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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

ECL

Ecolab
$304.68
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
USFL constituent · entry card
BUYConfirmed breakout (wk of 10-30 above $295.95). Buy the $295.33–295.95 retest; weekly close below $295.33 = failed.

Action levels

Buy zone (breakout retest)$295.33–295.95-2.9% to -3.1%retest of the 295.95 breakout (wk of 10-30); weekly close below 295.33 = failed breakout
Profit-Taking Zone$310.00–310.00+1.7% to +1.7%none: blue sky above the Breakout (trail the stop)
Trading stop · daily closebelow $288.30-5.4%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $279.00-8.4%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $310.00+1.7%top of R1 (wk high 02-13, wk high 02-27)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Up
Score 100/100. Leads S&P and 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: retest entry $295.33–295.95; a Friday close below $295.33 = 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, 2:52 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · ECL · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 100.0

RS vs S&P (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 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 81.8

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)20.0 + 10.0 / 30
Structure20 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive & rising25.0 / 25
Band position6.8 / 20
Raw81.8 (Established Up)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final81.8 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) 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 (ECL close needed)
Trend · S&P1 Established Up (+) ↑+9.02%+5.98%Est. Up ≥ 278.71 (-8.5%) · Est. Down < 248.81
Trend · XLB1 Established Up (+) →+5.00%+1.26%Est. Up ≥ 289.59 (-5.0%) · Est. Down < 266.07
Trading · S&P1 Established Up (+) →+5.30%+3.30%Est. Up ≥ 290.63 (-4.6%) · Est. Down < 220.56
Trading · XLB1 Established Up (+) ↑+1.95%+1.15%Est. Up ≥ 302.34 (-0.8%) · Early Up ≥ 299.26 · Est. Down < 297.66

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 304.68)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R1306.52–310.00+0.6% to +1.7%wk high 02-13 306.52 · wk high 02-27 309.27 · ATH 11-02 310.00
S1288.30–295.95-2.9% to -5.4%wk high 10-16 295.95 · wk high 08-28 295.33 · wk high 08-07 288.45 · wk high 07-10 288.30
S2279.00–286.04-6.1% to -8.4%wk high ’25-08-22 286.04 · wk high 06-26 283.95 · wk high ’25-10-10 282.20 · wk high ’25-10-24 280.91 · wk high 04-17 279.00
S3268.69–276.62-9.2% to -11.8%wk high ’25-11-28 276.62 · 50% 276.57 · 200-day SMA 276.24 · 40-wk SMA 275.86 · wk high ’25-07-04 274.17 · … +1 more · wk low 08-21 273.33 · wk high ’25-07-25 272.32 · wk high ’25-06-13 271.26 · wk low ’25-10-17 268.79 · 61.8% 268.69
ATH310.00+1.7%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 < 288.30 (-5.4%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 279.00–286.04.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 279.00 (-8.4%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 268.69–276.62.
  • Trend vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 278.71 (-8.5%) · above its 16-wk avg ≥ 278.71 · Est. Down < 248.81 (-18.3%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 290.63 · Est. Down < 220.56.

Sluymer context

  • 2026-09-29 chartbook: “ECL is bottoming at support with improving relative performance.”

Notes & caveats

PAG U.S. Focus List holding, entry card (treated like the US Watchlist). Holdings: issuer file as of 2026-10-14 (RBC PAG "Guided Portfolio Large Cap Equity Grid", last updated October 14, 2026 (u.s._focus_list_current.pdf; Focus List names, weights and Alternatives), Gmail (sc.assistant80@gmail.com), "USFL and CFL equity grids" from stephen.k.chang@rbc.com, Oct 21, 2026 3:20 PM PT; matches the Oct 14, 2026 U.S. Focus List Change Report); List weight 2.50%. 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).