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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, And Industrials Still Turned Green

Oct 28, 2026

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23 min read

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, And Industrials Still Turned Green

UPS jumped 5.75% on its beat and Caterpillar rose 3.06%, enough to outrun Boeing's 10.69% drop, and the S&P 500 fund closed back above its fifty-day line. Health Care and Consumer Staples went red, and the Fed decides at 2 p.m.

The trail wound higher into thin, crystalline air, each switchback revealing another impossible vista of jagged peaks and turquoise water below. Frost clung to the ridgelines as the group pressed on, chasing the last light before it slipped behind the summit.

Brad Hoppmann

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Micron Rose 2.98% As Anthropic's IPO Filing Lifted The Chip Stocks

Micron Rose 2.98% As Anthropic's IPO Filing Lifted The Chip Stocks

Underneath, Meta fell on its $95 billion funding need and Verizon fell on the day it beat. The market-risk gauge climbed out of red, and no sector light is red this morning.

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Oct 27, 2026

Taintsville Take: Five Things Carl Learned From The Biggest AI Company’s IPO Filing Today

Taintsville Take: Five Things Carl Learned From The Biggest AI Company’s IPO Filing Today

And My Takeaway...

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Oct 26, 2026

AT&T Fell 7.96% On Reports SpaceX Is Shopping For Cell Sites

AT&T Fell 7.96% On Reports SpaceX Is Shopping For Cell Sites

Verizon beat the estimate this morning, by two outlets. Underneath, oil’s jump turned Energy green while four greens slipped to yellow, and the board reads two green, seven yellow and two red.

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Oct 26, 2026

Sector Cycle Radar

We provide analysis on the S&P Sectors and provide actionable insight into how current cycles are affecting each sector and predict what the future of the sector results will be.

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Procter & Gamble Rose 5.6% On The Nasdaq’s Worst Day Since June

Oct 23, 2026

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Procter & Gamble Rose 5.6% On The Nasdaq’s Worst Day Since June

Staples, Health Care and Real Estate turned green while the chip fund fell 5.99%. Technology went red, and that means Monday’s bounce was only a bounce.

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Industrials Jumped From Red To Green.

Oct 22, 2026

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25 min read

Industrials Jumped From Red To Green.

The giants carried the index, the crowd split thirty-three to thirty-four, and five of our eleven sector gauges stepped down

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The Crowd Came Back On Tuesday. Six Sectors Turned Green

Oct 21, 2026

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26 min read

The Crowd Came Back On Tuesday. Six Sectors Turned Green

The index barely moved, but forty-eight of our sixty-seven companies rose and the count above trend jumped from thirty-three to thirty-nine in one session.

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Tech Bounced On Monday. The Rest of the Market Bounced Around a Bit Too. Very Yellow.

Oct 20, 2026

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24 min read

Tech Bounced On Monday. The Rest of the Market Bounced Around a Bit Too. Very Yellow.

Chips bounced and the index rose 0.42%, but only twenty-one of our sixty-seven companies rose and every one of our six green sectors gave up its green.

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Chip Stocks Fell Hard On Friday. Most Of The Market Didn't Follow.

Oct 19, 2026

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26 min read

Chip Stocks Fell Hard On Friday. Most Of The Market Didn't Follow.

The index fell 1.11% as chipmakers sold off again, but thirty-eight of our sixty-seven companies rose and six of eleven sector funds closed higher.

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Most Of Our Stocks Rose This Week. The Index Slipped.

Oct 17, 2026

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14 min read

Most Of Our Stocks Rose This Week. The Index Slipped.

Forty-eight of the sixty-seven big companies we track finished the week higher, yet the index fell 0.28% because the chip makers that carry it fell the hardest.

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Eight Sectors Turned Back to Green On Thursday. But Technology Stubbornly Refused to Join the Move.

Oct 16, 2026

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28 min read

Eight Sectors Turned Back to Green On Thursday. But Technology Stubbornly Refused to Join the Move.

Wholesale prices posted their biggest yearly jump since 2022, and bonds rallied anyway. Seven of our gauges rose and none fell, yet the one built off the index stayed red.

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Investors Sold The AI Stocks And Bought Medicine And Groceries. Our Market Gauge Turned Red.

Oct 15, 2026

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29 min read

Investors Sold The AI Stocks And Bought Medicine And Groceries. Our Market Gauge Turned Red.

The S&P 500 fell 1.08% after a hot inflation report, yet forty of the sixty-seven big companies we track rose. Our index gauge dropped from yellow to red.

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Gas Costs 34% More Than Last Year. That’s Driving Inflation Back Up.

Oct 14, 2026

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36 min read

Gas Costs 34% More Than Last Year. That’s Driving Inflation Back Up.

September’s headline rate hit 3.7% while the core rate held at 2.6%. Energy did the work: up 20.4% over the year, with gasoline up 34.2%.

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Half Our Stocks Just Climbed Back Above Their Trend.

Oct 13, 2026

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29 min read

Half Our Stocks Just Climbed Back Above Their Trend.

The count of our companies above their fifty-day average hit thirty-four. But, only four of the eleven sector funds have followed them, so the move isn't confirmed yet.

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A Rocket Company Bought Radio Airwaves. Two Phone Companies Lost A Tenth Of Their Value.

Oct 12, 2026

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37 min read

A Rocket Company Bought Radio Airwaves. Two Phone Companies Lost A Tenth Of Their Value.

Nine of our eleven sector lights read green on Friday’s close and the overall S&P market-risk gauge turned green with them. The one new red light belongs to the sector that owns the phone companies.

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Our Board Turned Green Again. The Red Lights Moved To Technology And Health Care.

Oct 9, 2026

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40 min read

Our Board Turned Green Again. The Red Lights Moved To Technology And Health Care.

Seven of eleven sector verdicts changed on Thursday’s close and five of them improved. The two that went red carry the chip stocks and the big drugmakers.

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Our Board Went From Ten Green Lights To Four In One Day. The Index isnt Moving Much.

Oct 8, 2026

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34 min read

Our Board Went From Ten Green Lights To Four In One Day. The Index isnt Moving Much.

Seven of eleven sector verdicts were downgraded on Wednesday's close with no upgrades, a day after the most constructive board this engine had ever published. The index itself fell a quarter of a percent.

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The Mortgage Rate Just Jumped To 7.49%. Stocks Closed At A Record.

Oct 7, 2026

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42 min read

The Mortgage Rate Just Jumped To 7.49%. Stocks Closed At A Record.

Ten of our eleven sector ratings now read green, and all eleven readings improved on the same bar for the first time. The thirty-year mortgage rate printed 7.49% this morning, up nineteen basis points in a week.

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The Trade Deficit Just Hit $105.6 Billion In A Single Month.

Oct 6, 2026

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37 min read

The Trade Deficit Just Hit $105.6 Billion In A Single Month.

Our board carries no red lights for the first time in this stretch, and Technology lost momentum on the day the Nasdaq closed at a record. The dollar is at a 52-week high and the long end keeps selling.

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Nike Beat On Earnings. The Stock Is Down 10% This Morning.

Oct 2, 2026

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31 min read

Nike Beat On Earnings. The Stock Is Down 10% This Morning.

The company also missed on sales, named a restructuring it calls Pace and cut its outlook for the year. One session earlier we called a beat rejected and watched that stock close up three percent.

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The Two Safe Sectors Lost Their Green Lights In One Day

Sep 30, 2026

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33 min read

The Two Safe Sectors Lost Their Green Lights In One Day

Industrials and Utilities took the greens instead. That's the result this letter published yesterday as the one that would prove its own read wrong.

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Only Two Green Lights Are Left, And Both Are Defensive

Sep 29, 2026

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26 min read

Only Two Green Lights Are Left, And Both Are Defensive

Consumer Staples rose two steps to green and Consumer Discretionary fell two steps to red in the same Monday session, while the ten-year finished a 28-basis-point run in four days and the long bond printed a new low.

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The Best Sector Of The Year Just Had Its Worst Day.

Sep 28, 2026

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26 min read

The Best Sector Of The Year Just Had Its Worst Day.

Energy's reading fell 53 points in one session and the light went red. Monday morning it's the only sector bid.

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The Index Did Nothing Thursday. Money Still Moved...

Sep 25, 2026

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33 min read

The Index Did Nothing Thursday. Money Still Moved...

Six of eleven sector lights changed color on a day the S&P 500 fell eight hundredths of one percent. Three went up, three went down, and the thirty-year Treasury yield reached its highest level since 2004.

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