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The main theme from the watchlist scans today was the Gold Mining group, so I thought it would be interesting to do a follow-up on the group, which I've discussed previously in detail around the Stage 2 entry zones...

Stage Analysis weekend video discussing some of the weeks most significant Stage 2 Breakouts and Continuation attempts, plus the regular weekly member content of the Major Indexes Update, Futures SATA Charts, Industry Groups RS Rankings, IBD Industry Group Bell Curve, and Market Breadth Update to help to determine the weight of evidence...

The IBD Industry Groups Bell Curve – Bullish Percent shows the few hundred industry groups plotted as a histogram chart and represents the percentage of stocks in each group that are on a point & figure (P&F) buy signal. This information provides a snapshot of the overall market health in a unique way, and is particularly useful for both market timing strategies and as a tool in aiding with the Stage Analysis methods "Forest to the Trees" approach, where we look for developing group themes...

Custom Percentage of Stocks Above Their 50 Day, 150 Day & 200 Day Moving Averages Combined Market Breadth Charts for the Overall US Market, NYSE and Nasdaq for Market Timing and Strategy.

The purpose of the Relative Strength (RS) tables is to track the short, medium and long term RS changes of the individual groups to find the new leadership earlier than the crowd...

The S&P 500 ($SPX) today pushed up to the top of the current Stage 1 base structure to test the February 2nd pivot high, and so there's potential for a Stage 2 breakout attempt if there's follow through on Friday's session...

The Stage Analysis members midweek video this week features Stage Analysis of the major US Indexes as the Nasdaq Composite attempts to move into early Stage 2. Plus the short-term market breadth measures, followed by a detailed discussion and live markups of the most recently highlighted stocks for the US stocks watchlist.

There were 36 stocks highlighted from the US stocks watchlist scans today...

There were 13 stocks highlighted from the US stocks watchlist scans today...

The percentage of US stocks above their 150 day (30 week) moving averages in the 11 major sectors post provides a unique snapshot of the overall market health and is highlighted every few weeks in the Stage Analysis blog...