The price of oil is reacting to declining trendline resistance as its period of seasonal weakness gets underway.
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Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today:
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Stocks ramped higher on Wednesday as the summer rally engine clicks into high gear, keeping the string of new all-time highs alive and well. The S&P 500 Index closed with a gain of just over one percent, continuing to bounce from the 20-day moving average (5488) that was tested at the start of the month. Major moving averages continue to fan out in a positive manner and momentum indicators are firmly above their middle lines, both characteristics of a bullish trend that is conducive to providing the positive backdrop to the summer rally timeframe that spans the first few weeks of the third quarter. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is pushing further into overbought territory above 70, now sitting at the highest level since the middle of December. While this could easily exhaust the near-term rising path at some point, leading to a digestuve phase that will likely coincide with the period of volatility for stocks ahead, there is still nothing yet to suggest that we have seen the peak for this mid-year move higher. The period of average volatility follows, spanning the remainder of the third quarter, therefore planning out stops on current holdings may be prudent to assure that risk mitigation efforts through August, September, and October are deployed effectively while looking for the opportunity to overweight bond market allocations following this equity market rally.
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Seasonal charts of companies reporting earnings today:
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