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📊Looking Ahead to September Seasonality

Pristine Weekend Watchlist 8.16.26

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Andrew O'Connell, CFA, FRM
Aug 16, 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! 👇

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

  • Momentum style factor bouncing back after falling sharply on the Situational Awareness fund blowup👇

YTD Sector Performance

  • SOXX semiconductors peaked on 6/22, but still by far the YTD leader 👇

QTD Sector Performance

  • GDX Gold Miners & XLE Energy outperformance = positioning for geopolitical risk. If/when the Iran war resolves, we could see mean reversion in these groups👇

1-Month Sector Performance

  • IGV software back from the dead👇

1-Week Sector Performance

  • MSOS cannabis bouncing on CURLF acquisition news👇

Key Ideas/ Macro Backdrop🗝️

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