Is the stock market in an uptrend today?
Avoid new longs, possibly short, raise cash.
Risk is off — just 3 of 11 sectors beat SPY, with Energy out front.
Growth lagged the broad market
The after-close read is defensive: breadth is 28/100, leadership is 13/100, and participation is 3 of 11 sectors ahead of SPY. Energy is the top sector, framing where relative strength is showing up across the public data.
As of Sep 10, 2026, TickerStance reads the market as Defensive with a Stance score of 16/100. Risk is off — just 3 of 11 sectors beat SPY, with Energy out front.
No single indicator is foolproof — combining several is the closest you get. TickerStance grades the market on four lenses: Trend (are major indexes rising), Breadth (is the rally broad), Leadership (are leading stocks acting well), and Macro (what credit and rates conditions say). The four blend into a 0–100 Stance score. Today the composite reads Defensive at 16/100.
Stance is a 0–100 composite that grades the current market environment. Higher scores indicate broader and stronger participation across breadth, trend, leadership, and macro conditions. Lower scores indicate narrowing leadership, weakening trend, and tighter macro conditions.
Stance combines four lenses: Trend (30% weight; are major indexes rising), Breadth (30%; is the rally broad-based), Leadership (20%; are leading stocks acting well), and Macro (20%; what credit and rates conditions say). Each lens is scored 0–100 and the weighted composite produces the daily Stance.