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Pristine Weekend Watchlist 4.19.26

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Andrew O'Connell, CFA, FRM
Apr 19, 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

  • 🌎Macro Analysis

  • 📈Three A+ Trade Setups

And much more! Let's get started! 👇


🔗PRISTINE ALPHA TOOLS

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

  • The momentum style factor came out of nowhere and took the #1 spot! 👇

YTD Sector Performance

  • SOXX semis leading as the AI infrastructure buildout continues👇

QTD Sector Performance

  • SOXX BLOK & ARKK risk-on areas of the market are crushing it in Q2 👇

1-Month Sector Performance

  • XLE energy lagging as markets look past the US/Israel/Iran conflict 👇

1-Week Sector Performance

  • ARKK speculative tech caught a bid last week👇

Key Ideas/ Macro Backdrop🗝️

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