Stock Market Outlook for March 30, 2023
Defensive sectors are bouncing from defined levels of horizontal support, providing levels to shoot off of amidst a risk-off shift in the market.
*** Stocks highlighted are for information purposes only and should not be considered as advice to purchase or to sell mentioned securities. As always, the use of technical and fundamental analysis is encouraged in order to fine tune entry and exit points to average seasonal trends.
Stocks Entering Period of Seasonal Strength Today:
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Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (NYSE:AAIC) Seasonal Chart
Wideopenwest, Inc. (NYSE:WOW) Seasonal Chart
Obsidian Energy Ltd. (AMEX:OBE) Seasonal Chart
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) Seasonal Chart
Global Healthcare Income & Growth ETF (TSE:HIG.TO) Seasonal Chart
Gamehost Inc. (TSE:GH.TO) Seasonal Chart
Keyera Corp (TSE:KEY.TO) Seasonal Chart
United States Gasoline Fund, LP (NYSE:UGA) Seasonal Chart
Wix.com Ltd. (NASD:WIX) Seasonal Chart
Vermilion Energy Inc. (NYSE:VET) Seasonal Chart
The Markets
Stocks rallied on Wednesday as portfolio managers padded their books with some of this quarter’s winners in the technology sector. The S&P 500 Index closed with a gain of 1.42%, inching above intermediate resistance at the 50-day moving average at 4014 and moving marginally above the confluence of resistance at major moving averages in the range of 3900 to 4000. Despite the break, a short-term trend of lower-lows and lower-highs remains stemming from the peak charted in February. A similar path of lower-lows and lower-highs can be seen of the MACD indicator, highlighting the lack of momentum in the market amidst macro fundamental strains. Concerns on the fundamental and technical front have kept us cautious, but we still don’t have reason to deny the potential of the strength in the equity market that is normal for March and April. In the Super Simple Seasonal portfolio, we have a healthy balance of offence (stocks) and defence (bonds), but any strength that is revealed in stocks through the month ahead will likely provide the opportunity to peel back on our risk exposure and hunker down for what seems probable to be a weak period for equities during the traditional off-season for the market.
Today, in our Market Outlook to subscribers, we discuss the following:
- The fundamental and technical backdrop to the seasonal energy trade
- No signs of purchases of oil on the part of the Biden administration in order to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- Defensive sectors rebounding from levels of horizontal support
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Sentiment on Wednesday, as gauged by the put-call ratio, ended neutral at 0.99.
Seasonal charts of companies reporting earnings today:
S&P 500 Index
TSE Composite
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