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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: mapg ✭x2  😊 😞
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Subject: Trends and Ranks 28-Feb-25
Date: 02/28/25 5:15 PM
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Four new Signals.
Modern Family: EQAL, IYT and KRE "BEARish" and CONFIRMED
Market Trends: MDY "Bearish"
ROE_GMI: 9 Bullish and 12 BEARish

  Modern Family     Symbol      Status   ChgD  Confirmed    Roles: (leading indicators that act as a guide for the stock market macro picture)
S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY Bullish 443 Not Yet - major player U.S. index fund of 500 market cap-weighted companies
Russell 1000EW ETF EQAL BEARish 1 Yes - gauge the health of 1000 equal-weighted companies within the U.S.
Russell 1000 ETF IWB Bullish 443 Not Yet - gauge the health of 1000 Giant(45%), Large(32%) & Medium(20%) companies within the U.S.
Russell 2000 ETF IWM BEARish 14 Yes - gauge the health of 2000 Small(55%) & Micro(43%) companies within the U.S.
Transportation ETF IYT BEARish 1 Yes - measure Industry & Manufacture strength - supply and demand
Retail ETF XRT Bullish 162 Not Yet - measure strength of economy and consumer confidence
Regional Banks ETF KRE BEARish 1 Yes - measure the health of financial system in the U.S.
BioTech ETF IBB Bullish 30 Not Yet - highly speculated: assesses where money is flowing
SemiConductor ETF SMH Bullish 14 Not Yet - innovation: a major player technology trends
As of (LastD) = 28-Feb-25 More Details: Posted end of month by mapg on the Mechanical Investing board (shrewdm.com)

   Market Trends         TPPO      ChgD   PPO(2:1)    PPO    PPO(5:1)   MAC(10m)    ChgD      MAC      DBE(5m)    ChgD    %Off     CountIF    Risk
Intermediate-Term
Status Status (longer) (Inter) (shorter) Status Status (TPw,210) Status Status Hi(99) Bullish Gauges
SP600 (IJR) Daily BEARish 17 0.33% 0.02% -0.61% Bullish 448 -2.0% Bullish 590 12.9% 2 Risk_Off
SP400 (MDY) Daily BEARish 3 0.62% 0.46% 0.00% Bullish 456 0.0% Bullish 597 9.0% 2 Risk_Off
SP500EW (RSP) Daily Bullish 31 0.68% 0.75% 0.81% Bullish 457 3.2% Bullish 597 3.7% 3 Risk_On
SP1500 (ITOT) Daily Bullish 472 1.37% 1.56% 1.52% Bullish 478 4.4% Bullish 758 2.0% 3 Risk_On
SP500 (.SPX) Daily Bullish 472 1.38% 1.61% 1.63% Bullish 479 4.7% Bullish 758 1.7% 3 Risk_On
As of (LastD) = 28-Feb-25 --- --- --- --- 28-Feb-25 --- --- 28-Feb-25 --- --- --- 28-Feb-25
CountIF(Bullish) = 3 5 5 13 Risk_On

        My Rankings                   28-Feb-25             1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9    10    Buy  HTD    Sell
1- MAA: Long-Term (BRKB) 1-RS: ROC() & TMAC() BRK.B FXAIX FSMAX FBIIX FSPSX FFNOX FXNAX FUAMX - - -- BRKB --
2- MAA: Multi-Asset ETF's 2-RS: ROC() & TMAC() AOA AOR AOM IYLD RLY AOK - - - - 2 2 2
3- QAA: Market ETF's 3-RS: ROC() & TMAC() XLG CMDY PRF IEFA USRT PRFZ TLT SDS - - 3 1 4
4- QAA: Enhanced ETF's 4-RS: ROC() & TMAC() MTUM LRGF USMV QUAL VLUE EFAV COMT SIZE - - 3 1 4
6- QEW: Equal-Wght'd ETF's 6-RS: ROC() & TMAC() EQWL EDOW QQQE EUSA EQAL RSP - - - - 2 2 2
5- ROE_GMI (1 thru 10 of 25) 5-RS: ROC() & TMAC() FTNT RL PODD META PPC KR NVDA GOOGL UTHR FIX 9 4 12
5- ROE_GMI (11 thru 20) 5-Alloc: BuyIF Top 15 LII DKS EME AMGN CTAS KLAC RMD NTAP THC DECK -- -- --
5- ROE_GMI (21 thru 25) 5-Alloc: SellIF Bottom 5 ACM GWW IT ADBE OMC - - - - - -- -- --


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