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What the S&P 500 Heatmap Is Really Telling You

What the S&P 500 Heatmap Is Really Telling You

What the S&P 500 Heatmap Is Really Telling You

Tile size, color and clustering: a quick guide to reading market breadth at a glance.

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Size is weight, color is direction

Each tile is sized by market cap, so a handful of mega caps can paint the index green while most stocks are red. That gap between index and breadth is often the most useful signal on the screen.

Look for sector clusters

When an entire sector lights up together, money is rotating. When only one or two names move, it’s usually stock-specific news.

Use the heatmap on our dashboard as a first read each morning, then drill into the movers that matter to your plan.

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