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TECHNICAL TRADING SCORECARD

AMAT

Applied Materials
$381.92
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
US Watchlist · 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$411.51–420.50+7.7% to +10.1%wk low 09-18, 61.8% retr., wk high 04-24
Trading stop · daily closebelow $372.80-2.4%trading downgrade
Trend stop · Friday closebelow $316.66-17.1%trend downgrade one state
Breakout Buy Levelclose above $407.29+6.6%top of R1 (wk high 02-27, 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 $407.29 (+6.6%); a Friday close below $316.66 (-17.1%) 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, 2:47 PM PT. Appendix on page 2.
APPENDIX · AMAT · 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 Neutral → 10-02 Up → 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 23.6

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 position18.1 / 20
Raw23.6 (Established Down)
Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2)+0
Final23.6 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 (AMAT close needed)
Trend · S&P5 Established Down (−) →-17.52%-3.69%Early Up ≥ 469.84 · Est. Down < 467.34
Trend · XLK5 Established Down (−) →-15.33%-2.59%Early Up ≥ 456.53 · Est. Down < 454.10
Trading · S&P5 Established Down (−) →-3.70%-7.61%Early Up ≥ 394.68 · Est. Down < 392.58
Trading · XLK5 Established Down (−) →-0.47%-3.15%Early Up ≥ 382.60 · Est. Down < 380.56

Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 381.92)

BandRangeDistanceTools in the cluster
R3426.13–436.33+11.6% to +14.2%wk low 09-04 426.13 · wk low 07-31 436.33
R2411.51–420.50+7.7% to +10.1%wk low 09-18 411.51 · 61.8% 415.73 · wk high 04-24 420.50
R1395.95–407.29+3.7% to +6.6%wk high 02-27 395.95 · wk low 05-22 397.37 · wk high 04-10 407.29
S1372.80–379.99-0.5% to -2.4%wk high 03-27 379.99 · wk low 05-01 377.07 · wk low 10-23 372.80
S2316.66–320.69-16.0% to -17.1%wk low 04-03 320.69 · wk low 03-13 316.66
S3242.50–246.92-35.3% to -36.5%wk low ’25-12-19 246.92 · wk high ’25-10-31 242.50
ATH739.67+93.7%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 < 372.80 (-2.4%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 316.66–320.69.
  • Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 316.66 (-17.1%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 242.50–246.92.
  • Trend vs S&P: above its 16-wk avg ≥ 469.84 · Est. Down < 467.34 (+22.4%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
  • Trading vs S&P: Early Up ≥ 394.68 · Est. Down < 392.58.

Sluymer context

  • 2026-09-08 chartbook: “AMAT has been weaker than LRCX but it too is oversold short-term with a trading developing near support at its rising red 200-day moving average.”
  • 2026-09-15 chartbook: “AMAT and NVDA. Interestingly, analog semis that have early signs of stalling short-term after recent rallies lagged, such as TXN, were notably resilient the past week with toward resistance.”
  • 2026-09-15 chartbook: “AMAT extended its correction to a lower low challenging its next important support level at 408 coinciding with key retracement levels and its rising red 200-day ma.”
  • 2026-09-22 chartbook: “AMAT remains notably weak into September, but it too is oversold with early signs of bottoming at key support at its 50-62% retracement band coinciding with its rising 40-week ma.”
  • 2026-09-29 chartbook: “AMAT’s oversold rebound from support at its 200-day ma continues as it tests next resistance at its 50-day ma just below 490 with 534 next resistance.”
  • 2026-10-06 chartbook: “AMAT has bottomed at its rising red 40-week ma, and while becoming overbought short-term we expect pullbacks to be short lived with first support near the rising blue 50-day ma.”
  • 2026-10-13 chartbook: “AMAT is pulling back after a 32% rebound with support between 462-478 at its 50-62% retracement levels. 40”

Notes & caveats

US Watchlist entry card. Universe: Quant + Fund Scorecard US Watchlist (/home/box/hq-fundamentals-scorecard/latest.json, read-only). 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).