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Impressive price and breadth uptrends remain intact - The S&P 500 and Russell 2000 small-cap indices made new all-time highs again this week keeping their price trends firmly intact. Peeling the onion to look inside these indices, participation or breadth, as measured by the S&P and NYSE advance-decline lines, also remain in confirmed uptrends and are not signaling any meaningful deterioration yet. As I write this note on Friday afternoon, the Russell 2000 has pulled back over the past 2 days after a 12.7% rebound from just the January 4th lows that extended the rebound that began in late September 24 lows to over 50%. Impressive moves to say the least!
Minor divergence to keep an eye on heading into February - I continue to expect a temporary, multi-month pullback or pause to develop for equity markets in Q1 given our weekly momentum indicators are moving toward overbought levels. However, at this point, there is not a lot of meaningful technical evidence to conclude a correction is beginning. I would highlight that in the very short-term there are a few divergences I will be monitoring closely in the coming weeks. Specifically, the Russell 2000 made new price high on January 20th but relative performance versus the S&P 500 has diverged this week peaking on January 14th. Conversely, the S&P High Beta ETF (SPHB), which is one of our recommendations for exposure to cyclical/epi-centerstocks, also peaked in price and relative performance versus the S&P 500 on January 14th. Why am I focusing on such minor divergences in this week’s note? Well, it is the small divergences that eventually lead to bigger divergences, so it is important to monitor potential changes taking place as they develop week to week. At this point, I view this week’s pullback to be just a short-term pullback and expect another upside move next week into month-end. I’ll be paying close attention to the relative performance trends of the Russell 2000 and SPHB ETF to see if they diverge further from their prices as a sign their uptrends are beginning to peak.
Homebuilder and Housing are timely again following Q3-Q4 pullbacks - My expectation is that we are likely to see more industry group rotation from recent leaders to recent laggards develop through Q1. As I have mentioned regularly in this space, I use weekly momentum indicators as useful tools to track 1-2 quarter trend shifts across markets, screening for those groups showing evidence of bottoming. What stands out this week are the homebuilding and housing related stocks. Sure, they rallied strongly on Tuesday and Wednesday, but their weekly chart profiles suggest this group is early in a new upside move after pulling back through most of Q3-Q4. Stocks such as DHI, LEN, TOL, PHM, HD, and even THO all have similar chart profiles and are timely long candidates as is the ITB ETF featured below as a proxy for the Housing group.
Figure: Weekly Sector Review
Source: FSInsight, FactSet
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