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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

IBB

Ishares Biotechnology Etf
$215.47
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
Thematic ETF · entry card
WAITWait: no confirmed weekly breakout (Oct 30 close $217.61 vs prior-week level $217.12). Breakout Buy Level now $222.29.

Action levels

Buy zone (breakout retest)——no confirmed breakout, so no retest zone
Profit-Taking Zone$222.29–222.29+3.2% to +3.2%none: blue sky above the Breakout (trail the stop)
Trading stop · daily closebelow $196.87-8.6%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $179.64-16.6%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $222.29+3.2%top of R1 (wk high 08-28, ATH 10-30)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Up
Score 85/100. Leads S&P, lags sector; above rising 40-wk.
Trading (10–20 day)
● Established Up
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: breakout entry on a close above $222.29 (+3.2%); a Friday close below $179.64 (-16.6%) 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, 2:51 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · IBB · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 85.0

RS vs S&P (20) + sector (10)20.0 + 1.0 = 21.0 / 30
Structure (6 checks)30 / 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) 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 79.6

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)20.0 + 4.0 / 30
Structure25 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive & rising25.0 / 25
Band position5.6 / 20
Raw79.6 (Established Up)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final79.6 Established 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 (IBB close needed)
Trend · S&P1 Established Up (+) →+8.15%+8.86%Est. Up ≥ 202.31 (-6.1%) · Est. Down < 167.45
Trend · XLV5 Established Down (+) →-1.57%+2.98%Est. Up ≥ 221.89 (+3.0%) · Est. Down < 220.71
Trading · S&P1 Established Up (+) →+3.77%+0.88%Est. Up ≥ 208.81 (-3.1%) · Est. Down < 161.25
Trading · XLV3 Neutral (−) ↓+0.06%-1.09%Est. Up ≥ 221.92 (+3.0%) · Early Up ≥ 215.95 · Est. Down < 214.79

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 215.47)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R1217.12–222.29+0.8% to +3.2%wk high 08-28 217.12 · ATH 10-30 222.29
S1196.87–200.52-6.9% to -8.6%wk low 09-18 200.52 · wk high 07-10 199.05 · wk low 10-09 196.87
S2179.64–185.19-14.1% to -16.6%200-day SMA 185.19 · 40-wk SMA 184.85 · wk low 08-07 184.25 · 61.8% 184.14 · wk high 01-09 179.64
S3173.60–178.74-17.0% to -19.4%wk high 01-23 178.74 · wk high 02-27 178.29 · wk high 04-17 177.36 · wk high ’25-11-28 174.40 · wk high 05-08 174.25 · wk high ’25-12-26 173.60
ATH222.29+3.2%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 < 196.87 (-8.6%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 179.64–185.19.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 179.64 (-16.6%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 173.60–178.74.
  • Trend vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 202.31 (-6.1%) · above its 16-wk avg ≥ 202.31 · Est. Down < 167.45 (-22.3%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 208.81 · Est. Down < 161.25.

Sluymer context

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

Notes & caveats

Thematic ETFs holding, entry card (treated like the US Watchlist). Holdings: issuer file as of 2026-10-20 (Thematic ETFs bot list: /home/box/thematic-etf-scorecard/latest.json (built 2026-10-21 07:51 PT, from PortfolioDashboardBBG.xlsx MASTER!CK6 'THEMATIC ETFS' block; live at https://skc-thematic-etfs.pages.dev/)); Theme: Biotech. 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).