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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

SOXX

Ishares Semiconductor Etf
$465.00
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
Thematic ETF · entry card
AVOIDAvoid for now: Trend Down. Re-check when the trend repairs.

Action levels

Buy zone (breakout retest)——no confirmed breakout, so no retest zone
Profit-Taking Zone$495.15–498.54+6.5% to +7.2%wk low 09-18, wk low 07-17
Trading stop · daily closebelow $458.20-1.5%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $363.80-21.8%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $489.21+5.2%top of R1 (200-day SMA, wk low 05-22)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Down
Score 23/100. Lags S&P and sector; below rising 40-wk.
Trading (10–20 day)
● Established Down
Below 50-day; daily RS vs S&P Est. Down.
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 $489.21 (+5.2%); a Friday close below $363.80 (-21.8%) 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, 2:52 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · SOXX · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 23.3

RS vs S&P (20) + sector (10)0.0 + 0.0 = 0.0 / 30
Structure (6 checks)14 / 30
Score = (RS + structure) × 100/6023.3 / 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) 4/4 · ✖ 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 Up → 10-02 Up → 10-09 Neutral → 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 24.4

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)0.0 + 0.0 / 30
Structure3 / 25
Coppock (daily) — BOUNCE tag — oversold & turning up inside a down structure (no boost)2.5 / 25
Band position18.9 / 20
Raw24.4 (Established Down)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final24.4 Established Down
✖ 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) 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 (SOXX close needed)
Trend · S&P5 Established Down (−) →-9.52%-3.43%Early Up ≥ 521.89 · Est. Down < 519.11
Trend · XLK5 Established Down (−) →-7.04%-2.33%Est. Up ≥ 623.67 (+34.1%) · Early Up ≥ 506.85 · Est. Down < 504.15
Trading · S&P5 Established Down (−) →-4.69%-7.70%Early Up ≥ 487.65 · Est. Down < 485.04
Trading · XLK5 Established Down (−) →-1.49%-3.24%Est. Up ≥ 535.73 (+15.2%) · Early Up ≥ 472.65 · Est. Down < 470.12

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 465.00)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R3522.24–535.48+12.3% to +15.2%wk low 06-12 522.24 · wk high 09-11 535.48
R2495.15–498.54+6.5% to +7.2%wk low 09-18 495.15 · wk low 07-17 498.54
R1477.56–489.21+2.7% to +5.2%200-day SMA 477.56 · wk low 05-22 477.95 · 40-wk SMA 480.24 · wk low 09-04 489.21
S1458.20–464.08-0.2% to -1.5%wk low 07-31 464.08 · 50% 458.20
S2363.80–368.82-20.7% to -21.8%wk high 02-27 368.82 · wk high 02-13 365.38 · wk high 01-30 363.80
S3316.22–323.33-30.5% to -32.0%wk low 02-06 323.33 · wk high ’25-12-12 317.35 · wk low 03-13 316.22
ATH655.95+41.1%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 < 458.20 (-1.5%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 363.80–368.82.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 363.80 (-21.8%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 316.22–323.33.
  • Trend vs S&P: above its 16-wk avg ≥ 521.89 · Est. Down < 519.11 (+11.6%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Early Up ≥ 487.65 · Est. Down < 485.04.

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: Semiconductors. Benchmarks: S&P 500 (20 pts) and XLK (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).