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Price support holding on, moving averages are not On the surface, it wasn’t a huge sell-off for the stock market. Far from it. SPX finished about 0.33% lower on the day, which seems like a walk in the park at first glance.  But under the surface, things were far worse.  The breadth was far more

My trading notes on this market To say that I have enjoyed this week of trading so far, or even this month for that matter would be an overstatement of the grossest of proportions (somewhere an English major is probably having fits with that sentence). The market has hardly moved, and when it has, it

The stock price range continues to narrow across the board This market can’t move. Little faith can be put into a gap up, because with stock’s narrowing price range, you know that the market has to fade every opening move whether it be to the upside or downside.  In the midst of all of this,

Missile Strikes, Employment and the Stock Market Yesterday SPX bounced off of that 50-day moving average but overnight you had some pretty intense news coming out of Washington that they launched missiles into Syria. You can find the details everywhere about the strike, but how that affects the market is that initially the market traded

Fed offers up a stock market beatdown I don’t get all the annoyed by the stock market all that much. Sure it can do things that will make you scratch your head, but yesterday’s manufactured afternoon sell off coming from the Fed proclaiming that stock prices were a bit too high, was not something I

My stock market trading plan today Bears had the opportunity to really drive this market lower. It was right in their hands. The result? Same as 99% of the other instances. They get the charts to line up for them, make the market look top heavy and ready to rollover and then they disappear. The

My stock market trading plan today Another dose of “Buy the Dip”. At one point it was down as much as 18 points. I kid not, but once the afternoon rolled around, that 18 points shrank to just under 4 points by the close of business. In the meantime, that kind of price action leaves

April Stock Market If you believe in old stock market cliches, then you’ll know that April represents, in theory, the last good month of trading for the bulls before they “Sell in May and Go Away!”. But lets face, it, yes, the volume in the summer is lower, and sell-offs tend to happen more often

The SharePlanner Trend Reversal Indicator is flashing all sorts of bearishess And it is worth noting that there hasn’t been a bearish reversal signal on the indicator since August of last year, which led to a 100-point reversal in the markets over the course a three month period.  Obviously that came to an end when

Technical Analysis: The S&P 500 (SPX) took a breather yesterday when it decided to sell-off ever so slightly.  The 5-day, 10-day and 20-day moving averages on SPX are converging and offered an excellent support level for the bulls to bounce off of yesterday. Watch that level of support, again today.  Light Sweet Crude Oil Futures (/CL) still