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WHAT TO DO NOW: Remain defensive. Near term, we are seeing a couple of rays of light, including a developing positive divergence from our Two-Second Indicator and some legitimate dips in some reliable sentiment measures, so we’re not sticking our heads in the sand as the vast majority of primary evidence and our market timing indicators are negative, with the indexes so far having trouble finding much support. We could do some nibbling if the market finds a low it can work off of, but in the meantime, we advise staying mostly on the sideline and letting the sellers finish up their work. We have no changes tonight, and the Model Portfolio’s cash position is 83%.

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2013 is off to a good start. The market is doing well, and sentiment is lousy: that’s the perfect environment for further market gains.

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Growth stocks have finally hit a pothole this week as investors have generally rotated into beaten-down names. Coming into today, the Nasdaq was off about 1.3%, but the S&P 500 was up about 1% and the broader indexes had put on a good show (small- and mid-caps up more than 3%).

The rotation that we started to pick up on a couple of weeks ago was unleashed late last Friday and the first couple of days of this week, with just about any stock and sector that’s enjoyed a good run this year coming under pressure—including more than a few names that flashed abnormal intermediate-term action.

It’s shaping up to be a week of little change in the major indexes, but that doesn’t tell the tale—there was plenty of volatility all week (and even intraday) as earnings season and major news items (Fed, jobs, other economic data) hit the tape.

After six very strong weeks on the upside, the sellers finally showed up in the middle of the week. Some retrenchment was likely, and so far, it’s been well within normal bounds. We remain mostly optimistic longer term, as enough bullish evidence has accumulated to think the path of least resistance is up. Shorter term, picking your spots makes sense, as does honoring your stops and seeing how this pullback unfolds.

Remain defensive. Stocks are finally mustering a bounce today, though after the market’s meltdown of recent weeks, the intermediate- and longer-term trends remain firmly down.

After a month-long market correction, our market timing indicators are now mixed. On an intermediate-term basis, the fact that all the major indexes dipped a percent or more below their 50-day lines is enough to question the post-February market uptrend.

Although we’re now about five years removed from the sub-prime mortgage crisis and ensuing financial collapse, financial stocks are still in the doghouse as far as many investors are concerned. They have valid reasons: it has taken years for the large banks to deleverage their balance sheets, there remains a...

The New Year has gotten off to a poor start, with just about everything selling off and with growth-oriented names taking the worst of it. As of this morning, the S&P 500 is down about 1%, the Nasdaq is off nearly 3%, broader indexes are off 2%-plus and growth-y funds are off 4% to 7%! Even interest rates are reversing their recent trend, with the 10-year Treasury yield up around 0.11% this week (though they have made a nice reversal lower so far today).

The traditional last week of summer on Wall Street went out with a whimper, as the market fell for a third straight week. The numbers weren’t pretty for the bulls as the S&P 500 fell 3.3%, the Dow declined 3%, and the Nasdaq fell another 4.2%.

The month of September was flat out ugly for the market as the S&P 500 fell 9.3%, its worst monthly drop since March 2020 (Covid). And the numbers were similarly negative this last week as the S&P 500 and Dow lost 3%, and the Nasdaq fell another 2.7%.

A very promising start to the trading week, which saw the indexes surge higher by 5%, was somewhat washed away by last Friday’s post Jobs Report sell-off. And while the steep declines Friday were worrisome, big picture the S&P 500 still managed to gain 1.5% on the week, the Dow rallied 2%, and the Nasdaq added 0.7%.

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