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The S&P 500 (SPX) dropped sharply to close the week as uncertainty around a new variant of COVID-19 drove investors into safe-haven assets. Price action was ugly as we sliced below the 21- and 34-EMA with the 55-day just below at 4553.75. RSI closed to its lowest level since in early October while MACD continues to be in a bearish signal and both have plenty of room to fall still back to the zero level. There is some notable support coming up where we could see a reaction. The prior breakout zone is at 4548-4537 and below that area is the top of monthly value at 4500. Given the weak candle on Friday, the key for a bounce will be seeing a reversal bar where we open within the prior day’s range, trade lower, and then reverse to close above the prior day’s low. And, a bounce could be sharp initially. The declining 21-EMA is above at Friday’s high near 4645 and then the 8-EMA is at 4665.
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AAII sentiment for the week ending 11/24 showed a dip in bulls to 33.8% from 38.8% while bearish sentiment jumped to 35.7% from 27.2%. Neutral sentiment fell from 33.9% to 30.5%. NAAIM Exposure rose slightly to 103.14 from 102.54 and remains in a narrow range near extreme highs. Lipper Fund flows had $4.1B of outflows from equities, the second straight week of outflows. As of Friday’s close we had 34 new highs vs 562 new lows, the weakest breadth in months. The percentage of stocks above their 50-day MA fell to 40.28% while those above their 200-day fell to 50.31%, both hitting multi-week lows. NYSI Summation continued to fall this week to 169.50 and remains well below the 8-EMA in a bearish signal. Cumulative AD fell to the lowest level in six weeks. CBOE Equity P/C 50-day MA rose to 0.466. CNN Fear and Greed fell to 31, down from 69 last week.
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Bath and Body Works (BBWI) triggering a strong breakout this morning after consolidating for the last few weeks. BBWI a name we featured in a recent writeup with over 23,000 November $65 calls accumulating from buyers and also 20,000 of the Nov. $70 calls.
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Coterra (CTRA) an attractive Energy name as a result of the merger between Cabot Oil & Gas and Cimarex in the Natural Gas space as we come into seasonally colder weather. CTRA shares are forming a nice pullback channel and the next move above $21.25 could spark a nice run and break out of the pullback trend.
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Stocks ended the holiday week with a nasty selloff below 4650 SPX level we have been watching. The new COVID variant fears were to blame and that caused a complete risk off market with some of the pandemic related stocks being the only stocks in the green. The recent caution signs in breadth selling off has been a warning as the SPX struggled to stay over 4700. Overall November wraps up next week as new fears enter the market, a good time for waiting on a reversal candle to trade against and VIX calming down before entering new trade. The VIX had been slowly creeping higher the last week as well giving some clues that volatility markets were sniffing out some risk. Internals opened weak and stayed weak into the close, a volatile Black Friday closing on the lows of the day. Sector leaders included Bonds, REITs, Internet. Weakness was seen in Retail, Materials, Transports. Overall the market remains weak under the 21 day EMA and needs to regain 4650 short term otherwise looks like some air below here can see the 55 EMA at 4550 SPX and bigger support at 4500 from the monthly value area.
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Option Flows were seeing some small call buys in casino names seeing weakness and some bullish action in beaten up Energy stocks. Also large opening put sales in the Banks going out to Jan.
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