Cross-Asset Strategist & Quantitative Analyst, Pennock Idea Hub

Cam Hui

Cross-Asset Strategist & Quantitative Analyst

Pennock Idea Hub

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Cross-Asset & Quantitative Research

Technical Analysis

Technology Select Sector SPDR / Technical Analysis

<ul>
<li>Big Tech has been lagging the market since February and the relative performance reset is nearing an end. The overall stock market is undergoing a bottoming process.</li>
<li>Investment-Oriented accounts should be accumulating positions at these levels, but should be prepared for some near-term choppiness.</li>
<li>Tactically, we are inclined to overweight value over growth stocks for short-term performance.</li>
</ul>


Big Tech has been lagging the market since February and the relative performance reset is nearing an end. The overall stock market is undergoing a bottoming process.
Investment-Oriented accounts should be accumulating positions at these levels, but should be prepared for some near-term choppiness.
Tactically, we are inclined to overweight value over growth stocks for short-term performance.


<ul>
<li>Nvidia blew the doors off Street expectations last week, but the market reacted with semiconductor stocks turning red on the day. Is the relief rally over?</li>
<li>We conclude from our review of technical conditions that while breadth indicators argue for a deeper correction, that day may not have arrived just yet.</li>
<li>Sentiment is too bearish and should put a floor on stock prices in the short term. The relief rally probably has further room to run.</li>
</ul>


Nvidia blew the doors off Street expectations last week, but the market reacted with semiconductor stocks turning red on the day. Is the relief rally over?
We conclude from our review of technical conditions that while breadth indicators argue for a deeper correction, that day may not have arrived just yet.
Sentiment is too bearish and should put a floor on stock prices in the short term. The relief rally probably has further room to run.


<ul>
<li>The adoption of AI promises to be highly disruptive and has to potential to improve profitability of companies that adopt the technology.</li>
<li>It faces regulatory hurdles and risk-pricing challenges as insurance companies learn to price AI risk, but those problems are a few years away.</li>
<li>In the near term, the technology rally appears extended and may need a breather.</li>
</ul>


The adoption of AI promises to be highly disruptive and has to potential to improve profitability of companies that adopt the technology.
It faces regulatory hurdles and risk-pricing challenges as insurance companies learn to price AI risk, but those problems are a few years away.
In the near term, the technology rally appears extended and may need a breather.


<ul>
<li>Can the AI frenzy, which appears to be in its early stages, carry the stock market to a new bull? An academic study indicates that's the wrong question to ask.</li>
<li>The right question is to determine whether we are in an equity bull so that AI stocks can take advantage of the bull trend. Breadth needs to broaden out.</li>
<li>The other and more conventional explanation of market structure is an unhealthy advance against a backdrop of a market that’s positioning for a recession.</li>
</ul>


Can the AI frenzy, which appears to be in its early stages, carry the stock market to a new bull? An academic study indicates that's the wrong question to ask.
The right question is to determine whether we are in an equity bull so that AI stocks can take advantage of the bull trend. Breadth needs to broaden out.
The other and more conventional explanation of market structure is an unhealthy advance against a backdrop of a market that’s positioning for a recession.


Can AI Stocks Lead the Market to a New Bull?

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

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<li>While the market remains in consolidation/pullback mode and we are not out of the woods, it is possible that further downside is limited from here on the S&amp;P 500</li>
<li>Since late-February, we've discussed important gap support from 2/22/24 at 4983-5050 on the SPX, with bulls in control if above 4983. Selling last week has simply filled this gap</li>
<li>4920-4950 is now support near last week's lows. Downgrade: Technology (XLK) to market weight. Upgrades: Manufacturing/Industrials (XLI) to overweight and Utilities (XLU) to market weight; individual stock buys highlighted.</li>
</ul>


While the market remains in consolidation/pullback mode and we are not out of the woods, it is possible that further downside is limited from here on the S&amp;P 500
Since late-February, we've discussed important gap support from 2/22/24 at 4983-5050 on the SPX, with bulls in control if above 4983. Selling last week has simply filled this gap
4920-4950 is now support near last week's lows. Downgrade: Technology (XLK) to market weight. Upgrades: Manufacturing/Industrials (XLI) to overweight and Utilities (XLU) to market weight; individual stock buys highlighted.


Shifting Exposure From Growth to Value; Downgrading Technology; Upgrades: Manufacturing & Utilities

United States

Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund is an exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The ETF tracks the performance of The Technology Select Sector Index. The ETF holds large and mid-cap technology stocks. Its largest investment allocation is in the United States. The ETF weights the holdings using a market capitalization methodology.

Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK US)

Time to Tiptoe Back Into Big Tech?

Big Tech has been lagging the market since February and the relative performance reset is nearing an end. The overall stock market is undergoing a...

Cam Hui

Is the Relief Rally Over?

Nvidia blew the doors off Street expectations last week, but the market reacted with semiconductor stocks turning red on the day. Is the relief...

Cam Hui

A Focus on AI and Technology Stocks

The adoption of AI promises to be highly disruptive and has to potential to improve profitability, bu faces regulatory hurdles and risk-pricing...

Cam Hui

Can AI Stocks Lead the Market to a New Bull?

Can the AI frenzy, which appears to be in its early stages, carry the stock market to a new bull? An academic study indicates that's the wrong...

Cam Hui

Shifting Exposure From Growth to Value; Downgrading Technology; Upgrades: Manufacturing & Utilities

Shift Exposure From Growth to Value; Downgrading Tech to market weight $XLK; Upgrading Industrials $XLI to Overweight; Upgrading Utilities $XLU to...

Vermilion Research