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🛡️Navigating a Midterm Election Year!

Pristine Weekend Watchlist 1.4.26

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Andrew O'Connell, CFA, FRM
Jan 04, 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! 👇


🔗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 Quality style factor is leading, indicating investors are moving out of a speculative mindset, and into a conservative mindset👇

YTD Sector Performance

  • Q1 of a new trading year is the time to hone in on finding the NEW leadership groups 👇

QTD Sector Performance

  • QTD performance is identical to YTD performance in Q1 👇

1-Month Sector Performance

  • MSOS rallied on POTUS signing an executive order to reschedule cannabis from schedule I to schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)👇

1-Week Sector Performance

  • KWEB China outperformed 👇

Key Ideas/ Macro Backdrop🗝️

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