indicators, red curve in the chart above) remained zero (equal Bull indicators and Bear indicators). Yesterday was zero too in the final analysis.
 
TODAY’S COMMENT
The bull-bear indicator spread remained zero. The spread is Neutral, but the improvement from -10 to zero Friday was very bullish.  The10-dMA of the 50-day indicator spread is also bullish since it is now rising.
 
In another bullish sign, Monday, the Index closed 0.5% above its 50-dMA.
 
I added Nvidia today. It has been showing increased momentum recently. We’ll see...
 
BOTTOM LINE
I am bullish.
 
ETF - MOMENTUM ANALYSIS:
TODAY’S RANKING OF 15 ETFs (Ranked Daily) ETF ranking follows:
 

The top ranked ETF receives 100%. The rest are then ranked based on their momentum relative to the leading ETF.
*For additional background on the ETF ranking system see NTSM Page at…
http://navigatethestockmarket.blogspot.com/p/exchange-traded-funds-etf-ranking.html

DOW STOCKS - TODAY’S MOMENTUM RANKING OF THE DOW 30 STOCKS (Ranked Daily)
 

The top ranked Stock receives 100%. The rest are then ranked based on their momentum relative to the leading Stock.
For more details, see NTSM Page at…
https://navigatethestockmarket.blogspot.com/p/a-system-for-trading-dow-30-stocks-my_8.html

MONDAY MARKET INTERNALS (NYSE DATA)
My basket of Market Internals remained BUY.
(My basket of Market Internals is a decent trend-following analysis that is most useful when it diverges from the Index.) 
 
 
 
...My current invested position is about 75% stocks, including stock mutual funds and ETFs. 50% invested in stocks is a normal position. (75% is my max stock allocation when I am confident that markets will continue higher; 30% in stocks is my Bear market position.)
                                             
I trade about 15-20% of the total portfolio using the momentum-based analysis I provide here. When I see bullish signs, I add a lot more stocks to the portfolio, usually by using an S&P 500 ETF as I did back in October 2022 and 2023.