KEY
TAKEAWAYS
- There’s energy within the monetary sector, nevertheless it’s not the banks.
- Auto elements stays a powerful group in a struggling sector.
- Three-month highs typically sign renewed energy.
The place can buyers discover a protected haven throughout a interval of market uncertainty? Personally, I feel it is so simple as specializing in the shares managing to show bullish technical constructions at a time when they’re changing into remarkably uncommon! At the moment we’ll use the StockCharts scan engine to establish charts exhibiting energy regardless of broader market weak spot.
There’s Energy in Financials However Not the Banks
The primary chart on my listing from this week’s scan, CME Group (CME), was featured in my current podcast interview with Jay Woods, CMT. We talked about how the monetary sector had been fairly sturdy up to now in 2025, however that the actually spectacular charts had been the exchanges.
The easy incontrovertible fact that CME at present sits above two upward-sloping transferring averages means this title is in a small subset of the S&P 500 that may nonetheless make that declare. The momentum image has remained fairly sturdy, with current pullbacks bringing the RSI no decrease than the 40 degree. The bettering relative energy on the backside tells maybe an important story, exhibiting how this inventory has constantly outperformed the S&P 500 in 2025.
So long as the development continues to type a sample of upper highs and better lows, and the transferring averages proceed to slope greater, I might contemplate this chart “harmless till confirmed responsible.”
Auto Elements Stays a Robust Group in a Struggling Sector
Whereas I’ve discovered quite a few concepts within the Shopper Staples sector in 2025, given the renewed energy on this beforehand crushed down sector, this subsequent chart is definitely within the Shopper Discretionary sector. Auto elements names like Autozone Inc. Nevada (AZO) have pulled again this week from an overbought situation, however the chart stays in a main uptrend of upper highs and better lows.
Just like CME, we will observe a basic uptrend sample during the last 18 months. We will additionally see an ascending triangle sample via a lot of 2024, with a reasonably constant resistance degree and an upward-sloping trendline connecting the swing lows. The upside breakout in December 2024, adopted by a retest of that earlier resistance degree into mid-January, appears to substantiate the long-term bullish technical construction.
What strikes me about each of those charts is that they present no actual indicators of market instability. At a time when it appears like just about all the things is rotating decrease amidst rising market turmoil, shares that point out they’re someway proof against bearish market forces deserve our respect and a focus.
Three-Month Highs Typically Sign Renewed Energy
How did I establish these profitable names at a time after they appear very troublesome to search out? I merely used the StockCharts scan engine to establish shares making a brand new 13-week excessive. You may copy and paste the textual content under into the Scan Workbench to run this scan utilizing your individual login.
[type = stock]
and [group is not ETF]
and [[exchange = NYSE] or [exchange = NASD]]
and [market cap > 5,000]
//and [group is SP500]
and [Weekly Close > Last Week’s MAX(13,Close)]
These final two strains are an important, as the remaining is principally filtering the universe all the way down to shares traded on the key US exchanges with a market cap over $5 billion. The fifth line has two slashes earlier than the parameter “group is SP500”, which tells the scan engine to disregard that line. I like to incorporate that line in each scan I run, as I typically toggle between a bigger fairness universe after which simply to the S&P 500 members.
The ultimate line seems to be for shares the place the present weekly closing worth is greater than the earlier 13 weekly closing costs. And whereas this explicit scan would definitely embody shares which were in long-term uptrends for properly over three months, I’ve discovered new three-month highs is usually a good spot to begin to search for charts simply starting to emerge from a basing sample.
For the opposite three shares I discovered earlier this week utilizing this scan, and far additional element on the technical implications of those charts, try my newest video on the StockCharts TV YouTube channel!
RR#6,
Dave
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David Keller, CMT
President and Chief Strategist
Sierra Alpha Analysis LLC
Disclaimer: This weblog is for instructional functions solely and shouldn’t be construed as monetary recommendation. The concepts and methods ought to by no means be used with out first assessing your individual private and monetary state of affairs, or with out consulting a monetary skilled.
The writer doesn’t have a place in talked about securities on the time of publication. Any opinions expressed herein are solely these of the writer and don’t in any means symbolize the views or opinions of another particular person or entity.
David Keller, CMT is President and Chief Strategist at Sierra Alpha Analysis LLC, the place he helps energetic buyers make higher selections utilizing behavioral finance and technical evaluation. Dave is a CNBC Contributor, and he recaps market exercise and interviews main specialists on his “Market Misbehavior” YouTube channel. A former President of the CMT Affiliation, Dave can be a member of the Technical Securities Analysts Affiliation San Francisco and the Worldwide Federation of Technical Analysts. He was previously a Managing Director of Analysis at Constancy Investments, the place he managed the famend Constancy Chart Room, and Chief Market Strategist at StockCharts, persevering with the work of legendary technical analyst John Murphy.
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