Breakoutwatch Weekly Summary 08/10/19

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Weekly Commentary
High Volatility Delivers Strong Breakouts but Trend is Down

A volatile week, which initially gave the NASDAQ its biggest loss of the year on Monday, and turned our trend indicators negative, ended with the major indexes posting only modest losses. By Thursday's close, the NASDAQ had recovered its early losses but gave back 1% on Friday to close with a week-on-week loss of 0.6%. This left our trend indicators for the three major indexes still pointing down. These algorithms can be wrong, of course, but the trend is consistent with increasing indications that a recession may be on the horizon. Central banks at home and aboard are cutting interest rates to stimulate economies that they fear are flagging and the yield curve differential between 2 and 10 year treasuries fell to its lowest since 2007, which is widely considered a harbinger of recession.

The volatility delivered some strong breakouts with 12 out of 18 coming from a volatility squeeze situation. 2 of these were from a volatility squeeze in the handle of a cup and handle pattern, and one, SEDG, delivered the highest gain of the week at 22.6%. See the analysis of SEDG below.

My previous research (see Newsletter 4/10/15) showed that breakouts from a Cup and Handle Pattern with volatility squeeze provide best breakout day return and SEDG is a great example.
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The breakout of SEDG came from a short handle after an 18 month cup. The handle showed the typical behavior we look for with falling price after setting the pivot and then a rising right side of the handle. This was accompanied by positive and rising momentum (a requirement for it to be classified as a squeeze) and volume well above average the day we put it on the watchlist.

SEDG SQZ Brkout
Breakouts Summary by Watchlist for Week Beginning 08/05/19
List Breakouts Avg. Gain
CWH 8 4.76
SQZ 10 4.47
HTF
0
HSB
0
DB
0
Breakouts Detail for Week Beginning 08/05/19
Brkout Date Symbol Base Squeeze Brkout Price Brkout Day Close RS Rank* Last Close Current % off BOP Gain at Intraday High
2019-08-07 SEDG CWH y 69.00 80.3 97 82.33 19.32% 22.61%
2019-08-07 FBM SQZ y 16.96 17.7 97 18.72 10.38% 16.4%
2019-08-09 UEIC SQZ y 42.31 46.37 84 46.37 9.6% 11.04%
2019-08-09 NVRO CWH n 69.00 74.46 85 74.46 7.91% 12.22%
2019-08-08 ECPG CWH n 36.69 37.61 86 39.16 6.73% 6.81%
2019-08-08 FBM SQZ y 17.71 19.34 97 18.72 5.7% 11.47%
2019-08-07 WTR SQZ y 41.16 42.06 87 43.04 4.57% 4.93%
2019-08-08 LXP SQZ y 9.87 10.24 84 10.27 4.05% 4.26%
2019-08-07 IRET CWH n 64.95 65.03 85 67.48 3.9% 7.01%
2019-08-07 SERV SQZ y 54.83 55.37 93 56.97 3.9% 5.45%
2019-08-07 OUT SQZ y 27.04 27.12 93 27.86 3.03% 4.47%
2019-08-08 WTR SQZ y 42.07 42.47 88 43.04 2.31% 2.66%
2019-08-08 REPH CWH n 10.69 10.87 93 10.92 2.15% 8.51%
2019-08-09 OHI SQZ y 38.42 38.68 81 38.68 0.68% 0.91%
2019-08-09 AEE SQZ y 76.33 76.69 82 76.69 0.47% 0.72%
2019-08-09 BMA CWH n 76.22 76.48 96 76.48 0.34% 1.43%
2019-08-08 USPH CWH y 132.17 133.84 80 131.37 -0.61% 2.15%
2019-08-05 SA CWH n 14.84 15.34 87 14.59 -1.68% 6.06%
*RS Rank on day before breakout.
Top Rated Cup and Handle Stocks as of Friday August 09, 2019
Symbol BO
Price
BO
Vol.
Company Industry RS
Rank
Last
Close
EBR 11.16 500,318 Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobras Electric Utilities 98 11.07
CRMD 9.99 614,852 CorMedix - Inc. Biotechnology 96 8.20
MAG 12.36 581,193 MAG Silver Corp. Industrial Electrical Equipment 95 11.99
OMN 10.04 1,282,404 OMNOVA Solutions Inc. Specialty Chemicals 93 10.03
ZNGA 6.65 29,721,906 Zynga Inc. Multimedia & Graphics Software 93 6.09
EXTR 8.50 1,863,969 Extreme Networks - Inc. Networking & Communication Devices 91 8.10
CSTM 12.94 1,574,058 Constellium SE Metal Fabrication 90 11.76
SA 15.74 712,470 Seabridge Gold Inc. Gold 89 14.59
VG 13.73 4,939,412 Vonage Holdings Corp. Diversified Communication Services 86 13.21
AMKR 9.79 1,344,856 Amkor Technology - Inc. Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits 83 8.94
These stocks meet our suggested screening factors for our Cup and Handle Chart Pattern watchlist.
See Revised Rules for Trading Cup and Handle Breakouts
Major Index Summary
Index Value Change Week Change YTD Trend1
Dow 26287.4
-0.75% 12.69% Down
NASDAQ 7959.14
-0.56% 19.95% Down
S&P 500 2918.65
-0.46% 16.43% Down
1The Market Trend is derived from our proprietary market model. The market model is described on the site here.
2The site also shows industry rankings based on fundamentals, combined technical and fundamentals, and on price alone. The site also shows daily industry movements.
Best Performing Index
1 Week 13 Weeks 26 Weeks Year-to-Date
S&P 500 Dow Jones
0.53 %
NASDAQ Composite
9.06 %
NASDAQ Composite
19.95 %
Best Performing Industry (by average technical score over each period)
1 Week 3 Weeks 13 Weeks 26 Weeks
Insurance Brokers
Insurance Brokers
Foreign Utilities
Insurance Brokers
Most Improved Industry (by change in technical rank2)
Personal Computers
71
Auto Parts Wholesale
80
Silver
191
Manufactured Housing
207
Charts of each industry rank and performance over 12 months are available on the site

 

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