Cyclical sectors of the market are charting fresh 52-week relative highs as technology suffers.
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Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today:
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Super Simple Seasonal Portfolio
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Stocks slipped further on Thursday as the spill-over of the negative reaction to the Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s post Fed meeting commentary continued. The S&P 500 Index fell by just over one percent, continuing to feel the drag from the technology sector as the rising cost of borrowing weighs. The benchmark closed around short-term support at its rising 20-day moving average, attempting to keep the short-term bottoming setup that the benchmark has shown in recent weeks intact. Momentum indicators are rolling over with MACD converging on its signal line in what is poised to amount to an imminent sell signal. The intermediate trend of lower-lows and lower-highs persists and the short-term rising trend stemming from the mid-October low has been violated. We are waiting to see where the dust settles and where we can once again ramp up risk exposure in the Super Simple Seasonal Portfolio to position ourselves appropriately for the positivity of the market that is typical of the end of the year. A weaker seasonal pattern through the the middle of November, on average, risks being exacerbated by tax loss selling, of which portfolio managers have plenty of positions to choose from. Typically, the tax loss selling/portfolio rebalancing pattern into year end has a mean reversion effect where winners are typically sold off/profits booked and funds are allocated back to the losers. Growth stocks in the consumer discretionary and technology sectors certainly dominate the losers list, while energy stocks have been the winners, both ripe for mean reversion and/or internal rebalancing through the remaining weeks of the year.
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Seasonal charts of companies reporting earnings today:
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