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Nothing’s changed with the market from a top-down point of view: It’s bullish, with the intermediate-term trend pointed up, and now we’re seeing new highs expanding as more stocks join the parade. Individual stocks remain trickier, as we saw some rotation out of growth and into some other areas last week—if leaders decisively crack, that could be bearish, but to this point, the action has mostly served to broaden the advance, which is a good thing. We wouldn’t go wild on the buy side right here, but we continue to advise following the positive evidence—we’ll leave our Market Monitor at a level 8.

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Enjoy!

Current Market Outlook


Last week featured a lot of dramatic news items (including negative oil prices!), but it ended up being a quiet week in the major indexes, which we take as constructive—the action allowed some stocks to settle down a bit, which is often a sign of accumulation. Thus, we’re optimistic, but the key from here is to take things day by day and to stay in gear with the market’s evidence. Right now, with the intermediate-term trend still up and many stocks acting well, you should be putting some money to work, and then see what comes—further upside (especially if we see many bullish earnings gaps) would be a sign to do some follow-on buying, while a couple of sharp, big-volume selloffs in the market would tell you to hold off. As we wrote above, we’re optimistic the path of least resistance is up, but we’ll stay flexible and take it as it comes.

This week’s list again has plenty of good-looking names to choose from. Our Top Pick is Pinduoduo (PDD), which has turned powerful after a five-month rest. You can start a position here or (preferably) on dips of a couple of points.

Stock Name	Price	Buy Range	Loss Limit
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY)	143.58	136-141	120-123
Boston Beer Company (SAM)	459.16	435-450	390-400
DocuSign (DOCU)	107.98	101-105	88-90
Exelixis (EXEL)	27.35	25-26.5	22-23
Freshpet (FRPT)	107.99	74-78	65.5-67.5
MarketAxess (MKTX)	439.96	420-440	375-385
Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)	423.92	410-426	370-380
PayPal (PYPL)	147.00	117-122	107-109
Pinduoduo (PDD)	87.53	48-51.5	42-44
Snap Inc. (SNAP)	16.68	15.5-17	13.5-14

There were a few positives last week, including some intriguing early-week strength, with some very powerful breadth, and, even with the slide of the past couple of sessions, far fewer stocks were hitting new lows compared to a couple of weeks ago. Given how everyone is leaning bearish, there’s plenty of upside potential if the market can catch a spark, but the jobs report-induced selling reinforces the pattern of selling on each and every rally. Long story short: While our eyes are open, nothing has changed with the major evidence. We’ll stick with a level 3 on our Market Monitor.


This week’s list is heavier on energy and medical areas, though our Top Pick is a name that should benefit from higher rates. As usual, though, we think aiming for dips is the right move.