Mid-Week Market Outlook (October 3): Navigating the CrossCurrents

The S&P 500 was flat Tuesday but its intermediate term posture turned weakly bearish. The NASDAQ Composite also has taken on a weakly bearish posture.

At the same time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new all-time high and retains a strongly bullish intermediate posture

Our mid-week market outlook video discusses on our forecast for the rest of the trading week, along with highlighting several trade setups and developments to watch. Below is a summary of the video.

–  The Russell 2000 was down just over 1% today and continues to have a strongly bearish posture

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–  Despite U.S. Dollar strength, many commodities are starting to show some life and reverse higher

–  Energy-related commodities have been hot for awhile, but platinum and coffee are now starting to heat up as well.

–  Utilities were the strongest sector Tuesday, continuing its bounce after last week’s oversold cluster signal. Technology, Industrials, and Health Care sector charts remain in strong uptrends.

–  Consumer Discretionary was the worst performer on the day, partially impacted by Amazon’s (AMZN) announcement of raised wages

–  Today’s trade application focused on performing a one-cancels-other bracket order on Embraer (ERJ) with an upside target price and a downside stop loss.

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