The Worden T2108 , at 86%, is near the highest level it typically reaches on rallies. There were 437 new 52 week highs on Wednesday, the most since last July. Of the 34 stocks hitting new highs and having good fundamentals, eight had recent quarterly earnings gains of 100% or more: MON,TCO,MDCO,BCH,URI,ALXN,AAPL,WCG. Of these, TCO, BCH, ALXN, and AAPL are at all-time highs. As this weekly chart shows, TCO broke from a cup-with-handle base a few weeks ago. Click on chart to enlarge.
23rd day of QQQ short term up-trend; leveraged 3X ETF’s shine again
Since the GMI flashed a by signal on December 23rd, the QQQ has advanced +7.8%, the QLD +16% and the TYH +24.7%. In the same period, 30% of the Nasdaq 100 stocks have advanced 10% or more and only 5% have advanced more than 23%. Yet again, we find that riding a triple leveraged ETF in an up-trend beats almost all other stocks. Why do we search for the rare stock that will outperform the 3X leveraged ETF , like TYH! Another leveraged ETF that did as well as TYH during this period is TQQQ. In fact the leveraged ETF, SOXL, advanced +34.4%!