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Downgrading Consumer Discretionary to Underweight

We are seeing a broad-based snap-back rally after the S&P 500 found support at our 5100-5191 target which we discussed in our 8/5/24 ETF Pathfinder. Still, we have downgraded our long-term outlook to neutral after being bullish since early-November 2023. We believe we are not yet out of the woods as we still see the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) as going through a 1- to 4-month pullback/consolidation period, and market dynamics remain a concern. Current price action on the S&P 500 is extremely similar to prior major topping patterns that occurred in April 2000, August 2007, and February 2022, whereby the SPX pulled back 10-14%, then rallied back to test the highs before starting new bear markets. This is why we laid out our expectations in our latest Compass (8/13/24) for the S&P 500 to test YTD highs or potentially make a lower high near the 5400 or 5585 levels (though it did easily move above 5400). We certainly do not know for sure i
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Ross LaDuke

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