The performance chart below shows that the Cyclicals sector and the Utilities sector performed the best with the Technology sector and the Health Care sector not far behind during the past week
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Duke Energy Corporation is a large-cap company with around 50 billion market cap. It has a low beta value and the correlation to the S&P 500 is not even close (as you can see in the indicator window below the daily chart), but this stock is not boring. Duke is moving in an uptrend, you can check it out on the weekly chart and it makes around 9-10% impulsive waves and around 6-7% corrective waves as it slowly advances higher. This company has good fundamentals too. All these make Duke a good candidate for swing trading. The daily chart below shows a recent trade setup using Elliott Waves with Fibonacci Levels. The stock completed a corrective wave right before the middle of June marked with i-ii-iii. The 200-day moving average provided support. Wave iii is shorter than wave i and this makes this setup even more bullish. The stock quickly started to move higher in wave 1 when the smart money started to buy. The green volume bar nicely broke above the average trading volume. Wave 2 followed wave 1 with a 50% retracement. This can be seen better on the Hourly chart, not shown here. On June 18, yesterday, the price broke thru the blue line which is the upper channel of the corrective downtrend and the stock advanced 2.40%. This is when the retail traders started to pile in. The volume bar confirms that too. The stock nicely advanced today too. So currently we are in wave 3. wave 3 has the potential to extend twice as long as wave 1 or even more. Using Fibonacci levels and the upper channel (green line) I am estimating how far this move can extend. If I want to be more conservative I set the target to the 123.6-138.2% level or the 150% level. Of course there will be some red candles on the way up to the target and also a wave 4 which will probably be shallow.
The daily chart below shows SPY, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF representing the Large-Caps. SPY was overbought recently as you can see in the indicator window above the chart and it's not a surprise if SPY moves lower or sideways in the short-term. MACD also looks like ready to cross below the signal line. For the next support level we can use Fibonacci retracement levels, most likely the 50-62% levels and the 187.60 level (red line). SPY crossed this level several times during the past couple of months.
The market carpet below shows 265 stocks in the S&P 500 where the 25-period Weekly Aroon Up trend indicator is larger than 70. The market carpet shows how these stocks performed during the past week.
The chart below shows how the 9 sectors performed relative to the S&P 500 during the past week. The Offensive sectors clearly outperformed the S&P 500 and the defensive sectors were lagging.
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