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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

CERS

Cerus Corp
$2.34
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
ARKK holding · entry card
AVOIDAvoid for now: Trend Down and Friday close below a falling 40-wk SMA ($2.45). Re-check when the trend repairs.

Action levels

Buy zone (breakout retest)——no confirmed breakout, so no retest zone
Profit-Taking Zone$2.68–2.69+14.5% to +15.0%wk high 03-06, wk high 09-25
Trading stop · daily closebelow $2.24-4.3%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $2.12-9.4%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $2.45+4.7%top of R1 (wk low 06-19, 200-day SMA)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Down
Score 20/100. Lags S&P and sector; below falling 40-wk.
Trading (10–20 day)
● Early Up
Below 50-day; daily RS vs S&P Est. Up.
Sluymer's view: No recent call: not named in the 15 reports reviewed (Aug 18 – Oct 13, 2026).
Watch this week: Fri Nov 6: breakout entry on a close above $2.45 (+4.7%); a Friday close below $2.12 (-9.4%) invalidates.
Rule-based demo inspired by Robert Sluymer's published framework; not RBC research or advice. Data: Yahoo Finance; levels computed from price data. Prepared Nov 3, 2026, 2:48 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · CERS · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 20.0

RS vs S&P (20) + sector (10)2.0 + 0.0 = 2.0 / 30
Structure (6 checks)10 / 30
Score = (RS + structure) × 100/6020.0 / 100
Raw state (Up ≥ 60 · Down < 45)Down
Confirmation (2 consecutive Fridays)confirmed Down
Trend (confirmed)Down
✖ Fri close above 40-wk SMA 0/6 · ✖ 40-wk SMA rising (4 wks) 0/4 · ✖ No lower high vs cycle high 0/5 · ✖ Fri close above 20-wk SMA 0/5 · ✔ Fri close above 200-wk (4-yr) SMA 5/5 · ✔ 4-mo SMA > 13-mo SMA (completed months, to Sep) 5/5
Weekly raw states: 09-25 Down → 10-02 Down → 10-09 Down → 10-16 Down → 10-23 Down → 10-30 Down. Coppock, band position, breadth and modifiers no longer enter the Trend score (Coppock chart below is reference only).

Scores · Trading 62.5

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)18.0 + 0.0 / 30
Structure8 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive & rising25.0 / 25
Band position11.5 / 20
Raw62.5 (Early Up)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final62.5 Early Up
✖ Close above 50-day SMA 0/5 · ✖ 50-day SMA rising (10 d) 0/3 · ✖ Close above 100-day SMA 0/4 · ✖ Close above 200-day SMA 0/5 · ✔ 200-day SMA rising (20 d) 3/3 · ✔ No daily lower high (last two swing highs) 5/5

Relative state (weekly RS vs 16-wk SMA + 2-wk slope; daily RS vs 15-d SMA + 3-d slope; Neutral ±0.25%; phase price = next Fri / next close, benchmark flat)

Horizon · benchmarkStateRS vs SMARS chgPhase-transition price (CERS close needed)
Trend · S&P5 Established Down (+) →-9.60%+5.68%Early Up ≥ 2.49 · Est. Down < 2.48
Trend · XLV5 Established Down (−) →-17.90%-0.03%Early Up ≥ 2.73 · Est. Down < 2.72
Trading · S&P1 Established Up (−) →+2.12%-2.18%Est. Up ≥ 2.31 (-1.3%) · Est. Down < 1.88
Trading · XLV5 Established Down (−) ↓-1.54%-4.09%Est. Up ≥ 2.55 (+9.0%) · Early Up ≥ 2.39 · Est. Down < 2.38

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 2.34)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R33.08–3.15+31.6% to +34.6%wk high 08-21 3.08 · wk high 05-29 3.13 · wk high 05-01 3.15
R22.68–2.69+14.5% to +15.0%wk high 03-06 2.68 · wk high 09-25 2.69
R12.41–2.45+3.0% to +4.7%wk low 06-19 2.41 · 200-day SMA 2.45
S12.24–2.26-3.4% to -4.3%wk high ’25-12-19 2.26 · wk high ’25-01-31 2.24
S22.12–2.15-8.1% to -9.4%wk high 04-17 2.15 · wk low 10-23 2.12
S32.03–2.05-12.4% to -13.2%wk low 02-13 2.05 · wk high 2024-11-15 2.03
ATH8.87+279.1%all-time high; Profit-Taking fallback when no 2-tool band sits above the Breakout (extensions no longer used)

Coppock, breadth and RS (reference only; not in the Trend score)

Stops & phase transitions

  • Tier 1 (trading stop): daily close < 2.24 (-4.3%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 2.12–2.15.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 2.12 (-9.4%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 2.03–2.05.
  • Trend vs S&P: above its 16-wk avg ≥ 2.49 · Est. Down < 2.48 (+6.0%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 2.31 · Est. Down < 1.88.

Sluymer context

  • Not named in the 15 reports reviewed (Aug 18 – Oct 13, 2026).

Notes & caveats

ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) holding, entry card (treated like the US Watchlist). Holdings: issuer file as of 2026-11-03 (https://assets.ark-funds.com/fund-documents/funds-etf-csv/ARK_INNOVATION_ETF_ARKK_HOLDINGS.csv (official ARK daily holdings CSV, date column 11/03/2026)); ETF weight 0.35%. Benchmarks: S&P 500 (20 pts) and XLV (10 pts). Trading items and bands use the Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close; trend uses the Fri, Oct 30 week. Entry levels: Buy Zone = breakout retest zone (BUY names only: from the broken level down to the floor of the resistance band it came from, or level −2%, whichever is tighter; a weekly close below = failed breakout); Breakout Buy Level = top of R1; Trend Breakdown (invalidation) = S2 floor on a Friday close; Profit-Taking = next resistance band above the breakout. Verdict: AVOID = Trend Down (confirmed on two Fridays) or Friday close below a falling 40-wk SMA; BUY = a weekly close above a Breakout Buy Level fixed from the prior week's data with ≥2 tools within 3% (most recent such breakout in the last 4 weeks), every Friday close since and the latest close still at or above it, and Trend not Down; WAIT = otherwise. Buy Zone is reference only. Coppock = 10-bar WMA of ROC(14)+ROC(11), standard settings used as a placeholder because his are unpublished; DAS is omitted. Zone = sign + 3-yr percentile; direction = 2 bars. SMAs are simple; swings are 5-bar extremes; the channel is a 2-yr log regression ±2σ. The breadth proxy is the % of 500 current S&P 500 members with a rising weekly Coppock; it has survivorship bias, is a regime input only, and no other stock was scored. Weights are our choices (playbook §10); the state rule matched 86% / 83% of his sector states in-sample. Data: Yahoo Finance (unadjusted); weight from the Portfolio Dashboard (PIM 11/2 EOD, read-only).