Monthly Archives: July 2006

SHORT TERM: quiet day to end the month. Stocks gapped down at the opening, but quickly recovered and made the high for the day by 10:30. After that the day was spent within the first hour’s trading range. A fairly … Continue reading →

SHORT TERM: the NDX is starting to lead this market. Overnight the Asian markets were mostly higher with the one exception China’s SEC which is correcting. Europe came in about 0.50% lower. As a result we gapped down on the … Continue reading →

REVIEW: Stocks rallied strongly this week after last week’s options expiration, and the news of a slowing economy in the second quarter. The major indices: SPX/DOW/NAZ/NDX were up between 3% and 4%. And, more importatly, the SPX/DOW confirmed new uptrends … Continue reading →

SHORT TERM: sell the rumor, buy the news. The economy was expected to turn down in the second quarter, which it did. But no one expected it to slow down as much as it did, except the market. The bulls … Continue reading →

It appears the cyclical SPX/DOW are pulling this market out of the correction. Their intermediate term trend has reversed, and thus far the rally looks impulsive. Changing my intermediate term and long term ratings: INTERMEDIATE TERM: SPX/DOW uptrending, NDX/NAZ impulsing higher  LONG … Continue reading →