Breakoutwatch Weekly Summary 11/15/2023

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Market Summary

Stocks’ winning streak comes to an end

The major indexes finished mixed for the week, but not before the S&P 500 Index came close to matching its longest winning streak in nearly two decades—on Wednesday, the S&P 500 notched its eighth straight gain, while the Nasdaq Composite Index marked its ninth. The market’s strength was exceptionally narrow, however, with an equally weighted version of the S&P 500 Index lagging its market-weighted counterpart by 190 basis points (1.90)%, and the Russell 1000 Value Index trailing its growth counterpart by 404 basis points—the largest margin since March. [more...]

Major Index Performance

Dow Jones
Last Close 34827.7
Wk. Gain 1.94 %
Yr. Gain 5.06 %
Trend Up
Dow Jones
S&P 500
Last Close 4495.7
Wk. Gain 2.37 %
Yr. Gain 16.68 %
Trend Up
S&P 500
NASDAQ Comp.
Last Close 14094.4
Wk. Gain 2.93 %
Yr. Gain 33.44 %
Trend Up
NASDAQ Comp.
Russell 2000
Last Close 1798.32
Wk. Gain 4.51 %
Yr. Gain 1.6 %
Trend Up
Russell 2000

Performance by Sector

Sector Wk. Change % Yr. Change % Trend
Consumer Discretionary 3.69 29.18 Up
Consumer Staples 1.56 -3.67 Up
Energy 1.95 -0.58 Down
Finance 2.59 1.52 Up
Health Care 0.2 -6.13 Down
Industrials 3.47 10.46 Up
Technology 3.63 43.62 Up
Materials 2.98 2.67 Up
REIT 3.63 -4.07 Up
Telecom 2.14 37.03 Up
Utilities 1.86 -13.72 Up

Breakouts This Week Still Within 5% of Breakout Price (Limit 20 top C Score)

Watchlist Symbol Company Industry C Score* % Gain
SQZ WFRD Weatherford International plc Software - Application 89.6 % 4 %
SQZ FUTU Futu Holdings Limited Capital Markets 85.6 % 4.8 %
CWH RYAAY Ryanair Holdings plc Airlines 81.9 % 2.2 %
CWH BXSL Blackstone Secured Lending Fund Asset Management 80.3 % 0.6 %
SQZ IHG Intercontinental Hotels G Lodging 79.8 % 3.1 %
CWH FMX Fomento Economico Mexicano S.A.B. de C.V. Beverages - Brewers 79.4 % 0.4 %
SQZ STNG Scorpio Tankers Inc. Software - Infrastructure 79 % 1.8 %
CWH SKT Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. REIT - Retail 78.3 % 2.8 %
CWH MBWM Mercantile Bank Corporation Banks - Regional 78 % 4.5 %
SQZ BMI Badger Meter, Inc. Biotechnology 78 % 4 %
SQZ SP SP Plus Corporation Specialty Business Services 77.7 % 0.7 %
CWH ITT ITT Inc. Specialty Industrial Machinery 77.3 % 4.5 %
CWH AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. Internet Retail 77.2 % 1.7 %
CWH PH Parke Specialty Industrial Machinery 76.7 % 1.4 %
CWH BLX Banco Latinoamericano de Banks - Regional 76.6 % 3 %
CWH PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. Software - Infrastructure 76.4 % 4 %
CWH MBIN Merchants Bancorp Banks - Regional 76.3 % 0.7 %
CWH TJX TJX Companies, Inc. Apparel Retail 74.8 % 0.9 %
CWH TNC Tennant Company Specialty Industrial Machinery 74.6 % 0.1 %
CWH WAB Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation Railroads 74.5 % 3 %
*C score is our assessment of a Stock's correlation to CAN SLIM principles. It combines a stock's Technical and Fundamental merits and is expressed as a percentage.

Breakdowns within 5% of Breakdown Price

Watchlist Symbol Company Industry C Score* % Loss
SS AVDL Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc Agricultural Inputs 53.7 % -1.8 %
*C score is our assessment of a Stock's correlation to CAN SLIM principles. It combines a stock's Technical and Fundamental merits and is expressed as a percentage.

There were no CWH stocks meeting our breakout model criteria *C score is our assessment of a Stock's correlation to CAN SLIM principles. It combines a stock's Technical and Fundamental merits and is expressed as a percentage.

Cup and Handle Chart of the Week

Of the 4 stocks I selected as most likely to breakout in the coming week, USAP appears to be the best positioned. The chart shows strong accumulation in the right side of the cup, followed by profit taking, and then further accumulation in the handle in the handle. For an analysis of how and why a cup and handle pattern forms, see our tutorial Anatomy of a Cup-with-Handle Chart Pattern