Been on vacation from this blog for awhile but am back now and will try to be more diligent in posting here.

Now, as it turns out, appears to be an appropriate time to return since latest swing trade on the long-term breath signal will close officially on the open tomorrow. This swing began on the open of the market on 5/31, twelve trading days ago.

In the bellwether stocks (see chart panel below), as of the close Friday, TWTR led the stocks I consider to be bellwethers in this bull market with a 33.2% gain, followed by TSLA up 24.1% and BIDU up 12.6%. Twelve trading days – I’ve said it before but it bulls repeating…this is what swing trading is all about. The position in stocks will be in cash waiting for another swing to begin.

Should be noted, the 3X-leveraged ETF, TQQQ, which tracks the Nasdaq and makes general swing trading easier, is up 12.1% for the trade. FNGU, an 3X-leveraged ETN trading based on the NYSE FANG stock index, is up 33% (remarkably it was relatively small volume).

In addition to TWTR, TSLA, and NFLX, the bellwether stock list also has AMZN, NVDA, GOOGL, BIDU, BABA, FB, and AAPL. The gains for the up swing just ending are in the white flags on the lower right of the charts below. That is a calculation per $100K traded in each position in order to get both a dollar-earned and a percentage gain. Note AAPL is the laggard on the list, up less than one percent for the swing, $800 on $100K. Another example from the charts – NFLX is also up double-digits, 10.7%, $10,690 for the swing.

As for the general market, the sell signal for tomorrow’s open has come most likely because this rally — which longer term price-wise began in early May — is up a lot, overbought and tired.

I would not be surprised, however, by another bounce since short-term breadth has been declining for six consecutive days. Most likely that signals the bounce, at least a feeble one, before a bigger down swing, but if one if particularly bearish after this run up it could signal a hard down thrust this week before the bounce.

(click on the chart panel for a larger view)



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