Download at the link below a four-week look back at Metals & Mining with stock-by-stock detail. SMO Metals 2023 01 13 SMO Metals 2023-01-13.pdf 1 MB download-circle

Download at the link below a four-week look back at Energy with stock-by-stock detail. SMO Energy 2023 01 13 SMO Energy 2023-01-13.pdf 2 MB download-circle

Download at the link below a four-week look back at Real Estate with stock-by-stock detail. SMO Real Estate 2023 01 13 SMO Real Estate 2023-01-13.pdf 2 MB download-circle

Download at the link below a four-week look back at Banking with stock-by-stock detail. SMO Banking 2023 01 13 SMO Banking 2023-01-13.pdf 2 MB download-circle

The following five images show the progression of the Sector Risk Gauge from the above 11/4/22 reading. The market strengthened into 11/11/22.  It has been softening underneath since then.  As of Friday 12/9/22, the Healthcare sector is showing the most strength, with Financial and

Also, a look at key technology, financial, and other industries of interest.   As always, no predictions, nothing says the market cannot reverse course tomorrow or this week for any reason or seemingly no reason.  However, it would seem foolish to stand in the way of this rather than just go

Energy is strong overall but even in a strong industry there are leaders and laggards. If you own CLB - at the very bottom of the list above in the Oil & Gas Equipment & Services sub-industry - what is your thesis?  If there are other proven leaders out there

See detail photo above, blue boxes.  Max score is currently 2, below the minimum interest level of 3 (max possible is 6).  Score is based on stock, sub-industry, and industry strength. Why isn't gold taking off given inflation?  There is across-the-board weakness in this sub-industry.  Each stock has

Introducing a quick way to understand current risk in the market through a sector focus.  Healthcare lagging, generally still weakening. All others strengthening. Why should you care about this? Most stocks do what the market does, but the market can only do what its underlying stocks do. How do you

META aka Facebook down from $376 14 months ago to below $100 today.  Anyone thinking it is going to rocket back from here is not appropriately aware.  This will take a while from which to recover.  It is dead for a long time and there are at least 3,500

Why do you care about something like this?   If you don't have dry powder, you don't.  You'll want to just manage your current positions. If you do have dry powder, you'll want to know which are the strongest and weakest stocks in

How relevant is the capitalization size distinction (small-, mid-, and large-cap)?   From my perspective, not very.  Strengthening vs. weakening is a more relevantly actionable distinction. This topic will be visited in more detail in a future post, but for now below are downloadable details comparing the S&P 400/

What's happening with these stocks given another SPR release on the way and OPEC cutting output?  A strengthening week for all the sub-industries, with Major Integrated Oil & Gas and O&G Gas Drilling and Exploration leading the way.   Downloadable report to see what is happening stock

Huge up day today did it have an impact?  Let's look at semis...  NOPE.  Not yet at least. Downloadable report to see what is happening stock by stock: SMO Electronics 2022 10 17 A four-week look back at this industry's strength. SMO Electronics 2022-10-17.pdf 1

Banks have strengthened overall over the past two weeks.  Foreign Regional, Money Center, and S&Ls are lagging.  Southwest and Southeast are leading. Downloadable report with stock-by-stock detail for Money Center and Pacific banks: SMO Banking 2022 10 13 A week-by-week strength look over the past four weeks SMO

A totally different analysis - take a look.  Stock vs. sub-industry vs. industry strengthening/weakening analysis.   Below - full detailed downloadable industry report.  This shows you head-to-head strength comparisons of individual stocks by sub-industry. SMO Real Estate 2022 10 12 A four week look back at strength in Real Estate