Thursday, April 23, 2015

NASDAQ Closes At All Time High...MSFT...GOOG...AMZN...JNPR...SBUX...All Trading Higher In After Hours After Reported Earnings...

Seven out of nine sectors moved higher on Thursday…XLE, XLU and XLY were the strongest sectors and XLP was the weakest.
 
Breadth strengthened as advancers led decliners 2.10 to 1 on the NYSE and decliners led advancers 1.56 to 1 on the NASDAQ.

Thursday – strengthened, advancers led
Wednesday – strengthened, advancers led
Tuesday – weakened, mixed
Monday – strengthened, advancers led
Friday - weakened, decliners led
                                                                                                                                         

SPY up .53 at 211.16 on 102.5 million shares
VIX down .23 at 12.48…
TNX down .25 at 19.47…
TLT up .55 at 128.27…
XLF up .04 at 24.32 on 21.3 million shares

AAPL up 1.05 at 129.67 on 45.7 million shares
FB down 2.22 at 82.41…on 73.7 million shares


Technical Commentary:
DIA +0.17%, SPY +0.25%, QQQ +0.38%, IWM +0.45%.

This week more than 150 SPX companies are reporting earnings.

Trade with the trend of the chart you are trading and continue to move your profit protection stops.  Continue to follow your rules.


Short-term Chart Targets:
SPY = 210.33, 210.70, 211.40...
QQQ = 108.38, 109.17
IWM = 125.55, 127.13…

Support Levels
SPY = 207.01, 205.39...
QQQ = 105.55, 104.50…
IWM = 123.77, 122.90...


Earnings Week of April 6 – AA, BBBY, WBA, STZ
Earnings Week of April 13 – JNJ, JPM, FAST, WFC, INTC, BAC, CSX, DAL, LLTC, SNDK, NFLX, GS, C, AMD, AXP, CE, MAT, NOW
Earnings Week of April 20 – CHKP, HAL, HAS, MS, RCL, STI, IBM, LRCX, ZION, ARMH, ATI, BHI, DD, HOG, LMT, PCAR, TRV, UA, VZ, AMGN, BRCM, CMG, CREE, ILMN, ISRG, URI, UTX, YHOO, YUM, ABT, BA, EMC, KO, MCD, CTXS, EBAY, FB, FFIV, ORLY, QCOM, T, TSCO, TXN, XLNX, ABBV, ALXN, BAX, CAM, CAT, DHR, DOW, DPS, FCX, HP, HSY, LLY, LUV, MMM, MO, NDAQ, PEP, PG, SIAL, SWK, UNP, WHR, ALTR, AMZN, ETFC, GOOGL, HBI, JNPR, KLAC, MSFT, SBUX, SRCL, SWN, AAL, BIIB, STT


Q1 Earnings Reaction
Positive Reactions – BRCM, ILMN, YUM, MCD, KO, EMC, ABT, ATI, LRCX, PCAR, ARMH, AMGN, HAS, CHKP, HAL, MS, STI, NFLX, CE, MAT, C, DAL, FAST, INTC, JPM, LLTC, STZ, WBA, KMX, DGLY, CTRP, JUNO, KBH, MFRM, NKE, 

More than 10% - ATI, HAS, NFLX, CE, DGLY, CTRP, JUNO, 

Negative Reactions – CMG, CREE, ISRG, BA, HOG, TRV, UA, URI, YHOO, DD, BHI, RCL, AXP, BAC, GS, JNJ, SNDK, AA, BBBY, MU, GME, YOKU, XONE, 

More than -10% - NOW, AMD, YOKU, 

Reversal in progress – AA, GS,

Reversal of Initial Reaction – GME, MU, YOKU, XONE


The SPX Market Forecast is pointed up at 78.

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Setups
Horizontal Breakout: DAL, EXPE, JD, MS, QIHU, TPX (long term), CYBR, VRSN, ADBE, ADSK, MAR, MNST, TSLA,  
Diagonal Breakout: CRM, FAS, SCHW, SINA, CAR, TRIP,  
Bull Flag: DDD, JCP, LOCO, SLCA, NFLX,  
Potential Bullish Divergence:   
Gap Up:      
Gap Down:
Bear Flag:
At Support:  
C- Pattern:  

Moves
New Highs: SPY, SUNE, TAN, AKAM, DTV, EA, SBUX,  
H Breakout: SPY, JASO (long term), SCTY (long term), TSL, SFUN (long term), AAPL, MSFT,   
D Breakout: NKE,     
Breakout Test:
Bull Flag Bounce: IWM, AIG, C, CMGE, DGLY, NTES, UA, UPL, X,    
Bounce: BBRY, JUNO, SSYS, HOG, WLT,  
MACD Divergence Bounce:   
Gap Up: DTV, EBAY,  
Gap Down: TXN,  
C- Pattern:   
Bear Flag:  
Support Break: LVS,  
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68 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Thursday.


Leading NDX 100 stocks included: ORLY, CTXS, EBAY, DTV, LBTYA, VIP, SBUX, VRTX, MAT, MYL

Lagging NDX stocks included: TXN, NXPI, AVGO, FB, ALXN, LRCX, ALTR, BRCM, ADI, XLNX

Leading stocks > +2% on Thursday: CMGE, X, NTES, JUNO, BBRY, TPX, YOKU, IBM, SPLK, DGLY, VSLR, TSL  

Lagging stocks < -2.0% included: SLCA, UNG,

Stocks to Watch on Friday
Holding Above 30 DMA = 61
LVNTA, SIAL, KRFT, ORLY, ADI, ALTR, VRSK, XLNX, CTRX, ESRX, MDLZ, VIP, CTXS, DISCA, TSLA, MYL, AMGN, CMCSA, DTV, NFLX, PCLN, SBUX, VRTX, GILD, PCAR, VIAB, ALXN, STX, TSCO, VOD, MAT, AKAM, CSCO, ILMN, INTC, MU, WDC, SYMC, AAPL, ADSK, AMZN, ATVI, BIDU, CHKP, EA, FB, HSIC, LLTC, MNST, REGN, SBAC, SIRI, AAL, BRCM, LRCS, FAST, INTU, KLAC, NTAP, NVDA, SRCL

Moving Above 30 DMA = 10
ADBE, BIIB, CA, CERN, EBAY, FISV, FOXA, GOOG, LBTYA, MAR                                                                                  

Moving Below 30 DMA = 6
AVGO, ISRG, NXPI, QCOM, TXN, WYNN                                                      

Staying Below 30 DMA
YHOO, WBA, CHTR, CTSH, SPLS, LMCA, DLTR, ADP, BBBY, COST, EXPD, ROST, PAYS, CELG, CHRW, SNDK, TRIP, AMAT, GMCR, DISH, WFM, GRMN

6-month Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up
3-day Short Term Market Trend: Up