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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

CNQ.TO

Canadian Natural Resources
$74.97
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
CFL constituent · entry card
BUYConfirmed breakout (wk of 10-16 above C$72.35). Buy the C$70.99–72.35 retest; weekly close below C$70.99 = failed.

Action levels

Buy zone (breakout retest)$70.99–72.35-3.5% to -5.3%retest of the 72.35 breakout (wk of 10-16); weekly close below 70.99 = failed breakout
Profit-Taking Zone$78.60–78.60+4.8% to +4.8%none: blue sky above the Breakout (trail the stop)
Trading stop · daily closebelow $70.44-6.0%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $66.88-10.8%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $78.60+4.8%top of R1 (ATH 10-30)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Up
Score 100/100. Leads TSX and sector; above rising 40-wk.
Trading (10–20 day)
● Early Up
Above 50-day; daily RS vs S&P Neutral.
Sluymer's view: No recent call: not named in the 15 reports reviewed (Aug 18 – Oct 13, 2026).
Watch this week: Fri Nov 6: retest entry C$70.99–72.35; a Friday close below C$70.99 = failed breakout.
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, 2:49 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · CNQ.TO · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 100.0

RS vs TSX (20) + sector (10)20.0 + 10.0 = 30.0 / 30
Structure (6 checks)30 / 30
Score = (RS + structure) × 100/60100.0 / 100
Raw state (Up ≥ 60 · Down < 45)Up
Confirmation (2 consecutive Fridays)confirmed Up
Trend (confirmed)Up
✔ Fri close above 40-wk SMA 6/6 · ✔ 40-wk SMA rising (4 wks) 4/4 · ✔ No lower high vs cycle high 5/5 · ✔ Fri close above 20-wk SMA 5/5 · ✔ 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 Up → 10-02 Up → 10-09 Up → 10-16 Up → 10-23 Up → 10-30 Up. Coppock, band position, breadth and modifiers no longer enter the Trend score (Coppock chart below is reference only).

Scores · Trading 68.8

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)8.0 + 10.0 / 30
Structure25 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive but decelerating12.5 / 25
Band position13.3 / 20
Raw68.8 (Early Up)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final68.8 Early Up
✔ Close above 50-day SMA 5/5 · ✔ 50-day SMA rising (10 d) 3/3 · ✔ Close above 100-day SMA 4/4 · ✔ Close above 200-day SMA 5/5 · ✔ 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 (CNQ.TO close needed)
Trend · TSX1 Established Up (+) →+14.01%+4.66%Est. Up ≥ 69.42 (-7.4%) · Est. Down < 52.48
Trend · XEG.TO1 Established Up (+) →+2.91%+2.13%Est. Up ≥ 76.55 (+2.1%) · Est. Down < 69.57
Trading · TSX3 Neutral (−) ↓-0.19%-0.74%Est. Up ≥ 75.42 (+0.6%) · Est. Down < 68.00
Trading · XEG.TO1 Established Up (+) →+1.60%+0.41%Est. Up ≥ 74.08 (-1.2%) · Est. Down < 67.73

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 74.97)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R178.60–78.60+4.8% to +4.8%ATH 10-30 78.60
S170.44–72.35-3.5% to -6.0%wk high 09-11 72.35 · wk high 04-03 70.99 · wk high 03-20 70.44
S266.88–68.45-8.7% to -10.8%wk high 05-22 68.45 · wk low 09-11 68.42 · wk high 07-31 67.10 · wk high 06-05 67.08 · 50% 66.88
S364.11–66.05-11.9% to -14.5%wk low 10-02 66.05 · 40-wk SMA 64.53 · 61.8% 64.11
ATH78.60+4.8%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 < 70.44 (-6.0%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 66.88–68.45.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 66.88 (-10.8%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 64.11–66.05.
  • Trend vs TSX: Est. Up ≥ 69.42 (-7.4%) · above its 16-wk avg ≥ 69.42 · Est. Down < 52.48 (-30.0%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs TSX: Est. Up ≥ 75.42 · Est. Down < 68.00.

Sluymer context

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

Notes & caveats

PAG Canadian Focus List holding, entry card (treated like the US Watchlist). Holdings: issuer file as of 2026-09-01 (RBC PAG "Canadian Equity Grid Fall 2026" (September 2026 – November 2026; canadian_grid_en.pdf; Focus List names and Alternatives by recommended position size), Gmail (sc.assistant80@gmail.com), "USFL and CFL equity grids" from stephen.k.chang@rbc.com, Oct 21, 2026 3:20 PM PT; Focus List weights from the Sep 1, 2026 Canadian Focus List Quarterly report (unchanged)); List weight 2.50%. Benchmarks: S&P/TSX Composite (20 pts) and XEG.TO (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).