If recent breakouts can hold on balance and the list of new breakouts and setups expands, then I think we have a shot at a continued rally that could carry the market a bit higher. But if stops start getting hit and pivot failure (or worse, base failures) start to proliferate among new base setups, then it would be a clear sign that we are still early in the bottoming process.
MPA:A first step in the right direction would be to see even some of the ideas like SLRN, which experienced a pretty nice breakout (thus far). But if even the best acting names you are watching can't hold their gains, then you have all the information you need.
MPA:Until you have at least a handful of trades working well, you should be in pilot buy mode, risking only small amounts of capital on any one trade, keeping stops ultra tight on bigger trades, and tempering overall portfolio exposure.
MPA:When the market is in correction and under distribution, you have to be careful of getting heavy long too quickly and buying into what may turn out to be nothing more than snap back rallies and oversold bounces.
MPA:when a market has been dominated by distribution, you need to be careful not to get sucked into too many trades too quickly. Because by the time you add exposure, the selling returns after a few days of rally attempt and you are quickly under water.
MPA:We are seeing some stock setups working, but it's been selective. If we get another wave of setups and breakouts, this is where you have to look to add exposure. I want to see the market avoid distribution and more breakouts gain traction and follow through.
MPA:I'd like to see the indexes continue to digest while we start to see new ideas proliferate and Open Positions hold up on balance.
翻译:我希望看到指数消化前期上涨的同时能看到新的买入机会变多,以及突破的股票平均来看能否不被止损。
9-20
MPA:The challenge is we just don't have a large number of ideas and even the ones holding up haven't yet gained much traction.
翻译:我们面临的挑战是没有很多能买的机会,就连那些还没被止损的也没有什么利润。
分析:“货架上没有可买的商品”,指数也迎来了又一腿的下跌。
9-21
MPA:We did however add THR as a new Open Position yesterday. The stock staged a successful breakout from a good-size base. The problem has been that few breakouts can gain much traction and many reverse after only a day or two of rally attempt.
MPA:Keep a keen eye on the Focus List; a proliferation of names and an expansion in the number of successful breakouts from the list would help get us bullish on individual stocks.
翻译:盯着我们的观察列表,观察列表中的股票变多、成功突破的股票变多都是我们看多个股的信号。
读者问答
Gang2024-01-24
“Signs of accumulation in the major averages”主要指的是指数均线上升吗?谢谢
作者回复
不是,这里的average指的是指数
Gang 回复
回复 Mark Minervini:继续请教师兄,那这个accumulation累积含义就是放量上涨缩量下跌有新购买需求,而不是distribution派发供应。不知道理解是否准确,还是指正。谢谢!
作者回复
回复 Gang:就是oneil看大盘的那一套
Gang 回复
回复 Mark Minervini:明白了,明白了,就是欧奈尔FTD那套规则方法,困惑好久终于给予解惑了。感谢。
If the market is indeed healthy, then names on balance should hold stops - even through a market pullback - and we should see more setups start to proliferate.
If their aren't quality setups, we simply wait. How long? As long as it takes. This is where many struggle and get obsessed over missing out, where I'm just waiting for good risk/reward opportunities to present themselves.
MM:I would like to see a change in character both in the general market as well as individual stock action in terms of setups and traction. In a distribution dominant tape rallies are usually short-lived, so if the market is able to bounce, I would like to see the indexes avoid distribution before committing too heavily to longs. Furthermore, I would like to see a few names from our Focus List breakout and hold their breakouts.
At the heart of our market bottoming framework are seven distinct steps: Oversold, Sentiment, Rally, Retest/Back & Fill, Breadth Thrust, and Stock Setups.
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been tracking where we are in this progression. Most recently, the market had been fluctuating between Rally and Retest, with March 18 marking the most credible retest attempt until then.
Notwithstanding a washout selloff on high volume, lighter total and downside volume
Higher lows in the Advance/Decline Line
A higher percentage of stocks above their key moving averages
Fewer stocks making new lows
Follow through day
Stock setups
牛市希望看到的是:
尽管成交量放大且大幅下跌,但总成交量和下跌量均有所减少
腾落线的低点有所抬高
股价在关键移动平均线以上的股票比例有所增加
创下新低的股票数量有所减少
指数跟进日
待突破的股票
On March 28, the S&P 500 closed within 1% of its March 13 low and broke below its intraday low by 15 points on March 31. Yet despite that, many breadth indicators held firm:
Volume was a bit mixed, with March 21's spike tied to quadruple witching, but both March 28 and 31 showed lighter volume compared to February and early March extremes.
Notably, March 28 was a 9:1 downside volume day, signaling heavy selling pressure. While we typically use a 10:1 ratio to define an extreme, 9:1 is often used for NYSE data. Either way, this was the most intense downside reading since the February 19 peak—and the market held the line.