{"id":188522,"date":"2025-08-25T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/?p=188522"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:55:07","slug":"tech-talk-for-tuesday-august-26th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/2025\/08\/25\/tech-talk-for-tuesday-august-26th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Talk for Tuesday August 26th 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><font size=\"5\"><strong>Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday August 26<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning<\/b>. S&amp;P 500 futures were down 5 points at 8:35 AM EDT.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>S&amp;P 500 Index recovered 2 points following release of <b>July Durable Goods Orders<\/b> at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a 4.1% drop versus a 9.4% drop in June. Actual was a 2.8% drop. Excluding transportation orders, consensus was a 0.1% increase versus a 0.2% gain in June. Actual was a 1.1% increase.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Interactive Brokers Group<\/b> (IBKR) added $2.79 to $65.55 after the stock was selected to replace Wallgreens Boots (WBA) in the S&amp;P 500 Index<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image0011-5.png\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image001[1]\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image001[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image0011_thumb-5.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Eli Lilly<\/b> added $10.42 to $705.75 after its weight loss pill cleared its latest trial prior to applying for FDA approval.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image002-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image002\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image002_thumb-15.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Heico<\/b> gained $4.86 to $310.20 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal third quarter results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image0031-5.png\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image003[1]\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image003[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image0031_thumb-5.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"5\"><strong>EquityClock\u2019s Market Outlook for August 26<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><em>Commodities are becoming a diversifier to portfolios as technology momentum wanes. See:<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equityclock.com\/2025\/08\/25\/stock-market-outlook-for-august-26-2025\/\"><em>https:\/\/equityclock.com\/2025\/08\/25\/stock-market-outlook-for-august-26-2025\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong>Technical Notes<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>S&amp;P \/TSX Base Metals iShares<\/b> (XBM.TO) moved above Cdn$21.76 extending an intermediate uptrend. Technical score remained at 6: Intermediate uptrend was extended (Score: 2). Strength relative to the S&amp;P 500 remains positive (Score: 2). Price remains above its 20 day moving average (Score: 1). Daily Stochastics, Relative Price Index, MACD are trending up (Score: 1).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image001-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image001\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image001_thumb-15.png\" width=\"166\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong>Trader\u2019s Corner<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image003-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image003\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image003\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image003_thumb-14.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Equity Indices and Related ETFs<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Daily Seasonal\/Technical Equity Trends for August 25<sup>th<\/sup> 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image005-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image005\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image005\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image005_thumb-10.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Green: Increase from previous day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Red: Decrease from previous day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source for all positive seasonality ratings: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EquityClock.com\"><em>www.EquityClock.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Commodities<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Daily Seasonal\/Technical Commodities Trends for August 25<sup>th<\/sup> 2025<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image007-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image007\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image007\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image007_thumb-5.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Green: Increase from previous day <b><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Red: Decrease from previous day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Sectors<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Daily Seasonal\/Technical Sector Trends for August 25<sup>th<\/sup> 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image009-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image009\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image009\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image009_thumb-4.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Green: Increase from previous day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Red: Decrease from previous day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong>Links offered by valued providers<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>Sectors Shift After Powell\u2019s Speech: Where to Focus Now Mary Ellen McGonagle<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B5GJ0A4Etqc\">Sectors Shift After Powell\u2019s Speech: Where to Focus Now \u2013 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Investors can use the September volatility to buy, says Hightower&#8217;s Stephanie Link<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c9EfrRwMGm4\">Investors can use the September volatility to buy, says Hightower&#8217;s Stephanie Link \u2013 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>This is the time when Wall Street tends to have some &#8216;indigestion&#8217;, says RBC&#8217;s Lori Calvasina<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=udmO9xdYp5M\">This is the time when Wall Street tends to have some &#8216;indigestion&#8217;, says RBC&#8217;s Lori Calvasina \u2013 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Retail sales likely fell 0.8% month-over-month in July: StatsCan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WeYSpctJVqk\">Retail sales likely fell 0.8% month-over-month in July: StatsCan \u2013 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>100% chance of September rate cut: Mulberry<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IPAMI5qzc80\">100% chance of September rate cut: Mulberry \u2013 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong>S&amp;P 500 Momentum Barometers<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image010-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image010\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image010\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image010_thumb-8.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intermediate term Barometer dropped 6.40 to 65.80. It remains Overbought<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image011-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image011\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image011\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image011_thumb-5.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The long term Barometer dropped 3.40 to 66.80. It remains Overbought.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><strong>TSX Momentum Barometers<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image012-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image012\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image012\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image012_thumb-8.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intermediate term Barometer dropped 4.74 to 67.77. It remains Overbought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image013-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image013\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image013\" src=\"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/clip_image013_thumb-5.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The long term Barometer dropped 1.90 to 82.94. It remains Overbought.<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> Seasonality ratings and technical ratings offered in this report and at <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>www.equityclock.com are for information only. They should not be considered as advice to purchase or to sell mentioned securities. Data offered in this report is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday August 26th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures were down 5 points at 8:35 AM EDT. S&amp;P 500 Index recovered 2 points following release of July Durable Goods Orders at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a 4.1% drop versus a 9.4% drop in June. Actual was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188530,"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188522\/revisions\/188530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}