3/15 Bull Watchlist

The consumer discretionary exchange-traded fund (etf) drops below the 20-day price channel into neutral phase. Agilent, the euro against the yen currency pair and Goldcorp hit their stop/losses and will be removed from the bull list.

The funds for silver and crude oil turned near-term bearish, diverging from their price-channel phase.

The trend on Yum! Brands weakened, dropping into the teens on the average directional index (adx).

Bull Positions
XLY to neutral upon dropping below the 20-day channel.
A, EUR/JPY, GG hit stop/loss

sym	adx	traj	psar	bday	blevel	bstop	2-day?
A				mar4	$45.02	$44.06
DELL				feb16	$14.46	$14.20
EUR/JPY				mar3	¥106.815	¥111.967
EUR/USD				feb1	$1.37851	$1.35303
GBP/USD				feb1	$1.60935	$1.58585
GG				feb28	$47.08	$45.80
HGSI				mar10	$27.50	$26.79
JCP				mar10	$37.48	$35.47
JNPR				feb4	$38.73	$37.57
LPNT				feb28	$38.77	$37.61
PBR				feb22	$38.70	$37.54
S				mar8	$4.69	$4.54
SLV				feb17	$30.44	$29.53
TRGT				feb28	$27.97	$27.13
USO				feb23	$39.48	$38.30
XLY				feb7	$38.42	$37.74
YUM*				mar8	$51.54	$50.08

Issues that I hold positions in are marked with an asterisk (*).


Key

• adx: Average direction index location, indicating the strength, or the temperature, of the trend. Orange for 40 or greater, aqua (light blue) for 30 and up but below 40, magenta (light purple) for 20 and up but below 30, and brown for anything below 20. (Mnemonic: Orange for the overhead sun, blue for the surrounding sky, purple for sunset on the horizon and brown for the earth.)
• traj: Trajectory of the ADX, green for strengthening, red for weakening or yellow for unchanging. Note that if the adx column is orange and the trajectory column is red, then the position must be closed.
• psar: The parabolic sar, either green for bullish or red for bearish.
• bday: Breakout day, the day the price broke through the upper or lower 55-day price line.
• blevel: Breakout level, the price level of the line that was broken through.
• bstop: The stop/loss price calculated on breakout days as the 14-day average true range below the breakout-day low for a bull phase and above thre breakout-day high for a bear phase.
• 2-day?: Marked with an "✔" if the two-day rule is in effect. Under the rule, if the price closes below the breakout level on each of the two days following breakout day, then the position must be exited.

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Disclaimer

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