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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

USB

US Bancorp
$59.89
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
USFL alternative · 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$63.71–64.84+6.4% to +8.3%wk high 09-04, wk high 07-17
Trading stop · daily closebelow $56.70-5.3%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $55.15-7.9%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $62.34+4.1%top of R1 (wk low 09-04, wk high 02-13)

Trend at a glance

Trend Score (8–16 wk)
● Down
Score 37/100. Lags S&P and sector; above rising 40-wk.
Trading (10–20 day)
● Early 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 $62.34 (+4.1%); a Friday close below $55.15 (-7.9%) 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 · USB · TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

Scores · Trend 36.7

RS vs S&P (20) + sector (10)2.0 + 0.0 = 2.0 / 30
Structure (6 checks)20 / 30
Score = (RS + structure) × 100/6036.7 / 100
Raw state (Up ≥ 60 · Down < 45)Down
Confirmation (2 consecutive Fridays)confirmed Down
Trend (confirmed)Down
✔ Fri close above 40-wk SMA 6/6 · ✔ 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 Down → 10-02 Down → 10-09 Down → 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 74.9

RS (S&P 20 + sector 10)20.0 + 2.3 / 30
Structure18 / 25
Coppock (daily) — positive & rising25.0 / 25
Band position9.6 / 20
Raw74.9 (Early Up)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final74.9 Early Up
✔ Close above 50-day SMA 5/5 · ✖ 50-day SMA rising (10 d) 0/3 · ✖ Close above 100-day SMA 0/4 · ✔ 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 (USB close needed)
Trend · S&P5 Established Down (+) →-2.23%+2.29%Est. Up ≥ 67.18 (+12.2%) · Early Up ≥ 60.75 · Est. Down < 60.43
Trend · XLF5 Established Down (−) →-3.23%-0.55%Est. Up ≥ 67.28 (+12.3%) · Early Up ≥ 61.47 · Est. Down < 61.14
Trading · S&P1 Established Up (+) →+2.63%+0.74%Est. Up ≥ 58.75 (-1.9%) · Est. Down < 45.40
Trading · XLF4 Early Down (−) ↓-0.77%-1.67%Est. Up ≥ 60.62 (+1.2%) · Est. Down < 58.03

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 59.89)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R263.71–64.84+6.4% to +8.3%wk high 09-04 63.71 · wk high 07-17 64.84
R160.80–62.34+1.5% to +4.1%wk low 09-04 60.80 · wk high 02-13 61.19 · wk low 08-21 61.46 · wk low 07-31 62.34
S156.70–58.22-2.8% to -5.3%40-wk SMA 58.22 · 50% 58.20 · 200-day SMA 58.11 · wk high 04-24 58.05 · wk high 01-23 56.70
S255.15–56.34-5.9% to -7.9%61.8% 56.34 · wk high 01-09 56.20 · wk low 10-09 55.63 · wk high ’25-12-26 55.15
S352.99–53.98-9.9% to -11.5%wk high 2024-11-29 53.98 · wk low 01-16 53.23 · wk low 06-05 53.12 · wk low 01-02 52.99
ATH66.08+10.3%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 < 56.70 (-5.3%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 55.15–56.34.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 55.15 (-7.9%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 52.99–53.98.
  • Trend vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 67.18 (+12.2%) · above its 16-wk avg ≥ 60.75 · Est. Down < 60.43 (+0.9%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Est. Up ≥ 58.75 · Est. Down < 45.40.

Sluymer context

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

Notes & caveats

PAG U.S. Focus List alternative, 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); Grid Alternative (Financials; no Focus List weight). Benchmarks: S&P 500 (20 pts) and XLF (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).