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0 Stock Market Levitation Act

The market pushed higher again today continuing its levitation act that it’s been conducting for a few weeks now. The DJIA was up another 165 points and the S&P 500 (SPX) was up 24.6 points. All the indices showed solid gains today.

Although the SPX is just 30 points away from its all-time high, the NYSE Composite Index (NYA) has just today hit a 68% retracement of the move down and Russell 2000 (RUT) has just touched a 50% retracement level.  

In addition to our review of the market action, I check our trade ideas. I may have forgotten to mention in the video, that we exited the last piece of the Whole Foods Market (WFM) trade idea, which closed that at a profit.  Continue reading

0 Elliott Wave Count…Buckle Up

The stock market closed out one of it’s best months in a long time with the S&P 500 (SPX) up 8.3%.  Bulls are licking their chops. But after the very violent move down August and again in late September, a strong snap-back rally fits the Elliott Wave count perfectly.

There are several dynamics at work right now and I talk about all these in today’s Weekend Market Analysis video. In addition to the daily charts we look at the weekly and monthly charts today. According to my Elliott Wave count, it is time to fasten your seat belts. Continue reading

0 Stock Market – Hitting a Wall?

The stock market might be hitting a wall of resistance. I’m talking about the huge overhead supply from the trading range that occurred from March into August. When you look at the chart of the S&P 500 (SPX) it is now right in the middle of all that.

Given how far and how fast the market has come since September 29, I think there is a good chance that all that overhead supply is now going to come into play. Also given that the Energy ETF (XLE) and some of the oil stocks look they are trying to bottom, I am wondering if a geopolitical event is about to occur that will affect oil positively and the stock market negatively.  Continue reading

0 Another Push Higher

The markets added another push higher today with a fair amount of volatility in the afternoon after the Fed announced no change in interest rates. The DJIA ended the day up 198 points and the Russell 2000 started to play catch-up also, up 33 points, almost 3%. 

Oil looks like it may trying to trap some bears with the move today. In tonight’s video I also talk about 2 new trade ideas on Apache (APA) and Chevron (CVX).  Continue reading

0 Stock Market Land Mines

All the indices were down today with NYSE Composite and the Russell 2000 down to a greater degree than the others. The breadth of the market and the indicators are leaving me wondering if the move down has now started.  I talk about this in the video tonight.

Stock market land mines continue to go off throughout this entire rally. IBM was down 4% today on news that the SEC was investigating their revenue recognition process. IBM is now down 9.5% from its Oct. 9 countertrend closing high.

And Twitter (TWTR) reported earnings after the market closed and hit a land mine, trading down 12.3% in after hours trading.  Apple (AAPL) on the other hand was basically unchanged on their earnings, as of 5:15pm CT. Continue reading