Rate Cuts & Energy Stock Breakouts

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 📝 Report 35: Rate Cuts & Energy Stock Breakouts

I was sitting here this morning going through the report note updates from the team (shout out Charles) and looking through some charts for the “Best Ideas” section of the report and I found myself looking at energy stocks more than anything.

And funny enough, as I went to post this weeks PDF report into the Discord one of the long-time members was sharing his views on energy as well.

This particular member specializes in energy names/crude so it was good to see him posting about it Sunday morning as well and obviously I agree with it since the report title this week, and main discussion, is around energy stocks.

Many of these energy stocks are nearing breakouts, and for a few we track, big ones, especially considering a few of them have buybacks of size.

For readers of the report I shared my views on where I think Mag 7 and tech names go (rather will not go) in the market outlook section this week, but that chart above I agree with: energy is looking great right now and the $SPY ( ▼ 0.6% ) should start to distribute. 

A lot of you ask me about price-action concepts and I do my best to reply in the Discord and usually, for those new to this view, I tell you to look at monthly time frames.

When you look at the monthly time frame of $CVX ( ▲ 0.8% ) it gives you context. That context on that monthly candle (and prior ones) is bullish and I bet if you were to dive into the tailwinds driving energy right now you could find the answer as well.

The point is, there are some energy plays that are set to press here in September and maybe into deep fall, I covered them this week and they’re worth a look for readers.

I like $CVX ( ▲ 0.8% ) as an idea but many of you know that once I get ahold of a theme I try to dig into that theme to find the names with the real asymmetry and there are two notable ones in this weeks report that are worth doing the work on.

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