STOCK MARKET BULLISH -- LONG -- CAUTION -- TURN MAY BE IMMINENT

Keybot the Quant remains long after a wild and crazy week. The cage match between the banksters and volatility played out during the week with the banks running higher but volatility would not move lower. Then, the banks reversed and failed at XLF 52.79 creating stock market sogginess.

The dip-buyers remain active so any move lower is met with a sharp relief rally creating choppy sideways slop for the last few weeks. Banks, utilities, volatility, copper and commodities are dictating stock market direction currently. Banks and volatility are creating market negativity while utilities, copper and commodities support the stock market.

UTIL, or DJU, ends the week at 1113.61. Remember, a couple weeks ago, the Keybot the Quant robot called out 1113.47 as the bull/bear line in the sand for the week of 11/17/25. Well, isn't that a fine how do you do? The robot called out this key number 2 weeks ahead of time. Of course it did. It is Keybot.

Utilities are a game of pennies as the new week of trading begins. Pay attention to UTIL 1113.47 the bull/bear line in the sand for this week. For next week, it will be UTIL 1103.18 and the 1113.47 number becomes meaningless. If UTIL falls below 1113.47 this week, only pennies away, it will create stock market negativity.

At Friday afternoon at 4 PM EST as trading ends for the regular session for the week, check UTIL, or DJU, to see if it is above or below 1103.18 since that will give you a heads-up for trading the week of 11/24/25. The bulls simply need to keep UTIL above 1113.47 and they should be fine preventing any significant drop in stocks. If utes begin falling apart, however, creating negativity, watch UTIL 1050 since that will trigger a big drop in the stock market and place an all-out major crash on the table.

XLF 52.79 is a line in the sand and with price starting the week at 52.45, the bears do not have much. Bulls will create happy stocks immediately if they can push XLF above 52.79. If price remains below, a pall will remain over the stock market going forward.

The quant is champing at the bit to go short with the algo number 8 points below the signal line but the internal parameters will not fully latch yet to permit the move. If the SPX drops below 6647, Keybot the Quant will likely flip short.

This is a long ways down from the starting price for the new week of trading at 6734. If utes turn negative, the quant may flip short right away when/if that happens. You have to just wait to see what the 1's and 0's do since the robot is dealing with several moving parts currently.

It was surprising that the quant did not flip short last week. The week ahead may be historic for the stock market. A late and revised US Monthly Jobs report, due to the government shutdown, will likely be released on Thursday and that will obviously impact stocks.

There is a new cage match; banksters versus utilities. It is XLF 52.79 versus UTIL 1113.47. Since the quant wants to flip short now, the bulls must push financials higher or they are screwed big-time. If UTIL loses the 1113.47 and banks remain negative, you will start to see the downside in the stock market gain traction and the quant will likely flip short.

Keybot the Quant prints two prescheduled numbers this week one on Wednesday morning and the other on Friday morning. Stocks are jumping around like Jumpin' Jack Flash. But it's all right now, in fact its a gas, gas, gas.

11/23/25; 7:00 PM EST =
11/21/25; 10:00 AM EST =
11/19/25; 9:00 AM EST =
11/16/25; 7:00 PM EST = +13; signal line is +21 but algorithm remains long
11/10/25; 9:37 AM EST = +13; signal line is +23 but algorithm remains long
11/10/25; 11:53 AM EST = +29; signal line is +24