After a long long time that I am seeing protracted weakness in SOX....
RUT is also lagging...
SOX & RUT used to be leading indicator, not anymore.....
Here is a quick look @ RSI for strength and weakness :
SOX 51.79
RUT 55.93
Nasdaq 57.36
S&P 500 64.14
Dow 65.85
It is extremely interesting that SOX, RUT and Nasdaq are weaker among 5 index / sectors....very unusual.
It is getting very hard to make any sense of SOX, RUT for direction of this market.
DOW is the strongest followed by S&P 500
Quite often markets do very unusual things and do not follow common wisdom of wall street.
AMD has been a star performer after languishing badly for decades.......looks like there is more room to run $40 is the highest target so far.....
NVDA is also looking good after faltering earlier.
MU AMAT INTC QRVO seems to have lost their stride...
GOOG looks weak.....
NFLX looks OK
AAPL is fine.....
FB may have made a double bottom......
All in all lot of opportunity to look @ despite many mistimed tweets......
Good luck with your own analysis and comfort level.
BLOG does NOT give buy or sell.
Saleem
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Hi Saleem,
Last week's performance: +2.66% (YTD: +43.94%)
Notable Winners: TENB MTCH TRIL LQDA APPN SAIL PANW
Notable Losers: AQST MU
Although the week turned out nicely due to some stock-specific rises, it didn't feel all that great by the end. Like your weekly comments, I am starting to feel the sluggishness of the Nasdaq and small caps, maybe due to the 10yr note rising near (and now above) 3%. This is my primary concern for the secular growth stocks as the Fed appear to be on its consistent tightening path. Although true growth from these stocks is unlikely to slow, the price investors are willing to pay can change quickly. Along side this is a small ongoing shift towards some value stocks. I enter this week more cautiously and wait to see how things develop.
Holdings: CSOD MU APPN LQDA MDSO TENB SAIL BEAT MTCH SPLK PANW VCEL TRIL VRTX AQST, cash 0.0%
I have pared back the size of almost all my overweights with only CSOD > 10% of the portfolio now. This has led me towards more holdings again, but I continue to evaluate how I should be positioned.
Stocktrader
Hi stocktrader,
Last week UP .22%
YTD loss 29.42%
Saleem
Hi Saleem,
Sold VRTX @ 177.20
Bought PRNB @ 28.37
Using the drop to pick up more volatile stocks at cheaper prices. PRNB IPO'd Friday and has some of the most highly respected institutional biotech investors. I tried to get this for a good price on Friday but it ran away from me, so I used today's dip to start a position.
Stocktrader
Hi Stocktrader,
Good luck with PRNB.....
Saleem
Hi Saleem,
Sold PANW @ 232.99
Bought VRNS @ 75.83
Another case of upping the beta with PANW one of the slowest moving cybersecurity stocks. VRNS has seen extremely persistent accumulation since its post-earnings selloff, and I think this speaks to its positioning in the expanding data security market. I want to be involved.
Stocktrader
Hi Stocktrader,
Good luck with VRNS.....
Saleem
Hi Saleem,
Trimmed a little TENB @ 35.21 to take profits
Bought a little AQST @ 16.13 on the dip
Stocktrader
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