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Pristine Weekend Watchlist 1.25.26

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Andrew O'Connell, CFA, FRM
Jan 25, 2026
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Welcome to this week's edition of the Pristine Capital Weekend Watchlist! 👋

In this note, we’ll cover the following topics to prep for the upcoming trading week:

  • 🦾 Sector relative strength analysis across multiple timeframes

  • 🌎Macro Analysis

  • 📈Three A+ Trade Setups

And much more! Let's get started! 👇


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Sector/Style Factor Relative Strength Analysis

A key part of our technical process is tracking momentum across style factors and sectors on multiple timeframes. Our goal is to follow the flow of capital and spot trend changes early

Style Factor YTD Performance

  • Dividend Aristocrats and Quality are leading in 2026. If your primarily trade growth stocks, most likely your start to the year is slower than the prior few years. Nothing wrong with that👇

YTD Sector Performance

  • GDX Gold miners was the top performing group in 2025 by a longshot and is following that up with a top performance in 2026. I don’t see this outperformance sustaining much longer. I’ll be looking for shorts in this group 👇

QTD Sector Performance

  • QTD performance is identical to YTD performance in Q1 👇

1-Month Sector Performance

  • SOXX semiconductors strong start to the year and massive outperformance compared to IGV software, which is suffering from concerns that AI will erode software company moats 👇

1-Week Sector Performance

  • GDX squeezed higher. 10.20% in one week after such a massive 1-year run could be a climax move👇

Key Ideas/ Macro Backdrop🗝️

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