“Trade what you see; not what you think.” – The Old Fool, Richard McCranie, trader extraordinaire.
“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 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
-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%.
XLK – Holding since the October 2022 lows. Added more 9/20.
SPY – added 12/20. (IRA acct.)
QLD – added 12/20. (IRA acct.)
NVDA – added 1/6/2025
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.
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.
I am bullish.
TODAY’S RANKING OF 15 ETFs (Ranked Daily) ETF ranking follows:
*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)
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.)
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.