Market Update - 5/31/2025• Breadth is still flat/declining, lots of breakouts have failed and I got shaken out of all my positions so I'm flat
• Money is still flowing into safe assets like XLP and XLU, now also TLT, and the market is held up by large cap growth stocks, but the majority of the market is not going anywhere -
Broad market trends revealed by MMFI MMFI is the TradingView symbol for the percent of all NYSE stocks (NYA) closing above their own, in the case of MMFI, 50 day simple moving average. (TV also offers S5FI, the SPX above 50 SMA and, other length averages). I like the 50 for my purposes which is swing trading.
I analyze the daily value
MMFI Is A Key Measure of Stock Market BreadthI recently updated my piece defining oversold and overbought conditions using MMFI or the percentage of stocks trading above their 50-day moving averages (DMAs). Here is the key text from that post:
Above the 50, AT50, is overbought above 70%
Above the 50, AT50, is oversold below 20%
The Technical
Chart of the Day: Percentage of Stocks Above the 50-Day AverageThe pressure on the market is mostly down. The number of stocks above the 50-day Average is moving downwards and that shows weakness. At the same time, it can act as a contrarian indicator.
Do you think the market will go further downwards before it finds a bottom?
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Displays a symbol's price movements over previous years to identify recurring trends.