The weakest period of the year for stocks is directly ahead, but three influences could work to mitigate this seasonal threat.
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Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today:
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Stocks continue to recover from the prior week’s decline as the bulls pull major benchmarks back from the edge of the cliff that they were bordering on just one week ago. The S&P 500 Index ended higher by just over half of one percent, continuing to move above implied resistance at the 20 and 50-day moving averages. The recovery continues to skew the look of the intermediate-term topping pattern that was charted from last week’s rollover below the mid-July (summer rally) peak. The large-cap benchmark has broken slightly above the range of last week’s bearish candlestick, offsetting the threat that the topping pattern was showing just a short time ago. However, with the weakest part of September is still ahead, running through the last couple of weeks of the month, it is difficult to signal the all-clear to entertain a more risk-on perspective to portfolio allocations in the very near-term (next couple of weeks). We will err on the side of caution that the seasonal tendencies portray for the remaining days of September, but acknowledge that the technical framework is no longer lending itself to a bearish outcome as a base-case scenario.Investments denoted as Accumulate candidates in our chart books continue to work very well, while those indicated as ones to Avoid will obviously warrant scrutiny through the weeks ahead as we progress through this period of seasonal volatility for stocks and as the best six months of the year timeframe nears. The hurdles to watch for a directional bias for the intermediate-term trend are support at the 100-day/20-week moving average (5405) and downside gap resistance between 5622 and 5658; a break of either would likely continue the near-term direction of travel, either higher or lower. Until then, a narrowing consolidation span is the dominant pattern.
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Seasonal charts of companies reporting earnings today:
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