Category: Stock Index Trading
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
The Bullish Stock Market Stampede from March ’09 ends abruptly in January ’10 / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Joseph_Russo
Shortly following the Dow’s print high in late January, it became clear that the markets forward looking mechanism suddenly shifted into reverse. Well before the fact, we were alerting subscribers of a looming top in late December or January.
Turn-bar analysis is one of the ways we keep members abreast of pivotal market turning points. Back in October of 2009, when most everyone else was calling for an imminent crash, we alerted our readership that new highs were likely throughout November and into the dawn of the current decade.
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Stock Market Goes Splat... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
There are many words which could describe today's action but I think splat says it best. Clear, concise and to the point. It felt like splat for the bulls without question. The Nasdaq over the past three days wasn't very good but the Dow and S&P 500 printed some very nice candles with small inside sticks printed yesterday suggesting things would move higher today ahead of tomorrow's Jobs Report, which is huge to say the least. Instead, this morning we got bad news from many overseas company's about debt on their balance sheets. Headaches that are more than a bit serious. No liquidity. Not good.
Friday, February 05, 2010
Thursday Stock Market Shocker, Not a Normal Retest / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Not a Normal Retest
Or is it...?
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Stock Market Ultra Focused on Friday's U.S. Jobs Data / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Angelo_Campione
Again, the market is getting ultra focused on Friday’s Jobs report...
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Stock Market Bulls Bears Battle Lines Are Set Up... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
The bulls lost those important 20- and 50-day exponential moving averages nearly two weeks ago and are now in the process of trying to back test and break back through. The real question on everyone's mind is whether the market is broken for good or whether the market is going to roar back and March higher. Good cases can be made for both sides to be fair. The bears can claim that the market made its first breakdown out of an initial thrust down in now over one year. That was a nice change of trend for them. The bulls will counter with the fact that we were very overbought and thus one initial break lower isn't anything to be overly concerned about as long as that move lower helped unwind the overbought daily oscillators and also as long as the market created some fear among investors and traders.
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Stock Market Bottom, To Test or not to Test? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jay_DeVincentis
To Test or not to Test
Usually bottoms get tested - when is this test coming?
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Gaining Insight Into Stock Market Movements / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
All you can do is learn. We had a very intense move lower on the indexes across the board led by the technology stocks. In good markets the technology stocks lead up and in bad markets they tend to lead down as the appetite for beta is always there when things are trending one way or the other. Off the top there was no question that beta led down although we are not seeing beta lead up on this particular move which is somewhat interesting.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Catching a Stock Market Falling Knife / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Lynn_T
Catch a Falling Knife
Never a smart idea.
The market has moved down for the past three weeks. Yes, three weeks the market has been moving lower. What do we do? Well, we certainly don’t catch a falling knife. For now we sit tight and see if my intra-week indicator makes a shift from its cash position.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Stock Market Trading System on 75% Buy Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Angelo_Campione
General Commentary: The system for the SPY is on a Buy signal 75%
The system continues to remain on the long side. It’s not easy being positioned on one side when the market is moving against that and from time to time this will happen.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Stock Market Bear Flags Break Down... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
The question becomes for the masses, does that matter very much or is it really not very relevant? Let's discuss what breaking down from bear flags can and usually does mean. If we go back to the March lows of 2009 we can see there was never a time during a pullback where the market basically stood still and formed a bear flag. Pretty much right back up once we had some selling. Strong hollow black candles which left little doubt about what was taking place.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Nasdaq Trendline Alert for Stock Index Traders / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: INO
One of the most powerful technical tools that a trader possesses is a pencil and a ruler. It sounds kind of old-school, but the reality is trend lines in technical analysis are enormously important.
In my new video I will show you how the NASDAQ index has broken a very important trend line and what the ramifications are for this index.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Stock Market Post FOMC Interest Rate Decision Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had an interesting and volatile session, but at the end of the day after the FOMC announced they managed to stage a sharp 3 wave rally and closed near the highs for the day. Only a last 10-minute profit-taking pullback brought them off the highs for the day. But it was a positive day for the indices, particularly because key support held, especially on the Nasdaq 100.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Stock Market Quiet Inside Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
Take a stock such as Apple (AAPL), which had a very nice day. Or did it! Great earnings for sure and rewarded for those earnings. It opened at 205.95 and closed at 205.94 after printing nearly 214.00 intraday. It actually printed a doji and a black candle and on a big move like that you don't want to see the sellers catch up so late in the day and print that black candle. The last hour did a lot of damage. We saw that type of reversal down on all the index charts and thus they too didn't print very pretty candles. Does this late action negate the better looking 60-minute charts that are out there? We are about to find out aren't we.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Quiet Inside Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Today's candlestick traded inside of Friday's large down stick and normally that equates to another day of struggling for this market. When a market has trended down for a few or more consecutive days and you get this type of inside stick, you can expect a little more selling in normal times. Apple's (AAPL) earnings tonight could try and turn that tide but normally the market will have a tougher time. Futures are up some after hours based on AAPL so it may be different this time but don't bet on that too much. Nothing will be easy for this market very short term. Those tough and too powerful sentiment readings just haven't been worked off enough to get aggressive with regards to buying stocks.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Bullish Harami Candlestick Price Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jay_DeVincentis
The good news about a hirami is that it is moderately bullish...
http://www.stockbarometer.com/candlesbullish.aspx
Monday, January 25, 2010
Stock Market Downtrend into Key Reversal Date Low of 28th Jan / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Angelo_Campione
With the market moving sharply lower last week, we have a key reversal date coming soon.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Stock Market Buy Signal Suggests Early Week Upside Reversal / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Angelo_Campione
The system for the SPY is on a Buy signal 75% Long
Well, what a week! Tuesday started with a rally that took us to the highest close in 16 months and then we finished the week with a loss of over 5%!
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Interepreting a Crazy Week for Stock Market Index Traders / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It’s been a crazy week for stock and futures traders as the market moved up and down like a yo-yo, finally closing down sharply on the week.
Earlier this week I posted a report showing the Volatility Index (VIX) and how it was then trading at an extreme low level which triggered the sharp market corrections. Since that post the VIX has now risen over 30% as traders start selling positions to lock in gains.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Stock Market Support Test Fails, More Selling to Come / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Test Failed
With support failing, our call for a low later this month could come in.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Stock Index Trading System Says Add to Long Positions / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Angelo_Campione
Official signal: SPX Signal - BUY __ __ __ __ (75% Long)
The system is signaling to add to our long position.
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