Most traders look for stocks first. A better approach is often to find where the money is flowing first — then look for the best stocks inside those groups. That’s exactly what ThemesLab is built for. Instead of manually scanning dozens of industries, themes, and sub-groups, you can quickly see: • Which themes are leading • Which are improving • Which are losing momentum • Where relative strength is actually expanding • The strongest stocks inside each group The idea is simple: Market → Theme → Stock Start broad, identify where strength is concentrating, then drill down into the names actually driving it. It makes top-down research much faster and helps avoid wasting time searching for leaders in groups that simply aren’t working. If your process starts with “what stock should I buy?”, try flipping the question: “Where is the market rewarding risk right now?” That’s what ThemesLab is designed to help answer. traderslab.io

Oversold ≠ Buy Signal One of the most common mistakes newer traders make is treating an oversold reading as confirmation that a bottom is in. It isn’t. Oversold simply tells you the market is stretched. Selling pressure has become extreme enough that a reflex bounce is increasingly possible. That is a condition, not a signal. This is where two breadth indicators we use a lot at TradersLab become useful: MCO = McClellan Oscillator Think of it as short-term breadth momentum. It reacts relatively quickly to changes in the balance between advancing and declining stocks. MCSI = McClellan Summation Index Think of it as the broader breadth trend or regime. It moves more slowly and helps show whether participation across the market is generally expanding or contracting. That distinction matters. An MCO hook higher from oversold can be constructive because it shows short-term breadth pressure is starting to improve. But if MCSI is still falling, the broader breadth regime may still be contracting. You can therefore have an MCO hook, a green index day, and even a sharp bounce while equal-weight price action, new highs/lows, and the percentage of stocks above key moving averages remain weak. That is why oversold conditions should be treated as potential, not confirmation. A cleaner sequence is: Condition → Signal → Confirmation Oversold creates the condition, and improving short-term breadth creates the signal. Price, participation, and sustained breadth expansion provide the confirmation. The goal is not to predict the exact bottom. It is to identify when the market is actually transitioning from contraction to expansion. That is exactly what breadth analysis is designed to help with. You can now track $QQQ, $SPY, $IWM and NYSE breadth dashboards for FREE on TradersLab, including MCO, MCSI, moving-average participation, new highs/lows, and more. traderslab.io

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TradersLab now has a FREE tier. It’s already live. You can create an account and use: • Market Overview • TLMM breadth for SPY, QQQ, IWM & NYSE • Top 10 Screener results No need to jump straight into a paid plan just to see if the workflow fits you. The free tier gives you enough to answer three important questions every day: 1. What is the market doing? 2. How healthy is participation underneath? 3. What stocks are showing up? Then, if you want to go deeper into Themes, Relative Rotation, full Screener results, watchlists, leadership research, and the rest of the workflow, that’s where the full platform comes in. Start using TradersLab for free → TradersLab.io

One of the biggest mistakes swing traders make is looking at the index and assuming that tells the whole story. That’s why we built the TLMM dashboard in TradersLab. TLMM helps you track what’s happening under the surface: • Breadth • Trend participation • Risk-on / risk-off conditions • How many stocks are actually above key moving averages • Whether momentum is broadening or deteriorating The index can still look fine while participation underneath is weakening. On the flip side, breadth can start improving before price looks obvious. The goal isn’t to predict every turn. It’s to understand whether the market environment is actually supporting your trades. That context matters a lot when deciding how much exposure you want to carry. TLMM for major indices is live on TradersLab.io

We just dropped a new video on how to use the Relative Rotation dashboard in TradersLab. Compare one asset vs another to spot: strength / weakness divergence correlation ratio trends historical extremes custom ratios AI analysis A useful tool for understanding rotation under the surface. 🎥 piped.video/rICUdULBwM4

A stock, sector, or index can be going UP... …and still be getting weaker. That’s why absolute price only tells part of the story. If $QQQ is +5%, but $SPY is +10%, Tech is actually losing relative strength. Ratio analysis makes that visible immediately. That’s the whole idea behind the new Relative Rotation dashboard in TradersLab.

NEW in TradersLab — Relative Rotation!! 🧪 One of the most requested features from our last community poll is now LIVE. Compare one asset against another to uncover: • Relative strength/weakness • Rotation & divergences • Historical extremes • Ratio trends • Different timeframes • Built-in market relationships • Your own custom ratios • AI analysis Tech vs Market. Growth vs Value. Small vs Large Caps. Semis vs Market. Discretionary vs Staples. Equal Weight vs Cap Weight. Price tells you what is moving. Relative Rotation helps tell you WHERE the strength is moving. Live now on TradersLab.io.

Markets are always rotating. Growth → Value Large Caps → Small Caps Tech → Industrials Risk-On → Defensive The problem is that most traders only notice the rotation after it becomes obvious on the individual charts. We built something for that. Later today. 👀

Learn how to use the Screener Community Library in TradersLab to quickly find, explore, and use screens shared by the community. piped.video/ypmWTe5W6SQ This quick walkthrough shows you how to browse popular screens, discover new ideas, and add useful screeners to your own process without starting from scratch. Want access to the full TradersLab workflow? Try TradersLab.io and explore the Screener Community Library today.

VERY AWAITED feature now live in TradersLab 👀 You can finally draw directly on the single-stock chart view. Current support: • Horizontal / trend lines • Channels • Fibonacci • AVWAP • Text • Basic indicators This is just the start. We’re nowhere near done. More tools and indicators are coming over the next days & weeks. If you use TradersLab, drop your requests in #feature-request of our free Discord — we want your input on what gets built next. Tlab team ✌️

Broad 21dma-structure Pullback sorted by RS Rank. $GH, $PBF, $FROG, $ETSY, $XYZ, $LLY, $HUM, $IBKR, $DT, $TWLO, $BRKR, $W, $ANET, $BAX, $VG, $BILL, $APO, $GMED, $INFQ, $CVNA By @TradersLab_

Macro Regime: policy carries it, inflation drags. Where we stand Regime score: 59, wind mixed (‑2.3 w/w, +0.5 m/m) History: 77th percentile — firmer than roughly three of four days over the past five years Lead engine: Policy, 81, strong Drag engine: Inflation, 32, weak Only 3 of 6 engines supportive What's driving it Policy: 2Y at 3.71%, down 9 bps, and 2s10s steepened to +103 bps (+13 bps over 21 days) — the rate path is cooperating rather than fighting. Inflation: WTI 87.06 (‑5.6%) and gold 4,680.6 (+15.6%) pulling opposite ways. Energy softening while the hedge bid builds is not a clean disinflation read. Risk Appetite, 76 and improving, explains +36.6% of the move off neutral. VIX 15.13, down 19.1%. Growth, 62, holds constructive on copper +3.8%, but copper/gold is ‑10.1% in three weeks — the largest negative in the wind. Positioning read Favors duration and credit beta: the steepening curve plus HYG/LQD +0.8% says the funding side is intact. Argues against pro-cyclical commodity and industrial tilt — industrials/SPY ‑4.5%, IWM/SPY ‑1.8%. Watch next Gold against crude. Gold bidding while WTI slides keeps Inflation a drag and pulls Growth with it; crude firming as gold cools is what flips the engine.

Learn how to use the Seasonality feature in TradersLab to quickly spot historical monthly and weekly tendencies, identify stronger seasonal windows, and add more context to your market and stock analysis. In this quick walkthrough, we show you how the dashboard works, what to look for, and how to use seasonality as part of a smarter top-down process. If you want more tools like this for market internals, themes, screeners, watchlists, and top-down research, subscribe to TradersLab here: TradersLab.io piped.video/l9Dt7A0O6d0?si=D4w_… via @YouTube

$QQQ $QQQE flipped back to an UPTREND signal following last Friday's action. The McClellan Summation Index reclaimed its uptrend above a rising 10dma, while price remains above a rising 21dma-structure. That will be an interesting week for sure. In Tlab, you can track Price-Breadth-Momentum for all major markets and sectors, and even track intraday signals as they change.

If you’re tired of jumping between 10 different tools just to understand the market, that’s exactly why we built TradersLab.io. Market Overview. Market Internals. Breadth across the major indexes. Intraday breadth. Sectors & Sub-Markets. Themes Lab. Screener. Seasonality. Watchlists. Follow-Through Day tracking. One place to understand market health, trends, leadership, themes, and where the opportunities are actually developing. Less noise. Better context. TradersLab.io

NEW in TradersLab — Follow-Through Day (FTD) Dashboard 🧪 Inspired by IBD/CANSLIM and built to track the market cycle from one place: Rally Attempt → FTD → Power Trend → Distribution Track FTDs and Distribution Days directly on the chart, follow the rally count day by day, monitor Power Trend status, 21/50dma structure and active distribution across the Nasdaq Composite, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500. The part we like most: You can go back through prior cycles and study exactly how previous reversals developed, day by day — price, volume, signals and notes included. Not another prediction tool. A cleaner way to recognize when the market environment is actually changing. FTD Dashboard is now live in BETA on TradersLab.io.

$QQQ is in an UPTREND_ATTEMPT phase with price above both the 21-day EMA and 50-day SMA, both rising. However, the structural environment is fragile. The market is attempting to establish a new uptrend after a correction, but breadth deterioration and volume weakness suggest conviction is lacking. Leadership is marginally expanding (cumulative net highs-lows above 50DMA), but this is insufficient to confirm sustainable upside momentum. Breadth The McClellan Summation Index at 167.64 is above its 10-day moving average (158.78), indicating breadth wind is beginning to shift toward expansion. However, this signal is contradicted by severely negative Global Daily Breadth at -64.45, which reflects broad selling pressure and distribution. The MCSI recovery appears tentative rather than decisive, suggesting participation expansion is incomplete and vulnerable to reversal. Condition The market exhibits mixed extension signals. The McClellan Oscillator at +0.14 Z-score is neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. However, Global Daily Breadth at -64 indicates distribution stress, and the up/down volume ratio of 0.23 reveals dominant downside volume despite price holding above key moving averages. This divergence—price strength with volume weakness—is a warning signal that the current price structure may lack follow-through support.

Macro Regime: tailwind holds. Risk appetite and policy carrying the load. $SPY $QQQ $IWM Where we stand • Regime score: 61, tailwind • History: 86th percentile — stronger than most days over the last five years • Lead engine: Risk Appetite (82, strong) • Drag engine: Inflation (42, soft) — soft here means cooling, which supports the regime What's driving it • Risk Appetite doing the heavy lifting: VIX down 24% over 21 days to 15.03, QQQ/SPY and SMH/SPY both supportive. Fear is drained and tech is leading. • Policy strong at 81: 2s10s curve steepened +88 bps, a signal the rate path is cooperating with risk assets. • Growth improving at 68 with IWM/SPY and Industrials/SPY firming — leadership is broadening beyond mega-cap. • Liquidity the soft spot at 46: 10Y at 4.57% (+4 bps) and DXY +1.4% are the pressure points. Not breaking, but thin. Positioning read • Regime favors cyclical tilt and beta over defensives, with policy tailwind supporting duration-sensitive risk. • Argues against crowding into pure momentum — Growth/Value down 2% says leadership is rotating, not narrowing. • Breadth percentile at 42% is the caveat: internals are constructive but not confirming the tape. **Watch next • Liquidity subscore at 46. A DXY break higher or 10Y through 4.75% would tighten conditions and put the tailwind at risk; a rollover in either would clear the last obstacle.

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