Category: Stock Index Trading
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, April 03, 2009
Significant Upside Ahead for S&P 500 Short SH ETF? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's notice that yesterday and today the ProShares Single Leveraged Short SPY (NYSE: SH) hit the exact same low at 73.00 and has since rallied to 74.40/60, leaving behind a potential near-term Double Bottom. Given the glaring positive momentum divergences that have been developing since 3/23, the Double Bottom at 73.00 could very well represent the (so far) elusive near-term low ahead of a significant upside corrective period. As long as 73.00 remains viable, I will be looking for the SH to climb to fill the gap left behind on yesterday's open, between 75.0 and 7.600 next, possibly on the way to a test of the March-April down trendline, now at 77.00/10.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 03, 2009
Where Next for the Stock Market S&P 500 Index? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: INO
The dramatic run up that we have seen in the S&P 500 may be coming to an end. The retracement back over the 840 level should provide sufficient resistance to reverse this market to the downside. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 03, 2009
Another Strong Stock Market Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
Wall Street had another strong session today, although they gave back a chunk of it in the last hour, but still closed with strong gains across the board with excellent technicals.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Impressive Showing for Stock Market Bulls / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices closed with a strong gain, near the highs for the day, but the day started out very differently. The pre-opening & overnight futures were down sharply, the indices gapped down big, retested Monday's lows, made higher lows and then rallied sharply in the morning, and that carried right through to about noon. They did back off after the lunch hour, but came on again and made higher highs, had a very sharp pullback with about 45-50 minutes to go, but held the earlier reaction lows and came on again and closed sharply higher.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Stock Market Indices Up, But Close Well Off Rally Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had an up-day on Tuesday, but the edge was taken off the positive gains with a very sharp setback in the last hour that took the indices way off their rally highs.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Is the Stock Market Rally Over? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: INO
The S&P500 market, along with the other equity markets, rallied sharply and created a massive gain of 20% in a matter of weeks. This is the biggest and fastest gain that these indices have seen since the 1930s.
So the question is: Is the move over, or is this the pause that refreshes?
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Stock Market Bottom? Follow the Money / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
In my Trading Wisdom blog for subscribers on March 9, 2009, I wrote: “We are now close to the cycle turn dates in the market mentioned in the March 3, 2009 Trading Wisdom “Complex Bottoms And Stress.” Is this a bottom or the bottom?
I have no idea, and will defer to those who insist on finding bottoms in this Jennifer Lopez market. I am not wise enough or idiotic enough to do that. When it comes, it is likely to be tradeable, and not out of the realm of possibility that it could go 15-20% to the upside into beginning of April.”
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Stocks Bulls Remain in Control / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
As the week closes, let¹s take a look at the BIG picture of the weekly cash
S&P 500. Let¹s notice that earlier this week the SPX hurdled and has
sustained above its nearest-term down trendline (Jan-Mar) at 795, with the
price structure trading about 3% above the trendline as well as about 3%
above its flattening 10-week moving average.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Stock Market Expected Sell-off Arrives / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
We were expecting a down session, and we got one today. The indices gapped lower on strong negative futures. They did manage to move back off the early lows in a corrective manner to make up 50% of the losses, but when it failed to generate any upside thrust by mid-morning, they rolled over sharply to test yesterday's lows on the NDX and SPX, bounced 4-5 times in the afternoon, could not break support, but also could not get above declining tops or intraday declining moving average resistance , and rolled over in the last 10 minutes to close near the lows for the day.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, March 27, 2009
Is the S&P Stock Market Rally Real ? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: INO
Last week I watched a video analysis of the S&P and Crude Oil markets. The technical analysis was right on at the time, but those markets have changed quite a bit in the last few days. The S&P had a huge rally and Crude seemed to steady out, so what's the new analysis? Glad you asked! Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, March 27, 2009
Stock Market Rally Remains Resilient / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had another very strong session and continue to act resiliently as the rally extends to 2 1/2 weeks. Yesterday's intraday sharp sell-off and late rally carried over as the indices gapped up at the opening, pulled back and retested the gap but held, and then the rally was on. They moved in a steady chop higher until mid-session when they finally pulled back, retested, but held support mid-afternoon. That resulted in a late snapback to close them near the highs for the day.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Late Sharp Pullback Closes the Stock Indices at Session Lows / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets had a volatile session, most of it spent trying to take out the highs and lows and doing so unsuccessfully until the last 15-20 minutes of the day when the market rolled over hard and closed at the lows for the day. We weren't surprised based on the oscillators and overbought condition, as the pullback was needed , although it may last a few more sessions.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Spectacular Session for the Stock Market Bulls / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
It was a fantastic and huge session to start the week, as the indices gapped up big, ran hard in the morning, consolidated mid-day, tried to rollover but held support, and then exploded again in the afternoon as the shorts were squeezed right into the close in a spectacular session.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Stock Market Rally March Madness / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Captain_Hook
For years our local retailers have run advertising tagged on the theme of ‘March Madness', implying they have cut prices drastically due to an uncontrollable psychological condition. Fitting the stock market into this context at present is of course a synch, with prices getting marked down all over the place due to an uncontrollable psychological condition, better know as a panic. And it just so happens that in studying history, March has been a time of conspicuous events in a biblical sense (important events), with the other more recent example being the manic top in tech stocks seen in the year 2000. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Stock Market Indices Witness Strong Selling / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
And this is because the Sp and Dow failed at their 50's and the bulls couldn't stop the same old which has been to fall from those 50 day tests. The Nas and Ndx cleared it but now the Nas is slightly below. Nothing terrible but a few points below and it's not great to see similar behavior as we have seen for this entire bear market. Get to the 50's with some indexes clearing the 50's and then things just fall apart. The bulls need to take a stronger stand than this. The rally so far has been on excellent internals and this has kept the rally going but it's time for the bulls to step up here or we're headed right back down. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Stock Market Potential for Continuing Counter Trend Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles have taken over and if they make their lows when expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until 2012-2014. This would imply that much lower prices lie ahead.
SPX: Intermediate trend - The index may have started a counter-trend rally which has the potential of extending itself in a bumpy ride for several more weeks if it can overcome the resistance which lies directly overhead.
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Investors Turning Wall Street's “Darkest Art” Into Your Gain / InvestorEducation / Stock Index Trading
By: Q1_Publishing
It's one of the oldest tricks in the bag and it has a terrible reputation. But the sooner you learn how to use it, the sooner you'll be able to sleep soundly at night.
Bloomberg recently called it “ One of [Wall Street's] darkest arts. ”
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Stock Market Indices Extend Losses / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The market suffered another decline today, as we expected, although the day started out differently. The indices went higher at the opening, and reached the session highs within the first 15 minutes on the NDX. But the SPX did not keep pace and barely made it higher, and then they both turned lower. They went down steadily and sharply for the next few hours until about an hour to go when they staged a snapback rally that reached right back up test resistance at the earlier breakdown points, getting up to 1195 NDX and 776 SPX. But they pulled back in the last 20 minutes to add to the losses.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Stock Market Profit-Taking Sets In / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
Profit-taking finally set in after 7 out of 8 days on the upside, as the indices were extremely overbought this morning, with the McClellen Oscillator +328. I wasn't surprised to see the market move lower, but they did start out with a pop to the upside, reaching the session highs right in the first few minutes. Then they stair-stepped down in a 3-wave decline from 1220 NDX to about 1196, about a 24-point drop in the first hour and a half or so, and the SPX dropped from 803 to 783, about 20 points.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Stock Market Indices Now Short-Term Overbought After Post-FOMC Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
It was a very interesting market today on FOMC announcement day. The indices backed and filled in the morning, were lower for most of the morning session, rallied by mid-day before the FOMC announcement, and then exploded after the FOMC announced the purchase of hundreds of billions dollars worth of treasuries. After a spike up that took the NDX up to 1225 and the SPX up to 803, at key overhead resistance on the SPX and above it on the NDX, the indices then had a sharp pullback that brought them back down by 30 NDX points and about 18 SPX points. In the last 15-20 minutes they bounced again and took back some of the late losses.Read full article... Read full article...