Friday, July 24, 2015

BIIB Craters, Biotechs Offset AMZN New High to Send NDX Lower...P, V, JNPR Gap Up...FB Rises Before EPS on Wed...JD to join NDX...

Seven of nine sectors moved lower and was one unchanged on Friday…the strongest sectors were XLU, XLY and XLK…the weakest sector was XLV.  All sectors moved lower for the week.  XLF, XLK, XLP, XLV and XLY are still trend positive.  XLU remains neutral.  XLB, XLE and XLI shifted trend negative this week.
  
Breadth weakened as decliners led advancers 2.70 to 1 on the NYSE and 3.22 to 1 on the NASDAQ.

Friday – weakened, decliners led
Thursday – weakened, decliners led
Wednesday – strengthened, decliners led
Tuesday – strengthened, decliners led
Monday – weakened, decliners led


SPY down 2.18 at 208.00 on 117.7 million shares
VIX up 1.10 at 13.74…
TNX down .06 at 22.7…
TLT up .30 at 121.39…
XLF down .22 at 25.36 on 29.7 million shares

AAPL down .66 at 124.50 on 42.1 million shares
FB up 1.51 at 96.95 on 33.4 million shares

Technical Commentary:
IWM -1.61%, QQQ -0.98%, DIA -0.93%, SPY -1.04%.


BIIB -85.02, -22.08%, a negative earnings reaction on disappointing sales and lowered guidance, GILD, AMGN and CELG along with GOOG, INTC, TRIP, PCLN and TXN accounted for 41 of the 45 point drop in the NDX on Friday.  The QQQ is currently in a strong uptrend bull flag trend continuation pattern and should be watched for a potential entry signal.

QQQ, SPY, DIA and IWM all closed lower in a week that had many big name earning announcements.  Earnings winners included AMZN, V, JNPR, P, FTNT, SNDK, HAS, CMG and HOG.  Earnings losers included IBM, AAPL, MSFT, LLTC, CMCSA, CAT and MMM.

As of Friday the trend of the 30 stocks in the DJIA:
Up: DIS, GS, JPM, NKE, PG, TRV, UNH, V
Sideways: AXP, BA, CSCO, GE, HS, JNJ, KO, MCD, MRK, MSFT, PFE, T, VZ, WMT
Down: CAT, CVX, DD, IBM, INTC, MMM, UTX, XOM

Signet Jewelers SIG will replace DTV in the SP500 after the close on Tuesday.  The T acquisition of DTV closed on Friday.

JD on July 29 will replace in the NDX 100 CTRX which was removed today July 24. 

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

Earnings Week of July 27
Monday – BIDU, NCLH, SOHU,
Tuesday – AKAM, TWTR, ESRX, FISV, CTRP, SLCA, SPWR, YELP,
Wednesday – FB, GILD, GRMN, LRCX, MAR, WFM, WYNN, SKX, SCTY
Thursday – EXPE, STX, LNKD, FEYE, OCN, SHOP, ESI, SSYS, YNDX,
Friday – RCL

Q1 Earnings Reaction
Positive Reactions – AMZN, P, MXIM, JNPR, V, SBUX, LUV, SNDK, TXN, UA, WHR, GM, VRSN, CHKP, FFIV, FTNT, LVS, PKG, TMO, TSCO, VMW, ACE, APH, OC, BA, CHKP, IPG, CLI, CMG, LVS, MANH, TRV, VMW, LAD, HOG, WWW, ZION, HAS, HAL, GOOG, HTZ, HON, GE, NFLX, SCHW, EBAY, C, USB, DAL, BAC, WFC, JPM, NKE, AA

More than 10% - P, FTNT, SNDK, GOOG, GOOGL, HTZ, NFLX,

Negative Reactions – BIIB, TRIP, STT, AAL, FSL, KLAC, MCD, UNP, SAVE, CELG, CA, CMCSA, ETFC, CAT, DOW, FCX, MMM, OSTK, IBM, KO, QCOM, AXP, AAPL, IBKR, ILMN, XLNX, VZ, BEAV, BHI, LLTC, MSFT, YHOO, EXAS, STI, UNH, MAT, KEY, YUM, FAST, CUDA, MU

More than -10% - BIIB, TRIP, GIMO, SCSS, BEAV, SWI, CUDA, MU

Reversal in progress – LAD,

Reversal of Initial Reaction – HTZ, HON, GE, AA,

Short-term Chart Targets:
SPY = 210.37, 211.65...
QQQ = 113.00, 114.41
IWM = 123.71, 124.30…

Support Levels
SPY = 207.60, 206.05...
QQQ = 111.13, 110.00…
IWM = 121.28, 119.73...

The SPX Market Forecast is moving down at 72: Defensive

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Setups
Horizontal Breakout: AMBA, CIEN, JD, NTES, YOKU, MFRM,
Diagonal Breakout: SPY, CRM, FIT,
Bull Flag: QQQ, FAS, AIG, BAC, C, CCL, DAL, GME, MBLY, MS, NKE, RCL, SCHW, SCTY, STI, SVXY, TPX, UBNT, ZION, HOG, COST, EA, ESRX, FB, GOOGL, HAS, MSFT, NFLX, PCLN, ROST, WBA, SGEN, NVAX, DEPO, KR, DG, ETSY, IMGN, CVC, CASY, JBLU, IBB, JPM, , ACAD, BURL, DIS, DRI, HCA, HZNP, INCY, NCLH, NVO, RAI, MVC, XBI, XON, ACHC, AMAG, BK, DPS, EPAM, LEG, M, MANH, MCO
Potential Bullish Divergence: SEDG, TSL
Bear Flag: FOGO,
At Support: IWM, BX, ETFC, GOGO, HABT, JCP, SINA, SOHU, SONC, SPWR, SUM, SUNE, TASR, TBT, Z
C- Pattern: CYBR,

Moves
New Highs: UA, AMZN, V, JNPR, MNST, SBUX
Breakout Test: GPRO, QIHU, SPLK,
Bull Flag Bounce: W
Gap Up: AMZN, V, JNPR,
Gap Down: BIIB, TRIP, STT
Bear Flag: SLCA

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Watch List Stocks
Leading stocks > +2% on Friday: P, ETSY, V, JNPR, VXX, CRM,
                                                       
Lagging stocks < -2.0% included: SLCA, SHAK, SWKS, GOGO, X, YOKU, FEYE, SINA, BX, EXPE, SOHU, GME, CTRP, ETFC, JUNO, GPRO, DAL, TWTR


18 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher and one was unchanged on Friday.

Leading NDX 100 stocks included: AMZN, VOD, FB, CSCO, FOXA, SBUX, ATVI, EA

Lagging NDX stocks included: BIIB, TRIP, AAL, GILD, VRTX, AMGN, ALXN, GOOG


NDX Stocks to Watch on Monday
Moving Above 30 DMA = 3
DTV, VOD, VRSK

Moving Below 30 DMA = 8
AAL, CERN, CTSH, LVNTA, TRIP, VRTX, WFM, WYNN

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

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