S&P 500 charts a successful gap fill, but negative seasonal tendencies on the horizon in the month of June.
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Stocks jumped to start the holiday shortened Memorial Day week following another reprieve on tariffs from the US president. The S&P 500 Index closed higher by 2.05%, moving back into the band of resistance between 5900 and 6100, effectively the all-time highs. The short-term rising trend stemming from the April lows remains that of higher-highs and higher-lows, but a break of the 50-hour moving average during the middle of last week suggests that the good times has come to an end and a digestive period heading into the end of the second quarter is likely getting underway. Upside gap support around 5700 remains the critical level to watch over the short-term timeframe given a violation of the implied level of support would lead to a resumption of the strains that the intermediate-term trend have been portraying since the start of the year; Tuesday’s jump from the gap confirms the zone as support. We continue to like the way our list of candidates in the market to Accumulate or to Avoid is positioned, although we have significantly added to our list of Avoid candidates in the past week, presenting more of a balanced view of those groups that are working and worthy to buy into against those that are struggling to achieve buying demand and are at risk of faltering through the seasonally weak period in June. On the seasonal timeline, the foreseeable threat to stocks is the mean reversion move lower that is common through the middle of June as quarter-end portfolio rebalancing is enacted. In the meantime, the Super Simple Seasonal Portfolio is effectively mitigating the stresses that have bubbled up into the market, maintaining the appropriate risk profile, even with an elevated level of equity exposure than may have normally been sought heading towards the month of June.
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Seasonal charts of companies reporting earnings today:
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