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On Monday we had NFTRH+ updates on a couple of prime Semi Equipment names, Applied Materials (AMAT) and Lam Research (LRCX). This was a logical extension of the weekend report's…
This is a stunning technical view of another Semi equipment company, Lam Research. With all due caveats about a news-filled, roiled week in the markets, LRCX is making a move today that we can use for our macro theses of Semi Equipment bullishness, an early economic signal and just maybe, a cost-push inflation issue down the road.
The daily chart is breaking to a new high above the April high (which you will recall is our guideline for broad market indexes to trigger a bullish view).
In an NFTRH update we reviewed the newly negative Semiconductor Equipment sector book-to-bill data. After seeing that I checked with a former associate of mine to see what is happening…