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According to the principle of 'Market Rotation,' why might a major market index continue to make marginal new highs even after early-cycle sectors like technology have begun their mark-down phase?

  1. The index is weighted toward the strongest stocks, which are always the last stocks to face professional selling.
  2. Weak holders in late-cycle sectors panic-sell shares, which perversely drives the broad index higher on the resulting liquidity.
  3. High volume in the futures market forces the cash index higher regardless of the distribution occurring in individual stocks.
  4. Professional distribution rotates through sectors, and late-cycle sectors like consumer staples prop up the index while others fall.

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