$156.20
Tue, Nov 3, 2026 close (weekly items: Fri, Oct 30)
US Watchlist · entry card
| Buy zone (breakout retest) | — | — | no confirmed breakout, so no retest zone |
| Profit-Taking Zone | $164.60–169.34 | +5.4% to +8.4% | wk low 05-01, wk low 09-18, wk low 09-04 |
| Trading stop · daily close | below $128.45 | -17.8% | trading downgrade |
| Trend stop · Friday close | below $115.50 | -26.1% | trend downgrade one state |
| Breakout Buy Level | close above $158.24 | +1.3% | top of R1 (wk high 02-27, wk high 01-16) |
APPENDIX · KLAC · 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) × 100/60 | 23.3 / 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 Down → 10-02 Neutral → 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 16.2
| RS (S&P 20 + sector 10) | 0.0 + 5.7 / 30 |
| Structure | 3 / 25 |
| Coppock (daily) — BOUNCE tag — oversold & turning up inside a down structure (no boost) | 2.5 / 25 |
| Band position | 5.0 / 20 |
| Raw | 16.2 (Established Down) |
| Modifiers (10-yr > 5% rising −3, seasonal −2) | +0 |
| Final | 16.2 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 · benchmark | State | RS vs SMA | RS chg | Phase-transition price (KLAC close needed) |
|---|
| Trend · S&P | 5 Established Down (−) → | -14.14% | -3.73% | Early Up ≥ 182.25 · Est. Down < 181.28 |
| Trend · XLK | 5 Established Down (−) → | -11.86% | -2.62% | Early Up ≥ 177.07 · Est. Down < 176.13 |
| Trading · S&P | 5 Established Down (−) → | -1.00% | -4.84% | Early Up ≥ 156.95 · Est. Down < 156.12 |
| Trading · XLK | 2 Early Up (−) ↑ | +2.29% | -0.24% | Est. Up ≥ 190.79 (+22.1%) · Early Up ≥ 152.19 · Est. Down < 151.38 |
Full bands (cluster rule: 2 or more tools within 3%; Δ vs 156.20)
| Band | Range | Distance | Tools in the cluster |
|---|
| R3 | 182.05–183.66 | +16.5% to +17.6% | 200-day SMA 182.05 · 40-wk SMA 182.95 · 61.8% 183.66 |
| R2 | 164.60–169.34 | +5.4% to +8.4% | wk low 05-01 164.60 · wk low 09-18 165.89 · wk low 09-04 167.05 · wk low 05-22 169.03 · wk high 01-30 169.34 |
| R1 | 157.74–158.24 | +1.0% to +1.3% | wk high 02-27 157.74 · wk high 01-16 158.13 · wk high 03-27 158.24 |
| S1 | 128.45–132.10 | -15.4% to -17.8% | wk low 03-13 132.10 · wk high ’25-12-26 128.68 · wk low 02-06 128.50 · wk high ’25-10-31 128.45 |
| S2 | 115.50–116.94 | -25.1% to -26.1% | wk low ’25-12-19 116.94 · wk high ’25-10-03 115.50 |
| S3 | 107.20–107.68 | -31.1% to -31.4% | wk high ’25-09-19 107.68 · wk low ’25-11-21 107.20 |
| ATH | 307.37 | +96.8% | 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 < 128.45 (-17.8%): trading downgrades one state, re-anchor to S2 115.50–116.94.
- Tier 2 (trend stop = Trend Breakdown / invalidation): Friday close < 115.50 (-26.1%): trend downgrades one state, re-anchor to S3 107.20–107.68.
- Trend vs S&P: above its 16-wk avg ≥ 182.25 · Est. Down < 181.28 (+16.1%) (next Friday, benchmark flat).
- Trading vs S&P: Early Up ≥ 156.95 · Est. Down < 156.12.
Sluymer context
- Not named in the 15 reports reviewed (Aug 18 – Oct 13, 2026).
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).
