🖥️Technical Screen: Upside Momentum Slowdown (Bullish Fatigue & Exhaustion)

Lester Davids

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Research: October 2026 > https://www.unum.capital/post/roct2026

Published post-market close on Wednesday 14 October for Thursday 15 October.

Disclosure: The screen below was compiled using an artificial intelligence tool, based on my own data.

These candles and multi-day formations show declining velocity, compressed spreads, or distribution wicks following extended advances, signaling that buyers are losing control.

Clicks Group Limited (CLS) | 23,670 ZAC

Candle Structure: Inside-Day High-Shelf Doji / Spinning Top (+0.67% close, −0.05% open-to-close spread).
Microstructure Shift: Following the +9.46% parabolic expansion impulse, the daily candle closed virtually flat relative to its open. The narrow range directly at swing highs confirms that momentum velocity is decelerating from [Extreme Overbought Expansion 🟩] into horizontal absorption.
Key Inflection Level: 23,820 ZAC (Upper wick rejection). A failure to break higher signals an impending mean-reversion drift toward the 22,122 ZAC 8-day EMA.

Montauk Renewables, Inc. (MKR) | 3,781 ZAC

Candle Structure: Bearish Engulfing / Shaved-Head Distribution Candle (−5.10% close, −5.48% open-to-close spread).
Microstructure Shift: After an extended run above trailing baselines, price opened at the session peak and closed at the low, fully engulfing prior consolidation and severing both the 8-day (4,216 ZAC) and 21-day (4,192 ZAC) EMAs to confirm complete upside exhaustion.
Key Inflection Level: 4,000 ZAC (Broken support). Inability to reclaim this level exposes the 75-day EMA at 3,538 ZAC.

Exemplar REITail Ltd. (EXP) | 2,350 ZAC

Candle Structure: Thin-Liquidity Blow-off / Upper-Wick Exhaustion Candle (+2.17% close).
Microstructure Shift: Up +70.9% on a 1-year trailing basis, price is printing wide bid-ask spreads with long upper shadows at multi-month peaks, characteristic of illiquidity-driven momentum saturation.
Key Inflection Level: 2,300 ZAC. A loss of trailing bids leaves an immediate air pocket toward the 2,150 ZAC zone.

Sasol Limited (SOL) | 26,062 ZAC

Candle Structure: Decelerating Bullish Continuation Candle (+0.86% close, +0.61% open-to-close spread).
Microstructure Shift: While the primary trend remains powerful (+5.92% multi-day), the range of the daily candle narrowed substantially when testing the 26,150 ZAC structural pivot. Trading at a +41.6% premium to its 200-day baseline (18,401 ZAC), incremental buyer aggression is moderating.
Key Inflection Level: 26,150 ZAC. Rejection here favors an orderly multi-session test of the 25,003 ZAC 8-day EMA.

Boxer Retail Limited (BOX) | 8,250 ZAC

Candle Structure: Inside-Day Hanging Man / Mild Distribution Rest (−0.97% close, −0.60% open-to-close spread).
Microstructure Shift: Following a +3.13% multi-day rally, price printed a soft session that failed to print a higher intraday high, signaling that aggressive momentum buyers have stepped back to let the 8-day EMA (8,209 ZAC) catch up.
Key Inflection Level: 8,350 ZAC. Sustained trade beneath this level keeps price range-bound between 8,180 and 8,300 ZAC.