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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

CLF

Cleveland-Cliffs
$14.14
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
Duquesne 13F holding · entry card
BUYConfirmed breakout, but extended: the old $12.14–12.26 retest zone is below the trend stop. Wait for a pullback to S1 $13.22–13.55; stop = Friday close below $12.81.

Action levels

Extended – wait for S1$13.22–13.55-4.2% to -6.5%entry = top of S1 $13.55; the old 12.14–12.26 breakout-retest zone is dropped because it sits below the trend stop (12.81)
Profit-Taking Zone$15.06–15.35+6.5% to +8.6%wk high 06-05, wk high 01-30
Trading stop · daily closebelow $13.22-6.5%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $12.81-9.4%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $14.58+3.1%top of R1 (wk high 06-19, wk high 2024-11-08)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Up
Score 85/100. Leads S&P and sector; above falling 40-wk.
Trading (10–20 day)
● Neutral
Above 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: extended, wait for a pullback to S1 $13.22–13.55 (-4.2%); a Friday close below $12.81 (-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, 2:50 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · CLF · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 85.0

RS vs S&P (20) + sector (10)20.0 + 10.0 = 30.0 / 30
Structure (6 checks)21 / 30
Score = (RS + structure) × 100/6085.0 / 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) 0/4 · ✖ No lower high vs cycle high 0/5 · ✔ 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 Neutral → 10-02 Down → 10-09 Neutral → 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 58.6

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)20.0 + 9.0 / 30
Structure17 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive but rolling over from >80th pctile6.2 / 25
Band position6.3 / 20
Raw58.6 (Neutral)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final58.6 Neutral
✔ 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) 0/3 · ✖ No daily lower high (last two swing highs) 0/5

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 (CLF close needed)
Trend · S&P1 Established Up (+) →+18.93%+18.81%Est. Up ≥ 12.19 (-13.8%) · Est. Down < 9.90
Trend · XLB1 Established Up (+) →+14.51%+13.52%Est. Up ≥ 12.67 (-10.4%) · Est. Down < 9.90
Trading · S&P1 Established Up (+) →+5.55%+1.14%Est. Up ≥ 13.51 (-4.5%) · Est. Down < 9.90
Trading · XLB1 Established Up (−) →+2.22%-0.95%Est. Up ≥ 13.91 (-1.6%) · Est. Down < 12.52

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 14.14)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R215.06–15.35+6.5% to +8.6%wk high 06-05 15.06 · wk high 01-30 15.35
R114.24–14.58+0.7% to +3.1%wk high 06-19 14.24 · wk high 2024-11-08 14.34 · wk high ’25-10-10 14.51 · wk high 10-23 14.58
S113.22–13.55-4.2% to -6.5%wk high ’25-12-12 13.55 · wk high 2024-10-04 13.39 · wk high 2024-12-06 13.22
S212.81–13.11-7.3% to -9.4%wk high 09-18 13.11 · wk high 08-07 12.86 · wk high 09-04 12.81
S311.96–12.26-13.3% to -15.4%wk high ’25-02-14 12.26 · wk low 2024-10-11 12.24 · wk low ’25-12-12 12.14 · wk low 06-12 12.12 · wk high ’25-07-25 11.96
ATH34.04+140.7%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 < 13.22 (-6.5%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 12.81–13.11.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 12.81 (-9.4%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 11.96–12.26.
  • Trend vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 12.19 (-13.8%) · above its 16-wk avg ≥ 12.19 · Est. Down < 9.90 (-30.0%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 13.51 · Est. Down < 9.90.

Sluymer context

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

Notes & caveats

Duquesne Family Office (13F) holding, entry card (treated like the US Watchlist). Holdings: SEC 13F-HR for the quarter ended Tue, Jun 30, 2026, filed Fri, Aug 14, 2026 (SEC EDGAR 13F-HR 0001536411-26-000006 (period 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-14); https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1536411&type=13F); weight 0.76% of the reported 13F portfolio value (incl. option lines). Benchmarks: S&P 500 (20 pts) and XLB (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).