ETFsector.com Daily Trading Outlook
August 6, 2025 S&P futures +0.3%, following a quiet Tuesday where equities finished mostly lower on soft economic data. Tech lagged, while small caps, managed
August 6, 2025 S&P futures +0.3%, following a quiet Tuesday where equities finished mostly lower on soft economic data. Tech lagged, while small caps, managed
August 5, 2025 S&P futures up 0.1% following Monday’s sharp equity rally, which saw all major indexes gain over 1% and every sector finish higher
August 4, 2025 We introduced our Elev8 model in June of 2024 and have been running it in its current form since August 28, 2024.
August 4, 2025 S&P futures are up 0.7% in early trading, rebounding from Friday’s selloff that left all major indexes down over 2% for the
August 3, 2025 Last week we noted that the S&P 500 had made it into overbought territory. We ended last week with some selling on
August 1, 2025 S&P futures down 1% in early Friday trading, following broad weakness in Thursday’s session. Initial gains from upbeat MSFT and META earnings
Discretionary stocks haven’t participated in the equity market recovery to the level we would have expected. We have taken out exposure to a tactical underweight for August in favor of a defensive hedge into Utilities and Staples.
Energy shares and Crude prices remain weak, but we start August with a modest long exposure to hedge against rotation risk.
The sector remains the weakest in our model. Both fundamental and technical headwinds remain in place, though oversold conditions are prevalent.
Not much to like about Staples on the surface, but near-term oversold conditions make it a good hedge for bullish positioning as defensive rotation and outperformance often happens from a starting point of oversold conditions.
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