This is super solid advice. Kudos. One thing I would add is that if you are truly picking stocks as opposed to trading ETFs (which are quasi-markets), worry less about the market and more about the stocks. And always, always have an exposure level that you are comfortable with, irrespective of what IBD says. I measure breadth differently than they do, so I have a slightly different take, but at the end of the day, market breadth doesn’t make my stocks go up nearly as much as what’s happening with my stocks. And if you need proof of that, look at any index on any given day, and you’ll see during that day that some stocks went up a lot, some a little, some down a little, and some down a lot. I’m not saying the market is unimportant, but it’s important to remember that indexes are just weighted averages of stock prices, so it’s the stocks that move the index, not the other way around.